INDEX. 



753 



Practice of hardy fruit, culture, l6o. 

 Precautions required in the fruit-room, 



•180. 

 Precautions to be used in budding^, 126. 

 Preparation for drainaje. 40. 

 Preparation of manure for melons, 186. 

 Preparation of soils, 21. 

 Preparers, 1/0. 



Preparini? bed for parsley, 2/7. 

 Pieparins hotbed for cucumbers, 288. 

 Prepariuif the graft, II9. 

 Preparing ground for early potatoes, 279. 

 Preparing manures, 73. 

 Preparing soil for permanent crops, 172. 

 Preparing pit for early potatoes, 181. 

 Preparing roses for planting, fi4l. 

 Preparing skeleton leaves, 1117. 

 Preservative from insects, 496. 

 Preserving frut, 684. 

 Preserving French-beans, 494. 

 Preserving pears by baking, 483. 

 Preserving old plants, 133. 

 Preserving peas and beans from mice, 144. 

 Price of crocuses, 179. 

 Price of drain-pipes, 43. 

 Price of iron fences, 77. 

 Price received for stock of a dahlia, 242. 

 Price received for the Muscat Hamburg 



grape, 242. 

 Price received for the Golden Hamburg 



grape, 242. 

 Prices of patent shutting-off valve, 26 1. 

 Prices of tulips at recent sales, 531. 

 Primary colours, 551. 

 Primitive rocks, 12. 

 Prince's feathers, 271. 

 Principle of arranging plant-house, 62G. 

 Principle of heating by hot water, 257. 

 Principle of the Romaui engineers, 103. 

 Primulas, 382. 



Process of analyzing soils, 19. 

 Process of pottins roses, 650. 

 Profitable occupation of gardening, 241. 

 Progress of the accumulation of coal, 13. 

 Prolonging the bloom of plants, 419. 

 Propagating mint, 276. 

 Propagation, 11 7. 

 Propagation by cuttings, 613. 

 Propagation by slips or cuttings, 113. 

 Propagation by layers, 117. 

 Propagation of bedding-plants, 548. 

 Propagation of eerajiiums, 503. 

 Properties of ammonia, 525. 

 Properties ot the cimolha, 172. 

 Properties of the geranium, 502. 

 Properties of humus, 523. 

 Properties of urine, 523. 

 Properties of horse-dung, 523. 

 Protected pleasure-beds, l65. 

 Protecting bedding-plants, 267. 

 Protecting fruit-trees, 325. 

 Protecting hotbeds from rains, 289. 

 Protecting wall-fruit from wasps, 505. 

 Protection for plants from the sun's rays, 



268. 

 Protection for autumn-sown annuals, 



ISO. 



3 c 



Protection for plants, I88. 

 Protection for plants on walls, 268. 

 Protection for parsley during frost or 



wet weather, 277. 

 Protection for the roots of newly - 



planted «hrnbs, 178. 

 Protection for young hedsre-plants, 78. 

 Provence rose for pot-culture, 653. 

 Prune dwarf apples and pears, 675. 

 Pruning gooseberries, 675. 

 Pruning grapes, 636. 

 Pruning new-pl;inted roses, 313. 

 Pruning roses, 263, 642. 

 Pruning season, 324, 

 Pumpkms, 405, 412. 

 Pump-water, 266. 

 Purchasing plants, 290. 

 Pure water necessary to a garden site, 



31. 

 Purifying power of plants, 633. 

 Putteridgebury Dutch flower-garden, 660. 

 Putting soil on the hotbed, 289. 

 Pyramidal roses in pots, 651. 

 Pyramidal saxifrage, 503. 

 Pyramid-trees, 202. 



QUAKIXC-GUASS, 306. 



Quality of glass used for Paxton's patent, 



250. 

 Quantity of water used by the Emperor 



fountain, 96. 

 Quarries of the Isle 01 Portland, 14. 

 Queen bees, 438. 



Quickset and privet hedges, clip, 458. 

 UuickUme, 73. 

 Quincunx style, 161, 



Radiation of Heat, 81. 



Radiatio of he at from a wall, 85. 



Radicle, 116. 



Radishes, 74, 281, 370, 505, 510, 564, 621, 

 824. 



Radishes sown with early potatoes, 187. 



Rage for florists' flowers, 531. 



Rain-water, 31. 



Raised beds on grass, 158. 



Rampion,355, 370. 



Rank steam in newly-made hotbeds, 185. 



Rank-smelling dung, 73. 



Ranunculus, 3"8, 3b0, 40'', 459. 



Raiuinculus: its propagation and culti- 

 vation, 535. 



Ras|)berrics, 468, 505, ^W, C21, 71O. 



Raspberry suckers, 414. 



Rationale of draiiiaKO, 43. 



Rationale of burning soils, 66. 



Rationale of lime ai>i)li d to the soil, 4J. 



Reason for the diflcrcnt effects of drjf 

 seasons on lawns, 153. 



Reasons for the use of hollow walls, «5. 



Recommendation for stciile soil, i58. 



Red brick for jjarden walls, 91. 



Red goo:^ebe^rics, 74. 



Red spider, 3/2. 



