INDEX. 



Aberdeen Poultry Snow, 34 



Abutilon striatum, scale- on, 295 



Acacias— in conservatory border, 113; 

 Rieeana,358 ,, . . , 



Acalypba Wilkesiana. ahas tricolor, 

 102 



Acclimatising forest trees. 44 



Accrington Poultry Show, 285 



Achimenes culture, 206 . 



Agricultural a. nartmeiit, Washington, 

 408 



Allainanda not growing, 449 



'•Alpine Flowers for English Gar- 

 dens," 262 



AlstrceJmeria seedlings, 327 



Amateur g:ir.hner, ttie. 377. 423 



Americanbli(?b.t, 267, 450 



America— poultry tancy in, 3!hl : oldest 

 plant in.438 



Ammobium alatum culture, 102 



Amphidasis pilosaria, 392 



Anacharis alsinastrura, 413 



Aiidalnsian cock's face, 156 



.Vti.mii. -ne, sowing, 190 



Annuals— to fl«wi-r in April, 31 : (green- 

 house and stove, 114; for bedding, 

 133: BOwinghardv. 291, 044.396; for 

 spring Mourning. SSI; sowing and 

 transplanting, 396 



Antigonon 1 >p!opus, 44 # 



Antiniiinum as a decorative plant. 



Ants— in a pinery, 367; banishing, 312; 



in store-room." 332 ; Wood, S46; pro- 

 tecting from, 381 



Antwerps, 120 



Aphelexis pn. natation. 364 



Aphis, soft soap for. 435 



Apples— tree not breaking low, c.B3 , 

 cankered, ill: protecting cordon, 

 233- pruning codon, 71. 113: prun- 

 ing grafted. 295 : The Fairy, 13H. 2u4 ; 

 select. 30 ; for Yorkshire. 32 ; do the 

 varieties die out ? 429 



Apricots — culture, 427; on wooden 

 fence, 71 



April, plants blooming in, 389 



Aprons, gardeners'. 212 



Araucaria imoricata, brown, 150 ; pro- 



282 



Ardisia culture, 266 



Arum Dracuuculus treatment, 363 



Arundo sowing, 134 



Ashes for manure, 345 



Asparagus Kah-. 361 



Asparagus-beds, making. 1:-1 : clear- 

 in", 170; dressing. 230; culture, -US; 

 i-iittinff, 342. 397, 421; planting. 71: 

 salt for, 428; seed sowing, 211; 

 watering with sea water, 29o 



Asters— seeds sowing. -»'> ; manuring 

 for. 397 



Atmometro-bygrometer,65 



Aubergine cooking, 416 



Auoubus— and their cnhnre, 39; vane- 

 tics and crafting. 40; fertilising 

 flowers, 327; flowering and fruiting, 



Auriculas— culture. 275. 344 : at the 

 Royal Horticultural Society's Show, 

 306"; Alpine. 334 



Australia, fowls and eggs for, 17S 



Aviary, birds fur, 156 



Az.tl<-its-eiilture, 151, 109, 250: cut- 

 tings, 112; growing prematurely, 

 114; pruning, 295; thrips on, 311 



breasted Red Game. 317 360, 3S2, 

 415, 4<i7 ; classes for, 39* ; points m 

 Pile Game. 384; legs and toes of 

 Game, 108 : Japanese, 254 ; points of 

 Black Red Gump, 122 ; hardy, 140 ; 

 weight of, 286 ; w bite Dorking. 38 



■W Barnes, W., as a floricultural judge, 7 



— ^ Barnstaple prize h-t, 268, S00 



_tT Barrow Poultry Show. 53 



J* Basket plants, f*>r stove. x2 ; hothouse, 



* 146; for greenhouse, 295 

 ,— Bast, treeti i reducing, 345 



Bath and West of England Poultry 



Show, 415 

 Beans, Scarlet Runner roots, 30 

 Bechamel, 20 



Bedding-out, 428 



Bedding plants- 

 ness,317; plan' , 



r.f.llin-toii Poultry Show, 32. 432 



Bees— black in Ligurian stock, 308; 

 breeding in super, 471 ; in Califor- 

 nia, 30u ; in a chimney. 399: chloro- 

 forming, 98, 2*0; combs tying to 

 framefli 7,'. tving in. 38, utilising 

 old, 400: all dead, 300; dislodging, 

 122; driving, 4"0. 451; dropsy, 383 ; 

 434; dwindling 384: where dysen- 

 tery has prevailed. 80S; epidemics. 

