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INDEX. 



Conifers in Ireland, 151 

 Conservatory — plants for back, 14; 

 pillars, plants for, 141 ; water for, 

 3S6; aspect for, 438 

 Conservatories, construction of, 171 

 Coral, 20 



Cork Poultry Show, 30, 57 

 Cornwall, crops in, 329 

 Corysanthes limbata, 76 

 Cotoneaster microphylla— leafless, 



158 ; its uses, 458 

 Cottage gardens, judging, 408 

 Cotton seed-cake as a manure, 114 

 Cows, furze for, 63 

 Crassula coccinea not blooming;, 1G9 

 Creeper for rustic basket, 441 

 Crdve Cmur fowls dying, 252 

 Crdve Coeurs not laying, 236 

 Crickets, destroying, 7 

 Crocus-holder, cheap, 70 

 Crocuses— new and old, 22; Spar- 

 rows destroy, 110, 189; what de- 

 stroys, 153; transplanting, 193; 

 destroyed by mice, 211 

 Crossing plants, 78 

 Crystal Cakce, 316; Bird Show, 

 121; Flower Show, 375; Show, 

 florists' flowers at, 393; Iloee 

 Show, 470 

 Cucumber— plants, thrips on, 14; 

 pit, 81; pit dung-heated, 423; 

 leaf, insect on, 481 

 Cucumbers— gumming in, 46; and 

 Melons in a greenhouse, 81 ; dis- 

 eased, 250; open air, 366; de- 

 formed and yellow, 482 

 Currant-branch grub, 300 

 Cuttings— over hot-water pipes, 100 ; 



for bedding, 232 

 Cyanophyllum magnificum, 453, 472 

 Cyclamens, treatment of seedling, 



385 

 Cypella Herberti culture, 81 

 Cypi-ipedium Hookerte, 137 

 Cyrtauthus luteseens, 293 



Daisy-knife, 378; eradicator, 416 



Daisies on a lawn, destroying, 403 



Dammara orientalis, 76 



Date- Palm parasite, 157 



Datura Wrightii, 153 



Decorations of rooms, temporary, 

 148 



Delphinium alopecuroides, 343 



Dendrobium— nobile breaking, 283 ; 

 Paxtoni shoots, 423 



Deodar seeds, sowing, 250 



Deodars, grafting on Larch, 154 



Deodorising, 4/2 



Devizes Poultry Show, 180, 142; 

 dotiings at, 158 



Dlpladenia urophylla, 52 



Disa grandiflora, 453 



Disas, from the Cape, 233 ; culture 

 of, 240 



Dogs losing their hair, 162, 198 ; at 

 the Paris Show, 406 



Dorking— fowls. 56; Silver Greys, 

 57; pullets no'- laying, 64; plu- 

 mage of cock, 64; cockerels, 484 



Dorkings -Silver-Grey, 19, 104; va- 

 rieties of, 463 ; colour of Grey 

 chickens, 461 



Dottrell seen, 334 



Drainage, an effect of, 49 



Ducklings dying, 370 



Ducks— wild reared with tame, 39; 

 for table, 64; eggs unfertile, 162, 

 426; keeping, 302 ; lameness in, 

 304; egg-bound, 304 ; prolific East 

 Indian, 368, 425 ; Kouen and 

 East Indian, 464; prolific, 482 



•Edging-plants in kitchen gar- 

 den, 233 



Edinburgh Horticultural Society's 

 Show, 215 



Egg— producing age of fowls, 20 ; 

 fertilisation of, 320 



Eggs-shell-k-ss, 86; do acorns dis- 

 colour;? 159; preserving, 286; 

 mossy -flavoured, 354 ; nut hatch- 

 ing, 403 ; chilled, 482 



Encephalitis honUus, var, trispi- 

 liosa, 293 



Eiidiw culture, 265 



*' English Botany," 120 



Entoino-logical Society's Meeting, 78, 

 174, 28 J, 330,438,477 



Epaciis culture, 4 



Epacrises done flowering, 3S3, 385 



Epilepsy, Mug wort u«d as a cure 

 for, 416 



Esc&Uonia macrantha, 52 



Euphemia, undulated, 323 



Euryops puncta'.us, 303; hardiness 

 of, 434 



Evergreens— bed of, 35; for paling, 

 103; cutting-in, 233; watering, 

 447 



Exhibition poultry, time for hatch- 

 ing, 406 



Exhibitor and Judge at same Show 

 not permissible, 104 



Farming two aches, profit of, 255 



Fattening poultry, food for, 426 



Feathered helps, 154, 172, 230 



Feet, distorted, in exhibition fowls, 

 386 



Ferns— in crinoline pots, 55 ; Gold 

 and Silver, 55 ; grubs at the roots, 

 80; scale on, 81; in greenhouse, 

 potting, 368 



Ferneries— shading, 210, 257 



Fertility of our soils, does it de- 

 crease 1 107, 141 



Ficus elastica, propagating, 301 



Fig-trees in pot?, 480 



Figs— falling, 301 ; dropping, 385 



Filberts, pruning, 177 



Fire heat direct for heating, 111 



Firs, Scotch, fence of, 80 



Floral decorations at the civic enter- 

 tainment, 455 



" Florist and Pomologiet," 114 



FJpwer-bed arrangement — What 

 flowers think of it, 360 



Flower garden— at Straffan, plants 

 of, 181; plau of a small, 244; 

