INDEX. 



Abies microsperma, 84 



Acacia, Drummondii pruning 1 , 90 ; 



armata in summer, -30 

 Acanthonema strigosum, 553 

 Acclimatisation Society, 93 

 Acer, ptilmatum atro - purpureum, 



540 ; of the Romans. 593 

 Achimenes, 727 ; at rest, 618 ; Mauve 



Queen, 678 

 Aconitum of the Komans, 702 

 Acrotrema Walkeri, 790 

 Adelaide Botanical Garden, 349 

 " African (South) Economic Flora,*' 



678 

 Agave glaucescens, 495 

 Agricultural Society's (Royal) Show, 



implements at, 254 

 Agrostemma coronaria, 398 

 Ailanthus silkworm, 113, 246, 531, 



6S8 

 Ajuga reptans purpurascens as an 



edging, 476 

 Alexander, James, 164 

 Almeidea rubra, 555 

 Alocasia metallica and macrorhiza 



variegata, 55 

 Aloe, about to bloom, 221; family 



and their culture, 574 

 Alphabetical arrangementof poultry 



exhibitors, 772 

 Amaranthus, melancholicus ruber, 



369,430; tricolor, new, 449 

 Amaryllis— belladonna culture, 55 ; 



Unique, 143 ; belladonna soil, 166 ; 



culture, 479; blue, 480; aulica, 



705 ; formosissima culture, 769 

 Amaryllises in pots, 61S 

 American plant, leaves diseased, 224 

 Ammoniacal liquor destructive of 



caterpillars, 192 

 Ammoniacal gas in a hothouse, 490 

 Amphitheatre of verdure, 455 

 Anemone, apennina culture, 34 ; 



narcissi flora, 393 

 Anemones after flowering, 146 

 Angers, its tree and fruit trade, 



745 ; market - gardening produce 



of, 788 

 Angrcecum fragrans as a medicine, 16 

 Anguria Warczewiczii, 52 

 Anisanthus splendens, 488 

 Annuals, for edging Geranium-beds, 



35 ; select list of, 644 

 Anomochloa marantoidea, 378 

 Antholyza iBthiopica, 48S 

 Anthurium Scherzerijnum, 196, 337 

 Antirrhinums, -wintering seedling, 



479 

 Ant-hills, to get rid of, 146 

 Ants, in Melon-bed, 241 ; in grass, 



262 ; in Cucumber-frame, 343 

 Aphelexis culture, 765 

 Aphides and their deduction, 176 

 Apiarian, events of 1861, 17 ; notes, 



18,423; Miscellany, 70S, 775 

 Apiary— "B. fc W.'s" in 1862, 129; 



of "Upwards & Onwards," 731 

 Apple— trees, heading down, 55 ; 



trees cankering, 127 ; Irish 



Peach, 378 ; trees unfruitful, 594 ; 



trees, vitality in, 714: renovating, 



741 

 Apples— sweating before storing, 



S3 ; storing, 302 ; selection of, 



705; keeping, 719; Ribston and 



Cox's Orange Pippins, 761 

 Apricot shedding its tdossora, 127 

 Apricots— under glass, 223, 240; 



scale on, 705; in pots in orchard- 

 house, 785 

 Aquarium — parlour, 235 ; Warring. 



ton's, 262 ; water for, 6S5 

 Aquariums, in gardene^que scenery, 



103, 122, 141 



Aquilegia glandulosa, 393 

 Arabia alpina, propagating, 229 

 Arauctria, Cookii, 237 ; not thriving, 



704 

 Arbor Vita?, cutting American, 495 ; 



hedge, 617, 618, 671 

 Arbutus procera, 84 

 Archerfield Early Muscat Grape, 



451,457 

 Architectural features in gardening, 



494 

 Arctotis, new, for edgings, 368 ; 



reptans, 407 

 Argemone grandiflora, 398 

 Aristolochia Gibeitii, 677 

 Arnott's stove, brick, 726 

 Arrowroot culture, 94 

 Artichoke, is it hardy 1 668 

 Artichokes, are they hardy? 716, 

 725 ; culture and hardiness of, 

 744; protecting, 762, 763 

 Arundo donax culture, 108 

 Ascidia intestmalis, communis, 

 arachnoidea, tubulosa, and pru- 

 num, 452 

 Ascidians, compound, 436; social, 



437 

 Asparagus — earliness of, 118; beds, 

 mismanaged, 127 ; culture, 127, 

 637; ailing, 166; beds, 231, 321; 

 tops, 398 ; salt for beds, 402 ; 

