INDEX. 



Garden, characteiistics of a true, 20, 21 

 Garden-design, ignorance of, 72, 73, 78, 80- 



the Grand Trianon, 216 

 Garden-hedges of Pear-trees . instead of 



Arbor vitse, 349 

 Garden implements in France, 437 

 Garden-improvement in Franco, 250 

 Garden, NHtional, for France, 52, 53 

 Garden of Plants, objectionable features in, 



45, 54 ' 



Gaiden of the Elys€e, 88 

 Garden-seats, 87 

 G«rdeu-walls, -wiring, 417, 453 

 Gardeners, ti-aining-school for, 272 

 Gardens of the Louvre, 79, 88; defects, 



83; of the Tuileries, 83; wall-paper 



pattern, 252 

 Geometrical gardening, Versailles, 194 

 Gleditsohia Bojoti, (new tree) 49, 59, 259 

 Grafting mastic, 441 

 Grafting by approacli, 288, 337, 356, 361, 



364,400 

 Grand Trianon, 214, 216 

 Grape-lteeping at Thomery. saving to 



growers, 318 ; system, tried in England, 



320 

 Grape-rooms, 317 

 Grapes, best kinds for open-air culture 



in England, 380; preserving through 



winter, 314; how cut for, 316 

 Grass, seed-mixtures for forming Paris 



lawns, 128, 129; watered repeatedly in 



Paris, 83 

 Gravels, coloured, 75, 80 



Halles Centrales of Paris, 534 



Hardy flowers. Nursery for, 170 



plants, natural grouping of, 6 



sub-tropical plants, 27 



trees and shrubs affording finer effect 



than tender subjects, 33, 34 



Hollow wall, flowers growing in, 92, 93 



Holme Lacy, Cordon-Pears at, 295 ; weight 

 of crops, 298 



Honeysuckle on Birch-tree, 39 ; on Plane- 

 trees ; 114 ; standards, 96 



Houses in Zoological Gardens, opportuni- 

 ties for gardening in, 16, 17 



iNifOCENTS, Square des, 127 



Islands, in Bois de Boulogne, 2, 3, 7, 8 



Islets in lakes, 105 



Isolating plants, 35, 93 



Italian garden, 86 



Ivy, Algerian, 51, 59 



Ivy and Wistaria, 190 



Ivy, bands of, 87, 186; bowers, 186: 

 edgings, 79, 86, 172, 187, 189, 191 ; for 

 covering objectionable wall-surfaces, 88 ; 

 in courtyards, 186; cuilains on rock 



545 



walls, 68; in dwelling-rnnms, 245; in 

 Pans, 184; in Squares, 112, 115; Irish, 

 ion' °^ banks, 10; on church walls, 

 180 ; on rocks, 10 ; on rocky grottoes, 5, 

 187; on stakes or pyramids, 59; on 

 trunks of trees, 188; propagation of, 

 190 ; trained in wreaths, 92, 94, 95, 184 

 Ivy-screens for rooms, 189; on high walls, 

 190 



Jabdin des Plantes, a type of all that is 

 stupid and harmful, in botanic gardens, 

 45, 62, described, 56, merits, 57; not 

 sufficiently endowed, 62 ; open all day, 



Jardin Fleuriste, 165 

 Jujube tree, 55 



Kew, gardens at, 63, 64, 72 ; closed during 



forenoon, 63, 64 

 Kitchen-garden, needless walks in, 461 

 Kuotweed in Pare Monceau, 24 



Lao des Minimes, 104, 106 



Lachaume on Mushroom culture in lime- 

 rubbish, 522 



Lake, Saint Mande', 102, 103 



Land iu France, effect of subdivision of, 

 458 



Landscape-gardening, 199, 203, 207; the 

 Bois de Boulogne, 10; Acclimatisation 

 Society's Gardens in, 18; dogma by 

 Allison, 38 ; instances of false, 74 ; the 

 Louvre, 80 



Lavall^e's experiments in forcing white 

 Lilac, 528 



Lawns, forming, 128 ; how maintained, 129 



Lectures on gardening, common in France, 

 97 



Leicester Square, improvements and defects 

 in, 126, 127 



Lepfere's mode of Peach Cordon-training, 

 303 



Lettuce culture under frames, 483 ; Gotte, 

 culture of, 486 ; Petite Noiie, cnlture of, 

 481 ; the Passion, culture of, 487 ; Verte 

 Maraichere, culture of, 484 



Lettuces, 478 



Lilac, 87, 96, 526 ; in open air, 531 ; best 

 sorts, 532 ; proper treatment of, 531 ; 

 varieties oi^ 532 



Lilac forcing in France and England, 527 



Lilac, white, how grown, 526 ; in dwelling- 

 rooms, 527 ; darkness imnecessary iu 

 forcing, 527 ; forcing at Antwerp, 531 ; 

 LavalKe's experiments, 528; stems in 

 water for forcing, 531 ; temperature for 

 forcing, 530 



Lilacs, dwarf, 527 ; in Paris, 526 



Lime-trees unsuitable for street planting, 

 157 



