INDEX 
Beauty of form in plants, 1 
Bentibans, 191 
Betee Bans, 191 
Bicycles and tricyles, 35 
Birth of the bud, 51 
Blanchard, M., 166 
Bonpland, 6 
Bory de St. Vincent, 6 
Brandis, 6 
Bulu perindu, 31 
Bungozasa, 164, 215 
CaLvERT, M., 33, 35 
Cane brakes sheltering runaway slaves 
in United States, 166 
Canes grown in Europe apt to split, 
33 
Carey, 166 
Carpet gardening, Lord Bacon on, 
212 
Carriere, M., 7, 59, 161 
Cécille, Count, 130 
Cephalostachyum capitatum, 191 
ne Chapelieri, 191 
Ss ~ pallidum, 191 
Chamerops excelsa, the one Palm 
hardy in this country, has tessel- 
lated veins, 55 
Chiku, a Japanese corruption of the 
Chinese word chu, 218 
Chinese and Japanese 
gardeners, 187 
Choice of position, soil, and culture, 
18-26 
Choomaree, 191 
Chusquea andina, 191 
35 aristata, 186, 192; grow- 
ing at 15,000 feet above 
sea-level, 186 
bi capitata, 192 
35 capituliflora, 192 
He culeou, 191 
3 Dombeyana, 192 
Be Fendleri, 192 
a Gaudichaudii, 192 
ea quila, 192 
a Sellovii, 192 
or tessellata, 44, 184, 192 
23 uliginosa, 191 
excellent 
bo 
bo 
— 
| Chusqueee, 41 
Classification, 41 
Climbing habit of Japanese shrubs 
caused by crowding of dwarf Bam- 
boos, 50 
Commercial possibilities in England, 
12, 35 
Confusion in nomenclature, 57; be- 
tween Arundinaria Falconeri and 
A. faleata, 170 
Culm of Phyllostachys, manner of 
growth, 52; of Arundinaria, 53 
Cultivation of Bamboos, 19; choice 
of position, 21; shelter necessary, 
19-20; sea air, 20; isolation of 
species desirable, 21; Chinese 
mode, 22; cutting down stems, 
22; preparing soil, 24; danger of 
disturbing roots, 24; mulching, 
25; transplanting established 
clumps, 25; best time for, 25; 
failures, 25 
Curata, 191 
Daimio’s PALACES, 201 
Daké, 218 
Dendrocalamus edulis, 5 
* strictus, 5 
Differences in buds of Phyllostachys 
group, 48 
Dimorphous character of shoots and 
leaves of Arundinaria Simoni, 63 
Dinochloa tjankorreh, 191 
Drought, 2 
Dyer, Mr. Thiselton, 56 
East InpIA Company and China, 
178 
Economic culture in France, 33 
Elwes, Mr. H. I., 75 
English climate lends itself to the 
cultivation of plants from many 
countries, 206 
English Flower Garden, 198 
Etymology, 39 
Frnzi, Signor, 71 
First mention of Bamboos by Ctesias, 
39 
