vi CONTENTS 



CHAPTER V 



ROOF AND BACK-YARD GARDENS IN THE CITY 



PAGE 



St. Andrew's Rectory garden, Doctor's Commons — "Struggles 

 in Smoke '' — Roof-jimgle at the Home for Working Boys, 

 at Bishopsgate Street, E.G. — Amateur gardening among 

 the slates and chimney-pots — City gardens — Tempting 

 the sea-gull, land-bird, and butterfly . . . .26 



CHAPTER VI 



PLANTS FOR THE CITY POOR 



Window-box Society, St. Cuthbert's Lodge, Millwall — Mr. 

 Cadburyand his operatives — Town board schools— Garden- 

 ing at Crook's Place Board School, Norwich — Country 

 board schools in England and in Germany — Helping the 

 poor — Miss Jekyll and the factory lad . . . -31 



CHAPTER VII 



THE BEGINNER 



Choosing the window-box — Making it — Placing it — Filling 

 it — The hanging basket — Cleansing — Watering — The 

 Fern window-box — Virginia Stock . . . . .36 



CHAPTER VIII 



FOLIAGE PLANTS FOR TOWNS 



The window-box and the man in the street — The advantages 



and merits of the foliage-plants — Which to order . . 44 



CHAPTER IX 



Air — Fog — What urban fog is made of — Darkness — Poison — 

 An analysis from Kew — Can we counteract effects of fog ? 

 — Mr. Toope at Stepney — Fog-filters — What plants suffer 

 least ? — Professor Oliver's report on ferns in fogs — Bulbous 

 plants — -Precautions — Coal-smoke Abatement Society — 

 Resolutions 48 



