INDEX 
Acetylene gas refuse for soil 
improvement, 45. 
Alphabetical list of plants, 217. 
American gardeners’ methods, 5. 
Annuals and bulbs, 115 et seq. 
suitable for hot, dry soils, 
127. 
in herbaceous border, 130. 
Apparatus for designing gardens, 
24. 
Apricot trees, protection of, 206. 
Archways, brick, use of, 33. 
Arrangement of plants in mixed 
border, 102 et seq. 
Artemisia lactijiora , 94. 
Aster A melius, 94. 
Aubrietias, cuttings of, 61. 
Aubrietia greeca for walls, 9. 
Autumn bulbs, 'i 89. 
perennials, 190. 
Backgrounds, advantages of, 5. 
suggestions for, 5. 
Bagatelle, France, description of 
gardens at, 19. 
Beech hedges, 10. 
Berwickshire cliffs, the, 12. 
Biennials for the herbaceous 
border, list of, 131. 
Blue flowers in pure tones, list 
of, 289, 
Blue gardens, 147 et seq. 
Borders, construction of one 
costing £$, 196. 
herbaceous, inkitchen gardens, 
27 - 
long, arrangement of, 33. 
mixed, 86 et seq. 
raised, 40, 90. 
Borders, remaking of, 45. 
stony, improvement of, 43. 
Box hedges, transplanting of, 
11. 
Burnet, for breaking hard-pan, 
. 43 - 
Burning clay, method of, 41. 
Carnations, 100, 208, 209. 
Carpeting, 51, 106. 
Catalogues, descriptions, errors 
in, 80, 81. 
Chalky soil, treatment of, 42. 
Chicory for breaking hard-pan, 
43 - 
Chrysanthemums, Scotland and 
Staffordshire, 86. 
Clay soil, spadework for, 39. 
improvement of, by draining, 
39 - 
Clippedhedges at Lenox,U.S.A., 
i?- 
Clipped lime hedges, 10. 
Cocksfoot, for breaking hard- 
pan, 43. 
Colour, attention to, 76, 77 et seq. 
standardisation of, 80,81 et seq. 
Cost of labour, 64 et seq. 
of plants, 56 et seq. 
Cottage gardens, 86, 87, 88. 
“Crazy-patchwork” paths, 188. 
Cupressus macrocarpa for back- 
ground, 8, 89. 
Cuttings, increasing by, 60, 61, 
62. 
Dahlias for garden decoration, 
124, 125. 
Deep cultivation, results of, 18. 
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