INDEX. 



Conifers— aoils and situations for, 

 124 ; on a clay soil, 126 : hardiness 

 of, 164 ; select, 800 



ConBcrvatory — erectinor a small, 

 climbers for. 2i4 ; climbers and other 

 plants, 55. 428 



Copinfis— boards for, 118; for walls, 

 154 ; tile, 209 



Cordon ? What is a, 4, 43. 68 ; training. 

 71, 95,198, 107, 153; Btrainins wires 

 of, 154 



Cork Poultry Show, 59 



Correa culture, '228 



Corynocarpus Ijevigatus, 33 



" Cottage (jardenLUg.'' 259 



Cotton — hvdridisation and culture, 

 126; culture. U7 



Cotyledon veliitina, 71 



Covent Garden Market. 14. 32, 54, 78, 

 99. 117. 140, 156. 173, 190. 209, 227. 242, 

 261, 281, 299, 316, 329, 347, 865, 879, 394, 

 412, 427, 444, 460 



Cows — Kerry. 232; oilcake for. 216 



Cracking of fruit, preventing, 110 



Creve-Coeurs, 232; >*iekle feathers 

 broken, 306 ; described, 461 



Crickets — destroying, 78, 158, 203; 

 in fernery, 830 



Crinum capeuse culture. 101 



Crocker, death of C. AV., 206 



Crocuses— eaten by mice, 33; taking 

 up. 412 



Crop, swollen. 196 



Cropping kitcht-ii garden, 459 



Cruqui't ground, moss and plantain 

 on, 158 



Cross-impregnation, elTect on seed, 

 199 



Crotun maximum, 296 



Crystal Palace, 347; Bird Show, 160; 

 Flower Show. 338 ; Rose Show, 422, 

 454 



Cucumbers— and Melons, house for, 

 79; frames, pain tintr, 102; moving 

 islants, 115 ; ridge, 142 ; early. 172 : 

 lorcing, 189 ; in flued pit. produce of 

 209; bed makin-i, 228; Dales Con- 

 queror, 243 ; ■without artificial heat, 

 :^: heating a hou^e small, 262; 

 not setting, 330; culture, 393: in 

 ^vinter, 848; devoured by rats, 364; 

 woodlice attacking, 365 ; bitter, 365 : 

 growing in boxes, 365 ; leaves flag- 

 ging, 428; producing at Christmas, 

 460 



Cupressus inacrocarpa, 66, 149 ; and 

 other Conifers, 6, 133 



Currants, ti'aining Red, 42S 



Curriers' refuse as a manure, 261 



Custard Apple, cultui-e, 366 



Cutbush's spring flowers, 237 



Cutting — and seedling management. 

 19C; planting, 227; striking, 228: 

 over a flue, 233 



Cyeas revolutu, soil, 15 



Cyclamens— potting, S3; after flower- 

 ing. 243; varieties of PersiTin, 342: 

 africannm culture, 80; repandum, 

 culture, 365 



Cymbidium pendiJum, var. atropur- 

 purea, 423 



Cypresses, straggling, 33 



Cytisus Adami, 428 



D ACTYLIS GLOMERATA VARIEOATA, 

 373 



Dahlias— select. 142; as a bedder, stor- 

 ing tubere, 269 ; imperialis. 278 



Daisies, culture of double, 244 



Dalechampia Eoezliana roeeaculture, 

 1 



Damson trees, removing, 79 



Daphne indica rubra n»t flowering, 

 283 



Darlington Gardeners' Association, 

 206 



Day, hottest period of, 284 



Deciduous shrubs, list of, 80 



Dendrobimn— cumulatum, 296 : uobile, 

 leaves brown. 395 



Dessert, plants for omamentiug, 360 



Dew, cause of on Vines. 244 



Dicentranthera macpvphylla. 239 



Dickson, Mr. J. H., 52 



Dipladenia amoena. 296 



Disa irrandiflora culture, 218 



Dork'iiiiS — roloured, 38 : weight and 

 colour, 106; head and comb turning 

 bliick, colour oi ej-'t-'S, 180; with in- 

 flated abdomen. 19i'>: and Brahma 

 l-'notrrs. 246: their merits. 301; 

