IHDEX. 



Painting wood, 47 

 PaJBley Poultry Show, 36 

 Palms— in room, ^3 ; the Oil, 117 

 Pampas Grass— soil lor, 318; catting 



down. 263 

 Pansifs deteriorating, 425 

 Pansv cattinKS, striking, 462 

 Paradise stocks. 162, 11% 193; and 



quince stocks, 143 

 Paris— public trardens of, 42; Exhibi- 

 tion of 1S07, 309, 848 

 Parrot, tamiuc and teachintr, 212 

 Parroquets— Australian Grass, pant- 

 ing, 40; Ringed Bengal, food for, 192; 

 food for Zebra, 250 

 Partridge sitting, 233 

 Paulowniu imperialis, 443; pi-opa- 



gatinp, 481 , . „ _„^ 



Paul's show of spnne flowers, 2i>3 

 Pea Fowls, incubation of, 48fi 

 Peaches— pruner, the modem, 17, 102; 

 tree buds falling, 1)4 ; Early Albert, 

 125 ; trees under glass, 185 ; falling, 

 329; in pots, thinnint,'. 278; stop- 

 ping shoots, 278; blossoms falling, 

 317 ; growing in New Jersey, 328 ; 

 trees shedding their blossom, 353; 

 insect on shoot, 370; leaves blis- 

 tered, 370. 4^:4 ; not fruiting, ?.70 ; 

 profit from forcing, SS4 ; in New 

 Zealand, 381; wall, height uf, 409; 

 forcing, 423 ; leaves falling, 425 

 Pears— trees (bush) on quince stocks 

 in Yorkshire, 21; Chaumontel in 

 Jersey, G3 ; notes on. (if. : Reurre 

 d'.Ynjou, 67 ; Mathews's Eliza, 74 : 

 pips sowing, ii4 : list of late, 132 ; 

 on quince stocks routing, 193; 

 scions, emitting roots, 17U ; rooting, 

 216 ; merits of stocks for, 269 : trees 

 in orchards, 357 : Van Tilon;* Leon 

 Leclerc, 366 ; in New Zealand, 381; 

 profuse shoots of, 446 ; hlooni on 

 young wood, 463 

 Peas— KssexRival. 66,162,263: of good 

 quality, 112; May to Ocluber. 124; 

 green 'now selling, 171; presen-ing 

 green, 206; succession oi, 228; wire 

 netting for, 278 ; protecting irom 

 pheasants, 293; under glass, ^51 

 Peat soil for deodorising, 138 

 Pelargoniums — temperature fur, 12: 

 from seed, 72 ; leaves mildewed, 73 ; 

 seedlings culture, 84 ; stopping and 

 potting, 227 ; peltatum elegans, 329 ; 

 i-unning to leaf, 353 ; stopping. 353 ; 

 Lord Lyon, 416 

 Pens, size of, ti8 

 Peperomia maimorata, 329 

 Peristrophe lanceolaria, 257 

 Petuni a, G iant ^^^lite , 207 

 PhaljenopsJs grandifl.ora,leaves soften- 

 ing, 21S 

 Pheasants— dving, 20; SUver, laying, 



233; Golden, 300 

 Philoperisteron Society's Show, 35 

 Picea Nordmanniana, seed sowing, 



207 

 Pick-boxes, beware of, S34 

 Pigeons— Siberian Ice, 8(. ; Dragoons, 

 119; Dragons white-rumped, 134; 

 keeping, 136 ; sick. 158 : Dragon. 173, 

 232, 298 ; lormer writers on, SlU, 355 ; 

 Powter cock ill, 212 ; wliite-rumped, 

 231,265; distinguishing sex, 250 ; the 

 various Carriers, 281; diseased, ic, 

 466, 486 

 Pigs, feeding with buttermilk, 120 

 " Hnacea," 440 

 "Pine-Apple, Practical Treatise on," 



241 

 Pine Apple— and Mr. Thomson's 

 treatise on it, S40, 363; Queen v. 

