blackfly 227
blackberries
Himalayan Giant 115
John Innes 179
Merton Early 115
Merton Thornless 179
Boskoop Giant 114
blackcurrants 92, 268–9
Baldwin 114
reversion virus 185–6
Bledisloe Cup 60
Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire 105
Blickling Hall, Norfolk 286
Blitz on Bugs (cartoon) 152
Blunt, Maggie Joy 25
Board of Agriculture and Fisheries 99, 134
Bodnant Garden, Conwy 22
Bone, Sir Muirhead 154
Boot, Jesse, 1st Baron Trent 15
Boot, John, 2nd Baron Trent 15–16
Boots the Chemist 15, 138
Bordeaux mixture 131
bothy 10, 282
Boughton House, Northamptonshire 165, 291
Bowes-Lyon, Major David 287–8
Bowles, Edward Augustus 21
Boy Scouts 268, 270, 271, 273
Boyd Orr, Sir John 36
Bracken, Brendan (Minister of Information) 32, 138
Brains Trust 57, 59, 72, 131,139
Briggs, Asa 139
Brighton and Hove allotments 70–2
Brighton Allotment Subcommittee 70–1
Brighton and Hove Herald 71
Brighton Food Production Committee 71
Brighton Horticultural Committee 71
Brighton Horticultural Show 72
Brighton Kitchen Waste Committee 71
Brighton Police Horticultural Society Annual Show 72
Brighton Wartime Food Committee 71
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) 23–4, 33, 52, 54, 73–5, 134–43, 218, 276, 277
Broadcasting House 142
Listener Research Department 142
Outside Broadcasting Department 140
People’s War 93–4
Talks Department 54, 137, 138, 255–6
Wood Norton Hall 137
British Expeditionary Force 33, 38, 89
British Institute of Public Opinion poll 34–5
British Movietone News 175
British Museum, London 165
British School, Ypres 176
British Union of Fascists 236
British War Relief Society of America 221
broad beans 112–13
Broad Windsor 113
Seville Long Pod 112
Brockley County School for Boys, Lewisham 156
Brome and Schimmer 271, 272
Broughton Hall, Staffordshire 244
Brush, Herbert 68–9
Brussels sprouts 104,111, 164, 195, 299
Bryant and May 202
Buccleuch and Queensberry, 8th Duke of (Walter Montagu-Douglas-Scott) 291
Bunyard, Edward Ashdown 21, 38, 40, 52, 187–8
Burgundy mixture 131
Burma Railway 229
Bushy Park, Middlesex 175
Buxton, E. M. I. 73–5
cabbage 252
Flower of Spring 111
Harbinger 111
January King 111
Improved Winnigstadt 201
cabbage caterpillars 128
Cambridge University 62
Campden Research Station 185, 269
Canning Demonstration, A by Evelyn Dunbar 157
‘Careless Talk Costs Lives’ posters 153
carrot fly 128–9
carrots 253–4
Carrot, Dr 253
Chantenay 113
Early Horn 113
Sutton’s Champion Scarlet Horn 201
Carter, F. E. (Bailiff of Royal Parks) 174
Carter, Philip Youngman 208
Carters Seeds 183, 199
‘Cassandra’ (Sir William Neil Connor) 219
cauliflower 112, 203
Central Institute of Art and Design (CIAD) 154
Central Office of Information 276
Chalk, Tom 285
Chamberlain, Neville 27, 250
Chamberlin, E. R. 24–5
Changi Island 230
Charlecote Park, Warwickshire 286
Charley, Dr Vernon 269–70
Cheal, Wilfrid 234
Cheals of Crawley 190–1, 234, 295
Chelsea Flower Show 39, 190, 203,294
Chequers, Buckinghamshire 169
Chesterfield allotments associations 95
Cheveley, Stephen 49, 188
chickens 237–40
Chittenden, Frederick 23, 134
Chivers jam factory 244
Cholmondeley, Lavinia, Dowager Marchioness of Cholmondeley 293
Cholmondeley Castle, Cheshire 293
Churchill, Clementine 12
Red Cross Aid to Russia campaign 245
Churchill, Winston 1, 11, 33, 147, 169, 236, 257, 280
