730 GENERAL INDEX. 



Tropse^olum tuberosum, culture of, 655 

 Truffle, where to be found, and by what means, 692 

 Turnip, selection of varieties, and their culture, 647 

 - Cabbage, culture of, 627 



Utensils used in horticulture : garden-pots, 142 ; blanching-pot, 143 ; water- 

 saucers, 144; plant-boxes, 145"; watering-pot, 146; sieves, 147; pot-carriers, 

 baskets, 148; bell-glasses, hand-glasses, 152; powdering-boxes, 153; various 

 others, 153. 



Varieties, duration of, 408 ; new varieties of herbaceous plants, 409. See Notes in 



p. 709 



Vegetable culture, what necessary in, 5 

 Vegetables, improvement of by cultivation, 404 



-- culinary : systematically arranged according to their natural orders, 



616; number of genera of, which may be cultivated in British gardens, 619; 



horticulturally arranged, 619 ; propagation, and seed, saving of, 620 ; general re- 



marks on their culture, and soils best adapted for, 621 ; times of sowing and 



planting culinary, 438; gathering and preserving, 401 

 Vegetable marrow, see Gourd 

 Vegetation, stimulants to, 245 ; modes of accelerating, 391 ; modes of re- 



tarding, 395 



Vermin, necessity of destroying those injurious to gardens, 93 

 Vines, propagation of by joints, 265 ; objections to depriving a vine of a portion of 



its leaves when the fruit is ripening, 709 ; causes of a deficiency of colour in the 



fruit, 709 ; the vine when forced not calculated to sustain uninjured a temperature 



below 40, 70 ' 



Walls, their use in gardens, 176 ; direction and best materials for, 177 ; height of, 



178 ; copings of, mode of fixing temporary rafters to, 179 ; construction of, 180 ; 



trellised, colouring the surface of, flued, 181 ; conservatory, 183 ; reed as a sub- 



stitute for brick, 183 



Wall-trees, to protect, 74 ; articles required for training, 167 

 Walnut, use of, and management of the trees, 578 ; leaves, useful for destroying 



worms, 696 



Wasp and fly traps, 111 

 Water, the presence of, increases the tendency to spring and autumn frosts, 75 ; 



its importance in cultivation, 382 ; comparative effects of spring and pond, 383 ; 



application of to plants, 385. See Notes in p. 703, 704 

 Watering-barrow for strawberries, 384 



pots, 146 

 Water-cress, culture of, 682 

 Wedge-grafting, how performed, 292 

 Weeding, and implements for, 238, 381 

 Wicker-work hurdles for sheltering plants, 163 

 Wormwood, its use, &c., 694 



Young gardeners, advice with reference to their improvement by reading, writing, 

 drawing, &c., during the long winter evenings, 720. 



THE END. 



LONDON : 



BRADBURY AND EVANS, PRINTERS, WKfTEFRIARS. 



