INDEX. 



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Ferns —continued, 

 Todea africana, 386, 4 d 

 barbara, 403 

 Fniseri, 404 

 hyinenophylloides, 



403 



pellucida, 372, 385 

 superba, 385, 404 

 Trichomanes Luschna- 

 thianum, 391 

 pyxidiferura, 391 

 radicans, 391 

 reniforrae, 391 

 speciosum, 375, 376, 



Tunbridge, 372 

 Walking leaf, 399 

 Wilson's filmy, 372 

 Woodsia alpina, 377 



ilvends, 377 

 Woodsias, 377 

 Woodwardia orientale, 



onentalis, 383 

 radicans, 383, 396 

 Woodwardias, 383, 386, 



396 

 Yorkshire Hard, 380 

 Feverfew, 127 

 Ficus Carica, 200 



repens, 285 

 Field, Messrs., of Lam 



beth, 82 

 Field mouse, 520 

 Reldfare, 550 

 Fig, creeping, 285 

 Figs, Black Brunswick, 

 200 

 Brown Turkey, 201 

 Early Violet, 201 

 Figue d'Or, 200 

 Lee's Perpetual, 201 

 White Isdiiaj 200 

 White Marseilles, 201 

 Fig-trees often sprout from 

 roots. 86 

 growth of, 200 

 Figue d'Or, 200 

 Figwort, 336 

 Filaria, 451 

 Filbert Pine strawberry, 



vaneues of, 197 

 worked on Corylus ar- 

 borescens, 91 

 Filberts, 197 

 Files, 62 

 Filmy ferns, 41. 371, 39° 



British, 375 

 Firabriata camellia, 250 

 Fiorelli, M. le Comnian- 



deur, 4 

 Fir, Scotch, 427 

 silver, 428 

 spruce, 428 

 Fir-tree, amount of potash 



in ashes of, 50 

 Firs, 427 



Fish, artifidal breeding 

 of, 497, 498 ^ ,. 

 fossil scales of, dis- 

 covered, 26 

 fossilized, *bund in chalk 



near Croydon, 23 

 fossilized head of, 23 

 in the Wandle, 494 

 killed by Croydon sew- 

 age, 495, , , 

 ladder, where situated, 



44 

 ova, fungus of, 369 



Fish, 494 : — 

 bullhead, 507 

 char, 503 

 dace, 307 



Fish — continued, 



eel, 503 



eel pouts, or burbolts, 

 50Z 



gold fish, 509 



grayling, 502 



lamperns, 506 



salmon, 503 



salmon-trout, 503 

 sticklebacks, 508 



tencn, 509 



trout, 494 

 Fish-house, 498 

 Fishery, My, 494 

 Fissures in the chalk, 



Fossil fish's head, 23 Fungi — continued. 



wood found sometimes] dry-rot, 368 

 in the chalk, 24 

 Fossils found in drift-bed 

 running from Croydon, 



Fitz-Lucy, John, lands at 

 Wallington granted to, 

 r6 

 Flat Tripoli onion, 117 

 Flattened millipede, 456 

 Flax, yellow, 329 

 Flea, turnip, 409 

 Fleas in my garden, 450 

 Pulex irritans, 450 

 talpae, 450 

 Flies, artificial, for catch- 

 ing trout, 500 

 Flint beds, mostly derived 

 (rom sponges, 24 

 cast of Cidaria, 20 



of Holaster pillula, 23 

 instruments found, i 

 Flints, accounts of, where 

 tlT^y occur, size, &c. 

 Flints in my garden have 

 encrinites attached, 24 

 found in drift-bed, 20 

 in upper layer of chalk, 



Florence, soils used there 

 for certain plants, 49 

 Florists' pansies, 223 

 Flower, Mr., 23 



found umbone of 

 Saxon shield, 7 



Mr. J. Wickham, 1 

 Flower-beds, how 

 ranged, 37 

 Flowering ferns, 404 



rush, 336 

 Flower Garden, 210—345 

 Flowers, alpine, 305 



of the Alps and Pyre- 

 nees, 44 

 Fly, carrot, 490 



celery, 489 



crane, 488 



holly, 49° 



onion, 490 



saw, 463 



turnip, 469 

 Flycatcher, 553 



spotted, 552 

 Fly-orchid, 293. 317 . 

 Fontinalis antipyretica, 



Foramimfera, ancient, 22 



recent, 22 



their decay from beds 

 of chalk, 22 

 Forest of Ferns, Its site, 



43i 373 



Forest trees, 409 

 Forester's Manor, 9 

 Forfar Pippin apple, 149 

 Forficula auricularis, 472 

 Forget-me-nots, 318, 338 



wood, 318 

 Fork, 57 

 Forster, Mr. Cooper, 37s, 



391 ,, t: 



Fortune, Mr., 430 



Fossil cadbaits, 481 



fish found in chalk near 



Croydon, 23 



Fountain, John, Dean of 

 York, II 

 Foxgloves, 44, 247 



propagated by seed, 83 

 FoxwheTp apple, 153 

 Frames and glass-houses, 



^^ 



Frames, construction of, 

 67 

 how heated, 68, 78 

 plants grown in them, 

 68 

 France, gardens of, from 

 the earliest times, 586 

 Francis, Mr., 217 

 Franciscea Hopeana, 252 



latifolia, 253 

 Frankland, Professor, 29 

 Franklin's Golden Pippin 

 apple, 149 



Fraxinus excelsior, 417 

 Frederick Soulie rose, 278 

 French bean, 108 

 Horn carrot, 121 

 Crab apple, 152 

 Freres Manor, belonged 

 to the Carews, 9 

 Fritillaria meleagris, 214 

 Fringilla coalebs, 543 

 Frog, 510 

 Frog-bit, 41, 336 

 Frogmore strawberry, 183 

 Frost, Great May, of 1867, 



557 „ , 



Fruit Garden, 137, 209 

 Fruit-market wanted, 208 

 Fuchsia fulgens, 253 ^ 

 triphylla flore cocdneOj 



253 

 Fuchsias, 253 

 Fulica atra. 529 

 FuUgula cristata, 526 

 Fumitory, amount of po- 

 tash in, 50 



Funariahy^ometrica,35r 

 Fungi, aphis contributing 



towards the growth of, 



363,365 „ . 

