INDEX 



229 



Monasteries respositories of herb 



lore, 12 

 Monotony in shrubbery planting, 



145 



of bedding-out system, 68 



Mons. Latour Marliac's water 



lilies, 109, 114 

 Moonwort (Bolrichyum Lun- 



aria), 180 

 Moutan or tree paeony, 203 



NASTURTIUM ( Tropceolum majus), 



139, 216 



Native bog-plants, 165 

 Nature, modern love of, 81 

 Nature's pattern in bogland, 



165 

 Nemophila insignis, 132, 135, 



139 

 Nephrodiums (buckler ferns), 



176 



New vegetables, 187 

 New Zealand veronicas, 96 

 Nigella damascena (love-in-a- 

 mist), 134, 139 

 Nymphcea helvola, 117 

 Nympheea pygmcea, 117 



OAK a British tree, 33 

 Oakwood, 52 



CEnothera lamarckiana (La- 

 marck's evening primrose, 



207, 211 



missouriensis (Yellow), 209 



taraxacifolia (white), 209 



Old sundial in rose garden, 108 

 Onosmas (O. echioides, O. alba- 



roseum), 130 



Orchard House at Weybridge, 50 

 Oriental plane, 35 

 Ornithogalums (O. nutans, O. 



umbellatum), 203 

 Osmunda regalis (royal fern), 



176, 178, 182 

 Ostrich-feather fern (Struthio- 



pteris germanica), 181 

 Othonnopsis cheirifolia, 208 

 Overcrowding of plants, 79 

 Ox-eye daisies (Leucanthemum 



lacustre, L. maximum and 



vars), 205 



Oxford Physic Garden, 15, 16 



weed garden, 19 



Oyster plant (Mertensia mari- 

 timd), 130 



PEONIES, Chinese, 204, 209 



herbaceous, 147, 203 



" Paradisus Terrestris," the first 



English gardening book, 14 

 Parkinson, John, 14, 28, 36, 40 

 Parsley, 25, 188 

 Parsley fern (Cryptogramme 



crispa), 180 

 Pavia macrostachya (syn. 



^Esculus parviflora, 211 (see 



p. 149) 

 Peacock tiger flower (Tigridia 



pavonia), 159 

 Pentstemon Hartwegi, 138 

 Peppermint (Mentha piperita), 



16, 190 

 Physicians, training of early 



English, 15 



Piers Plowman's complaint, 25 

 Pinks, old fashioned, 208 

 Pioneers of English gardening, 



39 

 Planting for autumn effect, 214 



of spring garden, 199 



Plant life at Wisley, 52, 53 

 Poison oak (Rhus toxicodendron) 



150 

 Polemonium confertum, 130 



mellitum, 130 



Polypodium cambrica (Welsh 



polypody), 179 

 Polypodiums, 1 76 

 Pomegranate, 36 

 Pontederia cordata (pickerel 



weed), 115, 117 

 Poppies, Oriental, 204 

 Portugal laurel (Prunus lust- 



tunica), 145, 146 

 Potato, Evelyn's opinion of the, 



29 



tardy popularity of, 29 



Pot herbs, 188 



marigold (Calendula 



officinalis), 189 



Prickly shield fern (Aspidium 

 aculeatum, 177 



