INDEX. 



Reasons why roses fail in 



London, 203 

 Relative duties of gardeners 



and their employers, 17 

 Reminders for January, 15 ; 

 February, 37 ; March, 62 ; 

 April, 85 ; May, 109 ; 

 June, 134 ; July, 159 ; 

 August, 182 ; September, 

 206; October, 230; No- 

 vember, 256 ; December, 

 278 

 Removing plants in flower, 87 

 Rhododendrons for garden 



decoration, 227 

 Rhododendrons, greenhouse, 



112 

 Rhubarb forcing, 30 

 Ribbon lines of annuals, 106 

 Rice-paper plant, 265 

 Rivers's fruit culture, 1 

 Rose budding- scoop or sepa- 

 rator, 173 

 Rose fence, 232 

 Rose, lecture on the, 6 

 Rosery, arrangement of, 248 

 Roses in London, 88 

 Roses for the neighbourhood 



of towns, 103 

 Roses blooming to the 



ground, 103 

 Roses for the million, 149 

 Roses mildewed, 160 

 Roses on their own roots 



from eyes, 153 

 Roses, list of best, for exhi- 

 bition, 166 

 Roses, queries respecting, 184 

 Roses attacked by fungi, 207 

 Roses under bell-glasses, 204 

 Roses shown in September, 



220 

 Roses at the Temple Gar- 

 dens, 223 

 Roses for pots in town, 232 

 Roses for town gardens, 255 

 Roses, late blooming, 246 

 Roval Botanic exhibitions, 



96, 116, 145, 166 

 Rules for societies, 170 

 Russian violets, 110 

 Rustic furniture in iron, 100 

 Sagina procumbens, a turf- 

 forming plant, 156, 271 

 Sainfoin, beauty of, 3S 

 Salads, a few good ones, 132 

 Salsafy, inquiry for, 6 

 Salter's list of chrysanthe- 

 mums, 81 

 Sandy soil, to improve, 64 

 Sea-kale, culture and forcing, 

 28 



Season, severities of the pre- 

 sent, 140 

 Seed-bed for celery, etc., 245 

 Seeds to send abroad, 16 

 Seedling pinks and pansies, 



110 

 Selaginellas to cover crinoline 



pots, 214 

 Selaginellas for glass shades, 



36 

 Select greenhouse plants, 11 

 Select roses, notes on, 168 

 Selection of roses for culture 



in towns, 205 

 Selection of hybrid rhodo- 

 dendrons, 228 

 Selection of greenhouse 



plants, 242 

 September, reminders for,206 

 Shading orchard-house, 88 

 Shady border, to plant, 64 

 Shady greenhouse, 183 

 Shepton Mallet Flower Show, 



237 

 Shrubs to plant under trees, 



231 

 Silvery foliage bedders, 68 

 Siliceous stone, Ransome's, 



256 

 Sir Joseph Paxton's garden, 



210 

 Soap waste for bottom-heat, 



48 

 Societies, rules for, 162, 170 

 Soil of London gardens, 204 

 Solanum capsicastrum, 111 

 South Essex Chrysanthemum 



Society, 5 

 South Metropolitan Tulip 



Show,- 147 

 Specimen pelargoniums, to 



train, 104 

 Specimen plants, lists of, 



163, 164, 170 

 Spergula pilifera, 145, 271 

 Spergula species, 156 

 Spergula sagmoides, 271 

 Spot in pelargoniums, 136 

 Spur pruning, 111 

 Standard dwarf fruit-trees, 1 

 Standard pompones, form 



of, 124 

 Standard roses in London 



gardens, 203 

 Standish house and screens, 



79 

 Staiihopea species and cul- 

 ture, 242 

 Stars indicators of weather 



changes, 241 

 Stationers' Hall plane»trces, 

 251 



Stephanotis floribunda, 40 

 Stercus as a manure, 115 

 Stocks for roses, the best, 151 

 Stocks, report on, grown at 



Chiswick, 268_ 

 Stocks to bloom in spring, 98 

 Stoke Newington Chrysan- 

 themum Show, 263 

 Stove plants, 134-6 

 Stove treatment of tree ferns, 



229 

 Stove plants for bedding pur- 

 poses, 188 

 Strawberries, description of 



best, 31, 33 

 Substitutes for Flower of the 



Day, 86 

 Suckers of the briar, uses of, 



150 

 Sulphur a preventative of mil- 

 dew, 197 

 Sulphate of ammonia manure, 



63 

 Summer propagation of bed- 

 ding plants, 127 

 Surface roots to encourage, 1 

 Sutton's "Farmer'sMauual," 



86 

 Sweet Williams, 169 

 Sydenham Horticultural So- 

 ciety, 96, 218 

 Sydenham Horticultural So- 

 ciety, rules of, 170 

 Tallies for plants, 112 

 Tallies for pot plants, 37 

 Tasteful effects in garden 



colouring, 186 

 Temperatures for propagat- 

 ing, 66 

 Temple Gardens and London 



parks, 222 

 Tender annuals, to grow, 



without heat, 107 

 Ten-weeks' stocks, varieties 



of, 269 

 Tests of the worth of novel- 

 ties, 42 

 Thermometer scales, 40 

 The late Samuel Curtis, 



F.L.S., 14 

 Tiffany-houses, 79, 92, 99, 



136, 214 

 Tisanes, 178 

 Tomatoes in pots, 23, 184, 



110 

 Tom Thumb tropa3olum, 36, 

 Tomtits in orchards, 7 

 Tomtits in gardens, 7 



60,78 

 Toreuia Asiatica, 131 

 Tower Hamlets Chrysanthe- 

 mum Society, 5 



