INDEX. 
y 
Indigofera decora, 293 
Irids, 336 
Ixias, 336 
January, garden work in, 31 
Japan lilies, culture of, 323 
Jerusalem artichoke, 116 
July, garden work in, 223 
June, garden work in, 191 
Justicia carnea, 364 
J usticia speciosa, 346 
Kalosanthes coccinea, 210 
Eillarney fern, 188 
Lastrea dilatata, 81 
Layering carnations, 260 
Laying out gardens, 45 
Lawns, weeds on, 359 
Lilies, Japan, culture of, 323 
Lily of the valley, 137 
Lime for lawns, 256 
Linum tryginum, 235 
Lisianthus Eussellianus, 214 
Luculia gratissima, 112 
Management of peach trees, 143 
Mandevilla snaveolens, 106 
Manettia bicolor, 250 
Mats for pits and frames, 355 
Mode of making baskets for orchids, 
212 
Marantas, 257 
Mirbelia, 298 
Mode of obtaining the odours of plants, 
274 
Monstera deliciosa, 160 
March, garden work in, 94 
May, garden work in, 158 
May, wild-flowers of, 145 
Metallic guard against slugs, 221 
Notes for amateur gardeners, 30, 58, 90 
Notes on transplanting, 269 
November, garden work in, 352 
Oak, the evergreen, 318 
Outs, use of, for preservation of fruit, 
284 
October, garden work in, 320 
Odours of plants, 274 
Orchid baskets, 212 
Orchids, British, 151 
Orchids, propagation of, 211 
Orchids, treatment of, 133 
Ornamental grasses, 103 
Out-door fernery, 225 
Out-door management of Cape heaths, 
119 
Out-door planting, 46 
Packing fruit for carriage, 243 
Panicum italicum, 101 
Pansies in pots, 79 
Pansy, culture of the, 216 
Paper, use of, for preservation of fruit, 
284 
Passiflora kennesina, 329 
Pavettas, 267 
Peach trees, management of, 143 
Pear trees, planting, 349 
Pelargonium, culture of the, 20S 
Pentstemon speciosum, 362 
Pentas carnea, 281 
Petunias, double, 288 
Phaius albus, 212 
Phoenoeoma proliferum, 344 
Picottees and carnations, 72 
Picottees, wintering of, 16 
Pigeon keeping, 5tt 
Pitting fruit, 285 
Planting pear trees, 349 
Planting ranunculuses, 80 
Planting the beds for summer, 141 
Plants for rockwork, 5 
Plants in rooms, 36 
Plants touched with frost, 29 
Plants with variegated foliage, 257 
Poinsettia pulcherrima, 123 
Poison for crickets, 96 
Polyanthus, 140, 265 
Polystichum lonchitis, 65 
Pot culture of Japan lilies, 323 
Pot culture of scarlet pelargoniums, 248 
Pot culture of the hyacinth, 287 
Pot culture of the verbena, 234 
Pot roses, 217 
Pots for orchids, 135 
Preparing for winter, 277 
Preservation of dahlia roots, 335 
Preservation of fruit, 284 
Primula sinensis, 308 
Propagation of Cape heaths, 41 
Propagation of orchids, 211 
Propagation of roses by cuttings, 169 
Propagation of the cineraria, 207 
Protecting peach trees, 145 
Protection of forcing pits and frames, 
355 
Protection of half-hardy plants in 
water, 23 
Pruning Cape heaths, 70 
Pultenica, 261 
Purple or meadow orchis, 151 
Pyramidal fuchsias, 74 
Queen stocks, 174 
Ranunculus, 321, 348 
Ranunculuses, planting, 80 
Red spider, cure for, 160 
Reed meadow grass, 198 
Remarks on fruit trees, 189 
Repotting orchids, 135 
Rhododendron cuttings, 25 6 
