CONTENTS. 
Page 
Introduction . v 
CHAPTER I. 
Stirring the soil. 1 
CHAPTER II. 
Manuring the soil, and making hotbeds. 23 
CHAPTER III. 
Sowing seeds — planting bulbs and tubers—trans¬ 
planting and watering. 43 
CHAPTER IV. 
Modes of propagation by division; viz.: taking off 
suckers, making layers and cuttings, budding, 
grafting, and inarching. 70 
CHAPTER V. 
Pruning, training, protecting from frost, and destroy¬ 
ing insects. 110 
