vu 



Now Zealand Spioacli, hurdincSB of, 



SCO 

 Niorembprpin culture, H31 

 NiKhliiijfiiUs Scarlet ViiKinian, 330; 



rearing. 8H4 

 Notices of lUschnrgf, M ; to leave, 119 



Oakttasi Pon.Tnv Siinw, 16 



Ocl.JUt..t;l.>f*siii.i KnuiM-ri.JlO 



Oldt nlauiii;i Iiri'iMimii. S8 



Oklluim Poultry ^l^u\v, 7l> 



Oleander scale, 51 



Onoidium crispum culture, 167 ; xan- 



thudon, 127 

 OuidUB— Ki'owiuK for cxliibition, *21tl ; 



■irowiuy la^^'u i'ui-tu^Mi. 171 

 OrunKcry, pillar plaints Inr, \^'l 

 Oruiigc 8— culture for deaacit. 23, 59. 



67. 172 : nianurinp, 132, 229 ; Otaheite. 



S4G; priming:, 1H2 ; rcpottiuf,', 2ir>; 



Bcale-infested, TO 

 Orchard — evergreens to shelter, S8, 



131 : Kentish, culture nf. 251 : the 



portable, 106,. 128. 112, 160, 194, 2US. 



225, 276, 310, 342, 359, 392 

 Orchard houses, 221, 223 : failures, 



420; lean-to, 281; niMiasenient of, 



180; Pears in, 360; planting, ISS; 



succession of fruits, 158; trees 



barren. 280 ; avriujied when bloom- 



inK. 327 

 Orchids— cool house. 149, 219, 267, 292, 



873, 385, 401 ; starting', 132 ; iu tuba, 



95, 132 

 Otley Ponltry and Pigeon Show, 283 

 Oxalis crenuta, 46 



Packing fkcit, 97: flowers, &c., 6, 43 



Paint, black, lor vinery, 70 



Paintingor not painting, 12 



Palava flexuosa, 2U2 



Palms, 421 ; for a conservatory, 13 ; 

 and their culture, 401 



Pampas Grass culture, 112 



Pansies — CUveden Blue, 182; dividing, 

 247; propatration, 362 ; waterinc.330 



Parrot— declining, 94 ; detecting age, 

 J86; feeding, 366; male and female, 

 435 : not talking, 202 ; seU-plucked, 

 418.436 



Parsnips, artificial manure for, 38 



PassifloraB — not flowering, 131, 151, 

 880; ca?rulea not flowering, 8S0; 

 racemosa not flowering, 151 ; i-ace- 

 mosa training, 316 



Passiou-FIower, cutting down. 71 



Paulownia imperialis in flower, 387 



Paul's show of aprmg flowers, 11)3 



Pea Fowl's eggs, hatching, 186 



Peach— aphides on, 144. 119, I!19; Bird 

 Cherry as a stock for, 396; blossom 

 falling. 199; buds falling, 150; cul- 

 ture, 95, 121, 144; diseases, 144; in- 

 sects, 144, 149, 199, 216, 298; leaves 

 blistered. 362, 415; Momion, 177; 

 potted, 270; pruning, 150; nut set- 

 ting, 331; shoots diseased, 321 ; stop- 

 ping, 150; tree and fruit ulcerated, 

 426 ; unfruitful, 262, 298 



Pears — buda browned, 166: corolla 

 persistent, 362 ; Doyenne du Comice 

 as a pyramid, 51 ; Easter Beurre 

 from a waU. 84 ; Fortunee, 67 ; graft- 

 ing on Medlar, 431 : on UMiitethorn, 

 f>2,407; leaves blistered, 362 ; plant- 

 ing, S07 : protecting pyramidal, 150; 

 not ripening, 50; root pruned, 347; 

 unfruitful, 281; for west wall, 88; 

 Henri ('apron, 310 



Peas— culture. 260; dwarf, 13: eaten 

 by birds. 71; for plantinc-out, 227; 

 preserving, 366 ; protecting. 164, 216 ; 

 supporters, 330; for a workmg man's 

 garden, 151 



Pegging-down plants, 395 



Pelargoniums— classification of, 122; 

 compost for, 182; Congress, 306; 

 crossing Unique with Zonal, 379: 

 potting cuttings, 15o; distinction 

 from Geraniums, 431; flowers, 150; 

 hybridising, 269 ; to flower in June, 

 112; in pots, 346; growing seedlings, 

 248 ; select, 330 ; sporting. 331 : winter 

 management ol, 24, 6i. Ii.t2. 175. 

