IJS'DEX. 



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teron, 70S : the National Colum- 

 harian, 731 ; eggs, changing, 91 

 rigeor.s, breeding Powjers, 3S ; 

 rotten feathers in, 5S : canker in, 

 9* ; raisin? by hand, 1S5 ; at the 

 Bath and West of England Show, 

 242 ; inflamed lung* in. 323 ; 

 bine Owl, 482; Mr. Bait's Posters, 

 6S7 ; Spanish, 710; consumption 

 !n, 754 

 Pic-keeping-, 20S ; injured by salt, 

 753; notirjured by salt, 774; salt 

 does not injure, 797 

 Pine-Apple soil, 35; culture, 100; 

 stoves for, 10S ; succession plants, 

 suckers and crowns, 121 ; water- 

 ing 1 , repotting-, renewing heat, 

 122 ; propagation, 1^2 ; plaating 

 in bed, 143 ; old stools, winter 

 culture, 144 ; culture, insects, and 

 diseases, 19J ; Hurst House or 

 Fairrie's Queen, 73i 

 Pine Apples black in centre, 363 ; 

 exhibiting, 499 ; not swelling. 

 65S ; white scale on, 72-5 

 Pinioning young Wild Ducks, 366 

 Pink, many- flowered, 196 

 Pinks, propagating, 229; Attraction 



and Device, 553 

 Pinus Douglasii spar, 194 

 Pipes, leaking, stopping, 562; hot 

 water, angle for, 5S0 ; hot-water, 

 quantity needed, 706 

 Pitch er-plants and their propagation. 



695 

 Pit, warming, 541 ; constructing, 

 5S0; heating, 5SJ ; for various 

 uses, 631 ; heatins, 6S5 

 Pits — turf, 35 : cheap and useful in 

 soil, 54; co!d, neat, and cheap, 

 4S9 ; constructing small, 717, 745 : 

 for propagating and forcing, 726 

 Plant and propagating ease bijou, 

 123; cases, in-door, 121; case, 

 plants for, 617 

 Plantain in turf, to banish, 49S 

 Plantation for shelter, 638 

 Pleione lagenaria, 217 

 Pleroma elegant culture, 653 

 Plum, Transparent Gage, 52 ; leaves 

 diseased, 45S ; Mitehelson's, 553 ; 

 tre^s, training and pruning, 743 

 Plums in pots, 420 

 Plunging material, 70 

 Pocklington Poultrv Show, 459 

 Poinsettia pulcherrima forcing, 232 

 Polands, spangled, 3S 

 Pond-mud for Conifers, &c, 770 

 Pontefract Poultry Show, 500 

 Pony-keening. 112 

 Port-sea Canary Shiw, 753 

 Posts, preparing the underground 



part, 155 

 Potato culture in Lancashire, 592 ; 

 in Cornwall, 596 ; it* leading va- 

 rieties, 679 ; the Barbadoe=, 759 

 Potato??, keeping. 71 ; earthing-up, 

 241, 261 ; storine, 302 ; early and 

 late planting, 69S ; comparative 

 merits of, 733; testing, 761 ; forc- 

 ing in pots, 769 ; and their quali- 

 ties, 7 S3 

 Potemilla atrosanguinea, 397 

 Potentilla oshreata, 555 

 Pots, garden, how measured, 337 

 Potting, soil for, 362 

 Poultry, keeping profitably, 1SS, 

 776 ; and its produce, 242 ; from 

 Ireland, 12S ; prices 1000 years 

 ago, 14S; food, 303; farm, '403 ; 

 illnesses, 4SI ; for small space, 

 542 ; origin of varieties, 543 ; 

 caoking. 562 ; mixing varieties 

 at a show, 553, 5S2 ; shows near 

 London. 563; killing and prepar- 

 ing, 5S2 ; treatment of killed, 

 59S; mixing varieties in a class, 

 600, 639; keeping largely, 601; 