 Cayenne, 378 

 Pinks, 113 



Pipes— paint for hot water. 3?. ; care 

 required in laying, iSC ; painting hot- 

 water, 206 

 Pip on chicken's tongue, 176 

 Pits— cold, for winter shelter, 51; 

 altering, 114 ; the iimateur's and cot- 

 tager b, 222; vertiU9 frames. 226; 

 amatetu^s, 296 

 " Plantes a feuillage omemental," 



Andre's, 68 

 "Plantes a fcuilles omementiiles,''107 

 Plants —poisonous to domestic ani- 

 mals, 98; new, 339 

 Plant-houses, small, 408 

 Pleroma elegans culture, 290 

 Plum, Black Damask as a stock. ;'.2 

 Plunging-materi;U, 279 

 Polychilos comu-cervi, 329 

 Podophyllum Emodi, 453 

 Poinsfctiia pulcherrima cultm-e. 100, 



20O 

 Pollen-gathering in January, !)8 

 Polygonum Sieholdi. 34 

 Pommier de Paradis. 124: stock, 



Apples on, 255 

 Pond, plants for, 462 

 Poppy seed for birds, 20 

 Potatoes, 123 ; choice and culture, 3: 

 more about. 62 ; vagaries, 126 ; grow- 

 ing mealy, 12S; on damp soil, 132; 

 iorwarding early. 131; manure for, 

 161; varieties, 165; growing mealy, 

 170; estimate uf sorts, 178; for 

 planting an acre, 206: Lapstone, 218; 

 forwaramg, 351 : origin of Hague 

 and Lapstone, 379 : forcing in pots, 

 S85 



Potting, 131 



*' Poultry-keeper's Manual," 96, 

 Pouluy — keeping, commencing, 20 ; 

 profits, 76 ; its expenses and re- 

 turns, lis, 155; Club's bhow, 84, 134; 

 past and future. 33; shifting, 40 

 house floor. 82, 234 ; yard, how ma- 

 naged, 183; diseased, 136; in small 

 space, 176: yard arrangements, 176; 

 crossing, 232; keeping, food for, in 

 small enclosure, 234; journal, notes 

 from, 249; protiuible, 280 ; shows, 

 southern, 173, 231, 265, 297, 372 : fail- 

 ures, 300 ; proposed show in Glou- 

 cestershire, diseases, homceopathic 

 treatment of, 354 ; as a source of in- 

 come, 371 ; at Reading. 482 

 Preston Hall, 286_ . _^ 



Prices in Henry VIII's reign, SSG 

 Pi-imulas— cortusoides, rar. alba, 67; 

 damping-off, 73 ; fiJicifolia tlowerless, 

 152 ; kermesina plena and Quteu of 

 England, 329 

 Prizes, plants likely to take, 462 

 Propagating— case, 151; house, 263; 



heating a small, 244 

 Protecting mateiials, 347 

 Pteris tricolor culture, 151 

 Pullet dying suddenly, 212 

 Puttying laps, 124 



QrEEN SLANT). 



n,-, 267 

 Quince barren, 333 



GABDEKING PEOSPECTS 



Rabbits— >-ETTixc. to exclche, 170; 



protecting from, 377 

 Radishes— in Potato frame, 229; 



Madras, 353 

 Railway charges for poultry, 56, 75, 



113, 135, 171, 231, 24VS 2S0. 297, 334, 



Rjiinf all— British, 7; at Arddarroch, 

 64; atThwaits, 181 



Raphanus candntns, 161 



Raspberry — la^ciiils, 229; supports, 

 263 



Rats, drifing a^^ ay. 170 



Redbreasts in cages, 212 



Red spider, 369,490; on Peaches, &c., 

 72 : destroying, 279, 407 



Rhizophora mangle, 348 



Rhododendrons— Hodgsoni, 67 .'leaves 

 spotted, 74 : for forcing, 94, 207 : For- 

 tunei, 207 ; raising from seed, 263, 

 446; Denisonii, 366 



Rhubarb— on Christmas-day, 3 ; forc- 

 ing, 30, 1S8, 229; i-unimig to seed, 73; 

 forcing, 73 



Ribbon border, aS6; border of Gera- 

 150 ; mL\ed, 150 



RicinuB— communis for planting, 94; 

