INDEX 



377 



Periwinkles, 169 



PJialangium liliago variegatum, 

 9 



Pheasant, stewed, 186 



Philadelphus grandiflorus, 45 



Philanthropy, amateur, to be 

 discouraged, 308, 309 



Phloxes, 74, 75, 132, 143 



Physalis Alkekengi, 10 



Pianos, 279, 280 



Pictures, in houses, 278, 279, 

 287 ; in the Royal Academy, 

 292-294 



Pie, French, 80 



Pig lilies, 74 



Pigeons, cooking, 174, 175 ; 

 flight of, 206 



Pilea muscosa, 163 



Pinks, 140, 143, 184, 198 



Piptanthus nepalensis, 45 



Piracy, increase of, after the 

 Reformation, 147, 148 



Pleasure, excessive addiction to, 

 271 



Plum, double, 10 



Plumbago larpentce, 161 



Poems quoted or alluded to : 

 ' I remember, I remember,' 5 ; 

 ' Go where the water glideth,' 

 &c., by J. H. Reynolds, 5, 6 ; 

 Shelley's description of damp, 

 17 ; lines on the death of a 

 young girl, 20; 'John Frost,' 

 21, 22 ; ' The Poet in the City,' 

 46, 47 ; Erasmus Darwin on 

 the ' vegetable lamb,' 53 ; 

 Darwin's ' Loves of the Plants,' 

 62, 63; Owen Meredith's de- 

 scription of a garden in spring, 

 85; 'Baby Seed Song,' 87; 

 Mrs. Hemans' ' To the Blue 

 Anemone,' 101, 102 ; Paul 

 Verlaine's ' La Vie,' 133, 134 ; 

 Emerson's lines on shells, 

 155 ; lines to the redbreast, 

 178, 179 ; Milton on the rising 

 sun, 188; Keats' 'St. Agnes' 

 Eve,' 189 ; ' La Melancolie,' 

 206, 207 ; Mr. Ruskin's ' Mont 

 Blanc revisited,' 231 ; Matthew 

 Arnold's Obermann Poems, 



232; memorial poem by Sir 

 Henry Taylor, 268; James 

 Spedding's ' Antiquity of Man,' 

 274, 275 ; Mr. Lionel Tenny- 

 son's 'Sympathy,' 306; 'Omar 

 Khayyam,' 352 



Polyanthus, 164 



Polygonum affine, 161 



cuspidatum, 92, 119, 199, 205 



sacchalinensc, 119, 199 

 Pomegranate, double, 112 

 Pond-weed, 141 



Ponds, natural, 171 

 | Poppies, Oriental, 5; time for 



sowing, 42; for decoration, 



106 ; Plume, 119 ; Welsh, 128, 

 i 160 

 Portraits in the Royal Academy, 



292 



Pot au feu soup, 28 

 Pot-pourri, a receipt for, 241, 242 

 Potage paysanne, receipt for, 79 

 Potatoes, cooking, 13, 98, 252 



253 

 Pots, plants in, and evaporation, 



98 ; hanging, 98 ; growing 



plants in, 110-115 

 Poultry, preparing and roasting, 



78,79 



Primroses, 140, 164, 199 

 Primula japonica, 89 



sieboldii, 72 



sinensis, 11 



Primulas, for table decoration, 

 13 ; Chinese, 24 ; Japanese, 89 



Privet, 169, 195 



Procosma variegata, 114 



Proteas, 68 



Protection for plants, 144, 198 

 199 



Pruning, shrubs, 116, 117, 180; 

 instruments for, 181 



Prunus, double, 105 



spinosaflore pleno, 10 

 Public schools, training of, 259 

 Pudding, receipt for a, 77 

 Puree, 25, 26 

 Pyracanthuses, 44, 204 

 Pyrethrum, 173 



Pyrus japonica, 43, 44 ; pruning, 

 117 ; Appendix, 364 



