Linnet feedinff, 33* ,»,,«. 



Liverpool Pt-uHry Show and Sale, 428 



Liqaid manure, 68 



Lobelias, 32 



Lomaria ffibba cuUnre, S57 



London, pooltrv show wanted for, 23o 



252, 276. 292, 330, 350, 3-^7, 407 

 Long Sut'.on Poultry Show, 177, 313 

 Longtown Poallry Sliow, 45*0 

 Looker's propapatins boxes. 124 

 Lowestoft Poultry Show, 156 

 Lycopodinms, terraced pots for, 421 

 Lysimacliias, 43 



Mackata BEtia, 803 



Magnolia, for west wall, 348; ^anoi- 



flora. cutting-back, 485 

 Maize, cooking. 218 ; sowing, Sit) 

 Malay fowls, 509 

 Malt for fowls, 334 

 Manchester HorticuHoral Show, 49: 



bouquets at. 207. 221. 243 

 Manchester Horticultural ConsTesB, 



papers read at, %, llS, 127, 140, 106 

 Manchester Poultry Show. 5(« 

 Mandevilla suaveolens planting. 329 

 ^Mangoes in London, 398 

 Manpold W'urtzjl variegated, 405 

 T'lanurp?. iinulicution oY, 221,342. it4s 

 377, 434, 501; influence of various, 

 416 

 Maories, 147 



March Poultry Show. 272 

 Market Drayton Poultry Show, 236 

 Marvel of Pern in a iie'3, S4.s 

 Mastic L'Homme Lefort, 32 

 May-blooming plants for shows, 2S1 

 Mealy bug on Grapes, 110 

 Measurements lineal, square, and cu- 

 bic, i:i3 

 Meigle Poultry Show, 176 

 Melons — and Cucumbera together, 

 507: good kinds, 507; preservine, 

 507: on ridges, 500; sowing, 234: 

 red spider on, 52; thinning, 203; 

 thrips on. 3fi7 ; Be^chwood, large, 

 , 169, 210; Queen Anne's Pocket, cul- 

 ture of, 63 

 MelviUe, Mr. "W., 457 

 Menheniot Poultry Show, 457 

 Menensia maritima, M 

 Mesembryanthemums forwindow cul- 

 ture, 194 

 Mice, garden, S7 : destro>ing. 507 

 Middlesbrough Poultry Show, 216, 238 

 Middleton Poultry Show. 91. 252 

 Mildew, preventing and destroying, 



167 ; soot as a remedy, 321, 358 

 Morsea bolbifera. 27 

 Morley Poultry' Show. 135 

 Murmodes Greenii, 438 

 Morpeth Poultry- Show, 236 

 Moths, effects of mild and severe, 



winters on their nnmbera, 211 

 Mulberry, cultm-e, 28 : wine, 430 

 M-ilthing, 67.170,191; its advantages, 



Mushrooms, in a cowhouse, 32; cul- 

 inie, 32, 191, 192, 193, 346, 416,458: 

 forcmg, 312; house, 191, 192; out of 

 doors, 193; in an outhouse, 416: 

 spawn, 192, 312, planting, 269, 

 making, 367, destroying in Vine 

 border, 132 



Mutilation of fowls, 70 



Myosotis palustris, sylvatica, 64 



Myrcia amplexicaulis, 125 



Myrtle not bushy, 485 



NaTUEAL HISTOET, CURIOSITIES OF, 

 450 



Nectarines, notes on, 161 ; in 1869 out 



■ of doors, 396; Monstnieuse, 367 



Nepenthes ctilture, 235 



Nertera depressa, 303 



Newlands, 245 



New Zealand, notes on, 147 



Nightingales, food for, 538 



Northallerton Poultry Show. 294 



Northampton Poultry Show, 32 



North Ormesby Ornithological Asso- 

 ciation's Show. 350 



Notes made during some rustic 

 rambles. 154 



Notice to leave, 2^7 



November, plants flowering in, 477 



Nnnebam Park, 94 



Nurserymen's hours. 194 



Nut, the Atlas, 228,286 



Oak lodge, 281 



Oakham Poultry Show, 8?1. 448 



Oats, ground for fowls. 276, 392 



October, plants floweriuKin, 454 



Ogle. H. C, widow of, 265 



Okelord Fitzpaiuf. Koaes, Strawber- 

 ries, and Polatot'B at, 79 



Oleanders, cutting down, 336; remov- 

 ing flower stems, 312 



Oncidium Rogersii, 522 



Onions— culture, 473 ; growing on 

 light land in a hot season, 139 ; 

 report on those exhibited by Messrs. 

