INDEX. 



Aberdeenshire Poultry Show, 35 

 Acacia armata leaves vellow, 238 

 Acanthus montanuB, 470 

 Acclimatisation at the Antipodes, 299 

 AocrlDgtoQ Poultry Show, 293 

 Acer, the genus, 132 

 Achim-'nes — decayinff, 118; Pink 

 Peifection, Grandis, 271 ; Rose 

 Queeo, Aurora, and Stella, 382 

 Acropera armeniaca, 271 

 Adelaater albivenis spotted, 437 

 yEsculuB, its kinds, 174 

 Ag-apauthus umbellatus, retubbing-, 



295 

 Agathea eoGlestls, 192 ; hardiness, 133 

 Afjaye Saundersii, 157 

 Ageratuni, variegated, 404 

 Aglaonema marantae folium var, 



foliis raaeuUtis, 271 

 Air-pivirg, 13, 94 



AUamandti grandiflora culture, SIR 

 Alocasia — metallica culture, 182 ; 



Lowii picta, 271 

 Aniaranthusmelancholicua— culture, 



201 J in boxes, 328 

 Amaryllis— for stove, 182 ; from seed, 



38S 

 American fruits, new, 46 

 Ammonia in air and water, 479 

 Amsterdam General Horticultural 



Exhibition, 280 

 Anemone— tubers, keeping n year 



unplanted, 290; angulosa, 470 

 Annuals, climbing and trailing for 



window, 257 

 Ants, 436 



*' Apiary, The," 184 

 Apple trees— not thriving. 201 ; ca- 

 terpillars, destroying, 366 ; pru- 

 ning, 366 

 Apricot culture, 275 

 Aquarium glazing, 242 

 Aquatics -for stove tank, 235; for 

 garden pool, 323 ; for small pool, 

 387 

 Arabis — culture of Golden, 306; 

 hicida variegata as an edging, 483 

 Arbor Vitse, Siberian, 421 

 Arboretum v. Pinetum, 23 

 Arboretum, the, 89, 132 

 Ardisia crenulata culture, 137 

 Ariscema papillosum, 157; Wightii, 



361 

 Arrangement of plant", 240 

 Arum palfestinum, 382 

 A^pa^agu3 — culture, French r. 

 English, 9, 234, 269, 363, 405; 

 beds, salting, 200; planting, 254; 

 sowing, 311 ; cutting, 488 

 Asphodels, 436 

 Astelia Solandri, 361 

 Ati-iples rubra culture, 274 

 Aubrietia deltoidea, 14 

 Aucuba— leaves of male, 349; ja- 

 pnnica (female), 361 ; iaponica, 

 382 

 Auiiculas—culture and frame, 92; 

 in 1865, 357 ; removing offsets, 

 387; Alpine, 421 

 Australian seeds, 181 

 Axe, 263 ; proper form of, 2.t2 

 Aylesbury Ducks' bills, 6tt, 76 

 Azaleas — shoots and leaves turned 

 brown, 130 ; Fascination, 157 ; 

 temperature lor, 275; syringing, 

 §^, 313; pontiea, propajrating, 436; 

 ^M after tlowering, 337, 452 



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^ -^ Bacon, stose-room fob, 27G 

 lO Bakies, 82 



Balsams, 365 ; culture of, 294 

 313 



Bantam — prizes, 314 ; laying soft 

 eggs, 332 



Bantams— producing, 62; Rumkioi 

 222 



Barbadoea, seeds for, 239 



Barm for poultry, 42 



Baskets, hanging, plants for, 56 



Bateman, Mr., and the Chiawick 

 Gardens, 244 



Bath and West of England Poultry 

 Show, 454 



Bays, management of, 97 



Beans for succession, 75 



Bedding-out. 40t 



Bedding and other plants, propa- 

 gating, &c., 442 



Bedding plant?, watering, 492 



Beds, planting raised, 212 



Bees— commotions and queen en- 

 casements, 18, 42, 61, 80, 105, 122 ; 

 straw hive.=, 20 ; artiticial swarms, 

 ft-'eding, 20 ; accident cleverly re- 

 paired, 40; supposed parasite, not 

 swarming, 42 ; Ligurianiaing an 

 apiary, 60 ; regicide, 62; swarming 

 p. storifying, 81, 221, 277, 391. 

