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The Flower Garden 



Supports for window-boxes, 



how to make, 94, 95. 

 Surface-soil, treatment of, for 



flower-beds, 7. 



Swanley Blue Ageratum, 102. 

 Sweet Alyssum, 5, 9, 14, 46, 



96, 121, 122. 



Little Gem, edging for flower- 

 beds, 5, 14. 

 Sows its own seed, 46. 

 Sweet-peas, 46, 122-124, 252, 

 253- 



Bewildering variety of, 124. 



Culture of, 122. 



Daily care of, 253. 



Habit of climbing, 123. 



Must not be permitted to seed, 



46. 



Planting, 122. 

 Sowing seed of, best time for, 



122. 



Watering, method of, 123. 

 Wire supports necessary for 

 growth, 123. 



Tea-roses, 37. 



Freer from insects than June 



Roses, 176. 

 In the cold-frame, 37. 

 Temperature, a sudden change 

 of, should be avoided with 

 flowers, 212. 

 Thawing out frozen plants, 



213. 

 Thermometer, necessary for the 



hotbed, 35. 

 Thunbergia (Black-eyed Susan), 



46, 47, 90, 92, 93, 136. 

 Admirable for basket or bracket 



plants in winter, 136. 

 Grow freely from seed, 136. 

 Red spider attacks, 136. 

 Requires sunny situation, 136. 

 Seed may be gathered from, 46. 



Thunbergia Continued. 



Valuable for covering low trel- 

 lises, 136. 

 Tigridias, beautiful in colour, 



153- 



Ephemeral flowers of, 153. 

 Peculiar leaf of, 153, 154. 

 Potting and bedding out, 153. 

 Tobacco, use of, for killing plant- 

 lice, 248. 



Tom Thumb Ageratum, de- 

 sirable for edgings, 101. 

 Tools necessary for the suc- 

 cessful gardener, 245. 

 Top-soil, removal of, in making 



flower-beds, 7. 

 Transplanting, instructions for, 



54-. 



Seedlings, 50. 

 The proper time for, 54- 

 Transplanting and repotting, 



Trailing Fuchsia, 91. 

 Trapping moles in Iris-beds, 



200. 



Trees, blooming season of, 234- 



244. 

 Trellises, Thunbergias valuable 



for covering, 136. 

 Trumpet Vine, 139. 

 Tuberoses, do well in Gladiola- 



bed, 164. 

 Double Pearl, blooms but once, 



163, 164. 

 Must be started in a warm place, 



163. 



Plenty of water required, 163. 

 Potting, 163. 

 Tulips, 1 88, 189, 193. 

 Neglected beds of, 189. 

 Planting, distance and depth for, 



1 88. 

 Plants of same height and season 



should be set together, 189. 

 Storing away, 189. 

 Twelve-foot flower-beds, 14, 



