Inmates of My House and Garden

by Mrs. Brightwen

Transcriber's Note

Some minor punctuation and spelling errors have been corrected. Inconsistent spelling and punctuation has been retained.

INMATES OF MY HOUSE AND GARDEN

BOOKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR.

WILD NATURE WON BY KINDNESS. Illustrated. School Edition, limp cloth, 1s. 6d. Presentation Edition, imitation leather, in box, 5s.

“A charming collection.... Will be found a pleasant companion to young people in their holiday haunts.”—Pall Mall Gazette.

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MORE ABOUT WILD NATURE. Illustrated. Paper, 1s.; cloth, 2s.

“No better book can be given to juvenile naturalists.”—Graphic.

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London: T. FISHER UNWIN, Paternoster Square.

THE GROVE (SOUTH FRONT).

[Frontispiece.

INMATES OF MY

HOUSE AND GARDEN

BY

MRS. BRIGHTWEN

Author of “Wild Nature Won by Kindness”

ILLUSTRATED BY THEO. CARRERAS

London

T. FISHER UNWIN

PATERNOSTER SQUARE

1895

All rights reserved.

To

Miss ELEANOR ORMEROD

Consulting Entomologist to the Royal Agricultural Society, and

Fellow of the Meteorological Society.

Dear Miss Ormerod,—

For thirty years you have been a pioneer in the fields of agricultural zoology and chemistry, and it may most truly be said that no woman has ever done so much as you have to protect agriculture against its natural enemies. In the special departments to which you have devoted your life, it is universally admitted that you are without a rival.

My little volumes do not compete with work so serious as yours, yet you have gratified me with your commendation of their truthfulness, and you have permitted me the pleasure of dedicating to you this one, in some chapters of which I deal with the classes which are most familiar to yourself.

Believe me to be

Yours very sincerely,

ELIZA BRIGHTWEN.

The Grove, Great Stanmore.

June, 1895.