CASSELL'S POPULAR GARDENING. 



THE LEPE-HISTOET OP PLAUTS: 



Pruning — Propagation , 



Beproduction 



Fertilisation — Impregnation 



Bipening of the Fruit — The Seed 



mANUEmG IN THEOET AND PBACTICE: 



Constituents of Plants — How Plants Peed — 

 Sources of Plant-food 



How Soils become Fertile— The Atmosphere as a 

 Source of Plant-food — ^Tield of Nitrogen by 

 Crops 



Nitrates as Plant-food — ^Nitrates in Soils — Action 

 of Manures 



Composition and Eifect of Manures 



FACE 



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 ,. 181 



111 



254 

 347 



THE OEOHAED-HOUSE ; 



Houses— Water — Stimulants — Compost — Manage- 

 ment of Autumn-potted Trees the First Tear 70 

 Management of Peaches and Nectarines the 



' Second Tear— Varieties 129 



Plums— Cherries— Figs— Pears— Apricots 234 



OBCHIDS : 



BendrochUum— Disa — Epiphora — Epidendmm — 

 Epistephium — GaUajidra — Gongora — Goodyera 

 — Grammatophyllum — Helcia— HouUetia .„ 85 



OECHIDS (contwaed): '*" 



Huntleya- lonopsia— Ipssea — Lffilia — Leeliopsis— 



Leptotes — Limatodes — lissochilus — Liidde- 



TT^n.mn'ti, — ^Lycaste — Maadevallia 151 



MariUaria-Mesospinidium- Miltonia^Mormodes 



— Nanodes— Nasoniar— Odontoglossum 296 



Oncidium — Orchis — Paohy stoma — Palumbina — 



Paphinia— Peristeria— Pescatoria— Phajus ... 374 



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PEOPAGATION : 



Introduction— Seeds— Conditions of Seed-raiaing... 

 Eaising of Special Genera from Seed— Coniferffl, 



Palms, Orchids and Nepenthes, Aquatics, Perns 206 

 Cuttings 369 



EOCK, ALPINE, PEEN, AND WILD GAEDENING : 



The Hardy Fernery 106 



The In-door Fernery 218 



THE EOSE AND ITS CULTUEE: 



Standard, HaU-Standard, Weeping, Dwarf, and 



Pegged-down Eoses 92 



Garden Eoses 144 



Eoses in Out-of-the-way Places 199 



Cultivation of the Eose under Glass — Eoses in 



Pots— Forcing of Eoses in Pots 261 



Diseases and Insects affecting the Eose 335 



