INDEX. 



Bullfinch paralysed, 544 

 Bullfinches' eggs disappearing, 345; 



385; Black, 776 

 Bupleufum fruticosum, 712 

 Burmah, notes from, 197 

 Butter, large yield from one cow, 38 

 Butterflies, killing for specimens, 



286 

 Buxus obcordata, 4 



Cabbage— sowing and planting, 

 351 ; caterpillars, 581 ; Jersey- 

 Sticks, 490 

 Cabbages, report on, 492 

 Caladiums in winter, 541 

 Calampelis scaber culture, 34 

 Calavansa Bean, 99, 123 

 Calceolaria — leaves spotted, 54 ; his- 

 tory, &c, 120 ; as a bed&er, 120, 

 136; cuttings, 561, 625; planting, 

 G84 

 Calceolarias— wintering, 480; shrub- 

 by, 609; cuttings, 617; for ex- 

 hibition, 638 

 Californian orchards, 613 

 Callianassa, Underground, 875 

 Callistemon brachyandrum, 535 

 Calne Poultry Show, 619 

 Calocaris Macandrese, 375 

 Calochortus pallidus, 515 

 Calves— fatting, 38 ; rearing on milk 



and linseed meal, 188 

 Camellia— and its culture, 59, 169, 

 261, 445 ; watering, 59 ; seeds, 

 sowing, 166; list of varieties, 170; 

 propagation, 267 ; Contessa La- 

 vinia Maggi, 294 ; seedlings cul- 

 ture, 322 ; flower-buds breaking, 

 562, 618; buds falling, 747 

 Camellias— in summer, 230 ; cross- 

 breeding, 332; recently grafted, 

 598 

 Campanula Vidalii, 615 

 Canaries— diseases of, 19 ; selling, 

 38; mortality among, 38, 283; 

 in a room, 58 ; model prize list, 

 73 ; dying, 584 

 Canary— and British Finches, 73 ; 

 cock eating eggs, 150; hens sitting 

 ■without laying, 185; sick, 688 

 Cantua buxifolia, 657 

 Cape Gooseberry culture, 281 

 Carex Frasen, 36 



Carnation— characteristics and cul- 

 ture, 47 j varieties, 48 ; tree, cul- 

 ture, 756; list of, 757 

 Carnations — tree, culture, 71 ; strik- 

 ing, 382 ; sowing, 439 

 Carrot— grub, 281 ; crop failing, 5S7 

 Carrots on clay soil, 302 

 Carter & Co.'s Nursery, 156 

 Caterpillars— on fruit trees, 139 ; 



venomous, 246 

 Cat, destructive. 305 

 Cats v. birds, 219 

 Cauliflowers — under glass, 107 ; 



protecting, 560 

 Caution, 299 

 Ceanothus genus, species described, 



21 

 Celery— turnip -rooted, 34 ; culture, 

 239, 280, 517, 725, 789 ; grubs on, 

 241 ; roots, 261 ; leaves brown, 

 479 ; fly, 587 ; culture in Lanca- 

 shire, 592; white-leaved, 598; 

 growing and failure, 655 ; fly, pre- 

 venting its attacks, 700; failure 

 this year, 744; how to grow good, 

 762 ; failures, &c, 788 

 Cells, formation of royal, 482 

 Cement walks, making, 784 

 Centaurea— candidissima, 518, 691, 

 795; propagating, 229; cuttings, 

 519 ; argentea as an edging, 742 

 Cephalotaxus Fortuni, 51 

 Cephalotus follicularis culture, 562 

 Cerasus— japonica flore pleno cul- 

 ture, 71; ilicifolia, 712 

 Cer as tium— tomentosum, propagat- 

 ing, 16; frosted, 71; Bieberuteinii, 

 127, 367, 425; for flower gardens, 

 45, 84 

 Cerastiums, tomentosum and Bieher- 



steinii, 189 ; treatment of, 402 

 Ceropegia Gardneri, 52 

 Charcoal— as manure, 370 ; making, 



701 

 " Chemistry of Soils, Handy Book 



of," 142 

 Cherry— blossoms falling, 70; Trip- 

 pleton, 99 ; Nouvelle ftoyale, 

 143; trees, winter-pruning young, 

 748 

 Cherries— on walls, 240 ; falling, 281 



Cheshire Poultry Show, 542 



Chickens — large brood of, 1*8 ; 