 253^ 315; an old error revived. IDS ; 

 examining wilhout danger, 238; ex- 

 pelling, 416; eves, 79; controlling 

 fertilisation, 383; my first season, 

 139: flowers for, 286; forcing. 136; 

 foul brood. Preuss 011,30.07 ; attack- 

 ing fowls, 451 ; frames, dummy, 237, 

 209. 2s'. ; German bee-keepers' meet- 

 ing, 330, 350; halt-bred versus na- 

 tive, 56 ; haybands round hives, 

 122; in a hedge. 452; hives, Alton, 

 452,472. bucket. 254, cheap. 139, 217, 

 collateral, 38. size of common, 218, 

 Marriott's, 316. N.*i ;hl r's un- 

 tenanted, BOP. Woodbury, 218. S68: 

 hiving 



discolour, il, 2i.i, from old s: .eh, lid, 

 spurious. 452; Mr. Huish, SOU; Itn- 

 ■ ov m, nked, 121, Ligurian, 3s3. 

 416, 452, introducing queens, 79: 

 maggots in hive. 400; management, 

 79, mis-management after an acci- 

 dent. 19 ; marking, 121 ; moisture m 

 hives and glass supers, ;;32, 452; 

 packing for travelling. 308; plants 

 for, Sll ; propolis fortifications, 197, 

 254; queen, supposed death of, 30U, 

 new mode of fertilising. 314, intro- 

 ducing Ligurian, 79, longevity, 383, 

 two in a hive, 217, 307: queenless, 

 416; favourite resort of. 399 : season 

 in -M-. t..i;:.;, 357 ; slaughtering, 308 ; 

 ■ years old, 434; stocking a 

 i. . . '.. . -.. old straw hive, 308 ; 

 ., . - ipt-rs, 434, 452; not working 

 h. ,i ' .;;■< ,. iM ; swarming, 177 : u >t 

 swarming, 4.52; preventing swarm- 

 ing. 155 : swarms artificial, 140, 177, 

 280; swarm in a church, 431; 

 swarms, hunger. 285; thermometer 

 in collateral hive. 38: transferring 

 384,452: wild, 40u ; yellow excre- 

 ment, 416 

 "Bees. The ITimdv-book of." 299,31", 

 Beet, asa b-ddmg plant. 151, 1*0, 202; 



Osbom's. 233 : for cattle, 238 ; sowing 



for borders, 219; Ked, tins year's. 



113: last year, 120; Chilian, 381; 



Sugar, 327 



Birch tree bleeding. 295 

 Birds — protection for small, 62; dis- 

 trict without song, 424; in France, 



197 

 Birmingham Rollers, 122 



Bishopweed, eradicating, 345 



Biston pedaria,392 



Blackbirds bald, 122 



llciekcaps. food for, 352 



Blame where deserved, 266 



Boilers, 70. 414; and boiling, 6, 45, 86 



new mode of setting, 42: mid piping 



required for a conservatory, 91; 



hot-water, 126; and hollow bars, 3U7 

 Bone dust for fowls, 256 

 Bones for fowls, 384 

 "Book About Rosea," 341 

 Borage sowing, 134 

 Border, ghiss oyer a, 282 

 Botanic (l.'ovali Society's Shows, 12, 



243,31.6,375.439 

 " B> tany, Johnston's Illustrations of,'' 



337 

 Bottom heat, hot water for, 191; 



tanks for, 200 

 Bongamvillea spcctabilis not flower- 



Lowling-grcen making, 211 



Box edging, 114 ; dying, 295, 327 



Boxes for greenhouse climbers, 213 



'■Brahma Fowl, The," 173 



Brahinas — cock not feeding, weight of. 

 98; cups for, 110; dwindling, 122, 

 points in, 80, 178; legs. Dark and 

 Light 198 ; and Houdans, 218 ; 

 wing feathers, 238.251; pullets not 

 lavinsr, 238 : out of condition, point;, 

 in Dark, 38; pullet leg-weak, leg 

 scurfy, 270; vulture - hocked, 286; 

 cock lame, crossing with Spanish, 

 S0O; not five-toed, hardiness, 352: 

 head bent back, 472 



Bristol i'oultrvshow. 33.73; atrip to, 

 94 



Broccoli— planting. 120.456; Cattell's 

 Eclipse, 421 



Broom for game covert, 296 



Broome, Mr. S., 63, 20S 



Kn.wallias, 151 



Brown, Mr. W., 12 



Brunsvigia falcata, 70 



Buckwheat, for poultry, 194 



Bullfinch, food lor, 472 



Butterfly, early, 32 



Calceolarias— herbaceous failing, 41f ; 

