INDEX. 



ABERGAVENNY Pot'LTBY SlIOW, 323 



Acacia— longiflora, scale on, 451 ; not 



flowering, 469 

 Acbimenes done blooming, 245 

 Acorns culamus, planting, 92 

 Adiautuui cuiu atum ill a sitting- 



room, 42 

 Agrostis Btolonifera angustifolia, 815 

 Air. giving, 4Ky, 491 

 Aldborough Poultry Show, 174 

 Aldcrshot soldiers' garlens, 815 

 Ale and beer, difference, 245 

 Alexandra Park, 185 

 Allerton Poultry Show, 154 

 Alocasia maerorhiza decaying, 299 

 Aloyaia citriodora propagating, 110 

 Alpines, 207 ; early-blooming, 283 

 Alternanthernspathulatu and Bcssilis 



III: ih-I. .(, 1, ;.' 'I 

 AlyBStim CUttingS, 163 



Amaryllises, 16 



American blight. 71 



Among the Scottish braes, lochs, and 

 mountains. 118, 147, 159,219, 311 



Anacharis alsinastrnm, clearing a 

 pond of, llo 



Ancylogyne longiflora,27 



Anemones, planting, 151 



Anprwcum Chailluanuni, 27 



Annuals tor spring blooming, 331 



Anthoxanthum odoratum, 296 



Ants, 187; destroying, 208; driving 

 away, 319 ; on Peach shoots, 332 



Aphelandra Leopoldi culture, 84 



Aphis, of what use V 319 



Apples— can the graft be longer-lived 

 than the parent tree? 91; storing, 

 226; for dwarfs, 245 ; in Russia, 261 : 

 fowls eftting) 288; pruning, 300 ; list 

 of 354; for pigs, 360; propagating, 

 875; transparent, Ac. 393; for 

 bashes and pyramids. 413 ; for espa- 

 liers, 451 ; large old. 465 



Apricot trees, culture in orchard- 

 honseB, 87 : mising (rom seed, 102 ; 

 pruning, 151 ; fruit late in ripening, 

 152; forming standard, 355; hardy 

 447 : for wall, 46;i 



Arabis, Golden, culture, 283 



Aralia trifoliate, 283 



Araucaria imbneata, 272 



Areca Baueri culture, 413 



Artichokes, 233, 298 



Arundo conspicua, 299 



Ash, grafting, 375 



Asparague — beds, dressing. 207 ; 

 transplanting old, 246; beds, 298; 

 forcing, 382, 411 ; planting, 414 ; times. 

 of tirsl cutting, 424 



Aspho-1 I 



Asters, seeds, 226; seeding, 9.37; in 

 pots. 300 



Aucuba seed, 34; hermaphrodite, ill, 

 447 



Azaleas— Charmer, Vivid, 127; lions- 

 Sing, 215; thripu on, 451 



Bantams — Postaks'S and Ratnor's 

 Game. 193,212; Game, 281; improv- 

 ing colour, 234 : breeding Duck- 

 wing, 363; with Dorkings, 380; esti- 

 mate of varii ties, 880 



Barnslcy Poultry Show, 282 



Basket plants for conservatory, 374 



Battersea Park. 216 



Baxter, Mr. W. 11.,.* 



Beauty in fowls, who shall dee'dc 

 what is? 452 



Bed, centre for ilowt r garden, 147 



Bedding plants, white, 16 ; at the 

 Slough Nursery, 63 ; in Now Jersey, 

 78; propagation of, 97, 143: annual, 

 254 ; wintering, 271 ; scarlet, '293 ; 

 wintering in Irames, SOU; in win- 

 dows, 837; in cold frames, 48J 



Bees— my apiary, 17 ; nadiring, regi- 

 cide, forming stocks from ion- 

 *^ demned, 18; swarm reeo%"ered. in a 

 chimney, sparroAs eating, driving, 

 ^T swarms returning, 3G; superiority 

 "JJ of Ligurian, e cond twarcoe, '.aking 



Bees— Continued. 

 honey from supers, S7 : diacrting 

 hives, artificial swarms, strengthen- 

 ing Ligurian Btock, preventing 

 swarming, value of second swarniF, 

 transferring. 38; d}ing of dysen- 

 terj*. Ligurians in Staffordshire, re- 

 gicides, 54 ; warning, unit ing, super- 

 stitions about. 55; ferocity of In- 

 dian, 56; size of hives, block, 75; 

 nniting weak stocks, removing a su- 

 per, green honcv, notes and queries, 

 76; the Egyptian, 75, 94,114,155,251. 

