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Planting various flowers, 464, 469, 474, 487, 498, 505, 520 

 Plats, grass, method of forming, 471 



Pleasure garden, introduction to the, 451 



Plums, kinds of, enumerated, 162, 163, 179 



described, 176, 177 



of planting, 206 



of pruning and training, 190, 238,243, 247,250, 



253 



of screening the blossoms of, 220 



of thinning the fruit of, 240, 244, 245 



Portugal grape described, 299 



Polyanthuses, of sowing, 477 



i making slips of, 490 



of transplanting, 491,516 



Potatoes culture of, 40, 52, 67, 82, 93 



Pot-herbs, culture of, 56, 71, 101, 108 



gathering to dry, 100, 107 



Pruning apples and pears, 187, 212, 239, 259 



apricots, cherries and plums, 190, 212, 238, 259 



currants and gooseberries, 204, 210, 241, 260 



%s, 193,212 



nectarines aud peaches, 194, 238, 390, 401, 437 



orchard trees, 201, 210, 212, 259 



the roots of stinted fruit-trees, 215 



. cucumbers and melons, 96, 366, 386, 396, 422, 



430 



, shrubs, 465, 483, 512 



. green-house plants, - 568, 588 



Pumpkins, culture of, 82 



Purslane, culture of, 55 



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Quartering out the Kitchen Garden, method of, 22 



Queen pine-apple described. 305 



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