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INDEX. 
Standard, half-standard, and dwarf- 
standard trees, to train, 56 
Star of Bethlehem, 83, 295, 446, 544 
Statues, 65, 72 
Stock, annual or Mediterranean, 352 
Stock-gilliflowers, 84, 106, 163, 300, 
399, 426, 545, 569, 589 
Stocks, the proper kinds to bud and 
graft on, 250 
Stools, nursery, of trees and shrubs, 
52, 288, 289 
Stopping, or topping young cucumber 
and melon plants, 120 
Stoves or Hot-Houses, methods of 
erecting, 91 to 103 
Strawberries, forcing, 34, 105, 138, 
179, 312, 593 
spring dressing of, 222 
choice of plants, 222, 486 
the various kinds of, 485 
times and method of planting, 
222, 487, 529 
making nursery plantations of, 
412 
to pot for forcing, 487 
— — autumn dressing of, 529 
other necessary care of, 336, 387 
Strawberry-spinage, 352 
Strawberry-tree. See Arbutus Unedo 
Suckers, to propagate trees and shrubs 
by, 150, 338, 547 
Sumack, to propagate various kinds 
of, 279 
tanner's, 279 
Sun, its effects on frozen plants, 160 
Sunflower, annual, 158, 235, 300, 352 
perennial, 158, 300 
Sweet-briar, 265 
Sweet-gum. 270, 302 
Sweet-scented Peas, 158, 299 
Sweet-scented shrub. See Calycan- 
thus floridus 
Sweet-sultan, 353 
Sweet-william, 84, 106, 158, 300, 425, 
470, 501 
Sycamore, 270 
Syringas, 150 
T. 
Table of the progress of vegetation in 
the grape-vine, &c. 489 
Tacamahaca, 292 
Tamarisk, 292 
Tan, covering bulbs with, 81 
procuring fresh, for making hot- 
pits or beds, 511 
Tansey, 19, 205, 521 
Tarragon, 19,205,521 
Teasel, fuller's, 332 
Temples, rnral and ornamental, 65, 
72 
Ten-week stock, 162, 179, 299, 352 
Terraces, 66. 76 
Teucriums, 363, 364 
Thermometer, its use in gardening, 
&c. 175 
Thickets in rural and ornamental 
planting, 71 
Thorn-quicks. See Quicks 
Thorn, double flowering, 163, 301 
Thrift, 79, 158, 301, 501 
Thyme, 205, 382, 411, 464, 521 
Tiger-flower, 473 
Tomatoes, 207, 328, 381, 410, 439 
Trellises for fruit-trees, to erect, 24, 25 
Trenching and manuring, 9, 61, 113, 
468, 524, 561, 566 
Tricolors. See Amaranthus trico- 
lor 
Trilliums, 354, 470 
Tritonias, 166, .508 
Trumpet-flower, 292, 415 
Tuberoses, forcing, 357 
open-ground culture of, 358, 397 
taking up the roots, &c. 570 
Tulip-tree, (called Poplar,) 269, 302 
Tulips, common care of, &c. 71, 81. 
82, 160, 163, 294, 342, 416, 567, 583, 
589 
method of supporting the flowers, 
343 
description and properties of the 
best, 343 
the various classes of, 344 
to take up and preserve the roots, 
393 
when to take them up, 416 
to propagate by seed, 469, 500 
breeders, what, 344 
h ow and when to plant the valuable 
sorts, 538 
to protect them in winter, 567 
Turfing-iron, 305 
Tupelo-tree, 272, 292 
Turnips, garden culture of, 197, 207, 
324,380,410,461,481 
general field culture of, 433 
to preserve in winter, 557 
Swedish, 436 
Turnip-cabbage, 318, 373, 406 
Turnip-rooted cabbage, 318, 373 
V. 
Valerian, Greek, 158, 300, 426, 502 
red garden, 354 
creeping Greek, 502 
Vallisneria americana. 505 
Venus's fly-trap, 449 
looking-glass, 158, 299, 352 
navel-wort, 158, 299, 352 
Veratrums, 470 
Verbascums, 354 
Veronicas, 354, 470 
Viburnum prunifolium,266 
Vinca rosea, 398, 459 
Vines, grape, their history, 233 
descriptions and classification of 
the various kinds of, 236 