 305,438,841,358,416.458; painless ex- 

 tinction of drones, hiving a swarm m 

 a chimney, is the Ligurian more pro- 

 lific than the common? 95 ; uniting, 

 96; taking honey from frame hives, 

 larva? on hive-board, driving and 

 uniting, attaching combs to bars, 

 stupefying, keeping in Warwick- 

 shire, 113; removing snpers, driving, 

 Woodbury hives, putting in guide- 

 combs, sparrows eating, longevity 

 of, 115: LigTirian, prolificacy of, 

 &c, 134, 135; longevity. 135: n de- 

 throned queen, transferring, honey 

 harvest in Oxfordshire," hiving 

 Bwarm in a flue, proposed hive, 136 ; 

 price of Ligurian, 155: tnking 

 honey from side boxes and supi-rs, 

 B. & W.'s apiary in 1866. uniting, 

 156: appearance of Ligurians in an 

 apiary, winter protection for hives, 

 straightening combs, taking honey, 

 176; writing extraordinary, 192; 

 uniting and feeding, Ligunauised, 

 plurality of eggs, 193; a sorrowful 

 tale of, unproductive, 194 : cheap 

 supers, as regicides, in Huntingdon- 

 shire, fertile workers. 213: manage- 

 ment, unwelcome visitors, 233 ; 

 righting, preventing swarming, 

 space between hive and cover, ants, 

 feeding, covering, 2:14; honey har- 

 vest, wooden-topped straw 'hives, 

 250: at the Crystal Palace, saving 

 condemned, 251; house for, 252; 

 keeping in Yorkshire. 269; saving 

 condemned. 270; cheap Ligurian 

 queens, empty black comb, 270; 

 w. igbt for stocks, storifled hives, 

 •1^1 : unwelcome visitors, loss of 

 swarms, in Stewarton hives, 288; 

 "P. A: W.'s" apinry in 1866,353; 

 difficulties of adding a Ligurian 



queen, 3'J3 : invading-wasps, late 

 feeding, taming, 324 ; exchanging 

 queens, 342: "B. &W.'s" apiary in 

 IS S6; vagrant notes, S59; taking 

 comb from bar hive, a late swarm, 

 hybridisation, 380, 437, 496; hybri- 

 disation versus drones, in a small 

 apiary, 399: chilled brood, 400; 

 Stewarton hives, early breeding, 

 117 ; warmth needed, destroying 

 droncB,418; taking honey from bar 

 hives, 458; in North Lincolnshire. 

 457; winter of 1865-6, feeding. Egyp- 

 tian v. Italian, 458: Btingh I 

 serting a Hi ighbour's hive, regicide, 

 476; Stewarton hives, 496 



Begonia fuchsioides, resting, 354 



Belladonna Lilies notrloweriug, S94 



"Benedicite," 4.84 



Birds of prey in Essex, 54, 94, 113; 

