368 POT-POURRI FROM A SURREY GARDEN 



Aubriefcias, 140 



Aucubas, 40, 60 



Auriculas, 140 



Autumn, list of trees, creepers, 



shrubs, and plants for, 190, 



191 



— annuals, 86, 87, 132 



— morning, an, 179, 188, 189 

 Azaleas, 17, 72, 138, 169 



Bacon, Lord, on gardening, 224 



Bad temper in children, treat- 

 ment of, 327 



Bags for dried leaves, 8 



Balsam, 160 



Bamboos, leaves of, for table- 

 decoration, 13 ; growing, 119, 

 139, 195, 204 ; book on, 246 



Banksia, yellow, 43 



Barberry, common, 38, 89 



' Barnacle Geese,' superstition of, 

 57, 58 



Bartonia aurea, time for sowing, 

 42, 164 



Baskets, plants for, 163, 164 



Bath-rooms, 285 



Bay-tree, 169 



Beans, preserving, 153, 203 ; 

 succession of, 174 ; cooking, 

 176 



Bechamel sauce, 25 ; receipt for 

 preparing, 31 , 32 



Bedding-out system, introduction 

 of, 5 ; objections to, 48, 49, 

 223 



Bedford, Duke of, and his gar- 

 dener, anecdote of, 227, 228 



Bedrooms, furnishing, 284, 285, 

 286 



Beds in a garden, arrangement 

 of, 106 



Beech-trees in autumn, 205 



Beetroot, preparing and serving, 

 25 



Bell-flower, 160 



Berberis Darwinii, 97, 169 



— vulgaris, 38, 89, 96, 169 



Bible, the, Martin's illustrations 

 of, 157 



Biennials, 42, 113, 164, 165 



Bignonia radicans, 43, 104 



Birds, feeding, 18 ; boxes for 

 117, 118 



Biscuits, change of, 192 



Ble de Turquie, 55 



Blinds, 282 



Blue-bells, 197 



Boeconia cordata, 61, 119, 139, 

 199 



Boltonia corymbosa, 173 



Bonaparte, Josephine, and her 

 fondness for gardening, 207, 

 208 



Bookcases, 278, 284, 285 



Books on gardening, botany, &c. : 

 Robinson's ' English Flower 

 Garden,' 1, et passim ; ' The 

 Vegetable Garden,' 1, 13 ; John- 

 son's ' Gardener's Dictionary,' 

 1, 2 ; Andrews' ' Botanist's 

 Eepository,' 20 ; Mrs. Loudon's 

 ' Gardening for Ladies,' 28 ; 

 Bright's ' A Year in a Lanca- 

 shire Garden,' 48, 49, 239; 

 Watson's ' Flowers and Gar- 

 dens,' 48, 235-238; Gurtis's 

 ' Botanical Magazine,' 49, 62 ; 

 'Hortus Floridus" (1614), 50, 

 51 ; Parkinson's ' Paradisi in 

 Sole,' (1629), 51-54; Parkin- 

 son's ' Theatre of Plants ' 

 (1640), 54-56 ; Gerarde's ' The 

 Herbal or General Historic of 

 Plants' (1633), 56-58; gar- 

 dener's Almanack for 1691, 

 58,59; DelaQuintinye's'The 

 Compleat Gard'ner ' (1693), 

 59; 'English Herbal,' by 

 W. Salmon (1710), 59 ; Brad- 

 ley's ' New Improvements of 

 Planting and Gardening ' 

 (1739), 69, 60; DillenJo's 

 'Hortus Elthamensis' (1782), 

 60 ; ' Uitgezochte Planten ' 

 (1771), 60, 61 ; Curtis' ' Flora 

 Londinensis' (1771), 61 ; Eras- 

 mus Darwin's ' The Loves of 

 the Plants' (1791), 62, 63, 

 124 ; Jacquin's ' Miscellanea 

 Austriaca ' (1778), 63-65 ; Jac- 

 quin's ' Oxalis Monographia ' 