 Beddi}ig—i2, wintering in Yorkshire, 

 144; Bicolor, treatment of, 200; 

 coloured-foliaged, classifying, 362, 

 387 ; Ivy-leaved training. 150 ; Oak- 

 leaved, compost lor, 362 ; Schottii, 

 410; Show varieties, 78; variegated, 

 856; pots tor, 247; Zonals in pots. 

 846; stopping, 831; dark-zoned for 

 breeding, 330; Tricolors, composts 

 for, 330; Essays on. 358; some 

 Golden, 236 ; Miss Watson, 290, 307 : 

 seedlings not variegated, 132 ; sc- 



Penrith Poultry Show, 133 



Peristeronic at the Crystal Palace. 53 



Pewits as vermin killers, 426 



Peziza coocinea, 14 



Pheasants, management of Golden. 

 400 



Phlox seed sowing. 315 



Pigeons— age, indications of, 154; Al- 

 mond and saddle-backed Fantails, 

 118; AntwerpB, 74, 91. 136, 153,202. 

 836; for an a\iary, 400; Barbs and 



PtGROHS—eontinui'il. 

 Owls, 118; Birmingham Colum- 

 barian Society's Show, 21 ; Birming- 

 ham Roller. "318; cimkor in 115; 

 crossing Shoilfaced with Air- 

 Tuniblera, 40: lu dump lott, 260; 

 diseased, 58.76, 234 ; dove house, an- 

 cient, 434; stocking, 318; dying in 

 the nest. 384: dying young, 400; 

 eggs, 284 ; age of setting, 28'1 ; Fan- 

 tjiils, sex of, 58; of Venice, 183; from 

 the Mediterranean, 91 ; Nalioual 

 I'eriateronic Society's Show, 20 ; at 

 Antwerp, 39 ; pet, 300 ; portraits, 

 ;!.'.0; roup in, 138; salt for, 154; 

 sellers, advice to, 332; sex, detect- 

 ing, 91; flying Tumblers, 4l8j Tur- 

 bit diseased, 266; new varieties, 

 21S; wing diseased, 58 



Pilca muscosa, 2113 



Pine Apples— bed for, 164 ; bottom 

 heat, 262 



Pinks -Cheddar, 131, 148; planting 

 layers, 182 



Pinus variations, 426 



Pipes— heated in a trench ; iron-filing 

 joints, 129 ; removing gas tar from 

 hot-water, 149 ; preferable size of 

 hot-water. 331 



Pits— constniction of, 281 ; v. houses, 

 198; propatjating, 132; for bedding 

 plants, 149 



Plane tree for towns, 27 



Plantain, destroying, 298 



Planting, 31, 147 ; and preparing for, 

 379 



Plant-house wove covex'ing, 131 



Plants — origin of cultivated, 210; 

 wintered out of doors, 309 



Plumeria lutea, 410 



Plums--Cherry, 101, 161; trecdeficiont 

 of branches, 71, 182; cutting back, 

 306; heading back stocks, 199; pro- 

 tecting, 71 



Phmging material, 199 



Poinsettia pulchc^rrima, culture, 204 ; 

 cuttings, 229; for table decoration, 

 182: propagation, 71 



Polands— plucked by others, 91; Gold- 

 en, 35: hen. 202 



Polyanthuses, 130 



Polygala, compost for. 150 



Pomological gleanings, 67, 84, 101, 126, 

 162, 176, 310 



Ponds, trees to shade, 362 



Pooley's insect-destroyer, 360 



Portraits of poultry and Pigeons, 317 



Portsmouth Poultry Show, 114 



Potatoes— acres of grown, 62 ; at Bir- 

 mingham Show, 102; clubbing, 370; 

 for cottager's garden, 182; early. 

 295; disease, 412; ia it hereditary? 

