INDEX. 
605 
Fowls, barn-door, their use in Or- 
chards, 141, 144 
Foxglove. 158, 300 
Framing, introduction to, 11 
Framing-ground, 13 
Franklinia, 277 
Fraxinella, 355 
French Honeysuckle, 158 
Marigold, 425 
Fringe-tree, 275, 301 
Fritillaries, 79, 396, 417, 446, 469, 503, 
544 
sowing seed of, 468, 499 
Fruit, thinning of, 385 
to preserve for winter keeping, 
529 
preserving the stones of, to 
plant, 467, 529 
preserving the kernels of, 529 
planting or sowing the stones 
of, 151, 258, 499, 536 
sowing the kernels of, 156, 258, 
263, 537 
Fruit-trees, newly grafted, care of, 
338, 390, 415, 440, 467 
grafted or budded the preceding 
year, care of, 257, 258, 390, 391 
budded in the present season, 
care of, 467, 498 
luxuriant and unfruitful, how 
to bring to a bearing state, 143 
to correct roughness in, and 
renew the bark of, 531 
Fuchsia cocciuea, 167, 312, 364, 428, 
549 
Fumigating the Hot-House, &c. 174, 
509 
G. 
Galega virginiana, 354, 355, 470 
Galleries, of hedge-work, 74 
Gardenias, 364 
Garlic, 197, 324, 523, 555 
Geissorhiza obtusala, 166, 508 
Genistas, 363 
Gentianas, 355, 470 
Gentianella, 158, 301, 470 
Geraniums, 94, 167, 364, 428, 453 
Gerardias, 79, 354. 355, 470 
Gladioluses, hardy, 83, 544 
tender, 166, 429, 508 
Glass most preferable for hot-bed 
lights, 11 
for hot-house roof-lights, 96 
Glass-case for flowering plants, 352 
Glycines, 470 
Gnaphaliums, 470 
Goat's-rue, 354 
Golden-rod, 158, 300 
Gooseberry-trees, pruning of, 32, 137, 
221,527,562 
planting, 137, 221, 526, .562 
propagating by cuttings, 293, 
527, 562 
propagating by seed, 527, 562 
Gooseberry-trees, soil most suitable 
for, 294 
Gordonias, 277 
Gourds, 369 
Grafting, the proper time for. 248 
preliminary instructions for, 
248 to 253 
stocks adapted for, 249 
when to take off the cions for. 
248 
choice of cions or grafts, 250 
cions not to be taken from 
sickly trees, 48 
tools used in, 251 
clay, how to prepare, 251 
the various methods of, 252 to 
257 
various kinds of trees and 
shrubs, 257, 290, 338, 340 
by approach or inarching, 256, 
340, 363 
forest-trees and ornamental 
shrubs, 292 
hollies, 340 
Grapes, the methods of preserving 
them fresh, 497 
• of curing them for raisins, 497 
Grape-vines. See Vines 
Grass-walks and lawns, general dis- 
position and care of, 64 to 78 
methods of making or laying 
down, 305 
Grass-slopes, 75 
Gravel-walks, general disposition of 
64 to 78 
methods of making, 359 
Green-House, to erect or construct, 85 
work to be done in for January, 
90. Februarv, 165. March, 306. 
April, 361. May, 400. June, 427. 
July, 453. August, 473. September, 
507. October, 548. November, 572. 
December, 590 
Green-House plants, shifting 308, 
362,401,453,473 
sowing seeds of, 166, 309, 363 
heading down, 307, 308, 363, 
401 
propagating by cuttings. &c. 
167, 309, 364, 428, 453 
when to bring out, 401 
when to take in, 507, 549 
to winter in garden-frames, 
550 
Gromwell, 205 
Grottoes, rural, 65, 72 
Groves, 70 
Guernsey Lily, 399, 417, 429, 469, 572 
Guilandiniadioica, 301 
Gum in fruit-trees, to remedy, 441 
H. 
Ha-ha, what, 72 
Hawk-weed, purple and yellow, 158, 
352 
