INDEX. 



Huyshe's bergamot pear, 13 

 Hyacinths for spring beds, 



205 

 Hyacinths for glasses, 239 

 Hyacinths in Jardiniere, 234 

 Hyacinth bed, 28') 

 Hyacinths done blooming, 95 

 Hybernation of ferns, 27fi 

 Hybridising the verbena, 187 

 Ice plant, 192 



Ice ]ilantsfrom cuttings, 168 

 Improvement of a sloping 



lawn, 63 

 Inarching passifloras, 210 

 Inarching the passion flower, 



177 

 India, gardening in, 95 

 Inscriptions at tlie Leasowes, 



181 

 Isabella Grey rose, 146, 166 

 Isle of Wight Horticidtural 



Society, 196 

 Ixia and sparaxis, 226 

 January, uotes for, 20 

 Jardinieres and edghigs, 230, 



271 

 Kale for winter greens, 57 

 Karr's "Tour Round my 



Garden," 176 

 Kensington, new gardens at, 



241 

 Kensington Gore, gardens at, 



171 

 Kew, grass garden at, 76 

 Kew, state ot plpnts at, etc., 2 

 KiUing seeds for sale, 242 

 La Belle Asseniblee, 22 

 Labels, metallic, 115 

 Labourers' societies, 95, 169 

 Lagerstrffimia indica, 256 

 Lamp of Waltonian case, 41 

 Langport flower show, 222 

 Large onions, how to grow, 



112 

 Large radish, 264 

 Late peas, 70 



Law of garden fixtures, 114 

 Lawns without mowing, 64 

 Lazy gardener, 250 

 Lean-to orchard-house, 36 

 Leschenaultia spleudens, 256 

 Libations of wine in gardens, 



285 

 Light soils, to prepare for 



peaches, 42 

 Lilium giganteum, 108 

 Lilium laucifoUum, 192 

 Lily of the vaUey in pots, 45 

 Lime as a manure, 23 

 Lime trees near a wall, 119 

 Linum grancliflorum, 107 

 Liquid manure, 167 

 Lisianthus RusseUianus, 159 

 Literature of gardening, 123 



Local liorticultural societies, 



99 

 Longman's lectures, 170 

 Loomes's cable edging tile, 



236 

 Lowe's grasses, 249 

 Lychnis Ilaagena, 66, 95 

 Lycopodiums, to propagate, 



282 

 Magnolia out of doors, 239 

 ilagnolia, to remove, 191 

 ]\Iaidstone flower show, 223 

 Management of jardinieres, 



234 

 Mandevillea suaveolens, 284 

 Manures for plants, 129 I 



Manuring for cabbages, 54 I 

 Margaret Fuller and the j 



flowers, 199 ! 



Market produce, 224 ' 



McEwcn on the culture of 



the peach, 238, 246 

 Melon culture, 118 

 Mesemhrj'anthemums, to j 



flower, 179 I 



Metallic plant labels, 116 

 Mildew, to remove li-om 



roses, 14 

 Milne, Arnott, & Co.'s cata- 

 logue, 44 

 Miniatm-e peach and apricot 



trees, 29 

 Jlinute points in stove man- 

 agement, 283 

 Modes of heating, 33 

 ]\Iul berry producing male 



blossoms, 237 

 Muswell-lull People's Palace, 



98 

 Mycelium of fungi, 2 

 Mycehum produced iinder- 



ground, 30 

 Myrtles, to strike, 168 

 Xames of ferns, 95, 215, 240 

 Names of plants, 1-44 

 National show, 217 

 National tulip show, 14 

 National dahlia show, 244 

 Nectarine dropphig its fruit, 



46 

 Nephrodium moUe conmibi- 



ferum, 282 

 Nerium oleander, 215 

 New annuals, 67 

 New dahlias, 221 

 New fruits, 13 

 New gardens at Kensmgton, 



220 

 New geranimns, 137 

 New pears, 258 

 New plants exhibited, 122 

 New roses described, 32 

 New roses, how to buy, 268 

 New 2>ealand bean, 144 



Nursery for park trees, at 



Kew, 5 

 CEnothera Drummondii nana, 



67 

 Old roses, notes on, 268 

 Oleanders and daphnes, 23 

 Onion culture, 111 

 Onions, ripening of, for keep- 

 ing, 112 

 Open ground culture of the 



ixia, 227 

 Orange-tree leaves, 192 

 Orange-trees, culture of, 47 

 Orange tubs and boxes, 255 

 Orchard-houses, to build and 



manage, 26, 27, 34 

 Orchards, decline of, 2 

 Ornamental grasses, 75 

 Oscar strawberry, 197, 210 

 Out-door culture of the peach 



and nectarine, 246 

 Palace of the People, 98 

 Pascall's cutting and fern- 

 pots, 23 

 Pansies, to keep true, 144 

 Passifloras, 239 

 Passifloras, to inarch, 177 

 Paul on viUa gardens, 50 

 Paul on new roses, 31 

 Paul's Rose Annual, 267 

 Peach border, to prepare, 42 

 Pear — BaronnedcMello, 259 

 Pear — Beurre superfin, 258 

 Pears, eaten, 215 

 Peas and beans, culture of, 



152 

 Peckham chrysanthemum 



show, 271 

 Pelargoniums at nm-serics, 



12a 

 Pelargoniums, list of fancy, 



101 

 Pelargoniums, list of French 



spotted, 101 

 Pentstemons, besttwelve,103 

 Persian yellow rose, 146 

 Pests of the garden, 193 

 Pests of the greenhouse, 191 

 PUox decussata, 168 

 Picotees, to protect from 



rabbits, 64 

 Pine cones, uses of, 163 

 Pipe flues, a caution, 278 

 Pit for bedding plants, 237 

 Pit for amateurs, 104 

 Pit to adapt a rose-house, 190 

 Planning successions for one 



year round, 205 

 Plant and seed exchanges, 



46, 71, 288 

 Planting trees and slu'ubs, 1 

 Planting of rustic baskets, 180 

 Planting of stocks for roses, 



etc., 52 