 planting, 244 ; plan, 279, 283. 294, 

 378 ; geometrical, 363 ; plans, 

 faults in, 407 



Flower-gardening, progress of, 199 



Flower-gardena, planting, 308 



Flower-pot, size of, 55 



Flower-pots becoming green, 177 



Flower-stands, ornamental, 53 



Flowers— need new banish old 1 315 ; 

 old-fashioned cottage, 310 



Flue— cleaning a greenhouse, 7 ; 

 heating, 135, 141, 181, 211, 214, 

 258 ; plea for the old, 292 ; clean- 

 ing, 403, 435 



Flues— i v. hot water, 223 ; two to cne 

 furnace, 331 ; versus hot-water 

 pipes, 326, 358; cheap, 330; heat- 

 ing by, 414 



Foliage v. flowers, 372 



Forcing, preparations for, 103 



Fountains, 343 



Fowls— dung for Roses, 193; yard 

 for, 286 ; profitable, 464 



Frame- flue-heated, 234; use of a 

 cold, 351 



Frames, protection for hotbed, 53 



French vegetables and fruits, 431 



Fruit — room management, .55 ; tree 

 training, Du Breuil's mode, 90 ; 

 trees, pio^ecting, 188; budB de- 

 formed, 193; blossom-buds, thin- 

 ning, 229 ; flavour of, 274 ; trees in 

 pots, 295, 346 ; raising, Van Mons 

 theory, 297 ; growing, 309 ; trees, 

 repotting yearly, 456 



Fruits for an east wall, 123 



Fuchsia seedliogs, 103 



Fuchsias— Sanspareil and Hercules, 

 137 ; hybridising, 327 ; retarding, 

 386 



Fumigating, 213 ; with tobacco, 

 193 



Furze as food for animals, 63 



Gaines' plant sale, 342 



Galvanic plant-protector, 208 



Game— fowls, 37; garden injuries 

 by, 156 ; selling live, 162 ; paste, 

 Day's, 286 



Gapes in fowls, 3S7 



Garden— abundance from a small, 

 94; engine, 242; plans, 328; 

 helps, 347 



Gardeners— a few word3 to young, 

 27 ; Company, suggestions for, 

 189; Society, 221, 233, 305, 342, 

 473; excluding from exhibitions, 

 451 



Gardenia culture, 48, 376 



Gardening in defiance of difficulties, 

 389 



Garnishing, ornamental leaves for, 

 337 



Garrya elliptica, 171 



Gartner, vindication of, 93 



Gas — heated boiler, 3i; lime ma- 

 nure, 123; heating by, 319; re- 

 fuse as a manure, 379 



Gastrolobium calycinum, 136 

 Genetyllis tulipifera, 122 

 Geometry applicable to gardening, 



295,313, 379 

 Geranium- Mrs. Pollock, become 

 green; cuttings of variegated, 

 122; TomThumb'sleaves blanched, 

 283 ; Golden Chain, potting, 300 ; 

 Reidii, 403 ; bedding for cold dis- 

 tricts, 403 



Geraniums— new bedding, 3 ; Scar- 

 let in boxes, 14; bedded, 35; 

 Scarlet, in pots, 55 ; cross-breed- 

 ing, 88 ; spotted, 158 ; bedding- 

 out varieties, 234 ; management of 

 young, 249; Golden Chain, &c, 

 385 ; cuttings of sweet-scented, 

 386 ; retarding, 3S6 ; new bed- 

 ding, 412 



German Asters, blight on, 386 



Gilliflower, the true, 275 



Gishurst Compound, 32, 264, 280; 

 painting with, 35 ; effects on blos- 

 som-buds, 204 



Gladioluses in pots, 81 



Glass case, plants and Ferns for, 3B4 ; 

 leaves spotted, 385 



Glass— paint to shade, 141 ; for 

 greenhouse, 214 



Glazing frames, 177 



Gloxinia tubiflora, sowing, 158 



Gloxinias, culture of, 129: in thumbs, 

 141 



Golden Chain Geranium, its edge, 

 283 



Gompholobium barbigerum and cul- 

 ture, 313 



Good manners in visiting a garden, 

 what are? 345 



Gooseberry-buds, to preserve from 

 birds, 187 



Gooseberry caterpillars, preventing, 

 141, 154; buds and small birds, 

 141 ; caterpillars, 193 ; destroyed 

 by white hellebore, 223 



Gooseberries, bottling, 333 



Goslings, detecting sex of, 40 



Gourds, 233; on poles, 35 



Grafting, 212 



Granite, imitation, 119 



Grape— growing in America, 72; 

 judging, 100; Early Archerfield 

 Muscat, 323 ; Trebbiano, 482 



"Grape Vine," 343 



Grapes— on New Year's-day, 11 ; 