 LadvDorldnt-'s troubles, 206 ; roupy, 

 320 : White, death among Grey, 400 



Dovts— young ejected from the nest, 

 252 : dying. 450 



Drncienaa- afew notes on, 25 ; propa- 

 gati ng, 92 



Drit^ron tree of Tencriffe, 52 



Dra.nage, wood for.ldO 



Drainins— laud. 13 : th<*ory, 78 ; an oi*- 

 chard and clay land, 99 



Duiilm Poultry Show. 176 



Ducks— from Isle of Pern, 56 ; keep- 

 in?, 88; Aylesbury with Wild, 106; 

 classes for, 145; pinioned wiM, I'Jti : 

 prizes for. 23i> ; Black East Indian, 

 252: feeding', 268: eggs not hatch 

 inc. food ftu-, 288 ; eggs unfertile,- 

 inarking, 320 : es::s fertile thouLfh no 

 water, excessive layin;j, 350; points 

 ofCarolinaa. 354; layins irregularlv, 

 450 age of Rouen tor breeding, 416 



Dumfries and Maxwelltown Ornitho- 

 logical Society's Show, 37, 61 



Eaton, Mr.J.M.. 285 



Edgings— slate, 324 ; Scdums for. 452 



Eggs— for sitting, 64; marble nest, 

 106; selling. 146; packing. 146. 162, 

 265.302.332,384, 413,448, 462; distin- 

 guishing sex in, 180; double-yolked, 

 keeping, 196: yolkless, of pullets 

 for hatching, 252 ; selling boiled, 265, 

 350 ; with thickened skins, mis- 

 shapen. 288; not hatching, 302, 306; 

 pullet laying soft, 306; hens eating, 

 320 ; chilled, 351 ; protracted hatch- 

 ing, preserving, 354; excess of. 368; 

 hens la>'ing soft, 384; lro';enin the 

 hen, 416 ; moistening when hatching, 

 432 



Emigrants, warning to, 201,342 



Emigration, 239, 277 ; of gardeners to 

 America, 150 



Entomological Society's Meeting, 112, 

 169,223,275,361 



Epacrises — striking cuttiners. 101 ; 

 treatment after flowering, 366 



Epidendrum ibaguense, 423 



Epimediums. 341 



Epwi.rth Poultry Show, 3SA 



Eranthemum aspersum, 423 



Ervthronium giganteura, 423 



Eskdale Poultry Show, 87. 61 



Eucharis amazonica to flower in Au- 

 gust, 330 



Eucudonopsis nEegelioides,396 



Evergreens -list of, 80; in houses, 23; 

 for p\Tamid8. 100 



Exhibitiuns, horticultural in 1868, 857 



Fasciation, 461 



Favourites, old, 293 



Fi.'mery — gro\ving plants in, 174; 

 liquid manure for, 191 ; plants for 

 wall of. 348 



Ferns — proliferous, 7; culture in 

 stoves, 79; propagating proliferous, 

 192; repotting, vaporising, 282; 

 nver-potted, compost for, propagat- 

 ing by spores. '."-:!: mn^t' ^v^d. 444 



"Ferns and Lt. I, i - ' I." 425 



Fevtrfew. Gold. ... 395 



Fife and Kinrui^^ i' ■ Ui shnw, 59 



Figs— falling, 282 : tjxes in a peachery. 

 209 ; casting their fruit, 300 



Fir, sowing Scutch. 191 



Fleas— in hen house, 88 ; driving awav, 

 26ft 



Floors Castle. 113 



Flower-garden — plan, 344; planting, 

 380 



Flower gaxdenBi attractions in small, 

 65 



Flower pots — paper envelopes, 229; 

 where to be had? 255; forms of, 

 361 



'* Flower Garden. Handy Book." 204 



Flowers— of other days, 199, 258; 

 lovely thouffh common, 238; too 

 much neglected, 278: drying, 816; 

 spring, at Mr.W. Paul's, 358 



Foliaged (finf) stove plants. 101 



Forget-me-not for spring blooming, 412 



Fowl-sellers, caution to, 194 



Fowls— soft food for, weighing with 

 head downwards, 38; for a clay soil. 

