Cutting*— propagation bv, ISA; win- 

 dow-box for, 266 



Cvanopbyllum magnificum, cutting 

 down, , , ■ 



Cyclamens, seedling*, 72; not bloom- 

 ing. 295 ; culture, 2s2 : pcrsuuin, 191 ; 

 culturo.-j.il, I.",. I; trr.itnu nt,:;y7, :/« 



Cydnnema uivricoideH, ?■'■■■< 



Cytisua, bluoms (ailing, 267; culture, 



Dahlias— a kew new, 282 : impf.ri- 

 alis, 44; propagating, 114: roots 

 dividing, 345 ; tubers, management, 

 188 



Daisies, destroying, irti 



Daisy roots grub-eaten, 212 



l»amp, prevention of, 48 



htiTiiHuii, I'nlti m-I.ii'h Prolific, 372 



Daphne indica rubra culture, 212; 

 treatment, 450 



December, plants flowering in, 03 



Declining to engage, 212 



Delphinium forniosuin, culture, 282 ; 

 nudicaule, 166 



Dendrobiunis — and culture, 274; for- 

 giganteum not flowering. 



Desert Pea, 449 



Deutzia gracilis flowerless, 345 



Diarrhoea in fowls, 254 



Dogs, feeding, 156 



Dorkings, 237; cock's comb, 80 ; with 

 Game fowls, 384 



Drac;ena propagation, 151 



Drake hatched under a ben, 368 



Dropsy in hens, 56 



Dry-rot in timber, 49 



Dublin Poultry Show, 70.93. 313 



Ducks— Avb '.si >urv, bills of, 12 J ; points 

 of, 286: eggs. 122; Black East In- 

 dian, 153, 432, 469, 472; Mandarin, 

 286: Rouen, not laying, 316: is 

 water needed for ? 11'.; feeding, 416 ; 

 lame, 332 ; keeping, 8S4 



Dumfries Poultry Show, 76 



Eablobes blistered, 140 

 Eeheveria metallica, 134; seed 



ing, 91; seeunda, 381 

 Echites nutans and rubro-vei 



culture, 180 

 Edging i 



Flics, death to the, 202 



Floral criticism. 142; e3^aya on, 83, 



101, 126 

 Floras, Indian and Australian, 146 

 Florists' (lowers, decline of their cnl- 



ture,-js7; Society, 80S, 888 

 Flower puts, 145 ; of zinc. UH ; clean, 



311; determining size, 835 

 Flowers — sowing seeds, 169 ; and 



flower shows, 220, 261, 335. 371; 



gatherers, 229; national, 15u : -hows, 



competitors, and judges. 27.'., 2:il ; 



Mr. \V. Paul's denunciation, 277: 



underground, 411; changing co- 



lon 



.467 



eating, 254, 3riS; producing fowls. 38, 

 consumption of, 172; for incuba- 

 tion, shells varying in colour, 17S; 

 preserving, l'.tt, 235, 352; sprinkling 

 incubating. 237 ; hen laying double- 

 yolked, Pi2; ill-flavoured, -lit 1 , ; p ;i ck- 

 ing for travelling. 3;;2. 306, 431; laid 

 soft, 472; small, 352; lime water for 

 preserving, eighteen bad, 368; not 

 hatching, 3s4, 472; pullet laving 

 small, 270 ; for silting, 286; used in 

 photography, 299; tasting musty, 

 800 

 I: lm, does it produce seed ? 181 ; fruit- 

 ing, 201. 243; of our woodlands 

 blooming. 124. 165; seeding, 144 

 Emigration, 362 

 Enkyanthus japonicus, 166 

 Entomological Society's Meetings, 44, 



146, 183, 227,260,322, 375, 469 

 Kpacrises, straggling, 295; leafless, 



345 

 Fpiphvllum stems falling, 151 

 Lpworth Pouliry Show, 348 

 Eranthemtms, and culture, 272 

 Ericas, cutting-back, 190; for spring 



and summer, 363 

 Eriobotyra japonica culture. 465 

 Erythrochiton hypophyllantbus, 204 

 Encharis amazonica. dividing, 113, 



Fanct- 



Fantail putting her wings through her 



tail, 122 

 Farfugium grande, leaves injured, 398 

 Fatness and its consequences, 300 

 Feather-eating fowls, 267, 286 

 February and its consequences, 183 

 Fence against fowls, 472 

 Ferns— Australian. 429; temperature 

 for Brazilian, 397; Br.tish vivipa- 

 rous, 84 ; planting case. 31 ; drying, 

 S27 ; infested by Bcale, 71 

 Fernery, climbers for, ;«) ; limestone 

 for its rockwork, 134; out-dour, 150; 