 netting to exclude, 110 



Birmingha u Columbarian Societr. S57 



Birmingham Poultry Show, 404, 453, 

 471 : schedule, 2:if>."26.s: entrii 

 prlre list, 209; prize list defended, 



Bitter Bash, 2~:> [337 



Blandy, Mr. J. J., death of, 204 



Bloomsbury Flower Show, 62 



Blue Gum tree, 207 



Boilers, lss, 374,451 



Bolbophyllum reticnlatum, 276 



Bones, dissolving, 186 



Borders— note on heating, 144 ; manur- 

 ing fruit tree and Vine, 151 ; plants 

 for a north, 433 ; inside, 45'.» ; near a 

 flue, Xrl 



Borecole, sowing, 149 



Botanic (Royal) Society's Show, 25 



Bottom heat, pipes for, 491 



Bougainvillaea tplenuens, wintering, 

 815 



Bouquets— Princess Hdcna's Iridal, 

 i2 ; Covent Garden, 41U 



Itowlinp-green, rtnovoting, 314 



BrachyBtelma Barheria?, 369 



Brahma Pontras, 357 ; vnltore-hoekcd, 

 79, 131, 152, 173, 209, */66, 284 ; weak- 

 kneed, 96; Light, at the Birming- 

 ham Show, 232. 922 ; with powerless 

 legs, 322: 1 arly layers, 824: laying, 

 S60; cockerels, 880 ; breeding from 

 young, 4(0; as egg-producers, 455; 

 cocks at Biiniinghani, 476; Dark, 

 476 



Breeding-in-ond-in. 458 



Brighton Poultry- Show. 454. 458 



l-,-i : ■ : : ... SUaVeOtCLB it ;, \ i , fall 



ing, 16 

 Budding in spring, S;9 

 Bude Haven Poultry Show, 73 

 Bulbs— culture of early-blooming, 243; 



planting, B86; done blooming. 354; 



to bloom simultiiutouslv, 374 

 Bullfinch-ubthii.atif, 116; sick, 360, 



400 

 Bury St. Edmunds Poultry Show,35 



Cabbage— main eafly sowing, 109 ; 

 sowing Drumhead. 130 



Cacti propagat'ng, 227 



Caladiums— Bhading, 16; for exhibi- 

 tion, 52 



Calceolarias— culture of herbaceous, 

 21,46,469; sowing, 91: propagating 

 by cuttings, ill; wintering, 228,854 ; 

 cuttings. 271 



Caledonian (Foval) Horticultural 

 Society's Show, 200 



Calycanthus oceidentalia fruiting, 

 315 



Cambridge Poultry Show, 232 



Camellias — repotting, 51 ; housing. 

 245; Bix Belf-coloured, 300: buds fall- 

 N ■. : pruning, S98 



Campanula carpaiica as a bedder, 

 257 



Canada— horticultural enterprise in, 

 85 ; East, garden ng in. 407 



Canaries — treatment of young, 96: 

 mules breeding, 116; bald-headed, 

 476 



Cannas, 230: nigricans withering, 111 ; 

 roots, wintering, 300 



Canker in Apple trees, 4:-;3 



Cardoons, blanching, 151 



l : ons, defined, 83; self-coloured, 

 71 



Carrots failing, 319 



< lart, a useful garden, 146 



1 or-oil Plant culture, 427 



Catai in Hamburgh s, 400 



Cauliflower culture, 262 



Cedar seedlings, 374 



Celery— culture, 32, 129, 14:, 2C2 ; earth- 

 ing up, 224 



.1 ragusina culture, 130; can- 

 didissima cuttings, 283 



Cerastium t omen to sum weedy, 171 



Ci strum aurantiacum flowerh ss. 227 



Chelmsford Poultry Show, 'JIM. S22 



Cherries— Bohemian lilac:, Bigarreau, 

 27; guarding, 70: winter-pruning 

 Morello, lift: preserving on the 

 trees, 187 : for N.W. aspi it. 189; <»c- 

 i ber, 827; unfruitful, 354 ; Ludwig's 

 Bigarreau, 464 



Chickens— dying. 38, 288: inflamed 

 vents in. 88: drooping, 56; blind, 

 56; rattling in throat, 56; cramped, 

 96: unable to Stand, 116; feeding, 

 136: cost of rearing for tabic, 156; 

 d< dining, 194: double-bodiwl, 28s ; 

 rearing artificially, 857 



Chilopsis saligna, S15 



aam Poultry Show, 464 



Christa as carol, a prose, 477 



Chrysanthemums — Sensation, 257; 

 buds, thinn ng, 283; and their 

 stakt s, 290 ; Stoke Newington Show, 

 367; propagating, 874; Salter'B, 387 ; 

 Korsvth'p, 888; reflexed, lor exhi- 

 bition, 438 



Cider-making, 270 



Cinerarias— culture, 88; bedding out. 

