INDEX. 



South Metropolitan chrysan- 

 themum show, 271 

 Sowing and rearing early- 

 radishes, 271 

 Span-roofed orchard house, 



37 

 Spcrgula pilifera, 64, 96, 119, 



119, 183 

 Spring a precarious season in 



Britain, 27 

 Spring flowers and autumn 



preparations, 206 

 Spring promises and liopes, 



58 

 Spring, summer, and winter, 



234 

 Spring work in garden and 



house, 58 

 Square seed pans, 63 

 Stamford pippin, 14 

 Standard chrysanthemums, 



110 

 Statics Halfordii, 159 

 Stocks for apples, 94 

 Stocks and grafts, 52 

 Stocks, cultivation of, 107 

 Stocks of roses, 240 

 Stoke Newington flower 



shows, 220 

 StokeNewington chrysanthe- 

 mum show, 269 

 Stone edgings for town gar- 

 dens, 233 

 Stone flower boxes, 233 

 Stove plants, management of, 



283 

 Strawberry leaves turned 



yellow, 47 

 Study of grasses, 73 

 Styphelia tubiflora, 256 

 Substituteforpitsand frames, 



59 

 Substitute for stone, 232 

 Suburban nurseries, 51 

 Success ingrowing ericas, 253 

 Succession of cabbages, 53 

 Suckers from briars some- 

 times useful, 52 

 Sulphate of ammonia, 71 

 Sun heat, to obtain on bor- 

 ders, 273 

 Superphosphate of lime, 46 

 Tank-heated bed, 262 

 Tank-heated pit, 95 

 Teasel and midlein as border 



plants, 274 

 Tenants, right of, to remove 

 trees, etc., 114 



The carpet that never wears 



out, 176 

 The danger of hobbies, 205 

 Tlie garden in the bow win- 

 dow, 178 

 The gardener's rewards, 201 

 Tlie habitat of ferns, 277 

 Tlie joy of a garden, 197 

 The march of the seasons, 



201 

 The Leasowes, 181 

 Tlie rich woodman, 176 

 " The Rose Annual," re- 

 viewed, 31 

 Theory and practice, 25 

 Thermometer to register ex- 

 treme cold, 20 

 Thirty-six dahlias, 262 

 Thomson's gas-stove, 5 

 Timber for orchard-houses, 



70 

 Torquay, climate of, 133 

 " Town Garden," reviewed, 



50 

 Trailing plants for baskets, 



130 

 Transplanting asparagus, 224 

 Transplantiug, necessity for, 



in nurseries, 51 

 Tree mignonette, 203 

 Trees, mismanaged in nur- 

 series, 51 

 Trees and shrubs in London, 



51 

 Trichomanes radicans, 119 

 Tropa>olums for bedding, 118 

 TropKolum speciosum, 119 

 Tropseolum, Tom Thumb, 67 

 Trotman's gas stove, 286 

 Tuberose culture, 239 

 Tulip show of 1859, 99 

 Tulips for spring beds, 205 

 Tulips to bloom next year, 96 

 Underground fungi, 2 

 Undergrow t h for plantations, 



91 

 Unfruitful trees, to improve, 



254 

 Uses of the grass tribe, 75 

 Uses of Waltonian case, 39 



42 

 Variegated gTasses, 75 

 Vases, plants for, 91 

 Verbenas, a few cheap, 167 

 Verbenas, to gi'ow for stock, 



139 

 Verbenas, to propagate, 187 

 Verbena beds, 118 



Verbena cuttings to clear of 



fly, 278 

 Veronica Andersonii, 284 

 Verschaffelt's catalogue no- 

 ticed, 45 

 Villa garden, by Paul, no- 

 ticed, 45 

 Vinca elegantissima, 168 

 Vinery, 239 

 Vinery in February, 43 

 Vines in a carrion border, 229 

 Vines, to propagate, 69 

 Vines, to set to work, 21 

 Wallflowers and acacias, 143 

 Waltonian cases, 24, 39, 93, 



114, 143, 263 

 Wardian cases, 279 

 Water as an insect destroyer, 



193 

 Water-pot, to prevent clog- 

 ging, 183 

 Waterproof walks, 15 

 Weather to be expected in 



Januarv, 1859, 24 

 Weather 'table for July, 168 

 Wellingtonia gigantea, 23, 



186 "^ 

 Weeds at a premium, 274 

 West Indian seeds, 192 

 Wet soils, management of, 



272 

 What is spergula pdifera ? 



151 

 Wild flowers, children's col- 

 lections, 196 

 Wild flowers in gardens, 274 

 Winning chrysanthemums, 



18 

 Winning dahlias, 221, 222 

 Winning roses, 1859, 268 

 Winter flowers, 284 

 Winterfurniture forgartlens, 



22 

 Winter of 1858, 59 

 Winter protection of bedding 



plants, 227 

 Winter roses, 59 

 Winter treatment of hardy 



ferns, 277 

 Wintering verbenas, 187 

 Wire-worm, 71, 164, 179, 



208 

 Wood stakes, often injurious 



to ti'ees, 3 

 Woodlice, to destroy, 143 

 Working men's homes, 169 

 Yellow roses, 146, 166 

 Zinnia elegans, 107 



