INDEX. 



" Cat flowers, twelve boncheB, diatinct 

 varietieaj" what meant by, 21S 



Cuttings of bedding-out plants, 287 



Cyoas revoluta, 75 



CyclamenB — propagatine, 1S5; forc- 

 ing, 32fi ; sou for, Zi7 ; after flower- 

 ing, ilO : persicura in a cold pit, 447 



CyperuB altemifolius variegatus, 49 



DACTYLIS GLOIIERATA rROPAGATION, 



Dahlias, Belfs.ttc, 82 

 Darwinian theories, 224 

 Deflnitii'DS, 155 

 Deodar Cedar, 280 

 Derby Poultry Show. 232 

 Dewsbury Poultry Show, 15G 

 Diarrhcea in fowle, 18 

 Digging, 444 ; in winter, 8S3 

 Dinner-table decoration, 154 

 Dioacorea batatas culture, 411 

 Dioapyroa virginiana, 402 

 Dogs, my, 68, 199, 373 

 Dorkin;,' Poultry Show. 448 

 DorkingH, 68 ; cockerel's growtb. 35 ; 



rate of chickene' growtb. 67; exiiibit- 



ing AVhite, 70; Silver-Greyn. 70; 



ear-lobes, 291; one-eyed, 834 ; \Vhite. 



834; selecting a White cock, 352; 



uaeful cross with, 453 

 Dorsetshire, a fragment of, 242 

 Doyenne or Doyeune? 441 

 Drainage from cow house, 446 

 Draining. 487 



Driffield Poultry Show, 103 

 Drigblington Poultry Show, 177 

 Dublin ( Royulj bociety's Poultry 



Show. 471 

 Ducks, 453 ; diarrhoea and ci*amp in, 



106; eggs dark-coloured, 874, 413, 



433,434; keeping, 412 414; Mnscovy, 



514 

 Durham Coon ty Poultry Show, 102 



Earth heat, 3, 837 

 East Sutton Park, T 

 Ecclesfieid Agricultural Society's 



Poultry Show, 274 

 Echeveria metallica propagation, 



252; cultm'e, S26; secuuda culture, 



863 

 Eggs— preventbig soft, 36 : preserving, 



70 ; bens pecking, 124 ; producers or, 



894; s.if 1,494 

 EleplianL'a Foot culture, 467 

 Ellesmere Poulti'y Show, 291 

 Elm injured Iiy insects, S28 

 Emigration, a (ew words on, 461 

 Endive, S04 

 Entomological Society's Meetinff, 7, 



131, 403, 441 

 Entry fees, 253 

 Epacrises, list of. 306 

 Epideudrum pauieuhitum, 207 

 Epipbylluras, gi-aftiug, 4t;7. 486 

 Eriuus lychnjdea cctlture, 66 

 Escallonia niacrautha, 261 

 Espalier fniit trees, 155 

 Eston and Normauby Canary and 



Pigeon Show, 177 

 Eucalypti, gigantic, 113 

 Eucharis amazonica not flowering,307, 



SG8; dividing masses of, 410 

 Evaporation from the soil, checking, 



818 

 Evergreens— cutting down and. trim- 

 ming. 97 ; propagating. 270 

 EvtrlastingB— dr>-Lng, 138; gathering, 



175 



Faesworth Poulxrv Show, 271 

 Fasciatiou, 31 



Feathers, cleaning white. 494 

 Fernery —site for hardy. 82 ; subBtitute 

 for turf in, 154 ; heating, 251; erect- 

 ing, 270 ; climbers for, 425 

 Ferna— mildewed, 13; sjTinging, 82; 

 insects on, 231; drainage for, 306; 

 culture of, 395, 501; prizes for 

 British, 402 ; aome hardy, 437 ; fronds 

 disfigured, 439, 466; packing tree 

 for importation, 447 ; culture of tree, 

 mixed with dung lor hotbeda, 486; 

 oulture of some, 501 

 Ferrets, management of, 124. 142, 199 

 Feverfew, propagating Golden, 194 

 Figs — flavoui-leaa. 100; falling. 231; 

