Naushon, Gorse on, 222;
sun-dial at, 374.
Nemophila, 315.
New Amsterdam, flowers of, 17-18.
New England's Prospect, 3.
New England's Rarities, 5.
Nicotiana, 423.
Night-scented Stock, 421-422.
Nightshade, 448.
Night Violets, 422.
Noon-marks, 355.
None-so-pretty, 135.
Oak of Jerusalem. See Ambrosia.
Obesity, cure for, 122.
Old Man. See Southernwood.
Olitory, 113.
Open knots, 57-58.
Ophir Farm, sun-dial at, 376 et seq.
Opyn-tide, meaning of, 143.
Orange Lily, 50.
Orchard seats, 192.
Orpine, 444-445.
Orris-root, 259.
Ostrowskia, 262.
"Out-Landish Flowers," 58.
Oxeye Daisies, introduction to America, 25.
Oxford, sun-dial at, 97.
Pappoose-root, 293.
Parkman, Francis, Rose Garden of, 471.
Parley, Peter, quoted, 343.
Parsons, T. W., on Lilacs, 153.
Parterre, 58 et seq.
Pastorius, Father, 11.
Patagonian Mint, 347-348.
Patience, 6.
Paulownias, 29.
Peach blossoms, 158.
Peacocks, 395 et seq.
Pear blossoms, scent of, 318.
Pedestals for sun-dials, 374 et seq.
Pennsylvania, sun-dials in, 370 et seq.
Penn, William, encouraged gardens, 11.
Peony, 42 et seq.
Peppermint, as medicine, 118.
Peristyle, 389.
Perpetual Roses, 468.
Persians, colors of, 253;
plant names of, 292;
flower love of, 462.
Persian Lilac, 152.
Persian Yellow Rose, 320, 469.
Peter's Wreath, 41-42.
Piazzas, 388-389.
Pig-nuts, 332.
Pilgrim's Progress, quotations from, 201.
Pinckney, E. L., floriculture by, 14.
Pine at Yaddo, 90.
Pink-of-my-Joan, 135.
Pinks, as edgings, 34, 47, 61, 292, 422-423.
Pippins, 345.
Plane trees in Pliny's garden, 97.
Plant-of-twenty-days, 42.
Platycodon grandiflorum, 262.
Playhouse Apple tree, 199.
Pliny, quoted, 342, 349;
gardens of, 96-97.
Plum blossoms, 157-158.
Plume Poppy, 175 et seq.
Plymouth, Massachusetts, early gardens at, 3.
Poet's Narcissus, 318.
Pogonia, 247.
Poison Ivy, 403.
Polling, of trees, 387.
Polyantha Rose, 467.
Polyanthus, as edging, 62.
Pomander, 212.
Pomatum, 209-210.
Pompeii, standards at, 87 et seq.
Pond Lily, 345.
Pony Roses, 467.
Poppies, 163-164, 243-244, 309 et seq., 431.
Pops, 337.
Portable dials, 356-357.
Portulaca, 178-179.
Potatoes, planted by Raleigh, 230.
Potocka, Countess, quoted, 327.
Pot-pourri, 471.
Preston Garden, 15-16, 18, 24, 101.
Prick-song plant. See Lunaria.
Primprint. See Privet.
Prince Nurseries, 26 et seq., 230.
Provence Roses, 459.
Prunella, 264-265.
Prygmen, 99.
Pudding, 304.
Pulmonaria, 437-438.
Pumps, old, 67-68.
Puzzle-love, 435.
Pyrethrum, 242.
Quabbin, 419.
Queen Anne, hatred of Box, 94.
Queen's Maries, bower of, 103.
Queen of the Prairies Rose, 468.
Quincy, Josiah, 407.
Ragged Robin, 291.
Ragged Sailors, 265.
Rail fences, 399 et seq.
Railings, 62.
Raleigh, Sir Walter, garden of, 230.
Rapin, René, quoted, 94, 323;
on gardens, 227.
Red, influence of, 251.
Remontant Roses, 468.
Rent, of a Rose, 469 et seq.
Rescue of an Old Place, cited, 103, 290.
Rhodes, Cecil, garden of, 261.
Rhododendrons, 42, 182, 244, 245.
Ridgely Garden, 57, 60, 95, 101.
Ring dials, 356.
Rock Cress. See Arabis.
Rocket. See Dames' Rocket.
Rose Garden, at Yaddo, 81 et seq.
Rose of Four Seasons, 467.
Rose of Plymouth, 295.
Rose Tavern, 470.
Rose tobacco, 475.
Rose-water, 472.
Rossetti, D. G., picture by, 380;
quoted, 380.
Roxbury Waxwork. See Bittersweet.
Ruskin, John, quoted, 243, 283, 255, 279, 309.
Sabbatia, 295.
Saffron-tea, 118.
Sage, 125 et seq.
Sag Harbor, sun-dial at, 362.
Salpiglossis, 262.
Salt Box House, 128.
Santolina. See Lavender Cotton.
Sapson Apples, 201-202.
Sassafras, 343.
Satin-flower, 170 et seq.
Sauce Saracen, 472.
Scarlet Lightning, 443.
Scilla, 255.
Scott, Sir Walter, sun-dial of, 219, 377.
Scythes, 391.
Seeds, sale of, 32 et seq.
Serpentine Walls, 414.
Setwall. See Valerian.
Seven Sisters, 435.
Seven Sisters Rose, 463.
Shade alleys, 59.
Shaded Walks, 64.
Shakespeare Border, 217 et seq.
Sheep bones, as edgings, 57-58.
Shelley, Garden, 223.
Shell flower, 436-437.
Simples, 115.
Slugs, in Box, 95.
