INDEX. 



759 



Vegetab'e marrows, 4-27 ; sowing, i'j.\ 

 soil, ib. 



Vegetable marrows : tlieir cultivation, 

 289. 



Vegetable mould, 11. 



Vegetable refuse, ~3. 



Vegetables suitable for the lutchen- 

 garden, 74. 



Vegetables in shade, l68. 



Vegetation of the chalk hills, 14. 



Vegetation of the oolite formation, 13. 



Ventilating apparatus, 254. 



Ventilation of the forcing-houses, Frog- 

 more, 245. 



Ventilation cf stoves, 633. 



Ventilation of the fruit-room, 492. 



Venus's looking-glass, 271. 



Veronica syriaca, 74, 271, 356, 379, 380, 

 405, 501, 6l6, 712. 



Vicarage gardens, 385. 



Vinery, cleaning and preparing, 636. 



Villa d'Este, 98. 



Vine borders, 71 8. 



Vine borders and planting, 423 ; state of 

 the house at starting, ib.; watering, 

 ib. ; air, 424 ; thinning, ib. 



Vineries, 287, 685. 



Vinery, 474 ^ keeping grapes, ib.; air, 

 ib. 



Vines, 192, 675, 717; planting young 

 vines, ib. ; mulching, ib. ; best sorts, ib. 



Vines for out-doors, 73, 468. 



Vines in pots, 192, 325, 341, 424, 514, 527, 

 572,574, 681. 



Vines .started in October, 192. 



Vines, thin out and stop, 414. 



Vines in Paxton's houses, 247. 



Vineyards in Gloucestershire, 4. 



Violet-beds, 314. 



Virgil's description of the site of a bee- 

 garden, 443. 



Virginian stock, 271- 



Viscaria oculata, 271. 



Vital principle of plants, 115. 



Vivid description of a garden, 27. 



Walker's mode of heating, 86. 



Walker's opinion, S3. 



Walks of concrete, 110. 



Walks, log. 



Walks at the Horticultural Society's 

 gardens, 60. 



Wallflowers, 338, 4(i3, 



Walls at Dalkeith Palace, 86. 



Walls in France, 83. 



Walls in flower-gardens, 80. 



Walls of Italian eardens, 82. 



Walls at White Knight's Park, 80. 



Walnuts, 493. 



Warm and cool colours, 555. 



Warming and ventilating, 256. 



Warming by steam, 258. 



Warmth necessary to a healthy garden- 

 site, 30. 



Warmth of earth two feet deep, 188. 



Wash all plants admitted to houses, 



628. 

 Wash for mildew, 145. 

 Wash to clear fruit-trees from moss, 145. 



Wash to protect trees from hares and 

 rabbits, 145. 



Wasp and nest, 143. 



Wasps, 143. 



Waste of manures, 50, 423. 



Water, 50, 266. 



Water, physical and chemical, 13. 



Water, spring, 31 ; rain, ib. ; lake, ib.; 

 river, ib. , chalybeate, ib. ; hot-spring. 

 ib. ; saline, ib. ; Clarke's process fo . 

 purifying London, 32. 



Water decomposes rocks, 17. 



Watering fresh-potted plants, 292 j re- 

 quires tact and system, ib. 



Watering plants in winter, 676. 



Watering heaths, 337. 



Watering in winter, 677. 



Waterproof and air-proof glazing without 

 putty, 255. 



Water-supply of London, 98. 



Watelet's gardens, 3. 



Wax produced from honey, 4, 35. 



Weather for buddhig roses, 400. 



Weather most suitable for grafting, 129. 



Weeds and moss on gravel-walks and 

 paved yards, 144. 



Weeks' heatmg principle, 256. 



Weeping-roses : how treated, 643 



Weevil, little, 141. 



Wells', Dr., experiment, 81. 



West's St Peter's grape, 3/4. 



Wet walls in summer, 87. 



Wheat and peas grown successively on 

 the same soil, 170. 



When to gather fruit, 482. 



Whinstone, 83. 



Width of carriage-roads, 107. 



Width of lodge-gates, 81. 



Width of walks. 111. 



Wildflowers as an indication of soils, 24. 



Wildflowers of May, 355. 



Wilhelm fountain at Hesse-Cassel, S6. 



Wind an agent in destroying rocks, 18. 



Window- gardening, 237, 290, 381, 42?, 

 478, 724 ; plants suitable for, ib. ; plants 

 most suitable in August, 429 i baskets, 

 ib. 



Winter- cultivation of pines, 637. 



Winter-dressing for fruit-trees, 675. 



Winter garden, 242, 701. 



Winter heaths, list of, 713. 



Winter quarters for potted roses, 651. 



Winter treatment in conservatory, 627. 



Winter treatment of plants, 676. 



Wire or wood trellis of the face o 

 walls, 87. 



Wireworm, 145. 



Wireworm-trap, 506. 



Women cultivators of the kitchen-gar- 

 dens of the Romans, 2. 



Wood-ashes, 527. 



Wooden -park-lences,76. 



