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INDEX. 



Country flower show, 32 

 Crystal Palace flower show, 

 14'J, 217; rose show, 178 

 Cucumber failure, 162 

 Cucumbers, culture of, 54 ; 

 fruiting bed for, 55 ; out 

 of door, 57 ; in a green- 

 house, 112 

 Cultivation of mignonette in 



pots, 221 

 Culture of the hydrangea, 

 43 ; camellia, 46 ; cucum- 

 bers, melons, and gourds, 

 54 ; root crops, 63 ; gar- 

 denia, 139 ; oxalis, 187 ; 

 oyclamen, 211 ; cliauthus, 

 235 ; Campanula pyrami- 

 dalis, 247 ; and forcing 

 lily of the valley, 249 

 Currants, red, white, and 

 black, 28 ; propagation of, 

 29 ; pruning, 29 ; as espa- 

 liers, 30 ; standards, 31 ; 

 selection of varieties, 31 

 Cutbush and Son's exhibition 



of spring flowers, 77 

 Cyclamen, culture of, 211 ; 

 species of, 212 ; hardy and 

 greenhouse, 213 ; seed- 

 lings, 214 

 Cytisus, cultui'e of, 19 

 Dactylis glomerata, 195 

 Daisies, lawn foul with, 16 

 Death of Mr. II. Low, 226 

 Delphinium alopecuroides, 



217 ; bicolor grandifl., 12 

 Desfontania spinosa, 17 

 Diplotaxis tenuifolia, 193 

 Diseased vines, 162 

 Doodia caudal a (fern), 17 

 Double primrose, 112 

 Dumbartonshire, gardening 



iu, 230 

 Edging for garden walks, 282 

 Edging plants, 130 

 Edgings to beds, plants suit- 

 able for, 193 

 Elymus glaucus, 195 

 Endive, blanching, 276 

 Eranthis hyemalis, 79 

 Esjjalier trees, 34 

 Eugenias and myrtles, 22 ; 



E. ugni, 25 

 Euonymus radicans, fol. var., 



12 

 Eurya angustifolia, 12 ; lati- 



folia variegata, 12 

 Evergreens, raising a stock 



of, 16 

 Exhibition flowei's, 113 

 Exmouth, fiuit-trees for 

 garden at, 257 



Extermination of plantains 

 from a lawn, 258 



Farfugium grande, 223 



Feather-grass from seed, 186 



Fern cases, 41 ; vermin m, 

 186 ; collecting, 257 



Fern sliade, 17 



Fernery in Highlands, 161 



Ferns for growing under a 

 shade, 17 ; in a vinery, 

 258 ; suitable for growing 

 in cases, 41 ; English ever- 

 green, suitable for War- 

 dian case, 210 



Festuca glauca (grass), 195 



Ficus Cooperi, 12 



Floricuhural journals, illus- 

 trated, 74 



Flower show, country, 32 



Flower-pots, protecting ex- 

 posed, 208 



Flower shows of February 

 and March, 74 ; March 

 and April, 103 ; April and 

 May, 123 ; May and June, 

 149 ; June and July, 176, 

 190 ; at Alexandra Park, 

 ]91; of September, 217 



Foliage bedders, 80 ; 130 



Forcing flowers, 211; beans, 

 271 ; lily of valley, 249 



Forcing-house, heating, 63 



Fortune, how to make a, 

 259 



Fountain, supplying a, 262 ; 

 to increase tlie force of a, 

 263 ; planting a, 161 



Fountains in gardens, 261 



French beans, to force, 271 



Frome, climate of, 137 



Fruit culture — currants, 28 ; 

 formation of bushes and 

 pyramids, 51 ; strawberry, 

 71, 242 ; out-door grapes, 

 195 



Fruit-trees on a lawn, 65 ; 

 at Exmouth, 257 



Fuchsia corymbillora fol. 

 var., 195; globosa fol. var., 

 maculata, und pumila, 195 



Fuchsias dropping their 

 blooms, 233 



Fumigating case, how to 

 make, 186 



Funkia alba marginata fol. 

 var., ovata fol. var., and 

 iindulata fol. var., 194 



Galeobdolon luteum, 194 



Gardenia, culture of, 139 



Gardenias, 140 



Garden, new, 209 ; planting 

 a new, 42 ; vermin, 234 



Gardening in Dumbarton- 

 shire, 230 



Garland, a winter, 31 



Gas-stove, 113 



Genista, general treatment 

 of, 19 ; li'om cuttings, 

 21 



Genista, Cyfisus and Coro- 

 nilla, 12, 21 



Gentiana foliosa, 12 



Geranium, Cloth of Gold, for 

 shady window, 223 



Geranium spot, 13S 



Geranium, bedding, 198 ; 

 rose and salmon-coloured, 

 198 ; scarlet, 199 ; crim- 

 son, 200 ; scarlet, 185 ; 

 variegated, 129 



Gesnera, gloxinia, and achi- 

 mines, 67 ; selection of 

 species and varieties, 70 



Gladioli in August, 63 



Glechomahederacea, 194 



Gloxinia, culture of, 67 ; pro- 

 pagation by cuttings, 69 ; 

 selection of varieties, 70 



Gnaphalium dioicum, 194; 

 lanatum, 7 



Gooseberry trees, renovating 

 old, 281 



Govirds, culture of, 54, 57 



Grapes, out-door, 195 ; 

 cracking, 208 



Grasses, ornamental, 194 



Greenhouse azaleas, propa- 

 gation of, 94 



Greenhouse, cucumbers in a, 

 112 ; vines in a, 113 ; ar- 

 rangement of, 64; chmbers 

 for, 234 



Greenhouse rhododendrons, 

 management of, 246 



Heartsease, blue, 82 



Heating forcing-house, 63 



Hebechnium macrophyllum, 

 217 



Hedcra helix elegantissima, 

 H. h. maculata, H. h. fol. 

 var., sulphurea, and E. h. 

 argentea, 194 



Hedge for division, 161 



Helleborus niger, the Christ- 

 mas rose, 79 



Helen Lindsay rersus Chris- 

 tine, 185 



Herbaceous plants for ex- 

 hibition, 65 



Highlands, fernery in, 161 



Hints on rose growing, 132 



Hoes, Sigma's, 257 



Hollyhock, the, 154, 205; 

 planting for effect, 155; 