City of Christchurch, The 177
Clean Air Acts 13, 296
Cliffordine House, Gloucestershire 173
cloches 123–4
clubroot 122, 127
cold frames 123, 124
Colefax and Fowler 11
Colesbourne Park, Gloucestershire 173
Colman, Sir Jeremiah 65
Colorado beetles 130
Colour All the Year in my Garden by C. H. Middleton 146
Colvin, Brenda 102, 190
Come into the Garden, Cook by Constance Spry 150, 258, 266
Committee of Imperial Defence 28
compost 119–21, 231–2
Indore process 120
potting 105, 179–81
Compost Gardener, A by F. C. King 120
Compost Heap, The 152
Constanduros, Mavis 254
Cooper, Lady Diana 12
Cooper, Duff 12, 32
Copley G. 283–4
corrosive sublimate, 4% calomel dust 127
Country Life (magazine) 156
County Farm Institutes 102
County Garden Produce Committees 63–4
Central Committee 242
Coutinho, Sophus 236
Coutts, John 7
Cowell, Cyril 146
Cowdray, 1st Viscount (Weetman Pearson) 86
Cox, Vera 92
Cradock, Fanny 266–7
Cran, Marion 23
Crane, Morley 179
creosote 128, 129
Crewe, 1st Marquess of (Robert Crewe-Milnes) 37
Crowe, Sylvia 8, 190
Crown Film Unit 52, 151
cucumbers 198
Chinese green 232
Sutton’s Improved Telegraph 201
Telegraph 113
Yates’ Crystal Apple 232
Culinary and Salad Herbs by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde 151
Cultivation of Lands Order, 1939 35
Cumberland turf 201
Cunningham, Group Captain John 253
Cuthbert’s seeds 18, 199
cyanide 127
D-Day 142
Daffodil Show (RHS) 20
daffodils 192
Daily Express 34, 77–8, 129, 138, 145
Grow More Food competition 146
Daily Herald 147, 239
Daily Mail 147
Daily Mirror 219
Daily Telegraph 147
Dalton, Hugh 289
Darlington, Cyril 179, 182, 183
Davies, 1st Baron (David Davies) 64
DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) 126
Deedes, Sir Wyndham 61
Defence Regulations 24, 35, 47, 277
Denham, 1st Baron (George Bowyer) 47
Denman, Baroness (Gertrude Denman) 86–7, 88, 89, 99, 100, 163, 260, 280–1
Denman, 3rd Baron (Thomas Denman) 87
Denman College, Oxfordshire 86
Denman Committee on the Practical Education of Women in Rural Life 90
derris powder 128
Desert Island Discs 139
Destruction of the Country House, The 286
Devon County Education Committee 99
Devonshire, 11th Duke of (Andrew Cavendish) 289
Dewsbury Allotments Association 95
dieldrin 126
Dig for Victory (film) 151
Dig for Victory campaign 2, 37, 39, 44–83, 257, 299
and C. H. Middleton 138, 214
and Dr H.V. Taylor 40
‘Dig for Victory – Over Want’ campaign 276–80
films 151–3
Leaflet No. 1 53–4
leaflets 53–4, 119, 125, 131, 152
posters 54, 153–8
radio 138, 141
women gardeners 84, 94–5
digging 116–17
no-dig cultivation 117, 121
Digging for Victory by Lawrence du Garde Peach 143
Digging for Victory by C. H. Middleton 146
Disney, Walt 253
Ditchley Park, Oxfordshire 11–12, 165, 169, 235, 284–5
Dobbie’s of Edinburgh 199
Dodson, Harry 160, 165, 168, 235
Domestic Poultry Keepers’ Council 238
Domestic Food Producers’ Council 48–9
Dorman-Smith, Sir Reginald 17, 34, 37, 45–6, 48, 62
Dr Carrot 253
ducks 240
Dunbar, Evelyn 156–8
Dunn, Mary 82–3, 243, 265
Dutch lights 124, 196
Dutton, Ralph 292
Early Market Produce Show (RHS) 20
East Malling Research Station, Kent 19, 52, 108, 185–6
Eden, Anthony, Minster of War 169
eelworms 129
eggs 238–40
Elizabeth, queen of England (wife of George VI) 60–1, 263
