IJiDEX. 



Teas near London, 192 ; 

 notes on, 208 ; subui'ban, 

 263; China Teas, 193; 

 yellow flowering, 163 ; cul- 

 ture on own roots, 40 ; va- 

 rieties grown at Homerton, 

 16 ; varieties killed by 

 winter of 1S60-61, 68 ; to 

 protect from frost, 152 ; 

 winto'cd at East Sheen, 

 160 

 Koses and rhododendrons 



compared, 28 

 Rot-heap for holly-berries, 



94 

 Royal Belfast Ilorticultnral, 



188 

 Roval ITorticidtui'al flower 



show, 260 

 Roval dwarf earlj^ pea, 45 

 Royal Botanic Socii^tv's Ex- 

 hibitions, 93, 116, 164 

 Royal Dublin Horticnltural, 



il8 

 Royal Horticultural Society's 

 Anniversary, 116 ; opening 

 of new garden, 140 ; Rose 

 Show, 161, 165 

 Rural life, charms of, 71 

 Sagina procurabens, 232 

 Salad plants, 57 

 Salter's catalogue, 1861, 60 

 Salt€r's exhibition at Ham- 

 mersmith, 261 

 Salvia gesneriffiflora, 87 

 Sangster's No. 1 pea, 24 

 Saumaratum guttatum, 125 

 Sea-kale leaves, use of, 112 

 Sea-kale, to force, 275 

 iSeeond early and summer 



peas, 45 

 Seed sowing, 86 

 Seedling rhubarb, 180 

 Selection of amaryllis, 12 

 Select plants for masses, 158 

 Self fuchsias for masses, 202 

 Soils for flowers, 135 

 Soil for the holly, 97 

 Shepton Mallet exhibition, 



191 

 Shrubberies, note ou plant- 

 ing, 253 

 Shrubs suited for massing, 



30 

 Single-row system of potato 



culture, 92 

 Sizes of pots, 39 

 Skimmia japonica, 3 ; a rival 



of the holly, 67 

 Smoke, effects of, on ever- 

 greens, 59 

 Sparaxis, culture of, 256 



Sparrows to scare, 8 

 Specimens hollies, 130 

 Siiecimen fuchsias, to grow, 



168 

 Specimen fuchsias, 263 

 Spergulas, 231 

 Spergula pilifera, 16 

 Spergulas and Saginas, 121 

 Spot on geraniums, 183 

 Stamford flower-show, 144 

 Standard apple trees, 199 

 Stoke Chrysanthemum So- 

 ciety, 191 

 Stove plants out of doors, 



115 

 Stove plants, to water, 139 

 Strawberry plantations, 183, 



184 

 Strawberries in troughs, 272 

 Suburban gardens, 2 

 Suburban roses, 263 

 Sucker svstem of pine fruit- 

 ing, 22 

 Successive flowers in one bed, 



29 

 Succession crops of pines, 78 

 Summer the season for cut- 

 tings, 1 29 

 Surface fibres, to encourage. 



Symmetrical arrangement of 



shrubs, 119 

 Syringe, uses of, 138 

 Tall peas, distances of, 53 

 Tea China Roses, 193 

 Tenants rights in garden 



structures, 33 

 Taxus, species and varieties, 



226 

 Tom Thumb pea, 24 

 Torenia asiatica, var. pul- 



cherrimnm, 131 

 Torquay climate, 135 

 Tower Hamlets Chrysanthe- 

 mum Show,9 

 Town garden plan, 160 

 The best roses of 1861, 133 

 The weather of 1860, 19 

 Thompson's list of flower 



seeds, 40 

 Thompson on garden an- 

 nuals, 45 

 Threefold colouring, rule for, 



90 

 Thurston's Reliance pea, 46 

 Tiffany houses for fruit cul- 

 ture, 8 

 Tiffany, failure in, 35 ; not a 

 failure, 68 ; varnished, 207 

 Tiffany houses, 160 

 Training of pompone pyra- 

 mids, 26 



Transplanting hardy bulbs, 



187 

 Ti-eatment of shrubs injured 



by frost, 67 

 Tree onion, 16 

 Trees, if removeable, 34 

 Trees and shrubs, why killed 



by frost, 100 

 Trial of fuchsias in open 



ground, 172 

 Tritoma uvaria, 230 

 Tropa?olum seedUngs, 42 

 Tropical gardens, 115 

 Tropseolum Jarrattii, 230 

 Trotmau's gas stove, 7 

 Tuhp aliases, 64 

 Twice blooming of hardy 



shrubs, 54 

 Use of bulbous masses, 185 

 Yaccinium serpens, 81 

 Vallota purpurea, 230 

 Varieties, seedsmen's, 24 

 Variegated arabis for ribbon 



lines, 121 

 Variegated hollies, 129 

 Varnished tiffany, 207 

 Vegetables in succession, 52 

 Vegetable marrows in kitchen 



quarters, 53 

 Veitch's Perfection pea, 49 

 Vermin destroyed by water, 



198 

 Viburnum Inc. Towardii, 95 

 Victoria branching pea, 45 

 Victoria marrow pea, 46 

 Vigour and fruitfulness in 



apple-trees, 178 

 Vines, to replace, 230 

 Vine culture simplified, 35 

 Violet culture, 56 

 Viscaria, species and varie- 

 ties, 75 

 Waltonian case, 16, 86, 87 ; 



superseded,219 ; boiler,248 

 Waltonian case, 136 

 Warwick early pea, 25 

 Water, uses of, 137 

 Watering plants in pots, 273 

 Weather prognostics, 30 

 Weeds, are they friends or 



enemies, 269 

 Weeping hollies, the best, 131 

 Weeping holly, 3 

 Wet, excessive, in 1860, 19 

 Wild flowers, work upon, 159 

 Winter of 1860-61, 65 

 Winter beds of evergreens, 



27, 130 

 Window and balcony gar- 

 dening, 196 

 Winter management of 



plants, 251 



