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The Flower Garden 



Rubber sprinklers, indispens- 

 able for watering hanging- 

 baskets, 214. 



Rudbeckia, 197. 



Ruffled Giant Petunia, 84. 



S. A. Nutt Geranium, for south 



and west window-boxes, 91. 

 St. John's Wort (Hypericum 

 Moserainum), a perennial, 197. 

 Salt pork, for keeping moles from 



Iris roots, 200. 

 Sal via (Flowering Sage), 5, 14, 



15, 18, 29, 46, 120. 

 Bonfire, 121. 

 Clara Bedman, 121. 

 Desirable for bedding purposes, 



120. 



Do well in partial shade, 120. 

 Most congenial soil, 120. 

 Root readily in wet sand, 121. 

 Scarlet, 14, 15. 

 Seed germination, 121. 

 Splendens, 5, 121. 

 Subject to red spider in the 



house, 120. 



When to start seed, 120. 

 White-flowered variety, 121. 

 Salvia patens, 121. 



Seldom seen in gardens, 122. 

 Wonderful blue shade of, 122. 

 Salvias 



Proper soil for, 18. 

 Seed freely, 46. 

 San Salvador Cobaea, 130. 

 Sand y white or grey, best for 



potting, 21. 



Sand-box, the, 38-40. 



A fascinating spot, 39. 



How to make one, 38. 



Summer storage of plants in, 38. 



Saxatile, golden, 122. 



Desirable for edging or rock- 

 work, 122. 



Scilla, 189, 190, 192, 193. 

 Scillas and Crocuses 



A pretty way to grow, 190. 



Beds of, 189. 



Lengthening of flower-stems, 



190. 



Protection of, 189. 

 Screens for the hotbed, 



36. 



Scythe-boxes make good win- 

 dow-boxes, 94. 

 Seed, various annuals from, 98- 



iii. 

 Seedlings, blossom in the natural 



course, 62. 



Seed-planting, 34-36. 

 Seeds, coarse varieties, how to 



sow, 49. ^ 

 Fine varieties should be sown 



broadcast, 49. 

 House treatment of some fine 



varieties, 48. 



Labelling and storing, 47. 

 Need little light while germinat- 

 ing, 49. 

 Protection of, in their early 



stages, 30. 



Purchasing of, 41-47. 

 Should be gathered when ripe. 



Starting in flats, 48-52. 



Temperature and period of ger- 

 mination, 32. 



Time for germination of, 228- 

 232. 



Uselessness of buying cheap va- 

 rieties of, 42. 



Vitality of some kinds of, 42. 



What kinds to save, 43, 44. 



Where to buy, 42. 



Where to plant coarse, 35. 

 September, shrubs, plants, and 

 bulbs that bloom during, 242, 



243- 



Seteria magnia, 16. 



Shade-loving plants, an excel- 

 lent place for, 245, 246. 