 noise in throats, 306 



Chinese Primrose, Double-flowered, 

 196 



Chinese Primroses, Delicata and 

 Rubra grandiflora, 378 



Chippenham Poultry Show, 730 



Chiswick, Royal Horticultural So- 

 ciety's garden at, 372 



Chiton cinereus, &c, 558 



Chlidanthus fragrans, 489 



Chloride of lime as an insect-killer, 

 177, 250 



Christmas, poultry market, 770; 

 time, 794 



Chrysanthemum— culture for show, 

 82; notes on, 647, 650; at Mr. 

 Salter's, 652 



Chrysanthemums, 625, 779; twelve 

 superior, 16 ; list of, 780 ; ma- 

 nagement of seedlings, 727 



Cinchona, trees introduced into 

 India, 606; plants, introduction 

 of into India, 659 



Cineraria maritim a— cuttings, 14, 34, 

 540; seed sowing, 70; propagat- 

 ing, 498, 748 



Cineraria flowers not opening, 685 



Cinerarias— preservative from green 

 fly, 9S ; compost for, 224; James 

 Andrews, The Artist, and The 

 "Winner, 378 



Circumstantial information, 451 



Cissus discolor, growing specimen 

 of, 11 



Clarkia, White-margined, 678 



Clavelina lepadiformis, 437 



Clay soil, to improve, 581 



Clayey loam, lightening, 769 



Clematis— viticella venosa, cutting 

 down, 34; lanuginosa, hardy, 770 



Clerodeudron — ThonisonEe,143, 173 ; 

 culture, 514 



Clethra arborea, 402 



Clianthus Dampieri potting, 499 



Climbers— for conservatory, 127, 

 480; in verandah, pruning, 254; 

 for a greenhouse, 421 ; for an 

 arbour, 580 



Clipped trees, effect of in decorative 

 gardening, 453 



Clomenocoma montana, 52 



Clonmell House, 81 



Clover, four-bladed, 164 



Clusia Brongniartiana, 294 



Coal tar tor vermin, 791 



Cobsea scandens seedlings, 223 



Coburgia incarnata, 488 



Cobwebs, 457 



Cochin-China cock, cold in, 688 



Cochin-China fowls— falcon-hocked, 

 246 ; vulture hocks in, 286 



Cochin-China pullets— not laying, 

 20; combs, 326 



Co chin-Chinas— points'in, 366 ; Cin- 

 namon, 624 



Cockscomb culture, 56 



Cockscombs, sowing, 36 



Cocoa-nut fibre refuse, 381, 426, 

 480 ; for seedlings, 15 ; aa a ma- 

 nure for flowers, 16; mixing soil 

 with, 55, 146; for drainage, 218 ; 

 for peat, 231 ; for cuttings 241 ; as 

 a general manure, 272 ; for Cy- 

 clamens, 281 ; and clay soil, 769 



Ccelogyne Parishii, 293 



Coix lachryma, 362 



Coleus Vers chaff el tii, 190; as a bed- 

 der, 134, 158 ; for bedding, 309 ; 

 culture, 727 ; hardy, 795 



Collingham Poultry Show, 621 



Colour, theory of, 134, 196, 300 



Coltsfoot, Sweet-scented, culture, 

 785 



Columbia, British, botanical ex- 

 pedition to, 451 



Comb foundations for hives, 524 



Combs— crooked, 366; artificial, 604 



Conclusions, too hasty, 298 



Concrete walks, making, 784 

 Coniferse— propagation of, 410, 453 ; 



notes on some hardy, 742 

 Conifers, propagating by cuttings, 



780 

 Conservatory— climbers, 202 ; plants 

 for back wall, 598; heating a 

 small, 738 

 Cooking old fowls, 282 

 Coop for chickens, 604 

 Coriaria sarmentosa, 712 

 Cork refuse, 52 



Cornwall— weather and crops, 118 ; 

 market-gardening in west, 577, 

 595, 612, 636, 659 



Coronillas in summer, 230 



Corydalis nobilis, 398 



"Cottage Improvement Societies," 

