INDEX. 



THE ROSE. 



Brieri 19,30 



Budding 51 



Spring 65 



Calendar of Operations 73 



Flowering of Seedlings, Hastening of 47 



Retarding of. 49 



Forcing. 39,42,43,44 



Grafting 57 



Root 58 



Hints, General, on Cultivation 67 



Insects infesting the Rose 80 



Manures proper for the Rose 37 



Pillar Roses 64, 65 



Planting of the Rose 37 



Poetical Allusions to the Rose 5, 6, 7, 8 



Potting of Roses 39, 41 



Propagation by Budding 51 



Cuttings 49 



Grafting 57 



Layers 50 



Seed 45 



Suckers 49 



Properties of Climbing Roses 35 



Moss Roses 32 



Noisette Roses 34 



Roses for Stands 34 



Pruning 60,65, 66 



Standards 61 



and Trailing Pillar Roses 64, 65 



Root Grafting 58 



Roses, Austrian Brier 19 



Banksian 21, 26 



FAGB 



Roses, Bengal.....' 8 



Bourbon 11, 21, 24 



Boursault t 20 



Burgundy 28 



China-... 17,2? 



Climbing 14,20, 21,35 



Damask 18 



Double Yellow 19 



Evergreen 20 



French 17,28 



Hardy Garden 15 



Hybrid. 12,17,21 



Jaune Desprez : 25 



Macartney. 23 



Microphylla..- 25 



Miniature 22 



Moss 17,34 



Musk 15, 23 



Noisette 13, 23, 34 



Perpetual 12, 21 



Pillar 64 



Provence 16 



Scotch 19 



Species of. 8 



Sweet Brier 19,30 



Tea-scented 9, 22 



Varieties of 8 



Village Maid 29 



White 18 



Williams' Yellow Sweet Brier 30 



Soil proper for the Rose 36 



Species and Varieties 8 



THE DAHLIA. 



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After Culture 94 



History 78 



Mulching 93 



Planting out 92 



Propagation by Grafting and Slips 90 



Seed 89 



Slips 90 



Requisites of a Fine Flower 88 



PAGH 



Situation 91 



Soil, Preparation of. 91 



Treatment, Autumnal 94 



of Slips 91 



Spring 99 



when flo\ 

 Watering. 



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