 moving, 479 ; beds, wireworms in, 

 499 ; forcing, 578, 724 ; beds, ma- 

 nuring, 618; bed, removing old 

 770 

 Asphalt, flooring, 540 ; walks, mak- 

 ing, 783> 

 Aspidiotus ostreaeformis, 562 

 Aspidium Ficu*, 437 

 Athanas nitescens, 399 

 Atriplex hortensis, 382 

 Aubrietia purpurea, propagating, 229 

 Aucubajaponica, male and female, 3 

 Auricula, Show, National, 10 ; ex- 

 hibitors, North and South, 116 

 Auriculas, in 1862, 83 ; George 

 Lightbody and Southern Star. 294 

 Australia — South, at the Exhibition, 

 295 ; Western, at the Exhibition, 

 319 

 Aviary, birds for, 624 

 Aylesbury ducks, characteristics, 226 

 Azalea— its characteristics and cul- 

 ture; 415; varieties, 416 ; rndica, 

 cuttings, 108; Due d'Aremberg, 

 196 ; Mars, 294 ; Brilliant, 495 ; 

 leaves, insects on, 541 

 Azaleas— classified list of, 42; list 

 of, 154; in summer, 230; to 

 harden-off, 382 ; propagating In- 

 dian, 685; manure for, 686; in a 

 vinery, 726 ; and liquid manure, 

 769 

 Axius stirynchus, 375 



BaBIANA ItUBRO-CTANEA, 488 



Balance the good and the evil, 318 



Balconies, management of plants in, 

 389 



Balsams, sowing, 36 



Bantam cock, points, 584; hybrid 

 with Pheasant, 584 ; class at the 

 Crystal Palace, 750 



Bmtams losing head-feathers, 76; 

 Duckwinged, 150 ; Black cock's 

 ear-lobes, 150, points in Game, 

 168 ; colour of ear-lobe?, 266 ; 

 Pied, 599, 665, 666 ; classes at the 

 Crystal Palace, 600 ; (Game) 

 classes, 619 ; food for, 624 ; Black, 

 at Darlington, 770, 797; plea for, 

 772 



Basket plants, 302; pendulous, for 

 greenhouse, 705 



Baskets for fowls, 2S6 



Bath and West of England Poultry 

 Show, 72, 184 



Beauty and utility combined, 220 



Bedding-out, 55, 182, 202; at the 

 Crystal Palace, 308 ; at Cliveden, 

 336 ; at South Kensington, 387 ; 

 plants, propagating, 457 ; system 

 defended, 777 



Bedding plants— in pots, 146; and 

 the Derby Day, 189 ; supporting, 

 223; propagation of, 417; prepa- 

 rations for propagating, 438 ; 

 wintering, 597 



Eeds, circular, of three kinds of 

 plants, 127 



Beech hedge, making, &c, 670 



Bee-keepers' perplexities, 284 



Bee-keeping — in Cheshire, 110 ; 

 Woodbury on, 129 ; in Cornwall, 

 167; in Staffordshire, 163 ; com- 

 mencing, 325; hints to practical, 

 385, 405 



Bee— flowers, late, 304 ; cells in 

 Jamaicanotenlarged, 323 ; season, 

 Middlesex, 346; Gloucestershire, 

 3^6; Larkspur, two-coloured, 495 ; 

 parthenogenesis in, 564 ; season, 

 in North Lancashire, 74 ; in 

 Devon, 92 ; season, Berwickshire 

 and Lancashire moors, 622 ; East 

 Lothian, G23; Bee year, 1362, 709 ; 

 Dzierzon on parthenogenesis, 731; 

 apparatus (Swiss) in the Inter- 

 national Exhibition, 753 



Bees— in winter, 17 ; uniting, 20, 37, 

 364,443; removing, 38; as che- 

 mists, 58, 112, 149; over-feeding, 

 58, 112, 149; and swallows, 93; 

 early swarm, 93 ; travelling by 

 railway, 13U ; death of a queen, 

 110; cross between English and 

 Ligurian, 112; zinc about, 112; 

 attaching comb3 to bars, 149 ; 

 winter management, 149; feeding, 

 149, 346; queens, destroying, 

 artificial swarming, artificial comb, 

 and milk as food, 150 ; deserting 

 their hives, 187, 226, 245, 442 ; do 

 they vary? 207, 225, 242, 284, 463, 

 642 ; queen destroyed by workers, 

 207 ; swarming, in a storm, 225 ; 

 season in North Lancashire, 243 ; 

