INDEX. 



Alocasias, culture of, 206 



Alpui'S, little garden of, 283 



Amateurs, budget for, 174 



Amateurs' rose garden, 33S 



Arctotis grandiflora argenteo,312 



Asparagus, forcing of, 332 



Auriculas, notes on, 19i 



Autumnal flowers, 331 



Balsams and their culture, 1-5 



Barometer, how to use it, 26 



Basket plants for conservatory, 159 



Beautiful town garden, 131 



Bedders, new, 238 



Begonias, 56 



Broccolis in succession, 84 



Budget for amateurs, 174 



Bulbs, spring flowering, 292 



Calceolaiias, herbaceous, 165 



Calceolarias, treatment of, 352 



Camellia culture, 366 



Camellias out of doors, 224 



Cannas in Paris, 121 



Carnations and pinks to flower in win- 

 ter, 302 



Cauliflower, cultivation of the, 229 



Chamber plants, a selection of, 304 



Chinese primulas, 256 



Chiislmas, flowers fur, 272 



Christmas rose, 127 



Chrysanthemums, culture of specimen, 10 



Chrysanthemums, taking np, 351 



Church walls, plants for, 288 



Cinerarias done flowering, 190 



Climbers, greenhouse, 298 



Climbers, select stove, 213 



Cold pit, its construction and manage- 

 ment, 349 



Colour iu grapes, want of, 223 



Convolvulus, specimen, 158 



Cool orchids, 169 



Cost of cultivating pines, 7 



Cucumbers, early forcing, 112 



Cucumbers in pits, 157 



Culture of hydrangeas, 128 



Currants in November, 63 



Cyclamen Persicum, culture of, 26 



Decorations of an entrance court, 257 



Dry season, 173 



Early cucumbers, forcing of, 112 



Early flowering tulips, 336 



Earwig traps, 224, 255 



Edgings for flower-beds, 78 



Entrance court, decorations of, 257 



Epacris, 279 



Evergreen shrubs for town-gardens, 71 



Exotic ferns for the greenhouse, 32S 



Fancy rose growing, 32 



Ferns, exf.ti", for greenhouse, 328 



Fern, golden, 30 



Fertility of the soil, preservation of, 106 



Finger-post for purchasers of plants, 



seeds, etc., 61, 93, 123, 155, 185,314 

 Forcing asparagus, 332 

 Forcing early cucumbers, 112 

 Flowers for Christmas, 272 

 FraxineUa, luminosity of the, 25 

 French gardens, gleanings from, 180 

 French roses for 1868-9, 342 

 Frosted plants, 29 

 Fruit-garden, villa, 307 

 Fruit-trees, pruning, 372 

 Fuchsias for exhibition, 223 

 Fumigator, Dean's patent, 291 

 Garden guide, 29, 59, 95, 252, 319, 351, 



377 

 Garden of gay spring flowers, 274 

 Garden thorns, 321 

 Gay spring flowers, 274 

 Gentians, 121 



Gleanings from French gardens, 180 

 Globe artichokes, 223 

 Gold fish, management of, 21 

 Grapes in greenhouse, 287, 

 Grapes not setting, 351 

 Grasses, ornamental, 44 

 Green-fly, 128 



Greenhouse and vinery combined, 160 

 Greenhouse climbers, 298 

 Greenhouse plants destroy Dy gas, 31 

 Greenhouse, the lean-to, 1 "J 

 Greenhouse, the Paxtonian, 113 

 Ground vineries, 286, 287 

 Growing pansies in pots, 236 

 Growing vines in greenhouse, 351 

 Hardy fern-house, 286 

 Heating greenhouse, 320 

 Herb-garden, 135 

 Herbaceous calceolarias, 165 

 Horticultural affairs, 124, 183, 219, 248, 



285, 316, 376 

 Hot-bed, how to make a, 60 

 House gardening, 284 

 Hyacinths, 267 

 Hydrangeas, culture of, 128 

 Inarching vines, 224 

 Japanese chrysanthemums, 383] 

 Kalosanthus culture, 233 

 Keeping a small greenhouse gay, 265 

 Keeping late grapes, 319 

 Larkspurs, beds of, 159 

 Lawn weeds, 32 

 Lean-to greenhouse, 113 ^ 



