INDEX 



Seat, garden, 69. 



Seed-bed, 154. 



Seed, for lawn, 149. 



Seedlings, pottings of, 173. 



Seeds, buying of, 154. 



Selection of shrubs, 129. 



Setting out shrubs, 132. 



Shingles, house of unstained, 28. 



Shrub and tree border, 89. 



Shrubs, chart of flowering, 217-228; 

 deciduous, when to plant, 184; how 

 to set out, 132; making old young, 

 125; in old gardens, 117; placing 

 of, 187; how to prune, 121; selec- 

 tion of, 129; rest-cure for, 125; 

 winter-killed, 125. 



Single pot, cuttings in, 169. 



Slips, how to make, 167. 



Small-lot fruit garden, 52. 



Snapdragon, starting, 148. 



Snowdrops, 111. 



Soil, for cuttings, 168; for hedges, 92; 

 kinds of, 95; for lawn, 149; for 

 roses, 162; for seed-bed, 155; for 

 town garden, 39; wrong, 79. 



Spiraeas, pruning of , 123; vanHouttei, 

 133, 135. 



Spraying, 77. 



Spring garden, planning a, 110. 



Spring pruning, 122. 



Stock, starting ten-week, 148. 



String and bamboo lattice, 61. 



Subtropical effects, 153. 



Suburban gardening, 10. 



Sun-dials, 115. 



Sunflowers, annuals, 152. 



Sweet alyssum, 157. 



Sweet gum, when to plant, 184. 



Sweet peas, 157. 



Sweet sultan, 153. 



Sweet-william, 102. 



Tamarix, pruning of, 124. 

 Tea-roses, pruning of, 128. 

 Temporary gardening, 98. 

 Tender bulbs and tubers, 107. 



Thaxter, Celia, 3. 



Tickseed, 148. 



Toadflax, starting, 148. 



Tobacco-plant, 154, 157. 



Tobacco water, to make, 180. 



Town garden, 30. 



Transplanting, of annuals, 156; in 

 autumn, 182; shrubs and peren- 

 nials, 196. 



Trees, chart of flowering, 217-228; 

 deciduous, when to plant, 184. 



Trellis, grape, as garden boundary, 88; 

 rose, 62. 



Tricolor chrysanthemum, varieties of, 

 152. 



Tritomas, when to plant, 184. 



Tuberous begonias, 201. 



Tubers, 107. 



Tulip, poppy, 151. 



Tulip-trees, when to plant, 184. 



Vegetable garden, mixed with flowers, 



116. 



Verbena, starting, 148. 

 Vines, against house, 99; for wall 



planting, 90. 



Wall, lattice against, 63; vines for, 

 93; stone, as garden boundary, 87. 



Wallflowers, 102. 



Wanamaker, Mr. John, pergola of, 74. 



Watering, garden, 175; wrong, 79. 



Weeping mulberry, 137. 



Weigelia, 137. 



What to plant, 21, 99. 



White clapboard house, 25. 



Whitlavia, 151. 



Why gardens go wrong, 76. 



Windbreak, 87, 89; value of, 189. 



Winter care of plants and shrubs, 200; 

 injury, 186; protection, to remove, 

 199. 



Winter-killed shrubs, 125. 



Yuccas, when to plant, 184. 

 Zinnias, 157. 



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