 tank in, 466 

 Ficus ela-tica stem decayed, 150 

 Fife Ornithological Show, 35 

 Fig and its culture. 106, 102, 205, 215, 



302,366; Btems bare, 70 

 Filberts, pruning, 113 

 Fish, gold and silver, 178 

 Fittonia argyr-neura culture, 250 



Fleas in a low! house, 270, am 



■beating by, 6 heat, 44 ; in- 

 stead of dung heat, 70 

 Foods for poultry, stimulating, 312 

 F* -rein g plants, 5; in July and Au- 

 gust . 82 

 Fountain, plants for, 397 ; self-acting. 

 87 



for proiit, 2d; washing white.. 

 not laying, 121 : scratching beds. 170 ; 

 for use, 254; livers diseased, 4LMJ ; 

 exhibiting in pairs, 451 



Frame— liue-heated, 191 ; heating from 

 a house furnace, 31 ; a new heated, 

 42, 147; portable, for cuttings, ax\, 

 278 



France, song birds in, 460 



French fowls, 468 ; classes, 347 ; at the 

 London Poultry Show, 93 



Frogs in a garden, 450 



Frost, severe, 324; effects on fruits 

 and blossoms, 376 



Fruit— miseries of a cultivator of, 7; 

 growing in France and England, 21, 

 125; prospects, 334, 335: trees in a 

 greenhouse, 295 ; heading hack new- 

 lv-planted, s7 ; putting, 50; repot- 

 ting. 240 ; changed by climate, 263 



grubs at their roots, 134 ; 



Fullers' earth, 152 

 Fumigator, Drechsler's, 130 



Fungi, alternation of generation in, 

 241 ; book about. 289 ; edible, 460 



Fmikias, and their culture, 239; not 

 flowering.345 : subcordata, 114 



Furnace smoking 91 



Gaillap.dia BIOTA treatment, 190 

 Galls, 183 

 Galvanising plants, 456 



Game— chickens d\ing. 134; fowls, 73, 

 116,198, *J34, 252, 266; Black, 32; fea- 

 thers, 38 ; Bantam dubbing, lf,r, ; 

 pullets drooping, ]>;; hiveding, 2s6 ; 

 breeding Duekwing, 293, 316 ; feed- 

 ing chickens. 3*4 ; varieties, 217; 

 points in cock, 237 



Gapes, 286 



Garden gay in spring. 354 



Gardenia norida culture, 393 



Gardeners— in the olden time, 161; 

 admitting to gardens, 417; a hint 

 for young, 41; examinations, 66; 

 Society of Arts examination. 424; 

 and cooks, 308; assistants, 229 l:77 

 337 



Gardeners' Royal Benevolent institu- 

 tion, 447 



Gardeners' watchfulness, 265 



Gardenery, free, 311 



Gas lime, 812 ; as a manure, 113 



Geese, time to sit, 472 



Gemietra, hyemaria, pilosaria, pe- 



Geranium and Pelargonium, 150 

 Gesnera, chromatella porting, 4C7 ; 



culture. SO; leaves spotted, 151 

 Gilia liniflora,411 



Gladiolus, removing ami dividing, 3s0- 

 Show, 33, 47. 88, 129, 147; tor pot- 

 culture, 86; planting, 99; pottud 

 under glaas, 4 



Glasgow Pigeon Show. 18,36,55,118 



Glass, imitating frosted, 132 



Glazing, a confined space, 344; a 

 greenhouse, 249 ; without laps, '276, 



Gloxinia, culture, 266; seedlings, 296 



titddtinch and I'.ulltinch hybrid, 198 



Gooseberry, magpie moth, 404; prun- 

 ing, 212 



Goose, lame, 238 



Gourds, handsome, 344 



Grafting, below the surface, 256 ; fruit 

 trees, experiments on, 2s9; cold 

 wax tor, 229 



Grafts faidng, 344 



Grapes— in the open air, 2. 4 ; colour- 

 in g of, 223; bunches dwindling, -j 1 2 ■ 

 estimate of, 150; at Glamis. 13; 

