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R'ALUIA, LAT1F01.1A NOT BLOOMING, 



333; not flowering, 351 

 Kendal Poultry Show, 36 

 Kidney Beans, forcing, 156, 284 

 Kitchen garden, seeds for, 134 

 Knowledge, importance of geneva], 



250 

 Kohl Rabi sowing, 233 



Labels, glass, 81 



Lady Gardeners, 33S 



Lancashire workingmen botanists, 

 distressed, 9, 53, 78, 137, 191, 

 297 



Lapageria rosea not growing, 423 



Larch, diseases of the, 3a4 



Larks, 302 



Lawn— weeds on, 104; mossy, Ac., 

 250 



Lawrie Todd, the real, 127 



Laying, promoting, 86 



Lessons learned last year, 6 



Lice in fowl?, 320 



Lilies, removing white, 404 



Lilium giganteum culture, 453 



Litt'.e, 13 



Lime water, 141 



Limekiln's influence over Potato 

 crop, 101 



Limekilns, heating by, 278 



Liquid manure — strength of, 25 ; 

 tor Roses, &c, 266, 267 ; smell 

 from, 403 



Liquid manuring, 177 



Liverpool Poultry Exhibition, S2 



Lobelia — kermesina, 301 ; light blue, 

 385 



Lobelias, new, 103 



" Long Firm," a member caught, 

 179 



Lothians, the season in, 311 



Love-letter— a gardener's, 380; re- 

 ply to a gardener's, 418 



Lycioplesium pubiflorum, 293 



Lycopodium — denticulatum, propa- 

 gating, 177; Lyalli not prosper- 

 ing, 267 



Lyons, Lord Cloncurry's seat, 261, 

 277 



Maiay fowls, 236, 251, 284, 334; 

 colour ot'Iegs, 252; points of, 196; 

 at Devizes, 263 



Manchester Poultry Shew, 15, 82 



Mangold sowing, 233 



Manure, to convert sods into, 193 



Melon— culture, 9, 23; house ar- 

 rangements, 81 ; pit, heating, 158 ; 

 forcing, 214 ; frame arrangement, 

 266 ; leaves spotting, 333; culture, 

 366 ; leaves diseased, 384 



Melous scorched, 351 ; small, falling, 

 423 ; heat needed, 423 ; retaining 

 old, 461 ; thrips and red spider on, 

 461 



Meteorological notes (1862), 7, 346 



Meteorology of 1862, Lancashire, 

 49 ; Frome, 76 ; Waringstown, 

 95; Bradford, 188; Bedfordshire, 

 225 



Meyenia erecta turning yellow, 266 



Mice — barking Hollies, 80; field, to 

 trap, 115 ; catching field, 162 ; 

 injurious to Vines, 183, 186; at- 

 tacking Strawberries, 318; garden, 

 475 



Mignonette, forming tree, 273 



Mimosa viva, 173 



Mimulus— macutosus, varieties, 419; 

 cupreus and culture, 472 



Mint, variegated, as an edging, 81 



Mistletoe on the Oak, 09 



Moles in Vine-borders, 333 



Monocboetum,214 ; Humboldtianum, 

 229 ; Free-flowering, 293 ; ensi- 

 ferum culture, 461 



Moore, Dr., of Glasnevin Gardens, 

 2S0 



Moss-house, climber for, 81 



Moths, preserving woollens from 

 216 



Mount St. Bernard gardening, 389 



Mouse and dog, friendship between, 

 2U 



Mowing machines, 481 



Mule birds, 84 



Mule cage-birds, 126 



Mu>a Civendishii, its fruitfulness, 

 399 ; weight of fruit, 438 



Mushroom— culture, 13, 349; house, 

 constructing and managing, 428 



Mushrooms grown in pots, 400 



Myrtles not flowering, 403 



Names, sensation, 254 

 Nantwich Poultry Show, 123, 143 

 Naturalists' Society, West Riding, 



180 

 Nectarines— cutting back, 319; fall- 

 ing, 385 

 Nemopliila, Disk-shaped, 293 

 Nerium flowers failing, 214 

 Newton, Sir L, a gardener, 3S9 

 New York— garden trees, «fee., at, 



174; florists and flowers, 381 

 Nierembergia gracilis, is it hardy? 