 279 



Cottingham Poultry Show, 441 



Cotton— seed refuse, 30; spinners, 

 Lancashire, 333 ; plants, soil for, 

 706 



Cow — management, 11 ; keeping, 

 504 ; dried before calving, 710 



Cows, 732 ; in Guernsey, manage- 

 ment of, 644 



Crabs — Common Shore, Velvet 

 Swimming, Arched Fronted, 

 Cleanser, and Marbled, 234, 235 ; 

 Dwarf Swimming, Henslow's, 

 Common Pea,Angular, Pennant's, 

 and Circular, 294; seashore, 334, 

 359 



Cramp— in goslings, 363 ; in fowls, 

 666 



Cranston's patent horticultural 

 buildings, 6, 101 



Craesula coccinea, propagating, 303 



Craven Poultry Show, 462 



Crenella marmorata, 516 



Creve Cosur fowls, 206 



Cricket-ground, grasses fcr, 479 



Crickets, destroying, 705 



Crinum capense culture, 769 



Crocus- Imperati, 5; the genus, 

 114, 135; bulbs, treatment of, 402 ; 

 speciosus, 526 ; bulbs, saving from 

 mice, 770 



Crocuses, saving from mice, 581 



Crossing flowers, 348 



Crow— and farmer, a fable, 3C6; 

 family, the, 404 



Crystal Palace, 330, 416, 532 ; Flower 

 Show, 135, 157, 446 ; Flower and 

 Fruit Show, 171 ; Rose Show, 271, 

 388; Poultry Show, 282, 303, 421, 

 439, 619, 731), 748; specimens at, 

 481 ; duration of, 796 



Cuckoo, 516, 552 



Cucumber — Reynolds' Perpetual 

 Bearer, 696 ; leaves blotched, 705 ; 

 457 ; pit, 770, 795 



Cucumbers — keeping fresh for a few 

 days, 71; gumming, 127, 146, 201, 

 457; pickling, 504 



Cultivators, generally useful, 11 



Cuphea— cinnabarina, 377 ; verti- 

 cillata, 656 ' 



Currants— removing, 402 ; drying, 

 424 ; Red, failing, 748 



Curtis, J., death of, 552 



Cuttings, 55 ; of Geraniums, &c., 498 



Cyanophyllum magnificum culture, 

 705, 726 



Cycas revoluta, remarkable speci- 

 mens of, 297 



Cyclamen — seeding, 90 ; vernum 

 and crosses, 348; seeds, sowing, 

 479: seedlings, 527, 748 



Cyclamens, 1 31 : leaves of, 15; Ita- 

 lian name for, 15 ; europrjeum, 15 ; 

 new, 15 ; notes on vernum and 

 europaeum, 39 ; vernum and euro- 

 peeum, 61; culture of, 70; and 

 seedlings, 71 ; vernum, 142 ; notes 

 on, 113; raising seedlings, 113; 

 are they hardy? G68 ; modes of 

 crossing, 669 : from cuttings, 735 



Cynthia rustica and grossularia, 452 



Cypresses, theatre of, 454 



Cypripedium— insigne and calceolus 

 culture, 26: Stonei, 790 



Cyrtanthus culture, 778 



Dahlia tubeks, PitESEnoiNG, 136 

 Dahlias, twenty for show, 15 ; Pom- 

 pone, Star and Little Dorri:, 143; 



lists of, 449 ; Pomp one— Little 



Whileminc, Darling, and Philip, 



791 

 Daisies on lawn, 202, 541 

 Damp, excluding from brickwork, 



776 

 Damson wine, 263 

 Dandelion, preserving for use, 146 ; 



culture, 788 

 Daphne leaves decaying, 261 

 Darlington Poultry Show, 751 

 Datura, arborea culture, 312, 382 ; 



