INDEX. 



AltRRBEEN PorLTBV SHOW, TiS 

 Afcrinj^on Ponltry Show, 2K4 

 Atrhinn-nofl— wiiterintr, 243 ; select, 174 

 Acaricus timpntariiis, 39ti 

 .Vir-givinE. 15tj, 451) 

 AllamandaB— Scbotlii, 117: startinfr, 



191 

 AUoplectus oapitatus culture, 340 

 Aniai-yUitj— cullurf, -2" ; PriTice Teck. 



■296 

 Amateurs. hinlH for, 21 

 American blit'bT. r»4 

 Atnericau planth — manasiliC. 394: 

 Watercr & Godfrey's, 408 ; at Regent'a 

 Park, 408 

 Ammoniacal li<iuor. vaporising with, 



:166 ; for Vmes. 427 

 Andalusian fowl's mi^rita, 231 

 Aiiemniirs—manauement of seedlinp, 



:a6; ftin^'le, 371 

 ViiimalH— sowinir half-hardy, 299 ; to 



bloom in October, 41'J 

 Anthurium Scherzerianum culture, 356 

 Ant8~in a greenhouse, 157,31)5; on a 

 lawn. 229; banishins.', 284; destroy- 

 ing, 327 

 Ap)ielandra Portcaua culture. 381 

 Aphides — destrojing, 355 ; ou fruit 



(reca, 386 

 Apples— for espaliers, 33 ; trees mossy, 

 magRots in.RO: training?, 157; eraft- 

 ?ng, 262; for a trellis. 191; ahoots 

 diseased, 244; bite kitchen, 301; 

 Reinettc. 4t>J: bn.idinc. 460 

 Apricots — un walls. 281 ; rlpenint; of 



orchard house, 453 

 April, plants flowered in. 342 

 Aqnarinm, fish failins in, 12.i 

 Aquatic plants for ponds. 54 

 Araucana— Cunninphamii 8inensiB,9I. 



156: imbricata, 243 

 Arbutus propagation, 244 

 Arcade, evergreen for, 100 

 Arist<»lochia rtngena, 296 

 Amott's stove, 133. 157 ; experience 



with, 27 ; for heating. 94 

 Arams, removing flower stems, 348 

 AsparuKus — culture, 22, 45 ; French, 

 200; beds, aaltinn. 174; from seed, 

 229 ; planting) 244 ; in damp aoili 

 263: planting and mQnuring.364 

 Asphalted roof, water from, 32 

 Asphalt ifardfu walks, 300 

 .\taccia cristata. 342 

 Ancuba japonica. Ifit, 199; berriee, 

 gathering,' and suwing, 229 ; sowing, 

 209: propagation, 1:37: grafting male 

 onf€male,316: berries, 300 

 Auriculas—why are they neglected"? 

 2"5; culture and list, 290; Colonel 

 Chiunpneys, 342 ; season for show- 

 ing, 361 : potting early, 390; potting, 

 436; sowing, 445 

 Australia, treatment of seeds from, 



174; birds in, 1K(I 

 A^uleaa-sboots, aloppinir, 101 ; vary- 

 ing, 191; over-potted, 283; culture, 

 444 



Hao-holder avd tunnel combined, 



27H 

 Baits, poisoned, 226 

 Balsams to flower in August, 331 

 Hamboo plautini,*, 2h3 

 Banknia and (irtvillea cuttings, 880 

 KananiL cnlture, .KM) 

 Bangalore Hurticultural Fpte,257 

 BantamB— t'ar-Iobes of Black, 88; plu- 



mape of Game, 106; dubbing Game, 



122 ; weak-lecKed,268 : chickeoa, 416; 



.arlobes of Black Red, 406 

 Bartie de Capuiin, 380 

 Barn-door fowls. 246 

 BitFketh— plants for. in a greenhouse. 



