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INDEX 



Blake, Wniiam, allusion to, 432. 



Bleeding, for fever, 227. 



Blight on carnations, etc., mix- 

 ture for destroying, 392. 



Blinds, substitutes for, 406 ; 

 drawing them down in eases 

 of death, 407. 



Blunt, Mr. Wilfred, sonnets on 

 love by, 424-426. 



Boeeklin, Arnold, picture by, 

 73, 74 ; his pictures at B41e, 

 389, 390 ; M. Bdouard Bod's 

 criticism of, 390. 



Books on cookery, 9, 40, 61, 65, 

 219, 304, 313, 314. 



Books on gardening, botany, 

 etc.: Mrs. Loudon's 'Ama- 

 teur Gardener,' 4 ; Curtis' 

 'Botanical Magazine,' 24, 26 ; 

 Mrs. Brightwen's ' Glimpses 

 into Plant Life,' 25 ; Robin- 

 son's 'English Flower Gar- 

 den,' 27, 166 ; Sutton's 'Cul- 

 ture of Vegetables and Flow- 

 ers,' 29 ; "Wright's 'Profitable 

 Fruit-growing,' 29; Loudon's 

 'Ladies' Flower Garden,' 31, 

 90; 'The Gentlewoman,' 45, 

 61, 99 ; Milner's ' Country 

 Pleasures,' 54-56 ; Maund's 

 'Botanic Garden' and the 

 ' Botanist,' 86, 166, 275 ; John- 

 son's 'Gardener's Dictionary,' 

 91, 166 ; Besler's ' Hortus 

 Eystettensis, ' 94 ; Wallace's 

 'Notes on Lilies and their 

 Culture,' 96 ; Loudon's 'Ar- 

 boretum et Fruticetum,' 130 ; 

 the 'Eetired Gardener,' 130 ; 

 Wright's 'Profitable Fruit- 

 growing,' 131, 132 ; Syden- 

 ham's 'How I came to grow 

 -Bulbs,' 49, 134; Vilmoriu's 

 ' Vegetable Garden, ' 150 ; 

 Smee's 'My Garden,' 155; 

 Brightwen's ' Guide to the 

 Study of Botany,' 206 ; EUa- 

 eombe's 'Gloucestershire Gar- 

 den,' 207; Lindley's 'Rosa- 

 rum Monographia,' 208 ; Miss 



Jekyll's 'Wood and Garden,' 

 211-213 ; M. Correvon's books 

 on floriculture, 385, 386. 



Books on health and the causa- 

 tion of disease, 222, 223, 225. 



Books on natural history, 53, 

 306. 



Boots, brown, polishing, 218. 



Borage, Italian, 352. 



Bordeaux mixture for blight, 

 393. 



Botticelli, illustrations of Dante 

 by, 164 ; Pater on, 320 ; two 

 pictures in the Pitti gallery 

 by, 360, 361 ; his qualities as 

 an artist, 361, 362. 



Bottles, corking, 63. 



Bouvardia, 133. [128. 



Boyhood, reminiscences of, 119- 



Boys, training of, 12 ; indepen- 

 dence in, 14. 



Bran -water, 291. [42. 



Bread-sauce, receipts for, 41, 



Brightwen, Mrs., ' Glimpses into 

 Plant Life' by, 25 ; ' Guide to 

 the Study of Botany ' by, 206. 



Brompton Hospital, 80. 



BrowalUa elata, 170. [204. 



Browne, Sir Thomas (quoted). 



Browning love-letters, the, 437. 



Browning, Mrs., verses on the 

 reciprocal needs between 

 North and South Europe, 373, 

 374 ; on love, 423. 



Bulbs, cultivation of, 48-50, 

 134. 



Bullaoe, the, 133. 



Buonafede, Cardinal Lionardo, 

 tomb of, 347. 



Burbidge, Mr., lecture by, 291. 



Burne- Jones, picture of Pan and 

 Psyche by, 265, 280 ; his death, 

 366; Mr. Ruskin's opinion of 

 his work, 367. 



Butterflies, 34, 35, 170; book on, 

 286. 



Byron, Lord, his travelling 

 coach on the Continent, 71; 

 Moore's 'Life' of, 71; verses 

 by, 366 ; at Geneva, 382. 



