viu CONTENTS 



CHAPTER V 



APRIL 46-5S 



Woodland spring flowers — Daffodils in the copse — Grape 

 Hyacinths and other spring bulbs — How best to plant them — 

 Flowering shrubs — Eook-plants — Sweet scents of Aprils- 

 Snowy Mespilus, Marsh Marigolds, and other spring flowers — 

 Primrose garden — Pollen of Scotch Fir — Opening seed-pods of 

 Fir and Gorse — Auriculas — Tulips — Small shrubs for rook- 

 garden — Daffodils as cut flowers — Lent Hellebores — Primroses 

 — Leaves of wild Arum. 



CHAPTER VI 



MAY 59-75 



Cowslips — Morells — Woodruff — Felling oak timber — Tril- 

 lium and other wood-plants — Lily of the Valley naturalised — 

 Eock-wall flowers — Two good wall-shrubs — Queen wasps — 

 Ehododendrons — Arrangement for colour — Separate colour- 

 groups — DifBculty of choosing — Hardy Azaleas — Grouping 

 flowers that bloom together — Guelder-rose as climber — The 

 garden- wall door — The Pseony garden — Moutans — Pseony 

 varieties — Species desirable for garden. 



CHAPTER VII 

 JUNE ... 77-8S 



The gladness of June — The time of Eoses — Garden Eoses 

 — Eeine Blanche — The old white Rose — Old garden Eoses as 



standards — Climbing and rambling Eoses — Scotch Briars 



Hybrid Perpetuals a diflBculty — Tea Eoses — Pruning — Sweet 

 Peas autumn sown — Elder-trees — Virginian Cowslip — Divid- 

 ing spring-blooming plants — Two best Mulleins — White French 

 Willow — Bracken, 



CHAPTER VIII 

 JULY 89-99 



Scarcity of flowers — Delphiniums — Yuccas — Cottager's 



way of protecting tender plants — Alstromerias — Carnations 



Gypsophila — IMium giganteum — Cutting fern-pegs. 



