INDEX 



Evergreen branches for winter 



decoration, 16 

 Everlasting' pea, dividing and 



propagating, 138 

 Experimental planting, 183 



Felling trees, 162 



Fern Filix fosmina in rhododen- 

 dron beds, 87, 106; Dicksonia 

 punctilobulata, 62 ; ferns in 

 rock-wall, 120; polypody, 121, 

 165 



Fem-pega for layering carnations, 

 98 



Fern-walk, suitable plants among 

 groups of ferns, 107 



Flower border, 133, 200 



Forms of deciduous trees, beauty 

 of, 25 



Forsythia suspensa and F. viri- 

 dissima, 50 



Forget-me-not, large kind, 53 



Foxgloves, 270 



Fungi, Amanita, Boletus, Chan- 

 tarelle. 111 



Funkia grandiflora, 212 



Galax aphylla, colour of leaves 



in winter, 21 

 Gale, broad-leaved, 101 

 Garden friends, 194 

 Garden houses, 215 

 Gardening, a fine art, 197 

 Garrya elliptica, 202 

 Gaultheria ShaUon, value for 



cutting, 16; in rock-garden, 



165 

 Geraniums as bedding plants, 



266 and onward 

 Gourds, as used by Mrs. Earle, 



18 

 Goutweed, 257 

 Grape hyacinths, 49, 258 

 Grass, Sheep's-fescue, 69 

 Grasses for lawn, 147 



Grey-foliaged plants, 207 

 Grouping plants that bloom to- 

 gether, 70 

 Grubbing, 160 ; tools, 150, 261 

 Guelder-rose as a wall-plant, 71 ; 



single kind, 129 

 Gypsophila paniculata, 95, 209 



Half-haedy border plants in 



August, 108, 210 

 Happiness in gardening, 1, 274 

 Hares, as depredators, 260 

 Heath sods for protecting tendei 



plants, 91 

 Heaths, filling up Rhododendron 



beds, 37 ; wild heath among 



azaleas, 69 ; cut short in paths, 



70 ; ling, 106 

 Hellebores, caulescent kinds in 



the nut-walk, 9; for cutting, 



57, 144 ; buds stolea by mice, 



260. 

 Heuchera Richardsoni, 53, 185 

 Holly, beauty in winter, 8 ; 



grouped with birch, 152; 



cheerful aspect, 154 

 HoUyhocks, the prettiest shape, 



105; 

 Honey-suckle, wild, 43 

 Hoof-parings as manure, 133 

 Hoop-making, 166, and onward 

 Hop, wild, 43 

 Hutchinsia alpina, 50 

 Hyacinth (wild) in oak-wood, 



60 

 Hydrangeas, protecting, 146 ; at 



foot of wall, 206 

 Hyssop, a good wall-plant, 121 



Iris alata, 14; I. fcetidissima, 120; 



I. pallida,' 129 

 Iris stylosa, how to plant, 13 ; 



white variety, 14 ; time of 



blooming, 33, 164 

 Ivy, shoots for cutting, 17 



