448 



MORE POT-POURRI 



others, training and self- 

 M cultivation of, 242 sqq. ; their 



relations with daughters, 399 



sqq., 425 



Mountain Ash, 128 

 Mulberries, 35, 36 

 Miiller, Professor Max (quoted), 



102, 103, 193, 298 

 Mushrooms, growing, 134, 135, 



179 ; cooking, 266 

 Mustard and cress, 263 

 Muther, Eichard, ' History of 



Modern Painting ' by, 72 

 Mutton cutlets a la Russe, 182, 



183 



NAPOLEON III. at the Villa 



Gamberaia, 348 

 Narcissus, 47, 48, 133 

 Natural history, its attractions 



for young people, 51, 52 ; books 



on, 201, 281, 300 

 Nelson, Lord, 145 

 Neniesia strumosa, 22, 23, 58, 



167, 302 

 Nephrodiiim membranifolium, 



205 

 Nesbit, E., child's song by, 251 



' New Education,' the, 241 sqq. 

 Newman, Cardinal, on the 



mystical meaning of a garden, 



348 



Nicotiana affinis, 288, 301 

 Night-flowering plants, 288 

 Night-owl, or aziola, 349 

 Nurses, sick, 10, 236 ; children's, 



236 

 Nursing children, hints on, 233 



sqq. 



O'CoNNOB, Mr. T. P., 115 

 Odontoglossum alexandrce, 206 



picturatum, 95 



Rossii major, 254 

 (Enothera odorata, 288 

 Oil, olive, 390 



Old, growing, 432-434, 435 

 Old age. 146, 147, 432, 433 



Oleanders, 280, 281, 348, 364 

 Oliphant, Mrs., ' The Makers of 



Florence ' by, 316 

 Ollapodrida, 4 

 Omphalodes litcilice, 167 

 Onions, as a tonic, 267 ; sowing, 



294 ; cooking, 299 

 Optimism, 432 

 Orchids, 95, 132, 206, 254 

 Origanum dictamnus, 26 



hybridum, 26 

 OrnitJiogalum pyramidale, 305 

 Orobanclie pruinosa, 332 

 Ouida, her allusions to Galileo's 



tower, 329, 330; on fireflies, 

 331 ; her description of the 

 church of Santa Margharita, 

 Florence, 340, 341 

 Oxalis acetosella, 169 



bowiei, 86 



floribunda, 57 

 Oxalis, white, 169 

 Oxford, Botanic Gardens at, 

 394 



P.EONIA corallina, 172, 173 

 Paint, cleaning, 214; for stairs, 



398 

 Painters, Italian, works on, 78, 



310 sqq. 

 Paintings, by Arnold Boecklin, 



71-73; in the Staedel Art 



Institute, 76-78 

 Pall Mall Gazette, article on 



child-training in, 247-251 

 Pancretiumfragrans, 29 

 Pancretiums, 29, 90 

 Parents, duties of, 12-20 

 Paris, schools in, 120, 123-125 

 Parochetus communis, 167 

 Parsnips, cooking, 182 

 Partridges, cooking, 62 

 Passion-flower, 90 ; its symbolical 



meaning, 304 



Pater, Walter, 313, 317, 342 

 Patmore, Coventry, lines on the 



difficulty of understanding 



women by, 416 

 Peach-trees, 135 

 Peas, sweet, 36, 167, 255 ; green, 



