Pot-pourri from a Surrey garden

Autumn mornings and robins — Italian Daturas — The useful •Myticuttah'— Nerines-- Three Cape greenhouse plants — Sweet Chestnuts— Other people's gardening difficulties — Making new beds— The great Apple time— French White Haricot— The stewing of chickens and game— Re-planting Violas and Saxifrages—' St. Luke's summer '—Plants for August, September, and October— London gardens . . 178 NOVEMBER Letting in the autumn sun — Jerusalem Artichokes — Hardy Bamboos — Polygonum cuspidatum — Autumn flowers — Small Beech-trees— Last day in the country— Some garden- ing books of this century . 202 DECEMBER Orchid-growing on a small scale — Miss Jekyll's articles in the ' Guardian ' — Winter vegetables— Laver as a vegetable — Advice to housekeepers — Cooking sun-dried fruit . . 249 SONS Boys and girls — The health question — Early independence — Public schools— Influence of parents — The management of money Family life and its difficulties — Sir Henry Taylor — ' Mothers and Sons '—The feeding of children — The abuse of athletics— Success in life— Spartan upbringing — Youth and age 257 FURNISHING Books on furnishing — Smoking — Morris's ' Lectures on Art ' — London houses — New and second-hand furniture — Curtains versus blinds — White paint — Bookcases — Bed-rooms — Bath- rooms— Bedding— Useful tables— Rain-water . . . 276 DAY IN LONDON Advantages of suburbs— London life — Picture exhibitions . 289 xii POT-POURRI FROM A SURREY GARDEN HEALTH PAGK Nurses — ' Janet's Repentance ' — Private hospitals — Sick-nursing — Convalescence — Medical books . . 296 AMATEUR ARTISTS Amateurs — Want of occupation — Work amongst the poor — Music and drawing — Buskin's teaching — Technical skill — , Natural and acquired talent — Leaving home — Water-colours versus oils 307 DAUGHTERS School-girls — Ignorance of parents — The confidence of children must be gained — The way to do it — Drawbacks of nurseries and school-rooms — Over-education — Show-training — Deli- cate girls — A woman's vocation — Superficial teaching — Children's tempers — Modern girls — Herbert Spencer and education — J. P. Eichter — Liberty and independence — Serious studies— What young girls should read — Parents and children — Friendships — Girls' allowances — Dress — Professions— Strong feelings — Management of house and family — Early rising — Life in society 317 APPENDIX Japanese art of arranging cut flowers 353 INDEX , 367 POT-POURRI FROM A SURREY GARDEN JANUARY Introductory — Indispensable books — An old Hertfordshire garden — Reminiscences— My present garden plants in a London room — Japanese floral arrangement — Cooking vegetables and fruit — Making coffee — Early blossoms— Winter gardening— Frost pic- tures on window-panes. January %id. — I am not going to write a gardening book, or a cookery book, or a book on furnishing or education. Plenty of these have been published lately. I merely wish to talk to you on paper about several sub- jects as they occur to me throughout one year ; and if such desultory notes prove to be of any use to you or others, so much the better. One can only teach from personal knowledge ; yet how exceedingly limited that is !