INDEX. 



Aberdeen Pocltet Show, 581 

 Abie?!, Uouglasii, 227; Patloniana, 287 

 Abutilon megapotamicmu or vexil- 



lariaDi, 341 

 Acer rufiQprve.var. albo-Umbatum, 247 

 Acorn iu water. 485 

 Affides ]apoDicum,S03 

 ^schyiianthua grandiflonis, to 



flower, 194 

 AgaricuB personatus, 404 

 A^ave amerioaua variegata culture, 



404 

 Air purifjing, 14 

 Aliiborough and Boronghbridge 



Poultry Show, 156 

 AUerton Poultry bhow, 134 

 Allotment gardens, 129 

 Alocuaia metaUica, compost for, 234 

 Alots — culture, 417: leaves undeve- 

 loped. 4b'2; Crnncheri, 504 

 Alpine flowers. 104 

 Amateur gardener, who is ? ISO 

 American, blight, 110, 866 ; fruits, de- 

 cline of, 439 

 AudroBcace pubescens. 50S 

 Ani'moues— planting. 3S5; storing, S9 

 '■Animal Wurld," 333 

 Annuals, 250; for autumn sowing, 158 

 Anthuriura Scherzeriannm, potting, 



366; temperature for. 406 

 Antirrhinums, seedling, 328 

 Ants destroying, 89. 174 

 Aphelandra acutifolia, 125 

 Aphides, on fruit trees, 14 ; destroy- 



insr. 183,384 

 Apples— budding, 214; for cider, 500, 

 ftu7: dwarf, ()3 ; espalier, 424 ; falling 

 immatxire. 311; market. I(i3; in an 

 orchard house, S86; and Kabbits, 

 502; select tor a small garden, 52 ; 

 for near Glasgow, 328 ; on soatii 

 wall, 444; sowing pips, 443, 485; 

 standard, 363: stocks for, 63, 16:^. 

 367; Annie Elizabeth, 438; Bun- 

 yard's Seedling. 228 

 Apricot — sowing stones, S49 ; in pots, 



pruning, 462 

 Aquaria, marine, 374. 424 

 Aquatics for tmoky place, ""91 

 Arabis — BOwing, 110; propagating 

 Golden, 268; albida variegaiu cul- 

 ture, 432 

 Aralia Sieboldii culture, 52 

 Arauearia iinbricata losing its 



brauches, 51 

 Arbor-Vitffi bare at base, 4?5 

 Arbulus— cutting-back, 132 ; berries 



prolonging, 385 

 Ai-ctotis rtptaua, wintering, 268 

 Arithmetic, gardening, 153 

 Amoti's stove, 269 

 Artichokes, drying bottoms,256; Globe 



and Jerusalem, 326 

 Arum, repotting, &J 

 Aroid. new gigantic. .196 

 Ashes— as noucunductors of heat. ISS ; 

 appljing, 214 ; or tan for plunging, 

 82y 

 Ashlord Poultry Show. 402 

 Aspai-agua— failing. 269 ; planting, 349 ; 



salting beds, 367, 885 

 Aucuba, berries, 132; pollen, 424; 



pollen keeping, 435 

 August, plants flowering in, 207 

 Aui-iculas, management. 289 

 Australian seeds, 384 

 Autumn rambles. 317 

 Auiumnal leaves, decorations of, 355 

 Avocado Pear, S22 

 Aylesbury Poultry Show, 271 

 Aylesbury Ducks, showing barren, 420 

 Ayr Omithol('*!i'al Society's Show, 428 

 Azaleas— culture. 42; nol flowering. 

