Marcella Sembrich (February 15, 1858 – January 11, 1935 was the stage name of the Polish coloratura soprano, Prakseda Marcelina Kochańska. She had an important international singing career, chiefly at the New York Metropolitan Opera and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London.

Marcella Sembrich

Marcella Sembrich (February 15, 1858 – January 11, 1935 was the stage name of the Polish coloratura…

Boy hoeing a garden.

Boy with hoe

Boy hoeing a garden.

Sing a Song of Sixpence; The maid was in the garden; Hanging out the clothes; Down came a blackbird; And snapped off her nose.

Maid

Sing a Song of Sixpence; The maid was in the garden; Hanging out the clothes; Down came a blackbird;…

Sing a Song of Sixpence; The maid was in the garden; Hanging out the clothes; Down came a blackbird; And snapped off her nose.

Maid

Sing a Song of Sixpence; The maid was in the garden; Hanging out the clothes; Down came a blackbird;…

Rake leaning against fence.

Rake

Rake leaning against fence.

Garden Gooseberry with flowers.

Flower

Garden Gooseberry with flowers.

Garden Gooseberry with fruit.

Gooseberry

Garden Gooseberry with fruit.

Cup of the calyx laid open.

Gooseberry

Cup of the calyx laid open.

Pistil of Garden Gooseberry.

Pistil

Pistil of Garden Gooseberry.

Berry of the Garden Gooseberry cut in half.

Gooseberry

Berry of the Garden Gooseberry cut in half.

Berry of the Garden Gooseberry cut in half.

Gooseberry

Berry of the Garden Gooseberry cut in half.

The Horticultural Hall.

Horticultural Hall

The Horticultural Hall.

the spinnerets of the common garden spider that are used to spin webs.

Spinnerets

the spinnerets of the common garden spider that are used to spin webs.

The mandibles of the common garden spider.

Mandible

The mandibles of the common garden spider.

Cabbage is for culinary purposes and feeding cattle.

Cabbage

Cabbage is for culinary purposes and feeding cattle.

Celery is a species of parsley. Celery is a vegetable and grown in gardens for salads.

Celery

Celery is a species of parsley. Celery is a vegetable and grown in gardens for salads.

(1782-1852) Froebel was a reformer and educator.

Frederick Wilhelm August Froebel

(1782-1852) Froebel was a reformer and educator.

Sing a Song of Sixpence. The Maid was in the garden, hanging out the clothes.

Maid in the Garden

Sing a Song of Sixpence. The Maid was in the garden, hanging out the clothes.

"Reception of Brigadier General Corcoran by Mayor Opdyke and the citizens of New York, at Castle Garden, August 22nd, 1862. Mayor Opdyke escorting the general to his carriage. The 22nd of August, 1862, will be a memorable day for our Irish citizens, for on that day the people of New York turned out to give a hearty welcome to- not a victorious soldier, but to the true and patient man who had for thirteen months endured the worst of captivities to a brave soldier, compulsory inaction, when he knows his gallant companions are fighting for a great cause almost within cannon shot of his dungeon. And the reception was not given alone to the released general, but to everyone of those patient thousands who have suffered an equally cruel ordeal, although their names are unwept, unhonored and unsung. In this view, the oration which greeted the brave Corcoran was a noble and remarkabe one, and worthy of the great city that gave it."— Frank Leslie, 1896

Castle Garden

"Reception of Brigadier General Corcoran by Mayor Opdyke and the citizens of New York, at Castle Garden,…

"General Hooker, born in Hadley, Mass., November 13th, 1814, died in Garden City, N. Y., October 31st, 1879."— Frank Leslie, 1896

General Joseph Hooker

"General Hooker, born in Hadley, Mass., November 13th, 1814, died in Garden City, N. Y., October 31st,…

The hand weeder works on the same principle as the hand cultivator, but on a smaller scale. It is best suited for working small plants in the home garden, or for use in the seed bed.

Hand Weeder

The hand weeder works on the same principle as the hand cultivator, but on a smaller scale. It is best…

A hoe inside of a circle

Hoe logo

A hoe inside of a circle

Commonly found throughout Europe, the blue titmouse is known for destroying the buds of flowers, and is not well-liked by gardeners for this reason.

Blue Tit

Commonly found throughout Europe, the blue titmouse is known for destroying the buds of flowers, and…

View of Point Levi from Durham Terrace, Quebec. This sketch is taken from Durham Terrace, near the north wall of the Castle Garden. In the foreground are the tops of the houses below in Champlain, Notre Dame, and St. Peter's Streets, and in the distance, across the St. Lawrence, is seen Point Levi, with its pretty little village, its church and wharves. On the extreme left, in the distance, is the upper end of the island of Orleans, which divides the channel. The point seen is the place where Wolfe erected batteries.

