INDEX. 



383 



Introduction, 5. 



Implements and materials for gar- 

 dening, 368. 



Kitchen gardening, 38. 

 Kitchen and flower gardening com- 

 pared, 46. 



Liquid manure, 25. 



Laying out a garden, 34. 



Layering, 222. 



Landscape gardening, 271. 

 Ditto, first steps in, 276. 



Low grounds and valleys, 289. 



Lakes, formation of, 298. 



Lawns, making and management 

 of, 151. 



Landscape gardening, general ob- 

 servations on, 311. 



Manures, 19. 



Ditto, chemical, 365. 



Ditto, liquid, 25. 

 Marl, 24. 



^Mould, vegetable, 19. 

 Mulching. 33. 

 Manure-tanks, 26. 

 Muck-heap, 27. 

 Mushroom-beds, 137. 

 Mowing machines, 153. 

 Mounds and hills, 285. 

 Mildew, 372. 

 Mice, destruction of, 220. 



Night-soil, 21. 



Neats' and sheep's dung, 20. 



Nursery gardens, 103. 



Ornamental water, 287. 

 Orchard, laying out and manage- 

 ment of, 70. 



Ditto, choice of trees for and 

 planting, 71. 



Practical gardening, 13. 

 Pigs' dung, 21. 

 Peat or bog earth, 29. 

 Pasture, top spit of, 30. 

 Pricking out, 42. 

 Planting, 48. 



Ditto, proper season for, 49. 



Ditto, in bad soil, 62. 

 Privet hedge, 67. 



Planting fruit-trees, 73. 

 Poor ground preparing, 74. 

 Paths, 85. 



Pot growing system, 97. 

 Pot culture to furnish beds, 108. 

 Pits, brick, 130. 



Plants, protection of in open 

 ground, 141. 



Ditto, ditto, in pots, 146. 

 Ditto, groAving in pots, 156. 

 Potting soil and composts for, 158. 

 Plants in pots, watering, 160. 

 Plants, room required for, 162. 

 Potting plants, 163. 



Ditto bulbs, 165. 

 Pots, shifting, 166. 

 Potted plants, general manage- 

 ment of, 167. 



Ditto, air and ventilation for, 

 168. 

 Plants and flowers, forcing, 170. 

 Plants for rooms, 327. 

 Plants, growing, for home decora- 

 tion and for exhibition, 175. 

 Ditto, stove, 180. 

 Ditto, greenhouse, 181. 

 Pruning and training in general, 

 185. 



Ditto, figs, 193. 

 Ditto, standard trees, 195. 

 Ditto, dwarf trees, 196. 

 Ditto, standard roses, climbers, 



and bushes, 196. 

 Ditto, currants and goose- 

 berries, 201. 

 Ditto, the vine, 203. 

 Ditto, root, 207. 

 Propagation, 221. 



Ditto, layering, 222. 

 Ditto, suckers, 230, 

 Ditto, grafting, 230. 

 Ditto, inarching, 233. 

 Ditto, root grafting, 235. 

 Ditto, cleft grafting, 236. 

 Ditto, budding, 238. 

 Ditto, cuttings, 243. 

 Ditto, eyes or buds, 253. 

 Perennials, hardy, 323. 

 Ditto, stove, 323. 

 Ditto, greenhouse, 323. 

 Pruning black currants, 374. 

 Pleasure grounds, formation of, 84. 



