INDEX. 



207 



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Seeds, directions for sowing 

 42 ; for gathering and pre- 

 serving .... 125. 156 

 Shrubs, distinguishing cha- 

 racteristics of ... 30 

 Slipperwort .... 81 

 Slips of herbaceous plants 148 

 Snow, a preserver of plants 

 183 



Snowdrops . . . . 164 



Soil proper for different plants 



25 



Sowing flower seeds 42. 53. 

 . 55. 61. 90 



Spiderwort, varieties of 118 

 Spigelia Marylandica . 118 

 Spring in the Alpine conn- 

 tries 185 



Standard Rose-trees . 128 



Stocks, when to be sown 111. 



Subsequent management 



159 



Stocks, Night-scented . 176 

 Succession bed of spring flow- 

 ers 47 



Suckers to be removed and 



preserved . . . 179 



Sweet-williams . . . 145 



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T. 



Tender annuals . 69. 118 

 Ten-week stocks . . 158 

 Tiger flower .... 148 

 Tobacco, see Petunia. 

 Tools for Gardening . 38 

 Tradescantia Virginiana, or 

 Spiderwort .... 118 

 Transplanting in autumn 172 

 Tree carnation . . . 132 

 Trumpet flower ... 19 

 Tulips, instructions respecting 

 168. Time for putting into 

 the ground 180. See Bul- 

 bous Roots. 



Turf, laying of ... 41 

 Turf for Shrub Border 25. 159 



V. 



Vegetable physiology 130. 193 

 Verbena ..... 71 

 Verbena Aubletia . . 82 

 Verbena Melihdris . . 82 

 Vetch, Bitter, see Orobus Ver- 



nus. 



Violets Autumnal . . 160 

 Virginian Creeper . . 33 



U. 

 Uvularia 89 