Wrighr.ii culture, 334 

 Delphinium formosum, to make a 



bed of, 581 

 Dendrobium Lowii, 52 ; Salaccense, 



173 ; nobile culture, 795 

 Deodar, 727 

 Desfontamia spinosa, soil for, 16 ; 



pruning, 108 

 Despair, never, 343 



Deutzia gracilis culture, 334 



Dewsbury Poultry Show, 462 



Dianthus libanotis, 398 



Diarrhoea in fowls, 68S 



Dibber-planting, 182 



Dicksrmia antarctica culture, 1G6 



Dictyanthus campanulatus, 414 



Dielytra spectabilis, forcing, 727 



Digging, cost of, 637 



Dimorphotheca Barberise, 495 



Dinner-table decorations, 3i7, 535, 

 605; plants, 485, 645, 693, 714; 

 plants not suitable, 646 ; Rivina 

 loevis, and Callicarpa purpurea as, 

 674 



Dioscorea batatas, 581 



Disa grandiflora, 62, 108 ; superba, 

 330 



Ditch, right of, 421 



Dog, a noble Australian, 286 ; 

 muzzles, 326 



" Dogs, house and sporting," 92 



Dorking fowls, 286 ; cock's comb, 

 564 ; cock's comb drooping, 644 ; 

 fowls, weight of, 688 ; and Cochin- 

 China fowls, cross between, C44 



Dorkings plumage of Grey, 306 ; at 

 Birmingham Poultry Show, 729; 

 Silver-Grey, 776 ; cup-combed, 798 



Dove's dung, 202 



Dove with darkened plumage, 326 



Downton Castle, 177 



Dracaena phrynioides, 790 



Drainer, Law's Patent Bijou, 4S9 



Drake, hatched under a hen, 94 



Drawing-room table decorations, 

 March's, 153 



Driffield Poultry Show, 364 



Drone development, 58 



Drones, saving, 324 



Drosera rotundifolia for a rockery, 

 458 



Drumlanrig Park and gardens, 571 



Dublin Society's Poultry Show, 10S 



Dublin Exhibition Palace and 

 Winter Garden, 162 



Duck, cross with Pintail, 94 ; hatch- 

 ing in China, 774 



Ducks, African, 38; Carolina, 2SG ; 

 feeding for exhibition, 444, 4S4 ; 

 illness of East Indian, 584; Ayles- 

 bury, weight of, 688 ; rearing wild, 

 753 ; wild, bred with tame, 773, 

 798 ; dyiug, 776 ; Rouen drake 

 sickly, 776; Penguin, 797 



Durkheim, the Grape cure, 590 



Dutch garden and greenhouse, 275 



Dysentery in bees, 37 



Dzierzon on bees, 17 ; at home, 443 

 reconverted, 754 



East Sutton, Kent, 699 

 Eccremocarpus scaber,, 302 

 Echinostachys Pinelliana, 196 

 Edging plants, 430; new, 367, 711 

 Edging to a mixed border, 638 

 Edinburgh Horticultural Society's 



Show, 5 

 Edwards, J., death of, 198 

 Egg-plant fruits, cooking, 584 

 Eggs— destroying vitality in, 76, 150 ; 

 distinguishing sex in, 205 ; pre- 

 venting soft, 246 ; retaining power 

 to be hatched, 266; weight of, 

 266 ; to preserve in lime, 422 ; to 

 preserve fresh for six months, 422 ; 

 vitality of, 482; preservation of, 

 499, 520, 541; hens dropping, 544 ; 

 with thin shells, 710 

 Egypt, bulbs for, 479 

 Elasocarpus cyaneus culture, 638 

 Elder .tree, superstitions relative, 139 

 Elderberry Catsup, 188 

 Elizabethan house, plants against 



an, 770 

 Emarginula rosea, 559 

 Endive culture, 191 

 England a century ago, 341 

 Entomological Society's Meeting, 13, 

 124, 163, 258,360, 378, 393, 577, 

 675, 791 

 Epacrises, Fireball, Butterfly, and 



•Exquisite, 143 

 Epidendrum— replicatum, 435 ; pris- 

 matocarpum, 495; funiferum, 

 535 

 Epigynium leucobotrys, 241 

 Epimedium raacranihum, 398 

 Epimediums, culture of, 344 

 Epsom Races a century since, 306 

 Ercilla spicata. 712 

 Erica Cavendishi pruning, 322 

 Ericas, insects on, 541 

 Eriostemons, culture of, 742 