 JD'Ageu. 284; culture, 316, 3^6; pot- 

 ting, 346 ; for vineiy, 4bJ ; in pots, 

 426; pruning, 447 

 Filberts— bearing of, 73 ; pi-uning, 367 

 Fires, management of, 12:1 

 Fisher, Holmes. & Co.'a NurBerieB,260 

 Florist, who is an amateur? 270 

 Flower beds, planting, 90 ; in autumn, 

 296. 322 ; borders during last sum- 

 mer, 398 ; digging borders, 410 ; gar- 

 den, altering, 504 

 FlowerlesB and dicecioua plants, 230 

 Flowers— darkening colours of. 258 ; 

 for cutting, 3s9 ; popular namus of, 

 410 

 Flue— not acting, 174; a fight with n, 



354 : management of, 423 

 Fowl-fancying, nieht aide of, 347 

 Fowls — foreign, 54 ; plucking each 

 other. 106, 256, 514; ovt-r - fat. 121: 

 tiieir evening meal, eating sheep's 

 dung, 230; black-legged. 311, 848; 

 trespassing, 814; catarrh in, 3S4; 



Fowls— Continued : 

 feeding, 874, 394 ; management of, 

 374 ; feeding Golden-Hpangled Ham- 

 burghs, 374; promoting size, 394; 

 dunti as a manure, 446 ; throat, 

 noise in, 474 



Frames, protection for, 409 



France, fruits from, 82 



Fraudulent exhibiting, 469 



Frost, effects of. 325 



Friiitcrc-rs' Company, 207 



Emit — crops, 11 : bow to dispose of, 

 111 ; new and notable, 133 ; gather- 

 ing early, 173; keeping, 19') : cause 

 of excellence, 226 ; storing. 2;)0 ; 

 cause of flavour, '.'58 ; gathering and 

 forwarding out-door, 269 ; anionnt 

 of heat required to ripen, 801 ; 

 weigh! of, 323: gi'O'wing for market 

 at Little Sutton, 3%, 459 ; borders 

 for trffS, 11; ripening wood, 89; 

 bush, 304 ; selection for walls, 326; 

 priming hardy, 346; a large garden 

 of, 376 : arranging, 387, 411 ; out of 

 tloors in pots, S8l : at Liitle Sutton, 

 3%, 459; garden arrangemcnf, 426, 

 505 ; fornear Manchester, 426 ; p.vra- 

 mid 1'. bush, 447 ; planting miniature, 

 479 



"Fruit Garden, The Miniature," 359 



Fruit room— constructing. 154; neces- 

 sity of cleanliness in, 173 



Fuchsias — new, 6 ; seed saving and 

 sowing, 82 ; training', 100 ; select, 

 119; unhealthy, 119; losing their 

 leaves. 1S8: for exhibition. 270: Rio- 

 cartoni, 317 : cuttings. 346 ; cutting 

 down stragglin;;. 340 ; coccinea, 881 ; 

 watering. 411.485 



Fungi— connected with disease, 224; 

 leetui'e on parasitic, 244; classifica- 

 tion of, 246; book about, 864; on 

 tau, 368,879 



Fyide Poultry Show, 254 



Galvamsed-iron wntE, 155; lor fniit- 

 tree training. 505 



Game fowls— preparing for exhibition, 

 70, 101; I'eedin;,' for exhibition, 83 ; 

 not digesting their food, 124 ; dub- 

 bins iind trimming stags, 271; cock's 

 leg broken, 2^4 ; breeding Duckwing, 

 8'iy; Cock's beak broken, 852. 874: 

 breeding Piles, 390; Pile and Duck- 

 wing, 412 ; characteristics, 467 ; 

 cock's wiug8 drooping, 494 



Gander, breeding ago of, 314 



Gapes in chickens, 18 



Garden— airangement, 218; planting 

 a. 328 



Gardeners' Roysl Benevolent Institu- 

 tion's anniversary. 6 



Gardeners' examinations. 45; re- 

 sponsibilities, 99; troubles, 841 ; 

 wages. S60 



Gardening, instruction in, 212 



Gard'^nins in the far west, 403, 458 



Gas, heating by, 465 



Geese, 453; Chinese, crossing Tou- 

 louse and Nortidk, 394 



Gentiana pyrenaica, 881 ■ 



Geography for gardeners, 379 



Gesnera exonieusis, 240,265 



Giants of the ve«etable world, 113 



Gishurst Compound, 447 



Gladioluses-exhibition. 41, 90; prizes 

 for, 45: M. Souchet'B. 56, 95; spawn, 

 S06 ; varieties. P.07, 369. 496 ; planting, 

 869; Lady Alic.- HiU. 381 



Glass — Newington'a screens, 207; 

 washing, 424 



Glazing, 366 . 



