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Beds, raised, 347 



Beech-trees, avenue of, 49, 50 ; 

 128 



Beef, boiled, 99 



Begonias, 161, 180 



Berenson, on modern art, 354, 

 355 



Besler, Basil, 93 



Bible, the Tissot, 162 



Birds, feeding, in winter, 144, 

 145; eating buds, 204; the 

 harm and the good they do, 

 282 



Blackbeetles, to destroy, 215 



Blackie, Professor, on squandered 

 lives, 367 



Blake, William, allusion to, 

 422 



Bleeding, for fever, 223 



Blight on carnations, &c., mix- 

 ture for destroying, 383 



Blinds, substitutes for, 397; 

 drawing them down in cases of 

 death, 398 



Blunt, Mr. Wilfred, sonnets on 

 love by, 414-416 



Boecklin, Arnold, picture by, 71- 

 73 ; his pictures at Bale, 378- 

 380; M. Edouard Rod's criti- 

 cism of, 380 



Books on cookery, 9, 40, 59, 64, 

 215, 298, 307 



Books on gardening, botany, &c. : 

 Mrs. Loudon's ' Amateur Gar- 

 dener,' 4 ; Curtis's ' Botanical 

 Magazine,' 24, 26; Mrs. 

 Brightwen's ' Glimpses into 

 Plant Life,' 25; Robinson's 

 ' English Flower Garden,' 26, 

 163; Button's 'Culture of 

 Vegetables and Flowers,' 28; 

 Wright's ' Profitable Fruit- 

 growing,' 28, 29 ; Loudon's 

 ' Ladies' Flower Garden,' 31, 

 89 ; ' The Gentlewoman,' 45, 

 59, 98 ; Milner's ' Country 

 Pleasures,' 52-55 ; Maund's 

 'Botanic Garden' and the 

 ' Botanist,' 85, 164, 270 ; John- 

 son's ' Gardener's Dictionary,' 

 90, 163; Besler's ' Hortus 



Eystettensis,' 93 ; Wallace's 

 ' Notes on Lilies and their Cul- 

 ture,' 94 ; Loudon's ' Arboretum 

 et Fruticetum,' 129 ; the ' Re- 

 tired Gardener,' 129 ; Wright's 

 ' Profitable Fruit-growing,' 130, 

 131 ; Sydenham's' How I came 

 to grow Bulbs,' 48, 133 ; Vil- 

 morin's ' Vegetable Garden,' 

 149; Smee's 'My Garden,' 

 153; Brightwen's 'Guide to 

 the Study of Botany,' 202; 

 Ellacombe's ' Gloucestershire 

 Garden,' 203 ; Lindley's ' Rosa- 

 rum Monographia,' 204 ; Miss 

 Jekyll's ' Wood and Garden,' 

 208, 209 ; M. Correvon's books 

 on floriculture, 376 



Books on health and the causa- 

 tion of disease, 218, 219, 221 



Books on natural history, 52, 300 



Boots, brown, polishing, 214 



Borage, Italian, 344 



Bordeaux mixture for blight, 383 



Botticelli, illustrations of Dante 

 by, 162; Pater on, 313; two 

 pictures in the Pitti gallery 

 by, 352, 353 ; his qualities as 

 an artist, 354, 355 



Bottles, corking, 61 



Bouvardia, 132 



Boyhood, reminiscences of, 118- 

 127 



Boys, training of, 12 ; indepen- 

 dence in, 13 



Bran- water, 286 



Bread-sauce, receipts for, 40, 41 



Brightwen, Mrs., Glimpses into 

 Plant Life ' by, 25 ; ' Guide to 

 the Study of Botany ' by, 202 



Brompton Hospital, 79 



Browallia elata, 167 



Browne, Sir Thomas (quoted), 

 200 



Browning love-letters, the, 426 



Browning, Mrs., verses on the 

 reciprocal needs between 

 North and South Europe, 365 ; 

 on love, 413 



Bulbs, cultivation of, 47-49, 133 



Bullace, the, 132 



