SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS
| [CHAPTER I] |
| The General Arrangement of the Garden |
| What to go in for, and what to avoid—Brick walls—Trees, their advantages and disadvantages, etc. |
| [CHAPTER II] |
| Lawns, Paths, Beds, and Border |
| How to keep the lawns level—Paths, and how to lay them—Beds and bedding—The new style VERSUS the old—Flower borders and their backgrounds—Improvement of the soil. |
| [CHAPTER III] |
| On the Duty of Making Experiments |
| Description of a small yet lovely garden—Colour schemes—A novel way of growing flowers, the spring dell—Variety in the flower-garden. |
| [CHAPTER IV] |
| Some Neglected but Handsome Plants |
| The sweet old columbine—Bocconia cordata at Hampton Court—Campanulas as continuous bloomers—The heavenly larkspurs—Christmas roses—The tall and brilliant lobelias—Chinese-lantern plants—Tufted pansies. |
| [CHAPTER V] |
| The Conservatory and Greenhouse |
| Mistakes in staging—Some suitable climbers—Economical heating—Aspect, shading, etc.—The storing of plants—No waste space—Frames. |
| [CHAPTER VI] |
| The Tool Shed and Summer-House |
| Spades and the Bishop—Weeding a pleasure—Trusty thermometers—Summer-houses and their adornment. |
| [CHAPTER VII] |
| Roses for Amateurs |
| Teas—Hybrid perpetuals—Bourbons—Rose-hedges—Pillar roses—Suitable soil. |
| [CHAPTER VIII] |
| Enemies of the Garden |
| Slugs, and how to trap them—Blight or green fly—Earwigs—Wireworms—Snails—Mice—Friends or Foes? |
| [CHAPTER IX] |
| The Rockery |
| A few hints on its construction—Aspect and soil—A list of alpines—Other suitable plants. |
| [CHAPTER X] |
| Trees, and How to Treat Them—Shrubs |
| Some good plants for growing beneath trees—List of hardy shrubs—Climbers—Enriching the soil. |
| [CHAPTER XI] |
| The Ins and Outs of Gardening |
| Planting—Watering—“Puddling”—Shelter—Youth and age, in relation to plants—Catalogue defects—A time for everything. |
| [CHAPTER XII] |
| The Profitable Portion |
| Fruit, best kinds for small gardens—Size minus flavour—Vegetables—Herbs. |
| [CHAPTER XIII] |
| Annuals and Biennials |
| Why they fail—Table of good annuals—Table of biennials. |
| [CHAPTER XIV] |
| Window-Boxes |
| How to make them—Relation of box to residence they are intended to adorn—Suitable soil—Window-plants for different aspects. |
| [CHAPTER XV] |
| Table Decoration |
| Graceful arrangement—Thick-skinned stems—Preserving and resuscitating flowers—Colour schemes—Table of flowers in season. |
| [CHAPTER XVI] |
| The Propagation of Plants |
| By division—By cuttings—By seeds—By layers. |
| [CHAPTER XVII] |
| The Management of Room Plants |
| Best kinds for “roughing it”—Importance of cleanliness—The proper way of watering them. |
| [CHAPTER XVIII] |
| Various Hints |
| Artificial manures—Labelling—Cutting off dead flowers—Buying plants—Tidiness in the garden, etc. |
TERMS USED BY GARDENERS
Mulching—Term used for applying manure in a thick layer round the roots of shrubs, as a protection from frost.
Pricking off—Transplanting seedlings into separate pots.
“Eyes”—Incipient leaf-buds.
“Heel”—The hardened part of a cutting, formed where it is joined to the original plant.