 sowing, 170 



Rochdale Poultry Show, 115, 154 



Rockwork- plants for, 53 ; for shaded, 

 206 



Rock plants for north aspect, 188 



Rome, gleanings from rock and field 

 towards, 44, 88, 146 



Roses, 102, 139: something more 

 about, 4; mulching, 11; for the 

 northern districts, 22 ; on their own 

 roots and on Manetti, 24 ; pruning 

 climbing Devoniensis, 32: in pots, 

 53; on their own roots, 01; vary 

 with locaUtv, 85 ; to bloom in Janu- 

 arj-, 93 ; Baiiksiau bedded out, 112 ; 

 cuttings of Hvbnd Perpetuals, 124; 

 striking cuttings, 145; Roman love 

 of, 146 : list,151 ; tree sterns^ burying, 

 183 : disbudding, 206 ; raising from 

 seed, 228; for north wall, 229; for 

 tonservatorv. 229; growing, gossip 

 about, 253: removing standard. 263 ; 

 guano for, 264 ; Moss, pegged down, 

 264: removing mulch, 264: on Ma- 

 netti stocks, 283, 303: for pots in 

 greenhouse, 296 ; pegging do\vn 

 Moss, 297; Manetti stock for, 324: 

 mildew on, 327 ; treatment of forced 

 after blooming, C53 : mildew on, 338 ; 

 Black Pi-ince. 365 ; Charles Lefebvre 

 weak, 371 ; Celine as a stock, 380 ; 

 exhibit in g-3tand for, 408 : Devoni- 

 ensis flowers not opening, 408 : 

 leaves curled, 446 ; liquid manure 

 for, 446; grubs in buds. 461; green 

 fly on. 462 : liquid manure for in 

 pots, 462; Mrs. Ward, 469 ; Bii-ming- 

 ham Show, 470 

 Rouen drake, points of, 374 

 Roup, 152, 212, 279 



Salisbuky, pi%-e hours at, 46S 

 Salvia argentea, 300 

 Sand for plant shelves, 4S1 

 Saponaria calabrica round Roses, 



228 

 Sashes, fixed r. sliding, 243 

 Sawdust for plunging pots, 133 

 Scale on Peaches, &c., 113 

 Scilla Cooperi, 440 

 Scratching, preventing fowls, 387 

 Screens of canvas. 227 

 Sea-kale culture, 2i>4, 47D 

 Season, mildness of, 45, 127, 1C3_ 

 Seedlings— management of choice, 84: 



for bedding-out, 317 



Seeds— required for a garden, 94 : sow- 

 ing, &c., of choice, 285 ; and what to 

 do with them, 821; proprietorship of 

 home-grown, 417 ; preserving so^ti, 

 451 ; sown, preserved by red lead, 

 471 

 Selaginella c^esia culture, 445 

 Selkirkshire Poultry Show, 38 

 Sewage— use of house, 7 ; when to 



use, 72 ; Fennian system, 66 

 Shady place, plants lor, 333 

 Sheffield Poultry Show, 387, 410 

 Shrubs, forcing hardy, 30 

 Shutters for shelter, 188 

 Silkworms, 155 

 Slugs, 482; in gai'den, 73; destroying, 



228 

 Smoke, consuining, 188 

 Snowstorm, efiects, 69, 138 

 Soapsuds, 133 



Soils— changing plants on, 121; im- 

 proving heavy marly, 425 

 Soot-water for evaporu ting-pans, ^9 

 South aspect, plants for, 95 

 Spanish— cock's comb falling over, 40 : 

 fowls, 60, 300 ; cock unwell, 82 ; cock's 

 lace lilcerated, 136 : hen nesting but 

 not laving, 176 ; white feathers in, 

 266; cock's face, 282; chickens, ma- 

 nagement of, 412; fowls plucking 

 each others feathers. 483 

 Sparaxis pulcherrima, 67 

 Sphacele cEerulea, 257 

 Spinach, Purple, 371 

 Squirrels destroying Gooseberries ana 



Walnuts, 317 

 Stachys lanata, 390 

 Stink, cost of a, 350 

 Stocks— for grafting and the results, 

 214 : of fruit trees, 237 ; for Apple and 

 Pear trees, 269 

 Stove — -without fine, 32; newly 



painted, plants in, 112 

 Stokeholes, 186 



strawberries— forcing, 70, 93 468, 386 ; 

