742 



GARDEN MANAGEMENT. 



Description of Messenger's system of ven- 

 tilation, 254. 



Description of plan of gardens, 156. 



Description of plan of carriage-drive, 105. 



Description of plans for cottage-garden, 

 72. 



Description of plan of pleasure-gardens, 

 68. 



Description of Paxton's hothouses, 247. 



Description of the picturesque style of 

 gardens, 51. 



Description of plan for a single-acre gar- 

 den. 70, 71. 



Description of plan of kitchen- garden, 

 1/1. 



Description of road-side gratings, lOQ. 



Description of the flowing well of the 

 Peak, 37. 



Description of the great house at Chats- 

 worth, 244. 



Description of plan of the Horticultural 

 Society's Garden, 63. 



JDesign for forming an ornamental canal, 

 98; for planting circular beds, 662 j for 

 ribbon-borders, 659. 



Destruction of old gardens, 8. 



Destructive effects of roots on rocks, 18. 



Detached glass-hou>es, 49. 



Deteriorators, or cabbage tribe, 171. 



Devastations committea by " improvers," 

 8. 



Development of insects, 139. 



Devonian, or old red-stone rock, 12. 



Dew-point, 398. 



Diagonal flower-beds, 663. 



Dictum of Shenstone, 110. 



Different modes ot applying heat, 256. 



Different modes of burning clay, 45. 



Different mode of training fruit-trees, 

 282. 



Different modes of taking honey, 436. 



Digging and trenching, 706. 



Digging, forking, and scarifying, 177. 



Dimensions of a range of houses, 189. 



Direction of carriage-drive, 106. 



Direction of sewers, drains, and water- 

 pipes, 50. 



Directions for striking cuttings of ver- 

 benas, geraniums, calceolarias, petu- 

 nias, and other herbaceous plants, 616. 



Disbud'ling: its object, 368. 



Disbudding fruit-trees, 367. 



Disbudfiing roses, 649. 



Disbudding rose-trees, 642. 



Distinct character in flower-beds, 662. 



Distmctness of outline in flower-beds, 

 356, 500. 



Divers forms of oxygen, 47. 



Diversity of opinion, 108. 



Dividing edging-plants, 400. 



Division of labour among bees, 434. 



Docks and dandelions, 145. 



Dormant period of stove-plants, 633. 



Double-banded ribbon borders, 657. 



Double-flowering perennials, 503. 



Double grafting, 121. 



Double ribbon borders, 659. 



Double Roman narcissus, 683. 



Double wallflowers, 501. 



Double yellow hyacinths, 682 ; ditto white 



ditto, ib.; ditto blue ditto, ib.-^ ditto 



red ditto, ib. 

 Drainage, 50, 72, 265. 

 Drainage for free-growing plants, 285. 

 Drcdnage for kitchen-garden paths, 169. 

 Drainage of melon-ground, 69. 

 Drainage of roads, lOS. 

 Drainage of potted plants, 292. 

 Draining an area of country, 40. 

 Drain-pipes recommended, 39. 

 Drains of the kitchen-garden, 173. 

 Dressing beds for choice ranunculuses, 



180. 

 Dressing to destroy eggs of uvsects, 145. 

 Drone, or male bee, 458. 

 Drooping and pillar roses, 640. 

 Dry atmosphere and low temperature, 



633. 

 Di7ness conducive to heat, 30. 

 Drying ground, 72. 

 Dry soil and subsoil necessary, 29. 

 Dubreuil's fruit-room, 491. 

 Dung-beds : how prepared, 289. 

 Durability of reed-mats, 267. 

 Durability of roads, 108. 

 Dutch flower-garden, 660. 

 Dutch gardens, 50. 

 Dutch mode of heating houses, 257, 

 Dutch style of gardening, 3. 

 Dwarf Bourbon roses for pots, 654 ; dwarf 



China roses for ditto, ib. 

 Dw?.rf feather-grass for edgings, 306. 

 Dwarf fruit-trees: their treatment, 508. 

 Dwarf noisette, 654. 

 Dwarf standards, 297. 

 Dwarf peas, 74. 

 Dwarf trees, 408. 

 Dwarfing box-edgings, 390. 

 Dwarfing fruit-trees, 7O8. 



Early Applks, 73. 

 Early carrots, I87. 

 Early celery, 504. 

 Early cherries, 73. 

 Early flowers, 190. 

 Early growth in pelargoniums, 629. 

 Early pears, 73, 74, 182. 

 Early plums, 73. 

 Early potatoes, 187. 

 Early winter-housing of plants, 625. 

 Earwigs, 143. 

 Economical flues, 478. 

 Economical hotbed, 185. 

 Economical system of hothouses, 246. 

 Economical wall, 85. 

 Economy of firm-growing trees, 161. 

 Economy of orchard-houses, gi. 

 Economy of small gardens, 241. 

 Economy of wrought-iron gates, 81. 

 Edging for beds, 158. 

 Eflging for kitchen-garden, 161, 273. 

 Edging; repairing gaps, 312 j watering, 

 ib. ; trinuning, ib. 



