INDEX. 



Snakes destroy chickens, 136 



Soot as a liquid manure, 144 



Spade, the, 21 



Spanish — fowls for a email enclosure, 

 116; lump in hen's throat, 120; 

 cock's comb drooping, 344, 424 



Sparkenhoe Poultry Sliow, 197 



Spergula pilifera, destroying worms 

 in, 477 



Sphaeralcea acerifolia, 2t)fi 



Sphccrog-yne latifolia propagating, 

 Ac. 419 



SpiriBa venusta not flowering, 360 



Spring gardening, 2S8 



Spruce Fira for light soil, 439 



Squirrel — management, 223 ; feed- 

 ing, 424 



Stachys palustris as a substitute for 

 Asparagus, 219 



Staffordshire Agrionltural Society's 

 Poultry Sliow, 202 



Staffordshire, gardens worth seeing, 

 191,413 



Stamford Horticultural Show. 27 



Stauranthera grandiflora, 391 



Steam pipes, 298 



Stephanotis floribunda fruiting, 372, 

 410, 448. 469; pruning, 419 



Stocks, wintering Emperor and 

 Brompton, 298 



Stove— (brick) lor greenhouse, 241 ; 

 arrangement of, 438; portable, in 

 greenhouse, 477, 498 ; plants to 

 bloom in each month, 499 



Strawberries— soil, making, 12; tan 

 a? a covering, 14 ; culture, 16, 43, 

 57, 151, 3G8 ; growing successfully, 

 25, 305; in France, 30; protecting 

 from slugs, 43 ; growing, 66 ; 

 forcing, 70, 299, 397, 438, 459, 496; 

 slugs on, 87 ; failing, on clayey 

 soil, 91 ; on light soil, 134 ; latest 

 time to plant, 175 ; cutting off 

 leaves, 406, 448, 489; Frogmore 

 Late Pine, 471 ; planting, 496 ; 

 plan of growing near the glass, 517 



Studley Royal, 28, 45 



Surface-stirring in hot weather, 35 



Suffolk, gardens worth seeing, 271, 

 413. 437 



Suffolk Poultry Show, 300 



Sussex, gardens worth seeing, 191 



Syringing after dressing trees, 498 



1 TaGRTES PCMItA POR BEDItINO, 141 



Tanks— hot-water, 250; healing a 

 I Cucumber-pit, 259; heating, 278; 

 I heated room, use of, 399 

 j Tanner's barb, fungns on, 399 

 : Tai-porley Poultry Show, 2'il 

 ' Teratology, vegetable, 171 



Tetrathecu verticillata culture, 42 



Thripa on Grapes nearly ripe, 57 



Thunbcrgia coccinea culture, 379 



Tbyme, Lemon, 115 



Tobacco— leaves, drying, 135 ; quan- 

 tity re(iuired for fumigating, 318 



Todmorden Botanical Society, 271, 

 331, 432 



Tomatoes, growing under glass, 89 



Tonbridge Wells Poultry Show, 

 380 



Torry HUl, 308 



Transplanting large shrubs, 269 

 I Ti'ees— notes on hardy deciduous, 

 71,88; for a dry soil, 518 



Tremandra verticillata, 175 



Tremella nostoc, 318 

 I Trenching, it« advantage?, 417 



Trentham, 327, 354, 374, 392, 413, 

 ! 434, 499 



; Tritoma uvaria culture, 219 

 I Tritomas and their culture, 426 



TropEEoIums— culture of, 115, 220; 

 greenhouse, 302 ; select, 518 

 ! Truffles and Truffle-beds, 295 



Tuberoses after flowering, 299 



Turf— laying down, 88 ; preparing 

 for potting, 438 



Turkeys — baskets for conveying, 

 223; roupy, 344 



Turkey Mill Gardens, 366 



Undkrcover for a wood, 459 

 llropedium Lmdenii, 11 



Varnish for rustic seats, 1S2 



Verbenas— for early bloom 162; se- 

 lect list of, 175; cuttings, 240; 

 triphylla cuttings, 241 ; Purple 

 King, cuttings. 337 ; list of new, 

 387 ; classed lists of, 467 



Villarsias, 249 



Vines— propagating by eyes, 8 ; cut- 

 ting down old, 26 ; mildew, salt 

 for, 57 ; leaves spotted, 76 ; break- 



ing again soon after forcing, 85; 

 preventing mildew on, 88 ; proper 

 stocks for, 89 ; in a greenhouse, 

 94 ; mildew, sulphur water a re- 

 medy for. 115; leaf-stalks gan- 

 grening, 124; in pots, 135; in 

 boKcs, 175; lifting, 176; leaves 

 blotched, 196; chemistry of soils 

 for, 209 ; fungus on, 219 ; planting 

 and selecting, 245; culture, 258; 

 border, covering, 257 ; to form, 

 245, 259; training, 278; for a 

 vinery, 299; turning out, 318; 

