Index 



303 



Planter's outfit, 50 



Planting early, 50 



Plants, hardening, 51; identifying, 

 65; beautiful names of, 70; poetic 

 names of, 70; use of tall, 74; of 

 slender growth, 89; sulky, 92; 

 distance for setting, 101, 102; 

 cutting down early, 102; late in 

 coming up, 103; that sucker 

 badly, 107; distributing, 154, 155 



Platycodon, Japanese Bellflower, 

 P. grandiftorum, 189, 220; P. 

 Maresi, 220; var, nana, 220 



Plum, Japanese, Prunus triflora, 

 249; Purple-leaved, P. Pissardi, 

 167 



Podolepis, P. arislata, 245 



Polemonium caruleum, Jacob's Lad- 

 der, 212 



Polygonum amplexicaule, Mountain 

 Fleece, 195; P. Baldschuanicum, 

 264; P. multiflorum, 196 



Polypteris Hookeriana, Palifoxia, 270 



Poppy, Alpine, Papaver A Ipinus, 23 2, 

 250; Anne Hathaway, P. som- 

 niferum paoniqflorum, 268; Cali- 

 fornia, see Eschscholtzia, 198; 

 Iceland, P. nudicaule, 169, 231; 

 Opium, P. somniferum, 71, 205, 

 227; Oriental, P. orientate, 257, 

 276; Paeony, P. somniferum pi. fl. 

 207, 227, 268, 269, 284; Shirley, 

 P. Rhceas, 199, 205, 269 



Portulaca, P. grandiftora, 205, 244, 

 284 



Potato bug, 127 



Potentilla, Red, P. Nepalensis, 277; 

 White, P. alba, 189; Yellow, P. 

 recta, 235 



Potentilla alba, White Potentilla, 

 189; P. recta, Yellow Potentilla, 

 235; P. Nepalensis, Nepal or 

 Red Potentilla, 277 



Pot Marigold, see Calendula, 242 



Pots, Neponset, 52 



Predatory wealth in garden, 107 



Prickly Poppy, see Argemone, 200 



Prolific plants, 107, 108 



Prunus Japonica, Flowering Al- 

 mond, 166; var. rosea, Pink 

 Flowering Almond, 247 



Prunus Persica, Blood-leaved Peach, 

 81, 251; var. rosea plena, Japanese 



Peach, 248; var. sanguinea, Red 



Japanese Peach, 272 

 Prunus triflora, Japanese Plum, 



249; P. Pissardi, Purple-leaved 



Plum, 167 

 Pyrethrum, Chrysanthemum cocci- 



neum, 257 

 Pyrus floribunda, Japanese Crab 



Apple, 248 



Queen of the Prairie, Spirea lobata 

 or Ulmaria rubra venuista, 261 



Quince, Japan, Cydonia Japonica, 

 272, 273 



Ragged Robin, Lychnis Flos-cuculi, 



257 



Ranunculus bulbosus t Buttercup, 

 Gold Cup, 234; R. acris pi. fl., 

 Tall Buttercup, 234; R. Asiaticus, 

 Garden Ranunculus, 235 



Raspberry, Purple-flowered, Bram- 

 ble, Rubrus odoratus, 277 



Record of blooming, 37 



Red, arranging, flowers in garden, 

 74; using white flowers with, 74; 

 edging plants, 83; showiest annuals 

 in, 86; showiest perennials in, 85, 

 86 



Red Annuals, 282-286 



Red Bud, Cards Canadensis, 273; 

 Chinese, C. Chinensis, 272, 273 



Red Flowers, 272-286 



Red Perennials, 272, 273, 275-277, 

 278-280, 281, 282 



Red Shrubs, 272-273, 274-275, 277- 

 278, 280 



Remedy, for cutworms, 120; grubs, 

 121; mice, 124; moles, 123; green 

 louse, 127, 128; rose-bug, 125, 126; 

 potato-bug, 126; green slug, 126; 

 oil beetle, 126; aster beetle, 126; 

 hollyhock rust, 129-130; larkspur 

 blight, 129-130; mildew, 131; 

 mites in lilies, 132; wasps, 127; 

 aster blight, 132; carnation blight, 

 132; Physostegia blight, 131, 132 



Reseda odorata, Mignonette, 203, 284 



Response to environment, 153 



Rest Harrow, Ononis rotundifolia, 

 262 



Rhexia Virginica, Meadow Beauty, 

 215 



