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GARDEN MANAGEMENT. 



Ha-ha Fence, 54, 79, 82. 



Half-hardy annuals, 271, 358. 



Half-hardy annuals: sow, .311; protect 

 by mats, ib. ; mode of sowing, 312. 



Hamburg grapes, )74. 



Hammersmith lettuce, 183. 



Hand-gathered fruit, 483. 



Hanging gardens of Babylon, 1. 



Happiness and contentment, 28. 



Happy rural seats of various breeds, 27. 



Hardwicke House flower-gardens, 664. 



Hard-wooded plants, 291, 471. 



Hardy annuals blooming in April and 

 May, 305. 



Hardy annuals, such as lupines, Flos 

 Adonis, lychnis, mignonette, &c., sown 

 in patches, 358. 



Hardy biennials, 165. 



Hardy evergreen shrubs, 66. 



Hardy fuchsias, 135. 



Hardy hybrid shrubs, 700. 



Harmonizing colours, 655. 



Harmony produced by plants growing up 

 to each other, 457. 



Harvesting soils, 522; fruit, 482 ; roots, 

 494 ; filberts, ib. ; vegetables, 495. 



Hatfield House gardens, 5. 



Hawthorn-hedges : how made, 394. 



Hazel-loam, 24. 



Healthy-looking plants, 625. 



Heat and air, 635. 



Heat of manure, 186. 



Heat, solar and artificial, 633. 



Heath-house temperature, 627. 



Heaths, 286, 337, 420, 512, 568, 627. 



Heaths : their propapration, 420 ; soil, 

 ib.; pots, ib.; potting, ib. ; watering, 

 ib. ; spring-flowering species, 421 ; sum- 

 mer-flowering species, ib. ; autumn and 

 winter flowering heaths, 422; general 

 treatment, ib. 



Hea\y cattle-fence, 77. 



Hedge and wall fence, 77. 



Hedges, 76. 



Hedges of quickthom, 78. 



Height and distance of ha-ha's, 79, 



Height for gates on carriage-roads, 80. 



Height of garden- walls, 80, 82. 



Height of prunmg trees, 78. 



Heliotropes, 373, 380, 501. 



Herb beds, 276, 707. 



Herbaceous calceolarias, 481. 



Herbaceous flowering. plants, 312. 



Herbaceous grafting, 123. 



Herbaceous plants : thin out, 356; 

 stake, ib. 



Herbaria collecting, 496. 



Herbarium, 496. 



High keeping necessary for shrubberies, 

 393. 



High keeping the first element of suc- 

 cess, 501. 



Highly-burnt clay, 45. 



Hints for furnishing a Dutch flower- 

 garden, 660. 



Hints tor preparing surface, 150. 



Hints on flower-beds, 657. 



Historical sketch of gardening, 1. 



Hive, 448 ; Dr. Bevaii's hive, ib. ; cot- 

 tager's hive, 449 ; Neighbour's im- 

 proved cottage, 450 ; Neighbour's wax- 

 comb observatory hive, ib. ; bee-sheds, 

 451; the bar-hive, 452; bee-gardens of 

 Poland, 453 ; the beehive of Poleind, 

 ib. ; convenient bee-feeder, 454. 



Hiving a swarm of bees, 446. 



Holcus saccharatus, 306. 



Holland House gardens, 5. 



Hollow bricks, 85. 



Hollow walls, 85, 94. 



Hollyhock : its hij'tory, 348 ; seedlings, 

 ib. ; cuttings, ib. ; planting and stak- 

 ing, jTi.; after-cultivation, ib.; choice 

 varieties, 351. 



Hollyhocks, 356. 509, 549, 672. 



Honey, how obtained, 435. 



Honey-bee : its natural history, 433. 



Horace and Cowley's wi>hes, 28. 



Horseradish : its culture, 330. 



Horseradish, 368. 



Horticultural Society's Gardens, 57. 



Hot-air chambers under hot-water tanks, 

 262. 



Hntbed and frame cultivation, 184, 233, 

 288, 342, 376, 427, 516, 687, 722. 



Hotbeds in June, 426 ; remedy for mil- 

 dew and red spider, 427; cucumbers 

 on trellis, ib. 



Hotbeds, 477 -. for propagating plants, 

 ib. 



Hotbeds, how prepared, 289. 



Hot water for heating walls, 94. 



Hot-water tanks at Trentham, 257. 



House recommended by Paxton, 248. 



House sewage, 43. 



Houses admirably adapted for fruit cul- 

 tivation, 252. 



Housing plants for the winter, 625. 



How to erect one line perpendicular to 

 another, 155. 



How to make liquid manure, 266. 



How to produce large gooseberries, 

 675. 



How to prolong the bloom of plants, 419. 



Humic acid bodies, 522. 



Humus in marly soils, 20. 



Hyacinth : its history, 538 ; propagation, 

 539; cultivation, 540 ; ill moss, 136. 



Hyacinths in rooms, 6S2 ; in pots, ib.; in 

 glasses, ib. ; in baskets, ib. ; with yel- 

 low crocuses, ib. ; witli tulips, ib. ; 

 with snowdrops, ib. ; varieties of hya- 

 cinth, 683. 



Hyacinths, list of choice sort*, 683. 



Hyacinths, their treatment, 293, 358. 



HybriJ Chini pi lar-roses, 646. 



Hybrid p' rpetnals as standards, 643. 



Hydrangeas, 501. 



Hydraulic ram, 98. 



Igveous or primitive rocks, 12. 

 Imitation of Mer de Gldce, 102. 



