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25, 263; sets, remarks on, 57, 144, 433 ; effects of guano on, 72, 
227, 286 ; paint from, 86; Sir C, Lemon’s letter on the disease 
of, 524; singular instance of their deterioration, 117; its cause, 
0; to plant, 144; cause of curl in, 528 i 
soils, 272; top-dressing for, 321 
Potato-starch, detected in Rice and Arrowroot, by hydrochloric 
acid, 141; query respecting, 462 
Potter’s Guano, 773; quantity to apply to an acre for garden- 
shift system,” remarks On, 171, 187, 205, 263, 283, 692, 709, 733, 
Poultry, good kinds, 6, 38, 55 ; works on, 233 
Prejudices ; covering for kitchen crops, 662; against slate pots, 
= it naming plants, 102; ii howing plants, 139 ; 
against growing soft and hard-wooded plants together, 190 
Preserving fruit, remarks on, 246 
rizes for Seedling Pelargoniums, remarks on, 542 
Primrose, Chinese, to stand the winter, 630 
Pronunciation of floral names, 210; remarks on, 336 
propagation in water, 843; of plants, 48) i 
(eee glasses, adv., Pellatt, 312; house at Veitch’s nur- 
Pruning, remarks on, 7; forest-trees, 37; Pears in summer, 37 ; 
in winter, 189 ; the Vine, strictures on, 411 
Prussiate of potash as a manure, 737 
Syche, remarks on the prize given for, 542, 556 
Pseud-Acacia, durability of, 361 
pele garden, remarks on forming one at Camberwell, 413 
ye for hothouses, economical, 22, 174, 2115 forliquid manure, 
Batty, to soften, 488 
JTS Spectabilis, treatment of, 825 
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Quanrerny Journal of Agriculture, rev., 215 
rea 8 visit to Chatsworth, 8 
nae cerris, its value for timber, 67; pedunculata, bodies 
Quinees, to propagate, g 
vito, climate of; its Orchidacese, 911 
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Ragnirs, 
» Plants not eaten by; 
Radishes, their treatment, s07 © 
‘aleigh, 
Rampion, its treatment, 233, 417 
‘Anunculus ficaria, described, 207, 233 ; to plant, 248; to remove 
R when growing, 377; adv., Tuso, 17; Groom, 33; Eyre, 49 
Ree as @ green manure, 20; straw, 26 
Ravhides, uses of, 286 : 
‘aspberry, Fastolff, adv., Youell, 1; remarks on, 102, 138; its 
its, 502; to increase, 545; management of, 665; treatment 
63 
ae to expel, 38; to destroy, 34, 574, 678, 806; effectual mode 
Seg as from ascending drains, 758 ; trap for, 758; 
Red spider, to 
ler, to 5, 5 
iruiettecs, Pps 57, 89, 238, 356, 505, 528, 681, 777; on 
efuse vegetables, as Manure, 25, 102; of paper, its use, 674; as 
Reson 616; chemical nature of, as manure, 589 
ystem of heating, 19, 36, 390, 501, 572,661 ; pamphlet 
ND 50, 97 ; not applicable to Pines, 501; plan of, 572 
Ri Rev. W., death of, 771 
Rh Zomorphas, luminous appearance in, 691 
Ryodanthe Manglesii, treatment of, 345 
qodendron, remarkable, at Capesthorne, 8; seed, to sow, 
ge fragrance, 679; Sorts, introduced from Japan and Nepaul, 
ee Strike from cuttings, 216; Rollisonii, 248, 375; soil for, 
ie aureum, adv., 425; ponticum var., remarks on, 694; to 
in the open air, success of, 693 ; a good 559; 
ge “on, 921, 361; cause of monstrous flowers, 361, 400; remarks on 
their exhibition, 372, 390, 413 ; forced, to prune and pot, 376; 
= to strike from cuttings, 416, 449, 545; by layers, 448; to obtain 
a succession in autumn, 504; on grouping, 518 ; to prune, 881 
Rose Garden, 100, 355 ; edging for, 527 
Rosa Hardii, 775, 822, 78 2 
Ross-shire, Dr. Graham’s botanical excursion in, 119 
Rot in Larch, cause of, 542; in Auriculas, 860 
Rubi, subdivision of, 574 
Rucker, Mr., his garden noticed, 231; his Orchidaceous house, 839 
