INDEX TO SKETCHES 



ABTTTILON, increasing, 717, 718 

 Acalypha sanderiana, 843 

 Achimenes, increasing, 719 

 Apparatus for sterilising soil, 521 

 Apple pests, 678 

 Apples, pruning, 977, 978, 979, 980, 



981 



Artichoke, Chinese, 1062 

 Arum plant, potting, 749 

 Asparagus knife, 1062 

 Aspidistra, dividing, 818 ; " faked," 



819 

 Autumn flower border, plan for, 663 



BEDDING PLANTS, propagating, 202 

 Beetroot, 1047 

 Begonias, storing, 202 

 Black Currant, pruning, 990 

 Brussels Sprouts, planting, 1065 

 Budding fruit trees, 703 ; Roses, 317, 

 701 



CALCEOLARIAS, increasing, 723 

 Cannas, storing, 202 

 Carnations, layering, 348 

 Carrots, lifting and storing, 1064 

 Celery, earthing, 1068, 1069 

 Chrysanthemum, cuttings, 460, 461 ; 



stopping, 464 ; taking buds, 466 

 Cinerarias, increasing, 730 

 Cucumber, frame for, 1072 

 Currant cuttings, 994, 995 

 Cuttings, taking, 412, 413 

 Cyclamen, increasing, 733 



DAHLIAS, increasing, 482 



Designs, for beds of summer flowers, 

 203 ; for flower beds, 713 



Disbudding, a fruit tree, 188 ; Carna- 

 tions, 351 ; Chrysanthemums, 

 186 ; Peach fruits, 189 ; Sweet 

 Peas, 187 



Drainage, 109, 110, 111 



EPIPHYLLUM, increasing, 761 

 Espalier fruit tree, 982 



FERNS, repotting, 832 ; increasing, 



Formal garden, design for, 507 ; Rose 



garden, 508 



Freesias, potting bulbs, 737 

 Fruit, gathering and storing, 974 ; 



pests of, 681 ; planting, 968, 969 ; 



pruning, 971 



GARDEN, design for, 2, 5 ; improv- 

 ing the, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 



Geranium cuttings, 205, 745 



Gooseberries, pruning, 997 



Gooseberry caterpillars, 1000 



Grafting, different kinds of, 695, 696, 

 697, 698 



Grapes, thinning, 1033 



Grass edge, preserving, 21 ; renovat- 

 ing, 20 



Grease-banding fruit trees, 1037 



HANGING baskets, 331 

 Hardy flower borders, plans for, 665 

 Hippeastrum, increasing, 741 

 Hypericum hookerianum, 910 



INARCHING, 698 



Increasing plants by division, 694 

 Insect friends, 679, 682 ; pests, 679, 

 682 



LAPAGERIA, layering, 773 

 Layering plants, 704, 705 

 Leaf cuttings, 699, 700 

 Leeks, planting, 1075 

 Levelling the garden, 10, 12 

 Light ground, treatment for, 114 

 Lilies, staking, 102 

 Lily bulbs, potting, 100 



MARKING out flower beds, 204 

 Melons, planting, 1025, 1026 

 Mushroom beds, 1076, 1077 



OLD-WORLD garden, design for, 509 

 Onions, thinning, 1080 



PATHS, making, 14, 15 

 Paved garden, a little, 510 



Peach trees, pruning, 1003 



Pear trees, pruning, 1007, 1008 



Pernettya, a berried shoot of, 8^8 



Phyllocactus, increasing, 760, 7 til 



Pirik cuttings, 364 



Plum tree, pruning, 981 



Potato, increasing, lifting, planting, 



1082, 1083 



Primula, double white, layering, 748 

 Protecting, plants, 125, "126, 127 ; 



seedlings from pests, 410, 723 



RASPBERRIES, pruning, 1011 

 Red Currant, pruning, 991 

 Rhubarb forcing, 1085 

 Rock garden, how to make, 580, 581 

 Roman Hyacinth, 940 

 Root cuttings, 59, 60 

 Rose, cuttings, 318 ; pests, 685 

 Roses, planting, 229 ; pruning, 20, 

 231, 232 



SEAKALE, forcing, 1086 

 Seedlings, transplanting, 411 

 Shrubs, increasing, 926, 927 

 Sowing seeds, 410, 412 

 Stairway, stone, in an old garden, 40 

 Staking plants, 43, 127 

 Sterilising soil, apparatus for, 521 

 Stopping a Vine shoot, 189 

 Strawberries in a barrel, 1014 ; layer- 

 ing, 1015 



Sweet Pea, cuttings, 544 ; shade 

 for, 542 ; sowing, 534 ; supports, 

 535 



TOMATO sowing and stopping, 1088 

 Tradescantia, as an edging plant, 



increasing, 822 

 Trenching, 519 



VEGETABLE pests, 683 

 Vine, training, 1032 

 Viola cuttings, 84, 85 

 Violets, how to grow, 36 



WATER, garden, 568 ; Lilies, 571 

 Watering plants, 62, 63 

 Window boxes, 622, 623 



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