My garden: 



CHAPTER IX. 



My Fruit Garden.— The Apple.— The Medlar. — The Pear.— The Quince.— The 

 Plum. — The Apricot. — The Peach and the Nectarine. — Cherries. — Currants. — 

 Gooseberries. — Strawberries. — Raspberries. — Grape Vines. — Melons. — Nuts. — 

 Walnuts. — Chestnuts. — ^Almonds. — Oranges and Lemons. — The Custard Apple. — 

 Figs. — The Mulberiy. — The Prickly Pear. — Anaspole Japonica, or Loquat. — The 

 Banana. — The Edible Passion-flower. — The Pomegranate. — Eugenia Ugni. — The 

 Cape Gooseberry. — The Cranberry. — The Cloudberry. — The Whortleberry. — 

 The Dewberry. — The Berberry. — The ElderbeiTy. — The Stoneberry. — Pine 

 Apple Pages \yj — 209 



CHAPTER X. 



General Flower Garden.— Bulbous Plants. — Perennial Plants. — Bedding Plants. 

 — Annuals. — Biennials. — Greenhouse Plants. — Stove Plants . . Pages 210 — 267 



CHAPTER XI. 



Special Flower Garden, etc. — The Rosaries. — Climbing Plants. — Orchids. — 

 Alpine Flowers. — Ornamental Grasses. — ^Weeds and Wild Plants. — The Algce. 

 — Mosses. — Lichens. — Liverworts.^ — Fungi. — My Ferneries. — Lycopods, or Club 

 Mosses. — Marsileas. — Selaginellas. — Horse-tails Pages 268 — 408 



CHAPTER XII. 

 My Forest Trees. — Shrubs Pages 409—444. 



CHAPTER Xin. 



The Animal Kingdom.— The Animalcules in the Water. — Polypi. — Wonns. 



Leeches. — Fresh-water Sponge. — Crustacea. — Fleas. — Parasites. — Entozoa. — Mites. 

 — Plant Mites, or Red Spiders. — Centipedes and Millipedes. — The Garden 

 Insects : Hymenoptera ; Beetles, or Coleoptera ; Orthoptera ; Hemiptera ; Neu- 

 roptera; Lepidoptera; Diptera.— Slugs and Snails.— My Fishery.— Reptiles.— 

 My Garden Animals.— The Birds Pages 1^1 555 



CHAPTER XIV. 

 The Climate and Spring Frosts.— The Great Frost of May 1867. Pages SS6— 561 



CHAPTER XV. 

 Gardens of Various Nations Pages 562—596 



CALENDAR /'a^^j 597-628 



INDEX Prt^«629— 650 



