قراءة كتاب Small Gardens, and How to Make the Most of Them
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اللغة: English
Small Gardens, and How to Make the Most of Them
الصفحة رقم: 2
Rock Plants is specially invited. List of
ALPINES, Hardy HERBACEOUS PLANTS and AQUATICS
on application to
J. WOOD, Woodville, Kirkstall, LEEDS.
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. |
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