INDEX. 



755 



Saxifrages, 382. 



Scale on ferns, 28/. 



Scale : white, black, and brown, how to 

 eradicate, 627. 



Scarlet geraniums, 238, 3/3, 418. 



Scarlet-runner, 363. 



Scorzoneras, 335, 3/0, 411. 



Scotch rose, 594. 



Scottish gardens, 4. 



Screen delicate plants from rains, 419. 



Screen of hollyhocks and chrysanthe- 

 mums, 394. 



Seakale, 278, 343, 368, 409, 620, 673, 

 707. 



Seakale grown in nine months, 563. 



Seakale in a market- garden, 460. 



Seakale in melon- pits, 186. 



Season for budding rose*, 400. 



Season for planting roses, 313. 



Seasonable flowers for vases, 315. 



Seats at Leasowes, 114. 



Seats in gardens, 113. 



Secondary group of rocks, 12. 



Second swarm of bees, 447. 



Secret of burning strong clay, 45. 



Secret of successful fruit-culture, 94. 



Section of forcing-house and hot-pits, 

 234. 



Section of greenhouse and cold-pits, 252. 



Section of lean-to vineiy, 247. 



Section of orchard-house, 249. 



Section of pinery, 249. 



Section of vinery and plant-house, 248. 



Security necessary for a garden-site, 29. 



Sedimentary rocks, 12. 



Seedling biennials, 358. 



Seedling Chinese primroses, 419- 



Seedling geraniums, 502 ; seedlings, ib. ; 

 soil, 533 ; form of bed, ib. ; making the 

 bed, ib. ; planting, ib. ; protection from 

 frost, ib. ; coming into bloom, ib. ; 

 ripening the bulbs, ib. ; storing away, 

 ib. ; planting out, ib. ; byblomens, ib. ; 

 bizarres, ii.; selfs, 534. 



Seeding perennials, 358. 



Seeds, II6. 



Selecting ground for kitchen-garden, 168. 



Self-elevating power of crocusc*, 179. 



Semi stove plants: their wmtcr-treat- 

 ment, 6V- 



Scorzoneras, 674. 



September : its general aspect, 545 j tem- 

 perature, ib. 



Serpentine ribbon-borders, 659. 



Setting cucumber-fruit, 186. 



Sewage removal and water-supply, SO. 



Shading for plant-houses, 419. 



Shading from the sun, 398. 



Shading plants, 164. 



Shading the beds, 530. 



Shading the entrances, 639. 



Shape and dimensions of garden, 71. 



Shape of roads, 107. 



Shape and extent of gravel in front of the 

 house, 105. 



Shape of walks, 110. 



Sheds for composts, 7 0. 



Sheep's dung : its properties, 523. 



Shelter conducive to heat, 30. 



Shelter essentially necessary, 530. 



Shelter for fruit, 83. 



Sheltering roots of ripe grapes, 6S5. 



Shenstone's inscription on his root-house, 

 114. 



Shenstone strictures, 6. 



Shield-grafting, 126. 



Shifting potted roses, 649. 



Shouts selected for budding or grafting, 

 129. 



Show dahlias, 702, 



Show geraniums, list'of, 630. 



Show tulips, 704. 



Shrivelled Muscats, 637. 



shrivelling grapes, 685. 



Shrubberies, 213, 272,391, 507, 547, 6I 

 61s, 671. 



Shrubberies on poor soils, 177* 



Shrubbery in April, 303. 



Shrubby flowering plants, 671. 



Shrub-planting, 691. 



Shrubs cut into shapes, 458. 



Shrubs and flowers at the sides of fish- 

 ponds, 101. 



Side-graftiner, 121. 



Signs of bees swarming, 445. 



Sitcns of green-fly on peach-trees, 413. 



Silica or silex, 23, 527 j how evolved, 20. 



Silurian group, 12. 



Silver-sand, 527. 



Simple colours, 552. 



Simple mode of making ovals, 155. 



Simphcity of modern gardens, 9. 



Simplicity of Paxton's houses, 250. 



Single yellow hyacinth*, 632 ; ditto white 

 ditto, 683 ; ditto blue ditto, ib. ; ditto 

 red ditto, ib. 



Siphon principle, 258. 



Sir Uvedale Price, 8. 



Site for a garden, 26. 



Site for a range of houses, 253. 



Site for the bee-garden, 443. 



Site of the florists'-flower garden, 531. 



Size and kinds of drains, 41. 



Size of kitchen- garden, 162. 



Size of pots for geraniums and verbenas, 

 179. 



Size of reserve-garden, 166. 



Skeleton leaves : mode of preparation, 497. 



Slaked lime, 22. 



Sliding scale of temperature recom- 

 mended, 625. 



Slit-grafting, 122. 



Sloping banks in kitchen- gardens, 162 



Sloping wall in frosty weather, 84. 



Slugs, 144. 



Small gardens : their arrangement, 380- 



Small greenhouses, 480 ; their conve- 

 nience, ib. ; fuchsias, ib. ; suitable 

 plants for, ib. 



Small house and large garden, 2S. 



Snowdrops, 359, 684. 



Society versus solitude, 33. 



Soda: how obtamed, and its uses, 22. 



Soft-wooded plants, 291. 



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