 time for, 73 ; choice and culture, 144 ; 

 plants, detecting baiTen, 105 ; cul- 

 ture, 213, 423, 461 ; in pots, 352; Go- 

 liath, 353 ; for east bank, 371 ; cul- 

 ture under glass, 407 ; Keens' Seed- 

 ling barren, 425 ; for heavy soil, 4G2 

 Sugar, making from Potatoes, 60 

 Sulphur— and lime mixture for mil- 

 dew, &.C.. 103; and snuff for red 

 spider, ic. 264; bellows for apply- 

 ing. 477 

 Sussex flora, 162 

 Swainaonia magnifica, 67 

 Syringing, 1S6; with hot sewage, 217; 

 plants in town gardens, 354 



Table decorations, plants foe, 143* 



181 

 Tacaonia Van Volxemii, 329, 36o 

 Tafa-jan fruit, 126 t^ 



Tan as a source of heatJ'tSS 

 Temperature-recording apparatus, 242, 



289 

 Thibaudia cordifolia, 125: coronana, 



305 

 Thomson's styptic, 180, 433 

 Thoi-ne Poultry Show. 483 

 Thrips destroying, 481 

 Thrushes, rearing by hand, SCO 

 Ticts on chickens, 300 

 Tilia americana, 368 

 Tillandsia xiphioides, 125 

 Tobacco— tissue, Collyer & Co.'s, 47 : 



growth and manufacture, 137 : for 



lumigating, 187 : seed. 248 ; culture 



of, 270. 287, 353, 364, 416. 432, 457. 481 ; 



warning to growers, 323 ; a little 



more about, 327 

 Tudmorden Botanical Society, 7. 07 

 Town garden, plants for, 18S 

 Transplanting trees and shrubs, 31, 



233, 255 

 '* TreasuiT of Botany," 106 

 Trees — and shmbs from seeds, 13 ; 



owner of fallen, 33 

 Trimming fowls, 119 

 Tropffiolums — canariense, planting 



out, 386 ; Beauty and Attraction, 



440 

 Tropical fruits, reminiscences of, 65; 



plants in open borders, 161 

 Trout, 2S2 



Truffles andMushrooms, 305 

 Tuberoses after blooming, 72 

 Tulips— protecting beds, 34; colour- 

 less, 3^ 

 Tumour on Turkey's head. 192 

 Turf-lajing, II 

 Turkevs, 80, '^-82: pens, 19; length of 



breeding, 20; the seasonable, 233; 



hatched under a hen, 374 

 Twining stems, 3S6 



Veitch'3. Messrs., dejeunei^, 402 

 Verbenas— new striped, 67; manage- 

 ment of seedlings, 84; cuttings, 112; 

 Reallv Blue, 125 ; disease, 165 : cut- 

 tings" failing, 183 ; wintering under 

 bell-glasses, 216; culture lor bed- 

 ding cut, 216 ; bedding, 242 ; selec- 

 tion of, 254 ; failure of cuttings, 256 ; 

 for plantingin a circle, 278 ; sowing, 

 286, 405, 415; planting, 371 

 Veronica speciosa training, 151 

 VieuBseuxia pavonina culture, SSG 

 Vinery — roof angle, 170; pit, 188; 

 greenhouse, 207 ; and peachery com- 

 bined, 228; forming out ol a pit, 

 229 ; manure water in the troughs, 

 278; a lean-to, 317; management, 

 423 

 Vines— large, 8; border, renovating, 

 95; from eves, 13,72; culture of, 24, 

 162, 198. 223'. 236. 244, 252, 274, 302, 404, 

 481 ; fruiting in pots,33, 73 ; mildewed, 

 53 ; coiling in planting, 83, 141, 160, 

 195, 284, 304 ; breaking of, 104 ; in- 

 cision in root, 105. 141: planting, 74, 

 140, 257 ; syringing, 1^ : attacked 

 by weevils, 163; rooting branches, 

 165 ; borders, 168 : in gi-eenhouse and 

 chicken house, 170 ; renovating old- 

 171; blood lor border, 112; hotbed 

 on, 151; bleeding and grafting, 180; 

