INDEX. 



.\berdeen PoiTLTay Show, 36,58 



Acacias— for pot-culture, 229 ; pubea- 

 cena not flowerinft, 316; dealbata 

 unhealthy, 353 



Achillea Clavennrp, 389 



Achiinenes— seedlmKs, 12; culture, 41 



Ai-'rides odoratuni ttpotted, 316 



jEschynanthus splendens, culture of, 

 353 



Air-givinff, 149, 407 



Alocasia metallica culture, 333 



Allotment pardeninK. prizes for, 286 



Amaryllis seedlincB, 12 



Amarantbus tricolor, 289 



American plants exhibited, 432, 484 



Amheratianobili8,219, 240; flowering, 

 161 



Ammonia water in vinery, 424 



AnaectocbiluB Dominii, 133 



Andalueian fowls, 176 



Annuals— for border, 72; a few good, 

 177: sowing, 207; to bloom in Au- 

 gust, 263 ; half-hardy, sowing, 315 



Anteunaria margaritacea and tomen- 

 to33, 389 



Antipodes, horticultural exhibition 

 at. 105 



Ant3 — banishing, 133 ; in orchard- 

 bouse, 249; black, to drive away, 

 353 ; in flower-pots, 446 



Apbelexia culture, 199 



Aphis, brown, destroying, 331 



Apples— trees insected, 73 ; cntting for 

 grafting. 132 ; in orchards, 357 ; fruit 

 gathered in January, H5 ; pips sow- 

 ing. 94; stocks for, 124; list of, 132: 

 Caivillo Blanche, 140; Newtown and 

 Paradise Pippins, 228; Pommier de 

 Paradis as a stocky 124, 255 ; on Pear 

 stocks, 264; merits of stocks for, 

 369 ; on French Paradise, 270 



Apricots— pruning, 316 ; not fruiting, 

 370 



Aquatic plants for out of doors, 386 



Arctotis argentea, 389 



Artemisia argentea, 389 



ArticbokeSj 462 



Ash— training a weeping, 207 ; Black, 

 366 



Asparagus— beia, 51; salt for, 296; 

 for London market, 133; culture, 

 204 



Asters in pots, 445 



Aucuba — ^^laponica fruited as a dinner- 

 table plant, 27 ; berries, sowing, 

 113; japonica variegata. 125 



Auriculas, 123; Gem and King of the 

 Crimsons, 440 



Aylesbury drakes, distinguishing, 

 120 



Azaleas— watering foliage. 12 ; list of, 

 95 ; growing prLinaturely, 133 ; now 

 hybrid, 160; repotting. 264; tbrips 

 on, 264 ; management of, in a room, 

 409; after blooming, 444; at the 

 International Horticultural Exhi- 

 bition, 454 ; cuttings, 462 



Bala-phool, 247 

 Balsam, hints on culture of, 239 

 Bank, Roses and Laurels on. 32 

 Banquet at the Guildhall, 401 

 Bantams— overfed, 40; breeding Se- 

 bright. 20; Game. 95, 134, 153, 172, 

 191, 209, 230; with Cochins, 266" 

 Russian, with Creve Coeurs, 800. 

 rearing Black, 374; lalling back- 

 wards, 388 

 Barleymeal as food for fowls, 412 

 ^ Barometer, a natural, 454 

 i^ Baskets on a lawn, 27d 

 JS Basswood, 366 

 M. Batemannia graudifiora, 2S7 



Bath and 'West of England Society's 

 Poultry Show, 446, 484 



Banhinia tomentosa clabra, 125 



Beds— planting circular, 8; plants for, 

 353 



Bedding out, 207 ; plants, wintering, 

 85 ; notes on, 257 



Bedding plants, white, 370 



Bees— ''B. & W.'b" apiary, honey 

 harvest, 19 ; dysentery, pollen-ga- 

 thering on Chri8tmas-<iay, feeding 

 rescued. 20: foul brood, 39 ; dysen- 

 tery, Lignrians crossed with black, 

 crown-boards, cleaning floor-board,' 

 40 ; foul brood, 59 ; winter ventila- 

 tion, dysentery, 60; "B. & "W-'s" 

 apiary m 1865, 80 ; apiarian notes, 

 81 ; dropsy in, driving, mouldy 

 combs, 82; queen encasements, 96; 

