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INDEX. 
eee to estoy; pmaegots on, 697; its culture in beds, 4, 20; 
ne, 17; to cook, 39; soon cools when brought to table, 
34; to centh up, 105; 3 effect of Potter’s Guano on, 266 ; remarks 
Cellar Be roots, to prepare, &c., 245, 266 ; for plants, 8: 
Cement, adv,, Austin, aes hydraulic, 609; omens to apply, 
630; Observations on, 
Centradenia rosea, 319 ; alti of, 876 
Cerbera Beers 9 
Cereale papaver, & 
Chalk, to app! as to land. 
Chambers’ Cyclopedia A Logtiek Literature, remarks on, 417 
amomile, curious sporting of, A705 to prevent, 519 
Chandler’s Nursery, noticed, 159, 8! 
Chara, as a green manure, 
ey Ae BORA to the Onion-maggot, 54, 161; growth of 
plants 5; to prepare, 358, 478; to mix with soil in potting, 
1773 cy nate with manures, 248; made from refuse cuttings, 
191; to use advantageously, 216, 248; food for plants, 875; Mr. 
Rige’s experiment with, 875 ; its effects on plants, 907 
Chemistry, made Easy, adv., 498; Rural, adv., 51; Peed on, 
318, 338, 358, 392; striking discoveries i in, effects 0 if, 733 
Cherimoyer, its treatment, PIR where procured, 5: 
Cherries, for espaliers, 25; Mayduke, remarks on, 875 on walls, 
their treatment, 305; to cae insects on, 433 
Chervil, bulbous-roote d, 
Child’s ‘‘ Every Man his own Brewer,” rev., 160 
Ghithonanthus hardy, 72, 192; its treatment, 232 
a, collection for,7; flower- gardens in, 39; Cabbage of, its 
GA ment, 73; seeds from, to raise, 121 ; Mr. Fortune’s mission 
0, 1 
eee Eee plenty 142; Iris, its treatment, 177 ; method of sow- 
ig seed: 
Gatonannik to flower, 144 
Chloride of lime, a Tancsy for worms, 429 
Chlorine, to disinfect manure, 4 
Chorozema spartioides, 630 
adv., 28] ; the ‘Duke, adv., 329; list of, adv., "Youell, 4415 fo 
bloom in winter, 377; to render bushy, 377 ; pamphlet on, adv., 
442; to layer, 541; Chines; se, 276 
Churns, broods, notice d, 593 
Cider, to make, 8 
Caen fhe vteatment, Fe 372; good kinds, 289; to sow 
720; seed, adv., 
Cinnamon rattle described, 67 
Cin ateee auratum, 911 
Gee hist tory, 
Clay, directions for burning, 203 ao land, to improve, 539; 
Clianthus puniceus, its peemeat fe 121; to propagate, 345 ; spe- 
wport in the Spas 
Climbers, wee for, 4, 68, 8. 16, 173, 263, 300, 428; fora S.E. 
ra shaded trellis, 72; fora rough wall, 72; fora N. 
aspect, éo; Stee a Co Ra 895 hardy, i strike ee od. 
