INDEX. 



Vll 



Erythrina hybrid, 553 



Escallonia macrantha, pruning", 72G i 



Espalier trees, pruning", 541 



Essex Poultry Show, 205 



Eucharis amazoniea, 35 ; culture, 

 55 



Eugenia Ugni and the gourmets, 

 605 



Euonymuses, new, 4 



Eurya latitolia, 4 



Evergreen hedge, making, 671 



Evergreen trees for screen, G38 



Evergreens, in smoky place, 15 ; 

 propagating, 55 ; under trees, 55 



Everlasting Flowers, 765 



Exhibition cards, inscriptions on, G54 



Exhibiting, allowing gardeners, 3i9 



Exhibitions — influence of horticul- 

 tural, 396; consequences of alter- 

 ing their (lays, 4S1 ; holding them 

 simultaneously, GOD 



Exhibitors, fraudulent, 641 



Extracts from a too-much-neglected 

 "book, 400, 41 8, 437 



Eyes and no Eyes, 227 



Fa am, 16 



l'"air?hild sermon, 219 



Fairchild, T., 513 



Farfugium grande from cuttings, 

 735 



Fattening young fowls, 281, 363, 

 3S2, 403, 458 



Fattening poultry, 753 



Feathers falling from fowls, 2S6; 

 bent sickle, 776 



Fernery out of doors, 262 ; making, 

 519 ; making out-door, 612 ; wood 

 in constructing, 716; heating a 

 small, 795 



Fern Owl, 517 



Ferns, stove, 35; mildew on, 45; 

 new, 51 ; sowing, 10S, 166; in- 

 sects on, 479 ; for a Fern-case, 

 540 ; diseased, 598 ; greenhouse, 

 673, 678, 705 ; for a glass case, 748 



Fern stem?, imaginary forms in, 137, 

 216 ; glass, damp inside, 183 ; 

 house, painting, 183 



Ficus Cooperi, 174 



Fig culture, 240, 457 ; leaves spotted, 

 241 ; trees in pots, 727 



Figs dropping, 90 ; standard in 

 Guernsey and Sussex, 490 ; under 

 glass, 684 



Filbert, pruning, 540 ; culture, 550 



*' Filicum Svnopsis African Aus- 

 tralis," 67S 



Fire management in winter, 769 



Fitz-Roya patagonica, 237 



Flax refuse, 52 



Fleche fowl, 244, 264 



Flies, plague of, 524 



Flora of the Roman Classics, 593 ; 

 702" 



" Flora Capensis Medicna Prodro- 

 mus," 678 



Flower-bed with, coloured illustra- 

 tion, 227 ; at East Sutton Place, 

 392 



Flower-border, chain, 699 



" Flower and Fruit Decoration," 

 757 



Flower garden, arrangement of, 84, 

 4'12; plan, good mode of showing, 

 685 



Flower-gardening, apleafor modern, 

 777; without flowers, 792 



Flowers, by post, sending, 9; pack- 

 ing cut for travelling, 24, 45 ; cut, 

 conveying to shows, 117 ; of the 

 season, new, 505 ; preserving in 

 sand, 703 



Flowering plants at acceptable times, 



Flower shows for the town poor, 

 759 ; for the working- classes, 410 



Fine, divided, not drawing-, 70; 

 heating a vinery, 706 



Flues emitting smoke, 55; pipes for, 

 480 ; cleaning, 71S 



Fly-catchers, 708 



Food required by poultry, 624 



Footpath-making, 783 



Forcing-house, constructing, 562 



Fork, Guernsey, 391 



Forrestia pubescens, 712 



Fountains, French, at Eoyal Horti- 

 cultural Society's Garden, 565, 585 



Fowl culture, importance of, 91 



Fowl3, fattening and cooking, 281, 

 2S2; blindness in, 386; to make 

 prolific, 404; selection of pencilled l 

 Hamburghs, 424 



Frogs, tree, 118; Green, manage- 

 ment of, 531, 700 



Frome Poultry Show, 620 



Frcst, early, 589 



" Fruit Garden, the Miniature," 701 



Fruit-judging, 714 



" Fruit Manual," 231 



Fruit-room, construction and ma- 

 nagement, 287 



Fruit-storing, 519 



Fruit trees, unproductive, 531 ; trees 

 against a bank, 541 ; near a ma- 

 nufacturing town, 550; in pots, 

 treatment, 579 ; for south-west 

 wall, 618; dwarf, stopping. 638; 