 Ligurians, stand, aspect, 98 ; re- 

 gicidal attacks, queen encase- 

 ments, 120 ; pollen-gathering, in Scot- 

 land, 135 ; apiarian notes, 136 ; Wood- 

 bury hive, house, 136; hive-making, 

 night excursions, 156; frame-hives, 

 foul brood in America, cure for dy- 

 sentery,157 ; fountains, pollen gather- 

 ing, flowers, hiving, 158; apiarian 

 notes, 175 ; driving without revers- 

 ing, di'opsy in, uniting etocks, 

 176; hives making, 191; Ligurian, 

 honey harvest, opening a Woodbury 

 hive, spring feeding, dysentery, 

 192 ; in American cities, Lignrians, 

 supers and collaterals, wintering, 

 longevity, 211; teansferrintj, Wood- 

 bury hives, common and Ligurian 

 in one apiary, 212 ; comparative 

 longevity, Woodbury hivts, 233 ; 

 feeding hives for profit, altering a 

 Nutt's hive, how we introduced Ita- 

 liims without losing them, 234; pre- 

 venting swarming, removing stocks, 

 250 ; improved frame hive, 265 ; 

 changing a Nutt's to a bar hive, 

 Ligurians in Palestine, 266 ; in Pales- 

 tine, hunger awarm, dysentery, 281; 

 leeding and shifting', 282; longevity 

 of Ligurian and black, improved 

 frame hives, catching titmice, 282; 

 their recollection, 299 ; improved 

 frame hive, managing Ligurian, 

 preventing swarms escaping, pros- 

 perous, which is the best hive? 

 300; burying a hive, removing by 

 rail, 320 ; in Holy Land, fertile work- 

 ers, combs broken down, 335 ; tomtit, 

 improved frame hive, ceased work- 

 ing, cleaning floor-board, 336 ; me- 

 mory of, the tomtit a foe to, early 

 swarms, frame hives, Ligurian, mis- 

 taking a hive, 356: ryemeal a sub- 

 stitute for pollen ? 373 ; novitiate 

 in keeping, frame hives, guide 

 combs, 374 ; Ligurian, tomtits eaters 

 of, early swarm, 388; " The Apiary, 

 or Bees, Bee Hives, and Bee Cul- 

 ture." sparrows eatmg, do swarms 

 ever issue before drones appear? 

 411 ; wintered in the unicomb-hive, 

 412; artificial swarms, hardiness of 

 Ligurian, early swarms, treble 

 swarm, tomtits. 428; supers and 

 swarming, retaining supers after 

 swarming, 448; artificial swarms, 

 strentithening stocks, my apiary, 

 465 ; preventing drone-breeding, cut- 

 ting out combs, 466 ; queen removed 

 in a super, removing from a wall, 

 weight of swanns, care in driring. 

 485; management of supers, spar- 

 rows eating, supe'Stitions concern- 

 ing, Liiguriana i\ black, 486 



Beginners, hints to, 71 



Begonias — baccata, 67 ; for winter 

 flowering, 170 ; not flowering, 817 ; 

 leat-propagating, 370; geranioides, 

 440 



Belladonna Lily, turning out, 279 



Beverley Poultry Show, 426 



Bingley Hall, lirst impressions of, 34, 

 54 



BirminRham— awards, 14; Columba- 

 rian and Bii'd Show, 174 ; Rose Show, 

 455 



Blackbirds— rearing by hand, 336 ; a 

 talking, 427 ; musical, 466 



Blossoms, aiding in fertilising, 220 



Boilers, 106, 166, 325, 333 ; heating two 

 houses from a tubular, 53; upright 

 tubular, 184 



Bois immortel, 151 



Botanic (Royal) Society's Shows, 220, 

 272, 306, 360, 434 



Botany, its advantages to horticul- 

 ture, 400; and horticulture, the ad- 

 vantages of their association, 401 



Botanical Congress Essays, 486, 452 



Bougainvillrea speciosa culture, 317 



Bouquet, Princess Mary's, 451 



Box-edging planting, 94 



Brahmas, 234, 250 ; and Hamburghs, 

 cross between, 176; breathing with 

 difficulty, 466 



Breeding poultry, 212 



Bridgesia spicata hardy, 54 



Broccoli— seed, obtaining pure, 325 ; 

 stumps, 443 



Brugmansia suaveolens— culture, 317 ; 

 buds falling, 445 



Buckwheat, 234; for fowls, 82; sow- 

 ing, 316 



Bulb forcing, 10, 30 



Bull-dog, " King Dick," death of, 427 



Bullfinches, rearing young, 486 



Bull's, new plants at, 339 



Butter— pale in winter. 98; yellow in 

 winter. 158: fickleness of, 212 



Buttermilk for Pigs, 120 



Cabbage and ditto, 424 



Caladiums, aphides on, 277 



Calanthe Veitchii, 125 



Calceolarias — culture of herbaceous, 

 4 : cuttings. 93, 316 ; not striking, 263 



Calico substitute for glass, 333 



Camassia esculenta culture, 386 



Camellias— culture, 53, 159 ; buds and 

 leaves falling, 73; leaves spotted, 74; 

 large standard, 140 ; out of doors, 

 188: flowers poor, 229; potting, 247; 

 leaves browned, 263 ; repotting, 264 ; 

