INDEX. 



Planting of a rootery, 47 

 Planting seven beds, 70 

 Planting seedling spergulas, 



150 

 Planting sets of beds, 143 

 Plant-lice, natural history of, 



17 

 Plants for baskets, 287 

 Plants for a shady green- 

 house, 23 

 Plumbago Capensis, 89 

 Plumbago Larpentse, 258 

 Pomological Society, 197, 



244 

 Pompones for bedding, 205 

 Pompouesforan 8-ft. bed, 236 

 Pompones, selection of new 



and old, 100 

 Pompones, in pots, 109 

 Portsea Horticultural So- 

 ciety, 196 

 Portable greenhouses, 33, 70 

 Pot roses at national show, 



145 

 Pot roses, sorts for, 268 

 Pot culture of hardy fruits, 26 

 Potatoes befoi'e swedes and 



mangolds, 8 

 Potting-shed, how to ar- 

 range, 11 

 Potting camelhas, 124 

 Practical rustic work, 162 

 Preservative bed, 59, 215 

 Primulas, soil for, 48 

 Principles of taste in garden 



embelhsluuent, 230 

 Prizes given at the rose show, 



149 

 Profitable gardening, 7, 54, 



82, 111, 152, 224 

 Propagating without sliad- 



ing, 189 

 Propagation of chrysantlie- 



mums, 62 

 Propagation of slu'ubs for 



forcing, 180 

 Propagation of the verbena, 



187 

 Propagation of hardy shrubs, 



208 

 Proposed uev>' gardens at 



Kensington, 171 

 Protecting materials, 23 

 Protection of fruit -bushes 



from birds, 246 

 Protection of pinks, etc., 

 against rabbits and hares, 

 64 

 Protection for pits and 



frames, 12 

 Protection of peach and nec- 

 tarine trees, 244 

 Pruning cytisuses, 262 

 Pruning fruit trees, 25, 46 



Pruning, theory of, 25 

 Pteris atropurpurea, 281 



Putty for greenhouses, 23 



Pyramids of flowers, 222 



Quick-growing trailers, 6 



Babbits, to banish, 95 



Radishes, lettuces, etc., earlv, 

 274 



Ransome's impenshable 



stone, 232 



Ransome's siliceous edgings, 

 234 



Raspberry canes, to pnine, 46 



Recent exhibitions, 147 



" Recreative Science " an- 

 nounced, 167 



Removal of trees, etc., law 

 of, 114 



Reneahnia nutans, 210, 238 



Renewal of orchards and 

 shrubberies, 2 



Reprints from " Floral 

 World," 70, 118 



Respiration of plants, 128 



Rhododendrons at nurseries, 

 124 



Rhododendrons from cut- 

 tings and layers, 46 



Rhododendrons from seed, 

 23 



Rhubarb cultm-e, 224 



Ribbon planting, 95 



Riveis on the orchard-house, 

 34 



Rockeries and wild flowers, 

 276 



Root cuttings of pelargo- 

 niums, 69 



Root-house, 216 



Root-action, results of defi- 

 cient, 1 



Rootery, to plant, 30, 47 



Rose amiual, 1860, 267 



Rose Iffiha, 67 



Rose stocks, 192 



Roses and spergula pilifera, 

 150 



Roses at the rose show, 146 



Roses, new, 267 



Roses newly budded, 262, 287 



Roses, death of, by fimgi, 3 



Roses exliibited in Septem- 

 ber, 223 



Roses, liow, when, and where 

 to plant, 259 



Roses of 1859, 145 



Roses for beds, 215 



Rotten wood useful for com- 

 posts, 30 



Rustic baskets, 129 

 i Salads, and how to enjoy 

 them, 111 



Sale of Horticultural Society's 

 house, 97 



Sale of the « Floral World," 



190 

 Salisbury juvenile exhibition, 



196 

 Salt as a manui'e, 23 

 Salter, catalogue of chrysan- 

 themums, 81 

 Sand for plunging, 215 

 Sawdust as manure, 215 

 Scarlet roses, 46 

 Scarlet-runners, to grow, 158 

 Scotch and variegated kale, 



57 

 Sea kale, culture of, 226 

 Sea kale, forcing, 94 

 Season of buttercups, 115 

 Second crop of figs, 238 

 Seed, how to save, 159 

 Seed of dielytra spectabilis, 



203 

 Seeds, how to select and sow, 



106 

 Seeds to be sown in Febru- 

 ary and March, 43, 68 

 Seed trade deceptions, 242 

 Seeds to start in heat, 41, 42 

 Seedhng plants, 240 

 Seedling potatoes, 264 

 Seedhng spergulas, 150 

 Selaginellas to propagate, 282 

 Select greenhouse plants, 108, 



159, 256 

 Selection of florists' flowers, 



16, 65 

 Selection of fenis for Wardian 



case, 281 

 Selection of flowering shrubs, 



46 

 Selection of hardy herbace- 

 ous border flowers, 137, 

 160 

 Selection of grasses for gar- 

 den cultm-e, 78 

 Senecio mikania?, 131 

 Set of beds to plant, 47 

 Shallots, uses and cidture, 



113 

 Shed heated by Waltonian 



case, 114 

 Shenstone's garden, 181 

 Shrubs, hardy, to propagate, 



180 

 Silver sand, 22 

 Sim's new fern catalogue, 64 



80 

 Sinclafr's grass garden, 76 

 Six beds to plant, 95 

 Sizes of pots, 238 

 Small seeds, to sow, 273 

 Sophistications of seeds, 242 

 South London chi-ysanthe- 



mum show, 269 

 South-eastern chi-j'santhe- 

 mum show, 271 