 cutting down'newly-planted, 663 



Fruiterers' Company, 158 



Fuchsia as a bedding plant, 104; 

 leaves diseased, 127; bed, soil Jor 

 146: leaves curling, 146: spectn- 

 bilis culture, 223 ; Meteor, 294 ; 

 cuttings, 311; seedlings, 458; 

 venusta, 474; berries as fruit, 

 519; training pyramidal, 519 



Fuchsias shedding flower-buds ; in- 

 sects on, 362 : white, for bedding, 

 425 ; to propagate, 425 ; bedding, 

 477 : as out-door standards, 545 ; 

 wintered in beds, 617 



Fuel, economy of, 194, 234 



Fumigating. 410 



Fumigator, Stephens', 39S 



Funguses, British, 476 



Furnace, for greenhouses, 630 : 

 small, for garden structures, 673 



GA LATHE AS, 375 



Game — cock, drooping, 20 ; having 

 diarrhoea, 3S ; cocks must r be 

 dubbed for exhibiting, 226; cock, 

 Duckwing, points in, 524; cock's 

 earlobes, 641; cocks backward in 

 moulting, 688; Black-breasted, re- 

 quisite characteristics, 772 ; Duck- 

 wing cock's plumage, 776 



Gapes in poultry, 363 



Garden-seat at the Villa Strada, 454 



Gardens — act for protecting, 354; 

 on house-tops, 558 ; City, 661 



Gardeners' hours and holidays, 209 



Gardeners' Roval Benevolent Insti- 

 tution, 233, 27S 



" Gardener's Annual for 1863," 739 



"Gardening, Science and Practice 

 of," 739 



Gas— heating by, 15, 65. 70 ; in hot- 

 water pipes, 86, 17S ; heated 

 Melon-pit, 121 ; fatal to Apple 

 trees, 166 ; heating by, 241, 479 ; 

 water, destructive to insects, 39S ; 

 stove, 726 



Gate-piers, plant to cover, 5S1 



Gaultheria bracteata, 7S6 



Gazania splendens— in a bed, 15 ; 

 cuttings, 691 



Gebia stellata, 375 



Geese, destroyers of Buttercups, 

 227 



Geissorhiza Roeheana andvaginata, 

 488 



Geometric winter beds, materials 

 for, 146 



Geranium — Miller's Horseshoe- 

 leaved, 46 ; Mangles' Variegated, 

 1S3; Waltham Pet, 183; Mrs. 

 Pollock, 196; and Pelargonium, 

 distinction between, 240; bloom 

 falling quicklv, 343; Golden Chain, 

 40S; Ste.la, 608; Golden Chain 

 cuttings, 617 ; cuttings, 638 ; Little 

 Dot. 685, 691 



Geraniums— for bedding, what are 

 needed, 65; leaves diseased, 71; 

 turning out Scarlet, 89; leaves 

 turning red, 90 ; white bedding, 

 108; in pots for bedding, 32S ; 

 variegated crosses, 349 ; Nosegay, 

 3G3 ; hybridising, 408 ; wintering, 

 479, 684, 747 ; cuttings of Unique, 

 4S0 ; cutting back. 480 ; use of old 

 Scarlet, 498 ; bedding, 507 ; va- 

 riegated, turning green, 541 ; notes 

 on a few bedders, 549 ; cuttings, 

 560; Stella and other new, 565 ; 

 Fancy, out of doors, 580 ; leaves of 

 Tom Thumb mined, 581 ; spot in, 

 664 ; for edgings, 766 



German bees ferocious, 16S 



Gesnera longifolia forcing, 232 



Ginger, preserving, 20, 38 



Gishurst Compound — for dogs, 385; 

 caution about, 736 



Gladioli— for pots, 55 ; in beds during 

 winter, 795 



I Gladiolus— bulbs not disturbed, 475 : 

 cuspidatus, 489 : Mr. J. W. Lane, 

 678: pronouncing, 685: its future, 

 736 : list of, 737 

 Gladioluses, lists of, 448 

 Glasgow Poultry Show, 639 

 Glass — structures, 35 : causing 



scorching, 166 

 Glendinning, Mr. R. death of, 65* 

 Gloucester Flower Show, 352 

 Gloxinia seedlings, eulture, 223 

 Gloxinias — for early forcing, 146: 

 with summer bloom-buds, 362 : 