Point Levi

View of Point Levi from Durham Terrace, Quebec. This sketch is taken from Durham Terrace, near the north…

"The Breakfast Room. This is a view of the room in the Robinson House in which Arnold was at breakfast when he received Colonel Jameson's letter announcing the arrest of Andre. It is preserved in its original style, which is quite antique. The ceiling is low; the heavy beams are bare; the fire-place surrounded with neat panel-work, without a mantel-shelf. The door on the right opens into a small room which Arnold used as an office; the windows on the left open upon the garden and lawn on the south."—Lossing, 1851

Breakfast Room

"The Breakfast Room. This is a view of the room in the Robinson House in which Arnold was at breakfast…

"This is furnished with four tentacula, two of which are smaller than the others; at the end of these, which the animal pushes out or draws back like telescopes, are blackish knobs, which are the eyes." — Goodrich, 1859

Common snail

"This is furnished with four tentacula, two of which are smaller than the others; at the end of these,…

"View at Rocky Mount. This view is from the garden-gate at Mrs. Barkley's, looking northeast. On the left is seen part of a store-house, and on the right, just beyond the post with a pigeon-house, is a hollow, within which are the remains of houses. At the foot of the hill may still be seen the foundations of the house mentioned in the text as having been occupied by the British when attacked by Sumter. The small log buildings across the center, occupying the slope where the conflict occurred, are servants' houses."—Lossing, 1851

Rocky Mount

"View at Rocky Mount. This view is from the garden-gate at Mrs. Barkley's, looking northeast. On the…

"Fort George, from the water front of the present Castle Garden."—Lossing, 1851

Fort George

"Fort George, from the water front of the present Castle Garden."—Lossing, 1851

"The <em>Galeruca rustica</em> is a common European species, called <em>Garden louse</em>.

Garden Louse

"The Galeruca rustica is a common European species, called Garden louse.

"Inflorescence of Aquilegia vulgaris (garden columbine). a, flower; b, same, cut vertically; c, pistils."-Whitney, 1902

Aquilegia

"Inflorescence of Aquilegia vulgaris (garden columbine). a, flower; b, same, cut vertically; c, pistils."-Whitney,…

"The Foficulina includes the Earwig, <em>Forficula</em>, which appears to live principally upon vegetable substances. As this trie often attack the petals of flowers, they are regarded as enemies by the gardener." &mdash; Goodrich, 1859

Earwigs

"The Foficulina includes the Earwig, Forficula, which appears to live principally upon vegetable…

"Some, of which the Common Garden Spider, <em>Epeira diadema</em> is an excellent example, construct a beautiful net, composed of stout radiating lines, intersected at tolerably regular intervals by circular filaments." &mdash; Goodrich, 1859

Garden-spiders

"Some, of which the Common Garden Spider, Epeira diadema is an excellent example, construct…

"Some spiders, like the <em>Ctenizae</em>, close the mouth of their subterranean resdence with a most ingeniously-constructed trap-door, which the inhabitant closes with the utmost pertinacity when any attempt is made to invade the privacy of his domicile. Hence these, of which several species are found in the south of Europe and on the shores of the Mediterranean, are generally known as <em>Trap-door spiders</em>." &mdash; Goodrich, 1859

Garden-spider and trap-door spider

"Some spiders, like the Ctenizae, close the mouth of their subterranean resdence with a most…

"Thorn Apple is a genus of plants. The common thorn apple is an annual plant, with smooth stem and leaves, white flowers, and erect prickly capsules, a native of the East Indies, but now often met with in North America. A variety with pale violet flowers and purplish violet stem is frequently cultivated in gardens as an ornamental plant."&mdash;(Charles Leonard-Stuart, 1911)

Thorn Apple

"Thorn Apple is a genus of plants. The common thorn apple is an annual plant, with smooth stem and leaves,…

"Thorn Apple is a genus of plants. The common thorn apple is an annual plant, with smooth stem and leaves, white flowers, and erect prickly capsules, a native of the East Indies, but now often met with in North America. A variety with pale violet flowers and purplish violet stem is frequently cultivated in gardens as an ornamental plant."&mdash;(Charles Leonard-Stuart, 1911)

Thorn Apple Bud

"Thorn Apple is a genus of plants. The common thorn apple is an annual plant, with smooth stem and leaves,…

"Jay is the popular name of a species of birds belonging to the crow family, of a vinous red color; the back pale gray; the rump and upper tail coverts white; the tail black or gray, with bluish-gray bars; the wing coverts light gray, in the median series light gray inclining to chestnut; the bastard wing or primary coverts barred with black or bright cobalt blue; headed with an erectile crest; forehead white, streaked with black. Length about 13 inches. It is a beautiful bird, but attacks peas and other garden crops, to which it is very destructive, especially in the vicinity of woods and forests, alnd also easts worms, larv&aelig;, and snails. It is often kept as a cage bird. The common blue jay is found over a large portion of North and South America. The green jay of the Unites States is well known."&mdash;(Charles Leonard-Stuart, 1911)

Jay

"Jay is the popular name of a species of birds belonging to the crow family, of a vinous red color;…

Madison Square Garden in New York City.

