INDEX 



279 



Maples, American, 89-90 



Japanese, 89, 227 



Marrow-bed, 21 

 Medlar, 226 



Michaelmas Daisies, 233-4 

 Mount, the, 266-9 

 Munshi Mahmud, 82 



N 



Natterjack, 275 



Nemesia strumosa Suttoni, 118 



Newbury, 242 



Nicotiana affinis, 119 



Sanderae, 100, 118, 176 



Nightingale, 258 

 Nymphsea alba, 177 

 scutifolia, 177-8 



O 



Orchard, n 



Partridge, 211 



Peach, 65, 82 



Pear, 12, 225 



Poeonies, 112, 169 



Pentstemon, 231 



Perennials, staking and tying, 112 



Phlox, 112 



Plants, food for, 23 



Planting. 27-31 



Ploughing, 19 



Plums, 12, 61 



Polyanthus, 44, 180 



Poplar, balsam, 15, 229 



Lombardy, 14-16 



Poppy, Oriental, no 



Shirley, 115 



Pots, sunk in turf, 176, 178, 182 



Primula rosea, 185 



Pruning, 31 



Prunus Pissardii, 61, 187, 221 



forced in water, 196 



R 



Rectory, The, back garden, 264 

 view from, 265 



Rectory, visitors at, 274-5 

 Renaissance, English, 237-9 

 Rhododendrons, 4, 9, 83, 174 



at Bagshot, 69-77 



soil for, 28 



at Elvetham, 77 



at the Rectory, 262 



on the Mount, 268 



early, 75 



late, 76 



list of best, 74-5 



life history of, 77-8 



Rhus cotinus, 90, 224 

 Road-scrapings. 27 

 Robin, 204 



Rocky Mountains, in, 231 

 Rose beds, 8, 28, 147-8, 170 



planting, 27-31 



pruning, 31-39 



Gloire de Dijon, 127 



Fortune's Yellow, 151-2 



Fortune's Yellow pruning, 



*S 2 



Jaune Desprez, 150, 261 



Reve d'Or, 153 



Wichuraiana, 159, 164-5, 



188 

 Roses, Caroline Testout, at 



Holland House, 142-3 



China, 39, 161 



climbing, n, 149, 150-2, 



243. 259, 261 



damask, 39 



in " Expert's" garden, 170- 



172 



on fence, n 



for exhibition, 33 



Crimson Rambler and Reine 



Olga, 169 



half standards, 171 



hybrid perpetuals, 35, 166 



hybrid tea, 140-47 



semi-double, 146 



single, 147 



at Louvre, 32-3 



moss, 39 



noisette, 38 



pillar at Rectory, 262-3 



Penzance Sweetbriars, 155-7 



polyantha, 161 



