INDEX. 



Abebdbenshihr, gardens in, 168 

 Aberpavenny Poultry Show, 301 

 Acacia (rrandis not flowering, 360 

 Acclimatisation in the antipodes, 524 

 Acliimenes, wintering, 338 

 Adeiaster albivenis culture, 439 

 Adenium obesura, 4T1 

 ^Echmoa culture, 291 

 Agraricus fertilis, poisonous, 395 

 Apave lurida, 191 



Agricultural Hall Flower and Fruit 

 Show, 162, 185; Poultry Show, 

 176 

 Aldborough and Boroughbridge 



Poultry Show, 157 

 Alexandra Park Exhibition, 66, 82 

 Alismas, 249 

 Allamanda neriifoHa, treatment of, 



518 

 Allium fragrans, 259 

 Alocasia — metallica from eyes, 9 ; 

 metalUca culture, 214; Lowii cul- 

 ture, 319 ; macrorhiza variegata, 

 propagating, &c., 419 

 Aloe, of Vera Cruz, 191; American, 



blooming, 208 

 Alyssum saxatile variegatum to pro- 

 pagate, 154 

 Amaranthna melancholicus ruber, 

 culture, 30, 103,110,141, 145, 151; 

 ■wintering. 128; as a bedder, 205; 

 bicolor and tricolor, 251 

 Amaryllis — longiflora rosea failing, 

 37 ; Regina ^pectabilis, 113 ; 

 belladonna culture, 134 ; neg- 

 lected, 307 ; failures, 329 ; cul- 

 ture, 518 

 American— kitchen gardening, 230, 



blight, 498 

 Ammonia— in the atmosphere of hot- 

 houses, 326, 329, 330; in air of 

 plant-houses, 353; for grass land, 

 411 

 Ammoniated oxide of iron as a 



manure, 490 

 Anchomanes Hookeri pallida, 113 

 Androsace lanuginosa, 367 

 Annuals, list of early, 400 

 Anomatheca cruenta sowing, 319 

 Ante invadjng wall-frnit, 338 

 Aphelandra Leopoldi culture, 298, 



478 

 Aphides, and two of their enemies, 



53 

 Apiarian notea, 243, 302 

 Apiary, an experimental, 322 

 Apley Towers, flower-garden ar- 

 rangement there, 292 

 Aponogeton distachyon hardy, 331 

 Appeal on behalf of the inferior 



animals, 160 

 Apples—Winter Hawthornden, 49; 



dwarf, 259; list of, 477 

 Apricot trees— in pots, 278 ; trans- 



plant'ng, 400 

 AquariHm- green slime in, 37 ; con- 

 structing, 226 

 Aquatics— list of hardy, 172; hardy, 



226, 247, 251, 312, 330, 331 

 Arabis— variegated, 372, 432 ; to pro- 

 pagate, lltj ; Golden-variegated, 

 412 

 Arboretum, a plea for, 410 

 Arctotis repensfor bedding, 141 

 Artichokes, 336 

 Arundo donax culture, 399 

 Aah-bark for epilepsy, 400 

 Asparagus— dying, 76; beds, foul, 

 241; substitute for, 219; forcing, 

 377 ; making beds, 379, 400 

 Asphalt walks, 318 

 Afplenium viviparum culture, 440 

 Astelma eximium, 391 

 Aubrietia purpurea edging, 37,478 

 — Auricula culture, 246 

 ^■^ Autumn propagation of bedding 

 JT" plants, 81 



22 Azaleas— Louise van Baden, 113; 



select, 259 ; scale on, 338 ; in- 



^ O lested by thripa, 399 ; list of, 498 



Balcony-boxes, plants for, 254 

 Balcony, plant-* for eastern, 379 

 Bananas at the Royal Horticultural 

 Society's Kensington Gardens, 515 

 Banffshire, gardens worth seeing, 



16S 

 Bantams— cTc, hard swelling at, 

 120 ; Sebright, 178 ; Game cock, 

 dubbing, 223 ; and Spanish, may 

 they be kept together? 364; with 

 Cochin-Chinas, 444 ; points in 

 "White. 4fi4 ; with Dorkings ; 

 whitt-booted, 484 

 Barr Hall, 231 



Battcrsea Park, bedding-out at, 168 

 Beans— failing, 18; Lima, 230; sta- 

 tistics of, 440 

 Beaton, Mr. Donald, 266, 415 ; death 



of, 349 ; mcmoridl of, 385 

 Bed-centre, evergreen for, 419 

 Bedding-out— at the Crystal Palace, 

 101; at Kew, 104; at Kensington 

 Palace Gardens and Hyde Park, 

 249 ; plants, wintering. 370. 428 

 Bedding plants — propagating in 

 autumn, 81; of 1863, 141; pro- 

 pagating, 154 ; wintering, 409, 

 457 ; frames for, 418 ; exhibition 

 of, 469 ; grown in moss, 511 

 Bedfordshire, gardens worth seeing, 



191,271,293 

 Beds, which is the best way of 



healing by hot-water pipes ? 514 

 Bee-keeping in Devon, 202 

 Bee-keepers, old school ot, 181 

 Bees — drone-breeding queens, 20 ; 

