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INDEX. 



[Note. — References to Coloured Plates are in CAPITALS, to Wood Engravings in Italics.} 



Abelia floribunda, 279. 

 dwarf, 280. 

 Indian, 280. 

 Mexican, 279. 

 rock, 280. 

 serrata, 280. 

 spathulata, 280. 

 triflora, 280. 

 twin-flowered, 280. 

 Abelias, 279. 



Abies concolor lasiocarpa, 119. 

 Douglasii, 120. 

 grandis, 52, 119. 

 Mertensiana, 120. 

 nobilis, 52, 120. 

 Nordmanniana, 52, 120. 

 orientalis, 120. 

 Pinsapo, 120. 

 sitchensis, 52, 120. 

 Acacias, 147. 

 Aconitum Fischeri, 214. 

 ACONITUM FISCHERI, facing 



page 214. 

 Agapanthus, 276 ; varieties of, 276, 

 277. 



Agriculture, United States Depart- 

 ment of, 59. 

 Aloes, a group of, 211. 

 Alsophila australis, 244. 



„ Colensoi, 244. 



„ Cooperi, 244. 



,, excelsa, 245. 



„ frigida, 245. 



,, Leichardliana, 245. 



,, lunulata, 245. 



,, pruinata, 244. 



,, Rebeccae, 245. 



,, Scottiana, 245. 

 Anchusa italica, Dropmore var., 92. 

 ANCHUSA ITALICA, VAR., 



facing page 92. 

 Anemone, 48. 



„ cernua, 278. 



„ CERNUA, facing page 

 278. 



,, Pulsatilla, 49. 

 Anopterus glandulosa, 147. 

 Anthyllis montana, 232. 

 Apples, 64. 



Apricot, the Mume or Japanese, 7. 

 Arbor-vita;, the giant, 52. 

 Arolla, the, or Swiss Pine, 97. 

 Art, an evil, and its results, 189. 



„ degrading a beautiful, 260. 



„ hollow talk of the day about, 85. 



Asparagus, hardy and tender, grace- 

 ful forms of, 203. 

 Asphodel, Yellow-giant, the, 74. 

 Aster argophyllus, 147. 

 Axe, good work for the, 74. 



B. 



Bag-planting, 87. 

 Bain, John, 95. 



„ „ portrait of, 96. 

 Bamboo as an evergreen waterside covert 

 plant, the palmate, 3. 



„ Japanese, the, 119. 



,, palmate, the, 119. 

 Bamboos in England, hardy, 1. 

 Bambusa Metake, 119. 



,, palmata, 119. 

 Banksia grandis, 147. 

 Barberry, evergreen, the, 117. 

 Beech tree, Knole Park, base of, 315. 

 Belgrove, 41. 



„ Crinum Poivelli album at, 43. 

 Berberis aquifolium, 117. 

 Blackberries, 65. 

 Bladder Sennas, 173. 

 Books of garden chatter, 238. 

 Boronia, 147. 

 Box, 117. 



Bramble, vigour of the, 154. 

 Brooms, the, 88, 172. 

 Browallia speciosa major, 166. 

 BROWALLIA SPECIOSA MA- 

 JOR, facing page 166. 

 Browsing line, the, 269. 

 Brushwood ? Mast or, 287. 



C. 



Callistemon salignus, 147. 

 Calochortus, 86. 



,, amabilis, 25. 

 ,, amcenus, 24. 

 ,, apiculatus, 26. 

 ,, aureus, 27. 



,, Benthami, 25. 



,, Catalinae, 29. 



,, clavatus, 26. 



CLAVATUS, C, NI- 

 TIDUS, facing page 

 24. 



cceruleus, 25. 

 concolor, 27. 

 Dunni, 29. 

 elegans, 25. 

 excavatus, 29. 



Calochortus, flexuosus, 29. 

 ,, Greenei, 26. 



,, Gunnisoni, 27. 



Howelli, 26. 

 ,, Kennedyi, 27. 



„ Lobbi, 25. 



,, longibarbatus, 26. 



,, luteus, 27. 



,, Lyoni, 29. 



,, macrocarpus, 27. 



,, Maweanus, 25. 

 ,, nitidus, 26. 



Nuttalli, 30. 

 ,, obispoensis, 26. 



Palmeri, 29. 

 ,, pulchellus, 24. 

 ,, revision of the Genus, 



a, 22. 



,, Shastensis, 25. 



,, splendens, 29. 



,, striatus, 29. 



,, Tolmiei, 25. 



,, uniflorus, 25. 



,, venustus, true, 28 ; type, 



28. 

 Vesta, 28. 

 Weedi, 26. 

 Camellia as a hardy shrub, the, 66. 



,, reticulata, 147. 

 Camellias in the south-west, fine, 256. 

 CAMELLIAS, SINGLE, facing 

 page 66. 



Cannon, David, on introduced forest 



trees, 119. 

 Carnation, Mrs. T. W. Lawson, 281. 

 Carnations, tree, newer American, 



280. 



Carpenteria californica, 147. 

 Carpet-beds things of our own times, 



patterns of flowers and, 79. 

 Castanea sativa, 226. 

 Catalpa, hardy, the, 156. 



„ speciosa, 156. 

 Cedar, Atlantic, the, 120. 

 ,, of Lebanon, the, 51. 

 „ Red, the, 52, 121. 

 „ Yellow, the, 121. 

 Cedrus atlantica, 120. 

 Cestrum, 288. 



„ alaternoides, 289. 

 ,, aurantiacum, 289. 

 „ corymbosum, 289. 

 ,, diurnium, 289. 

 ,, elegans, 289. 

 ,, fasciculatum, 289. 

 ,, fasciculatum, 289. 

 „ Mortolensis, 290. 



Newelli, 290. 

 ,, nocturnum, 290. 



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