INDEX 



377 



Periwinkles, 169 



Phalangmm liliago variegatum, 

 9 



Pheasant, stewed, 186 



Philadelphus gramdiflonis, 45 



Philanthropy, amateur, to be 

 discouraged, 308, 309 



Phloxes, 74, 75, 132, 143 



PhysaUs Alkekengi, 10 



Pianos, 279, 280 



Pictures, in houses, 278, 279, 

 287 ; in the Eoyal Academy, 

 292-294 



Pie, French, 80 



Pig lilies, 74 



Pigeons, cooking, 174, 175 ; 

 flight of, 206 



Pilea muscosa, 163 



Pinks, 140, 143, 184, 198 



Piptanth/us nepalensis, 45 



Piracy, increase of, after the 

 Reformation, 147, 148 



Pleasure, excessive addiction to, 

 271 



Plum, double, 10 



Plumbago larpenta, 161 



Poems quoted or alluded to : 

 ' I remember, I remember,' 5 ; 

 ' Go where the water glideth,' 

 &c., by J. H. Eeyuolds, 5, 6 ; 

 Shelley's description of damp, 

 17 ; lines on the death of a 

 young girl, 20 ; ' John Frost,' 

 21, 22; ' The Poet in the City,' 

 46, 47 ; Erasmus Darwin on 

 the ' vegetable lamb,' 53 ; 

 Darwin's 'Loves of the Plants,' 

 62, 63; Owen Meredith's de- 

 scription of a garden in spring, 

 85; 'Baby Seed Song,' 87; 

 Mrs. Hemans' ' To the Blue 

 Anemone,' 101, 102 ; Paul 

 Verlaine's ' La Vie,' 183, 134 ; 

 Emerson's lines on shells, 

 155 ; lines to the redbreast, 

 178, 179 ; Milton on the rising 

 sun, 188 ; Keats' ' St. Agnes' 

 Eve,' 189 ; ' La MMancolie,' 

 206, 207 ; Mr. Euskin's ' Mont 

 Blanc revisited,' 231 ; Matthew 

 Arnold's Obermann Poems, 



232 ; memorial poem by Sir 

 Henry Taylor, 268 ; James 

 Spedding's 'Antiquity of Man,' 

 274, 275 ; Mr. Lionel Tenny- 

 son's 'Sympathy,' 306; 'Omar 

 Khayyam,' 352 



Polyanthus, 164 



Polygomwm affine, 161 



— cuspidatum, 92, 119, 199, 205 



— sacchalinense, 119, 199 

 Pomegranate, double, 112 

 Pond-weed, 141 



Ponds, natural, 171 



Poppies, Oriental, 5; time for 



sowing, 42 ; for decoration, 



106 ; Plume, 119 ; Welsh, 128, 



160 

 Portraits in the Eoyal Academy, 



292 

 Pot au feu soup, 28 

 Pot-pourri, a receipt for, 241, 242 

 Potage paysanne, receipt for, 79 

 Potatoes, cooking, 13, 98, 252 



253 

 Pots, plants in, and evaporation, 



98 ; hanging, 98 ; growing 



plants in, 110-115 

 Poultry, preparing and roasting, 



78, 79 

 Primroses, 140, 164, 199 

 Primula japormca, 89 



— sieholdii, 72 



— sinensis, 11 



Primulas, for table decoration, 

 13 ; Chinese, 24 ; Japanese, 89 



Privet, 169, 195 



Frocosma variegata, 114 



Proteas, 68 



Protection for plants, 144, 198 

 199 



Pruning, shrubs, 116, 117, 180; 

 instruments for, 181 



Prunus, double, 105 



— spinosaflore pleno, 10 

 Public schools, training of, 259 

 Pudding, receipt for a, 77 

 Pur^e, 25, 26 

 Pyraoanthuses, 44, 204 

 Pyrethrum, 173 



Pyrus japonica, 43, 44 ; pruning, 

 117 ; Appewkx, 364 



