632 



INDEX. 



Betula alba, 420 



alba pendula, 420 

 Hezi Mai pear, 1 61 

 IJeurre d'Amanlis pear, 

 161 



Eosc, 161 



Clairgeau pear, 158 



de C^piaumont pear, 

 158 



Diel pear, 159 



Easter, 160 



Giffard pear, 157 



Goubault, i6i 



Ranee pear, 160 



Superfin pear, 159 . 



Van Mons pear, i6z 



Biennial Plants, 

 24? :— 



Canterbury bell, 248 



foxglove, 247 



growth of, 247 



horn poppy, 248 



musk plant, 248 



poppy, 248 



sweet William, 248 

 Bigarreau cherry, 176 

 Bilberry, 444 

 Bill-hook, 59 

 Bills in Chancery, filed 

 against Croydon Board 

 of Health, 32 

 Bindweed, 342 



lesser, 342 

 Biota orientalis, 434 

 Birch, 419 

 Birds, fleas of, 450 



notes of, 553 



table showing the dates 

 of their arrival, 553 



BiRns IN Mv Garden, 



522: — 

 blackbird, 550 

 blackcap, 547, 553 

 bullfinch, 541 

 chafiinch, 543 

 chiff-chaff, 548, 553 

 coot, bald-faced, 529 

 creeper, 539 

 crow, carrion, 540 



hooded, 540 

 cuckoo, 536, 553 

 curlew, 531 

 crane, 530 

 dabchick, 527 

 doYe, rock, 533 



stock, 531 



turtle, 531 

 duck, call, 525 



tufted, 526 



smew or Smee, 526 



wild, 526 

 fieldfare, 550 

 flycatcher, 552 

 geese, wild, 529 

 goatsucker or nightjar, 

 534 



goldfinch, 542 

 grebe, 528 

 greenfinch, 543 

 f uH. 531 

 hawfinch, 543 

 hawk, sparrow, 553 

 hedge-sparrow, 549 

 heron, 529 

 jackdaw, 540 

 jay, 540 

 kestrel, 553 

 kingfisher, 536 

 land-rail, 528, 553 

 lark, 544 



linnet, common, 542 

 magpie, 540 

 martin, house, 534, 553 



sawd, 534, 553 



Birds in My Garden - 

 contittfied. 

 moorhen, 528 " 

 nightingale, 548, 553 

 nightjar or goatsucker, 



534 , 

 nuthatch, 537 

 owl, white, 553 

 partridge, 531 

 peewit, 531 

 pheasant, 531 

 pigeon, wood, 532 

 pipit, meadow, 544 

 plover, golden, 531 

 quaiJ, 531 



redpole, lesser, 542 

 redwing, 550 - 

 robin or redbreast, 549 

 rook, 541 

 sandpiper, 531, 553 



green, 531 

 Sclavonian grebe, 528 

 skylark, 544 

 snipe, common, 530 



jack, 531 



summer, 531, 553 

 sparrow-hawk, 553 

 sparrow, house, 543 



hedge, 549 



tree, 543 

 spotted fly-catcher, 552 

 starling, 541 

 stonechat, 549 

 swallow, 534, 553 

 swan, common, 523 



hooper, 523 

 swift, 534, 553 

 teal, 526 



thrush, missel, 550 

 _ song, 550 

 tit, blue, 545 



greater, 546 



cole, 546 



long-tailed, 546 



marsh, 546 

 titmice, 545 

 tree-creeper, 537 

 turtle dove, 531 

 Wagtail, grey-bearded, 

 544 



pied, 544 



Ray's, 545 

 warbler, garden, 548 



grasshopper, 546 



reed, 547 



sedge, 546, 553 



wood, 548 

 water-rail, 528 

 wheatcar, 549 

 whimbrel, 531 

 whinchat, 549 

 whitethroat, 5 48 



lesser, 548 

 widgeon, 526 

 woodcock, 530 

 woodlark, 544 

 woodpecker, 540 



green, 539 



lesser spotted, 539 

 wren, 538 



golden-crested, 546 

 ■Hvyneck, 539, 553 

 yellow-hammer, 543 

 Bird' s-nest fern, 398 

 Bithinia tentaculata, 493 



ventricosa, 493 

 Bivalve shells found in a 

 cutting near my garden, 

 23 

 Black ant, its use, 465 

 aphis, 475 

 Brunswick fig, 201 

 bulb thermometer, 64 

 currant, varieties of, 

 177 



Eagle cherry, 176 



Black Hamburgh vine, 

 186 

 Italian poplar, 410 

 Jamaica pine-apple, 

 208 



Monnukka vine, igo 

 Naples black-currant, 



177 

 nuC, 438 

 poplar, 411 



Prince strawberry, 1S2 

 vine, 186 

 rat, 519 

 slug, 491 



Spanish radish. 97 

 Blackbird, 550 

 songs of, 554 

 Blackca^j, 547, 553 

 Black-skinned turnips, 

 120 



Blackie, Messrs., 469 

 Blairii rose, 270 

 Blanchet, site of his 

 grave, 515 



Blandyanum Rhododen 

 dron, 441 



Blaniulus guttatus, 456 

 Blatta orientalis, 471 

 BJechnum boreale, 372 

 brasiliense, 396 

 corcovadense, 396 

 nitidum, var, contrac- 

 turn, 396 

 occidentale, 396 

 orientale, 396 

 Spicant, 378 

 Blechnums, 396 

 Blenheim orange apple, 

 138, 151 

 Blight, 365 



American, 476 

 Blue clay, exists on the 

 north of my garden, 21 

 mould, 355 

 . titmice, 545 

 Bluebells, 314 

 Board of Health at Croy- 

 don, means of, for dis- 

 posing of sewage, 32 

 proceedings against, 

 30. 3' 