 289; failures, S68, 388; in frames, 

 110 ; gi-afting sets, 425 ; management, 

 397 ; in pots. 229 ; raising seedlings, 

 425 ; removing shoots from the 

 tubers, 370 ; sowing seed, 199 ; thin- 

 ning stems, 425 ; tubering without 

 sprouting. 362; \'eitch's Early Asli- 

 leaf, 104 : close to wall, 182; on wet 

 soil, isl 



Pots— sizes of flower, 175 ; size for 

 exhibiting in, 394. 308 



Potted plants, surfacing, 247 



Poulterers' Company, 484 



Poultry— what has been and is (o be 

 done, 14 : catarrh and its remedy, 

 153 ; for confined space, 218 ; in dark 

 place. 234 ; not feeding, 334 ; food tor, 

 202; floor, 818; house boarded, 234; 

 lore, 433 : lost, ;'.34 ; and their ma- 

 nagement, 216, 231, 234; misdoings 

 at shows, 15, 16: portraits of. 299; 

 profit of. 138,152, 154, 168, 202; show 

 official's mistake, 138; regulations. 

 84: rewarded for weight, 58; yard 

 arrangements, 154 



Primulas, 391; double, 51; to flower 

 in spring, 318 ; seed eowiugj 262, 380 



Propagating — bed, 71 ; box in green- 

 house, 247: in fermenting beds, 165 



Pullets, preventing laying, 302 



Purchasing fowls, 418 



Pyrethrum Golden Feather, propagat- 

 ing, 150 



Quarry, plants for, 70 

 Quince stocks, 404 ; grafting, 71 



Rabbits— AGE of, 118; Angora, 250; 

 cannibal, 74. 232, 283 ; at exhibitions, 

 864 ; food. 331 ; greens for, 230 ; hair 

 falling off. 250; at Hull, 364; judging 

 and clnssification of, 39; judging at 

 Leeds, 39; manaiiement.118,218.832; 

 nest. 435; not injurious to pastures, 

 250 ; and trees, 104, 180, 213 ; at Shef- 

 field, 364 ; water for, 218, 2S2; young 

 d\-ing, 234,300 



Radish, origin of the cultivated, 240 



Railways, charges, 399; liability for 

 birds lost, 399 



Rainfall in 1868 at Ribston Hall, 126 



Rain, working in, 128 



Ranunculuses— culture. 112; planted 

 in February. 199 ; watering, 330 ; 

 taking up, 362 



Raspberries from cuttings, 182 



Rats, destroying water, 50, 350. 429 



Red lead coating of seeds, 196, 222, 25S, 

 377 



Red-leaved plants and birds, 878 



Red River natural pioductH.890 



"Rofugiuin Botanicum,"29, 894 



Rhodudeiidrt'iiH— border making, 281 ; 

 after flowering, 13,331; in poiH. 70 ; 

 six hardy, 1S2; leggy, 113; on hoi e- 

 sttine, Hy ; liquid manure for. 380; 

 potting tor forcing. 415 ; raising from 

 beed, 141; soil for, 88, 141, 306; at 

 South Kensington, 072 ; Watcrers', 

 372, 407 



Rhubarb— forcing, 5, 13, 151 : culture, 

 240; defined, 416; secaiug,280 



Iticemeal for fowls, 138 



Riehardia mehinoleuca. 293 



Ridged soil turning, 197 



Rinj^ing fruit trees, 4i)3 



Rivina Isevis culture, 112 



Rochea falcata, 281 



Roekwork plants injured by heat, 248 



RouiiUi cement, 302 



Rookery, establishing, 88 



Rooms, plants and flowers in, 49 



Roostiiig-place, making fowls fre- 

 quent, 350 



Rosa centifolia, 230 



Rose, Alpine, 141 



Rose of Jericho culture, 13 



Roses— alpine, 221; Banksian not 

 flowering, 863; pruning, 132; bloom 

 cutting, 393; tor burUers, 70; bud- 

 ding, 112 ; budding on Manetti 

 stocks, 198, 215, 247 ; Cnarles Le- 

 febvre, 299 ; Cloth of Gold, 403 ; col- 

 lection of. 215 ; colour of petal backs, 

 158; cuttings, 122, 158, 165; from 

 eyes, 166; tiowers falling, 379, 415; 

 forcing, 415 ; black fungus on leaves, 

 862; General Jacqueminot weak, 

 816; Gloire de Dijon as a stock, 

 149; grafted, 330; grafting for a 

 pillar, 112: standard. 178,230 : gi'owth 

 and qualities of, 362 ; guano water 

 for, 880: hardy, 330; house for, 291; 

 Lady Franklin, 316; leaves black- 

 ened, 149. curled, 362, distinguish- 

 ing by, 431, falling, 330, fungus on. 

