Adonis vernalis, 52
Alcohol, its gravestone, 12
Alexandrian laurel, 16
AlstrÖmerias, best kinds, how to plant, 92
Amelanchier, 52, 182
Ampelopsis, 43
Andromeda CatesbÆi, 37;
A. floribunda and A. japonica, 50;
autumn colouring, 128, 165
Anemone fulgens, 57;
japonica, 109, 207
Aponogeton, 194
Apple, Wellington, 12;
apple-trees, beauty of form, 25
Aristolochia Sipho, 43
Arnebia echioides, 56
Aromatic plants, 235
Artemisia Stelleriana, 104
Arum, wild, leaves with cut daffodils, 58
Auriculas, 54;
seed stolen by mice, 260
Autumn-sown annuals, 113
Azaleas, arrangement for colour, 69;
A. occidentalis, 70;
autumn colouring, 128;
as trained for shows, 246
Bambusa Ragamowski, 102
Beauty of woodland in winter, 7, 153
Beauty the first aim in gardening, 2, 196, 244, 248, 253, 254
Bedding-out as a fashion, 263 and onward;
bedding rightly used, 265
Berberis for winter decoration, 16;
its many merits, 21
Bignonia radicans, large-flowered variety, 110
Birch, its graceful growth, 8;
colour of bark, 9;
fragrance in April, 51;
grouped with holly, 152
Bird-cherry, 182
Bitton, Canon Ellacombe's garden at, 206
Blue-eyed Mary, 44
Books on gardening, 192 and onward
Border plants, their young growth in April, 51
Bracken, 87;
cut into layering-pegs, 98;
careful cutting, 99;
when at its best to cut, 106;
autumn colouring, 127
Bramble, colour of leaves in winter, 20;
in forest groups, 44;
in orchard, 181;
American kinds, 182
Briar roses, 80, 104
Bryony, the two wild kinds, 43
Bulbous plants, early blooming, how best to plant, 49
Bullfinch, a garden enemy, 262
Butcher's broom, 151
Cactus, hardy, on rock-wall, 119
Caltha palustris, 52
Campanula rapunculus, 257
Cardamine trifoliata, 50
Carnations, 94;
at shows, 243
Caryopteris mastacanthus, 102
Ceanothus, Gloire de Versailles, 205
Cheiranthus, alpine kinds, 62
Chimonanthus fragrans, 229
Chionodoxa sardensis and C. LucilliÆ, 32
Choisya ternata, 63, 71, 205
Christmas rose, giant kind, 144
Chrysanthemums, hardy kinds, 144;
as trained at shows, 245
Cistus laurifolius, 37;
C. florentinus, 101;
C. ladaniferus, 102, 206
Claret vine, 110
Clematis cirrhosa, 14;
C. flammula when to train, 24;
wild clematis in trees and hedges, 43;
C. montana, 71, 203;
C. Davidiana, 95, 205
Clergymen as gardeners, 175
Clerodendron foetidum, 110, 206
Climbing plants, 202;
for pergola, 215
Colour, of woodland in winter, 19;
of leaves of some garden plants, 21;
colour-grouping of rhododendrons, 66;
of azaleas, 69;
colour of foliage of tree pÆonies, 73;
colour arrangement in the flower-border, 89, 109, 207;
colour of bracken in October, 127;
of azaleas and andromedas in autumn, 128;
of bark of holly, 152;
study of, 197;
of flowers, how described, 221 and onward
Copse-cutting, 166
Corchorus japonicus, 50
Coronilla varia, 259
Corydalis capnoides, 50
Cottage gardens, 4, 185;
roses in, 79
Cottager's way of protecting tender plants, 91
Cowslips, 59
Crinums, 206
Crinums, hybrid, 110, 119;
protecting, 146
Crocuses, eaten by pheasants, 261
Daffodils in the copse, 34;
planted in old pack-horse tracks, 48
Dahlias, staking, 114;
digging up, 133
Delphiniums, 89;
grown from seed, 90;
D. Belladonna, 91
Dentaria pinnata, 46
Deutzia parviflora, 103
Digging up plants, 139
Discussions about treatment of certain plants, 3
Dividing tough-rooted plants, 53;
spring-blooming plants, 85;
how often, 136;
suitable tools, 136 and onward
Dog-tooth violets, 33, 47
Doronicum, 53
Dressing of show flowers, 243
Dried flowers, 17
Dwarfing annuals, 249
Edwardsia grandiflora, 206
Elder trees, 83;
elder-wine, 84
Epilobium angustifolium, white variety, 86
Epimedium pinnatum, 16, 46
Erinus alpinus, sown in rock-wall, 121
Eryngium giganteum, 93;
