iijiicx. 



Nul IrcoB.plttii'iut.'. <!'',. , 

 NyctooaloB Thuun»y">t ^CI 



OiKlUM roiiLTKY Show, 434 



Octobor.pluiils liloomcil in, IMH 



Oil as an iiiBectiL-idi", al5 



Okcford FiUimine. 3 



OloaiiikT Ho\ver-l.uila (allinR, 302 . 



lOnciiliuni Liuicimnum and leucoclii- 



lum culture. itJ7 



Onions — BowiiiK. 12'-; transpIunlinK 



Tripoli, 4IU „, . . ^,„ 



OranKes, horac-Krowu TiinKiermc. «o 



Orchard-lioun<», 2'>" : Bpiral cordons 



in, Hill use of li.irilcr, 'JM ; cxpcn- 



ince. 233: <-ultiir..'i!l, 303; 'reus in 



polB, TtV, '.IW ; mauaKeinent, 238, 3'-9 : 



wintcrini: trees, unslnltcryd, 3.17 ; 



deviations in culture, 33i ; closniu' 



early, 3W ; trees, tep-dreBsmg, 834; 



arrannement of, 391 



" OrcJiard-UouBe, The," ICl ; angle o' 



roof, 105 , ^ ^ 



Orchard, standard trees for, 392 

 Orchids tor a t;rcenliouse, 801 

 Ormskirk and boulhporf Poultry 

 Show, 12S „ . . 



0rnithufjalamlli>i'80ule8aluuin, treat- 

 ment after llowcrinR, 50 

 Oswestry Poultry Show, 237 

 OuUon Park, 152 

 Owls, food ror, IK) 

 Oxalis comiculata rubra culture, 07 



PKLARCONltJMS— f.'oa^t'ii"''^ 



C.ol- 



Paint, Db. de Brioi:'s, 199 

 Painting; garden structures, 172 

 Pampas Grass, propagating 374 ; trans- 



planting, 434 

 PandanuBcs. propaKating, oM 

 Pansios- select list ot,S(i; Iransplant- 



ing, 265; from seed, 302 , 



Paris Universal Exhibition, 309; in- 

 jured, 432 : report on dried and pre- 

 served fruits and vegetables, 99 

 Paris — HuttcB-Chauiiiont, 367; gar- 

 dens, notes on some, 401, 445 

 Parochial harvest festivals and liorU- 



cultural shows, 55 

 Parrot plucking itself, 30 

 Passiflora flowers not sotting, lb- 

 Paul, Mr. Cleorgo, 48 

 Paulownia impcrialis transplanting, 



181 

 Peaches— trees on a wooden lenei-, 

 30, S7; unnailing, 80: leafless, 201; 

 and Nectarine scodlinga, 210 ; house 

 for, 222 : pruning, 265 : border lor, 

 284 ; season ot 1867. 807 ; unhealthy 

 320, 339: easting their fruit, 3j8; 

 on walls, 406; protecting. 467 ; grult- 

 ing. 484; temperature for after 

 stoning, 61 ; Prunus padus as a 

 stock for, 182: and Nectarines on 

 same shoot, 136 : glazing over, 242 ; 

 winter treatment, in pots, 290: mon- 

 strous, soil; stones splitting, 420; 

 French, 423: out of doors, 489 in 

 r'rance, 444 : red spider on, 449 

 Pea-comb defined, 223 

 Peafowls. Japanese, 416 

 i'ears- unfertile blossoms on dwarf, 

 trees, 77; forcing in pots, 7b: insect ^ 

 on leaves, 8C; onl^uiuce stock crack- . 

 ing, 173.181: scale on, 182, 196,427; 

 unfruitful, 221, 301 ; cause of crack- 

 ing, 269 : leaves eaten, 284 ; for stan- 

 dards, 801 ; largo, 316 ; lor, autumn, 

 355; repotting, 855; pruning, 874; 

 for espaliers. 390 : influence ot stock 

 over the graft, 399 : weight ot, 4(,0 ; 

 ■ Irtlning, 428 ; rotting at the core, 

 . 419: in Uaddingtonshirc, 477; 

 ' 'Br>)wn Bourrc. gathering 181: 

 • : Chanmontel, large. 310 ; Duchesse 

 d'AngonlL>me, large, 401; Iluyshe s 



• ■ Victoria. 369 ; llivers' Summer 



Beurrc d'Aremberf, 815; Vioaj of 



Winkfield, spot on leaves, 124 



Peas - earlv, sown in August, 14 ; re- I 



' port on new, 24 : late crops, 28; for 



■ maiket, 67 ; now, 99 ; for succession, 



175. 411 : ■• Improved No. 1." 136 ; 



