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Cornflowers, 167 

 Cornhill Magazine, 8 

 Coronilla, 95, 207 

 Cotoneaster microphylla, 56 

 Cots, children's, 233 

 Cottage-window gardening, 283 

 Cotyledons, 47 

 Cowper (quoted), 88 

 Cremation, 269, 270 

 Crimson Eambler, 345 

 Crino-dendron hookeri, 176 

 Crinum moorei, 90, 262 

 Crinums, 90, 262 

 Criticisms on the author's first 



book, 2-20 

 Crockery, pouring boiling water 



into, 200 



Crocus speciosus, 57 

 tommasinianus, 261 

 Crocuses, 261, 264 

 Cronberg, a visit to, 70, 71, 



381 



Croutes of ham and beans, 391 

 Crow, Mrs., the ghost-seer anec- 

 dote of, 230 

 Crown Imperials, 303 ; legend 



about, 303 



Cucumbers, preserving, 42, 43 

 Currants, 129, 392 

 Curry, 43 

 Curtains as substitutes for blinds, 



397, 398 

 Curtis' s ' Botanical Magazine,' 



24,26 



Cyclamens, 166, 205 

 Cyperus laxus, 170 

 Cypresses, 330, 332, 333, 363 

 Cypripediums, 95 



DABCECIA polifolia, 178 



Daffodils, 168, 206 



Dahlias, winter-preservation of 



47 

 Daisies, Michaelmas, 87, 91, 285 ; | 



Paris, 95 



Damsons, pickled, 44 

 Damson-trees, 132 

 Dandelion, 211 

 Dante, Botticelli's illustrations , 



of, 162 



Daphne blagayana, 161, 255, 264 



cneorum, 255 



indica, 152, 153 

 Datura, 90 



Daughters, see Girls, Love, 



Marriage, &c. 

 Day-lily, 377 

 Dead, the, regrets of the living 



for, 116, 117 



Deamer, Mrs., poem by, 243 

 December, shortest days of, 136, 



137 



Delphiniums, 94 

 Dendrobium mobile, 206 

 Deodorisers for the house, 287 

 Desfontainea spinosa, 154 

 Deutsche Perle, 253 

 Dictamnus fraxinella, 139 

 Dielytra spectabilis, 28 

 Diet, confessions about, 216 sqq. 

 Dimorphotheca eclonis, 270 

 Dinner-tables, 275, 276 

 Doctors, their instructions to 



nurses, 10 ; their treatment of 



rheumatic and other cases, 



218 sqq. 

 Dog-wood, 156 

 Doyle, ' Dickie,' 74 

 Dracocephalum argumense, 174 

 Dublin, Botanical Garden and 



' Kew ' of, 161 

 Ducks, cooking, 65 



EASTLAKE, Lady, 7 



Echeveria glauca, 47 



- metallica crispa, 46 



Echeverias, 46 ; derivation of the 

 word, 86 



Education of girls, 17-20 



Education of young children, 

 242 sqq. 



Eels, dressing, 64 



Eggs, preserving, 297, 298 



Elgin, Lord, 125 



Eliot, George, 308, 313, 343, 357 ; 

 at Geneva, 373 ; on reticence, 

 399, 400, 405 ; on the sadness 

 of love, 412, 413; on intel- 

 lectual effort in women, 425, 

 426 



