134 THE BOOK OF THE SWEET PEA 



Decorations, how grace and beauty 



is lost, 117. 



in hand-baskets, 118. 



in bowls, 117. 



in trumpet vases, 117. 



kind of vase to use, 117. 



in the home, 117. 



rotundity of finish, 119. 



metal cones for inserting in 



hand-baskets, 118. 

 Designs in sweet peas, 116. 

 Dicks, Mr S. B., 9. 

 Distance apart to plant, 66. 

 Douglas, Mr James, 27. 



EARLIER flowers, by which method, 



55- 

 Early morninggathering of blooms, 



92. 



Eckford. Mr Henry, 3. 

 " Eckford 's Strain," 4. 

 Epergnes, tall unpopular, 1 13. 



ugly, H2. 



Essentials of a garden sweet pea, 



43- 

 Excellent results from cuttings, 



62. 



Exclusion of soils from trials, 7. 

 Exhibiting artistically, 104. 



methods of, 99. 



Experts' opinion, result of, 120. 



FEEDING the plants, 84. 



Feed the birds, 74. 



Fish netting pea guards, 74. 



Floral Committee of the National 



Sweet Pea Society, 6, 120, 123. 

 Flowers, receptacles for, 112. 



use fresh, 115. 



Foster, Mr Charles, 6. 

 Furber, Mr Robert, 13. 



GATHERING sweet peas, 70. 



exhibition blooms, 93. 



early morning best time, 92. 



when to gather the flowers, 



92. 

 Glass, when to sow under, 38. 



Grasses and foliage, 114. 

 Green fly, 129. 

 Guided by circumstances, 64. 

 Gypsophila, use of discouraged, 

 103. 



HAAGE & SCHMIDT, Messrs, 16. 



Hand-baskets, in. 



Harmonies of colour in decorations, 



in. 



Heavy feeding not desirable, 86. 

 Heavy soils, watering plants in, 



84. 

 Highly coloured kinds, plant 



together, 89. 

 How to crock pots, 58. 

 How to deal with heavy soils, 47. 



light soils, 48. 



How new sweet peas are raised, 



94- 



How to cross-fertilise, 95. 



IMPROVED methods of exhibiting, 



100. 



Indoor and outdoor sowing, 52. 

 Insert stakes in upright position, 



80. 



LARD tubs, culture in, 36. 



Laxton, Mr Thomas, 19. 



Length of cutting, 61. 



Length of stakes, 78. 



Life, plants new lease of. 107. 



Light soils, watering plants in, 



84. 



Looking backward, 3. 

 Lower staging at shows, 104. 



MANURE water, 41. 



March sowing most popular, 65. 



Margarine pans, culture in, 36. 



Metal cones for hand-baskets, 

 118. 



Metal ware, rustic, for table-de- 

 corations, 112. 



Michaelmas Daisy, seared growth 

 for stakes, 78. 