545; for a rough-cast wall, 10: ; for a sum: 
verandahs, 433; gre enhouse, an annual, 200, 272; tb Bloges 
216; summer, 3775 A 
Cloacine explained, 72; to save, 44, 216, 247; to disinfect, che 247 
Clover, renee of its failure, 99; Alsike, 1585 seed, doctored, test 
e r, 231; Bokhara, a 289, 412; soil for, 289 ; ‘red, ae reuteen 
Ray 35; white, 
Clover Rape, &e., remarks ony 645 
ae destroy, 627, 758 ; per- 
8 attacked by it, 644; seed 
its effect on Lucerne, 
f, 806 ; remarks on, 737 ; introduced 
ed, 694 a to separate the 
ose of Lucerne, 771; seeds of, 862, 909 
Club in Cabbages, to prevent, 57, 8: 
Coal-ashes, as a p) (Sete to the rane of plants, 272 
Cobzea scandens, 
Cockscombs, culture of, 788; we treatment, 345 
Coccus testudo, described, 4g, it patellzeformis, 517, 518; 
Cocoa-nuts, for Hare 909, 8 
Coffee plant, 
Coltsfoot, to eceivputesi 
Colours, arrangement of, tf flower-beds, 173, 316, 540 
Columnea splendens, 211 
Colours of flowers, remarks on changing, 577 
Comarostaphylis arbutoides, 463 
Commelina ccelestis, its treatment, 443 
Corn, cheaper to buy than flour, 22; Indian,remarkable crop of, 
38; its treatment, 400; stubble as a manure, 133; new kind 
of, "617; transmutation of, 661 
Compost heap, to prepar 
ees age: plants tor, 8 ie 884 ; described, 629; climbers, 895 
treatment suggested, 588, 607 Dlue- flowering 
plas (oR 265; time for planting, 400; atarice on planting, 
76% 
Co. iferse, manures injurious to, 89; adv., P. Lawson, 786; treat- 
ea gs en young, 105; of seeds, 232; cultivation of, in pots, 
315, 
Coriari, me fol ohantng: 
a i lige eboihaain 
Cork tree, not hardy, ag by, ae 
Correspondents, Bones ¢ to, 
Corrosive sublimate, to destroy wo! 
8, 37, 70, 86, 216, 449 
Cosson’s Introduction to the Flore of P We 
56 
‘aris, noticed, 39 
Cottage Bee-hive, adv,, 
Cottagers, cheap way wortheti to prepare m: 83; books, as 
prizes sor, 245; Gardens, in Scotland agverocce tee tnpreve: 
mei 
Cotton’s My Bee Book, adv., 200 
Cotton, of English growth, 520; coven ane of, 
pare, 301, 557; seed of, for cow: 
Cotoneaster, berries of, not Polsciuie 505 
Curculio lineatus, feeds on the Bean, 373 
mba lon umbilicus, for Katee te 519 
Couch-grass, to destroy, 1 
Covering for flowers, 557 ; “te sacks 558 
/oW-grass, to lay down land with, 
Cows, to cure warts on their wa a 3 good kinds, 443; food 
for, 825; dung of,a good manure for American borders, 321; 
cotton seed, as food for, 524; ie upon, 417; effect of vege. 
table refuse on their milk, 15: 
Cranberries, as hese A785 to cultivate, 844 
Crabs, ornamental, 4 
Crategus, otiashental kinds of, 412 
for frames, to pre- 
Creasote, for preserving meat, 543 
Creepers for a N. aspect, 39; for ab ank, 192; quick growin: 
361; ‘atv. Milne, 258 ; hardy, list of, and time of flowering, 638; 
list of, 8 
Cress, pee aHedn, to sow, 345 
Crickets, to destroy, 561 
Crinum Tongirolains treatment of, 8 
Crocuses, to protect from mice, 9; ANE Lockhart, 170; to sow 
seeds of, 433 
Cropping, remarks on, 720; succession for allotments, 262 
Crowfoct, as a green manure, 84; As eRRIDY, 192, 216 
Cryptogamic plants ; adv., Gardin 
Cuckoo, habits of, 519, 5575 Becbtin: on one surviving two win- 