 questions f.-r growers. 3sf> ; shrivel- 

 ling, 466; varieties, 112; for vinery 

 and wall. 46,7; wme pale. Us ; wither- 

 ing, 450 ; all the year, 108; Diamant 

 Traube. 19: Madresiield r.nirt.152- 

 'Killade Musque, Schiras, 71- 

 Purple Constantia, 170. See also 



Grasses for pasture, 153 

 Graves, decoraiiona fur, 236; plants 

 for. 232, 250. 25.". ' v "* aw 



Green fly, 135, 450 ; destroying, 170 



Greenhouses, cheap, 364 ; climber for, 

 192: climber boxes, 282; plantB, 

 what are, if a; heating a small. 170, 

 466; coat of one, 191 ; plants for June 

 show, 113; erecting small, 114,151; 

 increasing temperature of, 70 



Grubs, surface, 113 



Guano for Strawberries, 283 



Guildford Poultry Show, 329; White 

 Cochin cup at. 398 



Guinea fowls, 218 



GvmnuNtaxhYUin Verschaffelti cul- 

 ture, 467 



286; Black, hen paralysed, 128, 

 mortality among, 400; Golden-pen- 

 cilled, 472; mating, 56; points of, 

 198; Golden-spangled chickens, 472; 

 hen drooping. 237 ; plumage of, 237 ; 

 Silver-pencilled, sickle leathers of, 

 20; Silver-spangled cock's tail, 56 

 Hams, caring, 218 

 Hanlev Poultry show, 52 

 Hants Poultry Show, 468 

 Hardiness- of plants in some places, 



183 

 Hares and rabbits, puzzling, 291 ; 



r»r.«ii.s trees, Ac, 303, 353 

 Hawthorn hedge, old, 327 

 Heaths, culture, 249 : straggling, 295 

 Heat, obtaining moist, 8 

 Heating. 414; failure in, 191 

 Hechtia Ghiesbreghtij, 4^4 

 Hena — and pups, 349 ; and brood 

 management, 365; body touching 

 the ground, 415; not broody, 198; 

 with young brood, 434; diseased, 

 217: retaining hei- egg, 156; for egg- 

 producing, 434 : egg-eating, 235; 

 leaving eggs, 237; dropping eggs, 

 ■237; fasting, 131; with head aside, 

 178; intestines swollen, 3S ; killing 

 for table, 286; not laying, 287; 

 moping and dying, 3*4"; plucking 



Jerdonia indica, 44 

 Jottings, wayside, 393 

 Judges reporting, 382,3 



Kale, Asparagus, 361; Cottagebs' 



Kendal Poultry Show, 74 



K. ntish orchards, ramblea in. 372 



Ki'Jii''\ Means, for transplanting, 29 



late, 449 fa ' 



Kiln oust, 449 



King's Lynn Peoltry Show, 16 

 Eitchi o-gmrdf d - ropping, iso, 456 

 Kitchen vegetables for June Show, 



Hernandia mrerenhoutiana, 358 

 Holcus saccharatuB culture, 249 

 Hollies— grafting Golden, 413; graft- 

 ing, variegated, propagation, 113 ; 

 transplanting, 114 ; hedge under 

 trees, 211; seedlings of white-ber- 

 ried, 295 

 Hollyhock sowing, 190 



Horticultural Exhibition, the l'rciieh 

 390 



Horticultural (Royal) Society's An- 

 nual General Meeting, and "Rpp.trt 

 of Council, &c, 103 ; Committee 

 Meetings, shows. Ac, 12. ]-js, leu 

 202,25s, 290, 32U, 3.".6, 4u3, 438, 45K ; it* 

 aching tooth, 145, 181; bequest to, 

 47; Chiswick Garden. 103. 127. 20s, 

 224; Committee members, 67: ex- 

 aminations of gardeners, 67; Gla- 

 diolus Show, 147: and pennant ut 

 International Exhibitions, 357 ; 

