INDEX 



Amateur's experience, An, 

 7, 165. 



America, Exhibiting in, 109. 



Ammoniacal copper car- 

 bonate, 158. 



Ammonia, Sulphate of, 74. 



Anemone type, 180. 



Aphis, black, 146, 

 green, 146. 



April, Work for, 174. 



Arranging colours, 108. 



Artemisias, 6. 



Ashes, Wood, 71. 



August, Work for, 176. 



Beds, Benches better than, 



21. 

 Bee-fly, chrysanthemum, 



151. 

 Benches better than solid 

 beds, 21. 

 Construction of, 22. 

 Planting in, 82. 

 Bentley, Professor, quoted, 



139- 



Berberis Thunbergii used 



in exhibiting, no. 

 Black aphis, 146. 

 Blooms, Dressing, 107. 

 for exhibition. Propaga- 

 ting, 77. 

 for exhibition. Selecting, 

 98. 



Blooms, Growing exhibi- 

 tion, 77. 

 Methods of supporting, 



84. 

 Packing exhibition, 99. 

 Staging, 1 06. 

 Storage room for, 24. 

 Storing 97. 

 Tying, 5S. 

 Bordeaux mixture, 159. 

 Bottom heat, 34. 

 Boxes, Plants grown in, 



81. 

 Breaking, Preventing 



plants from, 52. 

 Bud formation. Influence 

 of season on, 92. 

 Taking the, 55, 91. 

 Buds, crown, 9. 



for largest flowers, 10. 

 terminal, 9. 

 "Bud varieties," 143. 

 Bug, the tarnished plant, 



ISO. 

 Burning of varieties, 95. 

 Bush Plants, 43. 1 

 Dwarf, 125. 

 Forms of, 49. 

 Frames for, 56. 

 House for, 23. 

 Making, 12. 

 Scales for judging, 62. 

 Supports for, 13. 



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