INDEX. 



Aeerdtien Pottltby Show 37, 56 

 AccrinRton PonUry Show, '249 

 Acbiinenf p.— pottinfr. «8 ; culture, 416 

 Aconite, WiDtor, not flowerinu, 88 

 AcoruH eal.imus fultnre, '247 

 Advice to horticulturists, 300 

 AtridcB stpms. Jl 

 Aperatiim for boiUUnp. 150 

 Aclaoneiiiii Mannii, ti07 

 Afn'iinlture and horticultlire, 18G 

 Allamandas— nnliilis, 127, 292; plant- 



iDtront in huthouse border, 150 

 AlloBoruscrispuB cultiirp,43 

 AlocaBia Lowii culture, 202 

 Alpine Rose, 141 

 Alston Poultry ^how, 19 

 Amaranth, Globe, culture, 320 

 Amaranthus elegautissimus culture, 



229 

 American blip?it. 151 ; remains, 112 

 Amomum Eceptrum. 207 

 Anastatica hierochontica eultare, 13 

 Andalusian chickens, 361 

 Anemones— cullnre, 112; weak, 199; 

 planted in February, 199 : waterint', 

 330; Pelargoiiiuras with, 330 

 Angle of greenhouse roof, 281 

 .Vnnuals— for autumn, 88; a plea for, 

 120; for Bliphtlv-shaded place, 247: 

 tender. 252, 290, 320, f!04, 369 

 Antirrhinum culture, 51 

 Antf;— destroying:, 144 ; banishiiiET, S4G, 



315 

 Aphides, destroyinpr, 144, 149. 415 

 Apples— shoot swellinRs, 112; train- 

 ing, 132; keepingr, 157 ; exhibited by 

 Mr. Rivers, 162; leaves blighted, 

 431; as an orchard fruit, 287 ; stor- 

 ing, 229; trees unfruitful, 281 ; Bess 

 Poo!, 26 ; Gooseberry, 67 ; Lord 

 Burghley, 126; Ord'e, 12ti 

 Apricots— Auatralian, 176: blossoms 



not settiiifr, 281 ; cutting back, 306 

 Api-il, plants flowering in, 307 

 Arable, dividintr, 83 

 AraucariBj transplanting, 215 

 Arches, climbera for, S31 

 Ardisia, culture, 70, 346 

 Artichokes, culture of Globe, 260 

 Artillery pl?nt,263 

 Arundo conspicua, 221 

 Ash trees, plants under, 229 

 Aeparagus, 229 ; culture. 181, 24C, 347 ; 

 cutting, 362, 4(i5; phiuting for forc- 

 ing, 215; removing in summer, 298; 

 shoots perforated, 363; insects on, 

 381,416; newly planted. 416 

 Asi^lenium srptentrionale and alter- 



nifohum culture, 43 

 Asters— for exhibition, 51 ; sowing, 



199; aphis on. S80 

 Aubrieua, dividing, 33 

 Ancnbas — berry pathcring. 231; fe- 

 male and male blooming, 221 ; ferti- 

 lising. 1156. 195, 193, 274, 281. 307, 323 ; 

 not-fS about, 156; pollen, 166; pro- 

 jiapiiting, 167 : raising varieties, 171 ; 

 btcd sowing, 181; varieties, 254. 274 

 Aur;culi-6 at the Royal Horticiritural 



Socidy's Show, 25 

 Ausliitlia— notes from South, 44, 82, 



105; seeds from, 262 



Azaleas- manure for, 88, 415: striking 



cuttings, 150; list of, 183; repotting, 



1139; growing, 229; uneven flower- 



|i ing. 2.':0; new hardy, 3'12; with Ca- 



' iiitllias, 316: top-dressing for, 398; 



• lineanfolia, 342 



.O E.cKBorsr.JrR. James, C7, ^2 

 J '• I aildon'6 Kature-printed FerDs," 126 



Ey'> ms— culture, 70, 952; seed, kow- 



i: ; , iy9; dampingoff. 263 

 Ban- . ^w — Cochin-China, 266 ; Duck- 

 win^ :>anie, 40, 4SG; Game, breed- 

 ing, ia«; Japanese, 91: cock dying, 

 40U : cockerel, 218; dubbing, number 

 of hens, 318 

 Bark running. 262 

 Karnes. Mr., le.iving Bicton, 376 

 Barometer, 149 

 Barrow Poultry Show. 1C8 

 Bath and West of England Poultry 



Show, 381 

 Beans— dwarf, 18 ; for a working-man s 



garden, 151 

 Bedding plants — heights, 306; ma- 

 nagement, ISl : moving, 297; pits 

 for, 149; supportiug, S7S, 395; win- 

 tering, 12, U9 

 Bcdtington Poultri Show, 349, 363 

 Beech for a hedge. 2^1 

 Bees— apinrian notes, 40; Baroness 

 von Berlepscli. 233; in Borneo and 

 Timor, 300, S3;i : delay in breeding, 

 383; cenlrifu-£Hl honey extractor, 

 250, 966; on old Chrisimas eve, 40; 