 119; with ulcerated livers, not lay- 

 ing, 180; dying suddenly, 216 ; mark- 

 ina". ulcerated intestines over fat, 

 232; chilled, pecking each other, 

 S54: rice as food for, 369; dying 

 without apparentcause, 370: hasten- 

 ing moulting, food requii'ed by, eat- 

 ing feathers. 432 



Frames— utilising, 15; lining, 157;pro- 

 pasating. 192 



France and Italv. notes from, 45 



Frosterley Poultry Show, 332 



"French Gardens, Gleanings from," 

 404 



Fruit— growintrfarnorth, 48. 149; trees 

 nnder-potted, 102; in pots, thinning 

 fruit of, 174 ; for north wall. 191 ; pro- 

 tecting pyramid. 193 : thinning blos- 

 soms, 243: bueh, 234, 291: on open 

 walls, at the Moat. 307: remo\ing 

 protection from, 366 ; removing in 

 November, 380 : lichens on. 433 



Fuchsias — wintered in a cellar. 142; 

 growing for exhibition. 191 ; repot- 

 tins. shoots diseased. 317 



Fumigating to destroy insects, 31, 355, 

 ogg 



Fumaoe for floe-heating, 100 



Furze for cover, 242 



Galvanised wise teellises, 91, 151, 

 166, 204 



Game coverts, shrubs for, 47 



Game fowls, H17, 331, 350,367,381 ; wins 

 of Brown Paid euck. 64 ; prize sorts 

 and their colours, 31. 177; tails, 82, 

 1 42. 230 ; classes for, 264 ; plumage of 

 Indian, 288; judging, 302; diseased, 

 370: breeding, 397: cock's spur 

 broken, 416 ; in fonuer years, 429, 462 ; 



Gapes, treatment, 400 



Garden, a chat about my, S22 



Gardens, our, 294 



Gardeners" Benevolent Institution^ an- 

 niversary, 279 



"Gardener's Almanack, Poultry-Keep- 

 er's and Apiarian's Calendar," 44 



" Gardeners' Year Book," 73 



Gas— lime for manure, 54, 118; heat- 

 ing by, 79; Shrewsbury apparatus, 

 98 



Gases, plants inhaling noxious, 275, 

 808 



Geese— green, 55 ; management of, 180, 

 2li4 ; hatching, 232 ; numbers bred in 

 Norfolk, 264 ; not laying, 306 ; weak- 

 ness of, 432 



Geonoma magniflca flowering, 174 



Geranium and Pelargonium defined, 

 460 



Gesneras— for winter bloominc, 183; 

 cinnabarina not flowering, 117 ; cul- 

 ture, 149 ; exoniensis, 296 



Ghent International Horticultural 

 Exhibition, 171, 256, 273 



Ginger culture, 317 



Gladioluses- and its culture, 4, 39, 

 147; bulbs keeping, 15; diseases,39: 

 on north aspect, 54; for decoration, 

 147 : list of, 164 ; notes on, 452 



Glasgow Agiicultural Society's Show, 

 464 



Glass— 1". brick walls, 67; structures 

 of for fruit and flowers, 254 ; for 

 fmit-growing, 237 : coiTUgated, 245 ; 

 colouring, 444 ; rendering opaque, 

 461 



Gloxinias— select, 174; watering. 243 



Gnaphalium lanatum cuttings. 262 



Goldfinch, teaching to siult, 450 



Gooseberry— bush caterpillars. 7. 164, 

 191 ; limewashing bushes, 54 ; liquid 

 miinurefor, 191 



Gorse for cover, 242 



Graft, cutting off stock above, 413 



Graftin-,' wax. 54 



Grapes— crossing early hardy, 2: set- 

 ting; air to be moist or dry? 42; 

