730 



GENERAL INDEX. 



Tropse^olum tuberosum, culture of, 655 

 Truffle, where to be found, and by what means, 692 

 Turnip, selection of varieties, and their culture, 647 

 Cabbage, culture of, 627 



Utensils used in horticulture: garden-pots, 142; blanching-pot, 143; water- 

 saucers, 144; plant-boxes, 145; watering-pot, 146; sieves, 147: pot-carriers, 

 baskets, 148; bell-glasses, hand-glasses, 152; powdering-boxes, 153; various 

 others, 153. 



Varieties, duration of, 408 ; new varieties of herbaceous plants, 409. See Notes in 

 p. 709 



Vegetable culture, what necessary in, 5 



Vegetables, improvement of by cultivation, 404 



'' culinary : — systematically arranged according to their natural orders, 



616; number of genera of, which may be cultivated in British gardens, 619; 

 horticulturally arranged, 619 ; propagation, and seed, saving of, 620 ; general re- 

 marks on their culture, and soils best adapted for, 621 ; times of sowing and 

 planting culinary, 438 ; gathering and preserving, 401 



Vegetable marrow, see Gourd 



Vegetation, stimulants to, 245 ; modes of accelerating, 391 ; modes of re- 

 tarding, 395 



Vermin, necessity of destroying those injurious to gardens, 93 



Vines, propagation of by joints, 265 ; objections to depriving a vine of h portion of 

 its leaves when the fruit is ripening, 709 ; causes of a deficiency of colour in the 

 fruit, 709 ; the vine when forced not calculated to sustain uninjured a temperature 

 below 40°, 709 



Walls, their use in gardens, 176 ; direction and best materials for, 177 ; height of, 

 178 ; copings of, mode of fixing temporary rafters to, 179 ; construction of, 180 ; 

 trellised, colouring the surface of, flued, 181 ; conservatory, 183 ; reed as a sub- 

 stitute for brick, 183 



Wall-trees, to protect, 74 ; articles required for training, 167 



Walnut, use of, and management of the trees, 578 ; leaves, useful for destroying 



worms, 696 

 V7asp and fiy traps. 111 



Water, the presence of, increases the tendency to spring and autumn frosts, 75 ; 



its importance in cultivation, 382 ; comparative effects of spring and pond, 383 ; 



application of to plants, 385. See Notes in p. 703, 704 

 Watering-barrow for strawberries, 384 



— pots, 146 

 Water-cress, culture of, 682 

 Wedge-grafting, how performed, 292 

 Weeding, and implements for, 238, 381 

 Wicker-work hurdles for sheltering plants, 163 

 Wormwood, its use, &c., 694 



Young gardeners, advice with reference to their improvement by reading, writing, 

 drawing, &c., during the long winter evenings, 720. 



THE END. 



LONDON : 



BRADBlfRY AND EVANS, PRINTERS, WHrTEFRIARS. 



