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Index 



Pood and Water — Continued 

 323; for the snowbirds; 

 vegetation for birds; flowers 

 that furnish food, 320; utiliz- 

 ing a cocoanut shell, 320, 

 321; food tray; to cure the 

 bird of ailments; food for 

 hard-billed and soft-billed 

 birds; regularity of feeding; 

 green food, 321; use of 

 shrubs and vines; food for 

 the bluebird; seed eaters 

 and fruit eaters, 322, 324; 

 trees for the birds, 322, 323, 

 324, 325; when caged birds 

 do not thrive; insect-eating 

 birds, 323; berries for, 323, 

 324, 327; fresh food through- 

 out the year, 325 ; water, 325, 

 326 



Forget-me-not, as a border; 

 filling in with shrubbery; 

 house plant in winter; when 

 to sow seed; kind of soil, 



60, 61; with tulips, 139 

 Formaldehyde solution, to 



make spray of, 270 

 Forsythia, care of roots in fall 

 for spring flowering ; pruning ; 

 propagation from cuttings, 



61, 62 



Four-o'clock, how to sow seed; 

 how to set out plants; self- 

 perpetuating, 62 



Foxglove, kind of soil; when 

 to plant seed; not to be 

 transplanted in fall, 63; 

 protection during winter, 75 



Freesias, fertilizer for; when 

 and how to pot bulbs; 

 ripening bulbs before storing 

 for next season, 63 



French Marigolds, suitable for 

 flower bed borders; how to 

 sow seed; care of; trans- 

 planting; soil, 92, 93 



Fuchias, to keep during winter; 

 cultivation in early spring; 

 pruning; to root cuttings, 

 64; slipped in fall for summer 

 planting, 69 



Fungus diseases, to check, 255 

 G 



Gaillardia, sowing seed; trans- 

 planting from hotbed; kind 

 of soil needed; cuttings for 

 house plants; for garden 

 borders, 65 ; not to be trans- 

 planted in fall, 63 



Garden, General Plan of 

 (hints on), 150-156; de- 

 signing; color scheme, 150; 

 studying layout; protection 

 and exposure, 150, 151; 

 rock, 198, 199 



Garden, Special Features of 

 (article on), 16-24 



Gardenias, how to grow; for 

 planting the next season; 

 too fragrant for house 

 plants, 65, 66 



Gardening, Essentials In 

 (article on), 8-15 



Gas, Hydrocyanic, danger, who 

 should use, 264 



Gateway, training of vine 

 over, 147 



General Plan of the Garden 

 (hints on), 150-156 



Gentian, varies under like 

 conditions; kind of soil; 

 protection in winter, 66 



Geraniums, to produce beauti- 

 ful flowers; when to start 

 plants for winter blooming; 

 care of, to encourage further 

 blooming; some large plants 

 desirable; slips; methods of 

 rooting cuttings; variety of 

 colors; geranium bed of 

 little expense; suitable for 

 window boxes, 67-69; Ivy- 

 leaf, for window box culture, 

 144; oil, where obtained, 

 281; rose, tree formation; 

 soil conditions, 116, 1 17 



German Iris, combining with 

 Silene, 130 



German Ivy, for window box 

 culture, 144 



