IV 



INDEX. 



Ferns for the table, 75. 



Ferns for cases, 96, 205 



Fine-foliage plants, -35 



Floral decorations, various, 6, 38, 105, 



126,131,212, 237, 268 

 Florists' flowers, 31, 315 

 Flowers to send by post, 103 

 Frame culture of potato, 343 

 Fruit garden, improvement of, 366 

 Fruit, to. prepare, for table, 22 

 Fruit crops of 1874, 300 

 Fruit crop, protectin^r, 73 

 Fruit trees, winter dressing, 28 

 Fruit trees for walls, 288 

 Fruit trees on sandy soil, 63 

 Fruit garden, 278 

 Fruit, to store, 292 

 Fungi collpctinpr, etc., 270 

 Fuchsia, Mrs. Canuell, 115 

 Fuchsias grown at Chiswick, 101 



Gardeners' Benevolent Institution, 221 

 Geraniums with blue flowers, 117 

 Geraniums, double, 145 

 Globe artichokes, 36 

 Glass-cutter, patent, 29 

 Gloxinias from seed, 128 

 Gladiolus, culture of, 10, lOS 

 Grape vines, to pruie, 47 

 Grapes, to keep, 369 

 Grass lawns, to renovate, 63 

 Grasses, ornamental, 106 

 Greenbouee vermin, 50, 133 

 Greenhouse plants, 163 

 Gum tree of Australia, 77 



Hardy plants for forcing, 323 



Heating plant houses, 344 



Hollies, selection, culture, etc., 1, 129 



Hollyhock, notes on, 44 



Honey fair, 61, 318 



Hyacinths for decoration, 259, 263 



Hyacinths done flowering, 127 



Indoor gardening, 110 

 Invalid's garden, 231 



January garden work, 24 



July garden work, 216 



June garden work, 187 



June work in kitchen garden, 185 



Landscape trees, IS, 329 

 Lapageria, culture of, 260 

 Lasiandra, culture of, 289 

 Late grapes, to keep, 369 

 Late peas, iJll 

 Lilies, cultiva'ion of, 11 

 Lime kiln heating, 19 



Mandarin orange, 350 



March garden work 91 



March work in kitchen garden, 69 



Marechal Kiel on a new stock, 357 



May garden work, 154 



Melon, culture of, 65 



Midland Counties Exhibition, 254 



Mosses, collecting, etc., 336 



Mignonette, culture of, 159, 229 



Naturalization of plants, 286 



New Books, 374 



New Holland pitcher plant, 255 



Newly purchased plants, 239 



New ornamental-leaved plants, 235 



Night temperature of Plant-houses, 



354 

 November garden work, 340 



Old fashioned flowers, 136 

 Oncidium papilio, 223 

 Orchids for amateurs, 247 



Pansies, to propagate, 224 



Peas in dry seasons, 211 



Pears for small gardens, 20, 30 



Passion-flowers, 161 



Pelargonium Society, 317 



Pelargonium?, early flowering, 177 



Pelargoniums, fancy, 233 



Phylloxera, 285 



Pine pit, 196 



Planting under trees, 191 



Polyanthus, to propagate, 191 



Poinsettia pulcherrima, double, 13S' 



Potato, frame culture of, 343 



Potato catalogue, 28 



Potato beetle, 62 



Potato disease, 29, 94 



Potatoes, selection of, 71 

 [ Pot-culture of strawberry, 203 

 I Pot plants for decorative purposes, 355 

 [ Postulata flower-pot cover, 169 



Primula cortusoides, 165, 195 



Protecting fruit, 73 



Parsnips, culture of, 83 



Palms for conservatory, 86 



Palms planted out, 31 



Pyramid Chrysanthemums, 94 



Eoyal tEorticultural Society, Exhi- 

 bition of evergreens and cyclamens, 

 28 ; annual meeting, 95 ; spring 

 shows, 157 ; exhibition of pot roses, 

 191 ; great summer show, 220 ; 

 exhibition of cut roses, 254 ; autumn 

 vegetable show, 317; chrysanthemum 

 show, 375 

 Rhodanthe manglesi, 146 

 B-Bubarb, cultivation of, 240, 350 

 Roses, notes on new, 149, 326 

 Rose hedges in the South of France, 370 



