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Index. 



I N DEX. 



ABERCROMBIE on Roses . 

 Adonis, Epitaph on 

 Alba Rose, The . 

 Alpine Rose, The . 

 Amateur's Rosarium 

 American Eglantine 

 Anacreon's Ode 

 Annuals on Rose-beds 

 Antiquity of the Rose 

 Aphis, Destruction of 

 Apple-bearing Rose, The 

 Attar of Roses, The 

 Austrian Briar, The 

 Autumnal Bloom, To secure 

 Autumnals, forced, Treatment of 



Striped, To obtain . 



Autumn Pruning 

 Avenues of Roses 

 Ayrshire Rose, The 



BABYLON, Gardens of 

 Banksian Rose, The 

 Bedding, best kinds for . 

 Bee-hives, Use of . 

 Berberry- leaved Rose, The 

 Bion's Epitaph on Adonis 

 Birds, to frighten 

 Black Roses .... 

 Blue Roses of the Moors . 

 Botany of the Rose (Appendix) 

 Botanical Arrangement . 

 Bourbon Rose, The 

 origin of dark varieties 



Perpetual, The 



Yellow, to obtain 

 Boursault Rose, The 

 Boxes for exhibition 

 Briar. Austrian, The 



Sweet .... 



Broxbournebury Rosarium 

 Budded Stocks, treatment of . 

 Budding ..... 

 season of ... 



illustration and practice of 

 Bulgaria, Roses in . 



Burnt earth, experiments with . 



value of . 



Button-hole Roses . 



Page 



24 



3 



253 

 . 230 



3 



29 

 66, 84 



4 



138, 356 

 20 

 ii 



255 



US 

 . 146 

 . 126 

 . 88 

 . 72 



257, 267 



5 

 263 



70 

 1 68 

 273 



30 

 129 



22 

 9 



343 

 223 



297 



123 



296 



126 



230 



184 



255 



254 



27 



172 



171 



174 



173 



14 



53 



52 



208 



Page 

 CALENDAR of Operations .... 212 



Camphor- water, use of . . . . .137 



Carthage, Roses of . . . . . . 7 



Charlemagne, his love of Roses ... 9 

 Chaucer's allusions to the Rose 35 



Chinese Rose, The ...... 302 



Crimson, The 299 



Chiswick Gardens, Roses at . . .26 



Cleft-Grafting . . . . . .175 



Climates of London and Paris compared . .114 

 Climbing Rose on Tree . . . . ' . 163 



Roses 73, 102 



defined ...... 229 



in pots ...... 142 



best kinds ..... 201 



positions for . . . . 73, 102 



pruning and training . . .102 



Close-pruning ...... 96, 97 



applicable to weakly plants . . .105 



evils of, in excess . . . . .106 



Clynophylla Rose . . . . . .271 



Colour of Roses . . . . . .122 



Columella on Roses ..... 7 



Cowell, John, on Roses , .... 23 



Cowper's Poem on the Rose . . 39 



Crimson Rambler, history of . . . . 259 



Cross-Breeding . . . . . .112 



Crown of Roses the reward of virtue . . 15 



Cuttings 169 



management of . . . . . 1 69 



seasons for making . . . . .170 



DAMASK Rose, The ..... 237 



Decay of the Pith 168 



Desportes' Catalogue . . .* 25 



Devoniensis Rose, Origin of . . . . 305 

 Dictionarium Rusticum on Roses . . . 23 

 Didymus Mountain ..... 20 



Disbudding . . . . .107 

 Dodoens' Roses . . . . . -14 

 Dog-Rose, Origin of the name . . 1.3 



as a Stock 172 



cuttings . . . . . . .172 



seedlings . . . . . .172 



Double Yellow Rose, The . . . .231 



flowering of . . . . 25 



Draining . . . . 5 1 

 Dwarf Rose, defined 229 



