INDEX. 



337 



Earth-worms, 79 

 Eleocharis ccespitosa, 119 

 Elm, 117 



ulcerous discharge from, 2 SI 



Empedocles, 3 

 Endemics of plants, 254 

 Epidennis of plants, 125, 254 

 Ericce, 116 

 Etiolation, 147 



Evergreens tiTinspire little, 137 

 Excrements of plants, 52 

 Exercise of plants, 105 

 Exhalation, most when the air is 



agitated, 222 

 Experiments, how to try, 100 

 Extravasated sap, 298 



Fair maid of France, 204 



Fallowing, 53, 60 



Female tiowers, to produce, 326 



Fennel, 119 



Fern, 113 



Fertile soil, 82, 84 



Filbert pruning, 175 



Fingers and toes, 137 



Fish as manure, 90 



Flower, the, 185 



its organization, 186 



its uses, 187 



absorbs oxygen, 189 



its colour, 190 



Flues, 228 



Fogs, cause of, 24 



on undi-ained soil, 123 



Food of plants, tluid, 68, 330 

 Fork preferable for digging, 62 

 Form of plants accommodated to 



circumstances, 171 

 Forsyth's plaster for trees, 293 

 Forward soils, 85 

 Freezing soils, its effect, 65 



plants, its effect, 328 



Frcst, to prevent its being inju- 

 rious, 318 

 , its effect on rose seed, 15 



Frost, depth it penetrates, 20 

 Fruit, 212 . 



process of ripening, 214 



intluence of its colour, 223 



influence of its skin, 224 



influence of moisture, 237 



why it cracks, 23 S 



storing, 239 



Fruitfulness, to promote, 166 

 Fuchsia gro%ving, 318 



Fuel, comparative value of, 225 



heating power of, 226 



should be dry, 227 



Full flowers, 204 

 Furze, 115 



Grangra;na sicca, 279 



saniosa, 280 



Grardening defined, 1 

 Grases applied to roots, 81 

 Gathering fruit, 239 

 Geic acid, 330. 

 Germination, essentials for, 8 



heat required, 13 



prevented by heat, 13 



periods of, differ, 14, 



42 



temperatures for, 16 



water required, 29 



quantity necessar}', 



quality impoitant, 30 

 promoted by chlorine, 



injured by some salts, 



does not occur in 

 some liquids, 31 



injured b}' sudden 



29 



31 



31 



changes, 32 



46 



reqmres oxygen, 35 

 in the light, 41 

 not to be checked, 42 

 evolves carbonic acid. 