IIH; for suspended, 229 

 Bath and Wrnt of England Society, 



119; Poultry Show, 413 



Beans, sowing, 133 

 Bedding plants, 379; that winter in a 

 eold pit, 5 : in a pit, 80, lift; yellow, 

 100; hardrnintr-off, 260. 263: for early 

 and late planting out, 336, 357 

 Ecdhngton Poultrv Show, 430 

 *■ Bee-keeping, Piolitable," 399 

 Bees— foul brood; Lijoirian queen 

 raisins, 1'.): doings in a small apiary 

 in 1867. 38, 63 ; honey harvest of 1W67, 

 cheap hive. Ligurians. 64; utilising 

 and uniting condemned, 87; bars 

 for supers, gratings to exclude 

 drones, nucleus boxes, comba be- 

 yond bars. 83; utilising and uniting 

 condemned. 105 ; decreasing: hives, 

 changing floor-boards, cork for, 

 106; utilising and uniting con- 

 demned. 121: feeding, dead ejected, 

 bar-frame hive, 122; an American 

 apiary, 145; f.ower for, 146; saving 

 condemned, feeding, 146 ; uniting 

 condemned, food for, management, 

 16'2 ; improved cottage hive for, 

 strange phenomenon in, price of 

 Ligunanandof frame hives, 178; ar- 

 tificial swarming in common hives, 

 179; flowers for, 180: adding Ligu- 

 rian queens, 195; who introduced 

 Litmrians successfully, 196; effects 

 of foul brood. 196 : house, removing, 

 excrement of, hives, drivinc. 196; 

 utilising condemned, 215; distance 

 of flight, artificial swarming in 

 common hives, transferring, form- 

 ing an artificial swarm. 216; conse- 

 quences of mismanagement. 231; 

 neglecting food, pnining combs, 

 forming artificial swarm in unicomb 

 hive,2:^2: Ligurian rjueen's wingtom, 

 250; early drones, 251 ; hive covers, 

 252 : consequences of miamanace- 

 meut, shif ' ing into a new hive. 267 ; 

 comb-construction in Woodbury 

 hives, hives, aspect for bee house, 

 Ligurianising, hives containing 

 empty combs, 268; artificial swarm- 

 ing, feeding, fulling. 288: Ekn-'ptian 

 in Americii. 304 ; Abyssinian, 305 ; 

 hives, dying, feeding, 306; painting 

 straw hives, utilising and uniting 

 c<mdemned, 319; early swarms, 320; 

 varieties in Ceylon, super left on 

 a hive, hives " turpentinv, Buck- 

 wheat as a bee flower. 334 : unjust 

 slaughter. 352 ; h«w to breed pure 

 queens, procuring artificial swarms, 

 frame hives, 353; early drones, 354 : 

 effects of chill on undeveloped 

 brood, management of, 369: breed- 

 ing Ligurians, Koehler's discovery, 

 temporarv support of combs, adding 

 queens, American collateral plan, 

 3H4 ; queen's feLundity, entrance to 

 uupers, 399; sttoni; r. weak swarms, 

 415; feeding confined, 416; capping 

 a hive, 416; strong versim weak 

 swarms, raising queens, 431; re- 

 moving hive to bee house, 432; hiv- 

 ing, 449; drivintr, weak s ock, feed- 

 ing confined. 45t); artificial swarming 

 in I'ciiiiiiinii lines, (ierman centri- 

 fugal boney-fxtructing machine, 465; 

 improved wax-melting apparatus, 

 not swanning, 466 



Beet— Red, varieties of, 136 ; as a 

 flower-iiarden plant, as ft dessert or- 

 nament. 360; as a bedding plant, 

 385 



Begonias— Veitchii and rosieflora, 71 ; 

 fine-foliage.l. 30; elandulifera. 239; 

