INDEX TO VOL. IV, LADIES’ FLORAL CABINET.—1875. 
FLOWERS AND PLANTS. 
Achimenes_ 69 
Agave_ 99 
Amaranth, Globe--_ 1 
Amaranths_ 85 
Amaryllis longifolia_ 2 
Angle Worms_ 179 
Annuals, Culture of_ 37 
Aquaria, Hints on__ 84 
Baskets, Our Hanging_ 33 
Begonia Rex_ 83 
Begonias _ 1 
Black-eyed Susan_ 82 
Bouquets_ 165 
Cacti_ 99 
Canna_ 19 
Carnations_ 99 
Cereus, Night-blooming_ 3 
Cinnamon Vine_143 
Cobea Scandens_98, 179 
Cottage, Design for an Italian_ 5 
Crape Myrtle_179 
Cyclamens-18, 147 
Decorations, Winter_ 8 
Everybody’s Favorites_ 136 
Fence Gardening_17 7 
Fern Gardening_ 40 
Fernery_ 179 
A Rustic_-_ 4 
View of an English_ 37 
Ferneries_ 155 
Ferns_ 146 
Bleaching-28, 83 
Florida, the Lan l of Flowers- 98 
Flower Garden, How to Manages-130 
My_ 68 
Flower Gardening_ 53 
Gossip_ 35 
Lovers, Pretended-_-ICO 
Room, My- 21 
Flowers, an Amateur's Success with.- 130 
Church--- 180 
Foliage for Church- 142 
for the Window- 24 
How to have plenty of, in winter- 2 
Keeping- 141 
Night-blooming- 38 
Summer_ 73 
Fuchsia_ 6 , 131 
Fuchsias-- 67 
Garden, An Amateur-- 129 
Barrel . 180 
How shall I lay out my- 18 
Kitchen. Vertical- 180 
Perpendicular- 180 
Ramblings -- 34 
The Window_ 101 
Gardening, Window- - 6 
Gardens, Our- 50 
Geranium- 21 
Apple- - 17 
Greenhouse, a Little- 83 
Hanging Basket_ 179 
Honey Dew- 131 
How to lay out Cottage Grounds - 149 
Hoya-- 83 
Hyacinths_ 131 
in Glass _ 53 
Hydrangea_ 131 
Ivy, English_ 35 
German--3, 83 
Laurestinus .- 65 
for Rooms_ 98 
Lilium Auratum_ 65 
Candidum_ 65 
Lily ot the Valley- 66 , 147 
African_ 67 
Calla_-3, 6 , 37 
Onion- 81 
Mosses, Sea_ 43 
My Calla Lilies_ 142 
My Sitting-Room- 181 
My Window Garden- 184 
Names of Plants, Onion Lily, &c-178 
Oleander_ 179 
Pansies at Christmas- 35 
Pelargoniums_65, 164 
Peonies 65 
Plants, Fertilizer for_ 35 
Foliage-;_ _ _ 36 
Hints on House_ 69 
How t.o Have Good House_ 52 
House, Useful Hints - 34 
. in Bay Window_ 178 
What I Learned About--- 82 
Poinsettia_ 33 
Pomegranate_179 
Portulacca, Double_ 2 
Primroses,_ 13J 
Room, My Sitting-1- 22 
Roses, Pot Culture of_ 5 
Winter-Blooming_ 98 
Rustic Hanging Basket_ 179 
Salvias_ 99 
Seeds, How to Plant- 51 
Growing from- 147 
Sowing_ 35 
Smilax__3, 6 , 98 
Sweet Pea- 141 
Tritoma_ 17 
Tuberoses_-— 179 
Verbena, How I Raised from Seed— 100 
Yellow_ 51 
Verbenas_ 3 
Vine, A Remarkable.^- 67 
Vines__ 38 
Climbing_ 50 
Wandering Jew- 179 
Waxen Hoya._104 
Wax Plant_143, 179 
Water Lily- 179 
White Water Lily- 178 
Window Gardening in the Wilds of 
Iowa_ 178 
HOUSEHOLD ELEGANCIES AND 
LADIES’ FANCY WORK. 
