INDEX. 



AOiCIA9,TARNE9IA,NA,53; PLATVPTEEi 



after b.ooflung, 10^ ; soil for, 109 



Accrinjitun I'uultrv yhow, 270 



AchimencB-and Tydsa, 63: cuUnre, 

 110; gru^nDg speciinen. 1S4 ; list of, 

 SiS; liquid iiianuro (or, 453 



Aorophyllmn veiiosum culture, 4o2 



Ai^avo sohidiu'era, HtiO 



Asncullunii ( Koyal). Sooiety's Poultry 

 Show, 1 .2, S.'y : Slmw at Bury, 319 



Allamiintht Mtartiuj,', 54 



Aloyaia citriodora cuttings, 381 



Alston Poultry Show, S7 



Alum-crys lull i Bed flowers, 429 



AljS8uni, Sweet, for edging, 152 



Aniarnnihub melanchoficua ruber cul- 

 ture. 414 



Amayllia Adonif, W ; pardina, 410 



Aiaateiira and pentlemen'd gardeners 

 at exhibitions, 127 



Anemones', lakintr up, SS2 



Angelica culture, IGa 



AuKTiBcuin ci ralum. 163 



Aonuals-for bedding, 152; for orna- 

 ment and bouquets, 102; orniiratn- 

 tal-folias,'cd, 134; for pots, IGcJ ; for 

 lato blooinini,', ilH ; cultui'e of early, 

 451 



An hurium Scherzerianum culture, 

 168 



Ants— drivinff away, 199, 815; exter- 

 minatms, SS3,4S:;; exptilling, 397 



AphiUoB, destroying iu tlio opuu air, 

 S33 



Apples— for XorlTi of Ireland, 109: 

 branch-w sawn off, 111 ; pruniup py- 

 ramidal ireefl, 251 ; crop ot 1867, 372 



Apricot — u- Peach treatment, 74; pro- 

 fusely s.jt, 276 



April, liii-dy plants flowering, 407 



Aquilegia pyrenaiea, 28 



Aiabia-v.irie-iata, propagating, 398 ; 

 lucida Taviepatu for edging, 432 



Artt-misia jninu;:, S4S 



Aria and Sciences. Hall of, 313 



Ash, grafting a \V(CT»ing, 199 



Aspara .us -ueds.eii.t up, 218 : making, 

 £52.3.11; planung. i;'i2 ; cullurt-, 2S2, 

 314 ; blighi. 317; couch prasB in beds. 

 S18; a bundle ot, 390; fasciated, 



Aspect of greenhouse. 233 



Asphalt -w altis, 2ti(> 



Aflpbaliin^t i'. gravelling, 104 



Asphudelus culttirt*, 74 



Asier, Cape, cut nr«, SIJ4 



Ancuba — berries ptjisonous ? 45 ; 

 atandish's hi.-rmaphrodile,71; pol- 

 len of, 23:;: flowers, f^rlilising, 30 ) ; 

 cuttings, 816 ; raisin;; from seed, 381 



Auricula secdlngs, pricking out, 3:^2 



Aviary— rtmovjng paint from, IIG; 

 birds for. llii; bir(!& in, 273 



Ayr Poult i» y how, 335 



Azaleas- foiciug. imd culture, 18 ; Her 

 Llajcstv, 2S; soil for, &1 ; manage- 

 ment. 74 ; leav.-M f:Lliiug, 109 ; list of, 

 119 : potting, 167 : not lloweriuij, 218, 

 :i33 ; prupagatiiig, 2u7 ; cuiUnga, 



Bacon, "Wiltshiek mode op cucino, 

 20 



Budminton ronltry Show, 4:14 



Balm, propagatui:^ Guldtjn, 453 



Bals.ims for.luh, 94 



Bant, ms— with Cochin-Chinat;, 20; 

 duiibing Game, fH), 420: Sebright, 

 211-1; i-c-.ted. 318; storv of tho Black, 

 SU'-. chictr-ijs, food 'nr, 438 



Barii-bed, funjrxi<* in, 413 



Bitrli'.stou 1 u.i, 9 



Barltria GibbOni, 1G3 



Buaket plan',>-, lia/dy, 300 



Bath and West i.f En;;lRnd Poultry 

 bh.)w, 117 : dotting-* at, 431 



Beans, protecting. '.23 



Bedding plMniM-ntiw vai-iegated, 153; 

 from Beed, 103; exhibiting collec- 

 tions of, 2iS : fo- a iinrth :<siject,2i2; 

 blue flowered, 322 ; blu£, 37G 



Beddiuff-out, mlea for, 397 

 Bees— hive overluratid, 19: swarms 

 deserting, royal cull BQiiled. 20; 

