iv 



CASSELL'S POPULAE GARDENING. 



THE LlTE-HISTOEY OF PLANTS: page 



Pruning — Propagation •, 9 



Eeproduction 118 



Fertilisation — Impregnation ., 181 



Eipening of the Fruit -The Seed 303 



MANURING IN THEOEY AND PEACTICE : 



Constituents of Plants — How Plants Feed — 



Sources of Plant-food 36 



How Soils become Fertile— The Atmosphere as a 

 Source of Plant-food — Yield of Nitrogen by 

 Crops Ill 



Nitrates as Plant-food — Nitrates in Soils — Action 



of Manures 254 



Composition and Effect of Manures 347 



THE OECHAED-HOUSE : 



Houses— "Water— Stimulants— Compost — Manage- 

 ment of Autumn-potted Trees the First Year 70 



Management of Peaches and Nectarines the 



Second Year— Varieties 129 



Plums— Cherries— Figs— Pears -Apricots 234 



OECHIDS : 



Dendrochilum— Disa— Epiphora — Epidendrimi — 

 Epistephium — Gallandi'a — Gongora— Goodyera 

 — Grammatophyllum— Helcia— HouUetia ... 85 



OECHIDS {continued) -. page 

 Himtleya— lonopsis— Ipsasa- Lselia — Laeliopsis— 



Leptotes — Limatodes — Lissochilus — Llidde- 



mannia—Ly caste— Masdevallia 151 



Maxillaria - Mesosp^ni Jium— Miltonia— Mormodes 



— Nanodes — Nasonia— Odontoglossum 296 



Oncidium — Orchis — Pachystoma — Palumbina — 



Paphinia— Peristeria— Pescatoria— Pbajus ... 374 



PEOPAGATION : 



Introduction— Seeds— Conditions of Seed-raising... 63 

 Raising of Special Genera from Seed — Coniferse, 



Palms, Orchids and Nepenthes, Aquatics, Ferns 206 

 Cuttings 369 



EOCK, ALPINE, FEEN, AND WILD GAEDENING : 



The Hardy Fernery .... 106 



The In-door Fernery 218 



THE EOSE AND ITS CULTTJEE : 



Standard, Half -Standard, "Weeping, Dwarf, and 



Pegged-down Eoses 92 



Garden Eoses 144 



Eoses in Out-of-the-way Places 199 



Cultivation of the Eose under Glass— Eoses in 



Pots— Forcing of Eoses in Pots 261 



Diseases and Insects affecting the Rose 335 



