Index 



487 



Railings, 62. 



Raleigh, Sir Walter, garden of, 230. 



Rapin, Rene, quoted, 94, 323 ; on gar- 

 dens, 227. 



Red, influence of, 251. 



Remontant Roses, 468. 



Rent, of a Rose, 469 et seq. 



Rescue of an Old Place, cited, 103, 290. 



Rhodes, Cecil, garden of, 261. 



Rhododendrons, 42, 182, 244*, 245. 



Ridgely Garden, 57, 60, 95, 101. 



Ring dials, 356. 



Rock Cress. See Arabis. 



Rocket. See Dames' Rocket. 



Rose Acacia, 185, 406. 



Rose Campion, 33, 174, 175. 



Rose Garden, at Yaddo, 81 et seq. 



Rosemary, 5, 55, 59, no. 



Rose of Four Seasons, 467. 



Rose of Plymouth, 295. 



Rose Tavern, 470. 



Rose tobacco, 475. 



Rose-water, 472. 



Rossetti, D. G., picture by, 380 ; quoted, 

 380. 



Roxbury Waxwork. See Bittersweet. 



Rue, 5, no, 123 et seq, 434. 



Ruskin, John, quoted, 243, 283, 255, 

 279, 309. 



Sabbatia, 295. 



Saffron-tea, 118. 



Sage, 125 et seq. 



Sag Harbor, sun-dial at, 362. 



Salpiglossis, 262. 



Salt Box House, 128. 



Sand, in parterres, 56, 58. 



Santolina. See Lavender Cotton. 



Sapson Apples, 201-202. 



Sassafras, 343. 



Satin-flower, 170 et seq. 



Sauce Saracen, 472. 



Scarlet Lightning, 443. 



Scilla, 255. 



Scotch Roses, 48, 464, 469. 



Scott, Sir Walter, sun-dial of, 219, 377. , 



Scythes, 391. 



1 Seeds, sale of, 32 et seq. 

 Serpentine Walls, 414. 

 Setwall. See Valerian. 

 Seven Sisters, 435. 

 Seven Sisters Rose, 463. 

 Shade alleys, ^9. 

 ; Shaded Walks, 64. 



Shakespeare Border, 217 <?/ seq. 

 j Sheep bones, as edgings, 57-58. 

 Shelley, Garden, 223. 

 Shell flower, 436-437. 

 Shirley Poppies, 255^ 312. 

 Simples, 115. 

 Skepes, 354, 391 et seq. 

 Slugs, in Box, 95. 

 Smithsonian Institution, sun-dials in, 



357-358. 



Snakeroot, 423-424. 

 Snapdragons, 33, 175. 

 Snowballs, 71. 

 Snowberry, 169. 

 Snowdrops, 234. 

 Snow in Summer, 47. 

 Snow Pink. See Pinks. 

 Soldier and his Wife, 438. 

 Sops-o'-wine. See Sapson. 

 Sorrel, 6, 240, 332. 

 South Carolina, gardens of, 14. 

 Southernwood, 5, 341, ^'et seq. 

 Southey, Robert, quoted, 266. 

 Spenser, Edmund, quoted, 54; flowers 



of, 215, 284. 



Spider-flower. See Love-in-a-mist. 

 Spiders in medicine, 303, 343. 

 Spiderwort, 435-436. 

 Spiraeas, 189. 



Spitfire Plant. See Fraxinella. 

 Spring Beauty, 294. 

 Spring Snowflake, 234, 235. 

 Spruce gum, 332. 

 Spurge, Cypress, 434 et seq. 

 Squirrel Cups, 260. 

 Squirt, for water, 390. 

 Star of Bethlehem, 34, 235. 

 Star Pink. See Pink. 

 Statues in garden, 85, 389. 

 Stockton, Richard, letter of, 30-31. 



