VI 



INDEX. 



Rhubarb, 122 



Rockery on a balcony, 13 



Roekwork, 1 



Roeila ciliata, 367 



Rose trees, budding, 101 



Roses, exhibition, 81 



Roses for -winter blooming, 216 



Roses for cuttings, 169 



Roses in pots, 217 



Runner beans, seed of, 254 



Rustic furniture, 373 



Rustic seats, varnish for, 91 



Salvia splendens, 109, 202 



Sarracenias, 124 



Sawdust, use of, for preservation of 

 fruit, 284 



Scarlet pelargoniums, culture of, 



248 



Scorpion grass, 162 



Screens, garden, 311 



Seakale, forcing, in frames, 27 



Seats, rustic, 374 



Seed of runner beans, 254 



Seed, ranunculus, 321 



Seed sowing, 117 



Seedling auriculas, 15 



Selago distans, 365 



Selection of trees for winter scenes, 30 



September, garden work in, 288 



Sheep's fescue, 201 



Shell fruit, preserving, 286 



Show dahlias, 98 



Shrubs for balcony, 11 



Shrubs, transplanting, 319 



Silene laciniata, 219 



Slugs, metallic guard against, 221 



Small gardens, hints on, 47 



Soil for growth of ferns, 20 



Sollya, 154 



Soundness of wood for garden furni- 

 ture, 374 



Sowing seed, 117 



Sparaxis, 336 



Sparmannia africana, 222 



Specimen pyramidal fuchsia, 75 



Spring flowering shrubs, 65 



Spring flowers for balcony, 11 



Standard roses, stocks for, 39 



Stephanotis floribunda, 266 



Stocks, 174 



Stocks for grafting, 44 



Stocks for standard roses, 39 



Stone, artificial, 372 



Strawberries, culture of, 306 



Strawberries, forcing of, 244 



Strawberry runners. 192 



Striking cuttings, 302 



Stylidium fasciculatum, 217 



Styphelia tubiflora, 371 



Summer mnnagement of wall-fruitp, 113 

 Summer plants for balcony, 11 

 Summer wild flowers, 161, 193 

 Symphytum officinale, 161 



Tabernmmontana coronaria flore pleno, 



180 

 Ten- weeks stocks, 174 

 Tender shrubs, protection of in winter, 



25 

 Thatched hurdles for pita and frames, 



355 

 Thinning fruit-tree blossoms, 189 

 Thyrsaoanthus rutilans, 232 

 Tongue grafting, 44 

 Transplanting, 316 

 Transplanting, notes on, 269 

 Treatment of cactuses in windows and 



in the open air, 111 

 Treatment of orchids, 133 

 Tree mignonette, 110 

 Trees for winter scenes, 30 

 Trees, transplanting, 319 

 Trellis-work, 312, 341 

 Trellises, 343 



Trichomanes radicans, 1S8 

 Tritonias, 336 

 Tufted hair grass, 198 

 Tulip, cultivation of the, 289 

 Tulips, selections of, 290 

 Tunbridge fern, 226 

 Turning plants out of pots, 91 



Uses of rockwork, 2 



Vallota purpurea, 258 

 Variegated-foliaged plants, 257 

 Tarnish for rustic furniture, 375 

 Varnish for rustic seats, 91 

 Vernal grass, 197 

 Verbena, pot culture of the, 234 

 Veronica Andersoni, 369 



Walks and roads, 77 



Wall-fruit, management of, 113 



Waterproof walk?, 92 



Weeds on lawns, 359 



Wild flowers of May, 145 



Winter bouquets, 99 



Winter flowers, 308 



Winter, preparing for, 277 



Winter treatment of allamandas, 214 



Wintering carnations and picottecs, 



16 

 Wire-netting for poultry, etc., 377 

 Wire trellises, 343 

 Wood blocks for orchids, 313 

 Wood shutters for garden frames, 355 

 Worms in pots, 256 



Zeranthemums, 1C0 