 Barr & Sugden, 285; storing, 191; 

 Nuneham Park. 305. 821, 341 ; Po- 

 tato not keeping, 348 



Orange, scale, destroying, 153 ; graft- 

 ing, 367 



Orchard houses — constructing, 14 ; 

 dressing trees, 507 ; crops, 876; fail- 



Ckchaed uovsT.s—Cnntniued. 

 ores. 9, 74, 159, 181 ; Peaches caily 

 jn,S7; retarding irnit trees in, 148: 

 unheated. 116, 393 ; and vinery com- 

 bined, 419 ^,„ _ 



Orchids— notes on culture, 140; nax 

 refuse for, 234 ; for a greenhouse, 69 ; 

 management of cool house, 172; 

 stone blocks for, 77 



Organisation of poultry shows, ^c, 



Ormskirk and Sonthport Poultry 



"Show. 157 .^ ^„„ 



Omithclogical monstrosity, 463 



Oswestry Poultry Show, 293 



Oundle Poultry Show, 53 



Owl. food for youns, SG 



Oxalis troDSoloides, 472; culture, 3Sb 



Packikg trees for export, 386 

 Pampas Grass, 110 ; removing. 3-29, o57 

 Pansies, 250, 251 : cuttmgs. 263 ; for 

 breeding, 343 ; twelve for showing, 



Parakeet, treatment of Australian 



Groun'J, 178 : teaching to talk, 450 

 Pamassia palustris. 64 

 Parrots, food for, 430; management 



of, 114 

 Parsnips for cows, 372 

 Passiflora. culture, 214; quadrangu- 



laris fruit, 444 . 



Passion -Flower not flowering, vS,>; 



for a greenhouse, 4j4 

 Patton. Lord Justice Clerk, 2S7 _ 

 Peaches— aphis - infested, 313; lor a 

 house, 405 : cordons, management, 

 444 ; Delaware, 323 ; early, 37. 57, 

 79; failure, how we got over it, ^; 

 fruit dropping, 213: fruit mealy, 

 213; house cleaning. 346; ventilat- 

 ing unheattd, 32: leaves injured, 

 193. and shoots mildewed, 2ol; m 

 1869, 56, 396; notes on. 160; m or- 

 chard houses, 37 ; orchards of Ame- 

 rica 479- out of doors, 396: in pots, 

 459Vplaoinsoutof doors, 213 ; forc- 

 ingin.472: sowing stones, 349 

 Pearce, Mrs., her gardens, 22 , . 

 Pears— budding, 214 ; cordon training, 

 499: diseased. 234 ; not fruiting, 40o: 

 "athering late, 405; leaves, lungus 

 on, 233 ; double grafting, 487 ; mar- 

 ket. 163; recently planted. 424; 

 pruning for espaliers, 424; <^nince 

 as a stock for, 162: select late, 50. ; 

 for a small garden, 51 ; for near 

 Glaso-sw, 328; for south wall, 4S1; 

 sowing pips, 485 : stocks for, 367 ; 

 Beurre Hardy, 398; Citron des 

 Carmes,28; Dovennedu Comice,41i', 

 499- Fi^Tie d'Hiver, 311; Summer 

 Beurre d'Aremberg, 286: Williams's 

 Bon Chretien, gathering, 193 ; Wm- 

 ter Nelis unfruitful, 462 

 Peas— culture, 473: of Marrow, 183; 

 dwarf, 404; early, 424; estimate 

 of kinds. 87 ; gathering. 12 : msects 

 attacking. 235; mildew on, liu; 

 Laxton's, 84, 264, 342 . 



