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INDEX. 



Refuse of culinary vegetables, 31. 

 Removing a tree or shrub, 16. 



large trees, 49. 



Renovating gravel walks, 121. 



Repotting, 292. 



Rliipsalis, 321. 



Rhodochiton, 322. 



Rhubarb, 127. 



Ridging, 15. 



Rock work, 272-278. 



Root, uses of the, 4, 5. 41. 



Rose baskets, 271. 



beetle, 112. 



chafer, 112. 



des quatre saisons, 266. 



gardens, 270. 



Roseries, 270. 

 Roses, 265. 



Rose trees, mode of budding, 76. 

 ■ to protect from insects, 



111. 

 Rotation of crops, 128. 

 Rough potting, 204. 

 Rules for budding, 78. 



grafting, 93. 



making cuttings, 74. 



manuring, 33. 



— transplanting, 44. 



to be observed in watering, 



56. 

 Runners, 59. 



of strawberries, 127. 



Rustic baskets, 284. 



summer-houses, 282. 



Saddle-grafting, 84. 

 Sage, 157. 

 Salad plants, 151. 

 Salsifv, 147. 

 Saltpetre, 33. 

 Sandy soil, 24. 

 Savory, 158. 

 Savovs, 131. 

 Saw-flies, 108. 

 Scaly bulbs, 333. 

 Scarlet runners, 139. 

 Scion, 74. 79. 

 Scissors for gardens, 97- 

 Scorzonera, 147. 

 Scotch kale, 135. 



roses, 268. 



Sea-kale, 125. 



Seats, 282, 283. 



Secateur, 96. 



Seedling pears, mode of testing, 94. 



Seeds, sowing, 35. 



■ vegetation of, 4. 



September, 333. 



Shading, when necessary, 41. 43. 



Shallot, 151. 



Shell slug, 113. 



Shreds for training, 102. 



Shrubbery, 260. 



Shrubs, 260. 



Shuker Para, a new Syrian apricot, 



177. 

 Silica, 23. 

 Silver sand, 68. 

 Skirret, 147. 



Slip to the kitchen garden, 117. 

 Slips, 73. 

 Slugs, 113. 



Smoothness in digging, 13. 

 Snails, 113, 323. 

 Soapy water, 52. 

 Soda, 23. 

 Soil for a kitchen garden, 117. 



for plants in pots, 292. 



kinds of, 21-24. 



preparation of the, for seeds 



and plants, 3. 



■ stirring the, 3. 



Soils, the most productive, 24. 



Solid bulbs, 40. 



Sollya, 322. 



Soot, 32. 



Sorrel, 148. 



Sowing grass seeds. 255. 258. 



seeds, 35, 214. 



on a hotbed, 29. 



Spade for a lady, 8. 

 Spanish chestnut, 197. 



tinder, 110. 



Spinach, 148. 



Spongioles, 5. 41. 

 Spring cabbages, 130. 

 radishes, 147. 



water, 55. 



Spurs, 102. 

 Squamose bulbs, 39. 



Stable dung, when in the most fit 



state to use as manure, 26. 

 Staking trees, 48. 

 Standard fruit trees, 184. 



roses, 270. 



Stanwick nectarine, 172. 

 Steeping seeds in oxalic acid, 39. 

 Stirring the soil, 3. 



Stock, 74. 79. 



and scion prepared for in- 

 arching, 87. 



Stone coping, 167. 



fruits, 171, 172. 



Stool, 62. 

 Strawberries, 126. 

 Straw rope, 104. 

 Striking cuttings, 72. 

 Subsoil, 21. 

 Succory, 153. 

 Succulent plants, 319-321. 



cuttings of, 73. 



Suckers, 58. 



Suedia green-gage apricot, 1/7- 

 Sugar peas, 136. 

 Sulphur, 23. 



Summary of rules for manuring, 

 33. 



