756 



GAEDEN MANAGEJIEXT. 



Soil and composts, 265. 

 Soil and subsoil of the Horticultural So- 

 ciety's gardens, 59. 

 Soil for belding-plaiit', 180. 

 Soil of orchard, l6o. 

 Soil for crocuses, 178. 

 Soil tor dahlia-cuttings, 272. 

 Soil for deepeners, 170 

 Soil for ferns, 286. 

 Soil for flower-garden, 701. 

 Soil for free-growing plants, 285. 

 Sod for gladioli, 259. 

 Soil for half-hardy annuals, 271. 

 Soil for hotbeds, 185. 

 Soil of kitchen garden, 162. 

 Soil for lawiis, 153. 

 Soil for leguminous plants, 24. 

 Soil for lettuces, iS3. 

 Soil for melons, 1S6. 

 Si )il for parsley, 277. 

 Soil for pillar-roses, 645. 

 Soil for planting cabbage, 280. 

 Soil for potting bedding- plants, 2/2. 

 Soil for rhododendrons, 153. 

 Soil for seakale in melon-pits, 186. 

 Soil for surface crops, 171. 

 Soil for violets, 136. 



Soil in a dry state, 160 ; in a wet state, ib. 

 Soil in a reserve- garden, 165, 166. 

 Soil to strike geraniums in, 133. 

 Soil unfit for the eermination of seed, l6o. 

 Soil under the microscope, 160. 

 Soil when burnt, 20. 

 Soils : their origin and formation, 11. 

 Soils for pot-culture, 291 ; >olt wooded 



plants, ib. , hard- wooded plants, i'j. 

 Solar and artificial heat, 633. 

 Solar influence, 86. 

 Solitude of vast extent, 33. 

 Soot- wash for insects in gooseberries, 414. 

 Sour humus destroyed by burning peat 



soils, 46. 

 Southern aspect for walls, 169. 

 Spanish beet, 334. 

 Span-roofed Ijuildmgs, 49. 

 Suan-roofed house, 242. 

 Sparrows the gardener's best ally, 141. 

 Specimen plants of scarlet geraniums, 



418. 

 Spinach, 74, 330, 376, 505, 564, 677- 

 Spinach between rows of peas, 281. 

 Spiral-rooted polygonium, 170. 

 Spitalfields florists' gardens, 100. 

 Spot in pelargoniums : its cause and 



cure, 628. 

 Spotted geraniums, list of, 631. 

 Sprays of Scotch fir for protecting 



peaches and nectarines, 282. 

 Spring and summer treatment of roses ui 



pots, 652. 

 Spring bulbs, 401. 

 Spring flowers, 269. 

 Spring-pruning roses, 642. 

 Spring- sown annuals, l64. 

 Sprinss about Norsvood, 266. 

 Spruce in the grounds, Sandhurst Col- 

 lege, ]06. 



Spur bearing fruit, 325. 



St. Andrew's cross- bed, 276. 



Stable-yard manure. 523. 



Stakes for weeping roses, 644. 



Staking standard roses, 642. 



Standard fruit-trees, 51 ) . 



Standard roses : how employed, 640. 



Standard tree-roses, 642. 



Standard trees, 408, 7O8, 710. 



Starer beds, 556. 



Starting lew grapes, 6S5. 



State of soil for sowing early peas, ISI. 



State of soU for sowing smaU seeds, 167, 



Station for roses, 641 . 



Stations for rose trees, 313. 



Statues in garden scenerj-, 112. 



Sticking peas, 182. 



St. James's Park laid out, 6. 



Stocks, 383. 



Stocks for standard roses, 641. 



Stones and gravel m soils, 18. 



Stones or bushes instead of pipes for 



draming, 265. 

 Stone walls, 77, 85. 

 Stony or sandy soil, 168. 

 Stopping fruit-trees, 367. 

 Stopping vines, 341. 



Storifying system of managmg bees, 441. 

 Storing fruit, 482. 

 Storing fruit in baskets and hampers, 



487. 

 Storing fruit in boxes with sawdust, 487. 

 Storing potatoes for immediate use, 4C4. 

 Storing processes, 485. 

 Storing roots and vegetables, 494. 

 Stove, 714. 



Stove climbers, 417, 472. 

 Stove-house, 236. 

 Stove-plants, 471, 503, 509. 

 Stove-plants : their treatment, 632. 

 Straight carriage-roads, 106. 

 Stratification of railway banks, 11. 

 Strawberries, 74, 223, 325, 342, 343, 368, 



413, 506, 511, 567, 621. 

 Strawberries on banks and terraces, 506. 

 Strawberries, enormous crops of, 675. 

 Strawherries in orchai'd-houses, 638. 

 Strawberries in pots, how to preserve, 



414, 638. 



Strawberries in the market-gardens, 506. 

 Strawberries: new plantations, 505. 

 Strawberries, soil for, 505. 

 Strawberries under glass, 288. 

 Strawberry-beds, 136. 

 Strawberry-forcing, 425, 721. 

 Striking choice melons, 289. 

 Striking verbenas, 179- 

 Striking geraniums, 133. 

 Stringing onions, 495. 

 Striped varieties of crocuses, 178. 

 Strong and eflicient mode of grafting, 



122. 

 Stumps of old pollards, 67. 

 Styles of gardening, 50. 

 Substitute for peat, 153. 

 Substitute for Russian garden-mats, 267. 

 Suburban gardens, 3S7. 



