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GENERAL INDEX. 



Manures : — organic, or animal and vegetable, 56 ; leaf-mould, 56 ; green crops, sea- 

 weed, malt-dust, rape-cake, haulm, rotten tan, peat soil, 57 ; urine, 58 ; hair, 

 wool, feathers, leather, horn, rags, dead animals, night-soil, sugar-bakers' scum, 

 bones, dung of animals, 59 ; saving and collecting of, 60 ; liquid, 389 and 707 



— inorganic, or mineral, 60 ; quicklime, mild lime, chalk, 61 ; marl, gypsum, sea- 

 shells, 62 ; saltpetre, salt, 63 



Manures, mixed : — coal-ashes, vegetable ashes, 64; soot, street-sweepings, liquiil, 

 65 ; application of, 66 



Marjoram, culture of the, 691 



Marigold, culture of the, 686 



Mats, mode of making straw, and their usefulness, 159 

 Medlar, general particulars of its culture and management, 552 

 Melon, history of, 487 ; summary of culture for the Cantaloup Melon, 488 ; practice 

 of Melon culture in British gardens, 490 ; culture in the open air, 492 ; insects 

 and diseases which the plants are subject to, with the mode of treatment to 

 be adopted for their eradication, 493 ; a selection of the best varieties of, 602 

 Mice, mode of catching them, 121 

 Mildew, its causes and cure, 125 

 Mint, culture of, 690 



Moisture, its influence on the distribution of plants, 41 ; the capacity of air for, 80 

 Monochlamydese, orders belonging to, 14 

 Morel, its locaUty, 692 



Mowing, its object and mode of performance, 238 

 Mulberry, use of, and management of the trees, 577 



Mushroom, general particulars of its culture, 523 ; form of house for, and mode of 

 culture, 524 ; mode of culture in a cellar, 525 ; mode of growing it in lawns and 

 pastures, 692; in cow-houses and stables, 710 



Nasturtium, culture of, 686 

 Nectarine, see Peach 



Offsets, propagation by, 279 



Onion, selection of varieties, 659 ; culture of, 660 ; culture of the Potato, and bulb- 

 bearing sorts, 661. See Notes in p. 712 and 713 



Operations :— digging, 229 ; trenching, 230 ; hoeing, 232 ; raking, 233 ; rolling, 234 ; 

 sawing, 235 ; clipping, 236 ; sowing, 243 ; layering, 272 ; grafting, 280 ; inarching, 

 298 ; budding, 302 ; transplanting and planting, 309 ; potting, 329 ; pruning, 335 ; 

 thinning, 349 ; training, 351 ; weeding, 378 ; watering, 382 ; blanching, 389 



Orache, culture of, 657 



Orange, the use and varieties of, 608 ; propagation and culture of the Orange family, 

 610 



Orangery described, and its use, 223 



Organic matter in soils, necessary to fertility, 49 



Orchard, its formation and its situation, 430 ; select list of fruit-trees for, and the 

 distance apart at which they are to be planted, 431 ; culture of the soil in 

 the, 433. 



Oxalis Deppei, culture of, 654 



crenata, culture of, 655 



Parsley, culture of, 684 ; use and culture of the Hamburgh, 653 

 Parsnep, culture of, 651 



Peach and Nectarine, history of, and general particulars relating to the management 

 of, under glass, 472 ; construction of the house for, and kinds best adapted for 

 forcing, 474 ; mode of training and pruning, 475 ; general treatment of from the 

 commencing of forcing, 476 ; insects and diseases to which the trees are liable, 

 with modes of prevention and cure, 476 ; on their culture in pots, 477 ; course 

 of culture for two years at Stow Hall Gardens, 477 ; use of, and select list of 

 Peaches arranged in the order of their ripening, 587 ; select list of Nectarines 

 arranged in the order of their ripening, 588 ; propagation of, and culture of the young 

 trees, 588 ; soil and situation best adapted for the trees, 589 ; mode of pruning 

 and training, 590 ; management of the borders in which the trees are growing, 

 592 ; modes of protecting the trees during winter and spring, 593 ; diseases and 

 insects to which the ti-ees are liable, with modes of eradication, 594 ; essential 

 points of Peach culture, 595 