 275; haidiness oi, 290; wintering, 

 341 

 Nightingales, rearing young, 464 

 Nile, Flora and map of, 422 

 Novelties, forthcoming, 337 

 Nursery grounds, rule for rating, 277 

 Nurserymen's greenhouses, rating, 

 223 



CExotiieras acaulis and nana as 



BEDUERS, 368 



Olive, grafting the wild on the, 360 



Orach, Purple, as an edging, 103 



Orange— tree blight, 122; tree shoots 

 dying, 177; trees, pruning, 233; 

 trees, repotting, 319; tree not 

 thriving, 3Sd ; tree leaves falling, 

 441 



Oranges — Tangerin, 5; to graft, 

 193 ; large, 360 



Orchard-house— fruit, 49, 308 ; trees, 

 310, 314, 339; management and 

 failures, 355 ; in the Highlands, 

 358 ; u3es of, 359 



Orchard-houses, 220, 290, 295, 377 ; 

 bees in, 247 ; merits of, 276, 327, 

 393; invitation to Mr. Robson to 

 view, 324 ; what are, and what to 

 expect from, 379 



Orchards or orchard-houses? 309 



" Orchidaceous Plants, Select," 136, 

 316 



Orchid— culture and cross-breeding, 

 206 ; impregnation, 217 



Orchids— in conservatory, 141 ; treat- 

 ment of neglected, 234; fertilisa- 

 tion of, 237, 2S7 ; winter-flowering, 

 271; sale of, 274, 314 ; microscopic 

 examination of seeds, 288 



Owl— which destroys game? 2S5, 

 319; does it destroy game, 420 



Packing plants for antipodes, 

 233 



Paint— for greenhouses in smoky 

 towns, 26S ; for posts, 301 



Palm, a hardy, 45s 



Pampas Grass, planting, 100 



Pancratium mexicanum, 56 



Pansies — new, 2 ; Impe'ratrice Eu- 

 genie, Harlequin, Admiration, and 

 King of Italy, 76; their merits, 

 and new ones, 89; list and ma- 

 nagement, 109; Mr. Thomson, of 

 Iver, the improver of, 326 



Tansy — Beaton's Good-Gracious, 

 26; the "Good-Gracious," 51, 76, 

 93 ; history and future prospects, 

 239; its first improver, 275 ; 

 flowers injured, 441 



Paris, jottings from, 373, 431 



Parrot picking-out its feathers, 86 



Parroquet, Australian, 354 



Paroquets, Roselle, nearly feather- 

 less, 304 



Parsley management, 204 



Passion-Flowers in a glazed porch, 

 193 



Pavetta borbonica culture, 441 



Pea culture, 3 17 



Peach— trees in bad order, 14 ; and 

 Nectarine trees in orchard-house, 

 49 ; tree branches dyiag, 81 ; 

 house, cleansing, 140; trees in 

 bloom, 141 ; trees in bloom, treat- 

 ment, 157 ; cracking at the collar, 

 158 ; trees, failing, 187 ; in unhealed 

 house, 233 ; tree fly, 299 ; aphis, 

 the brown, 311 ; trees, cutting 

 back, 319; tree aphis, 480; seed- 

 ling, 481 



Peaches— not setting, 301 ; falling, 

 335 ; mildewed, 423 



Pear — Huyshe's Victoria, 76; trees 

 unfruitful, SI ; Beurre Supertin, 

 91 ; Calebasse, 137 ; a monster 

 Californian, 174 ; leaves, fungus 

 on, 333; Nouvelle Fulvie, 343; 

 tree not bearing, 3S5 ; tree, 

 blighted leaves on, 403 ; British 

 Queen, 419; leaves spotted, 423 



Pears— this winter, S ; keeping this 

 season, 28 ; crop of 1862, 113 ; new 

 vary on different soils, 113; on 

 Ash ttocks, 158 

 Peas — succession of, 45, 101, 102, 

 109, 232; effects of crossing, 93; 

 and how to grow them, 465; time 

 between sowing and gathering, 

 46-i ; preserving green, 484 

 Pelargonium— Fancy specimen, 170 ; 

 culture, 214 ; garden, 436 ; train- 

 ing for exhibition, 474; black on 

 leaves, 482 



Pelargoniums — for foi cing, 14 ; 

 bone-dust for, 56 ; lists of new, 67 ; 