 Frontignan, 71 ; to set the Muscat 

 of Alexandria, 92 ; Royal Ascot, 94, 

 148 ; atmosphere for setting Muscat, 

 125. 183 ; setting of Muscat, 153, 293 ; 

 Black Hamburghs at Christmas, 192; 

 rust on. 301 : keeping, succession of, 

 shrivellinc whilst younsr, 830; spot- 

 ted, 349, 365. 380 ; preventing damp- 

 ness OM, 372; remaining on the 

 Vine, 380 ; fertilising shy-setting, 

 422; spot on. 427: cracking. Chasse- 

 las Napole -n; mildew on, 444 



Grass— sowinc: seeds, 228: cutting,263 



Gravel on walks not setting, 381 



Green fly— (m fruit trees in bloom. 278, 

 281 ; destro>ing. 355 



Greenhouse— heating and arranginEi, 

 100; plants to flower in June, 157; 

 ventilatimr. 245; removing, heating, 

 and paintintr. 192 : cistern iii, 300 



Grubs, destroying. .395 



Guano, applying to l.iwns. 366 



Guinea fowls, detecting sex, 1b-^ 



Gutters and spouts, 53 



Gymnostachyum Vcrschaffelti cul- 

 ture, 24 



Halifax Poultet Snow, 159 



Hamburghs— r. Brahmas, 148 : pre- 

 venting flyinff. 146 ; eeres of Golden- 

 BpauEled unfertile. 268; chickens, 

 Golden-spantrled. 416 



Hand-lights, wooden framed, 238 



Hanley Poultry Show, 56 



Hants and Berks Poultry Show. 445 



Hardiness of certain shrubs, 283 



Harlaxton.325 



Hatching— the season's, 318, 832. 396, 

 429; tieatment of lien. 396: results, 

 465 



Hawk, life of a tame, 249 



Havs's stove, charcoal for, 70 



Heaths, twelve select, 330 



Heating, 100 ; from a propagating 

 tank, 79; with hot water. 298. 444 



Heekmondwike Poultry Show, 17 



Hedgehogs and black beetles, 18 



Hclges— and shrubs for them, 217, 

 236 ; plants for. 295 



Henhouse, insects in, 432 



Hens — picking cock's comb, 106 ; cock's 

 Sojourn with, 196; layin?. food for, 

 216 ; laving in winter. 280 ; ceasing 

 to lav,* 268; broody, 884; for laying 

 only, 450 



Herbaceous plants — for cold locality, 

 244 ; from seed. 300 



Hewitt, Mr., testimonial to, 193; its 

 presentation. 367 



Hibiscus uiarmoratns. 296 



Hollies— not producing berries, 248 ; 

 gi-aftinir. 282 



Home. 73 



Honey-dew. 411 



Honeysuckle — Variepated Japanese, 

 flowering, 210 ; blight on, 316 



Horlicnltnral structures, patent im- 

 provements. 7 



Horticultural (Roval) Society's sche- 

 dules for 1868, 40, 68; Committees 

 nnd Meetines. 69. 152, 185, 221, 271, 

 3lu. 338, 373.437 ; changes in Council, 

 70; Exhibitions, 110, 127: exami- 

 nations. 112, 117, 126; ballot for 

 plants, 114 : Batemau challenge cup, 

 115; Leicester Show, 95, 126, 187; 

 "Joumnl of Horticulture" Prizes 

 at, 394: General Meeting and Report 

 of Council and Ciswick Board, 128; 



gardens, 150, 187 ; now Scientific 

 Committee, 185, 221, 312; trial of 

 flowers and vegetables by Com- 

 mittees, 20S ; First Spring Show, 

 220; instruction ito young garden- 

 ers, 223 ; drawing class, sale of 

 Coleuses, 279,312; Second Spring 

 Show, 809: florists' flowers at, 324 ; 

