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INDEX 



Birch, silver (Betula alba], 34 

 Blessed thistle (Carbenia bene- 

 dict a], 190 



" Blew beares-eares," 130 

 Bluebells, English and Spanish, 



203 

 moss (Eritrichium nanum), 



129 

 Bog asphodel (Narthecium 



ossifragum), 165 

 bed. Drainage necessary 



for, 1 66 



formation of, 166 



garden, an Irish, 169 



land, disappearance of, 164 



pimpernel (AnagalUs 



tenella], 165 

 planting, suitable subjects 



for, 167 

 plants, open position for, 



1 66 



spreading plants in, 167 



Borage, 189 



Botanic gardens, enlargement 



of aim in, 41, 45 



functions of modern, 46 



private, 17 



Botanical learning in fifteenth 



century, 1 5 

 Box edgings, 67 



Box-tree native toBritain, 34, 218 

 Brake fern or bracken (Pteris 



aquilina), 175, 179 

 Britain, supposed origin of name, 



4 

 Brittle bladder fern (Cystopteris 



fragilis), 180 

 Broad buckler fern (Nephrodium 



dilitatum, 178, 182 

 Bulb border, pot plants plunged 



in, 155 



grower, troubles of the, 152 



Bulbs, late flowering, 158 

 lifting into reserve bed, 



155 



at Kew, 48, 49 



Buckeye, N. American, 149 

 Buckler ferns (Nephrodium), 176 

 Bugloss (Echium vulgare), 189 

 Burnet salad (Poterium san- 



guisorba), 189 



Bute, Lord, patron of botanic 

 research, 43 



Camassia esculenta (Quamash), 



156 



Cambridge Botanic Garden, 1 5 

 Camellias, 148 

 C. Donckelaari and C. reticulata, 



199 



Cape Colony, tea roses in, 106 

 hyacinth (Galtonia can- 



dicans), 158 

 Caraway, 190 

 Cardinal flower, blue (Lobelia 



syphilitica), 168 



scarlet (L. cardinalis), 168 



Cardoon (Cynara Cardunculus), 



209 



Carnations, marguerite, 138 

 Carpet bedding, 69 

 Caryopteris Mast acanthus, 149 

 Cathedral close, garden in, 76 

 Ceanothus azureus, " Gloire de 



Versailles," 149 

 Cedar of Lebanon, 37, 219 

 in Chelsea Physic Garden, 



38 

 in Jardin des Plantes, Paris, 



40 



Celeriac, 187 



Celery, Sandwich famous for, 28 

 Cerastium tomentosum, 208 

 Chamomile (Matricaria chamo- 



milla), 190 



Chelsea Physic Garden, 21 

 Cherry, double flowering, 146 

 laurel (Prunus laurus- 



cerasus), in, 144 

 Chervil (sweet cicely), 189 

 Chestnut, sweet or Spanish, 34, 



3.6 



Chicory, 186 

 Chimney campanula (C. pyra- 



midalis), 204 

 Chionodoxas, 155, 202 

 Chiswick, R.H.S. garden at, 



55 

 Chives (Allium schoenoprasum), 



190 

 Choisya ternata (Mexican Orange 



flower), 149 