 queens changing colour, 20; va- 

 riation in colour, age of queen, 

 season in Durham and Gloucester, 

 39 ; Litiuvian in Australia, season 

 in Hants, 40 ; loss of queens, 38 ; 

 proceedings of prior to swarming, 

 38; removing to the moors; in 

 Devon, 59; driving, 60; foul 

 brood, 78, 118, 137, 138, 180, 181, 

 203, 204, 242, 303, 362, 4u3, 404, 

 424, 443, 444, 461, 483, 484, 503 ; 

 failures, moth, piping, colour of 

 Ligurian queens, gtupifying by 

 chloroform, season in Ireland, 

 flights of a young queen, 79; Ita- 

 lian (Ligurian), SO ; corsair, breed- 

 ing, driving, 96; chloroform tor, 

 season in Lincolnshire, bees con- 

 valescent in Devon, 97; weak and 

 unhealthy, 93; tru<^ causes of 

 failure, 99, 100 ; killing drones, 

 100; age of queens, 120; destruc- 

 tive effects of chloroform, 118; 

 stupifying by chloroform, failure?, 

 119; dwiRdling apiary, 119; 

 modem bives and forced swarms, 

 12u ; wintering, 120 ; experimental 

 management, 137; weak, 135; 

 eblorofoiTu for, 139; Ligurians in 

 Scotland ; fertile workers, 140 ; 

 two queens in one hive, 157 ; foul 

 brood not an artificial disease, 157 ; 

 the foul-bvood cunirover.-y, 158 ; 

 apiarian note?, 159; destroying 

 drones, 159 ; experimenting on, 

 160; unicomb hives, 160; age of 

 queens, 179 ; effects of fumigation, 

 180 ; honeydews. 180 ; removing to 

 the heather, 180; wooden hives, 

 181 ; uniting, M-ax moth'*, 203 ; in 

 Cumberland, 204; honey - taking, 

 2(H ; hunible bees, 204; intio- 

 aucing sealed combs, comb falling, 

 223; superstitions, 224; longevity 

 of queen, 242 ; two queens in a 

 hive, 243 ; drone killing, 243; stu- 

 pifying with fungus, 244 ; perfora- 

 ted zinc frames, driving in bar- 

 hives, parthenogenesis, attacks on 

 queens, 263; honeydew, driving, 

 feeding driven, attacked by wa?ps, 

 264 ; moisture in hives, consump. 

 tion of food in united, 282; two 

 queens; queen's longevity; mis- 



hapsin uniting; virgin queens, 283; 

 parthenogenesis, age of queens ; 

 honey season, 284 ; mismanage- 

 ment, 284 ; discoloured, 284 ; Mr. 

 G. Fox's apiary, 302 ; virgin 

 queen-* ; parthenogenesis ; intro- 

 duction of a Ligurian queen ; two 

 queens, 303 ; driving ; Edinburgh 

 honey-season ; uniting swarms ; 

 hives with combs but no honey, 

 304 ; random apiarian notes, 321 ; 

 pollen on, 322 ; parthenogenesis, 

 drones, driving, 323; honeydew, 

 324; two queens in a hive; loss of 

 queen ; foul brood ; experimental 

 apiary; acclimatisation, 312; light- 

 coloured pollen ; in irame-hives ; 

 fertile workers; foul brood, 343; 

 in Staffordshire; age of queens, 

 344 ; pollen and honey of ivy, 

 302 ; drones in October ; in 

 Lancashire ; sources of pollen ; 

 kottle-feeding. 363; experimental 

 apiary, 364; forced swarms, abor- 

 tive brood, 381 ; experimental 

 apiary, 382 ; foul brood ; Ligurians 

 in Edinburgh ; B. & W.'s apiary in 

 1863, 383 ; season in Northumber- 

 land; how Italian queens are lost, 

 384 ; moving hives, 334 ; pollen- 

 gathering ; Ligurian, 404; micro- 

 scopic examination of foul brood, 

 423 ; driving, 423 ; Ligurians, 

 flowers for, 424 ; deposit on hive 

 floor ; feeding, 444 ; gathering 

 pollen in November, 464; to re- 

 medy crooked combs in a frame- 

 hive, 484 ; dying of dysentery, 

 562; on Lancashire moors, 503; 

 driving, poUen-jatliering, 504 ; in 

 Greece, 504 ; uniting, 523 ; flowers, 

 524 ; pollen-gathering and breeding 

 in December, 523 



Beet— insect attacking, 165 ; notes 

 on red, 211 . 