Rural Sonnets, 119, 212 
Russelia juncea, its treatment, 40 
Rust of the Vine, remarks on, 132, 189, 289; caused by greasy 
hands, 461 
Rye, asa green manure, 20; straw as a Manure, 208; grass, 
Italian, to sow, 232; rapidity of growth in, 631 
Ss 
SAINTFOIN, a green manure, 36; to rear, 464 
Salad-oil plant, 157 
Salad, to make, 396 
Salectum Britanicum, adv., 168 
Salerno, state of weather at, effect upon vegetation, 662 
Saline substances, to apply, 305 
Salonichi 
Salt, fossil infusoria in, 759 
Salt and soot, their effect on grass, 3; to drive from the soil, 361, 
5, t soils, 161; found in al 
soils, 37; for Asparagus, 41; for fruit-trees, 417; to fixammo- 
nia, 115, 245; marshes, to drain, 302; to destroy grubs, 57 ; 
action of various kinds on living plants, 319 
ee 461, 479; cause of 
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Sashes, new plan for arranging, 230; bars of, improvement in, 358 
Saucepans silvered by the electrotype process, 463 
i 121, 176, 
, 572 
Saxifrage hypnoides, for edgings, 285; crassifolia, leaves of used 
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Scale, cure for, 70; small brown, described, 676; Apple-tree 
Mussel, described, 735; 
7, 40, 449, 616, 824; with ammoniacal liquor, 345; on Vines, 40, 
88; on trees, 233, 518; black Turtle, described, 443; brown 
Scilla peruviana, 
Scotch crops, query respecting, 317 
Screens for protecting trees, adv., Hulme, 128 
Scripture, Lily of, 429 
ertum Plantarum, Fielding’s, &c., rev., 824 
Scutellaria splendens, 447 ; its treatment, 571 3 Japonica, 591 
Scyphanthus elegans, 175 ; adv., Milne, 258 
Season, mildness of, 6, 22, 23, 908 
Seakale, treatment of young plants, 144, 216, 400, 433 
Seaweed, as green manure, 116 
Seeds, vitality of, 7: 
from C: 
87, 862; from Polynesia, treatment of, 681 ; 
h fleshy cotyledons, their treatment, 
172; Chinese method of sowing, 247; grow best in dry soil, 
effect of early ripening on their germination, 376 
Seedlings, selected by the Floricultural Society, 140; on hotbeds, 
their treatment, 305 
Silene speciosa, 807 
Shrew-mouse, sometimes passes the winter ina wren’s nest, 301 
‘es, 89; orna- 
mi 5 ; dwarf evergreen, 757 ; select hardy, 817 
Shrubberies, to dig, 805, 843, 860, 878 
iS a manure, 413 
Silk-button-gails, described, 52 
Silk-plant of Egypt, 69 ; of Madeira, 479 
Siphocampylus betulzefolius, its treatment, 41 
Sitting-rooms, cause of plants being unhealthy in, 272 
Skins of animals, refuse of, as a manure, 413 
Slate, adv., Beck, 50 
Slugs, in houses, to destroy, 105; in the garden, 118, 192, 377, 793 
L 972 
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rnedfor 777; to graft, 809, 825; to prune, 865; select, 825 
0 “a » early, 37; Victoria, remarks on, 69; to force, 73 5 
ine: wi remarks on, 138, 161; to prevent flowering, 249; 
Ribes?? ‘© Make, 321; stalks, to preserve, 505 
Rice. qogciosum, to increase, 361 
Ricks fara on of Potato-starch in, 141 
Ridg By adv., 496 neat kind, 560 
end pit, 20: 
: Rivers ene bark of trees, effect produced by, 519 
Roberts's pe Amateur’s Guide, 3d edit., rev., 864 
Rock, artifigne © On the Vine, rey, 103, 119 
Rolliggonre 2b to construct, 134 
Rondeletis NW8ery, noticed, 302 
Roots, 419 longifiora : 
coe? ion, remarks yo 
ms jj 3 
Sent-st 5 
Rookery » to establish a) ov? 407 
Ss effect of light 'o 
ON, 22; cellar for, 245, 285; medical ro 
3 their action on glass, 911 4 i , 
553; work ae on its own stem, 519; **Cloth of Gold,’ ady. 
in, 86) its culture, ady., 554; soil for striking cuttin 
OSes in . 