ters in England, 574; to Keel, in winter, 862 
Cucumbers, treatment of, 848; adv., Cuthill, a ee 170; re- 
marks on, 19, 22; dualifications of, 19; cause of canker in, 
361; boxes, adv., 2; good kinds, 53, 0163 pits ee 25; 
nitrate of soda for, 192; to prepare a ho tbed for, 5: their 
treatment at Southill, 118; early, to cultivate, 336; aa; to 
mix gypsum with, 232; to cure mildew on, 505; benefited by 
muriate of ammonia, 5165 bitterness in, 561 
Currants, to train, 806.; 909 
cu eae Vine, its tr eaten in the Ionian islands, 70; large fruit 
of, 175 ; aeatae trots seed, 319 
Giates trifolii, 710, 756 ; Europzea, 710 
ust ous giao plants morinaered by, 115 
Custard Apple, 2: 
Cuttings, eal method of striking, 102; when to gather, 
reason for retaining a leaf on, 709; to prepares 104, 300; of the 
Apple, treatment of, 116, 300; not likely to rootin a Potato, 
re half-hardy in spring, 189; autumn-struck, preferable to 
ing. 428; pit for, 189; io irl to India, 228, 539, 544 
evttepedta of Science, rev., 
Cyclamens, their treatment, 180; Mae oe described, 660 
Cycnoches, 775; pentadactylon, 3 
Cydonia japonica, for a af wall, “60% edible, 246 
Cymbidium Devonianum 
Cypress fea its durabil it ity, 87 
Cyrtanthus, its treatment, 248, 488 
Cytisus Weldenii, 647 
DAuLIAS, select, rate to aie down the stems of, 7773 adv., 
Whale, 1; Mitch 1; Newton, 17; Edwards, 33; one 
roy, iB. Leen 49; Mountjoy, 65; Bushell, 65; Heal e, 
3 smith) 81; Keynes, 823 
Save, 875 of 1842, exhibited near Tondon, 2605, M 
remarks on, 86, 102; properties of, 86, 102; select, 231, 233, 305, 
Triumph, 330; blooming of, with open centres, 711; posi of 
winning flowers, 2315 sheen ‘of mitrate of soda on, 191; ° 
through the winter, ; adv., Brown, 226; atton, 2 7 
Atwell, 258; at Sone should be named, 4993 coccinea, 
double, 879 ; remarks on, 877 
Dandelions, to aeatioy Vy ie 
Daniell’s manure, good for Turnips, 
Daphne, to g: raft, é: soil for, 216; éineoram, soil for, 321, 391; 
to train, sid; odora, to bloom, 
Date tree, 845 oi 
Dates, remarks on. 
Da aubeny’ 's sulphate of ammonia, letter respecting, 99 
David’s poe nlan A of the Soils, adv., 426; reviewed, 464 
Davis’s Injury Waste of Corn oe Thick Sowing, rev., 576 
Davy’s onlin Heys adv. 
jnous shrubs, list of, 
Beer ar cerguenplentaiah 118; rhombeum, 268 ; Ruckeri, 319 ; 
taurinum, 447; cucumerinum, 6753 list of, 7615 aqueum, 823 
Denyer’s nursery, noticed, 
Devonshire, mildness of, 1. 
Derby, remarks on the rhe renitiral Society’s meetings at, 499 ; 
show, adv., 257 ; account of, 481, 502; remarks on, 492 ; anni- 
versary meeting, 374; Southampton meeting, adv., 834 
Digging land, cost of, 93 haan 805, 843, 860, 861 
Diocletian’s answer to Maximilian, 
Diospyros virginiana, 844 
Diseases of veg Bact Heed) on, 1213 in Potatoes, Sir C. 
non, Bd; in Firs, 37; in Larch, 488, 661; in Pansies, 
573, 646, 809; cure to, ‘ho; in Plums, 319 
Dock- ‘mud, as a manur‘ 
Doctored Clover seed, teat one 
Dodder, pernicious effects of, st Clover, 607; its habits, 627; ee 
destroy, 627, 75 » 644; seed import 
from one 73 3 its ef 
» 807 A 
ia of Husbandry, rev., 39, a7 gaol Eanes 
darieutive nevi, 176; pects Garden, adv. 
