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INDEX. 



Carrots, 145. 



Cauliflowers, 132-134. 



Celery, 154. 



Cereus, 320. 



Chamber for fruit trees, 168. 



Charcoal, 32. 70. 140. 



Chatsworth, rockwork at, 274. 



Cherrv, 180. 



Chervil, 156. 



Chicory, 153. 



China flower-pots, 296. 



China-rose, a cutting of the, 71. 



Chinese cherry, 180. 



mode of layering, 62. 



Chives, 151. 

 Chopped turf, 32. 

 Chrysanthemums, 227. 

 Clay, 21. 



Cleft-grafting, 83. 

 Climbing plants, 321. 



■ roses, 268. 



Cobcea, 322. 



Cockchafer, 112. 



Cold manures, 30. 



Coleworts, 131. 



Collar of a plant, not to be buried, 



44. 

 Colours for a flower-garden, 209. 



■ how to combine, 209. 



Colurna hazel, 199. 

 Compo>ts, 34. 

 Constantinople nut, 199. 

 Corms, 40. 241. 

 Corn flag, 241. 



salad, 154. 



Covered seats, 282. 



Covering seeds, 36. 



Cow-dung, 30. 



Cranberry, 204. 



Crataegus, 262. 



Cress, 154. 



Crocuses, 240. 289. 



Cropping a kitchen garden, 122. 



1'rops, permanent, 122. 



■ rotation of, 128. 



temporary, 122. 128. 



Crown-grafting, 84. 

 Cucumbers, 158. 

 Currants, 202. 

 Curtain of bunting, 170. 

 Cuttings, 64. 



of cacti, 73. 



points to be attended to 



in making, 74. 



D. 



Dahlia, 245. 

 Dahlias, 327.335. 



budding, 77. 



Darkness promotes germination,37. 

 Decay, 26. 

 Decayed leaves, 31. 

 December, 336. 



Deciduous plants, when to trans- 

 plant, 42. 



Delacroix's mode of striking cut- 

 tings, <;8. 



Derby Arboretum, 265. 



Destroying insects, 106-114. 



Dibber, use of the, 45. 



Digging, 3. 



common mode of, 7. 



operation of, 10. 



practice of, 7. 



simple, 11. 



time for, 11. 



uses of, 5. 



Diplacus, 317. 

 Disbudding, 98. 

 Draw-hoe, 17. 



Dried aromatic herbs, 158. 



Dunensamie, 235. 



Dwarf apple of Armenia, 186. 



E. 



Early peas, 135, 136. 

 Earths which enter into the com- 

 position of plants, 23. 

 Earth-worms, 113. 

 Eccremoearpus, 322. 

 Eehinocacti, 320. 

 Edgings of box, 121. 

 Eggs of insects, 323. 



snails, 114. 



Elder, 185. 194. 



Elvaston Castle, rockwork at, 274. 



Endive, 153. 



Erminemoth, 108. 



Espaliers, 181. 



Etruscan flower-pot, 297. 



F. 



February, 324. 

 Fennel, 156. 

 Fermentation, 26. 



- — of dung, use of, 25. 



Fertile soils, 24. 



Fig trees, 180. 



Filbert, 185. 198. 



Finochio, 156. 



Finning the ground, 35. 



Fixing with water, 47. 



Flies, to protect fruit from, 334. 



Florists' flowers, 219. 



Flower-garden, 205. 



pots, 295-299. 



Flowers, culture of, 205. 213. 



Flute-grafting, 77. 



Food of plants, 20. 



Forking, 16. 



Formation of hotbeds, 27. 



Fountains, 286-288. 



French grafting-clay, 92. 



roses, 267. 



■ spinach, 148. 



