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The Mary Frances Garden Book

The Mary Frances Garden Book

by Jane Eayre Fryer

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Author
Fryer, Jane Eayre, 1876-
Title
The Mary Frances Garden Book; or, Adventures Among the Garden People
Credits
Produced by Emmy, MWS and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
SB: Agriculture: Plant culture
Subject
Mary Frances (Fictitious character) -- Juvenile fiction
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 53098
Release Date
September 20, 2016
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.The Mary Frances Garden Book
  2. 2.Untitled
  3. 3.Untitled
  4. 4.Untitled
  5. 5.Untitled
  6. 6.PREFACE
  7. 7.CONTENTS
  8. 8.THE MARY FRANCES GARDENS
  9. 9.INSTRUCTIONS—
  10. 10.CHAPTER I Feather Flop, the Garden Boss
  11. 11.CHAPTER II Feather Flop Oversleeps
  12. 12.CHAPTER III Billy Plans the Garden — Garden Lesson No. 1 Planning a Garden — Lay-out of the Gardens
  13. 13.CHAPTER IV Feather Flop’s Argument
  14. 14.CHAPTER V Gardens for Little Folks — GARDEN LESSON No. 2 What to Plant — Garden for Little Folks — Garden for Little Folks—10x15 Feet — Explanation OF THE LITTLE FOLKS FLOWER GARDEN — Four Hardy Bulbs for Little Folks Garden — Hardy Perennials — Twelve Hardy Perennials for Little Folks Garden — Annuals — Annuals for Little Folks Garden — Vegetables for Little Folks Garden
  15. 15.CHAPTER VI Gardens for Big Boys and Girls — Garden Lists for Big Boys and Girls — NOTE ON THE GARDEN CUT-OUTS — A Letter About the Garden Cut-Outs — A Few Hints on Growing the Flowers Shown in the Garden Cut-Outs
  16. 16.CHAPTER VII Early Spring Garden — LIST No. 1 Five Bulbs* for Early Spring Hardy Garden — Seven Hardy Perennial Plants which Bloom in the Early Spring
  17. 17.CHAPTER VIII Early Summer Garden — LIST No. 2 Eleven Hardy Perennial Plants which Bloom in the Early Summer
  18. 18.MARY FRANCES GARDEN CUT-OUT No. 3
  19. 19.CHAPTER IX Mid-Summer Garden — LIST No. 3
  20. 20.CHAPTER X Autumn Garden — LIST No. 4 Thirteen Hardy Perennial Plants which Bloom in the Early and Late Fall
  21. 21.MARY FRANCES GARDEN CUT-OUT No. 4
  22. 22.CHAPTER XI Some Favorite Annuals — List of Fifteen Annuals — Everlasting Flowers — VEGETABLE GARDEN
  23. 23.CHAPTER XII Window Boxes — Suggestions for Planting of Window Boxes — Nine Excellent Free-Blooming Plants for Window Boxes — An Herb-Garden Window Box A Soup-and-Sauce Garden
  24. 24.CHAPTER XIII Billy Tests the Soil — GARDEN LESSON No. 3 — Testing the Soil — Clayey Soil — Sandy Soil — Humus — What Humus Is — What Humus Does — To Make a Compost Heap
  25. 25.CHAPTER XIV How to Plant — Garden Tools — To Dig up the Garden — To Prepare the Soil — To Plant Seeds in Boxes — Preparing the Soil — Sowing the Seed Boxes — Watering the Seed Boxes
  26. 26.CHAPTER XV The Outdoor Seed-Bed — GARDEN LESSON No. 4 — The Outdoors Seed-Bed — To Make a Garden Line — To Use the Garden Line — Planting in Drills — Broadcasting — Covering the Seeds — To Mark the Beds
  27. 27.CHAPTER XVI Seed Babies and Their Nurses — Seed Babies in Their Coats — Cotyledons — Thinning Out the Plants — To Cultivate — Watering — The Importance of Cultivating
  28. 28.CHAPTER XVII Names of Parts of Flowers — GARDEN LESSON No. 5 Names of Parts of Flowers — The Story of Little Buttercup
  29. 29.CHAPTER XVIII Good Mrs. Bee
  30. 30.CHAPTER XIX The Story of Fertilization — The Birth of Seed Babies. Formation of the Pistil — The Need of Pollen — How Can the Flowers Get Pollen — The Flowers Spread a Feast for Insects — Nectar — Honey Bee’s Honey-Churns — The Insects Carry Pollen — Bumble Bees Help — Animals Would Starve Without This Work of Insects — Moths and Butterflies Help, Too
  31. 31.CHAPTER XX The Story of the Honey Bee — The Bee City — The Queen Bee — Worker Bees — Drone Bees — Why the Workers Kill the Drones — The Wonderful Bodies of the Bees — The Body of the Worker Bee — The Antennæ — Legs, Wings, and Claws — Pollen Baskets — The Wings — The Industry of the Worker — Wax Pockets — The Honey-Sac — The Body of the Queen Bee — The Sting — The Body of the Drone
  32. 32.CHAPTER XXI How the Bees Work — The Ventilating Workers—The Fanners — The Comb Builders — The Queen’s Work — Worker Baby Bees — The Drone Baby Bee — The Queen Baby or Princess — Why Bees “Swarm” — How Bees Spend the Winter
  33. 33.CHAPTER XXII The Children’s Money-making Plans
