INDEX. 



321 



Ripening and gathering the fruit, 

 171. 



Packing to he sent to a distance, 

 172. 



Insects to which suhject — red- 

 spider, 173. 



Green-fly, 173. 



Brown scale, 174. 



Thrip, 174. 



Diseases, 174. 



Pine-Apple. 

 Its natural history, 1. 

 Houses for its cultivation, 2. 

 Those for summer growth, 3. 

 For winter growth, 4. 

 Pits for suckers, 5. 

 Situation of the houses, 5. 

 Amount of heat and hot-water 



pipes, 6. 

 Objections to flat-roofed houses, 6. 

 Steaming apparatus, 7. 

 An-angement of pipes, 7. 

 Provision for watering, 8. 

 Arrangement of plants, 8. 

 Advantages of the tan and leaf 



bed, 8. 

 Varieties, 9. 

 The Queen, 9. 



Smooth-leaved Cayenne, 10. 

 Black Jamaica, 10. 

 White Providence, 10. 

 Charlotte Rothschild, 11. 

 Prince Albert, 11. 

 Lambton Castle Seedling, 11. 

 Soil and its preparation, 13. 

 Propagation, 15. 

 Suckers, 16. 

 Potting of these, 16. 

 Subsequent treatment, 17. 



Succession plants — their spring 



treatment, 20. 

 Their summer and autumn treat- 

 ment, 27. 

 Fruiting plants, 35. 

 Selecting, arranging, and plunging 



them, 36. 

 Retarding and keeping them after 



they are ripe, 40. 

 How to keep a succession of ripe 



fruit all through the year, 42. 

 Treatment of plants that miss 



fruiting, 45. 

 The planting-out system, 46. 

 Insects to which subject — white 



scale, 47. 

 Brown scale and mealy bug, 48. 



St[iawbemit, the. 

 Its natural history, 231. 

 How to secure the best runners for 



forcing, 232. 

 Preparing these for their fruiting- 



pots, 233. 

 Soil and potting, &c., 234. 

 Watering, 237. 

 Protecting and resting, 238. 

 House for forcing, 239. 

 Forcing, 240. 



Setting and thinning the fruit, 242. 

 Insects to which subject, 245. 

 Forcing in a greenhouse or pit, 



245. 

 Tying up the fruit-stalks, 246. 

 Packing them when ripe, 247. 

 Preparing them for exhibition, 



248. 

 Best varieties for forcing, 249. 



Vine, the, see Grape Vine. 



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