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INDEX. 



Spanish — cockerel lost at the Crystal 

 Palace, 42; fowls, breeding, 64; 

 fowls, white, 162 ; fowls, large 

 eggs from, 4.S2 



Sparrow-killing- not murder, 7S 



Sparrows destroyers of Lettuce, 203 ; 

 their merits, 293 



Stephauotis floribunda, 177 



Stocks, sowing Intermediate, 111; 

 of fruit trees, detecting, 158 



Stove — without flue, 50 ; heating bv, 

 318 



Straffan House, 1G7 



Straffan, flower garden at, 183; 

 farms at, 185 



Strawberry— forcing, 102, 176, 213, 

 350, 418; weight of crop, 104; 

 manuring, 104; plants after forc- 

 ing, 281 ; Keens', not blossoming, 

 329; blooms, profuse, 359; cross- 

 breeding the American species, 

 418 ; failures, 432 ; beds, tanners' 

 bark for, 454; plants, preparing 

 for forcing, 469 ; at Paris, 475 ; 

 millipedes in, 476, 481 



Strawberries—crossing, 45 ; in Dots, 

 249 



Strobilanthes auriculatus, 209 



Stylidium amcenuin. and culture. 

 454 



Sulphur burning in vinery, 14 



Summer-house, 398 



Sunderland Park and Waterworks, 



92 

 Swans, proline, 425 



Table decoration, 450 



Talegalla, 162 



Tank for liquid manures, 332 



Tank-*, constructing, 421 



Taunton Poultry Association, 215, 



251 

 Tea-making, 64 



Tenant removing buildings, 350 

 Teratology, vegetable, 152 

 Terrier pups, rearing, 162 

 Tetratheca ericcefolia, 399 



Thorbum, Grant, 118, 127 



Thome Poultry Show, 462 



Thrips -destroying, 35, 202 j -on 

 Cucumbers, 202, 319 



Toad, eating worms, 331, 361 



Tobacco-quantity needed for fu- 

 migating, 14 ; fumigation, 253, 

 259 



Tomtit and his associates, 284 



Tortoises breeding in i.n^land, 51 



Trees for a blind, 351 



Trichomanesradicans— culture, 267 

 rediscovered ia England, 411 



Tricyrtis hirta, 76, 2.9 



Tritoma— seedlings, 153 ; Rooperi, 

 169 



Tropceolum— Ball of Fire, 76; tube- 

 rosum, 158 



Tulip Show, Northern Counties, 

 433 



Turf arrangements, 208 



Tui nip-tops forced, 34 



Tying material wanted, 437, 475 



Ulverston Poultry Show, 194 



Vegetables, new, 137 



Vcitch, Mr., death of, 362 



Ventilation, 56, lu9, 118; of hoiti- 

 cultural structures, 68 



Ventilating and warming horticul- 

 tural structures, 243 



Verbena- cuUings,119, 1 21, 140. 38G ; 

 to contrast with Purple King, 334 



Verbenas— wintering, 1S9 ; Flora, 

 Rosalie, and Purple Emperor, 229 ; 

 Lord Leigh and Lord Craven, 230 ; 

 pink, and edging for. 234 ; colours 

 of, 250; planting out, 333 ; cuttings 

 failing, 333 ; new, 337 



Vinca rosea turning yellow, 266 



Vine-border— dung fermenting on, 

 32; cuttings, 34; mulching and 

 wateiing, 35; borders, dividing, 

 147; leaves spotted, 319, 403; 

 leaves warted, 367 ; border covered 



with fermenting dung, 381 ; shoots 

 gangrened, 403 ; border manu- 

 ring, 461 ; border, covering, 482 



Vinery— heated by dung, 380; fail- 

 ures in and heating, 412 ; tempera- 

 ture for, 422 



Vines— liquid manure for, 56 ; in 

 greenhouse, 141; pruning, 154; 

 stem destroyed by mice, 157 ; in 

 pots, 176; injured by mice, 183, 

 186; aerial roots on, 20G; lifting 

 roots, 214; in greenhouse, mov- 

 ing, 227; not nourishing, 268; 

 breaking prematurely, 301 ; in 

 frames, 2S2 ; season after planting, 

 283 ; from eyes and layers, 283; 

 old and vigorous, but unfruitful, 

 340; old, failing, 368; for an or- 

 chard-house, 368 ; old, vigorous, 

 and unfruitful, 381 ; too highly 

 healed, 418 ; leaves waited, 423; 

 budding, 441 ; young not flourish- 

 ing, 442; in Afghanistan, 478; 

