VI 



INDEX. 



Salter's winter garden, £G9 



Sarmienta repens, 159 



Scarlet geraniums, 185 ; new 

 and old, 128 



Scolopeudriinis, 143 



Scolopendrium Tulgare, and 

 other varieties, 143 



Sedum fabarium, 24S 



Seeds to be sown in August, 

 185 



Selaginella apoda for grow- 

 ing under a shade, 17 



Selection of annuals for all 

 purposes, 33 



Sempervirens rose Grevillea 

 on south wall, 210 



Serissa foetida var. fol. aureo- 

 marginatis, 216 



Shady border, plants for a, 

 66 



Shadj window, plants for a, 

 223 X, 



Shi'ubs, variegated, 195 



Sigma's hoes, 258 



Silene pendula, 281 



South Essex Chrysanthe- 

 mum Society, 267 



Sowing peas, 65 



Squashes and marrows, 57 



Spent hops, 27 



Spergula pilifera, 5 j sagi- 

 noides, 5, 185 



Spring bulbs, 274 ; flower3,79 



Stachys lanata, 191 



Stamford Horticultural 

 Show, 178 



Stoke Kewington Chrysan- 

 themum Society, 267 



Strawberry, the, 242; cul- 

 ture of the, 71 ; planting, 

 72 J plantation, 71 



Tagetes signata pumila, 82 

 Tea roses in towns, 168 

 Temple Gardens, chrysan- 

 themums at the, 268 

 Thymus vulgaris fol. var., 



194 

 Tiflany failure, 89 ; house, 41 

 Tilia Eui'opffia fol. argcnteis, 

 160 ; T. parvifolia fol. var. 

 160 

 Tomata de Laye, 66 

 Torquay, climate of, 31 

 Towns, tea-roses in, 168 

 Traininj fruit-trees, 34; ho- 

 rizontal training, 34 ; up- 

 right training, 35 ; fan 

 training, 36 

 Training plants to a wall, 



new met hod of, 83 

 Trees and shrubs, varie- 

 gated, 195 

 Trees, espalier, 34 ; planting 

 out a view under, 258 ; 

 ]3lanting under, 186 

 Tiifoliutn rubrum pictum, 



194 

 Tropaeolums, 210 

 Tulips, planting after, 162 

 Turfing a bank, 41 

 Tussilago farfara var., varie- 

 gated coltsfoot, 85 

 Two dozen roses, 232 

 Variegated coltsfoot, 85 ; ge- 

 ranium, 129 ; kail, 63 ; 

 trees and shrubs, 195 ; 

 plants, 210; selection of 

 hardy, 192 

 Verbenas, 113 ; of 1863, 201 

 Vermin, an outbreak of. 111 ; 

 giirden, 231 ; in fern cases, 

 186 



Vertinica incana, 194 



View under trees, planting 

 cait a, 258 



Village in dismay, 111 



Vinca major fol. elegantis- 

 sima, 194 ; V. m. reticu- 

 lata, 194 ; V. minor fol. 

 Tar. argentea, and V. m. 

 fol. aurea, 194 



Vine border, materials for, 

 270 ; culrm-e, the great 

 mystery of, 270 



Vinery, ferns in a, 258 



Vines, diseased, 162 ; in a 

 greenhouse, 1].3 ; in pots, 

 281 



Viola arborea, 215 



Virginian creepers, soil for, 

 282 



Walks, edging for kitchen 

 garden, 282 



Wahiufc, barren, 42 



Wall trees, protection, 105 



Waltoniau case for propa- 

 gating, 173 



Wardian case, English ferns 

 suitable for, 210 



Water scenes, 261 



Window flowers, 251, 232 



Winter aconite, 79 ; • arland, 

 a, 31 ; climate of Torquay, 

 31 



Work for the Month — Janu- 

 ary, 14 ; February, 38 ; 

 March, 69; April, 85; 

 Mav, 106; June, 134; 

 July, 156 ; Augu-t, 181 ; 

 September, 202; October, 

 227 ; November, 252 ; De- 

 cember, 277 



INDEX OF ENGRAVINGS. 



Clerodendron Thomsonia?, 215 



Engenui ugni, 25 



Pan training, 36 



Grou]) of seolopendriums, 146 



Helleborus niger, 80 



Horizontally-trained pear-tree, 3i 



Inarching camellias, 47, 48 



Interior of rose-house, 171 



Method of protecting wall trees, 105 



Method of pruning currant trees, 30 



Oxalis corniculata rubra, 189 



Oxalis eli'gans and O. deppti, 188 



Papyrus antiquorum, 8 



Pastonian rose-house at Stoke Newingtou, 



169 

 Pruning, illustration, 63 



Pyi-amid fruit-trees, 52, 53 



Eockery, 98 



Eoses, forms of, 50 



Scolopendrium vuliTare ramo-mavginatuni, 



147 

 Sedum fabarium, 249 

 Seiissa foetida var. foliis aiu-eo-marginatis, 



217 

 Tagetes signata pumila, 82 

 The lean-to, oui side view, 119; interior, 



122 

 The magic-ring, 6 

 Upright-trained pear-tree, 35 

 Viola arborea var. braudyana, 216 

 Water scene, 264 