 Nonpareil, 440 



Canaries — Goldfinch mule breeding, 

 136 ; dying, 158, 213 ; pecking the 

 cage wires, 212 



Canes, 418 



Cannaindica, 371 



Cardinal, food for, BT>B 



Carnations, transplanting, 54 



Ceanothus pruning, 446 



Cedar, white, 866 ; ofGoa, 370 



Cedronella cauariensis. 317 



Celery— on damp soil, 132: liquid ma- 

 nure for, 370 ; planting, 460 



Centaureaa, 389 



Cerastium tomentosum ani Bieber- 

 steini, 339 



Ceropegia sororia, 365 



Chamber under glass structure, 112 



Chamcranthemum Beyiichii var. va- 

 riegata. 125 



Cherries, 490 ; grub-eaten, 278 ; netting 

 for, 317 ; at Canterbury, New Zea- 

 land, 344 



Chcilantlies odora culture, 346 



Chickens— marking, 234, 448; hatch- 

 ing, 234; dj-ing, 282; during cold 

 weather, 374 



Chimney, one for two houses, 248 



Chimonauthua fragrana in pots, 

 153 



Chrysanthemums— lona, John Salter, 

 125; Pompone, 257; new, 359 



Church, heating a, 247 



Chum, zinc in, 282 



Cinerarias— without petals, 72 ; seed- 

 lings, 170 ; attacked by aphides, 279 ; 

 culture, 337 ; maritima culture, 206, 



Cirencester Poultry Show, 387, 410 



Citron trees unhealthy, 32 



Clay soil, improving, 32 



Clerodendron ThomsouEe culture, 132 



ClianthuB Dampieri, var. marginata, 67 



Cochin-Chinas — cock's comb, 20; vul- 

 ture hocks in, deficient in size, 39; 

 vulture-hocked, 59, 80, 119; excres- 

 cence in comb, 82 ; scaly legged ,212 : 

 black, 212 ; Butf, 234 ; not laying, 300 ; 

 pullet nesting, 374; eggs unfertile, 

 412 



Cockatoo picking its feathers, 448 



Cocks, deficiency of. 300 



Cocoa-nut fibre, 248 ; exhaustion of 

 supply, 345 ; refuse, 462 ; as a mulch, 

 833 371 



Coleua Verschaffelti for bedding, 278 



Coltsfoot, destroying, 870 



Columbarian Society's Exhibition, 79 



Combs, trimming, 39, 80 



Compasses, beam, 259 



Compost for flower garden, 455 



CouRTess, Botanical, 397 ; M. De Can- 

 dolle'B addiess, 398 



Conservatories— at Kew and Chats- 

 worth, 53; management, 54 ; plants 

 for back wall of, 95, 353 ; plants for 

 piers and walla of, 229 ; climbers 

 lor, 481 



Corktree, transplanting, 11 



Cork and South of Ireland Poultry 

 Show, 38 



Covent Garden Market, 11, 32, 52, 71, 

 111, 131, 150, 169, 187, 205, 227, 247, 

 262, 277, 295, 316, 332, 853, 370, 886, 408, 

 424, 445, 461,481 ; measures at, 72 



Cramp iu fowls, 20 



Cream Cheese. 336 



Creve Cceur— fowls, 334 ; chickens, 448 



Crocuses sparrow-eaten, 72 



Cropping, out-door and double, 225 



Crops of fowls swollen, 388 



Croquet ground, top-dressing. 132 



Crossing fowls, when taint ceases, 

 192 



Crj-stal Palace- Bird Show, 155. 174; 

 Spring Flower Show, 220 ; Show, 

 361 ; Rose Show, 474 



Cuba, 440, 456 . r , 



Cucumbers- constmcting pit for, 13 : 

 in hot-water pit, 73 ; plants decay- 

 ing, 73 ; soil for, 94 ; in a framCj 151 : 

 leaves injured, 152 ; for exhibition, 

 206 ; culture, 220, 251, 293, 385, 42S ; 

 culture and house, 257, 263, 346; 

 leaves injured, 370; thick-ended, 

 278 ; house for winter, 291 ; diseased, 

 425; roots diseased, 462; dying at 

 ends, 462 



Cucumia dudaim, 143 



Cupressua Lawsoniana, 440 



Currants, Black, wild. 367 



Custard Apple, 94 



Cutbush'a show of spring flowers, 239 



Cuttings— hotbed for, 112 ; removing 

 leaves from, 229; propagating by, 

 262 ; frame for, 316 



