INDEX 



459 



Phloxes, 24, 290. 



Phormium tenax, 140. 



Phthisis, open-air treatment of, 

 80, 81. 



Phylloxera, mixture for destroy- 

 ing, 392, 393. 



'Piekwiek,' 120. 



Piedmontese, the, ohief food of, 

 265, 266. 



Pigeons, cooking, 64. 



Pinks, 'Mrs. Simpkin,' 88. 



Firms austriaea, 50. 



Pittosporum toUra, 284. 



Plain-speaking, 12, 13. 



Plants, wild, 166. 



Platyeeriums, 91. 



Platycodons, 176. 



Plumbago eapensis, 27, 36, 91. 



— rosea, 60. 



Poems quoted or alluded to : 

 'Bethia Hardacre's' 'I pray 

 to fail, ' 7 ; Watson's ' Nay, bid 

 me not my eares to leave,' 21 ; 

 Burns' ' To a Louse,' 22; Vic- 

 tor Hugo's 'La pauvre fleur,' 

 &c., 34 ; Owen Meredith's 

 ' Luoile, ' 40 ; ' How much 

 is lost,' &c., 51 ; Marlowe's 

 ' Passionate Shepherd, ' 54 ; 

 ' Slight, to be orush'd with a 

 tap,' &o., 56; Sydney Smith's 

 ' Salad,' 68, 69; lines by Lady 

 Caroline Lamb on Byron, 71 ; 

 lines by 'Bethia Hardacre,' 

 72; 'Vous et Moi,' by Com- 

 tesse de Castellane, 85 ; Cow- 

 per on a greenhouse, 89 ; 'It 

 is not sad to turn the face 

 towards home,' 101 ; from 

 'loniea,' 102, 103; sonnet by 

 Mr. Aubrey de Vere, 103 ; ' If 

 I had known,' by Christian 

 Eeed, 118 ; Owen Meredith's 

 allusion to the rose of Octo- 

 ber, 128 ; 'The old friends,' 

 147, 148 ; ' Laugh, and the 

 world laughs with you,' 149, 

 150 ; song of ' Bethia Hard- 

 acre's,' 150 ; translation from 

 the German, 155, 156; 'Often 



I wish that I might be,' &e., 

 158 ; Mr. W. Lawler's lines 

 on Ireland, 162 ; ' Snowdrop 

 Time,' 171 ; ' Sympathy,' 200 ; 

 on ' Solitude,' 209; sonnet by 

 Thomson, 213; Wordsworth on 

 the Celandine, 214 ; epitaph, 

 223 ; ' The Angel that presided 

 o'er my birth,' 247 ; Mrs. 

 Deamer'a poem on a child's 

 experience, 247, 248 ; child's 

 song by E. Nesbit, 254 ; 'Bethia 

 Hardacre's' 'Flower Chain,' 

 263 ; lines on flowers closing 

 at night, 276 ; Mr. Stephen 

 Phillips' lines on a rain- 

 shower, 283 ; S. Whiting's 

 'Invitation,' 287; Southey's 

 allusion to the holly tree, 406 ; 

 Mr. Gladstone's Italian trans- 

 lation of Cowper's 'Hark, my 

 soul,' 333; Mr. Stephen Phil- 

 lips' poem to Milton blind, 

 336 ; De Musset's ' J'ai perdu 

 ma force et ma vie, ' 341 ; 

 Watson's allusion to church 

 spires, 343 ; Shelley's 'Aziola,' 

 357; sonnet by 'M. B.' on 

 Paolo and Franeesca, 358 ; 

 verses by Byron applicable to 

 the death of Burne- Jones, 366 ; 

 Mrs. Browning's verses on 

 the reciprocal needs between 

 North and South Europe, 373, 

 374 ; lines by M. Correvou, 386 ; 

 Florian's poem on 'Euth,' 416 ; 

 lines from a play by Webster, 

 417; lines by Moore on love, 

 421 ; definition of love by Mr. 

 Austin, 421 ; lines on the 

 sadness of love, by a French- 

 woman, 422 ; verses by George 

 Eliot, 422 ; sonnet by Mrs. 

 Browning, 423 ; Tennyson's 

 lines on the test of love, 423 ; 

 sonnets by Mr. Wilfred Blunt, 

 425, 426 ; lines by Coventry 

 Patmore, 428 ; verses by Owen 

 Meredith, 426 ; ' Flagellum 

 Stultorum,' quoted, 427, 428 ; 