 ■wintering in pots, 183 ; sjTinging, 

 186; for wine making, 188; re- 

 moving from pots, 206: sap lost by 

 bleeding. 224; training horizontally, 

 228; leaves spotted, 228; in pots, 

 slopping, 236: declining, 248; dis- 

 tance ot planting, 255; coil train- 

 in"-, 278: in pois, coiling, 284; 

 fruited in alternate years, 287; 

 bleeding, 291.295; in vineries, 294; 

 from last autumn's cuttings, 296; 

 washing and pruning, 296; grafting, 

 817; preventing bleeding, 322: to 

 stop bleeding, 343; culture of in 

 pots. 3i4; setting. 352; inarching, 

 371: leaves disflgured, 387; red 

 spider on, 462; leaves discoloured, 

 462 

 Viohi comuta, 112: culture, 122 

 Violets— Neaoolitan, failing, 2&1; 



double becoming single, 296 

 Vulture hocks. 119, 154, 231. 232 



"Walks- WEEDS on, to desteot, 170 

 clipping the sides, 444 



Wall— colouring for old fruit tree, 12 ; 

 and wall trees, washes for, 32; 

 cracks in cemented, 32 ; painting, 

 54; evergreen for north, 132; fruit, 

 &c., 362 ; glazed and fined, 866 ; flued 

 &c., 429 



Walsall Poultry Show, 76 



Warscewizella velata, 440 



"Wash for walls and trees, 74 



"Water— from greenhouse roof, 113 ; 

 consequences of impurity, 284 ; hard 

 for plants, 296; pipes and tanks, 

 materials lor, 466 



Watering, 459, 481: with dramago 

 water, 333 



"Weather wisdom, 26, 108. 200, 347, 469; 

 instruments to acquire, 75 



"Weathercasts.'M?? 



Week, work for, 9, 29, 49, 68, 92, 108,128, 

 147, 166, 184, 202, 224, 245, 259, 275, 292, 

 314, 330, 350, 368. 384, 406, 421, 442, 458, 

 478; doings of last, 10, 30,50, 69,93, 

 109, 129, 148, 167, 185, 203, 226, 243, 260, 

 276, 293, 815, 331, 851, 369, 385, 407 

 422,443,459,479 



Weevil, destroying the brown, 



Ulceeation, internal, 

 82 



IS FOWLS, 



Vaeiegation and disease, 66 

 Varnish, brown, for woodwork, 



229 

 Vase plants, 180 

 Vegetable Marrow, 112 



"Wellingtonia gigantea, 228 ; notes on, 



467 

 Wentworth-WoodhousePoultry Show, 



16 

 "V\'et soil, shrubs. &c., for, 152 

 Whitehaven Poultry Show, 57 

 "White plumage, why pre'er? 281 

 "Wigandia caiacasana sowing, 170 

 "Wigton Poultry Show, 2S0 ; disquali- 

 fied pen at, 297, 311 

 Wiltshire Rector's grievance, 154 

 Window gardeners, hints to, 71 

 Wine— grape, 123 ; from nnnpe Grapes, 



428 

 Wings of fowls, 234 

 Winter lingering in lap of May. 



347 

 Wireworms, destrojing, 370 

 Woodbrdge Poultry Show, 407 ; fowls 



too late, 447 ; evil events at, 



•183 , ,,„ 



Woodlark management, 448 

 Woodlice— in diing, 54; in Fern-case, 



170 ; in Melon-pitj 333 

 Woods, a peep at in odd places, 348, 



366, 417. 440, 456, 470 

 Worms, destroying, 12 

 "Wonndj of trees, 113 



Yeak, a happy new, 1 

 Yucca gloriosa sowing. 170 



Zinc trocohs, steam raoai, 482 



