INDEX 



Abol syringe, 70 

 Achimenes, 187-91, 295 

 Aconite, winter, 293 



what soil to plant in, 293 



Ageratum, 25, 144 

 "Agricultural depression," 259 

 Alfred, King, 289 

 Alkanet, blue, 94 



Italian, 98 

 Allium, white, 181 

 Alstromeria, yellow, 119 

 Amaryllids, 9 



Anacharis, abnormal appearance 



of, 229 



Anchusa italica, 94, 98 

 /And I'm not loving you now," 



199 

 Anecdotes of dogs, 154 



- garden boys, 43 

 a new-comer, 288 



- parsons, 134, 198, 255 

 a porter, 196 



a Roman coin, 271 



Anemones, 5 



crown, 29 



fulgenS) 222 



and standard roses, 30 

 Angler, the Compleat, 202 

 Animals, The Colours of, 236 

 Annuals, autumn-sown, 1 54 



thinning of, 69 



Ant, the leaf-cutting, 239 

 Antirrhinum, 101, 148, 219 



snow queen, 148 

 Aphis, 70 



Aquilegia, 33 

 Arabis albida, 27 

 Artillery plants, 9 

 Arums, 187, 253 

 Ashes, detrimental, 173 

 Asparagus fern, dwarf, 187 

 Asphodels, 5 

 Asters, 145 



herbaceous, 33 

 Auricula, 92 

 Avens, water, 73 



scarlet, 98 

 Azaleas, 189 



Balsam, 10 



Basil, 197 

 - poems by, 225 



Baskets, hanging, plants for, 75, 

 189 



Beasts, mimicry of, 234 



Bedding plants, not kept in green- 

 house, 1 88 



Beds, to improve, 80 



Begonias, 38, 187, 191, 221, 253, 

 295 



tuberous, 296 

 Berberis, 7 



Bethlehem, star of, 6, 100 

 Birds, feeding the, 310 

 Blackbirds, 309 

 Bluebells, in 



Book, my first, 203 

 Borage, 98 

 Botrytis cinerea, 75 

 Bouncing Bet, 78 



312 