 311; losing thi ir leaves. 367,461; 

 for a cold frame, wintering m u 

 cold pit. 443 



Haines, presentation to Me, 859 

 Bank, a sloping, 312 ; management of 



a sloping, 46:: ; slope for mowing, 527 

 Bantams— Bro\vn Ked exhibiting, 36; 



chickens, feeding, 238 ; eegs, 514 ; 



Sebright brtcdmg, £06; Dorking, 



329 : bluck-legged, 41'6 



Barnes, Mr. W., 623 

 Barnstaple Poultry Show, 17 

 Barr & Sugden's grounds, 122 

 Baskets, plants lor, 131 

 Beans, Dwarf Kidney, 12 

 Beaumontia grandiflora culture, 235 

 Bedding plants, 1:^ : making cuttings 

 of, 212 ; supporting. 249 ; notes on 

 some, 381; white, 328; winter, 431, 

 475 ; with yellow I'iowers, 69 

 Beeches, and other trees injured by 



cold, 41 ; scale on, 526 

 Beer turbid, 54 

 Beds, arrangement of a circular, S48 ; 



forming Dval, 328 

 Bee-keepi;rb' Convention, Canadian, 



392 

 Bees— account of a stock, 853 ; bache- 

 lor keeping of, 470 ; bottle-feeding, 

 410 ; carbolic acid, its uses, 1g7 ; con- 

 vention of Canadian keepers ol,892 ; 

 dead in cells. 352 ; needless destruc- 

 tion of, 18 ; dislodging from a tree. 

 35,53: dividing stock, 158; driving. 

 158, 178, 45U; drones, limiting, 91 ; 

 in November, 46S : dropsy in, 237 ; 

 farming in lyGLI, 449; feeding, 392; 

 hunting, 4y6 : Indian, 239, 274 ; keep- 

 ing, conflictmg opinions on, 371 ; 

 commencing. 470; failures, 35, 54, 

 92 ; Laucafchire apiary, 469 ; ma- 

 nagement of 3lC; moths in a hive. 

 136; old slock in collateral, 891; 

 piping before the issue of a prime 

 swarm, 54; pollen in comb, 54; re- 

 moving in hot weather, 136, i7S ; 

 revolutionising a hive, 409; reei- 

 cide among. 333: shelter fur, 430: 

 sting, Bsap for, 255, remedy for, 

 514; not using supers, 158; swarm- 

 ing riTsus supering, 35, 54 ; swarms 

 returning to hive, 36; swarms and 

 stocks weak, 316; not swarming. 

 y2 ; tenantless hives, 276 ; weight of 

 cemb, 158; not working, 53; work- 

 ing in hive cover, 92; the present 

 year, 537. Foul-brood, 136; its pro- 

 duction and cure, 35, 217 ; and in- 

 fection. Dr. Preuss on, 494, 535. 

 Hives — improved bar frames, 72, 92, 

 391 ; bucket. 256 ; with comb. 136 : 

 curk, 514 ; Stewarton in winter, 470 ; 

 straw rcrxMs wooden. 371 ; improved 

 Woodbury frames, 31; experiences 

 of a beginner wiih, 354. Honey- 

 colour of. 256; consumed, IS; dark- 

 coloured. 410; exporting, 296; from 

 a foul-brooded hive, 354 ; as food lor 

 bees, 296; harvest in Northumber- 

 land, 333; keeping, 198; removing 

 partly filled bell-glass, 218 ; spurious, 

 315, 333, 352, 371, 391, 409, 430, 468. 

 Z.JI7»r(a!w— dwindling, 92; enthron- 

 ing queen, 71, 114; introduction and 

 propagation of, 71,113,177,469.518; 

 jn Jersey. 158; queen removing, 

 218; from America, 295; uniting, 34. 

 Queens— irom America, 295; cells in 

 autumn, 333; encasements. 429; 