  34. 34.CHAPTER XXIII Mr. Hop Toad Hops In — The Story of the Hop Toad — Tadpoles — Toads’ Enemies — How Toads Help the Garden
  35. 35.CHAPTER XXIV Mr. Cutworm, the Villain — Paper Collars to Protect Plants from Cutworms
  36. 36.CHAPTER XXV Birds as Plants’ Friends — A Robins’ Sleeping Porch — A Bungalow for Wrens — The Martens’ Hotel — The Blue Birds’ Cottage
  37. 37.CHAPTER XXVI Little Ladybird — Ladybirds or Ladybugs
  38. 38.CHAPTER XXVII Curly Dock
  39. 39.CHAPTER XXVIII The Stupid Honey Drops — Aphids — Aphids or Plant Lice — Aphis-lion
  40. 40.CHAPTER XXIX Some Sprays for Garden Pests — Garden Pests — Hellebore
  41. 41.CHAPTER XXX Early Vegetables
  42. 42.CHAPTER XXXI Feather Flop’s Temptation
  43. 43.CHAPTER XXXII Feather Flop Gets Angry
  44. 44.CHAPTER XXXIII Father and Mother’s Surprise
  45. 45.CHAPTER XXXIV Feather Flop Makes Up
  46. 46.CHAPTER XXXV Roses — Old-Fashioned Roses — How New Roses Came About — How Roses are Propagated — Cuttings — Growing Rose Cuttings Under Glass Jars — Budding — “Suckers”
  47. 47.CHAPTER XXXVI The Best Roses to Plant — Classes of Roses — The Homes of Certain Roses — About Hybrid Perpetual Roses — Tea Roses — About Hybrid Tea Roses — What Roses to Plant — Wichuraiana Roses ( Evergreen or Memorial Roses ) — Rugosa Roses — Tree Roses
  48. 48.CHAPTER XXXVII The Wicked Rose Bugs — How to Plant Roses — Where to Make Beds for Roses — How to Make Beds for Roses — How Deep to Plant Roses — The Best Time to Plant Roses — Caring for Roses — Fertilizers — Enemies of Roses — Pruning Roses
  49. 49.CHAPTER XXXVIII The Fairy Wood Nymphs
  50. 50.CHAPTER XXXIX Good and Bad Weeds — “Good and Bad Weeds”
  51. 51.CHAPTER XL Bouncing Bet and Her Friends — Plant Families — Rose Family — Night Shade Family
  52. 52.CHAPTER XLI Buttercup and Daisy Families — Buttercup Family — Sunflower Family ( Composite Family )
  53. 53.CHAPTER XLII Water Babies
  54. 54.CHAPTER XLIII How Plants Grow — The Leaf-Mill
  55. 55.CHAPTER XLIV A Wicked Innkeeper — A Wicked Innkeeper
  56. 56.CHAPTER XLV Uninvited Guests — Dodder — Parasite Plants
  57. 57.CHAPTER XLVI How Seed Babies Travel — Why Plants Travel — How Plants Travel — Seed Pods with Burry Coats — Pods which Shoot Seeds — Tumble Weeds — Seed Babies with Wings
  58. 58.CHAPTER XLVII Have a Seat on a Toad Stool — Plants without Flowers — Mushrooms or Toad Stools — Fungi, — Bracket Fungus — Molds — Bacteria
  59. 59.CHAPTER XLVIII Some Ways to Rid of Weeds — Weeds — Some Ways to Rid of Weeds — Poison Ivy — Virginia Creeper — Some Ways in Which Plants Protect Themselves
  60. 60.CHAPTER XLIX Queen’s Lace Trims Well
  61. 61.CHAPTER L The Wild Flower Garden
  62. 62.CHAPTER LI Growing Perennials from Seed — Cheese-cloth Shade Frame — Lattice Shade Frame
  63. 63.CHAPTER LII The Money the Children Made
  64. 64.CHAPTER LIII Mary Frances’ Garden Party — For Twelve Green Pepper Sandwiches — Spearmint Jumbles
  65. 65.CHAPTER LIV Feather Flop’s Conceit
  66. 66.CHAPTER LV Bob and Billy’s Vacation — The Planting of Bulbs — Plant Spring-Flowering Bulbs in Autumn — How to Plant Bulbs — Depth to Plant — Where to Plant Bulbs — Bulbs in the Grass
  67. 67.CHAPTER LVI Daffodil and Other Bulbs — Bulbs to Plant in the Fall — Snowdrops — Squills ( Scilla ) — Grape Hyacinths ( Muscari ) — Narcissus or Daffodils — Hyacinths — Tulips — Lilies — Iris ( Flags ) — Bulbs to Plant in Early Spring — Tuberoses — Gladiolus — Hardy Bulbs for a Small Garden — Growing Bulbs Indoors
  68. 68.CHAPTER LVII Billy Builds a Hotbed — Hotbed — Cold Frame
  69. 69.CHAPTER LVIII Some Hints on Growing Vegetables — The Earliest Vegetables to Plant — The Second Early Vegetables to Plant (About ten days after the first) — Fertilizers — Insecticides
  70. 70.CHAPTER LIX The City Garden — Hanging Gardens — A Soup and Sauce Garden — Okra or Gumbo — Indoor Garden — Watering House Plants
  71. 71.CHAPTER LX Garden Color-Pictures
  72. 72.CHAPTER LXI Patterns for Paper Flowers — To Make a Wild Rose
  73. 73.CHAPTER LXII The Mary Frances Garden Cut-Outs — Directions for Making THE MARY FRANCES GARDEN CUT-OUTS
  74. 74.CHAPTER LXIII Little Gardeners’ Calendar — The Little Gardeners’ Calendar
  75. 75.CHAPTER LXIV Budding and Grafting
  76. 76.CHAPTER LXV Prizes at the County Fair — FOOTNOTES: — The Mary Frances Books For Teaching Useful Things in an Entertaining Way — Handsomely Illustrated Books For Children

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