Begonias, propagating by leaves, 175 



Berberries — culture of evergreen, 

 57, 85; list of, 87 



Eerkhampstead Nurseries, 471 



Bilibergia culture, 291 



Bird-question, the great, 49 



Birds- their use, 15 ; caterpillars 

 eating, 29 ; selecting for exhibi- 

 tion, 116; small, 272 ; and poultry- 

 keepers, 259, 279, 321 



Birmingham— Rose Show, 13, 52 ; 

 Poultry Show, 301, 402, 441 ; pens 

 at, 361, 381 ; ten-shilling day, 420; 

 notes on, 460; pens of Game dis- 

 qualifled, 460; breaking rules at. 

 460; Captain Heaton at the, 500, 

 519 ; results of, 502 ; relative 

 entries at, 518 ; Mr. Hindaon's 

 Game fowls at, 519 



Blackbird, a white, 100 



Black Bantams' ear-lobe3, 264 



Black Hamburgh Fowls at Birming- 

 ham, 484 



Blight, American, 176 



Bloom, prolonging in flower gardens, 

 161 



Bloomsbury "Working People's 

 Flower Show, 32 



Boilers, 141; their requisites, 61, 

 81; saddle, horizontal, and tubular 

 84; a new one suggested, 142; 

 Messenger's, 143 ; Riddell's, 143, 

 144; to prevent cnioting, 219; 

 empty in winter, 378 ; most econo- 

 miCil, 379; garden, 409, 45 1 



Bone-dust for Vine-borders, 419 



Bones, dissolving, 419 



Borders, foi-mation of for Vines, 245, 

 259 



B'»ronia culture. 76; rutosma, 214 



Bowenia spectabilis, 238 



Box-edginu'S, 258 



Brahma Poo tras- merits, 242; not 

 well encouraged, 401 



Bridlington Poultry Show, 117 



Brighton Poultry Show, 463 

 Broccoli— large, 212; rapid growth 



of, 296; wintering, 335 

 Brood of chickens, largest, GO 

 Broughton Poultry Show, 301 

 Brugmansia— to bloom in July, 134; 

 not flowering, 154 ; arborea flower- 

 ing dwarf, 175 

 Brussels Sprouts, small or large ? 



509 

 Buckinghamshire, gardens worth 



seeing, 191 

 Budding, heading back after, 154 

 Burlingtonia decora var. picta, 471 

 Buyer and Seller, 479 



Cabbage aphis, 259 



Caladiums, wintering, 399 



Calandrmia umbellata for bedding, 

 141 



Calceolaria — violacea culture, 17, 

 498; punctata, 113; cuttings, 240. 

 357, 277,336; canariensis, 333, 369 



Calceolarias — herbaceous, 49, 290 ; 

 after flowering, 318 ; repotting, 

 419 



Calico varnishing, 399 



Calla palustris, 249 



Camellias— propagation by eyes, S ; 

 twelve good, 17 ; CarlottaPapudotf, 

 49; to bloom in December, 115; 

 out of doors, 135 ; leaves scorched, 

 258; Hst of twelve, 299; blooms, 

 protecting from, wet, 337 ; drop- 

 ping off, 333; altering their time 

 of flowering, 379; buds falling, 

 478; lidtof, 498 



Canaries— and Bullfinches shedding 

 their feathers, 120; red mites on, 

 244 



Canna roots, wintering, 331 



Cannes, gardening at, 468 



Carnations — and Picotee, distinction 

 between, 115; seed, 115 ; winter- 

 ing, 196; Lord Clifton, 471 



Carrot culture, 476 



Catasetum, fimbriatum, 192; cer- 

 nuum, 233 



CauUflowers, culture of, 122 ; rate of 

 growth, 123; varieties, 124 



Cedar, removing a large, 458 



Celandine for toothache, 20 



Celery, 310; earl,', 12; forcing in 

 open air, 66, 115 ; earthing-up, 93 ; 

 culture and serving, 217 ; culture. 

 358 ; blanching, 377, 410 ; aitacked 

 by fly, 477; management. 438; 

 diseased, 439 ; in cocoa-nut fibre 

 refuse, 492 



Centaureas— ragusina culture, 41 ; 

 argentea, propagating, 196 ; candi- 

 diesima as a bedder, 290 ; argentea 

 and candidisiima, propagating, 

 318, 372, 455; propagating. 459; 

 490 ; gymnocarpa and argentea, 

 468; for edging, 412 



Cepbalotasus Foitunei and drupa- 

 cea, 454 



Ceiopegia Bowkeri, 296 



Charcoal in composts, 4tiG 



Chafe's beetle poison, 464 



Cherry aphis, 135 



Cherries — fallinc in orchard-house, 

 57; for N. v/all, 379 



Cheshire, gardens worth seeing, 191, 

 313 



Chestnut (Spanish), large specimens 

 125 



ChicUens— dying suddenly, 80; lay- 

 ing, 95 ; lameness in, 95 ; destroyed 

 by a hedgehog, 116 ; fresh grcmici 

 for, 220; breedii.g early, 4-0; 

 early, 484 



Chicory culture, 358 ; and uses, 432 



China grass for tying, 490 



Chinese— seed, sowing, 241 ; find 

 Japanese plants, sale oT, 250, 357 



Chippenham Poultry Show, 443, 

 432 



