The Mary Frances Garden Book; or, Adventures Among the Garden People
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A GARDEN WHICH MARY FRANCES AND BILLY PLANTED
The Mary Frances Garden Book or Adventures Among the Garden People
by Jane Eayre Fryer with Illustrations by William F. Zwirner The John C. Winston Company Philadelphia
CAUTION
The entire contents of this book are protected by the stringent new copyright law, and all persons are warned not to attempt to reproduce the text, in whole or in part, or any of the illustrations.
Copyright, 1916, by Jane Eayre Fryer
BY THE SAME AUTHOR ———— THE MARY FRANCES COOK BOOK ——OR—— ADVENTURES AMONG THE KITCHEN PEOPLE
The Mary Frances Cook Book is the exceptionally clever and fascinating story of a little girl who wanted to learn to help her mother. Only it is much more than a story. It tells in story form how Mary Frances learned to cook. She wants to know what all the kitchen pots and pans are for, so she asks them. And they tell her—the pots and pans talk. The book gives recipes in the simplest, plainest words. It describes every operation clearly—just what Mary Frances did, and how she learned to avoid mistakes. The book stimulates the imagination and creates a desire to follow Mary Frances’ example. 8vo. Cloth, 170 pages. Over 200 colored illustrations by Margaret G. Hayes and Jane Allen Boyer.
Jane Eayre Fryer
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Lay-out of the Gardens
Hardy Perennials
Annuals
Garden Lists for Big Boys and Girls
NOTE ON THE GARDEN CUT-OUTS
A Letter About the Garden Cut-Outs
A Few Hints on Growing the Flowers Shown in the Garden Cut-Outs
Seven Hardy Perennial Plants which Bloom in the Early Spring
List of Fifteen Annuals
Everlasting Flowers
VEGETABLE GARDEN
Suggestions for Planting of Window Boxes
GARDEN LESSON No. 3
Garden Tools
GARDEN LESSON No. 4
Seed Babies in Their Coats
Cotyledons
Thinning Out the Plants
To Cultivate
Watering
The Importance of Cultivating
The Birth of Seed Babies. Formation of the Pistil
The Need of Pollen
How Can the Flowers Get Pollen
The Flowers Spread a Feast for Insects
Nectar
Honey Bee’s Honey-Churns
The Insects Carry Pollen
Bumble Bees Help
Animals Would Starve Without This Work of Insects
Moths and Butterflies Help, Too
The Bee City
The Queen Bee
Worker Bees
Drone Bees
Why the Workers Kill the Drones
The Wonderful Bodies of the Bees
The Body of the Worker Bee
The Antennæ
Legs, Wings, and Claws
Pollen Baskets
The Wings
The Industry of the Worker
Wax Pockets
The Honey-Sac
The Body of the Queen Bee
The Sting
The Body of the Drone
The Ventilating Workers—The Fanners
The Comb Builders
The Queen’s Work
Worker Baby Bees
The Drone Baby Bee
The Queen Baby or Princess
Why Bees “Swarm”
How Bees Spend the Winter
The Story of the Hop Toad
Tadpoles
Toads’ Enemies
How Toads Help the Garden
Paper Collars to Protect Plants from Cutworms
A Robins’ Sleeping Porch
A Bungalow for Wrens
The Martens’ Hotel
The Blue Birds’ Cottage
Ladybirds or Ladybugs
Aphids or Plant Lice
Aphis-lion
Garden Pests
Hellebore
Old-Fashioned Roses
How New Roses Came About
How Roses are Propagated
Cuttings
Growing Rose Cuttings Under Glass Jars
Budding
“Suckers”
Classes of Roses
The Homes of Certain Roses
About Hybrid Perpetual Roses
Tea Roses
About Hybrid Tea Roses
What Roses to Plant
Wichuraiana Roses (Evergreen or Memorial Roses)
Rugosa Roses
Tree Roses
How to Plant Roses
Where to Make Beds for Roses
How to Make Beds for Roses
How Deep to Plant Roses
The Best Time to Plant Roses
Caring for Roses
Fertilizers
Enemies of Roses
Pruning Roses
“Good and Bad Weeds”
Plant Families
Rose Family
Night Shade Family
Buttercup Family
Sunflower Family (Composite Family)
The Leaf-Mill
A Wicked Innkeeper
Dodder
Parasite Plants
Why Plants Travel
How Plants Travel
Plants without Flowers
Mushrooms or Toad Stools
Fungi,
Bracket Fungus
Molds
Bacteria
Weeds
Some Ways to Rid of Weeds
Poison Ivy
Virginia Creeper
Some Ways in Which Plants Protect Themselves
Cheese-cloth Shade Frame
Lattice Shade Frame
For Twelve Green Pepper Sandwiches
Spearmint Jumbles
The Planting of Bulbs
Plant Spring-Flowering Bulbs in Autumn
How to Plant Bulbs
Depth to Plant
Where to Plant Bulbs
Bulbs in the Grass
Bulbs to Plant in the Fall
Bulbs to Plant in Early Spring
Hardy Bulbs for a Small Garden
Growing Bulbs Indoors
Hotbed
Cold Frame
The Earliest Vegetables to Plant
Fertilizers
Insecticides
Hanging Gardens
A Soup and Sauce Garden
Indoor Garden
Watering House Plants
To Make a Wild Rose
The Little Gardeners’ Calendar
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