E. maritimum, 93;
E. Oliverianum, 93, 209.
Eulalia japonica, flowers dried, 17
Evergreen branches for winter decoration, 16
Everlasting pea, dividing and propagating, 138
Experimental planting, 183
Felling trees, 162
Fern Filix foemina in rhododendron beds, 37, 106;
Dicksonia punctilobulata, 62;
ferns in rock-wall, 120;
polypody, 121, 165
Fern-pegs for layering carnations, 98
Fern-walk, suitable plants among groups of ferns, 107
Flower border, 133, 200
Forms of deciduous trees, beauty of, 25
Forsythia suspensa and F. viridissima, 50
Forget-me-not, large kind, 53
Foxgloves, 270
Fungi, Amanita, Boletus, Chantarelle, 111
Funkia grandiflora, 212
Galax aphylla, colour of leaves in winter, 21
Gale, broad-leaved, 101
Garden friends, 194
Garden houses, 215
Gardening, a fine art, 197
Garrya elliptica, 202
Gaultheria Shallon, value for cutting, 16;
in rock-garden, 165
Geraniums as bedding plants, 266 and onward
Gourds, as used by Mrs. Earle, 18
Goutweed, 257
Grape hyacinths, 49, 258
Grass, Sheep's-fescue, 69
Grasses for lawn, 147
Grey-foliaged plants, 207
Grouping plants that bloom together, 70
Grubbing, 160;
tools, 150, 261
Guelder-rose as a wall-plant, 71;
single kind, 129
Gypsophila paniculata, 95, 209
Half-hardy border plants in August, 108, 210
Happiness in gardening, 1, 274
Hares, as depredators, 260
Heath sods for protecting tender plants, 91
Heaths, filling up Rhododendron beds, 37;
wild heath among azaleas, 69;
cut short in paths, 70;
ling, 106
Hellebores, caulescent kinds in the nut-walk, 9;
for cutting, 57, 144;
buds stolen by mice, 260.
Heuchera Richardsoni, 53, 135
Holly, beauty in winter, 8;
grouped with birch, 152;
cheerful aspect, 154
Hollyhocks, the prettiest shape, 105
Honey-suckle, wild, 43
Hoof-parings as manure, 133
Hoop-making, 166, and onward
Hop, wild, 43
Hutchinsia alpina, 50
Hyacinth (wild) in oak-wood, 60
Hydrangeas, protecting, 146;
at foot of wall, 206
Hyssop, a good wall-plant, 121
Iris alata, 14;
I. foetidissima, 120;
I. pallida, 129
Iris stylosa, how to plant, 13;
white variety, 14;
time of blooming, 33, 164
Ivy, shoots for cutting, 17
Japan Privet, foliage for winter decoration, 16
Japan Quince (Cydonia or Pyrus), 50
Jasminum nudiflorum, 164
Junction of garden and wood, 34, 270
Juniper, its merits, 26;
its form, action of snow, 27;
power of recovery from damage, 29;
beauty of colouring, 30;
stems in winter dress, 31;
in a wild valley, 154, and onward
Kitchen-garden, 179;
its sheds, 179, 180
Larch, sweetness in April, 51
Large gardens, 176
Lavender, when to cut, 105
Lawn-making, 146;
lawn spaces, 177, 178
Leaf mould, 149
Learning, 5, 189, 190, 273
Lessons of the garden, 6;
in wild-tree planting, 154;
in orchard planting, 183;
of the show-table, 241
Leucojum vernum, 33
Leycesteria formosa, 100
Lilacs, suckers, as strong feeders, good kinds, 23;
standards best, 24
Lilium auratum among rhododendrons, 37, 106;
among bamboos, 106
Lilium giganteum, 95;
cultivation needed in poor soil, 142
Lilium Harrisi and L. speciosum, 106