 3(33; management. 198 : on iianetti 

 stocks, 198, 215, 247, 330 ; tongueing, 

 79, 101, 149; Marechal Niel, 43 ; not 

 flowermg, i98 ; new of 1868, 173 ; of 

 1869, 322 ; in north of England, 407 ; 

 in pots, 158; potting for lorcing, 

 415; proceciing, 12; pruning, 32, 88, 

 132, 143, 149, 166, 263 ; select, 51, 148, 

 263,315,431; seeds and seedlings, 4, 

 70; sewage for, 331; for a south 

 wall, 348 ; standard, 88 ; on their own 

 roots, 77; for a south-west aspect, 

 167j Tea scented, management, 166; 

 framing as inverted coiics, 151; 

 time between budding and bloom- 

 ing, 431: wall, 113, 132; watering, 

 330 ; eaten by weevils, 379 



Rubus arcticus, 421 



SaCCOLABIUU BIGIEECM, 392 



St. Petersburg, transit of plants to, 

 141 ; International Horticultural Ex- 

 hibition, 109, 2T5, 827. 352, 372 



Salt — applying to growing crops, ?62; 

 as a manure, 131; for hen-scaring, 

 229 



Salvia splendens and others, 304 



Sarracenia culture, 247 



Scale insect, destroying, 397 



Scarlet Runners, old plants of, 71 



SciUa sibirica, 166 



Scour in fowls, 436 



Scraps, American, 22 



Screen, evergreen for, 32 



Sea-kale — renovating beds, 298; cul- 

 ture, 246, 260; cuttings, 182; plant- 

 ing, 182 



Sedums for bedding-out, 419 



Seedlings in a greenhouse, 131 



Seeds — adulteration of, 8; coating 

 with red lead, 196: home-savei.t, 51 



Seedsmen's mistakes, 256 



Selaginellas, 18S 



Selkirk Poultry Show, 135 



Sensitive Plant eul:ure, 304 



Sewa«e water, effects of, 213 



Shading, 314 ; a greenhouse, 247 



Shallot culture, 151 



Shamrock, 230 



Sheffield Original Fancy Rabbit Show. 

 38, 364 



Shepherdswell Poultry Show, 203 



Shrubs and shrubberies, 31 



Silkworms' eggs. 366 



Sinningia guttata pruning, 331 



Siskins breeding in confinement, 284 



Slugs and frost, 86 ; excluding, 216 



Smiih, Rev. Dr., 376 



Snails destroying, 362 : and frost, 86 



Snowdrops, taking up, 131 



Snow, Mr., 207 



Snow in ice house, 212 



Soapsuds— for watering, 298 ; as a ma- 

 nure. 397 



Soil, improving sandy, 70 



Solanum capsicasLrum culture, 26 



Soot water. 381 



Spanish — cock's face, 91 : and Minorca 

 fowls, 170; hens, 266; hens eg^- 

 bound, 334 



Sparrows, Our 411 



Spinach, New Zealand, 189 



Spring flowers. 23 



S]) ring-flowering plants, 847 



.spring-gardening aspects, 319, 367 



Stapelia hystrix, 65 



Stephanotis floribunda, culture, 8m: 

 planting out in hothouse border, l5i( 



Stocks. Kant Lothian, 150, 17,1. 195, 207, 

 224,360; i)Iaiiting Intermediate, IS-i : 

 double-flowered, 380 



Stone boxesj plants for, S47 



btove— heating by a, 70 ; for a green- 

 house, IH 



Stove wallj plants for, 112 



Strawberries, 361: barren, 414; pro- 

 pagating from barren, 426; culture 

 aud secleciion. 140,296,328,414,480: 

 lorcing. G9 ; for a liglit soil, 166, S97 ; 

