CONTENTS. 



Page 

 IXTBODUCTIOy .1 



CHAPTER I. 

 Stirring the Soil 3 



CHAPTER II. 



On Soils and Manures: including the Formation of 

 Hotbeds 20 



CHAPTER III. 



Sowing Seeds. — Planting Bulbs and Tubers. — Trans- 

 planting and Watering 35 



CHAPTER IV. 



Modes of Propagation by Division ; viz. Taking off 

 Suckers, Making Layers and Cuttings, Budding, 

 Grafting, and Inarching 58 



CHAPTER V. 



Pruning, Training, Protecting from Frost, and Destroy- 

 ing Insects 95 



