INDEX 



455 



Happiness, the oultivation of, 



415. 

 Hare, Augustus J. C, his books 



on Italy, 314, 329, 872. 

 Health, 10; hints on, 220 sgg. 

 Hearths, marble preferable to 



tiled, 406. 

 Heaths, 129, 180. 

 Heine, 75. 

 Heliotrope, 91, 181. 

 Hellebores, 164. 

 Memerocallis fulva, 386. 

 Henry Jaoobi Pelargonium, 91. 

 Hepatieas, 49, 50. 

 Herb-seasoning, 45. 

 Herbert, William (quoted), 87. 

 Heredity, 11. 

 Hernandez, physician to Philip 



H., 32. 

 Hesperis tristis, 294. 

 Hess, Dr. Karl, 80. 

 Holbein, portrait of Erasmus 



by, 388. 

 SoVbcellia latifoUa, 267. 

 Holland, Mrs., quotation from 



letters by, 430. 

 Holly, for decorating, 145; 



Southey's lines on, 306. 

 Hollyhocks, mixture for destroy- 

 ing blight on, 392. 

 Home, absence from, 21; con- 

 versation in the, 414. 

 Home-life, 12, 13, 409 sqq. 

 Honey, 272. 

 Honeysuckle, 130. 

 Hops, 298. 

 Hornbeam, the, 129; weeping, 



130. 

 'Hortus Eystettensis, ' title of 



old book on flowers, 94. 

 'Hotch-potch,' 4. 

 House, the, good management 



in, 200-203. 

 Howells, W. D., on Florence, 



345. 

 Hugo, Victor (quoted), 34. 

 Humboldt, Baron, on the amount 



of sleep necessary, 196. 

 Humea elegams, 393. 

 Hyacinths, 49, 184, 163, 210, 257. 



Hydrangeas, 37, 38, 370. 

 Hypocrisy, necessity of some 

 kinds of, 409. 



Iteris sempervirens, 170. 



Ice-plant, 89, 90. 



Imantophyllums, 97, 211, 216. 



Independence in boys and girls, 

 12. 



India-rubber plants, 172. 



Individuality in art, 389, 390. 



Insects, in gardens, 33-35 ; dread 

 of, 52. 



Ireland in January, 155; soil 

 and trees of, 156-159 ; troubles 

 of, 157; cooperative move- 

 ment in, 162, 



Iris foetidissmia, 60, 166, 175. 



— kcempferi, 176, 260. 

 — pseudacorus, 370. 



— reticulata, 209. 



— siylosa, 211. 



— Susiana, 204. 



Irises, 60, 163, 209, 260 ; bloom- 

 ing time of, 260. 



Italy, art in, 314 sqq. ; travelling 

 in, 328, 329; survival of pa- 

 ganism in, 349. See, also, 

 Florence. 



Ivy, for rockeries, 57, 139, 140 ; 

 growing on trees, 157 ; Japan- 

 ese, 371. 



Ixias, 177. 



James, Mr. Henry, on illusions, 



432. 

 Jameson, Mrs., 94 ; works on 



Italian art by, 317 sqq. 

 Jams, 304, 305. 

 Jasmine, yellow, 91. 

 Jasrmrmm, rmdiflorum, 139, 155, 



163. 

 Jekyll, Miss, book on gardening 



by, 211. 

 Jelly, blackberry, 46 ; Norwegian 



fruit, 400, 401. 

 Jesse, Edward, book on Natural 



History by, 53. 

 Jeune, Lady, her views on mar- 

 riage, 417, 418. 



