Pot-pourri from a Surrey garden

Without learning the grammar of their complicated flower-language, might we not nevertheless increase our artistic pleasure in flower arrangements by trying to give them a suitableness and a meaning which they have hitherto lacked? The old, long established English fashion of massing together in a vase may still hold its own for certain kinds of flowers ; but, so strong is the fascination of the Japanese principle, that, once it is adopted, it will probably assert its authority even amongst a bunch of Primroses or Violets. CONSTANCE LYTTON. INDEX ritpestris, 45 Abstinence in relation to health, 270 Acanthus, 120 Aconite, 17 Acorns for decorating, 13 JEsculus parvifolia, 144 Agapanthus, 50, 114 Ailiums, 102 Allotment system, 243 Aloes, Cape, 182 Alonsoa linifolia, 164 - Warscewiczii, 104 Aloysia citriodora, 45, 99 Alpines, 76, 88, 239 Alstroemerias, 132, 133 Alyssum, yellow, 103 Alyssums, 140 Amaranthus caudatus, 113 Amaryllis, 11, 12, 74 — belladonna, 161, 162 Amateur artists, 307-316 Amateurs, ambition of, 250 America, late springs and early heat in, 200 Ainnelopsis veitchii, 157, 158, 194, 195 Andrews, H., works of, 68, 69 Anemone apennina, 101 Anemones, 72, 184 Animal food, a warning against, 304 Anne, Queen, and her laws against Catholics, and Horace Walpole's designation of her, 59 Annuals, time for sowing, 42, 86, 87, 132 ; selection of, 164 Anthemis tinctoria, 143 Antirrhinums, 134, 135 Aponogeton, 141 Apple-tart, with peach-leaves, 177 Apple-trees on turf, 169 Apples, how to keep, 103; wind- falls of, 184 Arbutus, 84 Aristolochia, 95 Art for girls, 310, 311 ; first lessons, 311, 312 ; defects of schools, 312 ; an opening for teachers of water-colour sketch- ing, 312 ; beginners to per- severe, 313, 314 ; suggestions for getting over difficulties, 314, 315 ; water-colour drawing more suitable for amateurs than painting in oils, 315, 316 Art in the house, 277-280 Artemisia abrotanum, 94 Artichokes, Jerusalem, cooking, 203 Arums, 16, 39, 72 ; often mis- called'lilies,' 74 Arundo donax, 119, 120 Asparagus, time for planting and treatment of, 40, 41 ; method of boiling, 98 Asparagus plumosa, 39 Aspidistras, treatment of, 8 Astrantias, 128, 129 Athletics, excessive addiction to, 271 368 POT-POURRI FROM A SURREY GARDEN Aubrietias, 140 Aucubas, 40, 60 Auriculas, 140 Autumn, list of trees, creepers, shrubs, and plants for, 190, 191 — annuals, 86, 87, 132 — morning, an, 179, 188, 189 Azaleas, 17, 72, 138, 169 BACON, LORD, on gardening, 224 Bad temper in children, treat- ment of, 327 Bags for dried leaves, 8 Balsam, 160 Bamboos, leaves of, for table- decoration, 13; growing, 119, 139, 195, 204 ; book on, 246 Banksia, yellow, 43 Barberry, common, 38, 39 4 Barnacle Geese,' superstition of, 57, 58 Bartonia aurea, time for sowing, 42, 164 Baskets, plants for, 163, 164 Bath-rooms, 285 Bay-tree, 169 Beans, preserving, 153, 203; succession of, 174 ; cooking, 176 Bechamel sauce, 25 ; receipt for preparing, 31, 32 Bedding-out system, introduction of, 5 ; objections to, 48, 49, 225 Bedford, Duke of, and his gar- dener, anecdote of, 227, 228 Bedrooms, furnishing, 284, 285, 286 Beds in a garden, arrangement of, 106 Beech-trees in autumn, 205 Beetroot, preparing and serving, 25 Bell-flower, 160 Berberis Darwinii, 97, 169 — vtilgaris, 38, 39, 96, 169 Bible, the, Martin's illustrations of, 157 Biennials, 42, 113, 164, 165