• ■ Pe.-iroe'8 Gardener's Delight, 133; 



Taber'a Earlv Perfection, 25, 116, 



• 152: Veitch's Perfection, 175 

 ■Pelargoniums —Variegated, at Bury 



Show, 6, 20. 80 : classification of, 20 ; 

 '; for bedding, 38; proposed exhibition 

 'of Variegate.l Zonal, C3; 'Wills's 

 Bronze Zonal, 86: wintenng in a 

 cellar, 87 : Scarlet^ not flowering, 

 Mrs. Pollock tui-ninjt green, 105 ; 

 (Irving. 106 ; propagating and wmter- 

 ing, 125 ; for bedaing, 1.55 : show of 

 Variegated Zonal, 153: boxes torcut- 

 ttings. 160. 161 ; show ot. 193, 203 ; 

 wintering bedding. 204 : show of Zo- 

 nal, 214 ; white, 222 ; bedding, 233 ; 

 Zonal Queen of Uoses, 237 : Zonal 

 for bedding. 843: taking up, 248; 

 Luna, 347: propagating Mrs. Pol- 

 lock. 818,399: Miss Watson. 351. 363: 

 potting cuttings, 356 : wintering bed- 

 ding. 862; bedding. 365; stopping 

 seedlings, 873: cutting down 

 scarlet, 874 : Bronze and Gold, 398 ; 

 list ot Variegated and Zonal, 2.';3 ; 

 Luna, wintenng scarlet. 265; (luali- 

 ties of beddiug, 270; porpagutmg 

 Mrs, Pollock, 275; stealing a 



t;L.XKOO.-.ilJ JIO LI,,,......,,.. 



branch ot, 277: propagatmB Go 

 den Chain, 277, 311; tor bedding i, 

 rich shaded soil, 2K5; wiateriu„ 

 Zonal and other, 292. 302: Aiiiy 

 Hogg,297 ; White Z.>nal,3lo : cutting 

 down laie, 319 ; eultinas of budding, 

 320; sport of nurulng Bush, 820; 

 selection of bedding, 320 ; iiualitlcs 

 of bedding, 331: propagating Mrs. 

 Pollock,335: grafting Mrs. loll'":;. 

 339, 460; propaKatlng, 419, 441, 4iJ, 

 484; cuttuigs, 420. 429; dissolved 

 bones for, 429; inlluonco of parents, 

 457 

 Pens, exhibition, 288 

 Pentstemou stems, cutting, 449 

 Perennials defined, 162 

 Periwinkle uuvai-iegated, 221 

 Peterborough Poultry Show, 83 

 Pheasants -food for young. 72: eating 

 their teathcie, 228,248; Golden, plu- 

 mage fading, 324 : Kalege, 410 

 Philoperisteron Society, 821 

 Pigeons-diseased, 18, 284 : notes on 

 Fancy, Ks ; canker in, 110 ; Trnm- 

 petor, at Bewsbury Show, 180; at 

 Hamburg, 167; diarrhtra in, lUs- 

 eased, 108; food for, 228; scour in, 

 288; management of, 301; prevent- 

 ing flight, 377 ; Fantails and Ttum- 

 pelers,'878 ; trespassing, 430 

 Pigs, food for, 890 

 Pigstve, flooring, 54 

 Pihielea culture, 87 

 Pine Apple leaves brown, 80 

 Pinctuui. labels for, 484 

 Pinks-mule, 234 : Star, 87. 

 Piping, extent a boiler will heat, 86 

 Pit-uses ot cold in winter, 1: alter 

 cuttings, 14 : for bediliiig plants, 161 : 

 constructing a protective. 301 ; lor 

 wintering plants, 338; heatuig,3i3, 

 400 . ... 



Plant-case for wintenng bedding 



plants, 802 , „, 



Plant-house arrangements, 31 

 Planting, 299 



Plants, two in one pot, 405 _ 

 Platvcerium alcicorne, reuioving Ueatt 



fronds, 3.50 , „„. 



Plumage allecled by food, 301) 

 Plumbago capensis pruning, •. 1 

 Plums-Coe's Golden Drop. .10; se- 

 lect, 280; French, 232; up.us on. 

 b7 : gnmming, 181 ; , trees nn- 

 healthy, 320; unfruitful, 351; prun- 

 ing newly phuited, 484 

 Plunging material, 374 

 Poa trivialis avgcntca elcgans, - 

 Poison, anopbthegni about, 222 

 Polands, white crest of Black, 283 

 Polomoniuni caruleum vanegatum, •b 

 Polypodium infested by thnps, 373 

 Polystichum lonchitis, 215 

 Pomological Congress ot France, 83, 



230 

 Pond making, 406 

 Pooley's gi-ound tobacco, 192 

 Potatoes- experiments on, 20, 2», 4j , 

 noies on, 57 ; planting m August, 84 



1, „(, . ™».^.n'»,« Onl'lV in (.Om 



KkBmTa—Conlimud. 



