X CONTENTS 



CHAPTER XIII 



FASES 



DECEMBER 158-170 



The woodman at work — Tree-cutting in frosty weather — 

 Preparing sticks and stakes— Winter Jasmine— Ferns in the 

 wood-walk — Winter colour of evergreen shrubs — Copse-cutting 

 — Hoop-making— tools used — Sizes of hoops— Men camping 

 out— Thatching with hoop-chips— The old thatcher's bill. 



CHAPTER XIV 



LARGE AND SMALL GARDENS .... 171-187 



A well done viUa-garden— A small town-garden — Two de- 

 lightful gardens of small size — Twenty acres within the walls 

 — A large country house and its garden — Terrace — Lawn — 

 Parterre — Free garden — Kitchen garden — Buildings — Orna- 

 mental orchard — Instructive mixed gardens — Mr. Wilson's at 

 Wisley — A window garden. 



CHAPTER XV 



BEGINNING AND LEARNING 188-199 



The ignorant questioner — Beginning at the end — An ex- 

 ample — Personal experience — Absence of outer help — Johns' 

 "Flowers of the Field" — Collecting plants — Nurseries near 

 London — Wheel-spokes as labels — Garden friends — Mr. Eobin- 

 son's " English Flower-Garden " — Mr. Nicholson's " Dictionary 

 of Gardening " — One main idea desirable — Pictorial treatment 

 — Training in fine art — Adapting from Nature — Study of 

 colour — Ignorant use of the word " artistic." 



CHAPTER XVI 



THE FLOWER-BORDER AND PERGOLA . "' . 200-215 



The flower-border — The wall and its occupants — Choisya 

 temata — Nandina — Canon EUacombe's garden — Treatment of 

 colour-masses — Arrangement of plants in the border — Dahlias 

 and Cannas — Covering bare places — The Pergola — How made 

 — Suitable climbers — Arbours of trained Planes — Garden 

 houses. 



