273 



Manure-barrel, how to handle, 



26, 27. 

 Manure-water, how to prepare, 



25, 26. 

 Manures, cow, horse, hen, and 



sheep, 23. 



Quantity necessary for use, 29. 

 Maples, flowering, 63. 

 Marguerite Carnations, best 



for outdoor blooming, 70. 

 Marshmallow. See Hibiscus. 

 Maurandya, 46, 9 o, 91, 93, 135, 



246. 



A beautiful vine for window- 

 boxes, 90. 

 Height of plant and colours of 



flowers, 135. 

 Requires no special treatment, 



135. 

 Seed of, gathered without harm 



to vine, 46. 



Suitable for trellises, window- 

 boxes, and vases, 135. 

 Time for sowing seed, 135. 

 May, trees, shrubs, and plants 



that bloom in, 235, 236. 

 Mealy bug, remedy for the, on 



house-plants, 248. 

 Metake Bambusa, 171. 

 Milk-and-Wine Lily, 161. See 



also Crinum fimbriatum. 

 Miranda Petunia, 84. 

 Mixed seeds, variety of, 62. 

 Moisture-loving plants, best 



place for setting out, 10. 

 Moles, liking of, for roots of Jap- 

 anese Iris, 199. 

 Netting and traps for, 199. 

 Monkshood, n, 46, 122. 



Excellent for rear beds, n. 

 Montbretias 



Desirable for cut flowers, 153. 

 Keep well through winter in 



flour sacks, 187. 

 May be grown in corners of 



flower-bed, 153. 

 Multiply rapidly, 153. 



Montbretias Continued. 



Resemble Gladioli in flower and 



foliage, 153. 



Moonlight Nasturtium, in 

 Morning-Glories, 42, 44, 46, 



91, 94, 252, 256. 

 Reaching the roof by strings,. 



94- 



Require little root room, 94. 

 Seed of, 46. 

 See also Japanese Morning- 



Glories. 



Mountain Fringe, 129. 

 Mrs. Edward Andre Clematis, 



138. 



Mrs. Robert Perry Rose, 178. 

 Muck or peat, preparation of, 



18, 19. 

 Myosotis, 119. 



N 



Narcissi, 38, 188, 191, 192. 

 Alba plena, 119. 

 All species are hardy, 191. 

 Emperor and Empress, 191, 192. 

 Giant Welshman, 192. 

 Horsfieldi, 191, 192. 

 Odoratus, 191. 

 Paper white, 192. 

 Planting of various varieties of, 



190. 



Poeticus, 191. 

 Treatment of, and potting in the 



fall, 192, 193. 

 Trumpet varieties of, 192. 

 Use of cold-frame for, 38. 

 Varieties of, 191, 192. 

 Von Sion, 191, 192. 

 Nasturtiums, 15, 45, 92, 94, 96, 



no, in, 252. 



Chameleon, new variety, in. 

 Dwarf varieties very attractive 



for Canna-beds, no. 

 Flourish well in elevated beds, 



III. 