Pelargoniums— after flowering. 14; 

 bedding, 375 ; for conservatory, 36; ; 

 for covering walls, 397 ; double, 

 122 : flowers faUing, 65 ; not flower- 

 ing, 173; leaves yellow, 269; to 

 bloom in May, 367; name deri- 

 vation. 329 ; manuring> 486 ; in- 

 fluence of manure on Zonal, 417 ; 

 propagating in Looker's boxes, 252 ; 

 standard, 155; variation of, 23; 

 What are? 290: wintering, 194; 

 Bayard, 117. 161 ; Eicolor in a frame, 

 32 : Amv Hogg. 268 ; Lady Hawley, 

 18<*; Louisa Smith lor bedding, 181; 

 Prince Silverwinirs, 424: Stanstead 

 Rival, 183 ;■ Tricolor in a frame, 32; 

 grafting Tricolor, 287 

 " PeiarsoniumS, History of Ornamen- 

 tal- foliaged," S4 

 Pentstemon propagation. 269 

 Peueromia argj-rea treatment, 461 

 Pofry, Mr. William, 423 

 Pewits as vermin killers, 24; or Plo- 

 vers aB vermin- killers, 42 

 Phaleria laurifolia, 125 

 Pheasants, cramped, 18: rearing, liS 

 Phylloxera vastatrix, 45 

 Pico tee— pipings, treatment of, 1*2; 

 planting. 132 ; propagation, 124 ; 

 wintering, 211 

 Pigtons-at Jiirmingham Philopene- 

 teron Show, 408 ; Barb, matches of, 

 lit National Philoperisteron Society, 

 390: cankered. 276, S72 ; various 

 diseases in a loft. 238; young dis- 

 eased, 178 ; dung, 14; eggsunfertUe, 

 350: eyes diseased, 514: feeding for 

 exhibition, 430; FantaU, 534; with 

 double feathers in tails, 158; with 

 tail-feather encased, 410; Jacobm, 

 218: laving four eggs, 238,256; going 

 light, 294; will Lettuces kill-' 486; 

 lice on, 388. 514 ; lore, 17 : matchmg, 

 372 430- Owls, English, and foreign, 

 296; quarrelsome. 538; rouped, 514; 

 Satiuette, 372. 409; shooting, 430; 

 and fowls suburban a century and a 

 half ago, 237 ; Tumblers, 18, 92 : not 

 flying, 334; Short-faced, 70; Sky, 

 427, 470, 512; Turtle Dove white, 

 276; wing disease, 350, 450 



Pine App'es, cnl^re. 4*57; house for, 

 213; leaves spotted, 4J4 ; scale on, 

 69 

 Pine. Weymouth, 486 

 Pinks, cut-ings and pipings, 30 ; win- 

 tering, 211 

 Pinus, austriaca. 405 ; for clay soil, 348 

 Pipes— for hot-water heatine. 323, 461 ; 

 extent needed, 328; painting hot- 

 water, 348 

 Pit, divitling a, 425; of turf, 348; pro- 

 tecting plants in, 153 

 Plantain on lawn, 367 

 Plants, improvement of by selection, 



Oic, 100 ; sending to a distance, 12 

 Plant protectors, 480; Rendle's, 116 

 Plant house a cheap, 435 

 Platycerium alcicome, 380 

 Pleroma elegans, pruni n g, 406 

 Plumage influenced by climate, 429 

 Plumbago capensis, 362, 418; propa- 

 gating. 376: hardy, 396 

 Plums— budding. 214; in pots, 459; 

 leaves, fungus on, 193 ; market, 

 133 ; stones, sowing, 349 ; tree un- 

 ' fruitful, 405 : Early Favoui-ite, 

 Hathen'sRedG-age.Yellow Magnum 

 Bouum, 228 ; Reine Claude de 

 Bavav, 418: Bryanston Gage, 286; 

 Transparent Gage, 253, 286 

 Plunging, ashes fur, 328 

 Pockiington Poultry Show, 175 

 Poinsettia pulcherrimd. leaves falling, 



507 

 Polandg. Gold en -span eled. 238 

 Polyanthus seed not vegetating, 15 

 Pomological gleanings, 28, 22S 

 Pond, surface green, 89; plants and 



waterfowl for, 213 

 Poppies, French, 516; opium in, 153 

 Potatoes— culture, 151; double crop- 

 ping, 264; produce in Cornwall, 

 137; disease, is it hereditary? 378; 

 early, 368; failures, 39, 74, 81, 137; 

 for heavy soil, 349; experiments 

 with grafting, 245; earthing up, 

 1(j9; propagating from eyes, 242; 

 sets, 328; su per tubera ting, 107: 

