Stephens, Theo A. 144–5
Stern, Sir Frederick 215
Stokesley Show 40
Stourhead, Wiltshire 286
Strang, William 57
Strange, Joan 18, 95
strawberries 114, 193–4
Cambridge Early 115, 201
Royal Sovereign 115, 201
Street, Arthur George 234
Streeter, Fred 140, 277
Studley College, Warwickshire 106
Sudell, Richard 147, 149
Sunday Express 146, 148
Adam the Gardener 146–7
Sunday Pictorial 147
Sunningdale Nurseries 191, 295
Surrey County Council 134, 135
Surrey Land Club 196
Sutton, Martin 200
Sutton, Noel 200
Sutton, Owen 200
Sutton, Phil 200
Suttons of Reading 91, 199, 200–3, 296–7
Swanley College, Kent 106–7, 119
Talbot, Dame Meriel 99
Taylor, Dr George 287–8
Taylor, Dr H.V. 23, 40, 214
Taylor, Hubert 193
Television Garden (television programme) 140
Territorial Army 22, 160
Thomas, Graham Stuart 295
Thomas, H. H. 147
Thompson and Morgan 199
Thompson, Alan 239, 247–8
Thomson, Margaret 152
Thorpe, Rachel 244
Thrower, Percy 10, 12, 162
Timber Corps 101, 281
Times, The 22, 57, 61, 65, 73, 149, 151, 160, 213–14, 242, 252
Tomalin, T. F. 159, 213
tomatoes 50–1, 113, 124, 197–8
Ailsa Craig 113
Best of All 113
Evesham Wonder 113
Sutton’s Abundance 113, 201
Tonight at Eight (radio programme) 139
Tottenham allotments 59
Tottenham pig club 59, 242
Tower of London 61
Tree, Ronald and Nancy 11, 169, 284, 285
Tring Museum 173
tulips 215
Tunnard, Christopher 8, 207
turnips
Early Milan 113
Twickenham stadium 61
Uncommon Vegetables and Fruits by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde 151
University of Manchester 250
Up the Garden Path by Peter Ender 81–2
Upwey Nurseries 197
V-1 bombs 69, 184, 191, 193
V-2 bombs 69
Valeswood Herb Farm 271
Vaughan-Thomas, Wynford 141, 142, 218
Vegetable Cultivation in South-East Asia by Dr G. A. C. Herklots 231
Vegetable Drugs Committee 267, 269, 270–2
Vegetable Garden Displayed, The by RHS 149, 295
Veitch, Gordon 193
Vernon HMS 165
Victoria and Albert Museum, London 286
Victoria Park, London 173, 174
Victoria Park, Portsmouth 174
Victorian Society, The 287
Victory Night at Eight (radio programme) 139
Victory Shows 217
Village Produce Associations (VPAs) 63
Vine, More and Nevard 138–9
Vischer, Adolf Lucas 223
vitamin C 269–71
Vitamins Ltd, Hammersmith 269
Vogue (magazine) 157
Wade, John Reed 150
Walker, Edith 88, 261, 264, 298
Wallich Herbarium 173
Wallington, Northumberland 286
Walmsley, A. 98
War Agricultural Executive Committees (‘War Ags’) 34, 35–6, 47, 108, 160, 173, 187–8, 192, 193, 194, 195, 235
Westmorland 160
War Artists’ Advisory Committee 154, 156
War Office 22, 153, 155
Ware, Sir Fabian 176
War-time Gardening by John Reed Wade 150
Wartime Social Survey 246
Wartime Vegetable Garden, The by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde 151
Warwick, Countess of (Daisy Greville) 106
waterglass (sodium silicate solution) 240
Waterloo Park, Norwich 13
Waterperry School of Horticulture for Women, Oxfordshire 106, 107–8, 157, 184, 197, 291
Waters, Elsie and Doris 254
Watts, E. 192
