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CHAPTER VI. 



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Implements of Horticulture 78 



Tools used in Horticulture 81 



Instruments 90 



Utensils 98 



Machines ' Ill 



Miscellaneous articles 115 



CHAPTER VII. 



Structures and edifices of Horticulture 130 



Portable, temporary, and moveable structures 130 



Fixed structures 137 



Walls, espalier-rails, and trelliswork 137 



Fixed structures with glass roofs 151 



Various accessory garden structures 193 



CHAPTER VIII. 



Operations of Horticulture 196 



Labours on the soil 196 



Garden labours with plants 202 



Operations of Culture 205 



Propagation 205 



by seed 206 



by cuttings 214 



by leaves 228 



by layers 233 



by sucker, slips, offsets, runners, and simple division 239 



by grafting 241 



by budding 265 



Transplanting and planting 274 



Potting and repotting 294 



Pruning 299 



Thinning 310 



Training 313 



Weeding 348 



Watering 351 



Manuring * 356 



Blanching 357 



Sheltering 357 



Accelerating vegetation 359 



Retarding 363 



Besting 364 



Operations of gathering, preserving, keeping, and packing . . 368 



Selecting and improving plants in culture ....... 371 



Operations of order and keeping 376 



