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INDEX 



Crmum Moorei, 92, 267-8. 

 Crinums, 91, 92, 267. 

 Criticisms on the author's first 



book, 2-20. 

 Crockery, pouring boiling water 



into, 203. 

 Crocus spedosus, 58. 



— tommasinianus, 263. 

 Crocuses, 266, 270. 

 Cronberg, a visit to, 72, 73, 



390, 391. 



Crotites of ham and beans, 399. 



Crow, Mrs., the ghost-seer anec- 

 dote of, 234. 



Crown Imperials, 309 ; legend 

 about, 309. 



Cucumbers, preserving, 43. 



Currants, 131, 401. 



Curry, 43, 44. 



Curtains as substitutes for 

 blinds, 406, 407. 



Curtis' ' Botanical Magazine, ' 

 24, 26. 



Cyclamens, 168, 209. 



Oyperus laxus, 173. 



Cypresses, 337, 339, 340, 372. 



Cypripediums, 97. 



Sabceda poUfoUa, 180. 

 Daffodils, 171, 209. [48. 



Dahlias, winter-preservation of. 

 Daisies, Michaelmas, 88, 92, 93, 



290 ; Paris, 97. 

 Damsons, pickled, 44, 45. 

 Damson trees, 133. 

 Dandelion, 214, 215. 

 Dante, Botticelli's illustrations 



of, 164. 

 Daphne blagayana, 164, 260, 269. 



— eneorum, 260. 



— incKea, 154, 155 . 

 Datura, 91. 



Daughters. See Girls, Love, 



Marriage, &e. 

 Day Lily, 387. 

 Dead, the, regrets of the living 



for, 117, 118. 

 Deamer, Mrs., poem by, 247, 248. 

 December, shortest days of, 



137-139. 



Delphiniums, 95. 

 DendroMum mobile, 210. 

 Deodorisers for the house, 292, 



298. 

 Desfontamea spinosa, 156. 

 Deutsche Perle, 258. 

 Dictamnus fraxinella, 140. 

 Dieh/tra spectabilis, 28. 

 Diet, confessions about, 220 sqq. 

 Dimorphotheca eclonis, 275. 

 Dinner-tables, 281, 282. 

 Doctors, their instructions to 



nurses, 10 ; their treatment of 



rheumatic and other eases, 



222 sqg. 

 Dogwood, 159. 

 Doyle, 'Dickie,' 76. 

 Dracocephalum argwmense, 177. 

 Dublin, Botanical Garden and 



'Kew' of, 163. 

 Ducks, cooking, 67. 



Eastlake, Lady, 7. 



Echeveria glauca, 48. 



— metalUca crispa, 47. 



Echeverias, 47 ; derivation of 

 the word, 87. 



Education of girls, 17-20. 



Education of young children, 

 246 sqq. 



Eels, dressing, 66. 



Eggs, preserving, 303, 304. 



Elgin, Lord, 126. 



Eliot, George, 314, 320, 331, 365 ; 

 at Geneva, 382 ; on reticence, 

 408, 409, 414 ; on the sadness 

 of love, 421, 422 ; on intel- 

 lectual effort in women, 434, 

 435. 



Emerson, quotation from the 

 Essays of, 445. 



Endive, cooking, 45, 66 ; grow- 

 ing, 136. 



Engadine, the, episode at a ball 

 in, 216. 



Epiphyllum truneatum, 174. 



Erasmus, atB41e, 388; Fronde's 

 lectures on, 388 ; Holbein's 

 portrait of, 388. 



Escalloma pterocladon, 162, 163. 



