INDEX. 



545 



Garden, chnnictoristics of a trno, 20, 21 

 GnrdcnKlcsipn, igiioraiico of,72, 73, 78, 80; 



the Grund Triniion, 210 

 Garden-hedges of Pear-trees instead of 



Arbor vitro, 349 

 Garden implements in France, 437 

 Garden-iniiirnvenient in France, 250 

 Garden, N:itional, for France, 52, 53 

 Garden of Plants, objectionable features in, 



45,54 

 Garden of the Elyse'e, 88 

 Garden-seats, 87 

 Garden-walln, wiring, 417, 453 

 Gardeners, training-school for, 272 

 Gardens of the Louvre, 79, 83 ; defects, 



83 ; of the Tuileries, 83 ; wall-paper 



pattern, 252 

 Geometrical gardening, Versailles, 194 

 Gleditschia Bojoti. (new tree) 49, 59. 259 

 Grafting mastic, 441 

 Grafting by approach, 288, 337, 356, 3G1, 



304, 400 

 Grand Trianon, 214, 21G 

 Grape-keeping at Thomerv, saving to 



growiTS, 318; system, tried in England, 



320 

 Grape-rooms, 317 

 Grapes, best kinds for open-air culture 



in England, .380; preserving through 



winter, 314; how cut for, 31 G 

 Grass, seed-mixtures for forming Paris 



lawns, 128, 129; watered repeatedly in 



Paris, 83 

 Gravels, coloured, 75, 80 



Hai.les Centhales of Paris, 534 



Hardy flowers, Nursery for, 170 



I)lant8, natural grouping of, G 



8ub-troi)ical plants, 27 



trees and shrubs affording finer effect 



than tender subjects, 33, 34 



Hollow wall, flowers growing in, 92, 93 



Holme Lacy, Cordon-Pears at, 295; weight 

 of crops, 298 



Honeysuckle on Birch-tree, .39 ; on Plane- 

 trees; 114; standards, 9G 



Houses in Zoological Gard< ns, opportuni- 

 ties for gurdenmg in, IG, 17 



IxNOCENTs, Square des, 127 



Islands, in Bois de Boulogne, 2, .3, 7, 8 



Lslets in lakes, 105 



Isolating plants, 35, 93 



Italian garden, 8G 



Ivy, Algerian, 51, .'iO 



Ivy and Wistaria, 190 



Ivy. bands of, 87, 18G ; bowers, 186; 

 edgings, 79, 8G, 172, 1S7, 189, 191 ; for 

 covering objectionable wall-surfaces, 88 ; 

 in courtyards, 18G; curtains on rock 



walls, G8; in dwelling-rooms, 245; in 

 Piiris, 184; in S(]nares, 112, 115; Irish, 

 18G; on banks, 10; on church walls, 

 180 ; on rocks, 10 ; on rocky grottoes, 5, 

 187 ; on stakes or pyramids, 59 ; on 

 trunks of trees, 188; propagation of, 

 190 ; trained in wreaths, 92, 94. 95, 184 

 Ivy-screens for rooms, 189; on high walls, 

 190 



Jaruin des Plantes, a typo of all that is 

 stujiid and harmful, in botanic gardens, 

 45, 62, described, 56, merits, 57 ; not 

 suflBciently endowed, 62 ; open all day, 

 62 



Jardin Fleuriste, 165 



Jujube tree, 55 



Kew, gardens at, 63, 61, 72 ; closed during 



forenoon, 63, 64 

 Kitchen-garden, needless walks in, 461 

 Knotweed in Pare Monceau, 24 



Lac des Minimes, 104, 106 



Lachaumc on Mushroom culture in lime- 

 rubbish, 522 



Lake, Saint Mande, 102. 103 



Land in France, effect of subdivision of, 

 458 



Landscape-gardening, 199, 203, 207; tho 

 Bois de Boulogne, 10; Acclimatisation 

 Society's Gardens in, IS ; dogma by 

 Allison, 38 ; instances of false, 74 ; tho 

 Louvre, 80 



Lavallee's experiments in forcing white 

 Lilac, 528 



Lawns, forming, 128 : how maintained, 129 



Lectures on gardening, common in France, 

 97 



Leicester Square, improvementsand defects 

 in, 126. 127 



Lepere's mode of Peach Cordon-training, 

 303 



Lettuce culture under frames, 483 ; Gotte, 

 culture of, 486 ; Petite Noire, culture of, 

 481 ; the Passion, culture of, 487 ; Verte 

 Maraichere, culture of, 484 



I^ettuces, 478 



Lilac, 87, 96. 526 ; in open air, 531 ; best 

 sorts, 532 ; proper treatment of, 531 ; 

 varieties of, 532 



Lilac forcing in France and England, 527 



Lilac, white, how grown, 526 ; in dwelling- 

 rooms, 527 ; darkness unnecessary in 

 forcing, 527; forcing at Antwerp, 531 ; 

 Lavalle'e's experiments, 528; stems in 

 water for forcing, 531 ; temperature for 

 forcing, 530 



Lilacs, dwarf, 527 ; in Paris, 526 



Lime-trees unsuitable for street planting, 

 157 