 report on, 222; Early Rose, 160, 190, 

 2J2; Prince of Wales, 455 

 Pot-culture, plants for, 263 

 Pottiug vavi-ms plants, 461 

 Poultry— during the sun's eclipse, 

 270 ; farm, 154, 392 ; feeding, 194, 195, 

 256: food for. 36; for profit, 18; 

 keeping extensively, 238 ; in the 

 United States, 195. 370; showing, 

 alS; shows, our, 330, 369, 406, 426; 

 yard annals, 509 

 Poulterers" Company, 90, 111 

 Primula, genus, 304; Pedemontana, 



247 

 Prizes, lists of, 387 

 Productions, notes on northern, 160 

 Propagating house, henting, 444 

 Protecting, kitchen-garden crops, 401 ; 



plants, 325 

 Proverb, epicurean, 316 

 Pruning fruit trees, influenced by soil, 



&c., 37 

 Pterodiscus luridus, 27 

 Pallet walking with difBculty, 514 

 Pvrethmm Golden Feather, 268 ; cul- 

 ture, 40; cuttmgs of, 311; propagat- 

 ing 444 : double, 424 ; wintering, 311 



QrACEEEY AMONG GARDENERS, 243 



Qudrcus Cerris, soil for, 212 



Qamce stock, 242 : for Pears, 162 ; 



earth round, 367; Portugal and 



Angers, 200 



Rabbits- BEEEDiNG, 18; coNvaLsioxs 

 IN youNG, 157; ear gum, 494; and 

 their judges, 197, 216, 255, 278* 294, 

 315, 350; treatment at shows, 29o; 

 head scabbed, 430; and their va- 

 rieties, 391, ^494; Angora Belgian 

 Hare. 332; Chinese, 494; Dutch, 

 391; Himalayan, 335, 494.514: Lop- 

 eared, their points, 273 ; Patagonian, 

 333 



Radclyfl'e's, Rev. W. F., garden, 1 



Kain water, 132 



Ranunculuses, growing m pots, 290 



Raspberries— digging between, 263; 

 planting, 4S7 ; transplanting, 132 



Red Loijge, gardens at, 22 



Red spider on Vines and Cucumbers, 

 131 



Refuse of gardens, 524 



Reineckia camea, 487 



Rendle's Plant Protectors, kc, ^/Zl 



Kliododendron — culture. 48, 76; stem 

 injured, 461 ; Mrs. J. Glutton, 247 



Rhodotypus kerrioides, 438 



Rhopala corcovadensis overlarge, 367 



Rhubarb, bottling green, 36 ; wine, 430 



Rhus Cotinus branch broken, propa- 

 gating, 173 



Rhvncbo sperm um culture, 214 



Rice as food for poultry, 36 



Rockery, forming, 153 



Roofs of glass, double, 526 



Roots, invading gardens, 288; storing, 

 376, 442 



Roses, 1 ; amateur growing, 395 ; 

 among the, 164, 432 ; aphides on, 14, 

 31 ■ lor arches, 31 ; autumn bloom- 

 ing, 473 ; "A Book about," 305 ; Briar 

 cuttings, 507; not blooming well. 



Roses— ConttTtuf J. 

 52; bndding, 182, 221, 251; daA 

 climbing, 68: dark Hybrid Per- 

 petual, 507; cuttings, 173, 268; at 

 Dalston. 89; compost for, 386; edg- 

 ing for a bed, 462 ; against a fence. 

 173; doltings on, 258; to flower in 

 Jauuarv, 31 ; after forcing, 14 ; gar- 

 den versus show, 122: under glass, 

 3U ; graftmg, 100, 160; growing near 

 the city, 45 ; by amateurs, 395 ; 

 house for, 243; Hybrid Perpetual 

 dai% 507; improvement by selec- 

 tion, ■kc, 100; leaves spotted, 32: 

 list of, 461 ; near Manchester, 89 ; 

 Manetti stocks, 247, 273, 3M. 400, 461 ; 

 mildew on, 52, 353 ; new. 3:i6. 474 ; at 

 the Roval Horticultural Society's 

 Show, 21 ; of the last two years. 268 ; 

 notes on, 116. 180, 201, 219, 258. 278, 

 499; at W. Paul's, 10; lor illars, 31, 

 89: planting, 485; in pots, 251, 445; 

 pruning. S2;<, 386; removing, 251 ; on 

 their o vn roots, 117 : seedling. 240, 

 318; wmtering seedling, 251; at, 

 Seend, 159 ; select. 14 ; for half- 

 standards, 62 ; for Northumber- 

 land. 328 ; for south wall, 291 ; for a 

 to\vn garden, 404; for Yoritsiiire, 89 ; 

 for a west wall. 405: shoots shorten- 

 ing, 132; standards, 336; stocks for, 

 247, 278, 336, 367, 406. 461, 479, 481, 485 ; 