 enthroning Ligurian, 71, Hi; intro- 

 ducing new, 469; introducing where 

 there is a fertile worker, 218; does 

 the old always head the first swann, 

 197: remo\-ing, 2iN; of second 

 Bwarm breeding, 5iri; young with 

 first bwarm, 1:74. Uitititi'j, iiij.bi, 178, 

 296; Litjuriaus, 34; a swarm and 

 stock, 218 

 Beet, Silver, culture, 385 

 Beetles, destroying, 69 

 Begonia Sedeiii, 125 ; weltoniensis, 



182 

 Belladonna Lilies, potting. 367 

 Berberry hedges mildewed, 132 

 Bicton, 302 



Bideford Poultry Show. 90 

 Biirnouia pmimrea, 304 ; radicans not 



flowering, 3',i8 

 EillLergia iridilolia, 461 

 Eingley Poultry Show, '"16 

 Birds, attacking fruit, 51 ; scaring, 68, 



152 ; a pleadmg for, 474 

 Birkenhead Poultry Show, 136 

 Birmingham Philoperibleroniiociety's 

 Show 108 



Birmingham Poultry Show, 42€, 445, 

 463; age of bii'ds, and awarding 

 prizes at, 496; auction at, 313, 330, 

 350, 871, SS7 ; entries, 387 ; judges ex- 

 hibiting at, 330 



Birmingham Rabbit and CanaryShow, 

 468 



Birmingham Kose Show, 43 



Bishop Auckland Poultry Show, 76 



Blackberries — American. 455; culture, 

 607; Lawton and Dorchester, 228 



Blackbird, food for, o6 



Blackpool Poultry Show, 215 



Black Spanish hen's crop distended, 

 54 



Blandfordia aurea, 504; flammea cul- 

 ture, 194 



Blechnum corcovadense culture, 357 



Blossoming unseasonably, 221 



Boilers. 436 ; Foster's patent, 9 ; Rid- 

 dell's slow-combustion, 194 ; setting 

 a saddle. 213, 411 ; on the surface, 

 368: heating several houses from 

 one, 233, 425, 526 ; and boiling, 455 : 

 healing them and by them, 500; by 

 dining-room tire, heating by, 486 



Borders, concreting. 291 



Borecoles, notes on, 480 



Botanic (Koyal) Society's Show, 6, 124 ; 

 Report, 400 



Bottom heat, its uses and abuse, 362 



Bougainvillea lateritia treatment, 172 



Bouquets, hand, 2 



Bradford Poultry Show, 491 



Brahma Pootras — characteristics, 296 ; 

 feeding, 334; cock's tail, 92; sickle 

 feather, 178; Light, crossing with 

 Dorkings, prizes tor, 194 ; feathers, 

 256 ; exhibiting Dark, 372 : points in 

 Light, 392 ; plumage of Dark, 470 ; 

 points of Dark, 496; legs inflamed, 

 514; of 1869, 528; vulture-hocked, 538 



Briar cuttings, 507 



Bridlington Poultry Show, 112 



Bristol and Clifton Snow, 387 



Broccoli, production in Cornwall, 137 



Brutonansias not flowering, 132 



Brunsvigia culture, 367 



Enissels bprouts, pinching out hearts 

 of, 214 



Bude Haven Poultry Show, 112 



Bulbs— from Souih America. 268: 

 planting. 268. 329; in pots, 338,459 ; 

 after flowering, 366 



Burnley Poultry Show, 196 



Bui-ton-on-Trent Poultry Show, 272 1 



Burtou-on-Trent Bird Show, 468 



Cabbage — buttebflv, 211 ; grubs 

 ON, 266. 291; Red, 474 ; sowings of, 30 



Cacti for window culture. 194 



Caladiums, wlnteiing, 234 



Calceolarias — cuttings of, 525; yellow, 

 375 



Calochortus uniflorus, 433 



Calystegia Soldanella, 64 



Camellias — for cold frame, 443 ; for 

 conservatory wall, 367 ; culture, 527 ; 

 flower-buds falling, 404; grafting, 

 829; list of, Sll; planiing out of 

 doors. 173, 461 



Campanulapyramidalis culture, 162 



Canadian representative plant, 485 



Canaries, 468; cleaning and feeding, 

 496; colouring, 274; consumptive, 

 334 ; hen singing, 514 ; mortality 

 among, 17; red mites on. 135; sand 

 for young, (2; Show at the Crystal 

 Palace, 535 



Canary-love revived, 351 



Canvas for protecting plants, 424 



Cardoons, cooking, 450 



Carnations, planting, 132; propaga- 

 tion, 124; seed sowing, S3; winter- 

 ing. 211 



Cai-pet knights and la dame dcs 

 puules, 387 



Carrots splitting, 234 



Carrow House. 318 



Carter's Crystal Palace Nursery, 263 



CaBtle Eden Poultry Show, 136 



Catalogues, misrepresentations of, 207 



Cauliflowers, culture, 2, 364; club-root 

 in, 173 management, 458 



Ccdair of Lebanon, transplanting, 404 

 Celery, 507 ; blanching, 171, 172; cul- 

 ture, 346 ; eartliing, 219; growing in 

 beds, 378, 399, 402, 415, 436; hoUow, 

 172; infested by the fly, 312; leaf 

 miner, 288, 289 ; running to seed, 171, 

 172 ; with solid stem, 462 

 Centaurea candidissima culture, 38; 