 tithed, 226 ; present season ; death 

 of a queen ; hybrids ; as chemists, 

 265, 305 ; Who ascertained first the 

 sex of queen ? 266 ; do they make 

 honey ? ^84 ; settled facts about, 

 286 ; Ligurian queens, 304 ; in 

 Jamaica, 305; Ligurians not iras- 

 cible in America, 305 ; fumigation, 

 deserting hives, 305 ; losing a 

 queen, 345 ; misfortunes of season, 

 345 ; Ligurian, 385 ; queen from 

 worker-egg, 404 ; fumigating, 405 ; 

 introduction of a Ligurian queen, 

 423 ; artificial combs for, 423 ; 

 practical observations on, 423 ; 

 queen mutilated by workers, 424 ; 

 transferring and uniting, 442 ; 

 hiving in a frame-hive, 442 ; trans- 

 ferring, eggs not hatching, 463 ; 

 abandoning hive, 482 ; foresight 

 of, 483; in Staffordshire, 484; va- 

 rying in their proceedings, 501 ; 

 in smoky places, ejecting eggs, 

 chloroform for stupifying, 502 ; 

 and bee-hives at the International 

 Exhibition, 583; queens becoming 

 drone-layers ; queens assailed by 

 own workers, 544 ; queen's fertile 

 age, 601 ; do workers become fer- 

 tile l 604 ; using embossed wax, 

 604 ; queen's age of fertility, 623 ; 



longevity of working, 643 ; fert 

 workers, 643 ; hybrid Ligurians 

 " B. & W.'s" apiary in 1862, 665 : 

 deserting their hives, 688 ; fertile 

 ■workers, queen drone breeding, 

 774; bottle-feeder for, 776; in 

 buildings, 79S 

 Beet, Red, as a border plant, 592 



Begonia prismatocarpa, 52 ; fuchsi- 

 oides culture, 743 



Begonias, propagating, 55 



Bejaria coarctata, 277 

 Belladonna Lily culture, 779, 795 



Berberis japonica, intermedia, and 

 Bealii, 146; aurahuacensis, 256; 

 Wallichiana, 698 



Berberidopsis corallina, 677 



Bessera elegans, 488 



Beverley Poultry Show, 203 



Bird question, 298 



Birds, and the crops, 124 ; utility of 

 small, 151, 175, 219,283 ; protection 

 of in Switzerland, 196 ; why they 

 should be protected, 200; destruc- 

 tion of small, a plea for, 256, 258 ; 

 spare the, 315, 318 ; uses and de- 

 structiveness, 536 ; migration, 

 538 ; mischievous, 576 ; small, &c, 

 660 ; use of, 636 ; balance of, 6S1 ; 

 cause pleaded, 792 



Bird's Nursery, 625 



Birmingham Rose Show, 63, ISO, 272 



Birmingham Poultry Show, 619, 

 638, 706, 727, 729 ; pens at, 520 ; 

 Exhibition week, 640 ; Judges at, 

 664, 688 



Bishop's weed, 146 



Blackberry, Lawton, to train, 412 ; 

 wine, 504 



Boiler, adapting a stove to, 55 ; for 

 vinery, 617 ; atbaek of parlour fire, 

 heating by, 705 ; Clarke's, 767 



Boilers leaking, 35 



Bois de rat, 64 



Bolbophyllum rhizophorae, 53 ; cu- 

 preum, 196 ; pavimentatum, 378 



Bone-crushing, 15 



Bones andpotash,55; dissolving, 2S1 



Borders, good form of, 764 



Borecole, report on varieties, 293, 

 314 * 



Boronia serrulata culture, 64 



Botanists, meeting of workingmen, 

 271,318 



Eotryehium lancifolium, 553 



Botrvllus, 437 



Bottle-feeder for bees, 37, 58 



Bougainvillaea glabra culture, 213 



Bouquets, 493 



Bowling-green, size of, 541 



Box-edging, management of, 8S ; 

 destroyed by salt, 183, 238 



Box hedge, making, &c, 671 



Brahma Pootras, 776 ; merits, 38 ; 

 hens as layers, 464 



Bridgesia spicata, 712 



Brisbane Botanic Garden, 539 



Broccoli, Carter's Champion, 142; 

 manured with sewage, 158 ; mov- 

 ing large, 638 



Broccolis, report on, 333, 374 



Brodioea grandiflora, 489 



Brugmansia leaves yellow, 363 



Bryanthus erectus, 277 



Bucket, Holmes' self-tilting, 786 



Bulb-bed to flower throughout the 

 vear, 498 



Bulb (Cape) culture, 778 



Bulbs, Cape, 368 ; for out-door 

 planting, 488 ; management of 

 spring-flowering, 508 ; in pots, 

 509 ; care in testing, 527 ; out-door, 

 561; in beds, 579; rare, 638; 

 vegetating strongly, 747 



