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INDEX 



Mustard and cress, 268. 

 Muther, Richard, ' History of 



Modern Painting ' by, 74. 

 Mutton cutlets £l la Russe, 185. 



Napoleon III. at the Villa 

 (Jamberaia, 356. 



Narcissus, 48, 134. 



Natural history, its attractions 

 for young people, 53 ; books 

 on, 204, 286, 306. 



Nelson, Lord, 147. 



Nemesia strumosa, 23, 59, 169, 

 307. 



Nephrodium membranifolium, 209. 



Nesbit, E., child's song by, 256. 



'New Education,' the, 246 sgg. 



Newman, Cardinal, on the mys- 

 tical meaning of a garden, 355. 



Nicotiana affinis, 294, 307. 



Night-flowering plants, 293. 



Night-owl, or aziola, 357. 



Nurses, sick, 10, 238 ; children's, 

 238. 



Nursing children, hints on, 235 



O'Connor, Mr. T. P., 116, 117. 

 Odontoglossum alexandrw, 210. 



— picturatum, 97. 



— Bossii major, 259. 

 (Enoihera odorata, 294. 

 Oil, olive, 400. 



Old, growing, 443-446. 

 Old age, 149, 443, 444. 

 Oleanders, 286, 356, 373. 

 Oliphant, Mrs.,' The makers of 



Florence ' by, 322. 

 Olla podrida, 4. 

 Omphalodes lucilice, 170. 

 Onions, as a tonic, 278 ; sowing, 



300; cooking, 304. 

 Optimism, 442. 

 Orchids, 97, 133, 210, 259. 

 Origanum dictamnus, 26. 



— hyhridum, 26. 

 Ornithogalum pyramidale, 311. 

 Orobanche jpruimosa, 339. 

 Ouida, her allusions to Galileo's 



tower, 336, 337 j on fireflies. 



338; her description of the 

 church of Santa Margharita, 

 Florence, 348, 349. 



Oxalis acetosella, 172. 



— Bowiei, 87. 



— floribunda, 59. 



Oxalis, white, 172. 



Oxford, Botanic Gardens at, 404. 



Pceonia coralUna, 174, 175. 



Paint, cleaning, 218; for stairs, 

 407. 



Painters, Italian, works on, 79, 

 316 sqq. 



Paintings, by Arnold Boeeklin, 

 74; in the Staedel Art Insti- 

 tute, 78-80. 



Pall Mall Gazette, article on 

 child-training in, 252-255. 



Paneretium fragrans, 30. 



Paneretiums, 30. 



Parents, duties of, 12-20. 



Paris, schools in, 120, 121, 125. 



Pwroehetus communis, 169. 



Parsnips, cooking, 184. 



Partridges, cooking, 64. 



Passion Flower, 91 ; its symbol- 

 ical meaning, 310, 311. 



Pater, Walter, 319, 320, 323, 349, 

 350. 



Patmore, Coventry, lines on the 

 difficulty of understanding 

 women by, 426. 



Peach trees, 136. 



Peas, Sweet, 36,169, 260; green, 

 170, 212 ; everlasting, 290 ; 

 'mange-tout,' 807. 



Pelargonium, 133 ; Prince of 

 Orange, 168, 174, 307. 



Pergolas, 129. 



Periwinkle, 57. 



Pernettyas, 57. 



Phacelia campanularia, 169, 170. 



Pheasant, stuffed with wood- 

 cocks, 98, 99. 



Phillips, Mr. Claude, quotation 

 from his article on the Millais 

 exhibition, 390. 



Phillips, Mr. Stephen, poem to 

 Milton blind by, 336, 370. 