 exhibitions clashiug,639; in frosty 

 weather. 636; profitable to the 

 farmer, 655 ; result* of overfeed- 

 ing, 707 ; with diseased livers, 

 &c, 710; in the past year, 795 

 Prairie hens, 92 

 Prescot Poultry Show, 2S2, 303 

 Preserving plants in winter, 429 

 Prices in 1772, 341 

 Primula, sinensis sowing, 70 ; faii- 



nosa sowing, 477 

 Prince's Feather, 51S ; culture, 89 

 Privet hedge miki*\g, &c_, 671 

 Propagating-house hsating a small, 



74S 

 Propagating structure in a green- 

 house. 653 



Propagation of flowers in summer, 



22S 

 Pruning trees for picturesque effect, 



554 

 Pteris argyra?a, 90 

 Pullets, precocious, 1SS 

 Pumpkins, 400 



Pu*.tend*eburr Girdens, 491, 512 

 Putty softening. 362 

 Pvrola media, 479 



QrAir.s. Califoevjaw, 150; hatch- 

 ing. 128; food for CUifornian,544 



Queen iu dane«r, 74 



Qieen bee — deby in hatching, 365 ; 

 mutilated by workers, 365; de- 

 struction of young. 366 ; super- 

 annuated, 4S3 ; can working bee be 

 transformed to l 4S4 ; loss of, sub- 

 stituting a Ligurian, 501 ; bees' 

 treatment of, 502 



Queltia aurantia, 35 



Qaercus sclerophylla, 179 



Quick hedges, management of 

 young, 540 



Quickset hedge, making, &c, 670 



Rabbit— Show, EiR3irSGHAM, 92 ; 



keeping, 112 ; skins, preparation 



of, 130 ; with swollen face, 366 ; 



griped, 644 



Rabbits— destroying, 55; skia of 



Silver-grey, 1S7 ; food for, 633 

 Railways and country horticultural 



societies, 329 

 Rain, sunshine, and the watering- 

 pot, 233 

 Rike, revolving, 157 

 Ramterye. 90 

 Raspberries, planting, 697 

 Raspberry— culture. 391, 511; situa- 

 tion, soil, planting, pruning, and 

 training, 392; removing, 402; 

 mulching, thinning shoots, cutting 

 down, winter treatment, proDa- 

 gation, raising new sorts, select 

 varieties, 409; Fastolff, failing, 

 45S; Fastolff, 556; stakes, 593; 

 pi an tine, 743 

 Rats c. Poultry, 72 

 Ravenswortb Castle and wardens, 603 

 Reading Horticultural Show, 432 

 Red spider— in vinery, 241 ; and 

 sulphur, 272; and vapour of tur- 

 pentine, £77 ; on stove plants, 

 296; on Vines, 362 ; to kill. 421 

 Retinospora obtusa and pisifera. 50 

 Rheumatism in gardeRers, 638, 6S5 

 Rhinoceros shooting, 197 

 Rhodanthe maculata and atrosan- 

 guinea, 553 

 Rhododendron— Nuttalii, S2 ; arbo- 

 reum tar. limbatum, 143 ; fulgens, 

 1%; mount, 218 ; Dalhou-ia? hy- 

 bridum, 293; Prince- s Alice, 673 

 Rhododendrons— grafting, 146; for 

 conservatory, 146 ; hardy, in pots, 

 231 ; select hardy, 664 ; "planting, j 

 7*S ; pruning, 796 

 Rhopalas, to propagate, 439 

 Ribbon-border, 71 ; distance he- 



tween, plants for, 90 

 Ribbon-borders, 35, do 

 Ridge-and-furrow planting, 16 

 Ritehiea polypetala, 677 

 Rogiera amrena, 656 

 Roofing, waterpoof, 275 

 Roofs, measuring angles of, 781 

 Roman Candle plant, 747 

 Room plants, 280 

 Rookery, establishing a, 770 

 Root— pruning, 15 ; heat, in forcing, 

 142; blaster, 157; pruning young 

 trees, 553 

 " Rosarium, The Amateurs'," S6 

 t; Rose Annual for 1S61-62." 25 

 Rose Show, forthcoming, 9; Bir- 

 mingham, 30, 156 

 Rose— stocks, wild, treatment, 15; 

