Part 32

=Floral magazines=, helpful in many ways to the amateur gardener, 257.

=Florence Vaughan Canna=, 15.

=Florists’ sashes for hotbeds=, 32.

=Floss Flower.= See Ageratum.

=Flower-beds=, arranging and marking off, 6. General effect of growing one kind of flower in, 10. Instructions for laying out, 14. Instructions for making solid beds of one flower, 53. Water-supply for, 5. Width of, 7.

=Flower-pots=, must not be filled to the brim with earth, 210.

=Flowering Maples=, 63.

=Flowers=, common and English names of, 217–233. Many ways of giving pleasure with, 256. Necessary for a twelve-foot foliage-bed, 14. Occasionally appearing in two or more sections, 232, 233. Selecting, for the sick-room, 256.

=Foliage-bed=, how to make a twelve-foot, 14. Beds facing south warmer than others, 188. Design of, 12, 13. Ideal bed for early bulbs, 188. Manuring and fertilising, 187. Soil of, should have good natural drainage, 187.

=Foliage plants=, ornamental, from seed, 141–146.

=Formulas=, for Bordeaux Mixture, 249. For house-plant fertiliser, 215. For insecticides, 249. For kerosene emulsion, 250. For Paris-green solution, 250.

=Foxgloves=, in the cold-frame, 37.

=Freesia=, 40, 192, 194. Hints on caring for and raising, 194.

=Freezing of soil in pots=, no harm to plants or bulbs, 214.

=French Lilacs=, 201. Blooming season of, 201. Planting of, 201. Useful as backgrounds, 201.

=Fresh-air=, how it should be supplied, 213. In the living room necessary to keep insects from plants, 215.

=Fritillarias=, 191.

=Frosted plants=, treatment for, 214.

=Frozen plants=, how to thaw out, 213. How to treat, 213.

=Fuchsias=, 58, 88, 91, 93, 94.

=Fumitory=, Climbing, 129.

=Funkia= (Plantain Lily), or Day Lily, 201. Impatient of disturbance, 201. Needs protection in winter, 201. Suitable soil for, 201.

=Garden, the location and arrangement of=, 3–16. Beds, laying out the, 13, 14. Best position for the garden, 3. Fall clearing of the, 203. Flower-beds, elevated, 5. Flower-beds, selection of flowers for, 10. Foliage beds for lawns, diagram of, 10, 12, 14, 15. How to prepare the flower-garden, 8. Lawns, arrangement of, 4. Ornamental grasses, beds of, 16. Ornamental plants for beds, 4. Parti-coloured flower-beds, arrangement of, 11. Rose-garden, design for, 12. Scheme for permanent garden, 6. Shrubbery, planning a, 12. South slope, ideal situation for garden, 3. Walks, arrangement and treatment of, 9.

=Garden Spiræa=, 197.

=Garden-walks=, marking off and measuring, 6.

=Gardener=, amateur, advice to the, 20.

=Geranium seeds=, irregularity of growth, 78.

=Geraniums=, 39, 58, 59, 62, 76–78, 89–92, 94, 192. Bruant, 91. Camphor, 91. Choice varieties produced by seeds from hybridised flowers, 76. Developing of, a fascinating study, 76. Easy to raise, 76. Flourish best in the sun, 211. Hints on growing, 78. In the sand-box, 39. Ivy, 78. Lady Washington, 76. Most satisfactory for south or west window-boxes, 91. Pelargonium, 77. Should be grown close to glass, 77. Souvenir de Charles Turner, 91. When to sow seed, 76. Zonale, 77.