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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