Elizabeth, Princess 96, 142
Elgin and Kincardine, Earl of (Edward Bruce) 198–9
Emergency Powers (Defence) Acts
1939 24
1940 24–5
1946 277
Encarsia formosa 126
Enclosure Acts 14
Ender, Peter 81–2
English Flower Garden, The by William Robinson 292–3
English Heritage 286
Ernle, 1st Baron (Rowland Prothero) 37
evacuees 89, 130
Evans, W. G. 59–60
Experimental and Research Station, Cheshunt 126
F1 hybrid seeds 19, 114
Farmer’s Weekly, The (magazine) 234
Farrer, Frances 88, 89
Farrer, Reginald 23
Feathered World (magazine) 238, 239
fertilisers 118–22
National Growmore 122
nitrogenous 121
potash 121
Festival of Britain 155
Filling the Gap (cartoon) 152
Filliter, Brian 228
films 52, 151–3
Band Waggon 139
Blitz on Bugs 152
Compost Heap, The 152
Dig for Victory 151
Filling the Gap 152
Food Flashes 253, 256
Garden Goes to War, A 49, 152
How to Dig 151
Pathé 139, 151, 175
Finnis, Valerie 291
fishing 247
Fitzwilliam, G. T. W. 159
flea beetles 128
flowers 41, 49, 76, 135, 136, 170, 191, 194, 201, 203, 204, 212–21, 290
flowers of sulphur 131
Food Flashes 253, 256
‘Food from the Garden’ bulletin 52–3, 166
Foot, Michael 44–5, 46, 116
Ford, Richard 130
Forster, Jean McCredie 97
Fortescue, Lionel 291
Fougasse (Cyril Kenneth Bird) 153
Fox, Harry 168, 170, 194–5
Fraser, Peter 156
French, Sir Henry 263, 264
Frisches Gemüse im ganzen Jahr (Fresh Vegetables All Year Round) 149
frozen food 278
fruit 114–15, 116, 125, 128, 194, 260
fruit preservation 263–4
Fruit and Vegetable Show (RHS) 20
‘Fruit from the Garden’ bulletin 54
Fruit Garden Displayed, The 295
Fry, Dr Joan 16
fungicides 131
Galliers, Alderman 71
game birds 247
Games, Abram 154–5
Games, Naomi 155
Garde Peach, Lawrence du 143
Garden Goes to War, A by Stephen Cheveley 49, 152
Garden House, The, Buckland Monachorum, Devon 291
Garden Work for Amateurs (magazine) 23, 85, 144
Garden, The by Vita Sackville-West 205
Gardeners’ Choice by Roy Hay 156
Gardeners’ Chronicle, The 10, 23, 40–3, 58, 59, 73, 74, 81, 97, 127, 145, 152, 159–60, 164, 165–6, 174, 182, 186, 213, 215, 220, 231, 241, 283–4
Gardeners’ Question Time 57
‘Gardenesque’ style 6
Gardening in War-time by E. Graham 118
Gardens in the Modern Landscape by Christopher Tunnard 8
Gavin, W. 35
geese 240–41
Geneva Convention 224, 233
Genus Tulipa, The by Sir Daniel Hall 214
George V, king of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 12
George VI, king of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 96, 200, 281, 294
Gibbs, James 11
Giles, G. W. 1, 15, 37, 48
Gill, John 158
Gilroy, John 156
Gimson, Ann 163–4
Girl Guides 59, 270
Girton College 6
Gittins, Jean 230
Glasshouse Crops Research Institute, Littlehampton 298
glasshouses 10, 13, 18, 127, 163, 182, 184, 189, 191, 193, 197, 199, 219, 284, 292
Glendenning, Raymond 141
goats 241
gooseberries
Careless 114
Leveller 114
Whinham’s Industry 114
Gowers Committee on Houses of Outstanding Historic or Architectural Interest 289
Graham, E. 118
Grant, Duncan 156
grapes 131
Black Hamburgh 282
Gray, Louis 191
Great Depression 13, 16, 22, 30
Great Spring Show (RHS) 20
Green, John 54, 138, 139, 141
Green, Muriel 102–4, 163, 195, 247
Grenville, Robert Neville 185
Grisewood, Frederick Henry 57, 58, 72, 254
‘Grow More Food’ campaign 45
Gurie, Albert 147
H. W. Carter 268
Hadfield, Miles 281