 Monitor, Queen of Whites, Regina 

 formosa, Conflagiation, Royal 

 Albert, Belle of the Ball, and 

 Royalty, 137 ; cross-breeding, 158 ; 

 Improvement, Censor, and Sou- 

 venir, 343; cuttings of Rollisson's 

 Unique, 382 



Pens for poultry, 15 



Perennials, to sow, 399 



Perilla-bed, edging for, 404 



Periwinkle, Lesser, double, 2G3 



Peruvian Bark trees, 434 



Petunias from New York, 327 



Phredranassa obtusa, 137 



" Phantom Bouquet," 230 



Pheasant — hybrid between Silver 

 and common, 40 ; and fowl hybrid, 

 S2; and Silver-Pheasant hybrid, 

 159; feeding-trough, Crook's, 

 351 



Pheasants — hybrid, 59; rearing 

 Silver, 320; young ones seen, 361 



Philodendron Simsii, 345 



Philoperisteron Society's Show, 58 



Phycelta Herberti culture, 81 



P.iysostigma venenosum, 341 



Picotee Jessie, 229 



Pigeon— nests, 20; diseased, 354; 

 hen not laying, 388 



Pigeons— Runts, having colds, 64 ; 

 Tumblers with diseased livers, 64 ; 

 with overgrown bill, 153; points 

 in Turbit, 270; Powters, a hint, 

 302 



Pigs, salt for, 20, 63 



Pimelea spectabilis propagation, 

 122 



Pine Apple leaves decaying, 301 



Pine Apples, white scale on, 1± 



Pinus seeds, sowing, 177 



Piping required for hot-water heat- 

 ing, 27 ; covering, 32 



Pipes, number of return and flow, 

 123 



Pitcairnia pungens, 76 



Pit— use of a vacant, 81; heating, 

 176; boiler and piping for, 403 



Pits and their failures, 50 



Planters, encouragement to, 326 



Plants, new, of the season, 108 



Pleurothallis Reymondi, 419 



Plumbago— rosea var. coccinea, 137 ; 

 capensis now flowering, 385 



Plum— Golden Esperen, 76; trees 

 with fruit on, shifting, 394 



Plums budding on Sloes, 157 



Plunging material, SI 



Poinsettia — pulcherrima, propagat- 

 ing, 301 ; for garnishing, 337 



Polands, white crests of, 126 



Po'len's influence on seed's appear- 

 ance, 70 



Polmaise system of heating, 186 



Polyanthus seed sowing, 118 



Polygala Dalmaisiana culture, 214 



Pomegranate culture, 48 



Pomegranates not blooming, 177 



" Popular Science Review," 16 L 



Potato— forcing, 34 ; planting on 

 ridges, 148; the Barbadoes, 293, 

 330, 346 



Potatoes— Mitchell's Early Albion 

 and Lapstone, 1 ; culture, 1 ; some- 

 thing more about, 112; planting 

 early, 140 ; meriis of different, 

 210; forcing, 232 ; earl v, in Corn- 

 wall, 311 



Potted plants, watering, 447 



Potting, 460 



Poultry— last year, 15; Diary, 42; 