Webbs seeds 199
weeding 124–5
Welfare Foods Scheme 252
Welfare State 276
West Wycombe Park, Buckinghamshire 286
Westcliff High School, Essex 98
Westminster, 2nd Duke of (Hugh Grosvenor) 218–19, 244
Weston and Weedon Horticultural Society 217–18
Weston Hall garden, Northamptonshire 133
What Else Do They Do? (radio programme) 139
whitefly 126
Williams, Marjorie 117, 161
Williams, Viola 259–60, 298
Wilson, Angus 192
Wiltshire Education Committee 97
wireless broadcasting 23–4, 133–43, 145
Backs to the Land 143, 238
Desert Island Discs 139
Digging for Victory 143
Gardeners’ Question Time 57
In Your Garden 23, 133, 134–8, 140, 145
ITMA (It’s That Man Again) 3
Kitchen Front, The 135, 254–6
Over the Border 143
Radio Allotment 140–3, 145
Science and Gardening 143
Tonight at Eight 139
Victory Night at Eight 139
What Else Do They Do? 139
wireworms 129–30, 209
Wisley (RHS garden) 20–1, 38, 40, 149, 171, 177, 184, 279
Wolseley Motors 58
Woman (magazine) 96
Women’s Voluntary Service (WVS) 270
Women’s Agricultural and Horticultural Union 101
Women’s Farm and Garden Association (WFGA) 101–4
Garden Apprentice Scheme 101–4
Women’s Institute (WI) 2, 36, 59, 85–93, 157, 185, 218, 243, 245, 259–64, 270, 271, 273
Blisworth Women’s Institute 92, 262
County Herb Committees 270, 272
Denman Committee on the Practical Education of Women in Rural Life 90
fruit preservation centres 90
Hawkinge, Kent 262, 264
Home and Country 263
Isle of Wight Federation 91
market stalls 92–3
Produce Guilds 63, 64, 91, 92, 93
Rosedale, North Yorkshire 262
Sandringham, Norfolk 263
West Suffolk County Federation 91
Wiltshire Federation 116
Women’s Land Army (WLA) 89, 99, 100–1, 104–6, 194, 299
Ann Gimson 163–4
B.M.E. Male 197–8
Baroness Denman (Gertrude Denman) 86, 87
Baroness Trumpington (Jean Barker) 105
Bushy Park, Middlesex 175
Eleanour Sinclair Rohde 150
Evelyn Dunbar 157
Lillian Harbard 202
market gardens 195–6
post-war 280–1, 298
rest-break houses 221–2
Sibyl van Praet 104, 244
Vita Sackville-West 206, 207
Women’s Liberal Foundation 87
Women’s National Land Service Corps 101
Women’s Voluntary Service 88
Wood Norton Hall, Worcestershire 137
Woods of Woodbridge, Suffolk 188–9
Woodyates Manor, Wiltshire 102–4, 163
Woolf, Leonard 207–8
Woolf, Virginia 208
Woolton, 1st Earl of (Frederick Marquis) 63, 64, 72, 149, 249–54, 255, 256–7, 258–61, 263
Woolton Pie 255
Woolworth’s 18, 19, 199
World War I 14, 21–2, 29, 30, 3
4, 36, 45, 86, 87, 101, 134, 164, 225, 250
Zeppelin raids 27
World War II
Barrow Blitz 32, 211
Battle of El Alamein 204
Blitz, London 38, 60–1, 68–9
Crete 33
D-Day 142
Dunkirk 33, 209, 215, 227
Norway, German overrunning of 32
Phoney War 38
Wrest Park, Bedfordshire 11
Wright, Sgt W. O. 225
Wye College, Kent 106
Wynn Jones, John 141
Yardley Lodge, Oxford 173
Yiewsley allotments 59–60
York racecourse internment camp 235
Your Garden in War-Time by C. H. Middleton 146
Your New Garden by A. G. Hellyer 6
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