 civil war in a hive, 153 ; combs dis- 

 placed, 2S4, mites in, 170; in con- 

 servatory, 218; cross-breeding, 58; 

 dead, 418 ; deserting hive. 436 ; driv- 

 ing failures. S99; dropsy, 418; djing, 

 94; feeding, 2.'. 418; German Bee- 

 Masters' Meeting, 137: commencing 

 keeping, 284 ; Kcehler'a process, 40, 

 improvement of, 349; Mitchell's 

 glass, 4SG: moving, 118; partheno- 

 genesis, lb'9: pasturage limit, 21; 

 pollen gaihL-ring, 118, early, 154; 

 queens' signs oi fertilisation, 3a4, 

 introducing, ISS ; sagacity, 131 ; 

 '• Seventy Pounds a-Year," 318 ; spe- 

 cimens of species, 2U8; superpotrng, 

 94, 137; temperature of hive, 334; 

 transferring. 118, 138; case fortrana- 

 porting, 135; waxen sheets, 22,154; 

 wax moth, 366; weight of bees, tS:c., 

 75. FovJ-biood-7i, U'i, 117, 169, 400, 

 417,436; new theory and treatment 

 of. 185. Hiies— US; securing bars 

 of. 417; cheap and good, 202; and 

 houses, 334: protecung, 22; Stew- 

 arton, 76 ; Woodbury, 4)0. Honey— 

 extractinff machine, 250; in Essex, 

 118; heather harvest^ 250: in Ger- 

 many in 186S, 202; m Lancat-hire, 

 284; in Lincoln8hii-e,218: near Man- 

 chester, 333; in Northumberland, 

 205; opening season. ?01; season of 

 ]8tj8.40:in South Cheshire, 154; in 

 South Lancashire, 58 ; Suffolk honey 

 hitrvest. 317: capture of in Timor, 

 333. Liiittrinns—'i:>Q, 384; rapid in- 

 crease of. 4tJ0; queens. 154; Italian- 

 :it.ing a hive. 40; vagaries of queens, 

 418. i7of/i\v— strengthening of, 318, 

 364; supering, 186, 218, 436; supers, 

 400; bees not entering. 412; ma- 

 nagement of. 92, 153. ^Kvnr/is— set- 

 ting on the ground, 36ti; btrayed. 

 414; strengthening second, 411. 

 tiHor//i!7;0— ai'tificial, 4r'. 3Li4 ; early, 

 334; early at "Walerbcach, 304; na- 

 tural 40 

 Beet— as a bedder. S24; not growing, 

 416: in8ecton,431: ornamental, ISa; 

 Sea-kale, 88 ; sowing lor decoration, 

 299 ; sowing lor edgings, 150 

 Begonias — leaves dying, lb'2; shading, 



416 

 Belfifane, 268 



Beverley Poultry Show, 382 

 Bicton, gardener at. 42b 

 Bignonia radicane flowering, 331 



Bird organ, 3ft4 



EirdSj bud-destroying. 179 



Birmingham Columbarian Society's 



Show, 21 

 Birmingham Poultry Show, 72 ; prizes, 



399 

 Binningham Philoperisteron Society, 



201 

 Birmingham Rose Show, 356 

 Boggy groundj plants for, 247 

 Boilers— cast non, 14; hothouse, 205 ; 



215; new, 391; new hothouse, 422; 



tubular, 237 

 Bones for manure, 33, 262 

 Botanic (Royal) Society's Exhibition, 



193, 291, 342 

 Bougainvillea not flowering, 182; cul- 

 ture 380 

 Box, clipping, 150, 344 

 Biahma Pootras, 118; vulture hock, 

 .S3; not laying, 218: partly feather- 

 less, 366; cocks' tails, 399; beeom 

 ing fat, 436 



Bran as poultry food, IKO 



Brassia Lawrenciana v. longiasinia, 

 - 65 



Brinjal. 216 



Bristol and Clifton Poultry Show, 16, 

 36,37 



Broccoli, Carter's Summer, 393 



Broodiness in winter, 118 



Broods, size of, 186 



Broom, grafting, 71 



Budding. 225 ; fruit trees, 298 



Bulbs- culture, 87 ; in pots. &c., 131 



BuUaces, monstrous, 431 



Bullfinch Mule breeding, hatching 

 egfis, 154 ; astlimatic- 2V4 



Butter from France, 250 



Cabbage seed saving, 298 



Cacti, 70 ; compost, 88 



Caladiunie- culture, 214; in a cool 

 house, 416 ; esculentum culture, 

 315 



Calanthe vestita flowering. SSO 



Calceolaria— beds, 261: compost for, 

 182; culture, 175; cuttings, potting, 

 150; fertilising, 431; Aurea flori- 

 hunda. 381 : Ht-nrici. 342 



Caledonian Horticultural Society, 84 



Calico— covering for Irame, 199 ; oiled, 

 815 



Camellias— aphis infested, 307; with 

 Azaleas, 316; border-making, 281; 

 compost for, 230; cuttings, 150; 