 for market. IGG ; in pots, 181, 215; 

 select. 189 : transplanting, 51 ; water- 

 ing, 131 ; white duston plants, 363 



Sub-tropical plants, 112, 187,219,238; 

 list of, 132 



Summer gales. 289 



Sunderland Ornithological Show. 19 



Sunderland Poultry Club Show,38 



Supply of vegetables, 429 



Sussex climate, 287 



Syringa, roots and suckers, 432 



Syringing, temperature of water, 299 



Table df-coration, 385, 389 

 Tacbonia eriantha, 65 

 Tacsonia — Van-Volxemi, 298; splen- 

 dens not flowering, 149; Van-Volx- 

 emi, 288: sowing, 151; fruit, 162; 

 not flowering, 347, 363 

 Tailoring, fancy, 35 

 Tan for Melon pit, 199 

 Taxodium variations, 426 

 Temperatures, night, during forcing. 



351 

 Tenant removing shrubs, 248 

 Thames Embankment planting, 27 

 Thibaudia acuminata. 65 

 ThorneOruithological Society's Show, 

 I 134 



, Thorne Poultry Show, 432 

 I Thuubergia laurifolia culture, 230 

 ! Tobacco, 166 



I Tomatoes— culture, 315 ; ornamental, 

 I 292 



1 Tortoise in a garden, 216 

 i Tournay Exhibition, 394 

 1 Town 3, "gardening in, 27, 64, 31, ■.-.7, 178, 

 196, 275 

 Toy-Toy Grass, 221 

 I Transplanting trees, 86 

 I Trees— anointed, 166; to shade ponds, 

 ' 362 

 ] Trellis for fmit wall, 50; iron rersuf 



wood, 131 

 ! Trichopilia suavis culture, 167 

 Trimmmg, 52. 72, 89. 113; fowls :U 



shows,33, 34,35, 36, 37 

 Tropfeolums— not flowering, 230; tri- 



colorum failing. 346 

 Ti-uffles. 47 : culture, 96 

 Tulips— after flowering, 215; bedding. 

 335, 402 ; sowing seed, 316 ; watering. 

 I 833 



I Tumour, air-filled. 266 

 Turl— grubs in, 167, 230 ; lading. 147, 34 1 

 Turkeys— pens for. 16; the wild do- 

 mesticated, 57: with clasped loes, 

 266 : rearing, 318 

 Turnips- seed grub, 262 ; for spring, 

 415 



Ulveeston Poultry Show, 183 



Vanda insignis, 207 



Varieties, of fowl, 72 ; propagating bv 

 seed, 836 



Vases- planting, 830 ; plants for. 385 



Vegetable Marrows, 182 ; bed, 346 



"Vegetable Kingdom,' Rhind's, 207 



Vegetables for market, 416 



Veitch's fruit-tree nursery, 189 



Vent protradmg, 266 



Verbena— cuttings. 299 ; notes on, 120 

 Select, 2b3. 298; wintering and pro- 

 pagating. 104, 174, 255 ; venosa in a 

 shot bed, 347 



Veronica seed sowing, 131 



Vinegar, green grape, 302 



Vinerv— forcing in, 88: glass for. 200 : 

 heatintr, 112: aspect f.ir gi-ound, 

 397; removable ground, 183: phmt- 

 ing and cropping, 397 ; reconstruct- 

 ing, 32 



Vines— arrangement of, 31G ; bleeding, 

 151,205; preventinL', 162, 253; bones 

 for, 149 ; borders, 51, 183 ; dressing, 

 431. planting on, 229, uncovering, 

 199 ; breaking irregularly, 880 ; 

 ch8nging,215; Ciotat,51: cool house. 

 229 ; culture 269 ; culture out of 

 doors. .5, 9. 29,43,65,81,299,374,409; 

 uecliniug, 316 : early, 13 ; eyes. hir:ze 

 canes from, 70: failure. 27, 380 ; flue- 

 in,iured, 331; forcing. 88; grafting. 

 5, 131 : for a greenhmist*. 51: guano 

 applying. 331: of India. 33; late, 13; 

 laterals irregular and tying downi 

 79, 298, 353 ; leaves browii-spolted 



