The following is taken as extracts from the "A Guide to Lady Gardening - A Victorian Lady's Companion" by Mrs Francis "Fanny" Plucker (originally published in London in 1863 as "The Dictionary of Daily Wants") as a part of the same series as Tropical Zones - A Guide to Understanding the Dry and Wet Seasons within the Forested Equatorial Regions, both of which would go on to be popular and well thumbed favourites amongst polite society.