 Club, 82; French farm, S3; food 

 required, S6, 180 ; for London 

 market, 123 ; feeding profitably, 

 141; what points essential? 177 ; 

 judging, 194; Club, The, 234, 250, 

 26S, 283; keeping, 252; dying 

 suddenly, 270; judging publicly, 

 361; losing feathers, 320 ; Shows, 

 coming, 333; judging, rules for, 

 343 



Primroses, double Chinese, 3 



Primula leaves drooping, 80 

 Primulas, propagating doublo 



Chinese, 386 

 Propagating— bed, 3 ; house, 301 

 Protecting fruit-blossoms, 212 

 Protecting fruit-trees, 188 

 Protection for fruit trees, 14 

 Pullet unable to walk, 106 

 Pyenostacbys urticifolia, 229 

 Pyreihrums, Mr. Salter's new double, 



374 

 Pyrus japonica, moving large, 207 



Quails, management of Cali- 

 fornian, 252 

 Quercus phellos, sowing, 267 

 Quickset hedge treatment, 385 

 Quickset hedge worn out, 50 



Rabbit eating her young, 20 



Rabbits, protecting trees from, 171 



Rainfall at Linton Park, 413 



Rain water, 14 



Ranunculus, Persian, plea for, 21 ; 

 list of, 22 



Rhododendron— jasminiflorum, 75; 

 culture, 224; glaucum, 226 ; seed, 

 hybrids and manuring, 294 



Rhododendrons, 394 ; piopagating 

 Sikkim, 123; lifting and cutting 

 down, 193 ; diseased, 193 ; not 

 flowering, 214; Auckianuii, 214; 

 haidiiess of, 253; culture, 254 * 

 Beediings and culture, 256; hybri- 

 dising, 327 ; Sikkim, in Ireland,. 

 351; Bhotan, 452 



Ribbon-border, 312, 384 



Ribston Pippin trees cankering, 467 



Rocket, double, as a bedder, 419 



Rookery, establishing, 9, 47, 76, £59 



Hose— Andre' Leroy d'Angers, 76 ; 

 tree cuttings, 122; planting, 122 j 

 Solfaterre, culture, 141 ; Cloth of 

 Gold, frosted, 202 ; Comlesse 

 Ouvaroff, 22j ; trees and bone- 

 m >nure, 233 ; Francois Lacharme, 

 343 ; Yellow Banksian, not bloom- 

 ing, 372; leaves curling, 404 \ 

 trees, pruning and manuring, 471 



Roses— budding and grafting, 44 ; 

 watering, 103; grafting, 103; old 

 v, new, 145; pruning, 158; and 

 Ivy agamat a fence, 158; pruning 

 on pillars, 158; budd ng, 158; in 

 pots, pruning, 171 ; mfeldewed in 

 greenhouse, 177; manured with 

 fowls' dung, 193; at Mr. "W. 

 Paul's, 291; manure water for, 

 301; in the suburbs, 325; effects 

 of winter on, 325 ; prospects of.. 

 326 ; new, 326; furring, 410 



Roupellia grata, 52 



Rump-gland, swollen, 162 



Roupy fowls, 3SS. 



Rustic stumps, plants for, 335 



Sago Palm, 162 



Salsafy, is it a fowl-poison ? 446 



Salt not beneficial to pigs, 198 



Salvia patens, flowers falling, 301 



Sam Slick's garden, 412 



Sapindus saponaria sowing,174 



Saxifraga Fortunei, 343 



Scilla natalensis, 343 



Scottish National Poultry Show, 18 



Scottish Ornithological Society's 

 Show, 38 



Scythe, Ciarke's Patent, 3S2 



Sea-kale-- to be often renewed 1 11; 

 productive age, 47; culture, 258, 

 268; management, 156 



Sea-side, plants for, 15S 



Season— mildness of, 133 ; in Corn- 

 wall, 154 ; proofs of earliness, 252 



Seaweed as a manure for Asparagus, 

 &c, 314 



Sevastopol, gardening during the- 

 siege, 3S9 



Sedum Sieboldi, 76 



Shading, 481 



Slummia japonica not fruiting, 266 



Slugs— eating worms, 15S ; destroy- 

 ing worms, 187 ; destroying, 301 



Smerles, Belgian, 106 



Smokv atmosphere, plants for, 266 



Snake Millipede, 385 



Soapsuds as a manure, 122 



Sods, to convert into manure, 193 



Soil— importance of fresh, 300 ; im- 

 proving light, 4S1 



Solanum, variegated, 76 



Sonerila grandiflora, 76 



Soot water, 441 ; syringing with, 

 267 