 Major Trevor Clarke's prizes, 67; 

 medal to Miss Ormerod. 187; pro- 

 spects, 127; Vice-Presidents, 186 



Hotbeds, 109 



Houdans, 72; pullets laving. 56: and 

 Creve-Coeurs, 270 ; feather-eaters 

 217, 218, 23:'.. 252; hardiness. 3.V2 ; 

 combs and feathers, 381 ; points, 472 



Hoya, australis, 160; carnusa seed- 

 ing, 381 



Hubbard's (Mr. W. E.) prizes for Es- 

 says, 246,358 



Humea elegans dying, 171 



Hyacinths. -Jti ; alter flowering, 133, 

 169, 171, 363; 171 ; buds brown, l:>o; 

 bulbs damping. 150; blooming leaf- 

 less, 266 ; in glasses, 100 



Hydrangeas, blue, 241 



Hygrometers, 23 



Ice — COLLECTING A 

 preserving rough, 14 ; house, 91 ' 



Incrustation in boilers and pipes, 17i", 



212 

 Incubators. 316, 416 

 Indian seeds, 91 



Indianrubber plant treatment, 190 

 Insects, and soap water, 460, 464 ; in 



forcing house, 283 

 Insuring garden structures. 250 

 Ireeine, green iiy on. 381 ; treatment, 



133 



Ivies lor window sides, 232 



Jackdaw, and Magpie ttnion, 815 ; 



food, 368: teaching to talk. 452 

 January, plants flowering m, 146 



Laehenalia quadrieolor culture, 761 

 Lady-cows. 262 

 Lapageria 

 Larch aph 



1 culture, 150, 232 



Launcestuu prize list, 268 

 Laurel, standard, 327 

 Lawn — fairy-rings on, 92; forming 

 Q ud improving, 258 :fungiis on, 2U7~; 



Archimedean, 277, 338, 359, 364, 45; 



tural Show, 130 



Leek Ornithological Show, 36 



Lentiscus of Cicero. 144, 161 



Lettuces, forcing, SO; and their cut- 

 ture, 141, 159, 221 



Levelling and draining, 223 



Lice on towls, 472 



Lilium auratum, 429 



Lily of the Valley, culture, 91 ; forc- 

 ing. 398; after forcing. 212 



Lime, as a manure, 6s ; long unspread. 

 70; water, 254, 296,413; loi egg-pre- 

 Berving, 254 



Linaria tristis, 202 



Linseed fur poultry, ITS 



Li. pud manure, diluting, 151 ; of fowls' 

 dung, 381 



Liihi'sperinum c:eruleo-purpureum, 



Looker's and Rendle 



Lopezia myrtifolia. 214 



Loquat culture, 465 



Low situations, trees, &c. for, 295 



Magnolia i 



Maize, table, 157 



Manchester National Horticultural 



Show, ISO 

 Mangold Wurzel, 282 : 299, 329 

 Manures, chemistry of. 206, 225, i 



323; --' : 

 ^larai 



213 



March. plants flowerivgin, 260 

 Marigolds for bedding, 450 

 Marketing 3"0 year, ago, 227 

 Markets, 4*0. 416. -},.;. 4: :. 472 

 Mav, plants flowering in, 441 

 McDonald, Mr. C, 278 

 McKenzie, Mr. Alexander, 83 

 Matheson, Mr Murdoch, 278 

 Meal; bue, 450; on Beeches, 213 

 Medmilla magnitica ret flowering, 282 

 Melbourne Botanical Gardens, 339 

 Melons— for autumn, 295; and Cu- 

 cumber bed, 144; cultnre, 22, 3si); 

 cutting and keeping, 397; frame 

 heating for, 29'i; frames for sowim-- 

 30, 170; insects on. 429; leaves 

 tufted. 467; for moderate heat. 72 ; 

 watering, 417 ; Beechwood, 113 •' 

 Climax, 413 

 Melrose Poultry Show, 153, 175 

 Mesembryanthemumsfor bedding, 80S 



Moulting, promoting, 434 

 Muea Cavendishii fruit, 467 

 Museum of natural bistorv, 394! 

 " Mushroom Culture," 410* 

 Mushrooms— beds -for, 114, 361- b^d 



out of doors, 233; failures, 170; 



forcing, 59, 69 ; house management, 



131 ; power of, 31 ; age of spawn,3I 

 Mvosotis dissitiflora for bedding-out 



345, 404 ; sowing, 190 

 Myrtle, culture, 233 ; grafting, 112 



Nareis-01 „'s, after tlowtTing. 133,16) 

 Bulbocodium var. DiOHOpbyllus, :-;;.s 

 Tarieties, 36*J; olasdilicatiua 01, 3o9 



