372 POT-POURRI FROM A SURREY GARDEN 



DesmocKrmi penduUflorwn, 92 

 Deutzia crenata, 106 



— elegans, 96 



— graciUs, 10 

 Diosma shrubs, 181, 182 

 Double flowers compared with 



single, 237 

 Draperies for rooms, 283, 284 

 Dress, 340-342 

 Dried fruit, cooking, 256 



— leaves, scented, 8 



Drugs, danger of excess in the 



use of, 303, 304 

 Dual nature, the, in women, 345, 



346 

 Duck, boiled, receipt for, 79, 80 ; 



minced and curried, 251, 252 

 Dutch garden for a lawn, 139, 



140, 141 



Earlt rising, 349 



Echeveria retusa, 12 



Edinburgh, National Gallery of, 

 156, 157 



Education, of boys, 259-262 ; of 

 girls, 317, 319-332 



Eggs, receipt for cooking, 108 



Elder, 153 



Eliot, George, on nursing the 

 sick, 297, 298 



Entertainments, social, 350 



Epilobmm, 75 



Epimediums, 99 



Erigeron speciosus, 143 



Eschscholtzias, 165 



Eucalyptus, 16 



Eulalias, 119 



Evergreens, Mme. de Stael's de- 

 scription of, 19 ; olimbihg, 43 ; 

 in pots, 115 ; to be avoided in 

 London, 194 



Everlasting flowers, 7, 132 



Exochorda grcmMflora, 93 



Extravagant wives, 339 



Fads, avoidance of, in training 



children, 259 

 Fasteners for flowers, Appendix, 



.H,57, 362 



Feeding of children, 270 

 Ferns for London gardens, 198 

 Fertilisation of plants, 63 

 Ficvs elasUca, 8, 9 



— elasUca mdica, 8, 9 

 Fig-trees, 196 



Finger-bowls, flowers in, 192 

 Fireplaces, 279, 280 



Fish, cooking, 41,42; marinaded, 

 82 ; decline in consumption 

 after the Eeformation, 147, 

 148 



Fishermen taking to piracy after 

 the Eeformation, 148 



Flax, blue, 75 



Floor, painted, 281, 284 ; cover- 

 ings for, 279, 281, 284 



' Flora Londinensis,' Curtis's, 

 61 



Flower fasteners. Appendix, 357, 

 362 



Flowers, packing, 107 



Foam-flower, 103 



Fog in the country, 188 



Food and health, 304, 305 



Forcemeat, receipt for, 33, 34 



Forget-me-nots, 89, 140, 184, 198 



Forsythia fortunei, 44, 70, 196 



— suspensa, 43, 70, 196 

 Fountains, 92, 140, 141 

 Foxgloves, 170 

 Freesias, 12, 17, 123 



French country-house, a, house- 

 keeping in, 78 



— novels, recommended for 

 mothers, 262 



— pie, 80 



— receipts for soups, sauces, 

 poultry, jellies, &c., 28-37, 

 79-82 



Friendships, early, 274, 335, 336 



Fritillarias, 105 



Frost, on window-panes, 21, 22 ; 



methods for keeping out, 99, 



198, 189 

 Fruit, increase in its cultivation, 



242 ; dried, and how to cook 



it, 256 ; bavarois of, 256 

 Fuchsia procumbens, 163, 164 

 Fuchsias, 112 

 Fumitory, 161 