 Lauretta, Beauty, Anonyma, and 

 Fairy, 495 : propagating and 

 managing, 529 : autumn-bloom- 

 ing, 618 

 Glue for ready use, 624 

 Gnaphalium margaruaceum as a 

 white-leaved plant, 189 ; lanatura, 

 190, 368, 420, 534, 565; culture, 

 766 

 Gold Fish, 499 : turning black, 424 

 Goose culture in America, 129 

 Gooseberry caterpillars, preventing, 



35 : destroying, 194 

 Gourds— lists of, "570: eatable, 638 

 Grammitis caudiformi6, 378 

 " Grape Vine, Practical Treatise on 



the Cultivation," 332 

 " Grape Vine, Thomson on," 611 

 Grape— A rcherfield Muscat, 470, 528, 

 56S, 586; Golden Hamburgh, 519 : 

 Larty Downe's, 678 : judging, 74S 

 Grapes— late and early, 33, 35, 56 ; 

 preserving unshrivelled, 91 : keep- 

 ing, 113; ihinning, 166; preserv- 

 ing, 241, 560; Muscat, spotted, 

 262 ; shanking, 328, 598 ; keeping, 

 after ripe, 332 ; colouring, treat- 

 ment, 362 : for a cool vinery, 374 : 

 cracking and shanking,45S ; worst 

 ofbadlv grown, 473; roughness 

 ' on, 499: Muscat, 552, 581; judg- 

 ing, 5S6. 627, 62Sj as a medicine, 

 590 ; Tynningham Muscat, 598 ; 

 treatment, hanging on Vines, 609, 

 616; swelling and keeping badly, 

 629 ; early and late, at Dalkeith, 

 651 ; Muscats for greenhouse, 663 ; 

 points of merit in, 674,714; new, 

 on New Year's day, 695 ; through- 

 out the year, 783 

 Grass in paved yard, 541 

 Gravel in poultry pens, 322, 346 

 Green centre in Roses, S6 

 Green fiy, 108 : destroying, 56 

 Greenhouse — as an orchard-house, 

 15; arrangement, 63; heating a 

 small, 70 : plants, hardwooded, 

 treatment in summer, 229 ; heat- 

 ing from kitchen fire, 362 ; putting 

 plants into new, 562: construction, 

 726 ; arrangement, 795 

 Greenhouses, water store in, 693 

 Grubs; — garden infested by, 30; in 

 Cabbage-beds, 71 : destroying, 

 2S1 

 Guans, 94 

 Guernsey, its climate and out-door 



plants, 472 

 Guernsey Lily, 489 ; history and 



culture, 510 

 Guinea pig, gestation of, 406 

 Gum trees, 194 

 Gutta percha for hoofs, 798 

 Gymnogramma peruviana argyro- 

 'phylla, propagating, 705 



H.EMANTHtS CINXABAKINUS, 143 



Hail, protecting glass from, 166 

 Halifax Poultry Show, 460 

 Halimodendron argenteum, 712 

 Hamburgh cock, points in Golden- 

 spangled, 36 ; points in, 58 : hen 

 paralysed, 94 : Golden-spangled 

 <U Leeds, 366, 384 

 Hamburghs, points in Golden-pen- 

 cilled cock, 776 

 Hamburgh, Golden, Grapes shrivel- 

 ling, 357 

 Hampton Court Gardens, 506 

 Ham Wood, 251, 274 

 Hants (North) Poultry Show, 224 : 



