CONTENTS ix 



CHAPTER IX 



AUGUST 100-111 



Leycesteria — Early recollections— Bank of choice shrubs 

 — Bank of Briar Eoses — Hollyhocks — Lavender — Lilies — 

 Bracken and Heaths — The Fern-walk — Late-blooming rock- 

 plants — Autumn flowers — Tea Roses — Fruit of Eosa rugosa — 

 Fungi — Chantarelle. 



CHAPTEE X 



SEPTEMBER 112-124 



Sowing Sweet Peas — Autumn-sown annuals — Dahlias — 

 Worthless kinds — Staking — Planting the rock-garden — Grow- 

 ing smaU plants in a wall — The old wall — Dry -walling — How 

 built — How planted — Hyssop — A destructive storm — Berries 

 of Water-elder — Beginning ground-work. 



CHAPTER XI 

 OCTOBER 125-143 



Michaelmas Daisies — An-anging and staking — Spindle-tree 

 — Autumn colour of Azaleas — Quinces — Medlars — Advantage 

 of early planting of shrubs — Careful planting — Pot-bound 

 roots — Cypress hedge — Planting in difficult places — Hardy 

 flower border — Lifting Dahlias — Dividing hardy plants — 

 Dividing tools — Plants difficult to divide — Periwinkles — 

 Sternbergia — Czar Violets — -Deep cultivation for Lilium 

 giganteum. 



CHAPTER XTI 



NOVEMBER 144-157 



Giant Christmas Rose — Hardy Chrysanthemums — Shelter- 

 ing tender shrubs — Turfing by inoculation — Transplanting large 

 trees — Sir Henry Steuart's experience early in the century — 

 Collecting fallen leaves — Preparing grubbing tools — Butcher's 

 Broom — Alexandrian Laurel — Hollies and Birches — A lesson 

 in planting. 



