INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



COMMON GAEDEN FLOWEES : page 



Introduction — The Daisy—The Porget-me-not ... 57 



Arabis — Aiibrietias — ^Aly ssum 83 



Adonis— Candy tuft 185 



Gillyflower Stocks — WaUfiowers — Snow-in-Summer 



—Thrift 199 



lily of the Valley— Solomon's Seal — Bachelor's 

 Buttons — Fair Maids of France — Meadow Eue 

 — Columbine — Dianthus — Delphiniums, or 



Lar^:spurB 289 



The Antirrhinum, or Snapdragon — Hydrangea — 

 The Pfieony — Tree PEeonies — Michaelmas 

 Daisies 368 



THE CUCUMBEE : 



Preparing Materials— Sowing Seed— Planting Out 

 — General Culture— Cucumber-growing by Ex- 

 press 354 



FEENS : 



Introduction— Maidenhair Ferns 48 



Gold and Silver Ferns- Wephrodium — Davallia ... 147 



Asplenium — The Onychiums *... 265 



FLOEISTS* FLOWERS : 



Introduction — The Auricula 14. 



Balsams — Begonias—Carnations and Picotees — 



Cloves 120 



The Calceolaria— The Chrysanthemum 251 



The Cineraria— Cockscombs— The Cyclamen ... 331 



GAEDEN POTS AND POTTING : page 

 The Pot Trade— Materials— Sizes and Shapes- 

 Various Miscellaneous Kinds of Pots 3 



Potting Plants — Dibbling-in — Flooding Home— 

 Pricking-off-Pottihg-off— Shifting— Composts 

 The One-shift Treatment ■ . . . 112 



GAEDEN WALKS AND EOADS : 



The Foundation of Eoads — The Surface — Construc- 

 tion — Width-^Cariiage-sweeps 



Garden Walks— Kitchen Garden Walks— Working 

 Walks or Alleys— Abolition of Walks in 

 Kitchen Gardens — Cheap Walks— Maintenance 

 of Walks— Grass Walks, Eoads, and Eides — 

 Edgings, Terra-cotta and Living Edgings 

 —Objections to the Latter 



Lines of Beauty in Walks and Eoads— Straight 

 Lines and Curves— Laying Out — Entrances— 

 Avenues— Edgings— Garden Walks— Lines of 

 Divergence — Privacy 



GEE EN-HOUSE PLANTS : 



Introductory — Abutilon — Acacia — AcropbyUum — 

 Adenandra— Agapanthus — Agave 



Aloe — Aotus — Aphelexis— Aralia — Araucaria 



Azalea — Banksia — Beauf ortia — Bignonia — Boro- 

 niEL — Bossicea — Eouvardia — Burtonia — Callis- 

 tachys— Callistemon 



Camellia— Campsidium — Canarina— Cantua — Cera- 

 tostema — Chamcerops— Cheirostemon — Choro- 

 zema— Citrus — Clethra 



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188 



258 



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273 



THE FLOWEE GAEDEN : 



Position— Style— Formation 44 



Summer Bedding — Colours— Designs for Sxunmer 

 Bedding 100 



Propagation and Wintering of Summer Bedding 

 Plants — Violas — Calceolarias — Gnaphalium 

 and Thymes — Echeverias — Alternantheras — 

 Verbenas, Mesembryanthemum, and Lobelia— 

 Eoots and Tubers— Cannaa— Coloured Foliage 

 Bedders 154 



Carpet Bedding— Position and Extent— Preparing 

 the Beds— Plans 218 



Sub-tropical Bedding — Character of Plants — 

 Arrangement and Form of Beds — Lists of 

 Plantsand Hints on Culture 222 



Succulent Bedding— Arrangements— Lists— Gene- 

 ral Culture 312 



The Mixed Style— Its Merits— Arrangements- 

 Lists of Suitable Plants— Annuals and Bien- 

 nials 348 



GEOUND OPEEATIONS : 



Levelling— Mistakes-Methods 10 



Trenching— Mistakes in Trenching— The Only 

 Profitable Kind— Tools and Methods— Times 

 for Trenching 96 



Drainage— Keeps Land bpth Dry and Moist 

 and Warm — Enriches and Deepens Soils ... 142 



Drainage (cont'inued)— Line of Drains— Distance — 

 Depth— Fall — Sizes— Materials and Forms— 

 Outlets— Draining Tools— Laying the Drains... 237 



Digging— Advantages of Digging— Laying out the 

 Work— Changing Hands— Different Kinds of 

 Digging— The Fork 270 



HAEDENING-OFF OF PLANTS 217 



HEEBS AND SMALL SALADS : 



Introductory— Angelica — Anise — Balm — Basil — 

 Borage— Capsicum — Caraway — Chamomile— 