 EgjTttian, foul brood, 39; Wood- 

 bury hives, 40; brood remaining 

 undeveloped, supply of water im- 

 portant, limiting drones, shifting 

 hives, 60 ; American Boc-keeparb' In- 

 stitute, shifting stock hives, 79: 

 maggots in combs, breeding in sa- 

 pprB, storing combs, 80; swarms 

 clustering, variation iu hybrids, 

 hiving in moveable comb hive, 

 breeding in supers, Btavvatiou 

 amid plenty, Ligurian o.ueena, 93; 

 Woodbury hives, 115 ; clustering, 

 movina: hives, total mortality, 116; 

 an unlucky apiary, pollen-pat her- 

 ing at Christmas, 13'J ; food of 

 queens, importance in the economy 

 of n^ilurc foul brood in a purchased 

 stock, boxes for hives, wooden- 

 topped straw hives, 140; foul brood, 

 155 : boxes for hives, feeding in- 

 spring, 156; transformation of 

 comb, rcmovini,' old comb, 171; 

 Petlitt's new hive, gloves, 172 ; 

 hybridisation, plurality of qM^enii. 

 187; tomtits, "Management Oi'," de- 

 cayed stock, greatest apiary, 18S ; 

 fumigating, keeping in Devon, 

 202 ; driven, foul brood, aspect of 

 apiary, 203 ; desertion oihivea, con- 

 demned and suv;>d, hives, artificial 

 swarms, 204; brecdinp iu supers, 

 younp, successful driving, gh>veH, 

 employing empty combs, Wood- 

 bury's unicoirb hive, 220 ; foul 

 brood, queeuleafi, unfertile queens, 

 339; distiince of drones' influence, 

 breeding in supers, 240; ndvantnpea 

 of iramo hives, hy'nidisati'm, 255; 

 hives, situation of, entrance to 

 Nutt's collateral, 25G: Bagster's 

 melting honeycombs. 270 ; propa- 

 gating Ligurians, 271; preventing 

 ewarming, flowers for, arliliciul 

 swarms, production of qupcns, ven- 

 tilating, 272; plurality of queens 

 In a hive. 287 : how to empty honey- 

 comb^i, non-refiatinp. propapating 

 Biguriau, Payne's hives, 23S; in 

 Russia, 303, 401 : frame hives, ft-ed- 

 iug. range of flight. SiH ; Ligurians 

 in Ireland, drone-Hi-ood, S19; honey 

 candying in combs. 3:20; jiiistnUiug 

 their hives. 335; mend or nu-thep- 

 lin, preventing loss of swarms ; Li- 

 gTiriins in Irtland, obtaininp arti- 

 ficial swarms. 33o; hvbridisation, 

 351; obtaining artificial awarnis, 

 prcventinp si cnnd swanns, 352; 

 non-resisting, 367; "Why did ye 

 die?'' comb-emptying macliine. not 

 working in a sup.^r. dctroying 

 drones and drone-brood, 363 ; Li- 

 purian disappoiutmente, mead, mt- 

 theglin. and hydromcl, 383: dress- 

 ing hives and feeding BWiirms, 391; 

 11 city of. queen layinp eggs in one 

 cell, artificial swarms. 402: LitiU- 

 rian dis'.ppfiintmema. 413; in 

 Egypt. 419, -iSo: iirtificial swarms. 

 420: bar-frame hivf>B. 435; at the 

 Manchester Eshibilinn. iS'' ; pro- 

 moting swai-ming, confining. 455; 

 trapping drones, united swarms. 