Drainage ‘Act, remarks on, 19, 51, 86, si? Ble works on, rev., 
143; remarks on Mr. Pater” 's Bill nfo 
6595 plan of, 606; and subsoil ploughing, Bee ONS IRE? 5} 
directions for, 606, 627; with peat, durability of, 519, 627 
Droke, remarks on, 571 
Drying plants, easy method of, 4: 
Drone Bees, time of po appearance 391 
Dropmore, Pinuses at, 
Duckweed, as a green manore, 84 
Duhring’s Art of Living, 527 
Duvaua longifolia, 823 
Dyer’s wood, for manure, 121 
tifi : 
Earrus, arti cial, 4 
Farthen pipes, to Joint, hoy 862, 878; for heating, 737, 693 
Earwigs, to destroy, 
Eboe, description of, a 
Echites splendens, 319 
Echium petrzeum, 375 
Edgings, plants for, 825; Cotyledon perbilicng for, 519; Fairy 
Roses for, 527; Saxifraga Ceca for, 
Edinburgh Botanic Garden, noticed 
Edington, Apple-trees at, 879 
ae cf Gardeners, letters on, 210; in Germany, 775 
Electrotyping, remarks on, 459, 4 
Elemen' if Agricultural ¢ aerate adv., 442 
Eleutherina anomala, 
Elm planks, Aine of 98 5, 3 
Emigrant’s Han' kc of Facts, rev 
Employment a tinea 197; 206, 227, br 315 
Engines, forcing, adv., Read, 168 ; Jones, 204 
English and Scotch Farmers, remarks on, 209, 265, 301, 357 
Enormities, Horticultural, 53 
ONCE SS 52, 116, 156, 188, 244, 356, 443, 588, 676,735 ; works 
» adv., 112; 
Epleurus, remietes eae giz 
631; remarks on 
habits of, 
Epiphyllum BEMeliibaan, 
Epiphytes, stand for, hy *iouse at Broughton-hall, 908 
Equisetum, to destroy, 4 
Eranthemum pulchenee chip 
Erythrochiton Braziliensis 1» 775 
Erythrina, to flower, 144; inthe open air, 172 
Espaliers, siaterial for, 806; for fruit-trees. 
ssenden Place, Geet pen blooming at, 319 
Eucalyptus robusta, 8: 
Eucalypti, their decor tication i in Australia, 1 Bey A Pa Aeten 362 
uphorbia jacquiniflora, its treatment, 160, 267 
Evergreens, to remove, iM 528 5 Pat) pie ee 
Excrescences of Oak-timber, 908 
eae of the baat Society, single plants for, 25; to 
eRe AL at, 44; remarks on uaming plants at, 52; 
remarks 
Exotic planes may be kept too warm at night, 54 
xXperimenting with manures, remarks on, 171; eee ults of, 526 
Experimental co-operation, 861 ; farming, dialogue respecting, 13 
Eyre’s Journal of an Affghanistan prisoner, rev., 39 
; to propagate, 400 
F 
FABIANA imbricata, hardy, 374 
Fairbairn’s Nursery, noticed, 214, 760 
Falkner’s Muck Manual, ady., 475; rev., 504 
Fall of the leaf, its cause, 188 
Familiar Botany, 99, 188, 207, 298, 412, 73. 
Farmers, advice to, 155 ; ie of, 266 ; divgitaand’Scotehvematn, 
On, 209, 265,301, 316, 3. 
