250

Aristolochia, 22, 166, 176;
Sipho, as a climber, 305, 309

Aristotelia Macqui, 472;
M. variegata, 472

Aronia floribunda, for grouping, 284

Arrow-wood, 462

Artemisia Abrotanum, 176, 472

Artemisia, pruning, 22

Arundinaria Veitchii, 472

Arundo Donax, 472;
A. D. variegata, 472

Ash, 41, 476;
Barberry, 361;
flowering, 387;
mountain, 7, 425

Aspen, 481

Aster argophyllus, 191

Athrotaxis laxifolia, 191

Atragene alpina, 309

Atraphaxis buxifolia, 472;
lanceolata, 472;
Muschketowi, 472;
spinosa, 472

Atriplex canescens, 472;
confertifolia, 472;
Halimus, 472;
Nuttallii, 472;
portulacoides, 472

Aucuba, 58, 176, 249;
the spotted, 58

Aucubas, 251, 256;
for their fruits, 78

Autumn colours, 71-76

Azalea amoena, 250;
ledifolia, 249;
occidentalis, 5

Azaleas, 31, 250, 442;
for autumn colouring, 75;
in Scotland, 173;
in greenhouse, 267

Azara dentata, 472;
Gilliesii, 472;
integrifolia, 472;
microphylla, 176, 249, 310, 472

Baccharis halimifolia, 22, 472;
salicifolia, 472;
Patagonica, 22, 472

Bamboo garden at Kew, 220

Bamboos, hardy, 185, 218-225;
place for, 219

Banksia grandis, 191

Barberries, for their fruit, 78

Bauera rubioides, 191

Bay, sweet, 478

Beam tree, white, 7, 424

Beech, propagating the, 41;
autumn colouring of, 74;
winter beauty of, 54

Beeches, the, 476

Bennett, Henry, the late, 342

Benthamia fragifera, 191, 310

Berberidopsis corallina, 208, 310

Berberis Aquifolium, 256;
for grouping, 297;
and vars., 249;
for autumn colouring, 75, 249;
buxifolia, 249;
concinna, for autumn colouring, 75;
Darwinii, 249;
japonica, 249;
stenophylla, 39, 249, 256;
Thunbergi, for autumn colouring, 75;
for grouping, 284;
wallichiana, 249;
vulgaris purpureis, for grouping, 284

Berberises, the, 9, 10, 22, 167, 176, 250, 361-363;
in greenhouse, 268

Berchemia, 472;
pruning, 23

Betula, 41, 59, 167, 176, 473;
corylifolia, for colour, 73

Bigelovia Douglasii, 473;
graveolens, 473

Bignonia capreolata, 311;
in the south-west, 208

Billardiera longiflora, 311

Birches, the, 41, 59, 61, 472-473;
silver, 473

Black thorn, 7

Bladder nut, 454

Bladder Senna, 371

Borders, flower and shrub, 257, 259

Boronias, 192

Bougainvillea glabra, in the south-west, 208

Box, 11, 177, 248;
for grouping, 297;
as a hedge, 327

Box-leaved