 falcifolia, 342 ; Sutherlandi, 170 



Belladonna Lihes.255 



Bt rberidopsis corallina culture, 445 



Berry Hill. 26 



Bignonia jasminoidcs not Qowering, 

 54 



Bird'^-ne^it Fern blnckeoed, 381 



Birds r. frvit bu<ls, 141 

 Birmingham Poultry Show, S32 



Bliffhia sapida culture, 229 

 Boilers, 224. 271.395; setting a saddle- 

 back, 100 : Marriott's, 127 ; portable, 

 282; forst.»veH,30H 

 Bone dust li»r lawn, 191 



Bones— dissolving, 14; by potash, 78 



Bo^'^'^ for a young gardener, 117 



Bo: I flowers, neglected, 341 



Bn7-.->.i>Io— Melville's Improved Varie- 

 gi'-d, 167: as a dessert ornament, 

 360 



Botanical spccimena, drying, 78 



Botanic (Royal) Societv's Shows, 390, 

 404. 439 



Bottom heat, hot water for. 243 



Bongainvillea glabra, flowering of, 

 380; spectabilifl, 117 



Bouquets, to make skeleton. 456 



Box— propagation, 101 ; edging, clip- 

 ping', :392 



Brahma Pootras— separate prizes for, 

 16. 102 ; Ught and Dark, 82, 120. 143, 

 15S. 175. 245 ; plumage of dark cock, 

 confined. 8M; plumage of Dark, 106; 

 points, ISO; )''/■.>•»»; Hamburt:hs,I43; 

 merits of, 144; classes, 193; ma- 

 nasemeiit, 194 ; bearing down in, 

 lyfi; Light, 212; comba, 216; cross 

 with Dorkings, 246 : breeding Dark, 

 252; and Dorkint's, 264 : web-footed, 

 268; chicken;i' wings twisted, 2HH ; 

 chickenK. giowth of. 3H4 ; Light r. 

 Dark. 394; pri/es. 462 



Breaking-ap common land, 283 



Breasts, crooked, 88 



British flowering plants, 453 



Broccoli— not true, 95; late, 388; large, 

 408 



Broom, cutting-in. 428 



Brussels "■prouts culture, 89 



Buckwheat— sowjnff, 1!)2; for poul- 

 try. 232. 284, 303, 332, 416 



Buddin;.', Thomsi^n's at.vptic for, 365 



Bulbs after flowering, 263 



Bullfinches— breeding, 196 : materials 

 for nest, 252; coughing. 416 



Bush trainins. lyn 



Butter— Beiidin;^ br rail, 146: becom- 

 ing rank, 384 



Cacti— INFESTED by scalk, 245; 

 pruning. 301 ; not Howering, 428 



Ciilah.-ir Bean. 282 



Caladiunis— potting, 141 ; culture, 253 



Calunthe ve^tita culture, 395 



Ca]ceolari.ts, herbaceous, cuttings, 

 101 ; failing. 349 



Caledonian (Royal) Horticultural So- 

 ciety'n shows. 170 



Callistemon lanceolatus propagating, 

 2G2 



Cambridge Poultry Show. 159 



Camellias — select. 33; bloom buds 

 fallim:, leaves sticky, 54; culture, 

 141,261.2711; aphides (m, repotting, 

 348: M.iditme Ambroisc Verachaf- 

 felt. 423; in pots and borders. 444; 

 house for, 445 ; not flowering, 460 



Canada, notes in. 8 



Canaries. 63, iW : lice in cage, 88 ; 

 with larl:. detecting sex, lOfi : asth- 

 matic and bald. 146; staunching 

 tileeding, 122; breedintf. a guide to, 

 195, 2:!1. 266. 287, 333, .398, 399 : Lizard, 

 '^n. 249; singiner, 232: Goldfinch 

 Mules, 2R7 : Lizard, are hvbrids 

 fruitful ? 319 ; hen while sitting, 334 ; 

 eating their eags, 400; breedingNor- 

 wicb.430; long-clawed. 410 



Cannrv rhi)> proiect. 86 

 I Caiiki r in Iruit trees, lis. 'i:^:^ 

 I C:anii;n. riiUure ; for small trarden, 118 



Caiitua ))uvil'olia culture, 316 



Canvas protection for wull trees, 229 



Cflponiaing, 100 

 Carbolic ncid, 376, IS; 

 Carrots. I'oile.l for fowls. IOC 

 Carter .t Co.'s Nursery. 74 

 Caterpillars on beddint,' plants, 94, 

 124, 167, 204 ; on Pelargoniums, 149. 