 keeping late, 13 ; new, in January, 

 47; old v. new, 71; in August, 

 81 ; weight of crop, 104 ; shrivel- 

 ling when in bloom, 221; spot ir, 

 363; spotted 423; shanking, 441; 

 bunches dying, 442 ; colouring, 

 461 



Grasses for Queensland, 157 



Green Gage stalks yellow, 283 



Greenhouse, construction, 35 ; build- 

 ing, 45 ; heated from kitchen 

 boiler, 224; wall climber, 250 ; gar- 

 dening in a smoky locality, 397 



Greenhouses, heating, 359 



Grouse, Pintailed Sand, destruction 

 of, 482 



Grubs in flower-pots, 250 



Guano— quantity per acre, 103 ; 

 water, 481 



Guava jelly, 40G 



Guilandina Bonduc, 173 



H-fEMANlHUS NATALENSIS, 313 



Hag-berry tree, 214 

 Hamburgh — fowls, Black, 106 ; 

 Silver-pencilled, feathers, 126 ; 

 chickens dying, 406 

 Hamburghs— Silver-spangled, dead 

 20; points in Silver-spangled, 426 

 Hams, cooking, 336 

 Hants, North, Poultry Show, 404 

 Hatching, ill-success in, 48 1 

 Hawthorn, early blooming of, 325 

 Hay, weight in a cubic yard, 162 

 Heath cuttings and summer culture, 



234 

 Heaths, raising hardy cro3S-bred, 43 ; 

 three varieties, 293 ; after flower- 

 ing, 368 ; potting, 392 

 Heating — horticultural buildings, 

 111; by flue3 and hot water, 135; 

 Polmaise, &c, 136; by flue, 141; 

 garden structures, 172, 176 ; re- 

 spective merits of hot watur and 

 flues for, 131; Polmaise system 

 of, 186; gl.tssstrucUma,397,400; 

 garden structures, 411, 435, 452 

 Heckmondwilie Poultry Show, 18 

 Hedges, evergreen, planting and 

 trimming, 100 



Helps, garden, 263, 293 



Hen egg-bound, 370 



Hen-house, moveable, 59 



Hen's eyes swollen, 236 



Hens— not laying, 144 ; laying soft 

 eggs, 144 ; sitting, preventing, 

 252; fed on insects, 159; broody, 

 162 ; with wounded backs, 320 ; 

 dying without laying, 336; for 

 early sitting, 354 



Herbaceous plants — naming, 230 ; 

 list of, 442 ; succession of flower- 

 ing, 476 



Herbs, a chapter on, 338 



Heterotropaparviflom, 3-33 



Higginsia Gheisbechtii, 419 



Hill, Thomas, on bees, 388 



Hippeastrum equestre culture, 35 



Hive, Ozierzon's improved, 19 



Hives— at the International, 62 ; ma- 

 chine for making, 62 ; moisture in, 

 159; Woudbury unicomb, 160; 

 Woodbury, made of str.iw, 252; 

 Stewarton Woodburyised, 369; 

 change of form in Germany, 369 ; 

 waterproofing straw, 369 



Holly hedges, planning and trim- 

 ming, 100 



Hollyhocks, propagating, 385 



Honey— season, 236 ; taking, 464 



Horse Chestnut, 96; double-flower- 

 ed, 119 ; leaves injured, 403 



Horticultural Society, Royal— li- 

 brary for, 22 ; Fruit Committee, 

 71, 291, 341, 396, 455; should have 

 country meetings, 87 ; proposed 

 change of officials, 94; country 

 meetings of, 129 ; annual meeting, 

 132; accounts, 145; report of 

 Council, 150; Show, 164, 219; 

 schedules for 1863, 182, 203 ; gar- 

 den, 201 ; Floral Committee, 222, 

 258, 291, 341, 396, 455; reading- 

 room, 258; Azalea and Kose Show, 

 2S8; sculpture, 341; Exhibition, 

 391, 448 ; Florists' Flowers at, 

 411 ; management, 455 



Horticulture, I'Exposition de la 

 Societe" ImpGriaie et Centrale, 373, 

 431 



"Horticultural Society's (Royal) 

 Proceedings," 473 



Horticultural Showsin North of Ire- 

 land, 25, 69 



Hot- water pipes— v. flues, 9 ; plants 

 over, 115 ; quantity needful, 267; 

 and doorway, 319 ; common error 

 in fixing, s2G ; surface required, 

 412 ; heating by, 436, 452 

 Hoya culture, 351 ; carnosa culture, 



177 

 Hunt, Leigh, gardening in prison, 



309 

 Hutton versus Munn, 58 

 Hyacinth— Show, Hendersons*, 257 



St. Francisco, 419 

 Hyacinths, 204; in pots, 110; Cut- 

 bush'e, 225, 242 ; new varieties, 

 225 ; flowering unevenly, 268 

 Hybrid Pheasants and other Game 



birds, 59 

 Hybrid plants recurring to their 



originals, lt>2 

 Hydropult, the, 203 



Ice-keeping, 14, 66 ; houses, