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INDEX. 



Page 

 Florida, pepino in 15' 



tomatoes from 7 



Flowers and vegetables .... 7 



Flues 46 



Forcing crops, category of . . 4 



Forrest on cucumbers 194 



Framework 24 



Frost, risk of 2 



Fruit-rot of tomato i?7 



Fuel, cost of 9, '5 



Fumigation 86 



Fungi, account of. ... 83 



mentioned . . . 23, 51, 59, 66, 67 

 Galloway, B. T., on lettuce soils 96 



on radishes 121 



"Garden and Forest," quoted. 132, 



146,151,180 



Garden-cress 142 



"Gardeners' Magazine," 



quoted 193 



" Gardeners' Monthly," quoted, 



149,151, 152 

 Gardner, John, on asparagus . 132 



on damping-off. 85 



Gas pipe and sub-irrigation. 71, 72 

 Glasgow Botanical Garden, 



cyphomandra in 244 



Glass 36, 207 



Glazing 36 



Green-fly, 84, 86, 89, 104, 111,125,200 



Green corn 225 



" Greenhouse Construction," 



mentioned 16 



Green, W. J., on lettuce soils . 97 



on sub-irrigation . . . . 68, 77 



Grelck, J., and pepino 150 



Grenadilla 243 



Grubs 52 



Guatemala, pepino in 149 



Gulf states, eggplant in .... 6 



Gutters 24, 33 



Hare, Thomas, and the cucum- 

 ber 193 



Hastings, Gen. Russell, on cu- 

 cumber 196 



Heating, account of 40 



cost of 9-15 



item 2 



Help, cost of. 9-15 



Henderson, Peter & Co., on 



cyphomandra 241 



Heterodera radicicola 177 



Hooker, Sir J. D., on cucumber 194 

 Hooker, Sir W. J., on cypho 



mandra. . . 244 



Horse dung 63 



Horticultural Soc., Royal, 



quoted 209 



" Hortus Kewensis," quoted . 150 

 Hotbeds, asparagus in .... 132 



Hot-water heating ...... 40 



House-blight of melons .... 222 



Hughes' fir-tree oil 176 



Humphrey on damping-off. . . 85 



Hydrant water 65 



Hydrocyanic gas 90 



Illinois, heat and labor in ... 13 

 Importance of forcing industry 7 

 Indiana, heat and labor in . . 13 



Indian corn 225 



Insects, account of 83 



mentioned 23, 51 



Irrigation in forcing-houses . . 68 



Ithaca, climate of. 113.211 



Jamaica, Tree Tomato of ... 241 



Jenkins, E. H., quoted 53 



"Journal Obs. Phyf.," quoted . 149 

 Journal Royal Hort. Soc. 



quoted 209 



Kentucky, heat and labor in . . 15 

 Kerman, John, on tomato . . . 175 

 Kerosene, to clean houses. . 84, 85 



Kinney pump 68 



"Kitchen and Market -Gar- 

 den," quoted 196 



Knight, Thomas Andrew, on 



melon 204 



Kiihn on manure 63 



Labor, cost of. 9-15 



item . . .a 