 how to tell poisonous 



varieties of, 359, 360 



Erysiphe, 364 



pisi, 365 

 giant puff-ball, 361 

 Helminthosporium py- 



rorum, 366 

 Lychnis, 366 

 Lycogala epidendrum, 



morel, 355, 360 

 mushroom 355, 357 

 Myxogastres, 356 

 Oidium fructigenum 



leucoconium, 365 



Tuckeri, 364 

 Penispora infestans, 123 

 Peronospora effusa, 363 



gangliformis, 363 



nivea, 363 



parasitica, 363 



Schleideniana, 363 



vidae, 363 

 Peziza vesiculosa, 357 

 Phallus impudicus, 362 

 Polyactis, 363 

 Polyporus versicolor. 



356 

 potato, 363 

 Puccinia lychnldearum, 



366 



Saprolegnea, 369 \ 



Sarcina ventriculi, 368 

 Sphaerotheca pannosa, 



36s 



SpilocEea, 368 

 Tarragon fungus, 356 

 Trametes gibbosa, 356 

 truffle, 355, 361 

 Tubercularia vulgaris, 



356 



Uredo filicum, 367 

 Xylaria hypoxylon, 356 

 yeast fungus, 355 

 Fungus festival at Here- 

 ford, 359 . , ^ 

 Fungus, preventive of, 304 

 Funteneys or Fontibus,i4 



acs- 



305, 



Garden sedum, .43, 

 307 , 

 described, 43 

 sempervivum, 43, 



307 

 shears, 59 

 snails, 491 

 spider, 4SS 

 tiger moth, 487 

 tools used at my garden, 



5* , 



vegetals, 92 

 violet, 222 



site of, 44 

 warbler, 548 

 "Garden of Eden," ac- 

 count of keeping back 

 cherries for Queen Eliza- 

 beth in, 10 

 Gardenia florida, 265 

 Gardening, principles of, 

 47 



Fungi :— 

 jEcidium cydoniae, 362 



violae, 362 

 Agaricus disseminatus, 



356 . . ^ 



fascicularis, 360 

 fertilis, 359 

 spadiceus, 356 

 Ascomyces deformans. 



369 



Ascosporium defor- 

 mans, 369 



blu& mould, 355 



Botrytis infestans, 363 



champignon, 359 



Cladosporium dendnti- 

 cum, 367 



Claviceps purpurea, or 

 ergot of rye, 360 



Coleosporium pmgue, 



365 

 Coprinus atramentar.us, 



356 



micaceus, 356 

 Cystopteris candidu^, 

 366 

 fragilis, 36.7. .„ 

 Dacrymyces" stillatus, 

 362 



Galanthus nivalis, 210 



plicatus, 211, 314 

 Gale, Dr., on Novioma- 



gus, 5 , - 



Mr., work on Ease- 

 ments, 31 

 Galerites albo^galerus, a 

 form of echini, 23 

 Gall on oak, 464 

 Gall-insects, 464 

 Gallinula chloropus, 528 

 Gamasus coleoptorum,453 



telarius, 454 

 Game, part of a Roman^ 

 discovered at Bedding- 

 ton, 4 



Gammarus fallax, 449 

 Ganscl Bergamot pear, 

 161 

 Garden Animals, My, 51= 

 before a summer-house, 

 42 



cry, SSS ., , . 



different soils used m 



my, 49 

 flower, 210, 345 

 fruit, 137, 209 

 insects, some useful, 

 others hurtful, 457 

 saxifrage, 43, 305, 307 

 i described, 43 



Gardens of Various 



Nations, 562 : — 

 of the Assyrians, 567 

 of Babylon, hanging, 



56s 

 Botanic, of Edinburgh, 



259, 260 

 of Cam.oens at Macao, 



594 



of the Chinese, 592 

 of the Dutch, 584 

 of the ancient and 



modern Egyptians, 562 

 of England, from the 



earliest times, 588 

 of France, from the 



earliest times, 586 

 of Germany, 59S 

 of the ancient Greeks, 



572 

 Hampton Court, 426, 



437 ,, , 

 Horticultural, 176, 239 



at Florence, 303 

 of India, 594 

 of Italy, 580 

 of King Ahasuerus, 566 

 of Nineveh, 567 

 of North and South 



America, 595 

 of Palestine, ancient 



and modem, 568 

 of Persepolis, 566 

 of the Persians, ancient 



and modem, 570, 572 

 of Russia, Denmark, 



Poland, Switzerland, 



595 



of the Pope, 425 



of Portugal, 595 



of Rio Janeiro, for 

 manufacturing cochi- 

 neal, 595 



of the Romans, 574 



in the Scilly Islands, 595 



formed by Semiramis, 

 567 



of the Shakers, 595 



of Spain, 594 



of Turkey, 594 



Zoological, 417, 517 



Garlic, 118 



propagated by bulbs, 87 

 Garmlus glandarius, 540 

 Gassiot. J. P., Esq. 6, 



301, 365 

 Gasterosteus semiarma- 



tus, 508 

 Gatelier or Gacelin, holds 



Beddington, 8 

 Gathering of pears, time 



for, 166 



