INDEX. 



Adenophora, culture of, 220. 



Aeration of Vine-borders, on, 82. 



Amateurs, Hints for, January, 30 — Feb- 

 ruary, 75 — March, 114 — April, 167 — 

 May, 212— June, 268— July, 307— 

 August, 359 — September, 400— Oc- 

 tober, 448 — November, 500 — Decem- 

 ber, 557. 



America, horticulture in, 525. 



American blight, the, on Apple-trees, 

 396. 



Ananassa sativa variegata, cultivation of, 

 122. 



Androsace, culture of, 357. 



Anterrhinums, list of new, 259. 



Apple, cultivation of the, its propaga- 

 tion, and stocks for it, 206, 251 — 

 grafting, 252, et seq. — budding, 253 — 

 inarching, 254 — training, 298 — the 

 border, 299 — situation, 301 — diseases, 

 354, 394— insects, 396, 461. 



Apple weevil, the, 461 — sawfly, 462. 



Arcades, Roses for, 151. 



Aretia, culture of, 359. 



Artichoke, cultivation of the Globe, 119 

 — the Jerusalem, 120. 



Asparagus, culture of, 28, 68. 



Asphalt walks, 315. 



Auricula, cultui'e of the, 410. 



Ayrshire Roses, 104. 



Azalea procumbens, 222. 



Banksian Roses, the, 105. 



Bee-farming in 1869, 517. 



Beet, cultivation of, 121. 



Birmingham, spring gardening at, 365. 



Bones as a manure for Roses, 3. 



Borders for Vines, formation of, 153. 



Bottom-heat, 567. 



Bourbon Roses, 250. 



Boursault Roses, the, 106. 



Bryanthus erectus, culture of, 222. 



Budding the Apple and Pear, 253 — the 

 Plum, 498. 



Burnt earth as a manure for Roses, 5. 



Caledonian Horticultural Society, its 



international fruit-show, 46 — the 



prizes offered, 143. 

 Campanula, culture and varieties of the, 



130. 

 Canker in the Pear, causes, &c., of, 160 



— in the Apple tree, 354. 

 Cape Heaths, 222. 

 Carter & Co., Messrs, the nurseries of, 



303. 

 Cauliflower, culture of, 261. 

 Chrysanthemum, something about the, 



41, 137. 

 Climbing Roses, list of, 99. 

 Cloth- of-Gold Noisette Rose, the, 100. 

 Codling moth, the, on the Apple, 462. 

 Coleus, new varieties of, 92. 

 Compost for the Pear, 165. 

 Correspondents, notices to, 47, 95, 144, 



192, 242, 288, 336, 382, 437, 486, 



534, 576. 

 Cortusa, culture of, 493. 

 Covetous exhibitor, the, a sketch, 443. 

 Cox, Mi-, gardener at Madersfield Court, 



348. 

 Crab, the, as a stock for the Apple, 206. 

 Cropping fruit-tree borders, 506. 

 Cucumbers, the points of good, 399. 

 Curvilinear training of the Pear, the, 



107. 

 Cyclamen, culture of the, 183, 563. 

 Dahlias, new, 187. 

 Damask Roses, 245. 

 Despondent exhibitor, the, a sketch, 



444. 

 Difficulties : a word to young gardeners, 



128— Part II., 276. 

 Dodecatheon, culture of, 495. 

 Education of gardeners, the, 156, 318, 



553. 

 Education question, the, 410, 574. 

 England, appearance of the Philoxera 



in, 312. 

 Epigcea, culture of, 222. 