 herbaceous, after flowering. 428 ; 

 not thriving, 450; potted shruboy, 

 296: seedlings after flowering, 328 



Caleot. 387 



Camellias— aphis on, 323: buds fall- 

 ing, 150: ia conservatory border, 

 113; culture, 82, 169, 179 ; for early 

 flowers, 151: grafting. 413; leaves 

 blistered, 363: Inpii'l manure for, 

 152; unhealthy, 170. 32s ; Jennv 

 Lind, &C..2S2; Leopold Premier. 371 



Campanulas and their culture, 257 



Canaries— early broods. 38 ; pvi^e cups 

 for, f6; gasping. 80; cups at the 

 Crystal Palace, 95; Recollections of 

 our Show, 120; pulling out stump 

 feathers, Linnet 'Mule breeding, six- 

 years old, 122 ; pairing, 140 ; at 

 Crystal Palace Show, 155 ; catarrhed, 

 156; Mules are barren. 108: Show 

 notes, 216; classification of Belgian, 

 208; mute since moulting, breathing 

 noisily, 280 ; seed, gun. ling, :-H0 : 

 classes, 350; Goldfinch Mules, 352; 

 Lizard panting, old not singing, 400 



" Canary. The," 382 



Canna seeds germinating, 236 



Cannas. list of, 171 



Cape Gooseberry culture, 283 



Carlisle Poultry Show. 95 



Carnations— shoots eaten, 282; Per- 

 petual, in a Melon frame, 361: be- 

 coming single, 467 



Carpet, insect in, 316 



Cuses for carrying and exhibiting cut 

 flowers, 42, 354 



Cats, puzzling th*>, 293, 307 



Cauliflowers, 213: dying, 466; and 

 moist air. 309 ; under glasses, 342 



Caution, 82 



('avenue pepper fumigation, 345 



Ceanothus propagation, 428 



culture, 242 



Chapman's cut-Howcr packing-case, 

 182 



Charcoal, mailing, 262; refuse, £04; 

 water, 449 



Cherries, aphis, 400; young tree, 327 : 

 for a south wall, potting, 50; ma- 

 chine for stoning, 433 



long in the e 

 472 ; ground 



ment, 414,45: 



Chrysanthemums — as decorative 

 plants, 222; culture, 245; new, 333; 

 after flowering, 303; propagation. 

 414; select, 14, 49; Japanese not 

 flowering, 71 



Cinerarias, 50, 311 : flowers green, 90: 

 seedlings after flowering, 328; un- 

 healthy, 345 



Cissns, discolor, compost, 296; por- 

 phyrophyllua culture. 126 



Clavipiiiiaernplnlla. 35s 



Climate for plants, imitating native, 59 



Climbers— for mi arch, 70; for a con- 

 servatory, 249; for a greenhouse. 

 250 



Clover ll.nvers, 70 



Coccus floceiferus, 355 



Cochin-chinas - crossed, 20 : pullet's 

 eggs. 332; Black. 352; White, at 



Brel defined, 27 > 



i-nut fibre refuse, 212, 267 



B plant losing its lea 



ructures, 188 



Co i '.13'. e ttings, 190: glauca eul- 



■■ I . fctage Gardening," 358 



Cottage g.ii'l- n management, prize for 



essay on, 11 

 Cottagers' horticultural shows, 291, 



C ickete, destroying, 134 



Crop opened. 80' 



I rnps of 1S69, 178 



Crows and rooks, 434 



Crystal, Palace Autumn Show, 319; 

 Flower Show, 159. 373, 421; Bird 

 Show Cup Fund, 117; Bird Show.. 

 136; Canary Show. 154, 176; sug- 

 gestions on, 155: Mr. W. Paul's Lx- 

 hibition of Koses at, 389; Rose 

 Show, 457 



Cucumbers — and Melon bed, Hi ; 

 culture, bottom heat for, 211; dis- 

 eased, M15 ; preparing for early. 103; 

 forcing. 231; frames for, 30; in a 

 greenhouse. 250; leaves curled, 150 ; 

 leaves spotted, 31; manure for 

 forced, Sll; in a pit, 112; not swelV 

 ing. 397 ; in winter, 89 



Cuph.-ii culture, 233 

 Curculio, liimauis, 327 : picipes,846 

 Cum .ii a petiolata, 166 

 Cm rants— culture of Black, 240 cul- 

 ture of Ked and White, 99 

 i Custard Apple culture, 152 

 Cut bush's spring- flowering plant-3, 



