IV 



INDEX. 



Club in the Brassica tribe, 91 



Coal smoke, 64 



Coleus, new, 126 ; old and new, 199 



Conifers, raising seedling, 189 



Coniferous trees for English gardens, 326 



Conservatory, annuals for, 297 ; erect- 

 ing a cold, 222 ; furnishing, 288 ; 

 furnishing cold, 352 



Cordon, the horizontal, 22 



Couch, destruction of, 61 



Crown of thorns, 375 



Cryptomeria, the, 332 



Crystal Palace, 154 ; summer show, 187 



Cucumbers, winter, 234, 288 



Cupressus, list of, 332 



Cyclamen Persicum, culture of, 149 



Cypress, the deciduous, 333 



Dahlia Imperialis, 373 



" December," 369 



Dianthus cultivation, 311 



Dog and the raven, 120 



Edging plants, silvery-leaved, 127 



Epiphyllum truncatum culture, 239 



Eucharis amazonica not flowering, 128 



Eucomis culture, 135, 255 



Euonymus grafting, 63 



Erythrinas, protecting, 351 



Everlasting flowers, 86 



Export, packing bulbs for, 254 



Ferns, for the dinner-table, 96; for 

 exhibition, 113; indoor culture of 

 hardy, 195; management of gold and 

 silver, 146 ; propagating gold, 95 ; 

 and mosses for rockery, 32 ; select, 

 43, 104 ; for sunny positions, 31 



Fern cases heated by gas, 119 



Filbert cultivation, 49 



Fine foliage plants for greenhouse, 128 



Fingerpost, 92, 281, 345 



Firs, silver, 329 



Flower-beds, planting, 141 



Flower-beds during the winter, 63 



Flower-garden, plants for, 127 



Flower-pots, 190 



Flowers for the new year, 341 



Fruits for orchard-house, 304 



Fruits for small orchard, 345 



Fruit-trees in winter, watering, 352 



Fuchsias, leaves falling off, 288; 

 management, 95 ; in Valentia, the 

 218 ; cultivation of, 164 ; hardy, 292 ; 

 of 1868, the best, 93 



Garden Guide, 29, 59, 89, 123, 157, 184, 

 219, 250, 284, 316, 349, 370 



Gardenia, culture of, 21 



Gas-lime in gardens, danger of, 309. 



Gatherer, fruit and flower, 313 



Geraniums, raising seedling zonal, 47, 

 90, 179, 212; propagating bedding, 

 255 ; wintering zonal, 352 



Gesnera zebrina, culture of, 79 ; exo- 

 niensis, 127 



Gesneras, 97 ; list of, 99 



Ginger, green, 224 



Gloxinias, 95 



Gold ferns, management of, 190 



Grapes for cool vinery, 288, 352 ; se- 

 lections of, 110; open-air English, 

 23 



Grasses for winter bouquets, 112 



Greenhouse heating, 224 ; heating, 

 small, 19 ; management, 31 ; fine- 

 foliage plants for, 128, 227; plants 

 for, 160; winter flowering plants 

 for, 223 



Guano for garden plots, 351 



Gymnogrammas, propagating, 95 



Hamburgh international exhibition, 249, 

 286, 318 



Hardly ferns, culture of, 42 



Hardy fuchsias, 292 



Heaths, winter-flowering, 359 



Heating small greenhouses, 19 



Hsemanthus culture, the, 135 



Herbaceous and alpine plants, 80 



Herbaceous spiraja, 33 



Hollyhocks, propagation of, 287 



Hoya bella culture, 223 



Hyacinths, 128; home-grown, 116; 

 culture of, 263 



Indian pinks, 311 



Indigotera dosua, 340 



Inga pulcherrima, 188 



Ivies, beautiful, 353 



Ivy, grafting, 63; decorative uses of, 

 216 ; variegated leaved varieties, 

 353 ; classification and nomenclature 

 of, 367 



Japanese shrubs, 25 



Jessamine, the Cape, 21 



Junipers, list of, 333 



Kitchen garden, 241 



Ladies' garden, the, 7, 41, 80, 107, 141, 

 167, 210, 260, 311, 335,363 



Lantanas for greenhouse, 188 



Latania borbonica, 95 



Leeds Horticultural Society, 154 



Lilies, Guernsey and Scarborough, 136 ; 

 garden, 65; water, 128 



Lilium auratum, 286 



Liliums, repotting, 287 



Lobelias, herbaceous, 324 



Lobelia speciosa, sowing, 96 



Lomatia heterophylla, 31 



London gardens, 32 



Lonicera bracteata, 341 



Lycopodiums, culture of, 299 



Lysimachia nummularia, 138 



Manchester Lotanical Society, 154 



Melons, 96 



Meterological fact, 249 



Mosses, British, 36 



Mushroom culture, 204, 310 



Myrtles, wintering, 352 



New clothes for old pegs, 245 



Notes on three interesting plants, 137 



