INDEX. 



Tulips after flowering, 146 ; for bed- 

 ding, 648 



Turf-edgings, 145 ; -what to do -with 

 old, 241 ; for sloping bank, 480 



Turkey culture in America, 109 



Turkeys, raising, 323 ; weight of, 

 688 



Turnip sowing, 239 



Valikili fowls, 522 



Vallota purpurea— in the open air, 

 34; soil, 166; forcing, 232; di- 

 viding, 617 



Vancouver's Island— botanical ex- 

 pedition to, 451 : fruit trees in, 

 737 



Vanda, culture of the genus, 613 



Variations effected by cultivation, 

 696 



Variegation, progressive, 5; retain- 

 ing, 46 ; in plants, 196 ; causing, 

 251 



Vegetable, name of, required, 90 



Veitch, arrival of Mr. J. Gould, 78 



Veitch's Royal Exotic Nursery, 

 Chelsea, 138, 321 



Ventilation of hives, 37 



Ventilators, new arrangement of, 10 



Verbena— cuttings. 224, 540 ; Lord 

 Leigh, 343 



Verbenas, 71; -wintered in abed, 

 15; new, 43 ; list of, 449 ; thrips, 

 on, 480 ; new, 505 ; propagating, 

 &c, 561 



Verdier's Roses at Paris, 373 



Veronicas, culture of, 726 



Vertigo in fowls, 20 



Viburnum suspensum, 712 



Victoria, products of, 452 



Vieusseuxia villosa, 488 



Villa Panfili Doria, 199 



Vinca minor, double, 7 



Vine— injured by fire, 43 ; eaten by 

 mice, 45 ; the Yeddo, 51 j leaves 

 curling, 55 ; leaves diseased, 70 ; 

 from Elysian Fields, 272; leaves 

 spotted, 83, 343 ; planting inside, 

 458; stems, air-roots on, 568; re- 



potting', 580 ; borders, keeping 

 warm, 616 ; shoot, cutting a long, 

 685 ; borders, dressing, 705 ; 

 borders, slating, 741 ; roots, 

 bringing to thosurface,719 ; stems, 

 scrubbing, 727 ; border, 770 



Vinery — borders, 127 ; cleaning, &c, 

 597; plants for a cold, 663; Bev. 

 Mr. Bushby's, 673 ; early, not 

 productive, 705; management, 768 



Vines — in pots, watering and stop- 

 ping, 4; forcing, 5, 429; in hot 

 damp air, 15; watering during 

 stoning, 35 ; classing in vineries, 

 64 ; crop permissible, 65 ; and 

 Peaches in same house, 66; 

 syringing, 67 ; injured by fire, 90 ; 

 bearing and not bearing in the 

 same vinery, 106 ; breaking at 

 top only, 108; vigorous, 127; 

 planting late iu vinery, 146; graft- 

 ing, 155 ; air-roots on stems, 156 ; 

 in a corridor entrance, 200; and 

 Vine-borders, 216; air-roots on, 

 220; in corridor. 220; luxuriant 

 but unfruitful, 241 ; leaves spot- 

 ted, 241 ; summer pruning. 254 ; 

 leaves rough beneath, 262 ; in 

 pots, 292, 402 ; arrangement in 

 house, 293 ; in South Australia, 

 295 ; leaves brows, 302 ; sweet- 

 scented, 302; very vigoroue, 302; 

 old unfruitful, 303; on trellises, 

 312 ; bearing at top only, 343 ; 

 neglected, treatment, 363; plant- 

 ing, 480: in a greenhouse, 540; 

 treatment of old, £98; over- 

 cropped, 598 ; resting while main- 

 taining stove heat, 612 ; removing 

 young, 638; for forty-feet house, 

 617 ; graftings 651 ; close prun- 

 ing, 659 ; in pots, bottom heat for, 

 672; in a plant-stove, 673; in 

 pots in pinery, 693; unproductive, 

 696; on back wall of vinery, 705; 

