INDEX. 



225 



MAX 



Manure for the onion, 190, 191 



peach, 46 



pink, 115 



rhubarb, 175 



rose, 96 



Tine, 19, 29, 32 

 Marketing of grapes, 35 

 Mats, straw, 185 



how to make them, 185, 186 

 Melon, cultivation of the, 74-77, 80 



seeds, 77 



varieties of the, 76 



the water, 77 

 Melon-house, the, 73 



Melon, the, in pits and frames, 77, 78 



grown in tanks, 80 

 Melons, growing early, 73, 74 

 Monthly Calendar for the forcing 



garden, 198-221 

 Asparagus-pit, the 

 Balsam house, the 

 Calceolaria-house, the 

 Camellia-house, the 

 Cineraria-house, the 

 Cucumber-house, the 

 Dwarf-bean house, the 

 Early carrot house, the 

 Early pea-frame and glasses, 



the 

 Early potato house and frame, 



the 



Early vinery, the 

 Fern -house, the 

 Geranium-house, the 

 Gesneraceous-house, the 

 Gooseberry-house, the 

 Heath-house, the 

 Late vinery, the 

 Lily-of-the-valley and Christ- 

 mas-rose pit 

 Melon-house, the 

 Mushroom-house, the 

 Peach-house and wall peaches 

 Pink and carnation-house, the 

 Plant forcing- house, the 

 Plum-house and cherry-house 

 Rhubarb forcing 

 Rose forcing-house, the 

 Sea-kale forcing 



PRU 



Moss roses, forcing, 97, 98 

 Mushroom, the, 181-188 

 Mushroorn-bed, the, 183, 184 

 Mushroom-house, the, 181-186 

 its construction, 182-187, 188, 



189 

 Mushroom-spawn, 189 



^TITRATE of soda, 70 



ONION, the, 190 

 growing, 191-193 



varieties of, 190 



Open wall-peach protector, 41-44 

 Orchard-houses, 37 

 cheapest way to build, 37 

 Oxygen necessary to colour grapes, 7 



FA-FRAME, the, 161 

 its construction, 162, 163 

 Pea-glasses, 164, 165 

 Peach house, the, 37, 45 



its arrangement, 39 



Peach and grape-house combined, 40 

 Peach-protector, the, 41-44 

 Peaches, planting, 45 



sending to market, 36 



soil for, 45 

 Pink, the, 113 



its cultivation, 113-117 



best manure for, 115 



varieties of, 117 



forcing-house, the, 111, 112 

 its construction, 111, 117, 118 



and carnation-house, the, 1 1 1 

 Plum, cultivation of the, 4952 

 Plum-house, the, 47 



its arrangement, 49 

 Pot plums, 39, 49 

 Pot vines, 33 



their treatment, 33 



varieties, 34 



Potato, the, 156 

 Potato-planting, 157 

 Potato forcing-house, the 157-160 

 Pruning the vine, 22-26 