Lily of the valley in the copse, 61
Linaria repens, 259
London Pride in the rock-wall, 120
Loquat, 204
Love-in-a-mist, 251
Love of gardening, 1
Luzula sylvatica, 61
Magnolia, branches indoors in winter, 16;
magnolia stellata, 50;
kinds in the choice shrub-bank, 101
Mai-trank, 60
Marking trees for cutting, 151
Marsh marigold, 52
Masters and men, 271
Mastic, 102
Meconopsis Wallichi, 165
Medlar, 129
Megaseas, colour of foliage, 17;
M. ligulata, 103;
in front edge of flower-border, 211
Mertensia virginica, 46;
sowing the seed, 84
Mice, 260, 261
Michaelmas daisies, a garden to themselves, 125;
planting and staking, 126;
early kinds in mixed border, 135
Mixed planting, 183;
mixed border, 206
Morells, 59
Mulleins (V. olympicum and V. phlomoides), 85;
mullein-moth, 86, 270
Muscari of kinds, 49
Musical reverberation in wood of Scotch fir, 60
Myosotis sylvatica major, 53
Nandina domestica, 206
Narcissus cernuus, 12;
N. serotinus, 14;
N. princeps and N. Horsfieldi in the copse, 48
Nature's planting, 154
Nettles, to destroy, 259
Novelty, 249
Nut nursery at Calcot, 11
Nut-walk, 9;
catkins, 11;
suckers, 11
Oak timber, felling, 60
Old wall, 72, 116 and onward
Omphalodes verna, 45
Ophiopogon spicatum for winter cutting, 16
Orchard, ornamental, 181
Orobus vernus, 52;
O. aurantiacus, 62
Othonna cheirifolia, 63
PÆonies and Lent Hellebores grown together, 76
PÆony moutan grouped with Clematis montana, 70;
special garden for pÆonies, 72;
frequent sudden deaths, 73;
varieties of P. albiflora, 74;
old garden kinds, 75;
pÆony species desirable for garden use, 75
Pansies as cut flowers, 57;
at shows, 243
Parkinson's chapter on carnations, 94
Pavia macrostachya, 103
Pea, white everlasting, 95
Pergola, 212
Pernettya, 165
Pests, bird, beast, and insect, 259
Phacelia campanularia, 63
Pheasants, as depredators, 261;
destroying crocuses, 261
Philadelphus microphyllus, 103
Phlomis fruticosa, 103
Phloxes, 135
Piptanthus nepalensis, 63, 206
Planes pollarded, 215
Planting early, 129;
careful planting, 130;
planting from pots, 131;
careful tree planting, 148
Platycodon Mariesi, 108
Plume hyacinth, 49
Polygala chamÆbuxus, 164
Polygonum compactum, 136;
Sieboldi, 258
"Pot-pourri from a Surrey garden," 18
Primroses, white and lilac, 44;
large bunch-flowered kinds as cut flowers, 58;
seedlings planted out, 85;
primrose garden, 216
Primula denticulata, 184
Progress in gardening, 249
Prophet-flower (Arnebia), 56
Protecting tender plants, 145
Pterocephalus parnassi, 107
Pyrus Maulei, 50
Queen wasps, 63
Quince, 128
Rabbits, 260
Ranunculus montanus, 50
Raphiolepis ovata, 204
Rhododendrons, variation in foliage, 35;
R. multum maculatum, 35;
plants to fill bare spaces among, 37;
arrangement for colour, 64 and onward;
hybrid of R. Aucklandi, 69;
alpine, 165
Ribbon border, 266
Ribes, 50
Robinia hispida, 203
Rock garden, making and renewing, 115
Rock-wall, 116 and onward
Rosemary, 204
Roses, pruning, tying, and training, 38;
fence planted with free roses, 38;