 newly planted, 705; for vinery, 

 705 ; management and budding, 

 720 ; in pots, 727, 746; over -luxu- 

 riant, 789 



Viola— pyrolaefolia, 595, 664 ; Penn- 

 sylvania and pyroleefolia, 704 

 Violets, Russian and other, 35 

 Vraieing in Guernsey, 449 



Waitzia tenella, 553 



"Wakefield Poultry Show, 461, 563 



WalEs, management of, 747 ; their 

 kinds and construction, 783 



Wall trees, protecting, 581 



"Walls, constructing and heating, 

 256 ; pointing old stone, 580 ; 

 plants for north and south, 712 



Waltonian Case, described, 1 ; tem- 

 perature, 90 



"Warrington and Wardian Case, 594 



Wasps, queen, 208 ; destroying, 478 



Water Cresses, cultivating, 70 



Watering, notes about, 233 ; plants 

 in a sunk frame, 672 ; in winter, 

 768 



Watsonia fulgida culture, 334; Me- 

 riana, 488 



Wax-moihs, 265 



Weather, the, 31, 52 ; vicissitudes, 

 69 ; near London, 658 



" Weather Book, The," 789 



Wetds destroying, 560 



Week, work for, 13, 33, 63, 69, 88, 

 106, 125, 144, 164, 181, 200, 222, 

 239, 260, 279, 301, 320, 360, 380, 

 401, 418, 438, 450, 478, 496, 517, 

 538, 560, 578, 596, 616, 637, 661, 

 683, 703, 723, 746, 767, 794 ; doings 

 of laBt, 14. 33, 53, 69. 88, lt-7, 126, 

 145, 165, 182, 201, 222, 239, 260, 

 279, 301, 320, S42, 361, 380, 401, 

 419, 438, 456, 478, 497, 517, 539, 

 560, 578, 597, 616, 637, 662, 683, 

 704, 724, 746, 768 



Weigela rosea, propagating, 202 



Wellingtonia seeds, 519 



Wellingtonias dying young, 302 



West Riding Naturalists' Society, 

 496 



Wild flowers, some of our rare, 331 



Weymouth Pine, 726 



Wheeler, Mr., testimonial to, 700 



Wild fowl, confined, 36, 72 



" Wild Flowers, Rambles in Search 



of," 722 

 Williams's Nursery, 99 

 Window-gardening, 389 ; inlreland, 



434; town, 471 

 Wine-making, 443 

 Wines of South Australia, 295 

 Winter, Cherry sowing, 71 ; greens, 



1«6 ; Violet Grass, 697 ; covering, 



759 

 Wintering plants in a frame, 331 ; 



greenhouse for, 673 

 Wire-fence strainer, 157 

 Wire fencing, 71 

 Wistaria sinensis flowerless, 534 

 Wood, formation of, 343 ; pigeons 



destroy Pilewort, 227 

 Woodbridge Poultry Show, 262 

 Woodlice, 795 ; in Cucumber-beds, 



&c., 240 ; on peach walls, 480 

 Woodstock Poultry Show, 52i 

 Wood's Nursery, Maresfield, 567 

 Wool refuse, 59 

 Working man, what he can do, 



791 

 Worms, expelling, 35 ; in pot soil, 



55; destroying by Gishurst Com- 

 pound, 68; lime water, 70; in 



lawn, 541 

 Wortley and Armley Poultry Show, 



564 



xantboxylon alatiim, 712 



Yampah, 84 

 Yates* Nursery, 218 

 Yew-hedge,, renovating, 90 ; mak- 

 ing, 671 

 York Poultry Show, 730 

 Yucca recurva, knobs on, 198 



Zinc labels, ink for, 26, 76; oxi- 

 dising, 241 

 Zinc boxes for verandah plants, 519 

 Zoological garden, Hood's verses on, 

 241 