 92; winieiing, t54; flowering un- 

 seasonably, 469 



Cirencester Poultry Shew, 73 



Cistus seed Bowing, 413 



CiesuB discolor, wintering, 469 



Clay burned too hurd, 469 



Cleansing operations, 853 



Clematis dackmrmni culture, 130; 

 Bubella and Lanuginosa Candida. 

 276; manuring, 284 



Clerodendrons, Thomsona? and T. 

 Balfourianun),318: pruning,469 



Cleveland Poultry Show, 268 



Climlerp for gieenhonse, 16; for a 

 fence, 228 



Clitheruc Poultry Show, 133 



Club, remedy for, ISO 



Cochins, 252 ; hen injured, IP; white, 

 52,285: head swolltn, 56, 324: cross- 

 bred, 136; vulture hock in, 152, 173: 

 faces swolltn, tail and flight fea- 

 thers, 176; extra prizes for Buff, 209; 

 dark producing white chickens, 214; 

 extra prize for dark, 234: cock's 

 plumage, 342; cock's comb lopping, 

 418; Buff. 455; combB of, 476 



Cockscombs, Fowing, 227 



Cocoa-nut fibre reiuBe, 158, 337; uses. 

 215,237 



CcelogT.ne eoirugato, 276 



Coitus Vcrschanclti as a bedder, 825: 

 sowing, 470 



Colaml sxian Society's Slow, 475 



" Columbarium, The," 286 



Combrelum micropetalun, 464 



Concrete for Vine 1 order. 208 



Conifers, 366: at Woodlands, 160; at 

 Linton Park, 291,308,330; planting. 

 355; from cuttings and seed, 3:5; at 

 Lill. t-d.n, 407 



Conservatories —climbers for. 51, ISO : 

 plants for, 283; plants lor beds in, 

 319; temperatures, 337; warming ;i 

 Binall, 491 



Continent, horticulture en, 121, 163, 



259, 443 

 Convolvulus arvensis and scpium. 

 destroying, 150 



Cordylino rubra culture, 413 

 Cossignia bcrbonica, 245 

 Cottage Garden Societies, hints to. 

 103 



< ottingham Poultry Show, 1S1 

 Cotyledi n fascicularis, 276 

 Countrv scraps, 7, 64 



Covent Garden Market, 16, 33, 51, 72, 

 SI. 109. 129, 150, 170, 188, 206, 236, 24 4. 

 264, 282, 21 9, 818,886, ::. r .3, 373, 392, 412. 

 iZl, 450, •!''■■-, 191 : prices, 227 



Coverings ol straw, 448 



Cows, Bretagne, 76; long dry, 418 



Cramming rowls, 458 



Cranberry culture. 394 



< Iratsgus ] yracantha, 369, 404 

 Craven v\gricultural Society's Poultry 



Show, 153 



Creve Cosur fowls, 400: white, 5G 



Crickets, destroying, 245 



Crook Poultry Show, 282 



Crops, swollen, 56 



Croton hnmile, 279 



( rystal Palace Show, 196 



Cucumbers— culture. 69; thin-ended. 

 188; house, 26.".: seeding <<f, 276: 

 promoting seeding. 314, 815: grow- 

 ing for exhibition, 348; Maaiers's 

 Pmlitic. 447 ; with Vidch. 451 



Cumberland Poultry Show, 475 



Cuprtssus macroenrpa, 164 



Currants — pruning, 151 ; preserving 

 fruit on the bushes, 187; Black. 

 unfruitful, 227 ; bushes protecting. 

 432 



Cuttings, wintering, 2SS 



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