 Bwarms. foul brood, destruction of 

 drones, honey harvest, 45fi 



Bei^'onia Pt-arcei cnltrre, fcl 



Berkeley. Bev. M, -l , nM 



BerJcs and Hants Poultry Phow, 899 



Bipnonia— arpyrco-viola'sccns, SI; ra- 

 dicans. propapatinp, 260 



Billhergia sph;icel.'t;f. 410 



Bindweed, destroying, 373 



Pivd dorlfM-<^. *"> 



Bii-mingham Eoae Uhovr, 351; Albion 

 P.peuii ituu ......uiL .->ln)W, 413; 



Poul'i-v Show, this v.-^ar'^, 43a 



Bleti.f Sherrattianfl.410 



Bos soil, trees fur, 110 



Boilera— tubular, 13; piping ono will 

 heat, 5t; improved saddle-back. 89; 

 for heating three houses, 93; ma- 

 na.,'ement of, 133 ; heated by kitchen 

 firo. 151; h.-ated by gas, 199; and 

 their bursting, 232 



Bones, dissolving, 109 



Border, plants for shaded, 109 



Botanic (Royal) Society's Showo. 22f;, 

 277, 3r.8,375, 392, 425 ; tiorists' flowers 

 ut. 413 



B'lttom heat. 165 



Bougainvillroa glabra, COO 



P.owioa volubilis, 23 



Bowling-green making. 217 



BoK— cuttiug,217 ; edgings, trimming, 

 281 ; cutting. 307 



Brahma Pootra^ ISG, 319, 382, 434: 

 characteristics, 40; at the BriRlol 

 Show. 76, 96, 112, 136; and Grey 

 Dorkings. 140; breeding Bark. 

 170. 185. 200, 2o7, 302. 317; food 

 thev consume, 187; vulture-hocked, 

 188, 2i4; usurpation, 199. 219 ; coraba 

 and hooks, 218, 219; not hatchinp, 

 220 ; crosses in dark, 236. 238 ; couph- 

 ing. feathers, 240 ; colour of dark, 

 2J3 ; size and symmetry of, r. Ham- 

 burghs. 254; comb of, 269; pea 

 comb, 2S5 ; chickens losing feathers. 

 320 



Breasts, crooked, 20 



Br^nt, Mr. B. P.. 71 



Brighton Poultry Show. ir4 



Bristol and Clifton Poultry Show, 35 

 56,78 



Broccoli for sprinp, 293 



Bulbs after flowering. 414 



BuHoek's liver for fowls, 210 



Cabbage ~ CUT.TURE, 149; new, l.'"i3; 

 manuring, 163 : sowing, 1»2 ; rarly, 

 2S3; Veitch's Improved Matchless, 

 431 



Caladiums— rootstocks decaying, 131; 

 culture, 150, 152 ; growing specimen, 

 1S4 ; liquid manure for, 453 



Calceolaria cuttings, 185 



Ciilifomian items, 69 



Camassia esculenta culture, 394 



Camb'^rwell, beware of, 366 



Camellias — stocks for, leaves yel- 

 low. 32 : buds falling, praftrng, 54; 

 soil for, 54, 67. 381 : propagating, 

 manapement, 74; stocks for, 93; 

 culture. 118, 225, 2-14. 276, 293. 361 ; list 

 of. 119 ; prrafting, 151 ; green turf for, 

 ly4, 210; Mrs. Dombrain, 211; in 

 conservatory-bed, 216 : not flower- 

 ing, tubs for. 218 ; for market, prun- 

 ing roots, 234; select, 2.'j2; remov- 

 ing, 266; soil and treatment, 292: 

 unhealthy,316.414; leaves rusted, 348 



Campvlobotrys refulsrens cnltiire, 2^i2 



Canada— friends in, Ifii ; notes in, 229 ; 

 jottini^s from. 293 : West.. 414 



Canaries- pairing, 1-10, 368; ^\iih in- 

 flamed skin, 15'j; among U :o.;odfn- 

 drons, £20; for an aviary, 2ijfi : 

 asthma in. 272 ; eating eg .'h. 2>h ; 

 footless, 352; eggs shell-hRs, 3.^1: 

 prizes for, 401 ; feathers diseased, 

 438 



Cannas. plantinp, 318 



Carnations —select, 94; and Pinks, 

 supports for. 431 



Carrots for fodder. 93 



Cftsi'uiroa fdulis, 81 



CdBsia corymboaa culture, SIC 



Catalopnes, 4 



r.-^tarrh in fowls. 116 



r>'t. chicken-entinp, 402 

 a tleva Dowiana.l Wars caw iczii 

 ■S<t3; citriua, 300,410 



Cauliflower culture, 264 



Cedrus dc-odara pruning, P6 



Celerv— winter protection for, 27 ; cul- 

 ture. CS1.S4.T 



Cer^'stium tomcntosmn, propagating, 

 338 



Ciiieus hoxflsonus jfraflinff, Ac, 2GC 



Cham BBrope seed sowing, 7* 



Oheere, Rev. G.. 312 



Cheltenham Horticultural Show. 425 



ChickooB-lood for, 286. 30*; dead in 

 their Bhells. 3G8; blistered, 868; 