Gloucestershire (West) Poultry Show, 

 235 



Glow-worms,31 



Gloxinias to flower in June, 326 



Gold fish- fungus on. 474 ; manage- 

 ment, 514 



Goolc Poultry Show, 102 



Gooseberries— influence of the hot 

 weather over, 71 ; exhibition, 78 ; in- 

 fluenced by the season, 141; mis- 

 named by Frenchmen, 828; moss on 

 trees, 42^ 



"Gooseberry Grower.^' Register," 859 



Goslings, weight of. 374 



Gourd — culture. 101 ; the Mammoth, 

 175; unfruitful. lyS 



Grafting. 191 ; blending Bpeciea and 

 varieties by, 163 



Grapes— in Au<niHt, 363; not colour- 

 in'^'. 155. 288, 4ti5; cvaclunff, 174; ex- 

 hibiting, 48; exliibition of at P^oyal 

 HortiLultnral Society, 2S4 ; in green- 

 houae, 32 ; keeping, 118, 4lu ; marked. 

 IOI4 out-of-door, 415, 497 ; packing, 

 32 ; aetting imperfectly. 13, 26 ; 

 shrivelling. 13b; shanking, 138, 231, 

 279, 288, 306; ispotting, 81. 279 ; nut 

 Bwclliui,', 31 ;■ vagaries, 226; weight 

 of bunches, 212; Alicante (Mere- 

 dith's). 212; Early Ascot Frontig- 

 nan,260; Espiran, 4Ij9, 4fi5 : Golden 

 Champion. 208. 'JM ; iladrestield 

 Court Black, 441 : Muscat Ham- 

 burgh. 109. lln ; Itnjal Ascot, 4al, 

 158; Kyton Muscat, 174: Swect- 

 watei-. keeping, 118; Trentham 

 Black, 389, 417. 4j5 



Grass— u. gravel, 31 ; management. 

 36S; verges, 166; under a tree, 

 605 



Greenhouse, plants to flower in vrinter 

 and spring, 82 ; erecting a small, 154 ; 

 heating a small. 174, 231, fi07. 327; 

 plants under stage, 213; flue heat- 

 ing, 368 ; arranging. 604 



" Greffer, L'Art de." 419 



Griffinia hyacinthina not flowering, 

 289 



Growth in fowls, progress of, S3 



GuiTno versus stable manure, 174 



Gueldrea fowls, 54 



Giierasev Lilv culture, 251 



Guildford Poultry Show. 490 



Guinea fowl maDa?ement, 162, 215 



Guiseley Agricultural Society's Poul- 

 try Show, 274 



Halifax and Caldeh VALE'PotiLTRT 

 Snow, 176 



Hamburg International Horticultural 

 Exhibition, 407 



Hamburgha— crossing Speckled with 

 Black Spanish, cock roupy, 124 ; 

 points of Golden - pencilled, 142 ; 

 Silver-spangled feathers, 314; Gold- 

 en-pencilled cockerel, 334; Silver- 

 spangled. 414 ; cockerel giddy, 494 



Hauum, 118 



Hardenbuiah church, 170, 171 



Hnrdwicke, 77 



Hardwoorted plants, culture. 505 



HartlepNol Poulti-v- Show, 194, 23G 



Haslintrden Poultry Show, 103 



Hnltbmg, notes on, 14 



Hay, weight of a cubic yard. 162 



Heaths— list of, 306: pottinc, 467 



Heating a small house within a con- 

 servatory, 119 



Heat of the season, 68 



Heckmondwike Poultry Show, 510 



HeUotrope seed sowing. 282 



Hf-n-cock. 394 



Hens— retarding laying. 36: flesh 

 spotted, 200; inflm-nce of batching. 