Smithsonian Institution, sun-dials in, 357-358.
Snakeroot, 423-424.
Snowballs, 71.
Snowberry, 169.
Snowdrops, 234.
Snow in Summer, 47.
Snow Pink. See Pinks.
Soldier and his Wife, 438.
Sops-o'-wine. See Sapson.
South Carolina, gardens of, 14.
Southernwood, 5, 341, 348 et seq.
Southey, Robert, quoted, 266.
Spenser, Edmund, quoted, 54;
flowers of, 215, 284.
Spider-flower. See Love-in-a-mist.
Spiders in medicine, 303, 343.
Spiderwort, 435-436.
Spiræas, 189.
Spitfire Plant. See Fraxinella.
Spring Beauty, 294.
Spruce gum, 332.
Spurge, Cypress, 434 et seq.
Squirrel Cups, 260.
Squirt, for water, 390.
Star Pink. See Pink.
Stockton, Richard, letter of, 30-31.
Stones, for edging, 58.
Stonecrop, 135.
Stone walls, 399 et seq.
Strawberry Bush. See Calycanthus.
Striped Grass, 438-439.
Striped Lily, 61.
Stuyvesant, Peter, garden of, 18-19.
Succory. See Chicory.
Summer-houses, 392.
Summer Roses, 468.
Summer savory, 124.
Summer-sots, 17.
Sun-dials of Box, 62, 80, 87, 88, 97 et seq.
Sunken gardens, 72-73.
Sunshine Bush, 189.
Sweet Alyssum. See Alyssum.
Sweet Brier, 6, 25, 48, 302, 464, 465.
Sweet Fern, 2.
Sweet Flag, 343.
Sweet Johns, 285.
Sweet Marjoram, 124.
Sweet Rocket, 34.
Sweet Shrub. See Calycanthus.
Sweet Williams, 34, 162, 285 et seq.
Sylvester Manor, gardens at, 104 et seq.
Syringas, 71.
Tansy bitters, 128.
Tansy cakes, 128.
Tasmania, Thistles in, 26.
Telling the bees, 393.
Temperance Reform, 204.
Tennyson, on blue, 266;
on white, 420-421.
Thaxter, Celia, cited, 311.
Thistles, in Tasmania, 26.
Thomas, Edith, quoted, 229.
Thoreau, H. D., quoted, 148, 197, 198, 199, 275, 276, 345, 346, 417.
Thoroughwort, 145 et seq.
Thrift, sun-dials in, 97;
as edging, 61-62.
Toad-flax, 450 et seq.
Tobacco. See Nicotiana.
Tongue-plant, 347-348.
Topiary work in England, 408;
at Wellesley, 409 et seq.;
in California, 412.
Tradescantia. See Spiderwort.
Trailing Arbutus, 299.
Traveller's Rest, sun-dial at, 350, 370.
Tree Peony. See Peony.
Trumpet vine, 449-450.
Tudor gardens, 55.
Tudor Place, garden at, 103.
Tusser, Thomas, quoted, 115.
Twopenny Grass, 61.
Van Cortlandt Manor, garden at, 20 et seq.
Van Cortlandt, Pierre, 21.
Vancouver's Island, 26.
Van der Donck, Adrian, quoted, 17-18.
Velvet Roses, 466.
Vendue, 50-51.
Venus' Navelwort, 33, 441-442.
Versailles, Box at, 97.
Victoria Regia, 74-75.
Vinca. See Periwinkle.
Viola tricolor, 134.
Violets, edgings of, 71;
in backyard, 154;
gallant grace of, 166;
scent of, 259, 317-318.
Viper's Bugloss, 273-274.
Virginia Allspice. See Calycanthus.
Virginia, sun-dials in, 369-370;
Rose-bowers in, 385;
lyres in, 385.
Virgin's Bower. See Adlumia.
Wake Robin. See Trillium.
Walpole, New Hampshire, garden in, 237 et seq., 464 et seq.
Walton, Izaak, 127.
Wandis, 62.
Warwick, Lady, sun-dial of, 98;
gardens of, 84, 85, 110;
Shakespeare Border of, 217.
Washings, semi-annual, 99.
Washington, Betty, sun-dial of, 370.
Washington Family, in England, 367;
sun-dial of, 367 et seq.
Washington, George, sun-dials of, 357, 368.
Washington, Martha, garden of, 12-13.
Washington, Mary, sun-dial of, 369;
garden of, 370.
Wassailing, 206.
Waterbury, Connecticut, sun-dial at, 379.
Waterford, Virginia, bee-hives at, 393.
Water gardens, 73-74.
Watering-pot, 391.
Watson, Forbes, cited, 425, 433.
Waybred, 443-444.
Weed-smother, 300.
Weeds of old garden, 8, 48, 52.
Wellesley, gardens at, 409 et seq.
White animals on farm; 416 et seq.
White Garden, 415 et seq.
Whitehall, home of Bishop Berkeley, 194, 195.
White Man's Foot, 443-444.
White Satin, 170 et seq.
White, value in garden, 157, 255, 419.
Whiteweed, 291. See Oxeye Daisy.
Whitman, Walt, quoted, 152-153.
Whittier, J. G., sun-dial motto by, 373-374.
Wild gardens, 237 et seq., 453-454.
Wine-sap. See Sapson.
Winter, in a garden, 327 et seq.
Winter posy, 131.
Wistaria, 166, 182, 188 et seq., 232.
Wordsworth, W., quoted, 193.
Wort, 113.
Wort-cunning, 113.
Yaddo, garden at, 81 et seq.
Yew, 406.
York and Lancaster Rose, 62, 460 et seq.
Zodiac, signs of, on sun-dial, 376.