INDEX 



255 



Ouse, the river, 25 

 Oxfordshire, wages in, 176 



Paris market garden, the, 9 



Pearl, the, 21 



Pelham, the family of, II, 161 



Peltrie, Mme., 183 



Pershore, growers' colonies at, 



x., 114 

 Piazza, the, 34 

 Plan-drawer, the, 113 

 Plans of orchard, 140 



— of vegetable crops, 141, 163 

 Pomanders, 243 



Posts, small, 112 

 Pot-pourri, 241 



Q 



Queen, Her Majesty the, 216 



R 



Ragged Lands, 30, 38 

 Railway rates, 19 



— transit, 149 



Recolonisation of England, 251 

 Ripe, the village of, 25 

 Romneya Coulteri, 99 



Roses, the pruning of, 136 

 Royal Horticultural Society, 18, 



40, 102 

 Rural community, 178 



— exodus, 114, 168, 180 

 Russia, 94 



Secateurs, 139 

 Seed cupboard, 140 

 Selmeston, the village of, 25 

 Shepherds, 84, 85 

 — steps, 198 

 "Shine, The," 25 

 Soldier, the private, vii. 



Soldiers' and Sailors' Families 



Association, 150 

 Spitalfields, 148 

 Stoking, 142, 143, 144 

 Stoolball, the game of, 223, etc. 

 Student's office, the, 32 

 Switzerland, 94 



Tapis vert, the, 21 

 Tenure of gardens, 164 

 Tiles, Cavalier and Roundhead, 

 20 



— Dutch, 15 

 Toronto, 182 

 Toys, 92, 93 



Training, the expenses of, no 

 Trevor, the family of, 161 

 Tudor times, 115 



V 



Vegetable bottling, 12 

 Vegetables, fresh, 80 

 Versailles, the stateliness of, 21 

 Village industries, 93 

 Villages, ancient downland, 63 

 Vincent, Mr., 10 

 Voluntary workers, 19 



W 



Wages, the labourer's, 169, 176 



in Oxfordshire, 176 



in Northamptonshire, 176 



Walloons, the, 148 

 Watt, Mrs., 194 

 Wichuriana roses, 32 

 Women, village, 173 



— gardeners, practical work of, 



79 

 Women s Institutes, 179 

 Wooden models, 90 



Yews, Irish, 122 



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