 478; removing to distance, dimi- 

 nution of "weight in autumn, Ligu- 

 rians in Australia, 82, 209; dead 

 in cells, superiority of Ligurian, 

 124 ; swarming v. noa-awarming, 

 keeping In Devon, 141 ; young and 

 vigorous queens, queen not dead, 

 166; hive temperature, 183; re- 

 moving old combs ; re-using 

 combs ; obtaining most honey ; 

 Rev. W. C. Cotton; honey-taking 

 in Assam, 205 ; early drones ; 

 crumbled combs; dysentery; Li- 

 gurian, 206 ; beginning to keep, 

 222; in a greenhouse, 222; Ptew- 

 arton hives. 222; in Lanarkshire, 

 taking honey in Central America, 

 driving to avoid wax moth, 242; 

 the opening season, 259 ; Egyptian, 

 260 ; increasing room for, 260 ; 

 liives with entrance at top, 276, 

 352, 423 ; uniting very weak hives 

 in spring, 277 ; on a house roof, 

 colour of bee-house, putting supers 

 on common hives, 278 ; transfer- 

 ring, stock inactive, artificial 

 swarming, 299; honey-gathering 

 from clover, dving, 300 ; com- 

 mencing keeping, not working 

 in glasses, lairting a super, brood 

 dying; straightening combs, 315 ; 

 queen encasement and desertion 

 of hives, 316; storifying:, swarms 

 influenced by season, 331 ; hives 

 affected by damp, 332; does wild 

 Garlic affect them? 351; ancient 

 bee-booli, 352; apiarian revival, 

 353 ; honey remaining fluid, anta 

 in house, paiuting hives, chlo- 

 roform for stupefying; transfer, 

 ring ; supering a stock; buy- 

 ing, 354; TPgicide among, hives 

 deserted, 3C9 ; artiScial awarms, 

 early swarms, very weak stocks, 

 370 ; artificial swarm into a Si-ew- 

 arton-hive, enlargement of supers, 

 391 ; death of a queen, honey fla- 

 voured by onions, 392; artificial 

 swarms, 407 ; results of storifying, 

 as physicians, foul brood, droue 

 killing, placing natural swarm in 

 Stewarton hive, small drones, 408 ; 

 deatroyiag queen of a swarm, 



Bees— Continued, 

 driven, natural swarms, 424 ; 

 driving, over-manipulation, death 

 of a queen ; fertile workers, 

 439 ; hives with top entrances, 

 foul brood not curable by excision, 

 457; notes about queens, spon- 

 taneous union of swarms, with 

 extra antennas, clustering, mov- 

 ing, 458; keeping in Devon, 475 ; 

 two swarma in a Stewarton, in 

 Australia, fertile workers, hives, 

 putting on a super, 473 ; swarms 

 unitiue: spontaneously, excessive 

 swarming, persisting in swarming, 

 497 ; after swarming, putting on 

 glasses, Ligurian and the vine- 

 yards, decreasing, 498 



Begonia Digswelliana, 271 



Berberis aquifolium, planting for 

 cover, 95 



Beverley Poultry Show, 495 



Billbergia olens, 361 



Bill, 263 



Birds— a home tor, 141 ; introduced 

 into Australia, 299; luriag to a 

 home, 300 



Birmingham Poultry Judges, 421 



Boiler setting, 312, 405 



Boilers— portable, 269; heating by 

 one or two, 404 



Boning fowl-*, 438 



Borecoles, variegated, for bedding 

 in winter, 212 



Bosanquet, Mr., his lecture on win- 

 dow gardening, 270 



Botanic (Royal) Society's Show, 226, 

 286, 337, 411, 464 



Bougainvilicea speciopa, 162 ; cul- 

 lure, 97 



Bouquets, wedding, 218 



Bowling green, improving turf of, 

 387 



Box edgings, clipping old, 13, 

 493 



Boxes for climbers, 328 



Brartford Poultry Show, 100, 121 ; 