Madison Square Garden in New York

Madison Square Garden in New York City.

"Snail is the common name of gasteropodous mollusks. They feed chiefly on vegetable substances, though they are very indiscriminate in their appetite and even devour the dead of their own kind. The mischief which they do to garden crops is well known. Snails delight in warm, moist weather; in dry weather, their chief time of activity is during the night, and they hide themselves by day; but after rain they come forth at any hour in quest of food. At the approach of winter or in very dry weather they close the mouth of the shell with a membrane (epiphragm), formed by the drying of the mucous substance which they secrete, and become inactive and torpid."&mdash;(Charles Leonard-Stuart, 1911)

Snail

"Snail is the common name of gasteropodous mollusks. They feed chiefly on vegetable substances, though…

Mary, Mary, quite contrary; How does your garden grow? Silver bells and cockleshells; And pretty maids all in a row.

Mary

Mary, Mary, quite contrary; How does your garden grow? Silver bells and cockleshells; And pretty maids…

Nursery rhyme, The Maid was in the Garden.

Maid in the Garden

Nursery rhyme, The Maid was in the Garden.

Up into the cherry tree, who should climb but little me? I held the trunk with both my hands and looked abroad on foreign lands. I saw the next-door garden lie, adorned with flowers before my eye, and many pleasant places more that I had never seen before.

Foreign Lands

Up into the cherry tree, who should climb but little me? I held the trunk with both my hands and looked…

A scene from the story, "The Wonder Garden."

Wonder Garden

A scene from the story, "The Wonder Garden."

A scene from the story, "The Wonder Garden."

Wonder Garden

A scene from the story, "The Wonder Garden."

A scene from the story, "The Wonder Garden."

Wonder Garden

A scene from the story, "The Wonder Garden."

A scene from the story, "The Wonder Garden."

Wonder Garden

A scene from the story, "The Wonder Garden."

A scene from the story, "The Wonder Garden."

Wonder Garden

A scene from the story, "The Wonder Garden."

A genus of plants of different varieties, common as a garden vegetable.

Cabbage

A genus of plants of different varieties, common as a garden vegetable.

A woman and children in the garden.

Gardening

A woman and children in the garden.

A man working in a garden.

Gardening

A man working in a garden.

A porch covered with flowers and vines overlooking a garden.

Garden

A porch covered with flowers and vines overlooking a garden.

"The ordinary spading-fork, with strong, flat tines, is a most serviceable tool; but a good spading-fork may be made from an old manure fork by cutting down the tines." &mdash; Baily, 1898

Improvised fork

"The ordinary spading-fork, with strong, flat tines, is a most serviceable tool; but a good spading-fork…

"Home-made scarifier." &mdash; Baily, 1898

Home-made scarifier

"Home-made scarifier." — Baily, 1898

"Represents a slicing-hoe made by fastening a sheet of metal to the tines of a broken fork." &mdash; Baily, 1898

Home-made scarifier

"Represents a slicing-hoe made by fastening a sheet of metal to the tines of a broken fork." —…

"For small beds of flowers or vegetables, hand-weeders of various patterns are essential to easy and efficient work." &mdash; Baily, 1898

Hand-weeders

"For small beds of flowers or vegetables, hand-weeders of various patterns are essential to easy and…

"Another style of hand-weeder, made at home out of hoop-iron." &mdash; Baily, 1898

Home-made hand-weeder

"Another style of hand-weeder, made at home out of hoop-iron." — Baily, 1898

"A finger-weeder." &mdash; Baily, 1898

Finger-weeder

"A finger-weeder." — Baily, 1898

"One of the steel implements may be secured to a long handle; or the blade of a broken trowel may be utilized in the same way." &mdash; Baily, 1898

Long-handled trowel

"One of the steel implements may be secured to a long handle; or the blade of a broken trowel may be…

"A very good trowel may also be made from a discarded blade of a mowing-machine, and it answers the purpose of a hand-weeder in many places." &mdash; Baily, 1898

Improvised trowel

"A very good trowel may also be made from a discarded blade of a mowing-machine, and it answers the…

"It is often essential that the land be compacted after it has been spaded or hoed, and some kind of hand-roller is then useful. Very efficient iron rollers are in the market, but a good one can be made from a hard cestnut or oak log." &mdash; Baily, 1898

Hand-roller

"It is often essential that the land be compacted after it has been spaded or hoed, and some kind of…

"For very small beds, drills, or furrows may be made by a simple marking-stick." &mdash; Baily, 1898

Marking-stick

"For very small beds, drills, or furrows may be made by a simple marking-stick." — Baily, 1898