 Tea-scented, S59, 445; Te^. scented 

 Noisettes. planting, 234; transplant- 

 ing. 263; varieties, estimate of, 164 ; 

 Blairii not blooaauug, 268; Cecile de 

 Chabrillant culturf, 349; Climbing 

 Devon iensis, 280. 291; Gloire de 

 Dijon, 29&; Devoniensis. abundant 

 flowerin*', 221; not flowering, 328; 

 Cherokee, SOS : Lord Raglan in Can- 

 terbury, New Zealand, 147 ; Madame 

 de Rothschild, 291 ; Madame- Rivers, 

 culture, 849: Madame v'ldot culture, 

 349; Maiechal Neil. 2rf7, culture, 94, 

 131. 139, 221 , budded on Gloire de 

 Dijon, 221,293, 305 ; on Celine, 339 

 Rosewinga, what are ? 198 

 Roup, 430 : curing, 198 

 Rubbish heaps, 23if, 308 

 Kubus arcticus culture, 117: leuco- 

 dermis, 125 



Salaoing, growing, 50 

 Salt for Strawberries, 245 

 Salt-cat, 354 

 Sanse\iera cai-nca, 487 

 Sawdust, its garden uses, 309 

 Sa:dfraga sai-mentosa culture, 321 

 Scarlet Runner Beans, 326 

 Schizostylis coccinea culture, 291 

 Sciadopitys vertioillata, 462 

 Sea-kale forcing, 452. 484 

 Sedum cameum culture, 193 

 Seeds— adulteration bill, and evidence 



on, 184. 222 ; covering, 103 ; genuine 



310; protecting from birds, 30; 



using old, 527 ; versus cuttings, 257 

 Seend Roaery, a second visit to, 159 

 September, plants flowering in, 305 

 Sewage as a manure, 249 

 Shading, by painting the glass, 268 



instead of watering, 87 

 Shaw. Mr. John, 86 

 Shelter for a garden, 311 

 Shrub seeds, sowing, 495 

 Sieve and half-sieve measures, 343 

 Silene pendula planting, 252 

 Silnworms, 158 

 BiphocampyluB Humboldtu ctUture, 



Sitters and non-sitters, mixing, 334 

 Skimmia oblaia propagation, 312 

 Slough Nurseries, bedding plants at, 



261 

 Slugs in a pit, 444 

 Smoke, its eflects on vegetable life, 



142, 277 ; trees exposed to, -±6^ 

 Snaith Poultry Show, 34 

 Snowberry, 527 

 Soils, improving, 266 . 



Solanum capsicnstmm, sowing, »49 , 



culture, S79 ; racemigemm, 312 

 Sonchus macranthas, 368 

 Soot, applying to fruit trees, 461 

 Southampton Poultry and Pigeon. 



Show, 3S9, 407 ; pens at, 463 

 South aspect, plants for, 234 

 Southwark Park, 10 

 Spalding Poultry Show, 16 

 ' Spanish— cock's comb and face. 92 : 



cocker d's faco, 410 : cockerel's eomo 



loppmg, 496; leedin?. yl4 ; exnioi:- 



ing, 238 

 Specific names of planta, 311 

 Sphierogyne lafifolia leafless. 367 

 Spring gardening aspects, 6, 55, 91 ; 



plants for, 193 

 Stachys lanata propagating, 193 

 Stapelia speciosa fruiting. 251 

 Starlings, white. 91 ; food for, 54 

 Station planting, S27 

 Steam-heating, furnace for, 386 

 Steriphoma paradoxum. 125 

 Stocks and scions, influence of, 119; 



260, 298 ; for fruit trees. -zOV, 224 

 Stocks. East Lothian. 39, 138 ; seed 



Euplieh-saved, 300 

 Stockton Canary Show, 533 

 Stoke Newington ChryaanthemaH: 



Show, 378 



