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INDEX. 



Currant-bud disease (Illustration) 258 



Cyathea Hookeri 27 



Cymbidium tigrinum 122 



Cypripedium Harrisianum 75 



Dahlia imperialis, flowering of, 283; 



dwarfing of by grafting 284 



Dahlias, new, 23, 236, 237 ; new bedding 201 

 Darwinia macrostegia, 206 ; D. Hooker- 



iana, 206; D. fimbriata (Illustration)... 207 

 Davallia hemiptera, 122, (Illustration) ... 221 

 Dendrobium crassinode, 75 ; D. crystal- 

 linum, 27; D. Jamesianum (Illustra- 

 tion) 180 ; D. lasioglossum, 75 ; D. 

 nobile, for winter blooming, 6; D. 

 Williamsoni, 75 ; D. xanthophlebium... 122 



Deutzia3 as decorative plants 140 



Dianthus alpinus (Illustration) 217 ; D. 



neglectus (Illustration) 217 



Dicentranthera macrophylla 28 



Dieffenbachia nebulosa 122 



Dilke, Sir C. W., Bart., death of 144 



Dipladenia boliviensis (Illustration) ... 234 

 Disease, Currant-bud, 95, (Illustration) 258 ; 



Vine (Illustration) 245 



Disendowment, How I got oyer my ... 184 

 Domestic Aids to Garden Culture, 3,91, 102, 154 



Dorcoceras hygrometrica 26 



Dracaenas, propagation of 253 



Dracophyllnm gracile, culture of 118 



Drought, effect of, on fruit-trees 52 



Echeveria glauco-metallica 26 



Ecklon, Dr., death of 24 



Edging-plants 232 



Edinburgh International Fruit Show ... 237 

 Endive, Fraser's Broad-leaved Batavian 50 



Epidendrum syringothyrsum 122 



Epiphyllum truncatum : stocks, training,&c. 255 



Eranthemum elegans 28 



Eriobotrya japonica 120 



Erythronium giganteum 26 



Eucharis amazonica 168 



Exhibitions : — in May, 142 ; in June, 166 ; 

 Metropolitan, 23 ; proposed, of Gladioli 

 at Crystal Palace, 95 ; International, of 

 Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society, 

 237 ; International, of Hamburgh, 23, 

 238; National, of Manchester, 23; of 

 Royal Horticultural Society at Man- 

 chester 216 



Ferneries, spring flowers for 81 



Ferns, new, 27; new gold and silver ... 143 



Fertilizers for fruit-trees 38 



Ficus eburnea 121 



Fig, Bourjassotte Grise, 50; Col di Sig- 

 nora Blanca Panach^e, 50, (Illustra- 

 tion) 145; Negro Largo (Illustration) 5, 50 

 Fig-culture in France (Illustrations) ... 210 



Figs, pot-culture of (Illustrations) 53 



Fires originating from railway locomotives 119 



Floricultural Millinery 98 



Florists' Flowers, New, 23, 70, 92, 117, 



141, 188, 214, 235, 260. 

 Flower-beds, notes on 218 



Flower beds and Panelled Walls, coupling 



links between 208 



Flower Gatherer, Selby 216 



Foliage Bedding Plants, new 283 



Foster's Boiler (Illustrations) 165 



Fowler's Insecticide 24 



Fruit Crops of 1869, 215 ; in Yorkshire, 



162 ; in North Notts 187 



Fruit Gatherer, Selby 216 



Fruit-growing, ornamental side of 127 



Fruit-trees, fertilizers for, 38 ; pruning 

 of, 223 ; summer pruning of, in hot 



seasons 126 



Fruits, new, of 1868, 49 ; preservation of, 



163; striped 145 



Fuchsias, new 284 



Game preserves, planting of 71 



Garden, Children's 251 



Garden culture, aids to, ... 3, 91, 102, 154 

 Gardening Operations : January, 11 ; Feb- 

 ruary, 35 ; March, 57 ; April, 86 ; May, 

 111; June, 135; July, 159; August, 

 181 ; September, 198 ; October, 230 ; 



November, 241 ; December 272 



Gardeners' Examinations 48, 191, 238 



Gardeners, monition for 72 



Gardening, French v. English 191,243 



Genetyllis, the genus, 200; G. tulipifera... 59 



Gentians, alpine, how to grow 37 



Geonoma Seemanni, 28 ; G. zamorensis... 122 

 Gladiolus, in 1868, 46; new, 47, 236; 

 select varieties of, 47 ; as a shrubbery 

 ornament, 85 , G. cruentus, 26, (Illus- 

 tration) 121 



Glass Screens, portable and convertible 



(Illustrations) 278 



Gnaphalium tomentosum 283 



Graft, influence of stock on 23 



Grafting, old pear trees, 113 ; potatos ... 95 



Grape Culture in calcareous soil 203 



Grape, Golden Champion, 49 ; Madresfield 



Court Black Muscat 49 



Grapes, new, 49 ; new Crimean, 263 ; 

 new, growing for show, 28 ; Fowler's 

 estimate of crop of, 192 ; grown with 



bottom heat at Dalkeith 215 



Greenhouses, construction of (Illustra- 

 tion) 180 ; warming of small 24 



Green's Patent Hot- Water Boiler (Illus- 

 tration) 39 



Gymnogramma Laueheana gigantea, 143 ; 

 G. aurea pendula cristata, 143 ; G. 

 Stelzneri superba cristata 143 



Hamburg International Exhibition... 23, 238 



Heat, effect of, on fruit-trees 52 



Hedaroma, the genus, 206 ; H. tulipifera 59 



Hedge Plants ... 192,205,247 



Herbaceous plants, cultivation of, 68 ; 



new hardy 26 



Hollyhocks, new 214 



Hoteia japonica variegata 74 



Hyacinths, exhibition of, 95; new 93 



Hydrangeas, blue 258 