Art, Household_ 43 
Basket for Wood_ 76 
Work _ 76 
Baskets, Alum__ 107 
Horn_ 139 
Beef, how to make tender, tough_ 46 
Brackets_ _ 75 
Card Basket in Photophamie_ 188 
Cross, An Ivy Leaf_ 60 
Easter_ 28 
Decorations_ 27 
Dionea_ 133 
Domestic Items_r_ 46 
Faster Cross and Basket of Flowers. _ 17! 
Elegancies, Little_ 41 
Fern Leaf Mottoes_ 185 
Floral Ornament___ " 51 
Flowers and Fruit, Wax_ 139 
Grasses, and Mosses, Coloring_ 59 
Wax_ 27 
Wax, Hints on making_107 
Frames of White Perforated Card¬ 
board_ 188 
■ Frame, Straw Picture_ 76 
| Guests, Entertainment of_ 74 
1 Home-made Fancy Tray-_ 188 
1 Home Pets_ 41 
J Home, Pictures for_ 28 
j Household Art in the Parlor_ 7 5 
Household Fancy Work_ 91 
; Husk Baskets, liow to Make_ 187 
Knick-Knacks_ 11 
Ladies’ Needle Book _ 76 
Lambrequins_ 11 
Lamp. Ornamental Screen_ 12 
Screen in Fret Work_ 188 
Leaves, Autumn_ 140 
Fancy Work with _: _ 11 
Skeleton_ 44, 92 
Little Things Worth Knowing_ 10 
Mats_179 
Monogram lor Lap Robe_ 107 
Moss Frames, How to make_- 60 
My Medley_ 187 
Ornaments_ 26 
Home_-_ 59 
Our Sitting Room_ 106 
Painting Grasses_ 187 
Grecian_26, 90 
Parlor Chairs_ 106 
Pets, A Word for Our_ 42 
Home, alias Babies_ 57 
Picture Frame_187 
Quilting Party _ 187 
Room in a Boarding School- 91 
Rustic Work, A few Hints at_ 89 
Scraps of Wax_ 185 
Stoves, Cleaning_ 46 
, Tidy, Daisy- 1 1 
Transparencies_ 60 
1 Wall Pocket in Fret Work — --188 
Watch Stand - 12 
Wax Fruit _'--- -155 
Molds - 185 
HOUSEKEEPING. 
Apple Float_ qo 
Apples, Sweet Pickles_ 30 
Baked Sweet_ 142 
Biscuit, Maryland_ 94 
Brown Bread_ 474 
Canaries_ ]05 
Canary Birds_ 137 
Coffee Cake_ 62 
Com Muffins_ 174 
Cream Cake_ 158 
Cream Pie ..._ no 
Curing Bee Stings_ no 
Diphtheria, Cure for_ G2 
Dishes, Washing by Rule_ 30 
Domestic Diplomacy_ 102 
Eyes, Salt Water for the_ 78 
Flower Pots, How to Ornament_108 
Frosting_ 7S 
Fruit Pudding_ 153 
Furmity_-_ 62 
Ginger Cake_ 174 
Gold Fish, How to Treat_ 89 
Good Bread__ 174 
Housekeepers, Hints for_ 14- 
Housekeeping_ 62 
A Girl’s Experience in_ 30 
Money_ 54 
How to Clean Silver_ 78 
Lice on Canaries_ 89 
Mildew, To take out_ 94 
Muffins. English___ 94 
Oyster Omelet_142 
Paradise Cake __ 142 
Peters, Mrs,, Philosophy_ 138 
Poetry in the Kitchen_ 158 
Preserve Cans _ 180 
Pudding. Baked Indian_ 94 
Cottag-e_ 94 
Washington_ 110 
Rolls. Breakfast_ 110 
Rugs__-....HO, 174 
Salad. Potato - 14 
Silk, How to keep- 11 
Snow Pudding- 62 
Sponge Cake- 7-8 
Sweet Potato Pudding- 158 
Tapioca Pudding- 94 
LITERARY. 
A Cure for Despondency_134 
A Dream that Parted Man and Wife.. 189 
A Hean’s Reward__ 166 
A Parisian Despot_ 134 
A Spinster’s Chance_ 45 
Bashful Clergyman_ 189 
Dollars, What 1 Did with my Twenty- 
five _ 10 
Ellen Goodwin’s Trial_ 70 
Empress Josephine. The-l.iO 
English Social Cowardice_ 182 
Good Talkers- 141 
Happy Thought_ SO 
Home-keeping and Housekeeping_186 
Learn to Sing Ballads- 122 
Neatness--182 
Oaks, A Voice from Five_ 25 
Peep into an Old Karl’s Household_122 
Practical Hints_ 20 
Random Thoughts_ 14‘ 
Save a Mother’s Tears_122 
Saved by Good Cookery- 153 
The Kingdom of Home- 169 
The Tj-rant Mamma- 186 
Tit for Tat_ 189 
Water-Lily’s Story, The- 165 
White Rose, The- 9 
MUSIC. 
