544 



INDEX. 



Chestnuts, moving in full leaf, 96 



Chicory, 488 



Church -gardens, 179 



Churchyard, trees suitable for, 179 



Churchyards, flowers in the grass, 181 



Clematis on trees, 40, 41 



Climate of London and Pnris, 151, 539 



Climbing-plants on trees, 39, 40 



Cloche, the, 437, 438, 481 ; for Lettuce- 

 culture, 478 ; where obtainable, 439 



Coloured-cotton-handkercbief pattern gar- 

 dens, 114 



Colouring of walls for fruit-culture, experi- 

 ments in, 416 



Cimservatory, cool, planted out, 241 ; sub- 

 tropical plants in, 26, 28 



Copings fur vines in open air, 381 ; on wall, 

 276 ; over Pear-trees at Ferrieres, 339 



Cordon, the, 280, 417; Apples, pruning, 

 288 ; at Versailles, 271 ; bilateral, 281 ; 

 horizontal, 281 ; oblique for Peaches, 

 304; ditto for Pears, 298 ; i^roper defi- 

 nition of term, 280 ; size of crops, 293 ; 

 summary of advantages, 291 



Cordon-Peaches, 302 



Cordon-Pears at Holme Lacj', 295 



Cordon-training, kinds of Apple suitable 

 for, 285 ; " pinching-in " the shoots, 

 284; wiring walls for, 455 



Cordon-trees, how grown, 284; pruning, 285 



Cordon, vertical or double, for Pears, 300 



Cordons at Montreuil, 356, 365 ; at Troyes, 

 349 ; at Vincennes, 276 



Cordons, horizontal, at Suisnes, 332 



Cordons of Vines, 385 



Cordons, supports for, 295 



Corn Salad, 489 



Covent-garden, 536 



Crab-stock, 306, 309 



Crystal Palace, 74 



Crystal Palace and Versailles, 195 



Dijon, fruit notes at, 344 

 Doucin stock, 306 



Diacaena in dwelling-rooms, 245, 2^6 

 Dwelling-rooms, plants suitable for, 245, 

 246 



Easter Betjrke, better on white walls than 

 as a bush or pyramid, 424 



Edgings, improved, 456 



Elms in Paris and London, 158 



Elyse'e, Gardens of the, 88 



Endive, 488 



English Paradise stock, 306 



Espalier- fences on railways, 432 



Espalier Pear cidture, needed in Euglaml, 

 262 



Espalier training at Montreuil, 353 ; cande- 

 labrum form, 357, 359 



Espalier-trees, protection for, 270 

 Espaliers, 417; self-supporting, 341 ; train- 

 ing in stormy position, 344 

 Evergreens in tubs, 205 



Fan-Palms, old, 62 



Felt, bitumen ised, as a coping for, 452 



Ferrieres, Baron Rothschild's garden at, 

 257; fruit garden at, 338; improved 

 fruit-shelves at, 441, 442 



Fig cultivation in France, extent of, 371 ; 

 at Argenteuil and La Frette, 370 ; near 

 Paris, 369 



Fig-planting on railway embankments, 374 



Fig-trees, renewal of, 377 



Fine-leaved plants associated with flowers, 

 31 



Fire-shovel patterns, 38 



Fleuriste, the, in the Little Trianon, 211 



Flower beds, objectionable, 43, 44 



Flower-markets in Paris, 539 



Flowering shrubs, groups of, 6 



Forcing-frames, 442 



Formal "figures'" or beds, objectionable, 

 88 ; and unnecessary, 90 



Formality, in banks, 12; in bedding, 38; 

 in border planting, 68 



Forsythias on rocky banks, 10 



Fosse commune, 174 



Fountains in gardens, 92, 95 



Fountains, Versailles, 197 



French Paradise Apple stock, 306 : Ameri- 

 can experiences of, 310, 311; ditticulties 

 in procuring the true, 313 ; English ex- 

 periences of, 311, 313, 314 ; merits of, 

 309 



Fruit-culture, lectures at Suisnes, 835; 

 means of improvement in, 408 ; on rail- 

 way embankments, 431 ; School of, 274 



Fruit garden, at the Luxembourg, 97 ; plan 

 of a, 275, 329 ; trials of French systems 

 made in England, 420 



Fruit gardens in France, 323; notes on 

 M. Jandn's, 323 



Fruit-shelves, improvements in, 441 



Fruit teiTaces on railway banks, 433 



Fruit trees, advantages of regrafting over 

 new-planting, 414; as gifts to cottage 

 tenants, 427 ; grown for their beauty, 6, 

 410; in front gardens in towns and 

 cities, 412; in Jardin des Plantes, 57; 

 kinds grown at Angers, 345; need for 

 judicious thinning, 428 ; on railway em- 

 bankments, 412 ; on Widls and borders, 

 protection of, 295 ; re-grafting old, 414 



Fruit walls, copings to, 323 ; copings neces- 

 sary in England, 326 



Gaeden-aetists, 78 

 Garden-cemeteries, 175 