Hadow, Grace 88
Hall, Dr Donald 72
Hall, Sir Daniel 179, 214–15, 216, 298
Hamburg Botanic Gardens 236
Hamilton, Geoff 134
Hampton Court Park, Middlesex 175
Harbard, Lillian 202
Harding, Gilbert 141
haricot beans 113–14
Comtesse de Chambord 114
Dutch Brown 114
White Leviathan 114
Harris, John 289–90
Harrisson, Tom 31
Hart, Basil Liddell 45
Haseley Court, Oxfordshire 285
Havergal, Beatrix 107, 108, 157, 184, 291, 298
Hawkridge, Ray 161
Hay Box Cookery by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde 151
Hay, Roy 55, 60, 98, 138, 140, 141, 142, 145, 216
Hay, Tom 142, 151
Healing, Peter 291–2
Heath, Ambrose 254
Heavy Rescue Service 61
Hellyer, A. G. 6–7
Helphand, Kenneth I. 228, 229
Henry Doubleday Research Association 298
herbs 98, 112, 150, 271–4
Herklots, Dr Geoffrey Alton Craig 231–2
Hess, Elizabeth 90–1, 92, 93, 272–3, 298
Hever Castle, Kent 190
Hewell Grange, Worcestershire 287
Hidcote Manor, Gloucestershire 288
Hill, Charles 254
; Hill, Sir Arthur 173, 270, 271, 273
Hills, B. 213
Hills, Lawrence 298
Hinchcliffe, Dorothy 57, 298
Hinton Ampner House, Hampshire 292
Hinwick House, Northamptonshire 218
His Majesty’s Stationery Office 52
Hitler, Adolf 27, 205, 208
Holloway Prison, London 236
Home and Country (magazine) 263
Home Guard 80, 218
Home Preservation of Fruit and Vegetables 185
Home Service 33, 45
honeybees 243–4
hormone rooting powder 185
Horticultural Colour Chart 215
Horticultural Correspondence College, Winchester 189
Horticultural Education Association 52, 279–80
Horticultural Trades Association 42
Horwood House, Buckinghamshire 162
Houghall Agricultural School, Co. Durham 106
How to Dig (film) 151
Howard, Sir Albert 119–20, 299
Hudson, Robert, Minister of Agriculture 53–4, 55, 56, 63–4, 66–7, 73, 75, 77, 149, 252, 257, 258, 277, 280
Hudson, Violet 242
Humphris, Ted 167–8, 284
Hurlingham Polo Ground, London 61
Huyton prisoner-of-war camp 235
Hyde Park, London 57
Ichthemic Guano Co. 181
Illustrations from the British Flora 272
Imperial War Graves Commission (IWGC) 176–8, 212
Imperial War Museum, London 221
In Your Garden (radio programme) 23, 133, 134–8, 140, 145
Innes, John 178
Institute of Park Administration 12
internment camps 223–36
Changi Island 230, 233
Huyton 235
Isle of Man 235
Japanese 229–33
Ruhleben internment camp 22, 225
Santo Tomas, Manila 232–3
Stanley camp, Hong Kong 230–2
York racecourse camp 235
Iris Society 22
irises 192
Is Digging Necessary? By F. C. King 121
ITMA (It’s That Man Again) 3
Izzard, Percy 147
jam 260–5
James, David 229
Jekyll, Gertrude 6, 151, 207, 293
Jellicoe, Geoffrey 8, 11, 12, 190, 285
Jellicoe, Susan 12
Jenkins, Inez 100
Jodrell Laboratory, Kew 268
John Brown and Co. 22
John Innes Horticultural Institution, Merton 19, 38, 127, 178–84, 214, 274, 297
Johns, Captain W. E. 144–5, 161
Johnson, G. C. 279–80
Johnston, Lawrence 288
Journal of Park Administration 174
Journal of the Kew Guild 172
Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society 7, 20, 39, 43, 145, 148, 214, 215, 216, 279
journeymen 9–10
Julyan, Lt Col. W. L. 50
Keen and Lawrence 143
Keen, Barbara 271
Keene, Raymond 147
Kelmarsh Hall, Northamptonshire 284
Killerton, Devon 286
King, F. C. 120–1, 169, 283–4
Kitchen Front, The (radio programme) 135, 254–6
Knight, Dame Laura 154
Kyrke, Lieutenant van 229