Angels Guard thy Little Bed-— 160 
Departed Days -- 96 
Gently down the Stream of Time - 176 
Let me Dream of Home, Sweet Home 32 
Little Face above the Spread - 128 
Now I Lay Mo down to Sleep- 80 
Only Remembered by What 1 have 
Done_ 192 
Pity the Homeless One_ 16 
While the Silver Tints the Gold - 64 
When Silver Threads are Gold again.. 112 
You Never miss the Water till the 
Well runs dry_ 48 
You are Always Young to Me_ 144 
POETRY. 
Ah! Little Maiden_ 154 
All Mine Own_ 138 
All’s for the Best_ 185 
Best Room. The_ 25 
Bobolink, The_ 186 
By-aud-By_ 170 
Flowers_ 35 
Forget Me Not_ 173 
Frost Pictures_ 13 
Jasmine and the Wall-flower, The_ 86 
Jennie_ 122 
Love, Poetical Quotations _ 182 
Some One to Love_ 106 
The Little One is Gone_122 
Violet, The_ 58 
Weary- 189 
ILLUSTRATIONS. 
A Mother’s Joy_ 105 
Aviary in- Fairmount Park_ 69 
Basket, Rustic Hanging _ 52 
Bear Pits_ 85 
Bryn Muwr Station_ 3 
Card Basket in Photophamie_188 
Central Park, Scenes in.. _ 72 
Children’s Welcome to the Snow Birds 189 
Coming- Explosion, The_ 157 
Cone Work_ 156 
Conservatory, Horticultural_ 57 
Decorations Floral design for Room.. 33 
Design for Suburban Cottage_ 149 
Design for Summer House__ 84 
Deutzia Crenata_148 
Famy Tray, Home-made_ 188 
Fernery_—_129 
Parlor_ 92 
Fire, Artificial Wood_ 92 
Flower Garden, Design lor a__ 53 
Flower Stand with Rock Work, Fern¬ 
ery, &c- 181 
Garden, A Buddhist’s_ 73 
A Chinese Flower_ 17 
An English Villa_ 20 
An Italian_ 49 
Gardens of Rentilly_ 177 
Grasses and Spring Flowers __ 65 
In Mischief __ _ 153 
Ivy Leaf Cross__ 60 
Lamp, Ornamental Screen for_ 12 
Lamp Screen in Fret-Work and Decal- 
comanie- 188 
Leaves, Skeleton_ 44 
Le Maladie Imagjnaire_ 29 
Lilium Lancifloruru ttubrum_101 
Little Coquette_ 169 
Lion in Love_ 185 
Making the Cat’s Cradle _ 173' 
Mamma’s Birthday_ 41 
Mat for Lamps_ 156 
Our Little Rogue_ 93 
Palm for Garden Decoration_ 145 
Peep__ 9 
Photographer, The Amateur_ 61 
Plant Case_ 21 
Plant, Ornamental_ - _ 36 
Pumpkin Effigy, The_ 137 
Roses, A Spray of.-I_ 100 
Rustic Arbor and Bird House _ 40 
Rustic House and Bridge Design_ 98 
Rustic Summer House_ 168 
Rustic Work, Designs_ 133 
Scene in a Chinese Garden_ 89 
Scene in a German Cherry Orchard _ 81 
Scene in Prospect Park_ 141 
Social Contrasts.._ 13 
Sofa Cushion_ 172 
Teaching Pussy_ 77 
The Beautiful Book_ 184 
The First Rose of Spring_ 56 
The Interesting Book_ 109 
The Tea Party. 
Vase with Ornamental Plant- 
Victoria Regia. 
Villa of a German Prince- 
Waiting _ 
Wall Pocket_ 172 
Wall Pocket in Fret- Work _ 188 
Watch Stand_ 12 
Winter Garden at Edinburgh_132 
1 Young Larks. The _ 173 
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