 Third Spring Show, 359 : meetiuff of 

 exhibitors, 374; Summer Show, 405 ; 

 judging at, 419, 436; Special Prize 

 and Pelargonium Show, 437 



Hotbeds— managing, 12; over a flue, 

 157; for propagation, 116; for for- 

 warding flowers and vegetables, 

 173 ; of dung, 828 



Hot-water pipes, distance of plants 

 from, 119; length needed, 141 



Houdan.s, 122 ; four-toed, 82, 102, 144, 

 151, 194 ; points in, 146 ; fifth toe, 176 ; 

 their characteristics, 268; markings 

 of. 354; chickens, 416 



Hull and East Riding Poultry Show, 

 368, 383, 432 



Hull Botanical Garden, 424 



Hurdles, painting, 210 



Hyacintlis— compost for, 141; after 

 flowering. 282 



Hybridising at the Chiswick Garden, 

 341 



Hypericum patulum, 170 



Hypoxis elata, 170 



Ice not keeping, 141 

 Illicium religiosum, hardy, 380 

 Incubators — temperature, 146, 306 



advantages of, 369 

 Inflammation in fuwls. 146 

 Influence of male bird,l06 

 Ingram. Mr., SO 

 Insects attacking plants, 355 

 Ipomiea hederafolia for a parlooi" 



trellis, 316 

 Ipsea speciosa, 296 

 Ivies — planting. 79 : pruning, 101 



select variegated, 380 

 Ixias, dividing, 348 

 Ixora culture, S66 



Jakuary, plants in flower DUaiKO» 



136 

 Jedburgh Poultry Show, 104 

 Jersey, Horticultural report of the 



Island. 92 

 Jerusalem Artichokes for fowls, 830 

 Jesse, death of Mr. E., 279 

 Jungle fowl, 196 



Kales, vaeiour, 328 



Kendal Poultry Show. 84 



Kidney Beans— culture, 155: forcing 



Dwarf, 260; culture of dwarf, S80; 



sowmtr, 346 

 Koehler'a discovery, 384 



LABrRNUMS — PRrsiNG, 395; with va 

 rious-coloured flowers, 421 



Langholm Poultry Show, 37 



Lapageria rosea — culture. 90. 229 

 watering, 228 ; and splendens, 125 



Lark with cinaries, 106 



Latania borbonica, soil, 15 



Laurels- New Zealand, 33: prunins, 

 348 : hardiness of common, the Col- 

 ehiau, 417, 453; striking cuttings, 

 428 



Laurustinus transplanting, 124 



Lawn mowers, sharpening, 262 



Lawns— weeds on. 244 : mossy and 

 coarse. 330 ; applying guano to, 366 ; 

 management, 426 ; mossy, 460 



Layering, Indian mode. 313 



Leaves— collecting. 12 ; forming buds, 

 282 ; skeletonising. 403 



Leeds Gardeners" Friendly Society, 

 95 



Lee, Mr. J. N.. 425 



Leicester Horticultural Show, " Jour- 

 of Horticulture " prizes, ;i94 



Leighton Buzzard Poultry Show, 35, 

 60 



Leschenaultia culture. 381 



Lettuce. so\ving forwinter and sprintr, 

 427 ; producing at Christmas, 460 



Lice on fowls, i^ 



Lichens— on forest trees, 183; on fi-u\t 

 trees, 433, 456 



Liliums and their culture, 181; ma- 

 nure water for, 300; auratum. Uil; 

 producing small bulbs, 32 : price of, 

 210; Brownii, 101: tigauteum cul- 

 ture, 80; monadelphum superbum. 

 54 ; description of speciosum va- 

 rieties, 123; Thunbergianum par- 

 dinum, 423 



Lilies. Guernsey, &c., not flowering, 

 210 



Lilv of the Valley planting, 142; pre- 

 paring for forciug, 293 ; forcing, 322 ; 

 remarks on, 457 



Lime-for fowls, 162; sulphate of as a 

 manure. 379 



Limv rubbish. 174 



Lindlev Library, 424, 441 



Liquid manures, 443 ; smell from, 928 



Lobelias— from seed, 54 : propagating, 

 141; Bpeciosa as a decorative plant, 

 233: erinus speciosa, 291 



Love Birds, 146 



