INDEX 



Abutilon, cutting of, 170. 



Ageratum, 105. 



All-summer flower garden, 56. 



All the year round, color, 130. 



Althaea, prunmg of, li23. 



American Beauty, prunmg of, 128. 



American holly, when to plant, 184. 



American Turk's cap's lily, 103. 



Anemones, Japanese, when to plant, 

 184. 



Annual chrysanthemimis, 152; lark- 

 spurs, 153; lupins, 152. 



Annuals, best started in cold-frame, 

 148; chart of, 204; growing of, 154; 

 how to succeed with, 157; list of, 

 107; list which every gardener 

 should know, 156; for old-fashioned 

 garden, 118; that should be sown, 

 154; that should be transplanted, 

 154. 



Aphis, 164, 180. 



Aquilegia, 102. 



Arbors, 115. 



Arch, lattice, 64. 



Arches, 115. 



Aster, China, starting, 148. 



Austrian brier-rose, priming of, 129. 



Azaleas, grafted, 127; pruning of, 124. 



Bachelor's-buttons, 157. 

 Back-yard fence, 45. 

 Back-yard gardens, 30, 64. 

 Balsam, 157. 



Baltimore belle, pruning of, 129. 

 Bamboo and string lattice, 61. 

 Banksias, 160. 

 Barberries, pnming of, 123. 

 Bedding out plants, 104. 

 Beds, arrangement of plants in, 138 

 et seq.; old-fashioned garden, 114; 



in front of piazza, 105; what to 

 plant in half a dozen, 107. 



Begonias, 105; winter care of, 201. 



Bellis perennis, 102. 



Bench, cutting, 169; garden, 69. 



Berberis Thimbergii, pruning of, 123. 



Berberis vulgaris, pruning of, 123. 



Biennials, chart of, 208; list of, for 

 midsummer sowing, 101; for old- 

 fashioned garden, 119. 



Black spot, 163. 



Bordeaux mixture, 176. 



Border beds, arrangement of plants 

 in, 138. 



Borders, garden, 81. 



Boundaries, garden, 81. 



Bourbon roses, pruning of, 129. 



Browallia, 153. 



Budded plants, 27. 



Bulbs, 107; charts of, 208; how to 

 plant, 198; for old-fashioned gar- 

 den, 119; spring-flowering, when to 

 plant, 185. 



Bush honeysuckle, pruning of, 124. 



Butterfly flower, 152. 



Cabbage-roses, pruning of, 129. 

 Caladiiuu esculentum, 109. 

 Calendar, gardeners', 229. 

 California poppy, 156. 

 Campanula, annual, 157; Carpatica, 



148; Loreyi, 151; macrostyla, 151; 



medium, 102; rotundifoUa, 148. 

 Canadian bellflower hly, 104. 

 Candytuft, 156. 

 Cannabis gigantea, 153. 

 Cannas, 109; winter care of, 200. 

 Canterbury-bells, 102. 

 Charm in gardens, 23. 

 Cherokee rose, 160. 



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