treatment 2 forcing of, g 
04 ; to protect, 809; best kinds for, 541; 
f 639 Pauls remarks on, dr: SomteG 
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theit classifienon cence 3 
3 to prune, “194° Assification, 161; plan of budding, 317, 
S curling, agg; OF, W. wall, 1615 trees, cause of thers 
ady., 6775 Upon, 246; 
3 Rivers, 226; Paul, 298; Bircham 
f 3 » 330; Den 
‘hina, Prince Albert, 301; to destroy caterpillars 
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Smith’s treatise on the Growth of the Peach, rev., 304 ; Productive 
Farming, ady., 45 
Smithfield cattle-show, 875 
moke, to consume, 161 
su, blooms of Sunflower a trap for, 737 ; poisoning by, 319; to 
kill, 400 
Snowdrops, advertisement for, 552 
Soapsuds, for manure, 88; to save, 216 
Socturies.—Agricultural, 103, 119, 139, 158, 175, 190, 211, 231, 
246, 302, 318, 338, 358, 392, 414, 446, 462, 520, 543, 558, 823, 863, 
878, 879; Derby Show, 257; account 
211; Heartsease, 340; Hampshire, 211, 395, 521, 715; Hamp- 
stead Florists’, 434, 7745 
rsary meeting, 
302; remarks on, 300; remarks on the alterations in the exhi- 
bition list, 517; Members’ addresses, 730; Hunslet, 340 
Inverness, 484; Inverness and Northern, 715; Ipswich 
Cucumber, 140, 340; Ireland, Practical Floral Society of, 340, 
568, 613, 717; Royal Hort., 718; Trish Flax, 175 ; Isle of Man, 495 
Jersey, Agricultural and Horticultural, 611 
and Floral,611; Limerick, 340, 522, 716; Linnean, 39, 103, 1395 
159, 190, 246, 208, 318, 446, 790, 823, 863; Liverpool, ady., 65, 
612, 7175 Pittville, 717; Plym 
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Reigate Cottagers’, 558; Rochdale Carnation Meeting, 613, 
Account of, 358, 445, 502 
bach, 396, 718; Salt-hill Dahlia exhibition, 622, 663, 6783 
486; Sheffield Gooseberry, 613; rbourne, 
341; Shrewsbury, 613; Union Florists, 2b.; Solihull Floral and 
Horticultural, ib. ; South Essex, 339, 486, 739; South 
268, 339, 414, 520, 543, 622, 662 i 
Tamworth, 740; Farmers’ Club, 759 ; Thanet, 740; Torbay, 
740; Tunbridge Wells, 718 
Uttoxeter Royal Horticultural and Floral, 613, 740 
Vale of Evesham, 486, 591, 740 
Walton Tulip, 396; Walton-le-Dale, 740; Warrington, 396, 
741; West Kent, adv., 281; exhibition, 614; West Lond 
adv., 515; exhibition. 
591 ; Whitefield, 741 ; Whitehaven, 741; Windsor and Eton, 
adv., 385 ; Wingham, 523, 718; Wolstanton, 341 ; Woolton, 718 ; 
Worcester, 487, 741 
York, 341; adv., 515; land- draining association, 712 ; 
Youghal, 71 
Soda, nitrate of, experiments with, 2, 22; caustic, unfit for land® 
232; produced in Cornwall, 142 
Sodom, Apple of, 73 
Soils, stiff upon a yellow clay subsoil, best manure for, 720; of 
gardens, to improve, when the subsoil is clay, 305; when 
gravel, 560; analysis of, 625; to cultivate, 571; necessity of 
pulverising, 555; mechanical properties of, 755; for Pansies, 
777; remarks on, 849 i 
Solly (Mr.), his Lectures on Chemistry, 318, 338, 358, 392 ; his 
Rural Chemistry, rev., 214 ; adv., 224 
Somnauth, gates of, 132 
Sonnets, Rural, 119, 212; to the Rose de VIsle, 575 
Soot, for manure, 25, 216; for Pines, 209, 266 3 for Potatoes, 305 
Sowerby’s English Botany, adv., 475 
Spade-husbandry, implements for, 88 ; culture, success of, 822; 
83 
parrows, use of, 461, 480 
Spathodea campanulata, 805 
Speede’s Indian Hand-book of Gardening, rev., 271 
Specimens, ill-selected, adv. concerning, 592 
Spiders, peculiar properties of certain kinds, 9; red, to destroy, 
57, 101, 233, 356, 505, 528 
Spinach, Flanders, described, 561 
Spirits of tar, their value, 5, 22; quantity to apply, 22,216; time 
to apply, 86, 105 
Sphagnum, 232 
Spot on Pelargonium leaves, cause of, 616; to prevent, 361, 389, 
400, 417, 428, 541; in Pine-leaves, 192 
Sprengel on green manuring, 3, 20, 35, 52, 68, 84, 116, 572, 588 ; 
on Clover, 35; Rape, 20; Rye, i6,; Vetch, 3; Lucerne and 
Saintfoin, 36; roots of Grasses, ib. Turnip-tops, 20; Tansy, 
52; Mugwort, i4.; Bannatic Globe Thistles, 68; Seaweed, 116; 
Mushrooms and Fungi, i on vegetable refuse as a manure, 
133; on oil-cake, #.; on Malt dust, i.; on husks of fruit, i.; 
on Corn-stubble, i).; on vegetable manures, 207, 220, 244, 262, 
284, 478, 500 ; on straw of Wheat, 208; Ry i 
229; Buck-wheat, 229 ; Bean, 244; Peas, 244; Vetches, 262; Po- 
tato-haulm, 263 ; Rape-straw, 263 ; leaves of Firs, 284; of Beech, 
id.; of Oak, id. ; of Lime, 334; of Fir, i.; on Heath, 3 
on Turves, 372; on Cranberries, 478: Bilberry-leaves, ae ; 
Ferns, t).; Cotton-grass, 500; Forest-litter, i.; Broom, t, 
gs, ib. ; refuse of Flax and Hemp, id, 
Spring Plants, 292! 
