ItfDEX. 



Nooks and corners, gardening for, 10; 



plants for, 11 

 Odds and ends, 238 

 Onion fly, the, 191 

 Orchard-house, trees in, 36 ; fruits for, 



304 ; management of, 275 

 Orchard, planting a. small, 343 

 Orange trees, renovation of old,. 416 

 Pancratium, the, 135 

 Pandanus propagation, 64 

 Pansies, propagation of, 254 

 Pawlonia imperialis, 233 

 Pasonies, herbaceous, 230 

 Pffionia officinalis, an avenue of, 238 

 Peaches, double-flowering, 159 

 Pelargoniums for forcing, 160 ; culti- 

 vation of zonal, 161 ; specimen zonal, 

 287 ; selection of gold and silver 

 zonal, 287 ; cultivation of double- 

 flowering, 193 ; early-flowering, 159 ; 

 new, 114; propagating gold and 

 silver, 224 

 Phlox, cultivation of, 396 

 Piceas, list of, 329 

 Pimpernel, the bog, 256 

 Pine-apple cultivation, 101, 139 

 Pine, the Chili, 329 

 Pine, the umbrella, 333 

 Pines, list of, 330 



Plant, a word to those about to, 277 

 Plants recommended, 126 

 Pleroma cultivation, 225 

 Polyanthus culture, 243 

 Polyanthes tuberosa, 17 

 Potato culture, maxims of, 50 

 Prestoe fund, 24 

 Pumpkin, a heavy, 63 

 Pyrethrum, the, 170 ; Golden Feather, 



160 

 Resurrection plant, the, 180 

 Rhododendron, standard, 320 

 Robin and the sparrow, 55 

 Rockery, ferns and mosse3 for, 32; 



building, 288 

 Rose garden, season's work in the, 74 ; 

 growing, town, 337 ; shows at Bir- 

 mingham and Hereford, 249 

 Roses in towns, standard, 12 ; pruning 

 own-root, 128 ; pruning, 191 ; from 

 autumn cuttings, 262 ; own-root, 190 ; 

 selections of new, 345 

 Rough-and-ready gardening, 343 

 Royal Botanic Society, exhibitions of, 



94, 154, 186, 249 

 Royal Horticultural Society, exhibition 

 of, 94 ; hyacinth show, 153; azalea 

 show,186; rose show, 186; pelargo- 

 nium show, 248 ; great rose show, 

 248 ; pink show, 249 ; show at Man- 

 chester, 249 ; show of gladioli and 

 hollyhocks, 286 

 Rubbish, utilization of, 169 

 Salix rosmarinifolia, 341 



Salvia patens, 223' 



Sarracenia cultivation, 77 



Scale, clearing acacias of, 31 



Schizanthus culture in pots, 285 



Schizostylis coccinea, 9 



Seakale, rapid production of, 255 



Seed Adulteration Bill, 286 



Seeds for the kitchen-garden, selection 

 of, 92 



Selaginellas, culture of, 299 



Shrubs for plunging, 160 ; Japanese, 

 25 ; notes on scarce, 340 



Side-saddle flower, the, 77 



Soap berry, the, 285 



Solanums for winter decoration, 302 ; 

 Williams's hybrid, 126 



Spiral palmata, 128 



Spiraeas, herbaceous, 33 



Spring flowers, 30 ; exhibitions of, 154 



Spring-flowering plants, 210 



Staking of trees, 376 



Stocks damping off, 96 



Stony ground and shady borders, 128 



Strawberries, early, 174 



Strawberry forcing, 5 



Strawberry plants for forcing, 207 



Stephauotis, culture of, 273 



Stoves, Hink's petroleum, 351 



Strelitzia reginee, 278 



Subtropical gardening, 215 ; notes on, 1 



Sunny positions, ferns for, 31 



Sweet William culture, 287, 311 



Symphyandria pendula, 63, 137 



Table decorations, plants for, 175 



Tacsonia Van Volxemi, fruit of, 362 



Tallow tree of China, 254 



Thomson, death of Mr. R., 313 



Thyrsacanthus rutilans, 63 



Tinne, murder of Miss, 318 



Todea pelluoida, 189 



Town area, to utilize, 365 



Trees, 213 ; transplanting apparatus for, 

 217 



Tree, a golden-leaved, 133 ; the white- 

 wash, 237 



Tuberose, the, 17 



Veitch, death of Mr. J., 319, 373 



Verbenas, vermin on, 63 ; in pots, 246 



Victoria regia, 286, 372 



Vine borders, forming and planting, 114 



Vine, propagating the variegated, 95 



Vines by circumposition, 190 



Vines and bottom-heat, 286 



Vases of g r eat magnitude, 374 



Vinery, grapes for cool, 288 



Wellingtonia gigantea, 331 



Winter bouquets, grasses for, 112 



Winter decoration of flower-beds, 363 



Winter garden, Edinburgh, 373 



Whitewash, 64 



Yellow bedding plants, 71 



Yew, Fortune's, 333 



Yews, 333 