Reine Olga de Wurtemburg, 38;
climbing and rambling roses, 39;
Fortune's yellow, Banksian, 40;
wild roses, 43;
garden roses: Provence, moss, damask, R. alba, 78;
roses in cottage gardens, ramblers and fountains, 79;
free growth of Rosa polyantha, 80;
two good, free roses for cutting, 80;
Burnet rose and Scotch briars, Rosa lucida, 81;
tea roses: best kinds for light soil, pegging, pruning, 82;
roses collected in Capri, 105;
second bloom of tea roses, 110;
jam made of hips of R. rugosa, 111, 184;
R. arvensis, garden form of, 129;
R. Boursault elegans, 192;
China, 205;
their scents, 235
Ruscus aculeatus, 151;
R. racemosus, 152
Ruta patavina, a late-flowering rock-plant, 107
Sambucus ebulis, 258
Satin-leaf (Heuchera Richardsoni), 53
Scilla maritima, 14;
S. sibirica, S. bifolia, 32
Scents of flowers, 229 and onward
Scotch fir, pollen, 53;
cones opening, 54;
effect of sound in fir-wood, 60
Show flowers, 242
Show-table, what it teaches, 241
Shrub-bank, 101;
snug place for tender shrubs, 121
Shrub-wilderness of the old home, 100
Skimmeas, 101, 165
Slugs, 262
Smilacina bifolia, 61
Snapdragon, 251
Snowstorm of December 1886, 27
Snowy Mespilus (Amelanchier), 52
Solanum crispum, 204
Solomon's seal, 61
Spindle-tree, 127
SpirÆa Thunbergi, 50, 104;
S. prunifolia, 104
St. John's worts, choice, 103
Stephanandra flexuosa, 103
Sternbergia lutea, 139
Sticks and stakes, 163
Storms in autumn, 122
Styrax japonica, 101
Suckers of nuts, 11;
robbers, how to remove, 24;
on grafted rhododendrons, 36
Sunflowers, perennial, 134
Sweetbriar, rambling, 39;
fragrance in April, 51
Sweet-leaved small shrubs, 34, 57, 101
Sweet peas, autumn sown, 83, 112
Thatching with hoop-chips, 169
Thinning the nut-walk, 10;
thinning shrubs, 22;
trees in copse, 151
Tiarella cordifolia, 53;
colour of leaves in winter, 21
Tools for dividing, 136;
for tree cutting and grubbing, 150;
woodman's, 158;
axe and wedge, 159;
rollers, 160;
cross-cut saw, 162
Training the eye, 4;
training Clematis flammula, 24
Transplanting large trees, 147
Trillium grandiflorum, 61
Tritomas, protecting, 146
Tulips, show kinds and their origin, 55;
T. retroflexa, 55;
other good garden kinds, 56
Various ways of gardening, 3
Verbascum olympicum and V. phlomoides, 85
Villa garden, 171
Vinca acutiflora, 139
Vine, black Hamburg at Calcot, 12;
as a wall-plant, 42;
good garden kinds, 42;
claret vine, 110, 205;
Vitis Coignettii, 123
Violets, the pale St. Helena, 45;
Czar, 140
Virginian cowslip, 46;
its colouring, 47;
sowing seed, 84
Wall pennywort, 120
Water-elder, a beautiful neglected shrub, 123
Weeds, 256
Wild gardening misunderstood, 269
Wilson, Mr. G. F.'s garden at Wisley, 184
Window garden, 185
Winter, beauty of woodland, 7
Wistaria chinensis, 43
Whortleberry under Scotch fir, 51, 61
Woodman at work, 158
Woodruff, 60
Wood-rush, 61, 165
Wood-work, 163
Xanthoceras sorbifolia, 103
Yellow everlasting, 120
Yuccas, some of the best kinds, 91;
in flower-border, 201
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