 Jlowers not opening, 1C7 : grafting, 

 149 ; guano water lor, 362 ; leaves 

 browned, 247, 315; leggy, U3: ma- 

 nure water for, 415 ; out of doors, 

 104, 143, 174, 256; potting 202; re- 

 potting, 199, 331 ; scale on, 215 ; seed- 

 sowing, 281; select, 183, 256; tup- 

 dresfiiDg, 398; unhealthy, 182 



Camptopus Mannii, 127 



Canarj- age oi, 186; breeding, 184, 

 i!34; bretding from year nld, 76; 

 breeding Goldfinch Mules, 40, 57, 

 76, 1!6, 201, 264, 3SS ; colouring and 

 staining, 36. 185, 201, S18; coughing 

 334; laying soft eggs, 334; tgg- 

 bound, 250; egg-eating, 2G6 ; losing 

 feathers, 76; Lizaras. 58; mice 

 eating yeung, 302; not pairing, 2;;4; 

 by railway, 202 ; and Redbreas s, 

 334: removing cock from nestlings, 

 234 ; Show, last, 151 ; Scotch Fancy, 



Canker in Apple tiecs,166 



Cannas, 380 



Canonbie Poultry SIiow, 18 



Cardcon culture. 61 



CarnationE— pJanlitg lajers, lt2; re- 

 potting tree, 1.^2 

 Caryota Cuniingii. 207 

 Catalogues, not forwarded, SO; ce- 



layed; 1S2 

 Cats >\ Neinophila. 289,328,330 

 Cedar of Lebanon, opening of conts 



of, 194 

 Celery— chfcl ing, 179; defective, 2:0; 



protecting Ircui worms, ^62 

 Celosia culture, 320 

 Centaur ca la^ui^ina from sef d, .M 

 Cephalo tus follitularis luliure, -!'7 

 CereuB ]iTidus,410 

 Chanutrope excelea culture, 315, 362 

 Cherries- Bird,362: as a stock lor the 

 Peach, 896; blighted. 315; over- 

 vigorous, 50 ; protecting from birds, 

 303 ; prunintf newlj-plunted, 362: 

 unfiuitiul,199 

 Chickens— on a brick floor, 202; dead 

 in the shell. 186 : early management 

 of, 202; food lor, 202; hemp and 

 canary seed lor, 188; lice on, 40; 

 mortality of, 202; almost Siamese 

 twins, 304 

 Chjmonanthus fragi-ans as a bush, 144 

 Chives, 296 



Chocolate plant fruited, 79 

 Chorozema leaves browned, 229 

 ; Christmas Rose culture, 7 

 I Chrysanthemums— culture, 128; Geui, 

 20 ; list ot, 88 ; new, 221 : as an out- 

 door plant, 206 ; stopping, 298 

 Cinerarias- blind, 71 ; compost for, 

 182; leaves curled, for out-doors, 

 199 ; seed sowing, 380 

 Citron culture, 13'.i 

 Citrus japonica. 192 

 Clay burning tor walks, 122 

 Clematis- bedding, 149; Excelsior, 



432; seed sowing, 70 

 Clerodendron ThomGcnfe Balfourii 



for June. 51 

 ClianthuB Dampiericulture, 231 

 Climatic revolutions. 385 

 Climbers for arches, 331 ; for aoutli 



wall, 229 

 Cob^a penduliflora, 127 

 Cobham Hall, :i 122 



Cochin-Chinas- cock blind, 31S ; tails, 

 399; yvry-tailed, 154; in confined 

 space, 58; laying, 22; pullets la>-ing. 

 91 ; roughness on lege, 58 : spangle-i, 

 202; White, 138 

 Cock not associating, 233 

 Cockatoo, food for, 284 

 Cockerels and pullets, 2C6 

 Cockscomb culture, 70, 290 

 Ctelogyne oris lata culture, 167; 



Eeichenbachiana, 127 

 Colchester Poultry Show, 417. 433 

 Coleus— Queen Victoria, 65; compost 

 for, 51 ; new ;rolden,307 ; fur a green- 

 house, 51; beleciion of, 331; iroui 

 seed, 51 

 Collections of plants, 119 

 Composts, various, 263 

 Conifers; — lor exposed sUuation, 51; 



in Scotland, 268 

 Conseivatory — nrrangtments, !i97; 

 wall, plants for. 112, 247; temptra- 

 ture, 132; Our, 293 

 Copenliiigtn Horticultural Congrefif, 



211; International Show, 259 

 Coping, widtli for fiuit wall, 14 

 Cordiat; labia, 342 

 Cordons, liorizontal, 173 

 Ccirk Poultry Show, 91 

 Cornwall, early vegetables of, 25 

 Coronilln gl^uca — leaves failing, IS: 



culture, 51; done flowering, 20^ 

 Corvplia aublralib culture, 315 



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