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A garden a place of repose 



A gardener's pleasures 



A hint 



A lady's hybematory 



Aloes with soap and soda for 



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 "Always be stickingin something' ' 

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 Annuals for bedding 

 Attacks of aphides 

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 Bitter Aloes, experiments with 

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 City gardens 



Collecting and preserving fungi 

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 Evergreens for winter furnishing 

 Ferns in winter 

 Flowers in succession 

 Forecourt in the four mile circle 

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 Fuchsias, diseased [dentrs 

 Fungi, to gather for the table 

 Furnace for preservative pit 

 Gardening one of the fine arts 

 Gidney's Housemaid's barrow 



How to enjoy a garden 



Horticultural Society, Floral 

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Hyacinths for spring beds 



IsleofWightHorticultural Society 



Inarching passifloras 



Margaret Fuller and the flowers 



Names of ferns 



Nerium oleander 



Notes for September 



Notes of the month 



Oscar strawberry 



Pears eaten 



Pests of the garden 



Planning successions for one year 

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Pomological Society meetings 



Pompones for bedding 



Portsea Horticultural Society 



Preservative bed 



Propagation of hardy shrubs 



Renealmia nutans 



Root house 



Roses for beds 



Salisbury Juvenile Exhibition 



Sand for plunging 



Sawdust as Manure 



Seed of Dielytra spectabilis 



Spring flowers and autumn pre- 

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The danger of hobbies 



The gardener's rewards 



Gishurst compound 



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 Grapes deficient in colour 

 Grape vine disease 

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 Hollyhocks, new 



Tree mignonette 

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 Water as an insect destroyer 

 Wild flowers, children's collec- 

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