Children and Gardens
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
My own young Days i
CHAPTER II
The Children's Garden and the Play-House . 7
CHAPTER III
Early Weeds 24
CHAPTER IV
Seeds. . . .. . . .. -31
CHAPTER V
Cowslip Time 44
CHAPTER VI
Smells and Shapes 49
CHAPTER VII
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Botany 58
CHAPTER VIII
My First Garden 65
CHAPTER IX
Flowers for your own Gardens .... 76
CHAPTER X
Adventures on the Lawn 81
CHAPTER XI
Various Amusements 89
CHAPTER XII
Pussies in the Garden 98
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IX
China Asters in Seed-Leaf
Incarvillea Seedlings
Seed-Pod of Bell-Flower
Seed-Pod of Honesty
Snapdragon-Pod as Old Woman
Love-in-a-Mist
Devil-in-a-Bush
How a Cowslip Ball is made
Making a Primrose Ball
A Primrose Ball
May-day Trophy
Morell .
Kalmia
Kalmia
A Delphinium Freak
Primrose with leafy Calyx
Deformed Pears .
Pea Flowers and Pods
Bell-Flowers .
Umbelliferous Flowers
Cruciferous Flowers
Jean and Ann
White Foxgloves .
Plan. My Sister's Garden and Mine
Male Fern in the Cool Hedge
Hard-head
Hard-heads .
Edgings of White Pinks
The Seat
Wheelbarrow good to sit in
My best Snapdragon
Elevation, etc., of some Common Things
How to make a Right Angle .
In the
Big Weeding
Basket
Watering Garden Borders
The Builder's Square
The Garland Rose
Spring Flowers
Canterbury Bells .
Thrift in Pavement
Reef Knot and Granny
Snapdragons
Small Bell-Flowers in Steps
Hedgehog half untucked
Hedgehog on the Lawn .
The Bat . . .
Scarlet Toadstools
Chantarelle .
The Owl's House .
Hedgehog out for an Evening Prowl
" It's a prickly job"
Stalactites
The proper Place for Shoes and Stockings
The Sand-House .
In the Sand-Pit .
The Sand-Pit
Gathering Fir-Cones
Fern Pegs .
'* There are two more Cones "
Raking out Baked Potatoes
The Tea-Kitchen .
Dabbling Toes in the Tank
The Tea-Kitchen .
Just out of the Tank
The Artesian Well
Tabby in the Basket
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