300 ; weight ot prize, 300 ; largest 

 breed of. 878: fattening, 416; ex- 

 cluding, 465; tor weight and profit, 

 474; shiuhs untouched by, 480 



Radishes, sowing. 122 



Railway charges for poultry, 374 



•• lialn-Uow. When, and Why It is 

 measured,'' 481 



liuspiicrries-llsl, 87; pmning, ai8; 

 eullure of late, 308 ; planting canes, 

 HT, culture, 449; training, 4!.0; 

 double-bearing, 479 



Uuspbeiry vinegar, 72 



llatB,2U8: ilrivmg away, 14S: exclud- 

 in" 390: defending from, 407 



Red" spiifer, reinedloB for, IIH ; on 

 Vines, 105 : destroying, '203; in or- 

 chard-house, '^21 



Refrigerator, 110 



Khododendvons — not flowerinff, I4j,, 

 cutting down, 182, 2-23; Edgwor hi 

 culture, 391 ; for cover planting, 850 , 



list ot, 411 ..... , 



lihubarb-ncwgigantic, eultnre, «ooli• 

 erv,25: forcing, 411, 482 

 Khy'uchospermuui jasminoldes after 



flowering, SO 

 Road and w alk making, 241 

 Rocket, double yellow. 222 : culture 

 of the double, 95; double white; 151 

 Rondelctia Purdiei, '297 

 Roofs, training fruit trees on, 07 

 Koot-pruning, 128, 231, 309; tune for, 



Rosl-cuttings, 18 : the first 'Westeni 

 Show, 45 : caterpillars on leaves, 50 . 

 aphides on, 51; Hybrid Perpetunls 

 a misnomer, 60; an ancient tree, 01 ; 

 potting, planting on Manetli stock, 

 Climbing Uevoniensis not flowering. 



noECS on, y, , i,t.u..,..,> ". r- ;• ' 



disease, 90 ; grownng early in Corn- 

 wall, 138; culture, 153: the lUsease, 

 159; Carter's Ash-top Fluke, 102; 

 storing 212. 292 ; diseosed, ■ 222: 

 judging exhibited, 263 ;' early- and 

 late, 302 : results of late planting, 

 846; storing seed, 410; obtaining 

 early, 449 ; forcing, 482 

 Pot-pourri, 228 ,- -o. 



Poultry— exhibitions clashing. !.•>, oi. 

 in h'mitcd space, 30; house good 

 and cheap, 32 ; buckwheat as food, 

 flooring a house for, 51; breeding, 

 extensive, in small enclostnre, 72; 

 produce. 100, 1'20, 117, •205; ^keep- 

 ing profltablv, 110: French breeds 

 ot, 145: over-supply of, 228; vexa- 

 tions, 243 : injuring cxiiibited, 2Ci : 

 cleaning for exhibition, '268 ; keeping 

 extensively, 267 ; killing, 821; Jiee 

 on 321: detieicnt time for jodging, 

 310: lecding, 800; food needed, 37s ; 

 judging, 893, 429, 450, 407 : breeding 

 powers, 436 ; in confined space, 4a4 ; 

 distinguishing the sex of, 434 

 Poultrv-yard, My, 435, 486 

 I'roserves— insects in, 30 ; a new, 137 

 Primula intermedia eulture, 2'28: 



Chinese for Christmas, 406 

 Privet roeti in a border, 105 

 Prize for SIX plants in flower, 338 

 Protecting-a garden by trees, 891 : a 

 flower garden facing N.. 392 : halt- 

 hardy plants, 222 ; vegetables, 42a ; 

 plants, 408.417,449, 404 

 Ptostantheranivea, 140 

 Pruaing-Bummer, 123,143; root, 123: 

 trees and shrubs, 391 ; hardy fruit 



Prunus' padus as a stock for Peaches, 



182; sinensis, polling, '223 

 Pump wells, new. '202 

 Pyrus scandica, 838 



Rabbits — nESTKOVis'r. beddisg 

 PL«NT8, 104: giowth of ears. 110, 

 1'29 : preserving Verbenas, Ac., from, 

 115, 264 : cars, 147, 118: management 

 of long-eared, 207: Show. Kent and 

 Suricv, 227; with diseased livers. 



i^iimuiiiK»^c,.j",v.....". .. -„-'.' 