 158 

 Cattleya amethystogloasa.Tl 

 Cauliflower culture, 298 

 Caution to purchasers, 850 

 Cedru3,lhe genua, 102 

 Celeriac culture, 330 

 Celery, Henderson's Conqueror, 94 

 Celosias to flower in August, 330 

 Centaurea— candidissima from seed, 

 117; culture, 164, 267; propagaiion. 

 197, 219 ; its merits and defects, 254 ; 

 propagation and failure, 292; ragu- 

 sina propasiition, 118 



CeraHtium tomentoaum— edging, 15: 

 cuttings, 262 



Chamierops humilis, transplanting. 

 210 



Charcoal— ashes for manure, 55 ; for 

 composts, 174 



Cliiitsworth, new gardener at. 290 



Clierries— trees decaying, 263 ; cater- 

 pillars on, 316: ripening of orchard 

 house. 453 ; falling, 461 



Chickenhood. 463 



Chickens— fattening. 162; marking, 

 216, 320; spring, 232: payment for 

 rearing, 25'^ ; checking yTowth of. 

 288; rearing spring. 318; rearing, 

 349 ; promoting growth of, deformed. 

 35-1 ; dving in the shells, 396; weak- 

 footed, 4(MI; malformed, 883; fat- 

 tening sprim;. 384 ; dying. 416 



Christmas Rose planting, 261 



Chrysantheinunis — propagating, 80; 

 for a RTeenhouse, ItH 



Churchyard— shrubs, 15 ; planting, 192 



Cider as a lest of Apples, 335 



Cinerarias — losing flower stems. 3.'t; 

 flowers petalless, 80; culture, 141; 

 pottinj:. 174 



Clarke, Major T.. medal to. 126 



Clianthus Dampieri, duration of, 380 



Clav, burninjr. 141 



Clematises -lor training on trees, 80 

 proiniuatint,'. 428 



Clerodendron Thomsona', 117 



Clianthus Dampieri training, 101 



Climbers— pruning, :il ; for stove, 33: 

 for north aspect, 243 ; for green- 

 house and conservatory pillars, 283 ; 

 in-tloor. 403 : for eastern aspect, 428 



Cloche, the, 167 



Cloudbeny, 4Ul 



Coal, economy in, 146 



Coburgia triciiroma. 71 



Coccoloba platycla(4a lor table deco- 

 ration, 108 



Cochin-chinas — jud{,'ing, 81 : scui-fv 

 legged. 122; hackle of Cinnamon 

 hen, 180 ; lees, scurf on, hocks of. 

 216; cock'a bead swollen, 252, 2H8; 

 meat for, 2.52; colour of egL's, 268: 

 chickens dWng in the shell, 820 



Cockerels and pullets, sci)arating, 

 306 



Cochliostema .Tacobianum, 342 



Cockscomb culture. 237 



Cocks fit,'htiiit;. not crowing. 41l. 



Cu'log>ne ciiHtata culture, 21" 



Crtla aemnioata. 239 



'* Coleoptera Hesperidum, ' 223 



Cokuses. sale of. 297, 312 



Collinsia vema. 371 



Colocftsia esculenta. motions. So. 



Combfi— fallen. 146; cause and cure ol 

 crooked. 162 



Combretum purpureum pruning, 1.>m 



("omfrev. 64 ,- . , 



Comjiosts, injudicions complicated, 

 136 



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