INDEX. 



THE ROSE. 



PAGB 



Briers 19,30 



Budding 51 



' Spring 55 



Calendar of Operations 73 



Flowering of Seedlings, Hastening of • . . . 47 



Retarding of. 49 



Forcing. .^ 39, 49, 43, 44 



Grafting 57 



Root ." 58 



Hints, General, on Cultivation. 67 



Insects infesting the Rose. . . .- 80 



Manures proper for the Rose 37 



Pillar Roses 64, 65 



Planting of the Rose 37 



PMtical Allusions to the Rose 5, 6, 7, 8 



Potting of Roses 39, 41 



Propagation by Budding 51 



Cuttings 49 



Grafting 57 



Layers 50 



Beed 45 



Suckers 49 



Properties of Climbing Roses 35 



Moss Roses 33 



Noisette Roses 34 



Roses for Stands 34 



Prtiningi 60,65, 66 



Standards 61 



and Trailing Pillar Roses 64, 65 



Root Grafting 53 



Roses, Austrian Brier 19 



Banksian 21, 26 



PAGB 



Roses, Bengal... 8 



Bourbon il, 21, 24 



Boursault 20 



Burgundy 23 



China 17,2-2' 



aimbing 14,20,21,35 



Damask 18 



Double Yello-w-. 19 



Evergreen 20 



French 17,28 



Hardy Garden 15 



Hybrid 12, 17, 21 



Jaune Desprez 25 



Macartney 23 



Microphylla 25 



Miniature 22 



Moss 17,31 



Music 15, 23 



Noisette 13,23, 34 



Perpetual 12, 21 



Pillar 64 



Provence 16 



Scotch , 19 



Species of. 8 



Sweet Brier. 19, 30 



Tea-stfented 9, 22 



Varieties of 8 



VillageMaid 29 



White la 



Williams' Yellow Sweet Brier .^...., 30 



Soil proper for the Rose t... 36 



Species and Varieties 8 



THE DAHLIA. 



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^ftor Cnltnro 94 



History 78 



Mnlohing 93 



Planting ont 92 



Propagation l3y Grafting and Slips 90 



Seed 89 



Slips 90 



Keqnisites of a Fine Flover 88 



PASS 



Sitnation 9L 



Soil, Preparation of. 91 



Treatment, Autumnal.. 94 



of Slips 91 



Spring. 92 



when flowering 94 



Watering 93 