07 ; on light soil. 67 ; Show at Bne- 

 Comte-Robcrt, 78 : Uevoniensis not 

 flowering, 87 j list of superior, 8. : 

 Manctti i'. Briar stocks, 37, 139, 157, 

 101 ; lor pegging down, 87 ; estimate 

 of 90, 124, 134; leaves spotted, 

 105: on Manetti stocks, 114, 170, 

 222, 2'2'9, 219, 273, 289. 449: prun- 

 ing Blairii No. 2, 125: .Marechal 

 Niel,132,lo0, 230,891; Cloth of Gold 

 not flowering, 144; transplanting, 

 145 date of new. 158; select, 174, 

 198, 320 : pmning Dcvoniensis. cut- 

 tings, 162 : Marechal Kiel on Briar, 

 170 ■ for a greenhouse, 182 ; and their 

 stocks, 189; Tea and Noisette, 190; 

 cuttings, '204 ; for exhibition m Ire- 

 land, 211; planting, '221: manage- 

 ment in pots, '221 ; budding on Ma- 

 netti, 222 : pruning, '243 ; on cold soil 

 and site, 251 : summer cuttings, 252 ; 

 notes on new, 259, 334 ; loaves dis- 

 eased, '265: in Illinois, 274; lor 

 trellis, 284; losing their leaves, 284 ; 

 climbing. '285 ; manuring, 285 ; white, 

 285: twelve hardy, 801: planting a 

 bed, 301 ; Celine Foreatier and Mdlle. 

 Aristide, 308: lists of. 310: aplndes 

 on, 320: wintering Mareelinl Niel. 

 320; culture, 329: depth of planting, 

 331, 840, 367. 400 : for S W. wall, hardy 

 dark, climbing for N.E. wall, 838 ; 

 green. 355: for walls, Sd5: stocks 

 for, 355 ; catting back Moss, 350 ; 

 culture of Marechal Nielin pots, 302 ; 

 on their own roots, 363: forcing, 

 372 ; for orchard-house, 874 : stock 

 for, 890 ; Gloire de Dijon on a wall, 

 391; high culture of, 410: Marechal 

 Kiel and Celine Foresticr, protect- 

 ing, 410: pruning, 410; stocks in 

 pots, 410; seed sowing, 410; trans- 

 planting early-budded, 411 : colours 

 of, protecting Marechal Niel, cut- 

 tings failing, pegging down, l'2b; 

 new. 438: pruning when planting, 

 448; a plea lor Tea, 479; deep plant- 

 ing, 4S0 

 Roupytowls, 4.54 

 Rudgea macrophylla, 27 . 



SiccoLiDnrM Hcttoni, 401 



Salpiglossis for bedding, 182 



Salvia-patens. 78; as a greenhouse 

 plant, US: buds and leaves drop- 

 ping, 145 : splendcns for the conser- 

 vatory, 308 , . 



Saucers lor polled plants. 300 



Sawdust as a manure. 08,96, 109; as 

 an absorbent in ponltry-nouses, 109 



Saxifragaligulata.443 „.„„.. 



Scale- plant, 331 ; destroying. S52, '263 , 

 in'cvention. 351 : on plants, 40i 



Scarborough Lily, 339 



" Science with Practice," 8-23 , 



Sca-kalc, 407: for early forcing, 285; 

 forcing, 411, 483 ..,. 



Seeds, collecting, 219; nuanllties 

 needed tor certain spaces, 277 



Selaginellus, eulture of pyiiunidal, J3 , 

 dehticulala, 281 _ 



September, plants in flower, 2j2 



Sewage-Rev. H. Monlc's system, 

 281 ; and tan manure, 890 



Shallots, planting, 3'20 . 



Shanks, 5Iessrs., at the Pans Exhi- 

 bition. 424 , 



Shcflield K.abbit and Cinarj- Show. 



l"'.' „„.. 



Shrub, wliatisa?2ul 



Shrubs— list of hardy-flowering, 'M : 



untouched! by rabbits, 4S0 

 Silkworms— rearing in Kngtand, 4fi6, 



454; species, and varieties, 4'J4; food 



for, 174 

 Skirworts, 483 

 Skvlark's beak too long. 906 

 Sloping banks, utility o.',49 

 S1iu:h und snails, destroying, ITO 

 Smith's NurBoriefi, "WorecBtttrjlOl, 177 

 Smoke, consuming, 245 

 Soil, ilifiuellee of,'^52 

 Sollya lineariH, SCi 

 Komersel Poultr^■ Show, 821.; prizes, 



:::ij, 414 

 Soot as uiannre for bnlbB, 429 

 Sorghum nankinensis, 3t>2 

 Sonthainpton Poultrj- and Bird Show, 



377 

 Sowing in dry soil. SOI 

 Spaluing Ponltrv Show, 3i, 52 



Spanish fowls too fat. 72; chickens 

 dving, 28«: and DorKing orosalng, 

 8'il:nen reatheTlefl9,4?t| ■ ,' 



Sparmannia afrieana, i-iH • " 



Species, distinct, 505 



Splilcr, autumn, 281 



ttpikes defined, 17.V ', 



Sjiinach -Australian, 8, 185,137'; sow- 

 ing, 122 ■";' . 



