INDEX 



213 



Failures to be confessed, 9. 



Fair, B. H., mentioned, 99. 



Fertilization needed, 29; not con- 

 sidered, 29. 



Filipendida hexapetala, 135. 



Flicker drumming on roof, 116. 



Flower seeds germinating, 47. 



Forsythia blooming in April, 65 

 (illus. in color, facing 65); 

 forced, 21. 



Freeze-up in November, 187. 



Fruit flowers in May, 76. 



Fruit-garden, dwarf, 54 (illus. 

 facing 124) ; in winter, 206. 



Fruit trees, summer pruning, 140; 

 trained specimens, 54. 



Gaillardias, perennial, blooming, 

 138. 



Garden, clearing up, 194; plan- 

 ning, 14; tillage, 145. 



Garden in April, illus. facing 68; 

 in August, facing 132. 



Gardens, imitative, 18. 



Garden without a gardener men- 

 tioned, 204. 



Getting into the ground, 27. 



Gladioli, planted late, 101; late 

 bloom, 166. 



Grapes, at Breeze Hill, history of, 

 148; bagging the bunches, 114; 

 Green Mountain ripening, 142; 

 protecting from steel - blue 

 beetle, 150; in bags, 168. 



Grass seed, understanding of, 25. 



Green manuring, importance of, 33. 



Helenium autumnale rubrum, 154. 

 Hemlock, 16. 



Herbaceous plants in May, 84. 



Heuchera, 100. 



Hollyhock in bloom, 120; illus. 

 facing 113. 



Honesty in bloom, 84. 



Honeysuckle, Japan, on old stump, 

 103; illus. facing 104. 



Horse-chestnuts, autumn color, 

 195; dominating, 17; flowers, 

 72 (ittus. facing 72); twigs in 

 early spring, 27. 



Horse-chestnut, dwarf, in bloom, 

 119. 



Humus, need for, 29. 



Hunt, Chester Jay, mentioned, 

 191. 



Hydrangea arborescens grandiflora 

 blooming, 118, 158. 



Hydrangea querdfolia, 158; au- 

 tumn color, 195. 



Hydrangea radiata mentioned, 119. 



Hydrangeas worth while, 16. 



Hydrangeas, wrong use of, 174. 



Individual treatment, 8. 

 Inventory of old place, 11. 

 Iris, English, blooming, 100. 

 Iris, German, as weed, 181; 



massed, 81. 

 Iris, Japanese, blooming, 100; 



illus. facing 100. 

 Iris, Spanish, blooming, 100. 

 Iron-pipe posts, 199. 

 Ivy, English, on sundial, 201. 



Kohlrabi, acquaintance made, 169. 



Laurel in bloom, 102. 

 Lawns, fall recovery, 157. 



