INDEX. 



Abercorv House Gardens, 7. 



Absorbing properties of calcium, 492. 



Acacias, 192, 337, 512, 568, 624. 



Acceieratiiis: vegetation, 73, 74, 187, 189, 

 190, 286, 629. 



Acclimatizinsr plants, 463. 



Achimines, 470, 472, 513, 518. 



Achimines coming on for bloom, 419. 



Addison's comparison, 6. 



Adenopheras, 464. 



Admirable cucumber or melon pit, 249. 



Adonis flox, 270, 



Advantages of burning soils, 46. 



Advantage of cabbaging lettuces, 184. 



Advantage of decided colours, 500. 



Advantage of groups of trees as shel- 

 ter, 71. 



Advantage of eye-nails in walls, 85. 



Advantage of tall trees in geometrical 

 gardens, 101. 



Advantage of hollow walls, 94. 

 Advantages of Messenger's system of 



ventilation, 255. 

 Advantages, moral and sanitary, of a 



lofty sire, 29. 

 Advantages of protection to wall- fruit, 



325. 

 Advantages of faggots of wood in road- 

 making, 108. 

 Advantatres of grouping, 707. 

 Advantages of potted roses, 648. 

 Advantages of the tubular boiler, 259. 

 Advantages of vigorous stocks for 



standard roses, 641. 

 Advantages of walls with a southern 



aspect, 169. 

 After-treatment of chrysanthemums, 



679. 

 After-treatment of roses in pots, 652. 

 Ageratnm ccelest nnm, 2/1, 380. 

 Air in pine-huuses, 637. 

 Air essential to plants in bloom, 292. 

 Al'insoas, 373. 

 Alpine bee, 442. 

 Alumina, 22. 



Ameliorating effects of lime, 46. 

 American plan for cuttings, 132. 

 American bliiiht, 387. 

 American garden, 401, 734. 

 American modes of storing friut, 492. 

 American plants, 360, 699, 734. 



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1 Ammonia the chief source of nitrogen, 



Aiiagallis,501. 



Analysis of soils and manures, 19, 522. 



Ancestral orange-trees, 3. 



Ancient vineyards in Britain, 4. 



Anc.dote related by Sir VV. Scott, 7. 



Anemone, — its propagation and cultiva- 

 tion, 535. 



Anemone - flowering chrysanthemums, 

 673. 



Anemones, 358. 



Animal and vegetable refuse, 73. 



Animal origin of ciialk hills, 15. 



Annuals superseded in modern garaens, 

 304. 



Animals in reserve garden, l64. 



Annuals— sow, 356; prick out, ib.; har- 

 den off, id. ; planting out, id. 



Annuals tor autumnal liloom, 458. 



Ante- garden of the Horticultural So- 

 cetv, 61. 



Anti-con'osive paint, 76. 



Ants, 143. 



Aphides, or plant-lice, 142, 373. 



Aphis-brush for cleaning trees, 268. 



Apiary, 4:^4, 452, 520. 



Ai)paratus for prescrvmg vegetables, 496. 



Apples, 73, 283, 328, 368, 412, 505. 511, 

 565, 6J1. 



Apples, suitable soil for, 7O8 ; list of des- 

 sert, 16.; of cooking do., 709. 



Apple^ and pears stored on shelves, 487. 



Ai)ples stored on straw, 487. 



Appes, — when to gather. 482. 



Application of garden-walls, 82. 



Apiiiication of circle-grafting, 127. 



Application of Paxton's patent, 250. 



Approach to ornamental bridges, 1 12. 



Aijproach grafting, 128. 



Approach to the house, 26, 34. 



Apricots excited in sprintr, 85. 



Aprirots, 73, 367, 412, 467, 507, 511, 675, 

 7O8. 



April,— its aspect,— 302 ; etymology, t'A. ; 

 the first blossoms of spring, ib. ; the 

 garden in April, 303 ; Apr 1 winds, id. ; 

 April temperature, id. ; April rains, 303. 



Apricots in blossom, 324, 



Arborescent ferns of the coal-mea- 

 sures, 13. 



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