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INDEX. 



Pears, winter, how to improve our cul- 

 ture of, 317 

 Pelargonium Endlicherianum, 70 

 Pendulous training, 388, 392 

 Permanent artistic planting the noblest 



kind of gardening, 22 

 Fhormium tenax, 153, 200 

 Phytolacca decandra, 229 

 Pinching the summer shoots of fruit 

 trees, proper and improper modes of, 

 394 

 Pits and frames, mats for covering, 



569 

 Place de la Concorde, 2 

 ,, du Carrousel, 9 

 ,, Napoleon III., gardens in, 9 

 „ Royale, 99 

 Plan of fruit garden for the north of 



France, 434 

 Plane tree, the best for cities, 165 

 Plane trees, noble, in Berkeley-square, 



160 

 Planera acuminata, 36 

 Planting in public gardens, suggestions 



for, 25 

 Plants, bad effect of using those that are 



too tender, 49 

 Plants isolated on the grass, 52 

 ,, used as food, good arrange- 

 ment of, in the Jardin des Plantes, 

 72 

 Plough hoe, the, 568 

 Polygonum cuspidatum, 54, 229 

 Polymnia grandis, 199 



„ pyramidalis, 199 

 Poor, the, business-like way of burying 



them in Parisian cemeteries, 109 

 Poplar, the Lombardy, 172 

 Popular idea of the difficulty of growing 

 trees in London an erroneous one, 

 159 

 Potatoes, early, mode of raising, 527 

 Pre Catalan, the, 31 

 Propagating house in the Jardin Fleu- 



riste, 145 

 Propagation of plants in the Jardin 



Fleuriste, 146 

 Public bathing, increased facilities for, 



much wanted, 137 

 Public bathing, suggestions towards 



improved means of, 137 

 Public nurseries, advantages of, to a 



city, 139 

 Public nurseries for trees, shrubs, and 



hardy flowers, 155 

 Public nurseries of Paris, a great help 



to its gardening, 139 

 Punch and Judy shows, 8 

 Pure air and light naturally the pro- 

 perty of all, 117 



EAIDIS3EUR, the, 576 

 ,, simplest and best 



form of, 578 

 Railway embankments, fruit growing 



on, 332 

 Reform in the conservatory, 280 

 Restaurant in the Bois de Vincennes, 36 

 Restaurants, &c, in public gardens, 



advantages of, 4 

 Rheum Emodi, 231 

 Rhubarb not grown by the French, 



609 

 Rhus glabra laciniata, 231 

 Ricinus communis, 201 

 Roads, keeping moist, with deliquescent 



salts, 45 

 Road-makinsr, with cemetery headstones 



five and six years old, 110 

 Robinias in North Italy, 168 

 Rockwork in the Pare des Buttes 



Chaumont, 62 

 Room decoration in Paris, 272 

 ,, for locomotion a great want in 

 our cities, 115 

 Rose order, flowering trees of, 173 

 Roses, showing of in France, 535 

 Rotation of crops in Parisian market 



gardens, 468 

 Rouen, 614 



, , public garden at, 616 

 Rush, common Hard, its use in tying, 

 580 



SALADS, culture of, 489 

 Saulsaie, foole Regionale de la, 604 

 Scarolle, 500 

 Sceaux, 628 

 School of botany in Jardin des Plantes, 



73 

 Screw used in transplanting, 560 

 Seaforthia elegans, 203 

 Seat with tent-like shade, 564 

 Seats, garden, 563, 564 

 Sdcateur, the, 574 



Shoots of fruit trees, proper and im- 

 proper modes of cutting, 394 

 Short pinching system applied to the 



peach, 369 

 Solanums, the, 203 

 Sophora japonica, 176 

 „ pendula, 173 

 Space well utilized in the houses in 



the Jardin Fleuriste, 147 

 Sparganium ramosum used for" tying 



grafts and buds, 581 

 Spring vans for conveying plants to 



the Hotel de Ville, 154 

 Spring vans for conveying bedding plants 

 from the Jardin Fleuriste, 154 



