The Book of Town & Window Gardening

Not to start summer flowers too soon--Not to buy plants that have been forced--Not to be like everybody else--_Asparagus Sprengeri_--A kitchen window-box--Herbs--The watched pot...

St Andrew’s Rectory garden, Doctor’s Commons--“Struggles in Smoke”--Roof-jungle at the Home for Working Boys, at Bishopsgate Street, E.C.--Amateur gardening among the slates and...

Window-box Society, St. Cuthbert’s Lodge, Millwall--Mr. Cadbury and his operatives--Town board schools--Gardening at Crook’s Place Board School, Norwich--Country board schools i...

Air--Fog--What urban fog is made of--Darkness--Poison--An analysis from Kew--Can we counteract effects of fog?--Mr. Toope at Stepney--Fog-filters--What plants suffer least?--Pro...

The hardy fernery--How we made our own--Wild flowers for the fernery--The fernery all the year round--Amusing May--The Pale Osmunda--The neglected fernery of London and the subu...

_Acknowledgment is due to the Editors of “The Garden,” “The Lady,” and the “Pall Mall Gazette” for their courtesy in permitting the reproduction in this book of certain chapters...

Courage is wanted to write a book about Town-gardening. Is there such a thing? Some would say “No; cats, fogs, and smuts forbid.” Yet how inseparable from London is the thought...

Since Londoners have learned that life without scent and colour is not worth living, England’s capital has become a City of Flowers. It is not only Covent Garden and the great f...

The spring months over, and our early blossom faded, how joyfully one hails the crowd of summer flowers, that appear as if by magic, begging us to buy them. Market-carts and bar...

Some of us have a balcony as well as a window-box. Here is a field indeed; we have more space, more opportunity for display. Rescued from the hands of the florist, balcony-garde...

When one comes to write of roof and back-yard gardens the pen must run less glibly; such oases in the dust and drouth of towns are few and rare. The roofs of English houses are...

A kindly K.C. of my acquaintance is always telling us we ought to provide pianos for the poor. “So elevating”--this is his argument. Mine is, that pianos want too much practisin...

Now and again we meet with beginners who really seem hardly to know one end of a plant from another. Always buying their flowers in bunches, they have no idea how they look when...

We have said a good deal about Flowering Plants for town decoration; there are also non-flowering sets of plants to choose from, which are just as lovely and far more uncommon;...

Air is invisible, and earth a very tangible thing indeed, which makes us forget sometimes how much air does for us, to feed and nourish. We do not only live in it, we live of it...

During the rush of the London season many hostesses, much as they love to have their houses made sweet and beautiful with flowers, find it impossible to attend to the work of de...

“The size of a garden has very little to do with its merit,--it is the size of the heart and brain and the goodwill of the owner that will make his garden either delightful or d...

One matter of the deepest import confronts the owner of the small suburban garden, from which his prototype in the country is generally free; it is the question of “next door.”...

When people first take possession of the new suburban garden, be it ever so small or empty, three things are sure to be found in it; even the builder bestows as much as that upo...

“How I do envy you your bank of Ferns” is the remark made to me almost daily during the summer months when the green background of our outdoor fernery looks so pretty as it thro...

No cottage, villa, hut, nor any other human dwelling, however small and gardenless, need be without some leaves and flowers, for it must have walls, and up them may the Ivy wand...

A rock-garden, even in a simple way, is a great joy, and there is no reason why we should not try to possess one even in a town or in the suburbs. Writers in the best horticultu...