INDEX 



443 



Emerson, quotation from the 



Essays of, 434 

 Endive, cooking, 44, 64, 65; 



growing, 135 

 Engadine, the, episode at a ball 



in, 212 



Epiphyllum truncatum, 171 

 Erasmus, at Bale, 378, 379; 



Froude's lectures on, 378, 379 ; 



Holbein's portrait of, 378 

 Escallonia pterocladon, 160 

 Eucalyptus citriodora, 171 

 gunnti, 382 

 Eucryphia pinnatifolia, 211 

 Eugenia ugni, 178 

 Eulalia Japonica, 59 

 Eupatorium purpureum, 139 

 Euphorbia spleiidens, 86 

 Excitements of society, 425 



FALKENSTEIN, establishment for 

 the open-air treatment of 

 phthisis at, 78, 79 



Ferns, 56, 90, 140, 205, 304 



Ficus repens, 171 



Field, Mr. Michael (quoted), 420 



Figs, 35, 128 



Fire-bricks, blackleading, 199 



Fireflies in Italy, 331 



Fire-screen, a Kossetti, 274, 275 



Fish, application of boracic acid 

 to, 64 ; how to dress, 99 ; 

 receipts for cooking, 213, 265 



Fish, fresh-water, to dress, 63, 64 



Flaimnarion, CamiHe, 133 



Flat-hunting in London, 395, 397 



Flies, receipt for the destruction 

 of, 199 



Florence : Boboli Gardens, 128 ; 

 literature, 308, 311, 313, 314- 

 320, 338; the author's ex- 

 periences, 328 sqq. ; Galileo's 

 tower, 329 ; a view from a 

 window, 330 ; cypresses, 330, 

 332; fireflies, 331; lemon-trees, 

 332 ; the ' Cascine,' 333 ; lime- 

 trees, 334; the Duomo, 334, 

 360 ; destruction of old 

 buildings, 335 ; convent of San 

 Marco, 337; Mr. Howells's 



'Tuscan Cities,' 338; Certosa 

 monastery, 339, 340; tomb 

 of Cardinal Buonafede, 340; 

 festival of Corpus Christi, 340- 

 343 ; church of Santa Margh- 

 arita, 340, 341 ; costumes and 

 habits of the people, 343; 

 Monte Sennaria, 344 ; villa 

 gardens, 344, 345 ; villa said to 

 have been designed by Michael 

 Angelo, 348 ; Villa Gamberaia, 

 348 ; the aziola or night- 

 owl, 349 ; Ary Scheff er's picture 

 of * Paolo and Francesca,' 350 ; 

 Burmese goldfish, 351; pic- 

 tures by Botticelli in the Pitti 

 Gallery, 352, 353; fondness 

 for the early Florentine 

 masters, 354 ; cabinet of 

 Cardinal Leopoldo dei Medici, 

 356; 'Romola,' 356, 357; 

 the great 'Festa,' 359; fire- 

 works, 360 ; Botanical Garden, 

 361,362 ; Riccardi Palace, 363 ; 

 old Medicean room, 364 ; San 

 Miniato, 364 ; the longing of 

 the South for the influence of 

 the North, 365 



Flower-glasses, 170 



Flower-tables, 95 



Food in relation to health, 216 



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Foot-race in Berlin, 229, 230 



Forcemeat, 97 



Forcing-boxes, 165 



Forenia asiatica, 170 



Forsythia intermedia, 265 



suspensa, 279 



France, dressing fresh-water fish 

 in, 64 



Frankfort, visits to, 73-78, 381 ; 

 Jewish cemetery at, 73 ; second- 

 hand bookseller of, 92; the 

 ' Palmengarten' at, 381 



Franking letters, 119 



Freesias, 206 



Friendship between men and 

 women, 417, 420 



Fritz Quihou, 177 



Frost, protection against, 140, 

 263 



