INDEX. 



Silk-worms, 272 standard trees, to train, 49 



Silphiums, 345, 346, 461 Star of Bethlehem, 76, 286,437, 



Sisyrinchwms for edgings, Sec. 534 



71,346,461 Statues, 58, 64 

 Skirrets, 191, 316, 401, 513,549 Stock, annual or mediterranean, 

 - to preserve for winter use, 344 



547 Stock-gillflowers, 77, 99, 155, 



Smallage, 199 291, 389, 417, 535, 559, 574 



Snail-plant, 291, 344 Stocks, the proper kinds to bud 



Snapdragon, 291, 292, 344 and graft on, 242 



Sneezewort, double, 345 Stools, nursery, of trees and 



Snowdrops, 71,75,586,408,460, shrubs, 45, 279, 280 



494, 534 Stopping, or topping young cu- 



Snowdrop-tree, 268, 293 cumber and melon plants, 1 13 



Soapwort, double, 345, 417 Stoves or Hot-houses, methods 



Solanums, hardy shrubby, 283 of erecting, 84 to 96 



tender, 355 Strawberries, forcing, 26, 98, 



Solidagoes, 72, 345,461 131, 172, 303, 577 

 Sorrel, broad-leaved garden, 320, spring dressing of, 215 



373,512 * choice of plants, 215, 477 

 round -leaved or French, the various kinds of, 476 



320, 373, 512 times and method of plant- 



Sour-gum or Tupelo-tree, 264, ing, 215, 478, 519 



283 making nursery plantations 



Southern States, seasons and cul- of, 403 



ture in, particularly noticed, to pot for forcing, 478 



15, 16, 37, 41, 52, 12$, 141, autumn dressing of, 519 



150, 158,206,455,475, 514, other necessary, care of, 



' 521,522,524,551,554,568, 327,378 



569, 570, 571, 572 Strawberry -spinach, 344 



Southernwood, 198, 512 Strawberry-tree. See Arbutus 



Sowing stones and kernerls of Unedo 



fruit. See Fruit Suckers, to propagate trees and 

 haws, for raisng thorn- shrubs by, 142, 329, 537 



quicks, 144, 252, 524 Sumack, to propagate various 



Spartiums, tender, 355 kinds of, 270 



Spulerwort, virginian, 493 tanner's 271 



Spigelia marilandica, 461 Sun, its effects on frozen plants, 



.Spinach, 124, 181, 3>2, 369,428 153 



winter, 451, 469, 503, 544 Sunflower, annual, 151,228,291, 



Spindle-tree, 140 344 



Spirxas, hardy herbaceous, 345 perennial, 151, 292 



Spirjca trifoliata, 461 Sweet-briar, 258 



L-'iiipehduIa, 493 Sweet-gum, 252, 293 



Squash, 320, 361 Sweet-scented Peas, f5l, 291 



St. Peter's-vvort, 293 Sweet-scented shrub. See Ca- 



Stage for auriculas, carnations, lycanthus floridus 



&cc. 337 Sweet-sultan, 344 



Staking new planted trees, best Sweet-william, 77,99, 151,291, 



method of, 22 5 416, 461, 493 



Standard, half-standard, & dwarf- Sycamore 262 



