LETTER V. Impromptu Cookery.--Soups.--Poultry.--Pigeons.--Game.--Salads of Cold Meat and Potatoes.--Modes of dressing Potatoes and Carrots.--Sauces.--Omelettes, Creams, and Side Dishes.--Miscellaneous Cookery.--National Cookery.--The French Pot-au-Feu.--Italian Macaroni.--German Sauer Kraut--Polish Barsch.--Spanish Olla Podrida and Puchero.--Scotch Haggis, Barley Broth and Hotch-potch.--English Plum-pudding. Puddings.--Potato Flour.--Pickles.--Pork Pies. LETTER VI. The Larder.--Salting Meat, Bacon, and Hams.--The Dairy.--Management of Milk.--Making and keeping Butter.--Making Cheese of various Kinds.--Ice-House, Ice-Cellar, and Ice-Cooler.--Ice-Creams. BOOK II. THE GARDEN. LETTER VII. Planting a regular Geometrical Flower-Garden.--List of Plants.--Mode of laying out regular Figures on the Ground.--Rules for arranging Colours.--Planting Side Beds.--Plants with fragrant Flowers.--Culture of Bulbs.--Reserve Ground.--Culture of Annuals, Perennials, and Biennials.--Hotbeds and Frames for raising and keeping Half-hardy Flowers. LETTER VIII. Use of Plant-Houses.--Nature of Climates.--Different Kinds of Hothouses.--The Dry Stove, the Bark Stove, and the Orchideous House.--Culture of Plants in the Bark Stove.--Aquarium and Water Plants.--Red Spider.--Culture of Succulent Stove Plants.--Culture of Orchideous Plants.--The Greenhouse.--The Australian House, and Culture of its Plants.--The common Greenhouse, the Heath House, the Conservatory, the Orangery, and the Camellia House.--The Culture of Plants in the common Greenhouse.--Potting Plants.--Heaths.--Culture of Plants in the Conservatory.--Culture of Orange Trees.--Aphides. LETTER IX. The Park and Pleasure-Grounds.--Situation of old Houses.--Water.--Forest Scenery.--Effect of a Shrubbery in harmonising a Flower-Garden with a Park.--Opening Vistas.--Scenes in a Park.--Fences against Cattle.--Styles in Gardening.--Use of a Terrace.--Patte d'Oie.--Planting an Architectural Garden.--Planting an Arboretum.--Renovating Turf. LETTER X. Laying out a Kitchen-Garden.--Making Gravel Walks.--Box Edgings.--Crops of Culinary Vegetables.--Cucumbers, Melons, and Mushrooms. LETTER XI. The Management of Fruit Trees.--Planting.--Protecting the Blossoms.--Stone Fruits.--Fig Trees.--Grapes.--Management of a Vinery.--Growing Pine-apples.--Forcing Peaches and Nectarines.--Standard Fruit Trees.--Kernel Fruits.--Fruit Shrubs.--Strawberries.--Tart-Rhubarb. LETTER XII. Operations of Gardening.--Digging, Forking, and Hoeing.--Sowing Seeds.--Taking off Suckers.--Making Layers and Cuttings.--Budding, Grafting, and Inarching.--Pruning and Training.--Disbudding.--Manuring.--Keeping Fruit in a Fruit-Room. BOOK III. DOMESTIC ANIMALS. LETTER XIII. Quadrupeds kept for Amusement.--Horses for riding and driving in Pony Carriages.--Mules, Zebras, Quaggas, and Donkeys.--Dogs and Cats. LETTER XIV. Quadrupeds kept for supplying Food.--Cows, Calves, Goats, Pigs, Rabbits, and Deer.