Spirieas. mcritfl of, 21 



Spring flower garUenlflf,'i!allnre for, 



Stanhopea tigrinn andocnlata, 115 

 Ste.hanolls fruit, 87 

 Stile, ft Somerflelsbiro, ^9 

 Slocks-inanagemonl of •Nishl-eeent 



ed, 30 ; Intermediate, 392, 4'27, 407 

 Stock's influence over fruit, 2.12; over 



graft, 440 

 Stockton-on-Tees Poultry Show, 89 

 Stoke Newington Chrysanthemum 



Show, 384 

 Stokesley Ponltry Show, 208 

 Stoning period, when? 415 

 Stove — heating a greenhouse, 819 : 

 heating by a, 850, 3.55, 465 : smoke- 

 less, 355 : for a conservatory, 373 

 Strawben-ies— forcing a second year, 

 removing leaves, 13: edging for, '20; 

 estimate of sorts. 30; planting. 28: 

 notes about, 37, 50: on slopin;: Oan'ii, 

 67: some varieties and eulture, 70: 

 planiing, hst, 87: for ri.arkel, 105; 

 Ellon, 100; forcing, 125, 101. '222; 

 eulture, 220, 4'20 ; dressing bed. '248 : 

 cutting off leaves, 301 ; bono dust for, 

 302; top-dressing beds, 839: un- 

 seasonable, 366 ; house, U3( s of, 450 : 

 structure for forcing, 465; varieties 

 for forcing, 467 

 Stringer ii Co.'s regenerator, 213 

 Sugar Cane, its history, 99 

 Sulphate ot ammonia, 242 

 Sulphur— fumigating with, HO; burn- 

 ing, 4S3 

 Sutton J: Sons at the Pans Exhibition, 



445 

 Swans, food for. 474 

 Sweet-scented flowers. 111 

 Swindling, 388 



TaCSOXU VAX-VotJEMI CULTl'IlE, 07 

 Tails, crooked, 524 



Tanks— lor water, 12 : heating by, 46« 

 Tern i^eratnres— natural, 113; for va- 

 rious plants, 893 

 Tenant's right to remove trees, 330. 3,3 

 Tetratheca verticiUata, compost for, 



141 

 Thapsia decipicna, 297 

 Thirsk Poultry Show. J27 . 

 Thompson, Mr. Robert, testimonial to, 



40, 290 

 Thrips, plants infested by. 411 

 Tidiness, its importance.eiH. 

 Tobacco-duly free. 2C,04„101, 114, IM : 



wash for Hops, 216 

 Toes of fowls swollen, 72 . 

 Tomatoes— varieties of, 1..R : in An nn 



favourable season, 3*1, «3 

 Tomtits' nest in an inverted flower- 

 pot, 1« „, . ■ 

 Toweestcr Ponltry Show, 3» 

 Town garrtoi>,p!«ntineaf'«lt!I.5!'!; 

 Transiilanting-timo lor, lol, 231, ■^i ■ 



fruit trees, ,'!25 ; shnilis, Ti. 

 Tredegar Poultry Show,';s,)9 

 lYees— tiroes ot leafing and hlossem- 

 ing, 46 ; gigantie, SS; hrotcn by the 

 wind, 265 

 Tritoina nvaria, propagating, Si4 

 Tropa-olmns, propagating lloublcTom 



Thumb, 145 . ^^ „ 



Tulips— National Society s Show, (3 : 

 tor Christmas, 182 : a few early, rj 

 Tumour in a hen . 32 

 Turf, removing plantain rmin, 2J 

 Turkevs-foo4 lor yo-.vng, 18: remon- 

 strance, 35 ; ronped, 54 ; with swollen 

 heads, 72; as foster me:her<, -'bs; 

 feeding for the London uiarket, 492 

 Turnips, sowing, 122 

 Turn Moss Market G.arden?, 150 

 Twine preserving, 319 



Uttoxeier Fot:iTBV Show, 116 



Vaccixatics, its TAI-rE, 494 



