Seed, compost for, 8 
covering, 3 
drills, sowing in, 5, 10 
filing large, 5 
fleshy, 13 
germination of, 3, 4 
hard-shelled, 4 
hotbed for, 6 
macerating, 14 : 
open ground, sowing in, 9 
Orchid, 3 
Palm, 4 
pans, etc., for, 8 
preserving, 2 
rot-heap, 13 
sizes of, 3 
small, 8 
soaking, 3 
sowing, 5 
storing, 2 
stratification of, 13 
testing, 5 
thick sowing inadvisable, 6 
tree; 2 
watering, 10 
Seedlings, 1 
abnormal, 12 
Cereus, 6 
damping-off, 11 
dibbers for, 7 
drainage, 9 
hardening off, 11 
lifting, 8 
Orchid, 10, 11 
rogueing, 12 
shading, 9 
variation in, 12 
Weigelia, 3 
Sensitive Plant, 148 
Sequoia (Wellingtonia), 105 
Serpentine arching, 30 
Shading cuttings, 41, 43 
house, 76 
seedlings, 9 
Shamrock, Indian (Trillium), 181 
Shelves, 74 
Shield-budding, 63 
Side-grafting, 55 
Silver Tree, 140 
Sinapis, 150 
Skull-cap, 174 
Slipperwort (Calceolaria), 96 
Smilax, 150 
Snake’s Beard (Ophiopogon), 155 
Snowberry, 179 
Snowdrops, 21, 124 
Snowflake, 141 
Soapwort (Saponaria), 172 
Soil for cuttings, 36 
for seed, 8 
Solomon’s Seal, 164 
Southernwood (Artemisia), 85 
Sowbread (Cyclamen), 108 
INDEX 195 
Sowing, 5 
Spawn, Gladioli, 23, 126 
Spearmint, 148 
Speedwell (Veronica), 183 
Spiderwort, 181 
Spinach, New Zealand, 153 
Spindle-tree (Euonymus), 117 
Splice-grafting, 49 
Splitting, 29 
Spores, 119 
young plants from, 9 
Sprouts, Brussels, 93 
Spruce Fir (Abies), 77 
Spurge (Euphorbia), 117 
Square shield-budding, 65 
Squill (Scilla), 173 
Stachys tuberifera, 85 
Stages, 74 
Stakes for cuttings, 40 
Star of Bethlehem, 157 
Starwort (Aster), 86 
Stem cuttings, 32 
Stingless Nettle (Pilea), 162 
Stock, definition of, 44 
Stocks, 177 
for budding, 67 
Ten-week, etc., 8 
Stonecrop (Sedum), 174 
Stork’s-bill (Pelargonium), 160 
Stratification of seed, 13 
Strawberry, 17 
Striking cuttings, 32 
Succulents, 40 
Suckers, 19 
Sumach, 168 
Summer Cloud shading, 43 
Sunflowers, 15, 130 
Sun Rose, 130 
Swallow-wort (Asclepias), 86 
Swan River Daisy, 92 
Sweet Alyssum, 80 
Basil, 88 
Bay, 139 
Gale, 150 
. Gum (Liquidambar), 143 
Pea, 139 
Scabious, 173 
Sultan, roo 
Sweet-scented Verbena, 142 . 
Syringa (Lilac), 141 
(Mock Orange), 162 
T 
T-budding, 62, 63, 65 
Tagetes, 146 
Tanks, 76 
Tape Grass (Vallisneria), 183 
Teasels, 112 
Ten-week Stocks, 177 
Testing seed, 5 
Tetragonia, 153 
Thermometer, 75 
See also Alphabetical List of Plants, pp. 77-187. 
