CONTENTS 



PAGE 



Preface ........ vii 



Introduction ....... i 



Of the Chief Winter Berried Trees and Shrubs . . 5 



Fire Thorn — Deciduous Thorns — Cotonasters— Pernettyas 

 Sea Buckthorn — Aucubas — Hollies — Mistletoe — Skim- 

 nias — Ruscus — Ephedra — Strawberry Trees — Yews — 

 Snowberry 



Of Winter-Flowering Trees and Shrubs . . . 11 



Planting — Protection — Pruning — With Yellow Flowers on 

 Naked Shoots — With Flowers other than Yellow on 

 Naked Shoots — With Flowers on Evergreen Shoots — 

 Heaths 



Of the Chief Shrubs Useful for their Stem Colouring in 



Winter .... . e 23 



Notes on Trees, Shrubs, and other Plants . . . 26 



Winter Bedding . . . . . '33 



Of Herbaceous and other Winter- Flowering Plants in the 



Open ....... 36 



., Adonis — Anemone — Chionodoxa — Crocus — Cyclamen — 

 Eranthis — Galanthus — Hacquetia — Helleborus — Hyacin- 

 thus — Iris — Leucoium — Muscari — Narcissus — Petasites — 

 Saxifragas — Scilla — Sisyrinchium — Symphocarpus — 

 Triteleia — Others 



Cold and Alpine Plant Houses .... 48 



Plants under Glass . . t . . , 54 



