CONTENTS vii 



CHAPTER X 



THE LADY DECORATOR AND THE FLOWER-GIRL 



PAGE 



Arranging flowers^ — Balls, dinner-parties, weddings — Fashions 

 in flowers— Dyed flowers — Flowers as symbols — Primrose 

 Day — Floral trophies — The early and mid-Victorian 

 bouquet — Street-selling flower-girls^ — Buttonhole-making 

 — A skeleton parasol in France 55 



CHAPTER XI 



THE SMALL SUBURBAN GARDEN 



A good word for it — The motor-car — Corner houses — Making 

 the most of a small garden — Turf — Frees — Back and 

 front gardens — Individuality — Good taste ... 62 



CHAPTER XII 



"next door" A PARENTHETICAL CHAPTER 



Garden etiquette in Suburbia — Codes and customs — Barriers — 



Brides — Music — Children — Bonfires — The family wash . 7 1 



CHAPTER XIII 



GRASS, GROUND, OR GRAVEL 



The new suburban garden — The restful garden — Country Life 

 on English and Continental suburban gardens — The lawn 

 and flower-beds — Grass walks . . . . -75 



CHAPTER XIV 



FERNS AND WILD FLOWERS 



The hardy fernery — How we made our own — Wild flowers for 

 the fernery — The fernery all the year round — Amusing 

 May — The Pale Osmunda — The neglected fernery of 

 London and the suburbs — Roadside Ferns and hedge- 

 haunters , . 80 