Spruce Fir-branch, monstrosity of, 630; curious appearance of, 
cause explained, 661 
Spurring, its meaning, 192 
Squirrels, their use in Fir-plantations, 390; nursed bya cat, 413 
Stable-yards, to keep clean, 577 x 
Stables, experiments on purifying the air of, 463 
Stakeholder, of iron, described, 2 
Stall-feeding, 847; for cows, 881 
Stanhopea Martiana, var. bicolor, 670 
Starch, its conversion into gum and sugar, 23 
Statistics of Agriculture, 82: 
Steaming houses, old eet about, 289 
Banchory Ternan, 483; Bath, 393, 609; ig Floral 
Hort., 713; Bebbington, 521; Bensham, 483; Berwick. 
5915 Botanical, 211, 246, 358, 574, 590, 790; Brighton, 739; 
Bromley, adv., 313 ; Br Association at Cork, 609 ; Birming- 
ham, 339, 393, 483; exhibition of Roses at, 521; Burton Floral 
and Hort., 713 
Caledonian, 211, 375, 414, 447, 482; Cambridge, 287, 591, 713; 
Cambridge Florists’, 610,713; Canterbury, 268, 484; Cheetham, 
339 theltenk C ‘field, 3 
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Cercle Général d’ Horticulture de Paris, 694; Cork, 394, 433, 
610; Cornwall Royal Hort., 717; Cremlington, 484 
Diss, 591; Doncaster, 713; Dorking, 217, 484,714 ; Dorsetshire, 
394, 521; Dundee, 339; Dundee and Broughty-ferry Dahlia 
Competition, 714; Durham, 484, 714 
Ealing Cucumber, 237; East Lothian, 395, 610, 714; East 
Norfolk and Suffolk, 610; Earl’s Colne, 484; Eccleston Floral 
and Hort., 714; Edinburgh Botanical, 70, 119, 287, 462, 521; 
Hailstorm Insurance, ady., 516; Hale Floral and Hort., 7143 
Halsted, 494; Hammersmith Cucumber, ady.; 170; exhibition, 
vil um, 
8 ’ Book of the Farm, rev., 160; adv., 442 
Stocker atat their treatment, 505 ; ten week, to so w, 541's 
double, remarks on fertilisation of, 645; flowering of, 678; for 
grafting on, 57,735 Paradise, 249 
Stoke Newington Gardeners’ Association, 837 
Stops for hot-water gutters, 804 
Storm, destructive effects of, 607 
Straw, as a manure, 207, 229; beneficial in packing ice, 93 
Strawberries, to dig between the rows Of, 755; 
for, 121; to prepare ground for, list of productive kinds, 744¢ 
to prepare for forcing, 480, 542 ; benefitted by mowing off the 
leaves, 502, 519, 542 ; remarks on, 555; treatment of, 589, 798; 
Elton, remarks on, 616; Haig's scarlet Pine, adv., 168; plants, 
to prepare for forcing, 573, 580 ; Princess Alice M 
flowers, 272; dried, to 
prepare, 302 ; Myatt’s Pine, easily cultivated,357; to strengthen, 
376, 417, 4645 effect of dry weather on, 376 ; cause of unfruit- 
fulness, 400 ; Myatt’s New Deptford Pine, 447 ; Hautbois, 464; 
Myatt’s Pine, 524 ; remarks on culture of, $87, 608 ; application 
of guano-water i 
542 ; Myatt’s Pine, remarks on, 711; Keen’s seedling, to pro- 
duce a second crop, treatment of, 711; one-shift system for, 
to dig between, 720; in autumn, bad practice of, reason 
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