INDEX 



Japan Privet, foliage for winter 

 decoration, 16 



Japan Quince (Cydonia or Pyrus), 

 50 



Jasminum nudiflorum, 164 



Junction of garden and wood, 34, 

 270 



Juniper, its merits, 26 ; its form, 

 action of snow, 27 ; power of 

 recoveiy from damage, 29 ; 

 beauty of colouring, 30 ; stems 

 in winter dress, 81 ; in a wild 

 valley, 154, and onward 



Keeeia japonica, 50 

 Kitchen-ga''den, 179 ; its sheds, 

 179, 180 



Larch, sweetness in April, 51 



Large gardens, 176 



Lavender, when to cut, 105 



Lawn-malcing, 146 ; lawn spaces, 

 177, 178 



Leaf mould, 149 



Learning, 5, 189, 190, 278 



Lessons of the garden, 6 ; in wild- 

 tree planting, 154 ; in orchard 

 planting, 183 ; of the show- 

 table, 241 



Leucojum vernum, 38 



Leycosteria formosa, 100 



Lilacs, suckers, as strong feeders, 

 good kinds, 23 ; standards best, 

 24 



Lilium auratum among rhodo- 

 dendrons, 37, 106 ; among bam- 

 boos, 106 



Lilium giganteum, 95 ; cultiva- 

 tion needed in poor soil, 142 



Lilium Harrisi and L. speciosum, 

 106 



Lily of the valley in the copse, 61 



Linaria repens, 259 



London Pride in the rock-waU, 

 120 



Loquat, 204 

 Love-iu-a-mist, 251 

 Love of gardening, 1 

 Luzula sylvatica, 61 



Magnolia, branches indoors in 

 winter, 16 ; magnolia stellata, 

 50 ; kinds in the choice shrub- 

 bank, 101 



Maitrank, 60 



Marking trees for cutting, 151 



Marsh marigold, 52 



Masters and meti, 271 



Mastic, 102 



Meconopsis Wallichii, 165 



Medlar, 129 



Megaseas, colour of foliage, 17; 

 M. ligulata, 103 ; in front edge 

 of flower-border, 211 



Mertensia virginica, 46 ; sowing 

 the seed, 84 



Mice, 260, 261 



Michaelmas daisies, a garden to 

 themselves, 125; planting and 

 staldng, 126 ; early kinds in 

 mixed border, 135 



Mixed planting, 183 ; mixed bor- 

 der, 206 



Morells, 59 



Mulleins (V. olympioum and 

 V. phlomoides), 85; muUein- 

 moth, 86, 270 



Muscari of kinds, 49 



Musical reverberation in wood of 

 Scotch fir, 60 



Myosotis sylvatica major, 53 



Nandina domestica, 206 



Narcissus cemuus, 12 ; N. sero- 

 tinus, 14 ; N. princeps and N. 

 Horsfieldi in the copse 



Nature's planting, 154 



Nettles, to destroy, 259 



Novelty, 249 



Nut nursery at Calcot, 11 