 Manetti, 23 ; cuttings, striking, 

 223, 421 ; mildew, blue vitriol for, 

 329 ; John Hopper, 262. 378 ; de 

 Meaux, culture for market, 573 ; 

 catalogues, 633 ; grafting by the 

 fireside. 672 ; culture, suburban, 

 697, 719, 760; list of Roses for, 

 719; pruning, 727; beds at Kew, 

 795 

 Roses— forcing. 26 ; Manetti and 

 stock, culture, 62 ; history of, S7 ; 

 not blooming, 91 ; in pots, 108, 

 303, 704: lists of. 154; manuring, 

 156 ; at Royal Horticultural So- 



ciety, 24^; new, 219; mildewed, 

 262; at Birmingham and Crystal 

 Palace, 271, 272; not thriving, 

 281; classed according to colour, 

 2S9 ; retarding. 302 ; at Paris, 350, 

 373 ; at Reed Hall. 354 ; hints on 

 buddins-. 376 ; of 1S62, 435 ; in au- 

 tumn. 567 ; for the seacoast, 5i8 ; 

 the first two years, 5S7 ; tree, 593 ; 

 yellow Banffshire, 59S ; pruning 

 until two years old, 6f)6 ; for 

 st mdards, 617 ; Manetti, 618 ; cut- 

 ting-back. 6J3 ; of 1S62-3, 692 ; 

 pruning, 705 ; a hedge of, 781 ; 

 stock for, and cuttings, 795 



I Rouen ducks, points in, 484 



[ Roup, fowls attacked by, 621 



j Roupy cock, 2J8 

 Rubus biflorus, 712 



■ Rudbeckia pinnata, 397 



I SaCCOLABTCTM MISIATr/M, 294 



I Saddle, Guernsev, 412 

 . Salads, French. 533 

 Silt injurious to pigs, 697 

 Salvia gesnerte flora, 634 

 Sandwich, origin of term, 413 

 Sap, why is its greatest force ver- 

 tically ? 634 

 Sorracenia purpurea a new remedy 



for small pox, 76 

 Sarmienta repens, 173, 373 

 Sawfly, ravages of Currant, 35S 

 Saxe-Gothaea conspicua, 237 

 Scabiosa caucasica, 397' 

 Scarecrows and crafty birds, 63 

 Sciadopitys verticIUau, 50 

 Scilla Berthelotii, 52 

 S ;reens, of evergreens, 63S ; of trees, 



638 

 Scrophularia nodosa variegata, 71, 

 IS9, 395 ; aquatica variegata, 407 

 Sea-kale— culture, 54 ; forcine, 166, 

 57S, 6S9, 724 ; nse of flower-heads, 

 126 ; sprouts as a culinary veget- 

 able, 158; sets, 260 

 Seashore, what to look for on, 234, 

 294, 334, 359, 375, 399, 416, 436, 

 452, 515, 535, 55S ; pebbles for 

 ■walks, 362 

 Season— in Cornwall and Herts, IIS ; 

 the present, of blossoms, 139; in 

 Cheshire, 331; at Ashton-under 

 Lyne, 333 

 Seaweed manuring in Guernsev, 



449 ; uses of, 450, 532 

 Seeds, preserving from birds, 104 

 Self-co'oured beds, 506 

 Septoclinum maculosum, 437 

 Serissa fcetida variegata, 174 

 Sewage— use of, 127; well, 344 

 Shade on roller, 108 

 SbeeD, Chinese, 93 

 Sheffield Poultry Show, 354, 3S3 

 Shelters, wall-fixers for, 44 

 Sileue— compacta, 39S ; Schafta, 534 

 Silk fowls, 6SS 



Siphocampylcs Orbignyanus, 474 

 " Silva Capensis" 67S 

 Skimmia japonica unfruitful, 195 

 Slaters, 89 

 Slugs— and earwigs, 71; and their 



remedv, 273 

 Snake Millipedes, 223 

 Spangles on Oak leaves, 332 

 Spaniels, breaking, 92 

 Spanish— fowls' feathers diseased, 

 76; cock's comb, supporting, 226 ; 

 fowl's eye, tumour on, 216 ; comb 

 black, 246 ; pullet's comb, 235 ; 

