546 



INDEX. 



Locust-tree for clnirch-pardeiisi, 180 

 Lombard y Poplars near the Little Trianon, 



215, 219 

 Lonpcliamps race-course, 10, 14 

 Louvre gardens, 79 

 Luxembourg garden, the, 84, 91 

 Lyueum Spartum, grown for tying plants, 



451 

 Lyons, fruit garden at, 339 



Margins to water, 12, 13, 14 : at Ferrieres, 

 258 



Market-gardeners in Paris, 458 ; improve- 

 ment in condition of, 4G5 



Market-gardening near Paris, expenses of, 

 458 



Market-gardens of Paris, 458 ; culture of 

 Carrots, 490 ; rapid rotation of crops in, 

 4G4 ; wnges of workmen in, 465 



Markets, need for spacious, 536 



Markets in Paris, 533 ; advantages of, 536 



Mastic I'Homme Lefort, 441 



Mats for covering pits and frames, how 

 made, 443 



Melon, Cantaloup. 502 



Melopospei mum, 58, 61 



Medicinal plants, 58 



Mirror-globes in gardens, 254, 260 



Montagnaja Heraclei folia. Pare Monceau, 

 26 



Montreuil, 98 ; Peach gardens at, 351 



Montrouge Square, 112. 113, 122 



Municipal gardens in Paris, 165 



Musa, Abyssinian, 112 



Musa Ensete in Pare Monceau, 27 



Mushroom caves at Fre'pillon, visit to, 511 ; 

 at Montrouge, visit to, 505 ; rental, 508 ; 

 ventilation of, 508 ; water supply, 509 ; 

 spawning the beds, 514 



Mushroom-culture in caves, 505; cost of, 

 525; daily crops, 511 ; duration of crops, 

 520; gathering, 509, 519; preparing 

 material for, 511, 513; preparing spawn 

 for, 513; soiling, 517; varieties, 521, 

 522 



Mushroom-culture in lime-rubbish, 522 ; 

 in open air, 523 ; near Paris, average 

 produce, 525 



Mushroom, diseases of the, 517; enemies 

 of the, 523 



National botanic garden, objects of a, 54 

 Natural style of laying out grounds, 12. 



13 

 Navets, 501, 502 ; de Meaux, 534 

 New Zealand Flax, 28; in vases, 259; 



leaves for tying plants, 451 

 Normal school with garden for teaching 



fruit-culture, 350 

 Nurseries, public, 165 



OiDiiTM, cure for, at Thomery, 383 

 Oleander, 85, 98 ; culture in France, 100; 



in tubs, and in small pots, 99 

 Orange trees, carriage for removing, 4.39 ; 



in tubs, 83, 99 

 Orangery at Ferriijres, 257 ; at Versailles, 



205 

 Orchard, the ornamental, 411 

 Orchard culture, improvements in, 427 ; 



result of pruning and thinning, 430 

 Orchard-trees, list of best hardy kinds, 430 

 Orchards, rarity of good, 427 

 Orchids in dwelling-rooms, 248 ; in winter 



gardens, case for, 244 



Palmette form of training, 328, 336, 341 ; 

 Verrier, how formed, 390 



Palms, 19, 24, 26 ; for cool winter-garden, 

 240; for dwelling-rooms, 245, 246 ; treat- 

 ment for cool winter-garden, 243 



Paradise and Doucin stocks compared, 308 



Paradise-stock, kinds of Apple for grafting 

 on, 286 ; origin of, 307 



Pare Monceau, 20 



Paris and London, rainfall, 542; tempera- 

 tures compared, 540 ; temperature of 

 town and suburbs, 541 



Paris, city fruit-garden and herbaceous 

 nursery of, 106; market- gardens, rota- 

 tion of crops, 464 ; system of burial in 

 cemeteries, 173 



Parks in cities, how to plant, 107-109 



Parsnip, 502 



Paulo wnia imperial is, 32, 33 



Peach as a cordon, :;02 ; as a pyramid in 

 Suffolk, 425 ; gardens at Montreuil de- 

 scribed, 359 ; is best grown on walls in 

 England, 425 



Peach-growing at Versailles, 271 



Peach-trees horizontally trained, 362 ; in 

 full bearing, 325; protecting, 340; 

 pruning, 357 ; training, Montreuil fan- 

 siiape, 359 ; other forms, 360 



Peach walls should be white, 354 



Pear as a cordon, 294 



Pear-culture, by fountry gentlemen, by 

 farmers, and in private gardens, 410 ; 

 climate of France not better than England 

 for, 409 ; improved system of orcharding, 

 409 ; in shrubberies, pleasure-grounds, 

 ami open country, 412; on the Quince 

 .stock, 413; on walls, 415 



Pear-trees, worthless kinds destroyed or 

 re-graftefl, 424 ; columnar form, 404 ; 

 inferior kinds from pips, 424; fruitful 

 without pruning, 412; grown for their 

 beauty, 436 ; numbers grafted at Angers 

 annually, 345 : Palmette Verrier form, 

 328 ; protecting, 340 ; pyramidal, 326, 

 .327, 395, 396 ; re-grafting, 404 



