Elements of plant food, 6$ 

 England, Exhibiting in, 109. 

 Method of propagating 

 in, 36. 

 Ethics of exhibiting, no. 

 Excessive feeding, Results 



of, 31. 



Exhibiting, Berberis Thun- 

 bergii used in, 1 10. 

 Ethics of, 1 10. 

 in America, 109. 

 in England, 109. 

 Exhibition blooms, Grow- 

 ing. 77- 

 Packing, 99. 

 Propagating for, 77. 

 varieties for, 188. 

 Exhibition,Selectingblooms 



for, 98. 

 Experience, An amateur's, 



7. 165. . . 

 Expert's opinion of com- 

 post, An, 28. 

 Export, Packing plants for, 

 118. 



February, Work for, 173. 

 Feeding, Results of ex- 

 cessive, 31. 

 the chrysanthemum, 28, 



64. 

 in the South, 163. 

 Fertilizers, Commercial, 66, 



67, 75- 

 Flowers after frost, 168. 

 Crown buds for largest, 



10. 

 in U. S., Value of plants 

 and, 112. 

 Frame for bush plants, 56. 



INDEX 197 



for standards, 59. 

 Freight, Sending plants by, 



61. 

 Frost, Flowers after, 168. 



Protection from early. 



Glass, Growing under, 17. 

 Grafting for standards, 39. 

 Grasshopper, 149. 

 Green aphis, 146. 

 Greenhouse, Best height for 

 a, 18. 

 Chrysanthemums with 

 other crops in the, 21. 

 construction, 17. 

 on the plants, Influence 



of the, 19. 

 Place of the chrysanthe- 

 mum in the, 19. 

 Ventilators in the, 18. 

 Growing exhibition blooms, 



n- 



plants for cut blooms, 

 120. 

 Guide to the sections, 99. 



Hairy type^ 181. 



Hardy chrysanthemums, 

 classes of, 171. 



Heat, "Bottom," 34. 



Height for a greenhouse. 

 Best, 18. 



Home decoration, chrys- 

 anthemums in, 130. 



House for specimen bush 

 plants, 23. 

 Propagating, 34. _ 

 shading the cutting, 36. 