susie expetimental, dialogue respecting. 210 Scotch remarks 
mn, 335; treatise on, ag a small scale, hints on, 427, 
443, 447 ; remarks on, 709,733, 
ee Raspberry, Youell’s, ae 17 
rat i i 0) 
‘erns, where procurable, 4405 ae sow the seed of, 577; remarks 
re, 478; British, adv., 518 ; adv., Young, 537 
Fern-shaw Beetle, des nets caused by, 1 90 
Fertilisation of plants, 3: 
eine: 's, &c., Sertum Siawtaries rev., 
» to observe in flower, 73; caprification "of; 376; remarks on 
‘the frnit feline) 192, 400; to grow in Vineries, 230, 266; treat- 
4 on nee best soil for, 249; to graft on a 
; for back wall of a Vinery, 593; best 
kind for forcing, 121 ; a aiectianis for, 633 
Figwort, described, 2075 ae on, 249 
Filberts, to preserve, 119; to train, 89 ; treatment it of, 305 
rire, caubed by the eriction of Cane- stalks i in the forests of Kea 
of, 
mao 
Firs, Scotch, disease in, 37; time to stop, 488; when full grown, 
735 remarks on its SaniGes. 161; ; plants that will grow under, 
37; best time to remove, 528 ; Je; leaves of, as manure, 334; query 
respecting disease in, 505; to destroy insects on, 
Fish, John Dory, 773; pond at Logan, 790; gold and silver, 
answered, 461; tameness of, 8 
Fleas, to kill on aie 08, 622; in stables, to destroy, 649 
Flies, their utility, 7 
Flint, calcined, to Prepare, 144 
Flora odorata, Tev., 78 
Floral fancies, rev., 
Florence Court, vit-trees at, noticed, 696 
Florist’s Journal, adv,, 200; re 
Florist’s flowers, sete rerE s eoinpound for, 
rs f, 317; atamenit in Proceed- 
ings contradicted, ' 913 
lens 's, to prepare, 249 
of, 400; remarks on, 445; to hybridise, 444; sweet-scented, 
449; double, to fertilize, 093; their origin, 628 
Flower- garden, Biot for, 758 ; grouping plants in, 662; in China, 
39; borders, ig, 68; arrangement of plants for, 316, 540; 
pots, sizes of, “ise arguments in favour of glazed oe 285 
Flower-seeds, adv., Lucombe and Co., 82; Brown, 98; Aphelins 
and eu 98; pares 114; Cooper, 114; ‘Blacks 130; Rendle 
153 ; Hurst, 154; Warner, 169 + Sang, 226 
Flowering-plants f for roing7 736, 788 
anes ts, improvements in, 372, 519, 557; Hunt’s patent, 
adv., 
Flax, growth of, in Ireland, he 
Flute. grafting, how performed y 321 
Food of plants, 5; its effect on ‘eggs, 175; Gs papers 825 
Forbes’s Inaugural Lecture on Botany, rev., 447 
Forcing,remarks on, 35,40, 54, 67,577; ones; Rivers’ method, 210; 
plants for, 247, 7365 houses, new plan of adjusting lights for, 230 
Fork, for leaves, 38 
Forest. trees, to prune, 37, $42, 758, Le petty 136, trh out- 
line of Gavin Cree’s system of prunin; ek 
and table expressing the girths at different helente, ti 4 
marks on size of, at een Flintshire ; also Dr. et 
741 
Foster, Mr., his Ley sie) 487 
Fountain, adv., Wyat! 
Fox. -hunters, crops reel by, 1 
Frames, canvas for, re marks on, “805 sheet-glass for, 792; two- 
light, to keep up a succession of flowers i in, 156 ; cheap mode of 
glazing, 211, 390; cotton coverings for, 301 ; for protecting an+ 
ie 38; for growing Vines in, 54; to prepare canvas for, 
39, 
rom wasps, 662; to preserve, 5; with water, 38; 
Sey of, pees teaves; 542, 589, 677, 711; when wet, 
3 to pack, 4 
Fruit-trees, to ative ren in gravel, remarks on, 711; heavy 
a north aspect, 865; espaliers, distanc 
pete = 73; suitable for trees, 865; effect of gas tax on stems 
f, 
air, 73; in a dwarf State, 2995 Sonera atv, 83; Toddiana, 
97; Eppsii, 154; Miller, 65; Deans, 82; Youell, 97; Smith, 186; 
Ivery, 201 ; Cori ree 258 ; Smith, 314; at Logan House, 790 ; 
kinds for 
144; new, 413, 446; select, 144, 
und, 89, 
321, 431, 433, 146, ‘48, 343, 545, 6815 St. Clare, 433; good s sorts) 
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