Japan Privet, foliage for winter decoration,16Japan Quince (Cydonia or Pyrus),50Jasminum nudiflorum,164Junction of garden and wood,34,270Juniper, its merits,26;its form, action of snow,27;power of recovery from damage,29;beauty of colouring,30;stems in winter dress,31;in a wild valley,154, and onwardKitchen-garden,179;its sheds,179,180Larch, sweetness in April,51Large gardens,176Lavender, when to cut,105Lawn-making,146;lawn spaces,177,178Leaf mould,149Learning,5,189,190,273Lessons of the garden,6;in wild-tree planting,154;in orchard planting,183;of the show-table,241Leucojum vernum,33Leycesteria formosa,100Lilacs, suckers, as strong feeders, good kinds,23;standards best,24Lilium auratum among rhododendrons,37,106;among bamboos,106Lilium giganteum,95;cultivation needed in poor soil,142Lilium Harrisi and L. speciosum,106Lily of the valley in the copse,61Linaria repens,259London Pride in the rock-wall,120Loquat,204Love-in-a-mist,251Love of gardening,1Luzula sylvatica,61Magnolia, branches indoors in winter,16;magnolia stellata,50;kinds in the choice shrub-bank,101Mai-trank,60Marking trees for cutting,151Marsh marigold,52Masters and men,271Mastic,102Meconopsis Wallichi,165Medlar,129Megaseas, colour of foliage,17;M. ligulata,103;in front edge of flower-border,211Mertensia virginica,46;sowing the seed,84Mice,260,261Michaelmas daisies, a garden to themselves,125;planting and staking,126;early kinds in mixed border,135Mixed planting,183;mixed border,206Morells,59Mulleins (V. olympicum and V. phlomoides),85;mullein-moth,86,270Muscari of kinds,49Musical reverberation in wood of Scotch fir,60Myosotis sylvatica major,53Nandina domestica,206Narcissus cernuus,12;N. serotinus,14;N. princeps and N. Horsfieldi in the copse,48Nature's planting,154Nettles, to destroy,259Novelty,249Nut nursery at Calcot,11Nut-walk,9;catkins,11;suckers,11
Oak timber, felling,60Old wall,72,116and onwardOmphalodes verna,45Ophiopogon spicatum for winter cutting,16Orchard, ornamental,181Orobus vernus,52;O. aurantiacus,62Othonna cheirifolia,63Pæonies and Lent Hellebores grown together,76Pæony moutan grouped with Clematis montana,70;special garden for pæonies,72;frequent sudden deaths,73;varieties of P. albiflora,74;old garden kinds,75;pæony species desirable for garden use,75Pansies as cut flowers,57;at shows,243Parkinson's chapter on carnations,94Pavia macrostachya,103Pea, white everlasting,95Pergola,212Pernettya,165Pests, bird, beast, and insect,259Phacelia campanularia,63Pheasants, as depredators,261;destroying crocuses,261Philadelphus microphyllus,103Phlomis fruticosa,103Phloxes,135Piptanthus nepalensis,63,206Planes pollarded,215Planting early,129;careful planting,130;planting from pots,131;careful tree planting,148Platycodon Mariesi,108Plume hyacinth,49Polygala chamæbuxus,164Polygonum compactum,136;Sieboldi,258"Pot-pourri from a Surrey garden,"18Primroses, white and lilac,44;large bunch-flowered kinds as cut flowers,58;seedlings planted out,85;primrose garden,216Primula denticulata,184Progress in gardening,249Prophet-flower (Arnebia),56Protecting tender plants,145Pterocephalus parnassi,107Pyrus Maulei,50Queen wasps,63Quince,128Rabbits,260Ranunculus montanus,50Raphiolepis ovata,204Rhododendrons, variation in foliage,35;R. multum maculatum,35;plants to fill bare spaces among,37;arrangement for colour,64and onward;hybrid of R. Aucklandi,69;alpine,165Ribbon border,266Ribes,50Robinia hispida,203Rock garden, making and renewing,115Rock-wall,116and onwardRosemary,204Roses, pruning, tying, and training,38;fence planted with free roses,38;Reine Olga de Wurtemburg,38;climbing and rambling roses,39;Fortune's yellow, Banksian,40;wild roses,43;garden roses: Provence, moss, damask, R. alba,78;roses in cottage gardens, ramblers and fountains,79;free growth of Rosa polyantha,80;two good, free roses for cutting,80;Burnetrose and Scotch briars, Rosa lucida,81;tea roses: best kinds for light soil, pegging, pruning,82;roses collected in Capri,105;second bloom of tea roses,110;jam made of hips of R. rugosa,111,184;R. arvensis, garden form of,129;R. Boursault elegans,192;China,205;their scents,235Ruscus aculeatus,151;R. racemosus,152Ruta patavina, a late-flowering rock-plant,107Sambucus ebulis,258Satin-leaf (Heuchera Richardsoni),53Scilla maritima,14;S. sibirica, S. bifolia,32Scents of flowers,229and onwardScotch fir, pollen,53;cones opening,54;effect of sound in fir-wood,60Show flowers,242Show-table, what it teaches,241Shrub-bank,101;snug place for tender shrubs,121Shrub-wilderness of the old home,100Skimmeas,101,165Slugs,262Smilacina bifolia,61Snapdragon,251Snowstorm of December 1886,27Snowy Mespilus (Amelanchier),52Solanum crispum,204Solomon's seal,61Spindle-tree,127Spiræa Thunbergi,50,104;S. prunifolia,104St. John's worts, choice,103Stephanandra flexuosa,103Sternbergia lutea,139Sticks and stakes,163Storms in autumn,122Styrax japonica,101Suckers of nuts,11;robbers, how to remove,24;on grafted rhododendrons,36Sunflowers, perennial,134Sweetbriar, rambling,39;fragrance in April,51Sweet-leaved small shrubs,34,57,101Sweet peas, autumn sown,83,112Thatching with hoop-chips,169Thinning the nut-walk,10;thinning shrubs,22;trees in copse,151Tiarella cordifolia,53;colour of leaves in winter,21Tools for dividing,136;for tree cutting and grubbing,150;woodman's,158;axe and wedge,159;rollers,160;cross-cut saw,162Training the eye,4;training Clematis flammula,24Transplanting large trees,147Trillium grandiflorum,61Tritomas, protecting,146Tulips, show kinds and their origin,55;T. retroflexa,55;other good garden kinds,56Various ways of gardening,3Verbascum olympicum and V. phlomoides,85Villa garden,171Vinca acutiflora,139Vine, black Hamburg at Calcot,12;as a wall-plant,42;good garden kinds,42;claret vine,110,205;VitisCoignettii,123
Violets, the pale St. Helena,45;Czar,140Virginian cowslip,46;its colouring,47;sowing seed,84Wall pennywort,120Water-elder, a beautiful neglected shrub,123Weeds,256Wild gardening misunderstood,269Wilson, Mr. G. F.'s garden at Wisley,184Window garden,185Winter, beauty of woodland,7Wistaria chinensis,43Whortleberry under Scotch fir,51,61Woodman at work,158Woodruff,60Wood-rush,61,165Wood-work,163Xanthoceras sorbifolia,103Yellow everlasting,120Yuccas, some of the best kinds,91;in flower-border,201
[1]The planting of large vineyards, in some cases of private enterprise, had not proved a financial success.
[1]The planting of large vineyards, in some cases of private enterprise, had not proved a financial success.
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