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INDEX 



Ferns familiarly known by Latin 



names, 177 



filmy, 176 



foreign for outdoor culture, 



180 



old fancies about, 173 



positions suitable for, 181 



require light, 175 



table of British for out- 

 door culture, 176 



Fig culture in Sussex, 7 

 Figs, Roman love of, 7 

 Finocchio (Italian fennel), 187 

 Fir, silver (Abies pectinatd), 39 

 Flower borders, arrangement of, 



206 

 Flowering rush (Butomus um- 



bellatus), 10 



trees in shrubberies, 146 



Flowers, British love of, 26 



rare British, at Wisley, 53 



Forget-me-not, water (Myosotis 



palustris), 113 



Formality, a phase of garden, 68 

 Forsythia suspensa (Golden bell), 



49 

 Fraxinella (Dictamnus Fraxi- 



nella), 205 

 French fern (Asplenium adian- 



tum nigrum, 178 



lavender, 189 



or marsh mallow (Althaea 



officinalis) , 190 



willow (Epilobium augusti- 



folium), 172 



Fntillaria aurea, 202 



meleagris in Oxford 



meadows, 1 54 



Fuchsia, Mde. Cornellisen and 

 F. Riccartoni, 149 



Galax aphylla (wand flower), 



170 

 Garden, a remarkable modern, 



50 

 love for a, lifelong, 220 



practical value of experi- 

 mental, 57 



the home in the, 220 



waterside, 112 



Gardening once a lost art, 25 



Gardening in seventeenth cen- 

 tury, 183 

 Gardens for all months, 197 



formal, of olden time, 62 



Garry a eliptica (tassel bush), 148, 

 '' Garth," the cloister, 10 

 Gaultheria procumbens (partridge 

 berry), 168 



shallon, 150 



tricophylla, 168 



Gentianella (G. acaulis), 53, 208 

 Gentian Pneumonanthe, 165 

 Geranium argenteum, 129 



Manescavi, 129 



platypetallum, 84 



Gerard, John, "Herball" of, 13 

 Ghent azaleas, 167 

 Gladiolus brenchleyensis, 158 



Childsi, 158 



Colvillei, 158 



lavensis, 157 



nanceianus, 157 



Globe artichoke, 184 



Grape hyacinth (Muscari 



botry aides), 155 

 Grass, spring bulbs in, 203 

 Great Britain, flowering trees 



and shrubs of, 142 



garden design in, 82 



Gromwell, trailing, 208 

 Gunnera scabra, 115, 167 



Hamamelis arborea (witch 



hazel), 48, 147 

 Hanbury's, the late Sir T., gift 



to R.H.S., 55 

 Hard Fern (Lomaria spicant), 



176, 178 



Hardy cyclamens naturalised, 85 

 Hart's tongue fern (Soolopen- 



drium viilgare), 176, 179 

 Hawthorn, indigenous, 33 

 scarlet and double flowered 



varieties, 149 



Healing, art of, in early times, 12 

 Hedges, yew and holly, 64 

 Hemp, Indian, 207 

 Herbaceous borders left uncared 



for, 73 

 Herb garden of old, 189 



of Grace (rue), 16, 190 



