VI INDEX. 
Rhubarb, 122 
Rockery on a balcony, 13 
Roekwork, 1 
Roeila ciliata, 367 
Rose trees, budding, 191 
Roses, exhibition, 81 
Roses for winter blooming, 216 
Roses for cuttings, 169 
Roses in pots, 217 
Runner beans, seed of, 254 
Rustic furniture, 373 
Rustic seats, varnish for, 91 
Salvia splendens, 109, 202 
Sarracenias, 124 
Sawdust, use of, for preservation of 
fruit, 284 
Scarlet pelargoniums, culture of, 
248 
Scorpion grass, 162 
Screens, garden, 311 
Seakale, forcing, in frames, 27 
Seats, rustic, 374 
Seed of runner beans, 254 
Seed, ranunculus, 321 
Seed sowing, 117 
Seedling auriculas, 15 
Selago distans, 365 
Selection of trees for winter scenes, 30 
September, garden work in, 288 
Sheep’s fescue, 201 
Shell fruit., preserving, 286 
Show dahlias, 98 
Shrubs for balcony, 11 
Shrubs, transplanting, 319 
Silene laciniata, 219 
Slugs, metallic guard against, 221 
Small gardens, hints on, 47 
Soil for growth of ferns, 20 
Solly a, 154 
Soundness of wood for garden furni- 
ture, 374 
Sowing seed, 117 
Sparaxis, 336 
Sparmannia africana, 1222 
Specimen pyramidal fuchsia, 75 
Spring flowering shrubs, 65 
Spring flowers for balcony, 11 
Standard roses, stocks for, 39 
Stephanotis floribunda, 266 
Stocks, 174 
Stocks for grafting, 44 
Stocks for standard roses, 39 
Stone, artificial, 372 
Strawberries, culture of, 306 
Strawberries, forcing of, 244 
Strawberry runners, 192 
Striking cuttings, 302 
Stylidium fasciculatum, 217 
Styphelia tubiflora, 371 
Summer management of wall-fruits, 113 
Summer plants for balcony, 11 
Summer wild flowers, 161, 193 
Symphytum officinale, 161 
Tabernamontana coronaria flore pleno, 
180 
Ten- weeks stocks, 174 
Tender shrubs, protection of in winter, 
25 
Thatched hurdles for pits and frames, 
355 
Thinning fruit-tree blossoms, 189 
Thyrsacantbus rutilans, 232 
Tongue grafting, 44 
Transplanting, 316 
Transplanting, notes on, 269 
Treatment of cactuses in windows and 
in the open air, 111 
Treatment of orchids, 133 
Tree mignonette, 110 
Trees for winter scenes, 30 
Trees, transplanting, 319 
Trellis-work, 312, 341 
Trellises, 343 
Trichomanes radicans, 188 
Tritonias, 336 
Tufted hair grass, 198 
Tulip, cultivation of the, 289 
Tulips, selections of, 290 
Tunbridge fern, 226 
Turning plants out of pots, 91 
Uses of roekwork, 2 
Yallota purpurea, 258 
Yariegaied-foliaged plants, 257 
Yarnish for rustic furniture, 375 
Varnish for rustic seats, 91 
Vernal grass, 197 
Verbena, pot culture of the, 234 
Veronica Andersoni, 369 
Walks and roads, 77 
Wall-fruit, management of, 113 
Waterproof walks, 92 
Weeds on lawns, 359 
Wild flowers of May, 145 
' Winter bouquets, 99 
Winter flowers, 308 
Winter, preparing for, 277 
Winter treatment of nllamandas, 214 
Wintering carnations and picottees, 
16 ’ 
Wire-netting for poultry, etc., 377 
Wire trellises, 343 
Wood blocks for orchids, 313 
Wood shutters for garden frames, 355 
Worms in pots, 256 
Zerantbemums, ICO 
