748 



GARDEN MANAGEMENT. 



Late peas, 73, 74. 



Late plums, 73. 



Laurence's garden, 386. 



Law-n-mowings for liuing hotbeds, 42S. 



Lawns, 358, 504. 



Lawns : how to keep, 390. 



Lawns, mow and roll, 312. 



Layering, 118. 



Layering? melons, 289. 



Laying down asparagus-beds, 327. 



Laying down pipes, 50. 



Laying down a system of draining, 40. 



Laying out gardens, 57. 



Laying out grounds, 148. 



Leading soils for the cultivator, 24. 



Leaf- cutter bee, 141. 



Leaf-mould : its properties, 524. 



Leaf-shaped beds, 275. 



Lean-to house.*, 49. 



Lcan-to house, the worse form, 242. 



Lean-to pinery, 247. 



Lecoq's apparatus for collecting, 496. 



Leeks, 369, 410, 509, 674. 



Leeks for main crop, .?33 ; sowing, ib. ; 



earthing-up, ib.; varieties, ib. 

 Leichardt's garden in the wilderness, 4. 

 Lengths of copings, 92. 

 Le Notre's gardens, 6. 

 Le Notre and his style, 3. 

 Lettuce, 674. 

 Lettuces, 74, 183, 370, 411, 505, 509, 564, 



621. 

 Lettuces in frames, 183. 

 Levelhngr and laying out, 147. 

 Light: its importance in plant-culture, 



627, 

 Light soils, 167. 



Light to be excluded from seakale, 187- 

 Ligliting furnaces, 476. 

 LJgurian bee, 442. 

 Lilium lancifolium, 513, 56s. 

 Lily of the valley, 372, 383. 

 Limestone, the base of the coal-makmg, 



12. 

 Liquid manure, 266, 388. 

 Liquid manure for roses, 649. 

 Liquid-manure-tank, 362. 

 Lime : how obtained, 22 ; its uses, ib. : 



quick-lime, ib. 

 Lime as a renovator, 388. 

 Lime destroys slugs, 506. 

 Lime employed as a manure, 47. 

 Lime precipitated by sulphuric acid, 20. 

 Lime-water for pelargoniums, 680. 

 Lime- wash for gooseberries, 414. 

 Linaria, 27O. 

 Line of beauty, 106. 

 Linum grandiflorum, 270. 

 List of annuals, 164, 270. 

 List of azaleas, 713. 

 List of crocuses, 179. 

 List of choice chrysanthemums, 6/7. 

 List of deciduous trees, 696. 

 Line of divergence for walks, 111. 

 List of estimates for a range of houses, 



256. 

 List of fruit-trees and vegetables, 73. 



List of fruit-trees for a small greenhouse, 



481. 

 List of materials for dressings, 2*56. 

 List of prices of Paxton's houses, 250. 

 List for a pinetum, 695. 

 Lists of show French and fancy g;ra- 



niums, 630. 

 Loamy soils, 11, 

 Lodge or entrance gates, 81. 

 London cos lettuce, 184. 

 London clay overlymg the chalk, 18. 

 Long ribbon-borders, 657. 

 Loudon and Wise, 7. 

 Love-apple, 362. 

 Love- grasses, 306. 

 Love lies bleeding, 270. 

 Low temperature and dry atmosphere, 



633. 

 Lupins, 270. 



Madworts, 404. 



Maggot in peach-trees, 413. 



Magnesia: its effect on soils, 22; mag- 



nesian limestone, ib. 

 Magnesia precipitated by hydrochloric 



acid, 20. 

 Maiden soil, 526. 

 Main object of kitchen-garden paths, 



169. 

 Maize as an ornamental plant, 306. 

 Making hotbeds, 184. 

 Making level, 150. 

 Making new plantations, 284. 

 Making up hotbeds, 289. 

 Male bee, or drone, 438. 

 Malope grandiflora, 270. 

 Malta or drum-head cabbage-lettuce, 183. 

 Maltese crossbeds, 276. 

 Management of the dung-heap, 524. 

 Manganese, 23. 



Manure for globe artichokes, 279. 

 Manure-tank, 69. 

 Manures wasted, 428. 

 Manuring-waters and fringed banks, 27. 

 March: aspect of the month, 363 j 



flowers, ib.; temperature, 364. 

 March winds, 264. 

 Marine origin of limestone, 12. 

 Marjoram, 335. 



Market-garden cultivation, 460. 

 Market- garden strawberries, 506. 

 Marly soils, 11. 

 Mason's picture of a site, 35. 

 Massing shrubs, 392. 

 Material for garden statues, 112. 

 Material for hotbeds, 184. 

 Materials employed in covering drains, 



39. 

 Materials for fences, 76. 

 Materials for garden-walls, 80, 83. 

 " Matter in the wTong place," 50. 

 Mats for frames, 267. 

 Mats or litter to protect from frost, 181. 

 Matured fruit ; how distinguished, 482. 

 Maturity of flowering-plants, 415. 

 Maurandyas, 601. 



