LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS xvii 



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1. Effective ways of planting spring flowers 60 



2. Simple designs for spring beds 61 



3. Useful designs for summer bedding 62 



4. Plan of a narrow border . . 63 



5. An oblong bed 64 



6. A star-shaped bed 65 



7. A diamond-shaped bed 65 



8. 9. Budding Roses . . . 76, 77 



10,11. Dahlia cuttings 104,105 



12. A border of flowering Tulips 120 



13. Carnation-shoot layered 125 



14. Section of small moraine garden 154 



15. Elevation of a dry wall 160 



1 6. Arranging stones in dry walls 161 



17. Layering tree or shrub . . . . . . . . . 212 



18. Plan of bed of shrubs 265 



19. Drainage in flower-pot 290 



20. Chrysanthemum terminal buds . . . . . . 362 

 21,22. Deep and shallow drains . . . . . . . 376 



23. Deep trenching . . . ~ . . . . . . . 377 



24. How to trench a plot . . " . . . . . . 378 



25. Construction of garden paths . . . . . . . . 395 



26. Produce from Potato sets . . , 412 



27. 28. Root pruning . . . . 425, 426 



29-31. Pear Tree, Fan-trained . . ... . . 434-436 



32. Vines in span-roofed house . . .. ... . . 438 



33. Vines in lean-to house . . . . . ... . . 439 



34. Half span-roofed house 440 



35. Section of Vine border . . .' . . ... . 441 



36. 37. Pot Vine roots . .... 442 



38, 39- Vine planting and pruning . . . ... . 443 



40. Young Vine pruned . . . . *. . . . 444 



41-43. Vine shoots tied down . . . .- . . . 445,446 



44. Unthinned Grapes . . . ... . . ... 447 



45. Grapes properly thinned . .. . . . 448 

 46,47. Vine, winter pruning, &c. .... . . . . 449 



48. Vine laterals . . . __._ ... 450 



49,50. Vine grafting . . Y :v. . ... . . -452 



51. Bottle grafting. . . . . . . . . 453 



52. Strawberry planting * ... . . . . . 456 

 53~55- Strawberry layering . . ... r * . 458-460 

 56. Planting Gooseberry bushes . . '. . * ., 463 

 57,58. Pruning Gooseberry bushes , . . . * . . 464 