 grub and holes in leaves, 481 



Vineyards in England, 209 



Violets— forcing, 55 ; kiuds and cul- 

 ture, 356; after flowering, 319 



Wagtails, 302 



Walks— broken stone, gravel, ash, 

 and surfacing, 51; occasional ma- 

 terials and foundation, 72 ; tar or 

 asphalt, 210 



Wall— fruits for east, 141; colouring 

 bluck, 141 ; tree bloom-buds, 

 whitewash over, 193; evergreen 

 to cover, 301 



Warblers, 40 



Wardian Case for cuttings, 385 



Warning, 144, 196 



Warnings, advantage of, 105 



W". iter- ci ess culture, 403 



Water Lilies, British, 103 



Water — softening hard, 403 ; for 

 plants, the best, 447 



Watering— time for, 404 ; pot, -using 

 the, 427, 447 



Wattle, Australian name, 268 

 Wax, whence produced, GO 

 " Weather Book. The," 8 

 Wefdc— on walks, destroying, 122; 



133, 153; destroyed by oil of 



vitriol, 223 

 Week, work for, 12, 33, 54, 79, 101, 



120, 139, 155, 175, 191, 212, 231, 



247, 264, 281, 298, 316, 331, 348, 



365, 382, 401, 420, 439, 459, 479 ; 

 doings of last., 12. 34, 54, 80, 102, 



121, 140, 15G, 175, 191, 212, 232, 



248, 2=5, 281, 298, 316, 332, 349, 



366, 383, 402, 421, 430. 460, 480 

 Weigela rosra cuttings, 293 

 Wellingtonia - • gigantea planting, 



169; turning brown, 333 

 Wellington's, Duke of, gardening, 



489 

 Wehvitschia mlrabilis, 229 

 Whitehaven Poultry Show, 178, 



195 

 Winchester's, Warden of, garden, 



254 

 " Window-gardening, Science of,", 



316 

 Winners, who will be in 1863? 104 

 Winter, tbe present mild, 119 

 Wireworms, banishing, 123 

 Wood, which most valuable? 122 

 Wooden frame. 122 

 Woodliee in tan, 423 

 Woodstock in Ireland, 72, 97 

 Worcester Poultry Show, 214, 251 ; 



duration of, 194 

 Worms— in lawn, 233; destroying, 



301 

 Wren family, 60 



Ye\r, past and future, 14 

 Yucca filamentosa not flowering, 

 319 



ZlNC-LINED BOXES, 157 



Zinnia flowers, 56 

 Zosterostylis arachnites, 419 



WOODCUTS. 



PAGE. 



Acacia squamata 417 



iEridesmaculosumSchrcoderi 245 



iEsculus hippocas'anum flore pleno 96 



Alcove Aviary 10 



Auricula-house 324 



Bee-house 179 



,, hive Frame 19 



„ hive Communication 19 



Boiler, Gas-heated 31 



„ Connection 436 



Border, Plan of a Ribbon 312 



Bossiaea tenuicaulis 30 



Bowers 11 



Calceolaria tetragona 362 



Calceolarias, Monstrous , 152, 153 



Carton Flower Garden 116, 117 



„ Kitchen Garden 131 



Chorozema cordata 170 



„ triangularis 260 



Crocus-holder 70 



Daisy Eradicator 416 



„ Knife 378 



PAOE. 



Dipladenia urophUla 52 



Escallonia maerantha 52 



Flue-heating 359 



Flower-stand 53 



,, and Fern-stand 53 



„ Garden Plans, 244, 279, 294, 328, 329, 3b3, 378 



Fountain of St. Peter's 344 



„ of Palazzo Fornesi 344 



,, of the Vatican 344 



Gardenia Stan leyaca 48 



Gastrolobium calycinum 136 



Geometrical Flower Garden 363 



Geometry Figures 295, 313, 379 



Gompholobium barbigerum 313 



Grant Thornburn 128 



Harmony of Colours , 153 



Hassard's Portable Chair 227 



Horseehestnut, double 96 



Kitchen Garden Cropping , 467 



Lime Kilns, Heating by 278 



Lyons Flower Garden 261 



„ Plan of Panels 261 



PAG I?. 



Pansy, Beaton's Good-Gracious 26 



Pelargonium, specimen Fancy 170 



„ Garden at Oakley 436 



„ Plan of 437 



,, Tra'.ning 474, 475 



Philodendron Simsii 345 



Planting Flower-beds 333 



Protection for Fruit Trees 188 



Rhododendron jasminiflorum 75 



„ glaucum 22G 



Room Decoration 149 



Stylidium amcenum 454 



Summer-house elevation, ground plan, and 



end view of an ornamental 398 



Straffan Flower Garden Section 168 



,, Flower-beds 184 



Strobilanthes auriculatus 209 



Tetratheca ericcefolia 399 



Window Plant 390 



Woodbury TJnicomb-hive 160 



Woodstock, Section of Grounds... 74 



„ Flower Garden 97 