East, Poultry Show, 521 

 Hardheads, destroying, 223 

 Hares, cover for, 618 

 Hatching early chickens, 56 

 Heath cuttings, striking, 183 

 Heating, span-roofed house, 618 ; 

 easily managed, 654 ; from a hot- 

 water cistern, 6S6 

 Hedge— of Quick and Holly, 71 ; 

 establishing an evergreen, 571 : 

 evergreen, 638 



Hedgea, useful and ornamental, 670; 

 high for shelter, 672 



Helichrysums, 571 



Heliconia metallica, 143 



Helipterum Sandfordii, 790 



Hemstead Park, 626 



Henderson & Co's, Pine Apple Place 

 Nursery, 8 



Hen with male plumage, 36 : house 

 floor, 168 



Hen-and-Chicken Daisies, propa- 

 gating, 685 



Hens' spurs, 776 



Hens, cruelty to sitting, 167 : dying 

 of apoplexy, 366: fecundity of, 

 385 : breathing noisily, 464 



Hepaticas, propagating, 55 



Herbaceous plants, select, 397 



Hesperis grandiflora, 398 



Higginsia refulgens, 677 



Hippeastrum reticulatum, 520 



Hippeastrums, descriptive list of, 

 79 : culture and descriptive list of, 

 98 



Hippolyte varians, 399 



Hive, Woodbury's, 73 ; ventilation, 

 93 ; waterproofing, 93 : examin- 

 ing, 366 



Hives, flat-topped, 37 : ventilating, 

 56 ; insulating, 57 : waterproof- 

 ing, 58 : of straw, putting a super 

 on, 112 : kinds of, 130 : Payne's, 

 149 : size of, 167 : moths in, 584 : 

 at International Exhibition, 601, 

 687, 775, 797: Boothman's, 604: 

 sticks in, 623 ; cross sticks in, 643 



Hiving into combed hives, 130 



Hollies, time for pruning, 531 : re- 

 moving, 704 



Holly, the, 755 : injured by frost, 

 598 : hedge, making, &c, 671 



Hollyhock, management, 302; pro- 

 pagation, 499 : culture and list of, 

 667 



Homeria spicata, 4S8 



Honey, changing sugar to, 37 ; from 

 sugar, 93 : chemistry of, 111: 

 Australian wild, 246 : this season 

 for, 386 : and wax at the Inter- 

 national Exhibition, 464, 503, 523 : 

 season, Devon, 522 : harvest on 

 the moors, 584 : harvest, on Dur- 

 ham moors, 643 ; in Germany, 

 666 ; on the Yorkshire moors, 6S7 



Honeysuckle, variegated Japanese, 

 791 



Hornbeam hedge, making, &c, 670 



Horticultural Society's, Royal, 25, 

 307, 327 : planting-out at, 387 ; 

 Shows, 10, 41, 51, 211, 247, 268, 

 467, 537: Committee Meetings, 27, 

 80, 115, 330, 394, 430, 431. 510, 

 649, 647 : American Plant Show, 

 170, 197; new plants at, 173: Chis- 

 wick Garden, 372: subscription to 

 purchase fountains, 410 : Garden, 

 427 : arcades in, 428: International 

 Exhibition, 546, 569, 58S : Chry- 

 santhemum Show, 647 ; complaint 

 against, 696 



Horticulture and humanity, 792 



Hotbeds of vegetable refuse, 165 ; 



Hothouses, the picturesque in, 3l6 



Hot-water pipes, gas in, 117; for 

 room-heating, 770 



Houdan fowl described, 186, 203 



Hull Poultry Show, 183 



Humea elegans, culture, 95 ; leaves 

 become yellow, 127 



Hurstbourne Park orchard-house 

 produce, 513 



Hyacinth Due de Malakoff, 143; cul- 

 ture, 525; list of, 526; training, 

 727 



Hyacinths, descriptive list of, 8 ; in 

 pots, 89 



Hydrangeas, treatment of, 421 



Hypocerta gracilis, 277 



Ilex— Foetuni, 4 ; cornuta, 179 : 



rotunda, 712 

 Imantophyllum v. Imatophyllum , 



176 

 Impatiens Jerdonia? forcing, 232 

 Implements, horticultural 154 

 Indian Com, 589 

 Insects in greenhouse, 223 

 International Exhibition, 95, 175, 



195, 221, 238, 295, 319, 358, 452 : 



some of its contents, 158 : New 



South Wales at, 338 : Tasmania at, 



378: a visit to, 426 

 Ipomcea alatipes, 378 

 Ireland, a few days in, 30, 46, 81, 



119, 133, 274, 251 



