- Formal arrangements in London parks
The formality of the true geometrical garden is charming to many to whom this style is offensive; and there is not the slightest reason why the most beautiful combinations of fine-leaved and fine-flowered plants should not be made in any kind of geometrical garden. - Gourds
The Gourd tribe is capable, if properly used, of adding much remarkable beauty and character to the garden; yet, as a rule, it is seldom used. There is no natural order more wonderful in the variety and singular shapes of its fruit than that to which the melon, cucumber, and vegetable marrow belong. From the writhing Snake-cucumber, which hangs down four or five feet long from its stem, to the round enormous giant pumpkin or gourd, the grotesque variation, both in colour and shape and size, is marvellous. - Acanthus latifolius (lusitanicus).
Ornamental foliaged herbaceous Section; retaining its leaves till very late in the year. The leaves of this are bold and noble in outline, and the plant has a tendency, rare in some hardy things with otherwise fine qualities, to retain them till the end of the season without losing a particle of their freshness and polished verdure. In fact, the only thing we have to decide about this subject is, what is the best place for it? Now, it is one of those things that will not disgrace any position, and will prove equally at home in the centre of the mixed border, projected in the grass a little from the edge of a choice shrubbery, or in the flower-garden; nobody need fear its displaying anything like the seediness which such things as the Heracleums show at the end of summer. - Shady and sheltered Dell
Shady and sheltered Dell, with Tree Ferns and other Stove Plants placed out for the summer. - A Common Hermit Crab
- Callianassa stebbingi (Female), a Sand-burrowing Thalassinid from the South Coast of England
- Pylocheles miersii, a Symmetrical Hermit Crab
- The Common Sand-hopper (Talitrus saltator), Male, from the Side
- A Deep-sea Lobster
A Deep-sea Lobster (Nephropsis stewartii), from the Bay of Bengal - Munidopsis regia, a Deep-sea Galatheid from the Bay of Bengal
- Thaumastocheles zaleucus
- A Deep-sea Crab (Platymaia wyville-thomsoni)
- Polycheles phosphorus, One of the Eryonidea, Female, from the Indian Seas
- Eryon propinquus, One of the Fossil Eryonidea, from the Jurassic Rocks of Solenhofen
- Mimonectes loveni. A Female Specimen seen from the Side and from Below
- The Zoëa Larva of a Species of Sergestes
- The Nauplius Larva of a Species of Barnacle of the Family Lepadidæ, showing greatly-developed Spines
- Calocalanus pavo, One of the Free-swimming Copepoda of the Plankton
- Copilia quadrata (Female), a Copepod of the Family Corycæidæ
- Phronima colletti, Male. From a Specimen taken in Deep Water near the Canary Islands
- The Brine Shrimp (Artemia salina)
- Diaptomus cœruleus, Female
- Asellus aquaticus, Female
- A Well Shrimp (Niphargus aquilex)
- The Sea-slater (Ligia oceanica)
- Hyperia galba, Female
- Cirolana borealis
- Front Part of Body of a Prawn infected, parasites
- Front Part of Body of a Prawn infected, parasites
- A Fish-louse (Caligus rapax), Female
- Stages in the Life-history of Hæmocera danæ, One of the Monstrillidæ
- The Common Shrimp (Crangon vulgaris)
- The Norwegian Deep-water Prawn (Pandalus borealis), Female
- The Gribble (Limnoria lignorum)
- Restoration of a Trilobite (Triarthrus becki), showing the Appendages
- The Tasmanian 'Mountain Shrimp'
- Præanaspides præcursor, One of the Fossil Syncarida, from the Coal-measures of Derbyshire
- Larval Stages of the Common Rock Barnacle (Balanus balanoides
- Two Species of Caprellidæ
- The Phyllosoma Larva of the Common Spiny Lobster
- The 'Fairy Shrimp' (Chirocephalus diaphanus)
- The Common Lobster (Homarus gammarus,) Female, from the Side
- Young Specimen of an African River Crab
- Gnathophausia willemoesii, One of the Deep-sea Mysidacea
- Gills of the Lobster, exposed by cutting away the Side-flap of the Carapace
- First Larval Stage of the Common Lobster
- First Larval Stage of Munida rugosa
- One of the Abdominal Somites of the Lobster, with its Appendages, separated and viewed from in Front
- Newly-hatched Young of a Crayfish
- Nebalia bipes
- Mysis relicta, One of the Mysidacea
- Meganyctiphanes norvegica, One of the Euphausiacea
- Last Larval Stage of the Common Porcelain Crab
- Larval Stages of the Common Shore Crab
- Dissection of Male Lobster, from the Side
- Diastylis goodsiri, One of the Cumacea
- Daphnia pulex, a Common Species of Water-flea.- Female carrying eggs in the brood-chamber
- Cyclops albidus, a Species of Copepod found in Fresh Water
- An Amphipod (Gammarus locusta)
- A Woodlouse (Porcellio scaber), One of the Isopoda