INDEX. 



749 



May : aspect of the month, 354 ; tempera- 

 ture, 355 ; flowers, ib. 



Mazagan beans, 520. 



Mazes and labyrinths of Hatfield and Hol- 

 land Houses, 5. 



Mcintosh's fruit-room, 492. 



Mcintosh's hotbed, 495. 



Mcintosh's recommendation, 83, 



Mcintosh's recommendation for supply- 

 ing heat, 257. 



Meadow-land loam, I67. 



Maily-bug; its eradication, 628. 



Meaning uf annuals, 11 7. 



Means of treating a range of houses, 189. 



Means of preventing bad smells, 1G8. 



Means of removing the impression of 

 flatness, lUO. 



Mechanical characters of soils, 21. 



Mechanical ettects of burning soils, 46. 



Mechanical force, 97. 



Mechanical preparation of soils, 37. 



Medicinal waters at Harrogate, 23. 



Medium apples, 73. 



Medium cherries, 73. 



Medium peas, 74. 



Medium pears, 73. 



Melon-beds, 285. 



Melon-ground, 69. 



Melon-pits, 343, 476. 



Melons, 177, 342, 375, 478, 5l6, 575, 722. 



Melons for succession in frames, 427 ; iii 

 the (jpen air, ih. 



Melons in fruit, 425 ; after-treatment, 

 ib. ; succession crops, ih. ; treatment 

 while ripening, i/i. ; best kmd of melon- 

 pit, 426. 



Melons in winter, 637. 



Messenger's mode of ventilating, 254, 



255. 



Messenger's patent shutting-ofif valve, 

 260. 



Messenger's tubular boiler, 25 



Method for arrivuig at a correct esti- 

 mate, 150. 



Method of checking growth, 283. 



Method of destroying bell-moth, 140. 



Method of forming an egg-shaped figure, 

 15(5. 



Method of forming a spiral line, 156. 



Method of forming curved lines, 156. 



Method of forming design, 156. 



Method of forwarding early peas, 181, 

 182. 



Method of growing early potatoes m 

 pits, 187. 



Method of heating greenhouse, I89. 



Method of making a basin, 274. 



Method of making' foundation of wall, 

 84. 

 lethod of root-pruning, 283. 



Method of sowing beans, 182, 



Method of sowing celery, 278. 



Method of sowing cucumbers, 185. 



Method of sowing early-horn carrots, 187. 



Method of sowing lettuces, 183, 



Method of sowing peas, 182. 



Methodof sowingradishes in hotbeds, I87. 



Method of tying up lettuces, 1 83. 

 Methodof using quadrant, 152, 

 Methods of draining, 30. 

 Mice, 144. 



Microsetia antefolulla, 141, 

 Mignonette, 296. 



Mignonette,— sow and transplant, 312, 

 Mildew, 145. 



Mildew in November, 684. 

 Millet-grass, 306. 

 Milton on the bee-garden, 444. 

 Milton's description for a garden site, 26 

 Milton's description of a garden, 7. 

 Milton's ideal gardens and their influ- 

 ence, 6. 

 Mimic gardens of the Romans, 2. 

 Miniature hyacinths, 683. 

 Miniature orchards, 508, 

 Misapplication of frames, 184. 

 Mistletoe, 137. 

 Mixed borders, 394. 



Mixed flower-garden, 312, 36o, 403, 459. 

 Mixed flower and kitchen garden, 504. 

 Mixed kitchen-garden, 273. 

 Mode and time of sowing annuals, l64. 

 Mode of approach-grafting, 128. 

 Mode of burning soil, 45. 

 jNl de of cleaning trees with the aphis- 

 brush, 268. 

 Mode of copying design, 157. 

 Mode of dealing with wasps, 143. 

 Mode of destroying moles, 144. 

 Mode of draining, 39. 

 Mode of draining fuchsias, 135. 

 Mode of dressing soils, 167. 

 Mode of circle-grafting, 127. 

 Mode of grafting pines and resinous 



trees, 123. 

 Mode of grafting common plants, 123, 

 Mode of growing cardoons, 279. 

 Mode of growing Newington beans in 

 pots, 188. 



Mode of growing parsley, 277. 



Mode of growing the arum, 135, 



Mode of inarching camellias, 285. 



Mode of keeping earth-paths clean, 159. 



Mode of laying-out, 149. 



Mode of levelling ground, 150. 



Mode of levelling for railways, 152. 



Mode of making a basin, 99. 



Mode of making a drain, 2tJ5. 



Mode of makuig basket-beds of furze, 

 275. ■ 



Mode of making a regular slope, 151. 



Mode of making frame-mats, 267. 



Mode of making hotbeds for cucumbers, 

 184. 



Mode of making roads, 108. 



Miide of making trellis-work, 275. 



Mode of mulching, 167. 



Mode of making oak and holly beds, 

 275. 



Mode of planting Bovviensis, 269. 



Mode of planting cuttings, 133. 



Mode of planting crocuses, 178. 



Mode of planting orchard, I6I. 



Mode of planting potatoes, II7. 