 Bog bean, 330 

 myrtle, 443 

 Boisduval, Monsieur, 45G, 

 463. 483 

 Bombyx cyrthia, 421 

 lucorum, 459 

 neustria, 484 

 terrestris, 459 

 R or age, 126 

 Borago officinalis, 126 

 Boston Russet iipple, 

 149 

 Botdnic Gardens, Edin- 

 burgh, 259, a6o 

 Society of London, 142, 

 251, 252, 265, 375 

 Botrychium, 405 

 lunaria, 381, 405 

 simplex, 405 

 Botrytis infestans, 363 

 Bourne river, account of, 

 33 



Bower m Fern Glen, 39 

 willow, site of, 39 



where situated, 42 

 at entrance to Indoor 



Fernery^ 42 

 in Valley of Ferns, 43 

 Bowerbank, Mr., 24 

 Bowood, Muscat vine, 191 

 Box, 438 

 Box-tree, 425 

 Bracelet, bronze, found> 

 in Irrigation fields, 7. 

 bracken, 479 



Bracken, scalariform ves- 

 sels of, 379 

 Braddick's Nonpareil ap- 

 ple, 147, 148 

 Bradley, Mr., 183 

 BrandUng, 448 

 Brasses, ancient, at St. 

 Mary's Church, 13 

 Brassica Cario Rapae, 

 112 

 Napus, var. oleifera, 94 

 oleracea, Z12, 113 

 bullata gemmifera, 



III 

 bullata major, iii 

 capicata, no 

 Rapa, 120 

 Brassia maculata orchid; 

 299 



Brayanum, Rhododen- 

 dron, 441 



Braytons, family of the, 

 at Beddtngton, 8 

 Breda apricot, 172 

 Bree's fern, 400 

 Brenchleyensis, 218 

 Brewer, Mr., 522 

 Brick rubbish used for 

 manuring plants, 51 

 Bridge across the Lake, 



44 



over Backwater, 39 

 rustic, by side of al- 

 pinery, 44 

 Bridges, Elizabeth, lease 

 demised by, 16 

 Sir Henry, 14 

 John, Esq., 16 

 established schools at 

 Wailington, 17 

 Nathaniel, Esq., pre- 

 sent lord of the manor, 

 t6 

 Rev. A. H., present rec- 

 tor of St. Mary's, Bcd- 

 dington, 12, 14, 18, 414, 

 428, 435 

 William, Esq., i6 

 Bristowe, Mr., 426 

 British orchids, varieties 

 of, 292 

 Queen strawberry, 183 

 Briza maxima, 331 

 media, 331, 339 

 Broad fern, 40, 371, 380, 

 399 

 Broccoli, 1 13 

 Chapell's Cream - co- 

 lour, 114 



Knight's Protecting, 

 114 

 Snow's White, 114 

 sprouting, 114 

 Brockworth Park pear, 



162 

 Bromelia Ananas, 207 

 Broraham Hall melon, 

 196 

 Bronze bead found in 

 Roman house, 3 

 Rrooklime, 98 

 Broom, Mr. 367 

 Broompark pear, 161 

 Broon Girl gooseberry, 

 180 

 Broughtonianum rhodo- 

 dendron, 441 

 Brown rat, 519 



Turkey fig, 201 

 Brown-tail moth, 484 

 Browning.quotation from, 

 551 



Bruchus pisi, 467 

 Brugmansia suavcolens, 

 238 

 Brussels sprouts, iii 



Bryonia dioica, 342 

 Bryony, 342 



Eryum intermedium, 353 

 Buckland, Mr. Frank, 



503. 525 

 buckland s Sweetwater 



vine, 188 



Buckton, Mr., 475 

 Budding, propagation of 



plants Iqr, 88, 90 

 Budding-knife, 60 

 Bufo vulgaris, 510 

 Bug, barest, 454 



June, 466 

 Bulbocodium vemum, 314 



Bulbous Plants, 

 210 : — 

 anemones, 215 

 canoas, 220 

 crocuses, 211 

 Crown Imperial, 214 

 daffodils, 213 

 Dielytra spectabilis, 217 

 dog-tooth violet, 215 

 Fritillaria, 214 

 gladiolus, 218 

 hepatica, 216 

 hyacinths, 212 

 iris, 218 

 ixias, 218 

 jonquils, 213 

 lily, 219 

 monkshood; 221 

 narcissus, 213 

 ranunculus, 216 

 snowdrop, 210 

 snowflake, spring, 214 



summer, 215 

 tiger-flower, 220 

 Tritoma uvaria, 221 

 Tritonia aurea, 221 

 tuberose, 221 

 tulips, 217 

 winter aconite, 215 



Bulbous plants, how to 



grow, 210 

 Bulbs, propagation of 



plants by, 87 

 Bullace plum, 170 

 Bullfinch, 541 

 Bullhead, 507 

 Bulrush, 335 

 Burbolts, placed in the 



Wandle by myself, 502 

 Burnet, 98 

 Bums, quotations from, 



2ig, 435» 502, 551, 552 

 Bursana vernalis, 446 

 Butomus umbellatus, 336 

 Buttercups, 339 

 Butterfly, hawthorn, 483 

 orchid, 317 

 tonoise^ell, 483 

 white, 482 

 Butterwort, 320 

 Buxus sempervirens 425 

 Byron, quotation from, 6 



C. 



Cabbage, Battersca, iio 



Cocoa-nut, no 



Collard, no 



Drumhead, ito 



Early York, no 



Enfield Market, no 



Little Pixie, no 



Nonpareil, no 



red, no 

 Cabbage, fungus of, 363, 

 366 



lettuce, 94 



rose, 270 



tribe, 1x0 