 propagating, 347, 444; for bouquets, 

 131; from seed, 257 

 Ceropegia Sandersoni, 247 

 Chalk bank for Vines, 132 

 Chalky soil. Conifers for. 89 

 Charcoal, burning among plants, 462, 



485 ; for potting, 269 

 Cheilanthes elegans culture, 357 

 Chelmsford Poultry Show, 314, 33 

 Cherries — Bigarreau, casting fruit. 

 32; caterpillars on, 153; for south ot 

 Scotland, 527 ; in the United States, 

 397 ; sorts for standards, 424 

 Chester Poultry Show, 388; mistakes 



at. 387, 388 

 Chickens— catarrh in, 238; dying, 114, 

 218 ; feeding, 218 ; not thriving, 316 ; 

 aclccting, 72 

 Chicory blanching, 367 

 Chinese flower seeds, 424 

 Chippenham Poultry Show, 449 

 Chrysanthemuma—conipost, 507; cul- 

 ture, 141; flowering imperfectly, 

 487 ; In a gi*eenhouse, 461 ; Guernsey, 

 451; Forsyth's and Temple, 379; at 

 Mr. Salter's, 399; specimen, 529 

 Chrysobactron Hookeri, 20, 51 

 Cinerarias, diseased, 328; removing 



!rom a frame. 485; stopping, 367 

 Circle, to find its area, 153 

 Cleckheaton Poultry Show, 112 

 Clematis, Jackmanni, cutting back, 

 131; not flowering, 349 1 T. Moore, 

 504 

 Clerodcndron fallax from seed, 337 

 Climbers, for a greenhouse, 386; for 

 north-west aspect, 173; for a London 

 house, 251 ; for south and west wall, 

 367 ; hardy, for walls, &c.. 21, 133 

 Clinkers forming rapidly, 486 

 Clivia nobilis not growing, 461 

 Cloche superseded, 339 

 Coaks, J. B., residence, 453 

 Cochin-chinas— laving, 288: mouiting 

 tardily, 410; plumage of Buff, 430; 

 points in Partridge, 316 

 Cockchafer lai-va. 319, 377 

 Cockerel, breeding from, 334 ; not 



amatory, 410 

 Cocoa-nut fibre refuse in stoves. 405 

 Coke fumes, their eiTect on plants, 



425 

 Colchester Poultry Show, 36 

 Coleuses, cuttings, management, 829 ; 

 new, 476; in a plant case, 269; 

 plants raised from leaves, 341 ; win- 

 tering, 172, 368 

 Colnmbarian Society, North British, 



270; Show, 512 

 Combe Abbey. 126 

 Couimitteemen exhibiting. 445, 462, 



488, 508, 529 

 Conifers, coning of in England, 52; 



for a lawn, 269 ;-leaves of. 433 

 Conseivatory— aiTangement,89j heat- 

 ing, 312 ; heating from a kitchen 

 boiler. 269; plants for, 69; plants for 

 a wall, 131 

 Cordon training, 499; and rabbits, 502; 



",vire for, 486 

 Cottage gardeners, hints to, 473 

 Cottingham Poultry Show, 157 

 Cotyledon Salzmanni. 304 

 Covent Garden ilarket, 12. 31,51,68, 

 88.110,131, 152, 193, 212,233,271,250, 

 267, 290, 311, 327, 347, 366, 385, 403, 423, 

 443, 460, 485, 506, .^26 

 Cows, Brittany, 18, S6; food for, re- 

 moving droppings, 299 

 Crevc-Ctturs' complaint, 529 

 Crockery, broken, for fowls. 450 

 Crocuses, auiumu, 280, 299, 395; grow- 

 ing in a pit, 214 

 Crook Poultry Show, 236 

 Crol'in picl'im eultiu'e, 404 

 Crowing puU'-t, 47'' 

 Cuckoo, food for, 36 