 ■weak, 318; for cold vinery, 318; 

 lifting roots of, 332 ; mildew on, 

 338; propagating from eyes, 356; 

 lifimg roots and remaking the 

 border, 365; cultivation in pots, 

 367,379; borders, superphosphate 

 of lime for, 379; lifting roots and 

 renewing the border, 385 ; mildew 

 on, 390; in pots, soil for, 419; 

 scorched, 420 ; close pruning, 430; 

 grafting, 447, 458; pruning, 468, 

 487; starting in January, 459; 

 early, and with Peaches and Pines, 

 478 ; bone manure for, 478 ; 

 border, renewing and planting, 

 488 ; forcing, 498 ; renewing 

 without losing a crop, 506, 516 



Vinery— planting, 76; for six Vines 

 94; heating, 220, 299; moderating' 

 its temperature, 380; converting 

 greenhouse to one, 400; manage- 

 ment, 490; back wall to, 420; 

 ground or curate's lean-to, 447; 

 and pinery combined, 458 ; keep- 

 ing air moist, 476; filling up 

 blanks in, 478 



Vineries— ground, 272, 319, 349 ; 

 arrangement and planting, 518 



Violets not blooming, 499 



Virginian Poke, 196 ; eaten in Ame- 

 rica, 220 



Wakefield Poultry Show, 201 ; 

 lost fowls at, 280 



Walk, weeds on gravel, 338 



Walnut tree— unhealthy, 155 ; ma- 

 nagement, 310 



Warwickshire, gardens worth seeing, 

 470 



Wasps, 284 ; destroying, 140 : male, 



404 : as paper-makers ; male have 

 no stings, 483 



Water— importance of clean, 133: 

 Lilies transplanting, 459 



Wuterford Poultry Show, 263 



Wax moths. 203 



Webbla pinifolia, 391 



Week, work for, 14, 31. 55, 74, 92, 

 113, 132. 151, 173, 194, 216, 238, 

 255, 276. 296, 316, 335, 357, 376, 

 396, 416, 437, 456, 474, 495, 515 : 

 Doings of last week, 15. 34. 56, 

 75, 93, 114, 133, 152, 174, 195, 217, 

 239, 256, 277, 297, 317, 335, 358. 

 377,397,417,43,^,457,475,496, 515 



Weigela rosea for a north wall, 511 



Well Head Gardens, 193, 212, 229 



Welton Place, 493 



What other flowers think of it, 187 



Wheat plant's vitsd powers, 271 



Whitchurch and Malpas Poultry 

 Show, 263 



Window, plants for N.W., 498 



Wintering — border plants, house 

 for, 241 ; bedding plants, 279. 

 plants in cold greenhouee, 390; 

 in hotbed frame, 398; but no 

 greenhouse, 399 : plants, 429 



Wireworms injuring Vine roots, 94 



Woodlice, destroving, 37, 220 



Wood, Mr. W., 489 



Woods, coloured, in landscape gar- 

 dening, 70 



Woodstock Poultry Show, 301 



Worcestershire, gardens worth 

 seeing, 233, 373 



Worcesterhsire Poultry Show, 76 



Workhouse, what may be done there, 

 284 



Worms— in pots, 13 ; to destroy, 259 



Yews — what animals ark poi- 

 soned BT IT ? 47 1 ; hedge on 

 clay soil, 477 : cattle among, 491 ; 

 herbivorous, animals among, 524 



Yorkshire Agricultural Society's 

 Poultry Show, 117, 482 



Yorkshire, gardens worth seeing, 

 85, 191, 333 



Yuccas — removing, 379 ; fllamen- 

 tosa, protecting, 399 



Zinc tank, rapid decat of, 215 



WOODCUTS. 



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Agaricns fertilis 395 



Apple-trellis 235 



Beaton, Mr. D , Portrait of..... 415 



Bees, Apparatus for Uniting 119 



,, Feeder 3G3 



„ Foul Brood 423 



Boiler, Garden 410 



Boronia rutosma 214 



Bottom heat for Beds, four modes of giving 514 



Catasetum fimbriatura 192 



Cephalotaxua drupacea 455 



„ Fortune! 454 



Colocasia odorata 90 



Colourg, Jlclody and Harmony of 10 



Conservatory and Palm-house, Ground Plan 



of 350 



Conservatory at Keele Hall 274 



,, at Trentham 414 



Coop, Poultry 38 



Cyclamen Atkinsi 150 



Ducks, CayugaBlack 279 



EchinocdCtus rhodoplhalmus 70 



Erica elegans 131 



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Erica vastcfiora 181 



Flower Garden Plans, 49, 71, 170, 294, 394, 



434, 435 

 Forcingand Plant-houses arrangement of... 51 



Foul Brood, microscopic examination ot 423 



Gardener's House at Trentham 354 



Greenhouse Bhnds, rolling up 495 



Holly Hedge 275 



Hoya imperiulis 254 



Jardiniere, March's 6 



Land Measnring 106 



Macleania cordata 110 



Marking Trees 215 



Mitraria coccinea 274 



Oncidium sarcodes ,,.. 334 



Papaver, transformed 171 



Pentilly Castle Flower Garden 71 



PmusaristLta 91 



Parsley, ridges for 234 



,, Pot for covering 234 



Peach-houses, Planting 236 



„ Wall Case 236 



Pear, Styrian 267 



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Pine-houses, Construction of 314, 315 



Polmaise Heating 47S 



Poultry-feeder S21 



Propagating-house at Bcrkhampstead 473 



Pits at 474 



Bottom heat for 474 



Ribbon-border, Plan of 49 



Rose, Coupe d'Hebt^ 31 



Trentham, Flower Gardens at 394, 434 



., Upright Houses at 355 



Truffle, Black 295 



Trellis foi Apple Trees 235 



Uropedium Llndenii 11 



Vegetable Teratology 171 



Vineries, construction of 314, 315 



„ at Keele Hall 235, 236 



„ at Bcrkhampstead 471 



„ Trentham 274, 374 



Vines, Propagating by Eyes S 



„ Pruning 487 



Wasps' Nests 483 



Welton Place, wilderness at 494 



