INDEX. 



Indigofera decora, 293 

 Irids, 336 

 Ixias, 336 



January, garden work in, 31 

 Japan lilies, culture of, 323 

 Jerusalem artichoke, 116 

 July, garden work in, 223 

 June, garden work in, 191 j 

 Justicia carnea, 364 

 Justicia speciosa, 346 



Kalosanthes coecinea, 210 

 Eillarney fern, 1S8 



Lastrea dilatata, SI 

 Layering carnations, 260 

 Laying ont gardens, 45 

 Lawns, weeds on, 359 

 Lilies, Japan, culture of, 323 

 Lily of the valley, 137 

 Lime for lawns, 256 

 Linum tryginum, 235 

 Lisianthus Russellianus, 214 

 Luculia gratissima, 112 



Management of peach trees, 143 



Mandevilla suaveolens, 106 



Manettia bicolor, 250 



Mats for pits and frames, 355 



Mode of making baskets for orchids, 



212 

 Marantas, 257 

 Mirbelia, 298 

 Mode of obtaining the odours of plants, 



274 

 Monstera deliciosa, 160 

 March, garden work in, 94 

 May, garden work in, 158 

 May, wild-flowers of, 145 

 Metallic guard against slugs, 221 



Notes for amateur gardeners, 30, 58, 90 

 Notes on transplanting, 269 

 November, garden work in, 352 



Oak, the evergreen, 318 



Oats, use of, for preservation of fruit, 



284 

 October, garden work in, 320 

 Odours of plants, 274 

 Orchid baskets, 212 

 Orchids, British, 151 

 Orchids, propagation of, 211 

 Orchids, treatment of, 133 

 Ornamental grasses, 103 

 Out-door fernery, 225 

 Out-door management of Cape heaths, 



119 

 Out-door planting, 46 



Packing fruit for carriage, 243 



Panicum italicum, 101 



Pansies in pots, 79 



Pansy, culture of the, 246 



Paper, use of, for preservation of fruit, 



284 

 Passiflora kerrnesina, 329 

 Pavettas, 267 



Peach trees, management of, 143 

 Pear trees, planting, 349 

 Pelargonium, culture of the, 208 

 Pentstemon speciosum, 362 

 Pentas carnea, 281 

 Petunias, double, 288 

 Phaius albus, 212 

 Phasnocoma proliferum, 344 

 Picotteea and carnations, 72 

 Picottees, wintering of, 10 

 Pigeon keeping, 59 

 Pitting fruit, 285 

 Planting pear trees, 349 

 Planting ranunculuses, 80 

 Planting the beds for summer, 141 

 Plants for rockwork, 5 

 Plants in rooms, 36 

 Plants touched with frost, 29 

 Plants with variegated foliage, 257 

 Poinsettia pulcherrima, 123 

 Poison for crickets, 96 

 Polyanthus, 140, 265 

 Polystichum lonchitis, 65 

 Pot culture of Japan lilies, 323 

 Pot culture of scarlet pelargoniums, 248 

 Pot culture of the hyacinth, 2S7 

 Pot culture of the verbena, 234 

 Pot roses, 217 

 Pots for orchids, 135 

 Preparing for winter, 277 

 Preservation of dahlia roots, 335 

 Preservation of fruit, 284 

 Primula sinensis, 308 

 Propagation of Cape heaths, 41 

 Propagation of orchids, 211 

 Propagation of roses by cuttings, 169 

 Propagation of the cineraria, 207 

 Protecting peach trees, 145 

 Protection of forcing pits and frames, 



355 

 Protection of half-hardy plants in 



water, 23 

 Pruning Cape heaths, 70 

 Pultenica, 261 



Purple or meadow orchis, 151 

 Pyramidal fuchsias, 74 



Queen stocks, 174 



Ranunculus, 321, 348 

 Ranunculuses, planting, 80 

 Red spider, cure for, 160 

 Reed meadow grass, 198 

 Remarks on fruit trees, 189 

 Repotting orchids, 135 

 Rhododendron cuttings, 256 



