INDEX 



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Kosa polyantha ; two good, free 

 roses for cutting, 80; Burnet 

 rose and Scotch briars, Eosa 

 lucida, 81 ; tea roses : best 

 kinds for light soil, pegging, 

 pruning, 82 ; roses collected in 

 Capri, 105 ; second bloom of 

 tea roses, 110; jam made of 

 hips of R. rugosa, 111, 184 ; R. 

 arvensis, garden form of, 129 ; 

 K. Boursault elegans, 192 ; 

 China, 205 ; their scents, 235 



Ruseus aculeatus, 151 ; R. race- 

 mosus, 152 



Ruta patavina, a late-flowering 

 rock-plant, 107 



Sambtjcus Ebulus, 258 

 Satin-leaf (Heuchera Richard- 



soni), 53 

 Scilla maritima, 14 ; S. sibirica, 



S. bifolia, 32 

 Scents of flowers, 229 and onward 

 Scotch fir, pollen, 53 ; cones 



opening, 54 ; efieet of sound in 



fir-wood, 60 

 Show flowers, 242 

 Show-table, what it teaches, 241 

 Shrub-bank, 101 ; snug place for 



tender shrubs, 121 

 Shrub- wilderness of the old home, 



100 

 Skimmias, 101, 165 

 Slugs, 262 



Smilacina bifolia, 61 

 Snapdragon, 251 



Snowstorm of December 1886, 27 

 Snowy Mespilus (Amelanchier), 



52 

 Solanum crispum, 204 

 Solomon's seal, 61 

 Spindle-tree, 127 

 Spiraea Thunbergii, 50, 104; S. 



prunifolia, 104 

 St. John's worts, choice, 103 



Stephanandra flexuosa, 103 



Stembergia lutea, 139 



Sticks and stakes, 163 



Storms in autumn, 122 



Styrax japouica, 101 



Suckers of nuts, 11 ; robbers, how 

 to remove, 24 ; on gi'afted rho- 

 dodendrons, 36 



Sunflowers, perennial, 134 



Sweetbriar, rambling, 39 ; frag- 

 rance in April, 51; 



Sweet-leaved small shrubs, 34, 

 57, 101 



Sweet peas, autumn sown, 83, 

 112 



Thatching with hoop-chips, 169 



Thinning the nut- walk, 10 ; thin- 

 ning shrubs, 22 ; trees in copse, 

 151 



Tiarella cordifolia, 53 ; colour of 

 leaves in winter, 21 



Tools for dividing, 136 ; for tree 

 cutting and grubbing, 150; 

 woodman's, 158 ; axe and 

 wedge, 159 ; rollers, 160 ; cross- 

 cut saw, 162 



Training the eye, 4 ; training 

 Clematis Flammula, 24 



Transplanting large traes, 147 



Trillium grandiflorum, 61 



Tritomas, protecting, 146 



Tulips, show kinds and their 

 origin, 55 ; T. retroflexa, 55 ; 

 other good garden kinds, 56 



Vaeious ways of gardening, 3 



Verbascum olympicum and V. 

 phlomoides, 85 



Villa garden, 171 



Vinca acutiflora, 139 



Vine, black Hamburg at Calcot, 

 12; as, a wall-plant, 42; good 

 garden kinds, 42 ; claret vine, 

 110,205; Vitis CoignetisB, 123 