 2:i6: broody, 270; dying suddenly, 

 Itilled on railway, 434 ; prolific, 488 



Hepatica leaves, 486 



Herbaceous plants, three useful bardy, 

 128 



Hcssle Poultry Show, 139 



Iletton Poultry Show. 140 



Hippopbue rhamnoides. 2S8 



Hollyhock— culture, 125 ; seed, sowing, 

 154 ; improvers of, 183, 221, 240, 258 ; 

 winterini?, 252 



Hooker's (Dr.) address to the British 

 Association, 189 



Hops— bines as a textile material, 207; 

 acres of in Great Britain, 238 



Hornet's nest, destroying, 162 



Horse-chestnuts for cows, 884 



Horslorth Exhibition schedule, 153 



"Horticultural liuildiuire."?? 



Horticullnr^il Concress, 4S'i 



Horticultm-al (Roval) Society, Com- 

 mittee Meetings, 22, 94, 130, 168, 205, 

 262. 300, 382, 4G0 : Exhibitions. 4, at 

 Leicester, 57. edible Fungi, 189, 262, 

 out-ol-door Grapes. 284, in 1869. 115, 

 857; ChiBwiek Garden, 26. orchard 

 house. 172 ; Council. 78, 97 ; experi- 

 ments on herbage, 94; freo day, 133, 

 172 ; gardeners' examinations, 20, 

 188 : Pea and Potato trials, 22 ; 

 Seed Adulteration Committee, 281 



Hospital horticulture, 264 



Hotbeds, leaves and dime for, 445 



Hot water in trough s, 347 



Houdans, IS. 52, 67. 214, 289. 852; 

 chickens, colour, of 36; points in, 

 200; and Hambursbs as layers, 414 



H'lya caniosa culture. 327 



Hunslet Poultry Show, 158 



Hurst, Mr. William. 504 



Hyacinths — prizes for at Royal Horti- 

 cultural Societv's show in 1869, 115; 

 for exhibition, 144 ; in pot^, 328, 462 ; 

 soil for, 328 



Hyde, The, 3 



Hydrangeas, hardy, 447 



H\'pocaust heating at Leeds Castle, 

 226 



Ice plakt — iiANAGEMENT ; propaga- 

 tion, 327 



Xlchester, the JEonrth Earl a lover of 

 plants. 243 



Indiarubber tree, cutting down, 82 



Insects— and weeds, 21: destroying, 

 72 ; luminous. 359 



Ipoma-a hederieftjlia, 13 



Ipswich Poultry Show, 349, 370 



Iresine Lindeni, 114 



Irish Royal Agi'icultural Society's 

 Poultry Show, 180 



I vv— propagating, 32, SOS; on trees 

 466 



jACKiiiN & Son's Nurseht, 188 



Jasmine propatjation, 213 



Jasminum granditiorom flowerB fall- 

 ing, 425 



Jer-sev — fragments, 202; Autumnal 

 Fruit Show, 801 ; for winter, 883 ; ve- 

 getables in, 3s4; its live stuck, 433, 

 5l:( : Poultry Show, 5iO 



.Tohnstone Poultry stow, 481 



July, plants flowi-riup in. Ill 



June, plants flowering m, 41 



Justicia speciQ£U mildewed, 270 



Kale, TBtJB Scotch, 356 

 Kalosanthes, watering, 485 

 Keighley Poultry Show, 351 

 Kettering Poultry Show, 120 

 Keynes's nurseries, 128 

 Kidney Beans, 210; culture of, 47, 844 



forcing. 4uS 

 Kilmarnock Poultry Show, 449 

 Kimpton Hoc, 3 

 Knareaborough Poultry Show, 197 



LaBP.LS— GARDEN, 498 



Labourers' condition, how to improve 

 475 



Ladder for fruit-fathering, 26 



La Fleche, cock's comb, 124; cock 

 characteristics, 352 



Lapageria rosea from seed, 49 ; prun- 

 ing, 426 



Larch trees, barking, 138 



Lasiandra macrantba, 207 



Laurels, propagating, 28S 



La^vns — Dutch Clover i;. grass for, 

 167; Dutch Clover for. 183: weedy, 

 327; disfigured by trampling, 388; 

