INDEX. 



547 



Pears, best kinds for wall-culture, 423 ; 



beat varieties known, 423; hedges of, 



278, 849 ; quantities imported from 



France, 409; suitable as oblique cordons, 



298 ' 



Pere la Chaise, 174, 178 

 Petit Trianon, 207 



Pinching-in severely, a bad practice, 297 

 Place de I'Etoile, 137 

 Plane-trees, 92 ; in squares, 114 ; not the 



only trees suitable for cities, 124 

 Planes— in Paris and London, 154 ; moving 



in full leaf, 96; on Paris quays, 155; 



on Thames Embankment, 155 

 Plants— in dwelling-rooms, 244 ; material 



for tying, 450 ; suitable for conservatories, 



226 

 Play grounds in cities, 125 

 Plough-hoe, 441 

 Private gardens — in Prance, features in, 



253; in Paris, 250; of the Tuileries, 



86 

 Professorship of Hoitii'ulture, 72 

 Propagating house, 172 

 Pruning— at Montreuil, 361 ; ill effects 



upon trees, 153; pjramidal Pear-trees, 



396 

 Public bathing places, 140 

 Public garden management should be by 



trained garden-artists, 42, 45 

 Pumpkin, 534 



QuiNTiNTE on varieties of Pears, 422 



Kace-coueses in public parks, 14 



Kaidisseur, the, 447 



Railway, fruit-culture on banks of, 431; 

 Trees suitable for, 433 



Eeed-mace, for tying grafte, 452 



Restaurants in gardens, 70, 106 



Roads and walks by water-margins, 109 ; 

 needless in parks and gardens, 43 ; too 

 many in Pare Monoeau, 43 



Eock-plants on islets, 105 



Rock-shrubs, 10, 103, 105 ; ditto and trail- 

 ing evergeens, 75, 77 



Rockvvork, formation of, 214 



Rose-Charmeux on open air grape-culture, 

 380 



Rose, climbing, isolated on grass, 93 



Rouen, 346 ; fruit-notes at, 346 



Royal Horticultural Society, 52, 71, 73 



Rush, common, for tying, 270 ; for tying 

 plants, 450 



St. Olothilde, 183 



St. Cloud, view from Bois de Boulogne, 12 

 St. Jacques, Square and Tower of, 111 

 St. Petersburg, conservatories in, 225 

 Salads in Paris, 478, 535 ; Barbe de Capu- 



oin, culture of, 487; Corn-salad, or 

 Mache, 489; Lettuces, culture of, 481- 

 487 ; Searole, 488 



Saulsaie, Regional school at, 341 



Searole, 488 



Sceaux, fruit-gardens at, 381 



School of Botany in " Jardin des Plantes," 

 58, 59; of gardening in Paris, 72; of 

 Horticulture at "Versailles, scheme of 

 273 ' 



Scientific garden should also be a beautiful 

 one, 49 



" Scientific '" research not interfered with 

 by opening gardens at all hours, 64 



Sdcateur, the, 288, 445; English experience 

 of the, 457 



Selaginella dentioulata, in winter-o-ar- 

 dens, 232 



Shallot, the true, 535 



Smoke-nuisance in London, 150 



Sports and varieties, value of, 60 ; should 

 be observed and increased, 60 



Spring-grove cemetery, 177 



Square des Thermes, 114; Montrouge, 

 112, 113, 122 ^ 



Squares, 110; central portion, how spoilt, 

 122, 123 ; edging to public, 114 ; effect- 

 ing of opening to public, 118, 119 ; ever- 

 greens in, 127; how to plant, 111; in 

 London, defects in, 122, 123 ; necessary 

 in suburbs also, 120, 121 ; planting of, 

 123-125 ; present aspect, 110 ; what they 

 might be. 111 ; seats in, 123 ; should 

 contain playgrounds, 125 ; Trees in, 123 ; 

 walks in, 123 ; wanted as much or more 

 than parks, 121 



Stanhope, Su' H., on Cordon-Pears, 296 



Statuary, 87, 199, 201 ; in public gardens, 

 137; in public squares, 113 



Straw-mats for wall-protection, 276 



Strawberry, four seasons, 846 ; propagation 

 of, 347 ; culture, 347 



Streamlets in public gardens, 67, 102, 104, 

 105, 107, 114, 115, 209 



Street built over canal, 135 



Street pavements; 141 



Structures, in squares, 123 ; needless, in 

 gardens, 40, 41, 42, 70 



Sub-tropical effects producible in gardens 

 throughout Great Britain and Ireland, 

 29, 34 



Sub-tropical gardening, 20, 21, 31 ; plants 

 for, 26 



Sub-tropical vegetation in conservatories, 

 223 



Suisnes, fruit-gardens at, 332 



Terra-cotta work in gardens, 200, 203 

 Terrace-gardens, 84, 195, 198, 258 

 Thermes, Square des, 114 



