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Dahl ias Continued. 

 Easily wintered, 187. 

 For corsage wear, single varieties 



best, 106, 107. 

 Hints on grafting, 148, 149. 

 Planting the seed, 105. 

 Should be wintered in a dry cel- 

 lar, 1 86. 

 Transplanting, and treatment 



after, 105. 

 Variety desirable for cut flowers 



and garden rows, 106. 

 Worms or beetles on, how to 



destroy, 106. 

 Daisies, 107. 



Beds, suitable for borders of, 107. 

 Protection of, in winter, 107. 

 Rockwork, colours suitable for, 



107. 



Starting the seeds, 107. 

 Day Lily, 201. 

 Deutzia Gracilis, 198. 

 Diagrams for planning a gar- 

 den, 11-14. 



Dog-tooth Violets, 191. 

 Dolichos, where to place in the 



hotbed, 35. 



Don'ts, a chapter of, 253-257. 

 Drainage, good, necessary for 

 rendering soil light and sandy, 



!7- 

 Duck mittens, for garden work, 



250. 



Dusty-miller,border plants of, 8. 

 Dwarf Bijou Begonia, 66. 



Earth worms, how to destroy, 

 249. 



Eastern exposure, combination 

 of flowers suitable for window - 

 boxes, 92, 93. 



Edgings, plants used for, 10. 



Egyptian Lotus, interesting pe- 

 culiarity of leaves of, 168. 



Egyptian Lotus Continued. 

 Suitable for growing in small 

 ponds, 168. 



Eight-foot flower-beds, 16. 



Elephant's Ears, 149. 



Emperor and Empress Nar- 

 cissus, 191, 192. 



English names of flowers, 

 217-233. 



Erfordii Begonia, 66. 



Erianthus Ravenna?, ornament- 

 al grass, 5, 16. 



Eschscholtzias, as a border for 

 Pansy-beds, 118. 



Eulalia univittata, 5, 16. 



Evergreen Amaryllis, 162. 



Farfugium, 94. 



Feathers, as fertiliser for shrubs 



and hardy perennials, 28. 

 Fences, how to make attractive, 



252. 



Ferns, 23, 88, 94, 246. 

 Fertiliser for house-plants, 



215. 

 Fertilisers, 23-29. 



Injurious to Begonias, 217. 

 Necessary for Asparagus Spren- 



geri, 216. 

 Next in importance to a good 



soil, 23. 

 Filipendula, herbaceous Spiraea, 



197. 

 Firefly 



Antirrhinum, for bed- 

 ding, 98. 



Flame Lily, 183. 



Flats, or boxes, treatment of 

 young plants in, 50. 



Floral magazines, helpful in 

 many ways to the amateur 

 gardener, 257. 



Florence Vaughan Canna, 15. 



Florists' sashes for hot-beds, 

 32. 