 hens dying suddenly, 346 ; hens as 

 livers, 464 

 Sparkenhoe Poultry Show, 459 

 Sparrow— its merits and demerits, 



6S1 ; murder, 753 

 Sparrows are our friends, 29S 

 Spencer, Mr. J., 45 

 Spergula— pilifera, 137, 241; sagi- 



noides, a plea for, 220 

 Sphcerogyne latifolia, 171 

 Spinach— sowing, &a, 301 ; dving- 



off, 7S9 

 Spiranthes autumnalis, 533 ; mode 



of fertilising, 163 

 Sprekelia formosissima, 43S 

 Spring crops, manurine, 561 

 Squilla Desmarestii, 399 

 Stachvs Unata culture, 480 

 Stamford Floral Fete, 312 

 Standard-, raising evergreen and 



deciduous, 132 

 Standish's Nurseries, 3, 5C 

 Starch, chemistry of, 143 

 Starlings, 70S 

 Statice Holfordi culture, 59S 



Stenogaster mulrrflora, 174 

 Stephinotis floribunda not bloom- 

 ing, 303. 747 

 Stock, Intermediate, forcing. 232 

 Stoke Newington Chrysanthemum 



Show, 650 

 Stokesia cyanea, 6S5 



Stove— for greenhouse, 35; for small 

 greenhouse, 479 



Strathfieldsaye, 556 



Strawberry— spring culture, 107 ; 

 plants, saving from grubs, 198 ; 

 culture, 202 ; culture in pots, 343 ; 

 produce in, 343 ; forcing, 362, 

 725 ; planting, 704 ; in pots, 705 



Strawberries — insects on. 14; plant- 

 ed out after forcing, 192 ; protect- 

 ing fruit, 222 ; affer forcing, 239 ; 

 in pots, 302 ; cross-breeds of, 672 ; 

 cross-breeding, 721, 779; should 

 the frui' be held upright I 763 



Streptauthera elegans, 488 



Streptocarpus Rhesii culture, 74S 



Stylidium mucronifolium and saxi- 

 fragoides, 296 



Succulents, culture and lists of, 

 465 



Sulphur — in hot-water troughs, 

 146 ; burning as a fumigation^ 

 617, 61S; fumigation, 726 



Sunbeams, digging in, 165 



Super-posiog hives, 37 



Supers, size of for hives, 20 



Swainsonia, mauve-coloured, 294 



Swallows, 703 



Swarm, restlessness of artificial, 

 303 



Swarming— artificial, IS", 774 ; ex- 

 cessive, 235 



Swarms— artificial, 130, 263 ; not 

 working, 265 ; uniting, 323 \ 

 making artificial, 324 



Sweet-briar hedge, hh 



Sydserff, R., 75 ; on bees, 325 



Symplocos japonica, 179 



Tabeex^montasa. longiflora, 67 

 Tacsonia manicata flowers falling, 



770 

 Tagetes tennifolia, 71 

 Tan. heating a pit by, 90 

 Tank, plants for, 421 ; heating a 



small greeahouse, 4S9 ; heating, 



5S0 

 Tasmanian products, 353; timber, 



379 

 Tate, Mr., again, 6S7 

 Taunton Poultry Show, 91, 146 

 Temperature of air, mean, 251 

 Temple Hill, 30, 46 

 Tenant removing trees, &c, 663 

 Tents at the Royal Horticultural 



Society, 155 

 Terraces, rustic, 160, 161; architec- 

 tural, 19S ; styles at different 



period?, 356 

 Terrier, the Skye, 92 

 Thibaudia micrantha, 217 

 Thorne Poultry Show, 263 

 Thrips, destroying, 560 

 Throat disease in poultry and 



Pheasant*, 322 

 Thujopsis Iste-virens, 174 

 Thunbergia coecinea culture, 727 

 Thvrs acanthus rutilaas for dinner 



tables, 693 

 Timber, causes of its decay, 339 

 Tithing or tolling bees, 226 

 Toads r. woodlice, 227 

 Tobacco fumigator, Stephens', 336 

 Tobacco-root, 64 

 Todea hymenoides, 281 

 Tomato culture, 239 ; management, 



301 

 Tomtits destroy gall insects, 360 

 Transplanting, 540 

 " Travels in Peru and India," 659 

 Tredegar Poultry Show, 771 

 Trees, plantation of, 3S2 

 Trellis, plants for covering, 16; for 



house climbers, 795 

 Trichonema bnlbocodium, 331 

 Tritileja uniflora, 89 

 Tritoma uvaria sowing, 91 ; culture, 



10S, 657 ; plants, 519 

 Tritonia aurea culture, 334 

 Tropaeolum Smithii, 721 ; penta- 



phyllum culture, 726 

 Tropasolums, propagating for bed- 

 ding, 108 ; in window, 613 

 Tuberose culture, 183 

 Tulipa sylvestris, 7 

 Tuip, its characteristics, 140 ; cul- 

 ture and arrangement, 190 ; list 

 of, 191 



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