INDEX. 



757 



Suburban gardenin?, 9. 



Suburban villa kitchen-garden, 168. 



Sudden changes of temperature to be 

 avoided, 625. 



Sudden changes to be avoided, 628. 



Sugar-cane highly ornamental, 306. 



Suggestions for herbaceous flower-bor- 

 ders, 314. 



Sulphate of lime, or Ep«om salts, 22. 



Sulphate of iron applied to peaches, 565. 



Sulphur, 13. 



Sulphur as a remedy for red spider, 418. 



Suljdiuretted hydrogen, 13. 



Summer-houses, 113. 



Summer-house and plan, 11.^. 



Summer treatment of pot-roses, 649. 



Summer pruning for weak trees, 367. 



Sunflower, 271. 



Superphoj-pbates, 388. 



Support for chalk and clay walls, 90. 



Surlace crops, 1/0. 



Surface creepers for baskets, 399. 



Surface and character of soil, 143. 



Suface-dressing for roses, 651. 



Surface of roads, 107. 



Surface- weeding recommended, 501. 



Surplus stock, 165. 



Surprises in the flower-garden, .500. 



Suspended nets for ripe fruit, 493. 



Swarming bees, 439. 



Sweating apples and pears, 486. 



Sweet-herb garden, 404; parsley, jV/.; 

 sage, ib. ; thyme, 405 ; mint, if?. -. fennel, 

 ib. ; rue, ib. : ro-emary, ib. ; balm, ib. 



Sweet herbs, 276, 372, 510. 



Sweet peas, 271. 



Sweetwilliams, 358. 



Swine's dung : its properties, 523. 



Symmetrical training of plants, 292. . 



System of grouping and rotation, 73. 



System at Frogmorc, 92. 



System of rotation, 277. 



System of surface-draining of the Horti- 

 cultural Society's gardens, 59. 



Tank for manure, 50. 



Tanks above tbe level of the surface, 50. 



Tea-plant on a north border, 274. 



Tea-roses on walls, 80. 



Tea-scented roses, 602. 



Tea-scented roses fit for standards, 643. 



Temperature for the conservatory, 284, 



626. 

 Temperature of conservatories without 



heating apparatus, 242. 

 Temperature of cucumber-frames, 185. 

 Temperature of dung-beds, 289. 

 Temperature of forcing-house, 190. 

 Temperature of frame for half-hardy 



annuals, 271. 

 Temperature of fruit-room, 490. 

 Temperature of June, 398. 

 Temperature of pinery, 288. 

 Temperature of propagatmg- house, 272. 



Temperature of stove-house, 286, 633, 

 Temperature of the months, 356. 

 Temperature of the month of March, 



264. 

 Temperature of the sloping, black, and 



free-tone wall, 84. 

 Temperature of water for pines, 288. 

 Temperature of water for watering 



plants, 266. 

 Temporary copings, 87. 

 Temporary fencing young groups of trees, 



78. 

 Tender annuals, 344. 

 Tender annuals transplant in July, 458. 

 Tender annuals, 357; cockscomb, ib.; 



balsams, ib.; amaranths, ib.; egg- 

 plants, ib. ; in frames, 3')8. 

 Tender annuals, prick out, 211; prepare 



hotbeds for, ib. ; how to remove, ib. 

 Tennis-ball cabbage lettuce, 183. 

 Ten weeks stock, 384, 506, 549. 

 Ten weeks stock, sow, 312. 

 Termini for curved walks. 111. 

 Terra-cotta pillars, 64. 

 Terrace ribbon-borders, 657. 

 Tei raced gardens, 3. 



Terraced gardens at Windsor Gardens, 65. 

 Terraced gardens o' the Romans, 3. 

 Terraces at Powis Castle, 64. 

 Tertiary formation, 15. 

 Tests applied to soils, 20. 

 Tests of a ripe pear, 488. 

 Texture of soil for free-growing plants, 



285. 

 The arum, 135. 

 The conservatory, 284. 

 The gall-flies, 140. 

 The gate of the year, 174. 

 The greenhouse, 285. 

 The little weevil, 141. 

 The Needles, 25. 

 The yellow-tail moth, 140. 

 Theatre of cypresses, 100. 

 Theobalds, 5, 6. 

 Theophrastes graft, ill. 

 Theoretical gardening, 70. 

 Theory of damp and dry air, 30. 

 Thickness of ihe wall, 84. 

 Thick-skinned fruits the best keepers, 



4S6. 

 Thompson's boiler, 259. 

 Thrips, 372, 464. 



Thrips: how to exterminate, 142. 

 Thrips in fruit-house, 57 1. 

 Thunderstorms : their electric nature 



525. 

 Thyme, 335. 



Tile-beds for grass-plots, 275. 

 Tillage of light sandy soil, 168. 

 Time for cucumber-growing, 184. 

 Time for planting ail hardy gladioli, 269. 

 Time for makhig hotbeds, 184. 

 Time for planting deciduous trees, 178. 

 Time for planting endive, 18S. 

 Time for procuring crocuses, 179» 

 Time for root-pruning, 283. 



