INDEX. 



323 



Landscape gardening, geometric style of, 



261 



Larch, 29 

 Japan, 38 



weeping, 29, 38, 152 

 Larix Europsea glauca, 38 



leptolepsis, 38 

 Larkspur, 179, 204 

 beautiful, 180 

 large-flowered, 180 

 tall, 180 



Lathyrus latifolius, 193 

 Laurel, broad-leaved, 36 

 Lavender, sea, 174 



Lawn after sowing grass-seed, mainte- 

 nance of, 13, 14 



arrangement of Washington Irving's,2O5 

 exhibition of individual plants on, 250 

 plantations, arrangement of, 6 

 planting at small places, 258 

 railway, creeping juniper for, 297 

 moneywort for, 297 

 mugho pine for, 297 

 periwinkle for, 297 

 plans for, 297 

 plants suited for, 297 

 retinospora for, 297 

 rhododendron for, 297 

 stone pine for, 297 

 treatment of, 296 

 Virginia creeper for, 297 

 thorough preparation of, 238 

 Lawns, cultivation of, 5 

 grading of surface of, 263 

 small, approach to house on, 265 

 cost of plants for, 269 

 location of trees on, 264 

 treatment of, 265 

 vegetable garden on, 265 

 vistas on, 261 

 Ledebourii, 72 

 Leek, cobweb house, 197 



common house, 197 

 Liatris, 186, 213 

 pycnostachya, 186 

 spicata, 186 

 Lilac, 50 

 Chinese, 51 



Lilac, co-nmon, 51 



Persian, 51 



Lilies, water, nymphzeas, 248 

 Lilium auratum, 185 



Batemannise, 185 



Canadense, 185 



pardalinum, 185 



pomponium, 169 



Pyrenaicum, 186 



speciosum, 185 



superbum, 185 



tigrinum, 185 



splendens, 185 

 Lily, blue plantain, 183 



day, 183, 192, 213 



hardy white, 253 



leopard, 185 

 Lily-pond, cost of plants for, 246 



importance of open spaces of, 246 



in Central Park, construction of, 251 



instructions for making, 242 



natural effect of, 249 



right way to make a, 241 



wrong way to make a, 239 

 Lily, Saint Bernard's, 176 



small white, 253 



tiger, 185 



Turk's cap, 185 



Cape Cod water, 253 



water, in the pool, Central Park, 253 

 in Union Square, appearance of, 252 



white plantain, 183 



yellow turban, 186 



Zanzibar water, 253 

 Linden, American, 293 



golden-barked, no, 150 



red-twigged, 150 

 Linum perenne, 173 

 Liquid ambar styraciflua, 95, 124 

 Liriodendron tulipifera, 63 

 Live forever, 195, 212 

 Liver leaf, 165, 212 

 Lobelia cardinalis, 193 

 Lonicera Canadensis, 76 



flexuosa, 72 



fragrantissima, 29, 72, 290 



Halleana, 76 



sempervirens, 104 



