IV 



INDEX. 



Liliums from seed, 62 

 Lily of the valley, 60 

 Little garden of alpines, 283 

 Lobelia speciosa, propagating, 256 

 Luminosity of the fraximella, 25 

 Magnolia grandiflora, 31 

 Management of viaes, 245 

 Mealy bug, 320 

 Melon ripening, 224 

 Mignonette the whole year round, 177 

 Mignonette seed, 224 

 Mildew in orchard-house, 190 

 Mistletoe, bow to propagate, 122 

 Names and catalogues of roses, 217 

 Names of plants, 119 

 Nectarine, cultivation of, 203 

 Neglected plants for summer-floweiing, 



305 

 New bedders, and how to propagate 



them, 238 

 New plants, 28, 59, 91, 122, 186, 217, 



253, 284, 313, 350, 375 

 News from North America, 90 

 Notes on camellias, 353 

 Notes on greenhouse climbers, 298 

 Notes on some old flowers, 324 

 Orchids, cool, 169 

 Orchids, winter-flowering, 370 

 Ornamental grasses, 44 

 Pseonies, 116 

 Palms, cultivation of 207 

 Palms for closed cases, 234 

 Palms for small plant-houses, 6 

 Pansies in pots, 236 

 Passion-flowers, 289 

 Paxtonian grt;enhouse, 113 

 Peach and nectarine, cultivation of, 203 

 Pelargoniums, show and fancy, 195 

 Pelargoniums, variegated-leaved, 161 

 Permanent edgings for flower-beds, 78 

 Petroleum stove, 10 

 Petunias for exhibition, 46 

 Phloxes, 157 



Pines, cost of cultivating, 7 

 Pinks and carnations, to flower in winter, 



302 

 Plagues of the garden, 262 

 Plants f jr church walls, 288 

 Planting roses out of pots, 143 

 Planting trees in the streets of cities, 



344 

 Planting under trees, 17 

 Plants for small town conservatories, 



333 

 Potatoes on hills, 40 

 Prepaiing for winter, 347 

 Primulas after flowering, 119 

 Primula sinensis, culture of, 8 

 Pruning fruit trees, 372 

 Prognostics of the weather, 156 

 Propagating verbenas and calceolarias, 



95 

 Protecting wall-trees while in bloom, 77 



Raising seedling ferns, 157 



Rhododendrons, 30, 62 



Rock plants, 189 



Roses in 1868, 225 



Roses on their own roots, 57 



Roses, French, for 1868-9, 342 



Rose garden, amateur's, 338 



Roses, names and catalogues of, 247 



Roses, new, 25 



Roses, notes on, 247, 296 



Roses, planting out of pots, 143 



Roses to bloom at Christmas, 242, 296 



Rough and ready gardening, 1, 66, 99, 



150, 262 

 Salading, winter, 281 

 Seakale and rhubarb forcing, 62 

 Sea-weed manure, 45 

 Seedling ferns, 156 

 Selection of chamber plants, 304 

 Select stove climbers, 213 

 Sensation chrysanthemum, 96 

 Show and fancy pelargoniums, 195 

 Small garden, plan of, 35 

 Small town conservatories, plants for, 



333 

 Spring-flowering bulbs, 292 

 Spring flowers, 2 

 Stove climbers, select, 213 

 Strawberry growing, improved system 



of, 200 

 Subtropical plants grown from seed, 86 

 Taking up plants, 320 

 Thermometer, how to use it, 27 

 Thorns, garden, 321 

 Town gardens, 118 

 Tree carnation, 352 

 Trees and shrubs that flower in spring, 



366 

 Trenching, 64 

 Tulips, early -flowering, 336 

 Unfruitful plum-trees, 352 

 Variegated-leaved pelargoniums, 161 

 Vegetable forcing, 326^ 359 

 Vegetable marrow, 127 

 Venetian creeper, 96 

 Verbena as a bedding plant, 103 

 Villa fruit garden, 307 

 Villa kitchen garden, 13, 52, 82, 110, 



176 

 Vines, management of, 245 

 Violets in fiction and in fact, 37 

 Wall trees, protecting, while in bloom, 



77 

 "SVasps in vinery, 256 

 Wasps' nests, to destroy, 246 

 What becomes of the flowers, 42 

 AVindow flowers, management of, 46 

 Winter-flowering orchids, _370 

 Winter, preparing for, 347 

 Winter salading, 281 

 Zonal pelargonium, 53 

 Zonal pelargoniums as annuals, 128 

 Zonal pelargoniums for specimens, 286 