 killed by kindness, 402; dying, 433; 

 droopinp, 456 



Chimonanthus grandiflorus from cut- 

 tings, 148, 175 



Chiswick, vacancies at, 164 



Christinas trees, 12 



ChryBanthemums— new and old. 100; 

 (Pompone) St. Michael, The Coun- 

 tess, and Madge Wildfiro, 211; cuU 

 taTe»279 



Cinerarias — culture. 221 ; sudden 

 death of, 24^; flagging, *^52, 300; 

 dying suddenly, 279 



Citrus- japonica, 147: genu3, soil for, 

 364 



Clavija fulgens, 163 



Clematis round trees, 216 



Cleradeudron Balfourii cut'nre. 217 



Cilimbers for walls of dwellings, 133 



Clinibinp plants for preenhouse, 199 



Coal -quantity needed, 234 ; economy 

 in. 319 



Cochin -Chinas — cock's comb, 40; 

 ^Vhite and BulY mixed, 80: cock'^ 

 eves, 116; cock, tnil of, 1:^6; para- 

 lysed, 140; not lajiug, 172, 384; hen 

 s'taggeriup, yard floor for White, 

 204 ; lepa wartcd,2'6 



Cockerell, Capt.. resignation of, 130 



Cockroaches, 420 



Cockscombs for July, 51 



Cocoa-nut fibre refuso for the Gladi- 

 olus, 252 



Cold— intense, 23, 4?:, 65: rain'mnm. 

 51; and its eonsequences, 65, 10', 

 129, 147.161,163,177.195 



Coleus Verschaffelti for bedding. SC-l 



Columbanan Society, *he City. 287 



Combs— frost-bitten. 116 : varieties of, 

 118 ; of cock bleeding. 304 



Competitors, let them be fairly match- 

 ed. 126 



Conifera? at Basing Park, 294 



Conifers, fine, C6 



Conservatorv- heating and Ttlanli'ip, 

 169 ; glass for south, 184; plants for, 

 252 



Convolvulus mauritanicus for an edg- 

 ing. 110 : culture, 109 



Cordyline australis, 263 



Coronilla done flowering, 393 



Correa potting. 300 



Cotton- seed, 13; improvemert of 

 promoted by a knowledge of tho 

 plant, 127 



Covent Garden Market. 13. 32. 5?. 73, 

 Si;. 108. 138. 151, 167. 183, 198, 216,233, 

 2M. 266, 282. 293, 315, 332, 317, S6S, 

 S80,a!l7. 413.432,452 



Cows dropping alter calving, 135 



Cramp in cock's ftet, 438 



Cratiegus oxyaeantha.new double, 410 



Cream, production ot, 172 



Creve Cccurs, 384; head afl'eclcd, 40; 

 feathers ragged, 4"2 



Crinoline and its consequences. S2l 



CrocuBcs — failure of yellow. 252 ; 

 bnlbs, moving, 2S3 ; eleven Tarieties. 

 410 



Croqnet-pTound.retnrfng, 316 



CroBS-breeding fowls, 1 16 



Cross breed of fowls, 18G 



Crotons. snilfor, SHl 



Crystal Palace 47; Bird Show, IS7; 

 Show. 863, 374 _. ,„ , ., 



Cucunibers-not setting. IS; failures, 

 86, Hi4, 225; planting out. 150; on 

 trfllis. stoppinp, cocoa-nut refuse 

 for. 184 : avoiding failures. 1"3 ; Inr 

 cool culture, 234 ; in pots, 28J ; con- 

 tinuous pupplv of. 290; with Knsh- 

 rooms. 301; bitlfmetiS m, 311; 

 prowinp on ridges, 313 : nots veliiD^ 

 their fruit. 347; cnture, 31 J; pot- 

 rulture, 375, 3S1 : faikd. insects m 

 frame. 39)^: on ridges, disease, 412; 

 training, 452 