 m.tnagement, 464 



Leaf-collectin^', 408 



Leather refuse for Vines. 154 



Leavenworthia aurea, 207 



Leeds Horticultural Show, 187 



Leeds Poultrv Show, 48R. 471 



Leigh Poidtry Show. 254 



Leighton Buzzard Show. 469 



Lettuces, 304 ; culture, 344 



Leueadendron argentenm sowing, 289 



Lever, handy and powerful, 78 



Liliums- auratum, fine, 116, compost 

 tor, 174, sowinji seed, 271, rubrum 

 vittatum, 28, 62, etem broken otT. 82 ; 

 giganteuni. potting, 289; lancifoli- 

 um, exhibiting, 100. ite treatment 

 after flowering. 137, culture, 252. 

 potting 307 : tigi-inum splendeus, 204 



Lily of the Valley forc:ng, 408 



Lime and leaves, ?47 



Linaria oriLianifoiia orii8SifoUa.264 



Lindley Library, gift to, 133 ; Queen's 

 gift to, 406; Library, works in de- 

 fective, 462 



Litter, securing, 365 



Liverpool — improvements. 42 ; Winter 

 Show, 420 : Poultry ^how. 488 



Llandudno Childi'cn's l-loral Society, 

 340 



Loam, 447 ; defined, 82 



Lobelias, new, 6 



Long Sutton PotUtry Show, 0", '-■••yj 



Longtown Poultry Show, 4611 



Lucerne culture, a06 



Luton Hoo.2 



Lowestoft Poultry Show, 490 



Lychnis Lagascfe, 441 



Magnolias, propagating, 252, 288 



Mahaleb Cherry stock, 425 



Maiden fmit tree, 328 



Malays, exhibiting, 70 



Manchester Botanical and Horticiil- 

 cuitural Show, 185 - • 



Manchester Poultrv Show, prize 1^ 

 214,232: Show. 25fi, 273, 503 ' ' 



Manley Hall. 335, 457 ' ^ • 



Manures, what constitutes, 409 



Manuring, 386 



Market gardening about London and 

 Paris, 315, 375, 436 



Masdevallia Veitcliiana, SSI 



Matched fowls in a pen. 414 



Mealy bug— on Cucumber plants, 100 ; 

 destroyinpr, 486 



Medlars, 25:i ; presening, 326 



Meigle Poultry Show, 158 



Melons — imprepnating flowers. 12 ; 

 training, 13; seed ck-aneing_, 31: 

 plants, habit of gro^^'th. 68; frmt not- 

 setting, 66; thrips on, 82; growing 

 in ground \'ineries. 127; seed germi- 

 natmg in the fruit, 194 ; seed pilfered 

 at shows, 213; .seed, spurious, 839; 

 good varieties, 378 ; Golden Quean, 

 ;s80, 425 : for June, 425 



Meteorological en'ors, 244 



Meteorology. 31 



Middleton Poultry Show, 284 



Mignonette — cutting back, 109; for 

 winter flowering, 118 



Mimulus tricolor, 328 



Mice, trapping, 6ul 



Mistletoe sowing, S3 



Moles, 345 



Monizia edulis, 114 



Morley Poultry Show, 233 



Moss, to dye green, 38 



Mote, The, 810 



Moulting— food during, 200, 219; treat- 

 ment during. 2^6 



"MouvemenlHorticole de 1367," 420 



Mulchmg, 80. 447 



Musa Cavendishii, 308 



Mushrooms — after Cucumbers, S3; 

 failing in hot weather, 76: not swell- 

 ing, 101 ; in the fields, l.'i4 ; preserv- 

 ing for winter use. Iho, 218; bed 

 making, 212; culture, S17, yi4, 41ft, 

 440, 445, 502; on a grass plat, S07 ; 

 under a summer house, 846; spawn- 

 ing beds, 38y 

 Myrica Nagi, 206 

 Myrinpbyllum verticillatam, 1E4 

 Slyrtles pot-bound, '^12 

 Mysore Agri-Horticultnral Society, 338 