 Brahma class at, 140 



Brahma Pootras, 15, 17. 75, 124, 422; 

 in Burmah, 33 ; in India, 59 ; 

 weight of, 142 



Breda fowls, 316, 355 



Brentwood Poultry Show, 456 



*' British Plants, Handbook of," 

 471 



Broecoli^thvoughout winter, 200; 

 new white late, 404 



Buckinghamshire Duckers, 496 



Budgrigers building, 184 



Bulbs — done flowering, 218; a year 

 ■unplanted, 322; luanagement of, 

 329 



Bull's Nursery, 211; notes on his 

 new plants, 265 



Bullfinches, teaching, 332 



Buenos Ayres Ducks, 79 



Butter rancid, 62. 82, 104, 184, 222; 

 avoiding rancid, 124 



Bury Hill, 7 



Cabbage — culture, 425; plants 



DYING, 493 



Cabbages — growing superior, 113; 

 good, 419 



Cactus culture, 488 



Cdladiums, wintering, 138 



Calceolarias— Bird of Paradise, 51 ; 

 under north wall, 75 ; manage- 

 ment, 116; sowing herbaceous, 

 405; mulching, 437 



Camellias— worms in pots, 136; re- 

 potting, 181; grafting, 274; tem- 

 perature for, 275; syringing, 313; 

 Contessa dl Gonda, 382 



Campylobotrys regalis and refulgens 

 culture, 97 



Canadian wild flowers, 485 



Canaries — insects on, 142 ; losing 

 feathers, 142 



Canker in fowls, 142 



Carnation seed sowing, 493 



Carnations — (tree), Delicatissima, 

 Victoria, and Princess Alice, 51 ; 

 for exhibition, 200; sowing. 329 



Carrots— forcing, 135; sowing, 216; 

 soil for in Jrami^-', 349 



Caterpillars on White Thorn, 421 



Cattleya quadricolor, 361 



Cauliflower —sowing, 326; culture, 

 347 



Celery, 347 ; good varieties, 117 j 

 estimate of sorts, 236 



Celosia spicata sowing, 238 



Cement, stopping cracks in, 218 



Centaurea candiaissima, grnb-eaten, 

 274 



Cerastium tomentosnm — from seed, 

 275 ; for edging, 483 



Chrerophyllum bulbosum culture, 

 126 



Chalk as a manure, 30 



Chamois skins, 181 



Channel Islands. 387 



Charcoal as a manure, 239 



Cheilanthes fr^igrans, 05 



Cherries falling, 475 



Chickens— dying in hatching, 300, 

 332, 440; food for, 332; merits, 

 appreciating, 367 ; quadrupedal, 

 4U7 ; mortality among, 440 ; among 

 the, 494 



Chiciweed, eradicating, 313 



Chiswick, a few words about, 31S 



Chitty, the late Mr. P., 244, 261, 2 =3 ; 



Chitty, Mrs,, subscription for, 299; 

 and her children, 395 



Chopping, the art of, 252 



Chorozema cordata over-vigorous, 

 295 



*' Chrysanthemum, its history and 

 culture." 322 



Chrysanthemums — done blooming, 

 33; stems killed by burning sul- 

 phur. 213 ; Golden Bah, Venue, 

 271; (variegated) Sensation, 361; 

 cuttings in May, 387 



Cinerarias— sowing for blooming at 

 Michaelmas, 97 ; management, 

 116; steins decaying, 118 



Cistern, water flowing out of, 118 



Clarkia intetjripetala flore pleno, 

 382 



Clay, puddling with dry, 218 



Clematis Jackmannii, 51 



Climbers — for verandah, 55;- for- 

 wall, 74 ; for house-front 97 



Cobcea scaudens variegata culture, 

 275 



Cochin-Chinas — house for, 142; , 

 cock dying suddenly, 184; extra, 

 prizes lor, 220; Partridge, extra 

 prizes lor, 241 ; cockerel's legs , 

 paralysed, 300 : taken to, 388; hen 

 with enlarged crop, 392 



Cock's comb turned black, 62; frost- .. 

 eri, 392 ; letrs paralysed. 206 



Cockscombs. 365 ; managing, 349,, 



Cocoa-nut fibre refuse, uses of, 7- 



Coologjne fuscescens var. brunoefi^ 

 157 



Cole, W,, death of, 69 



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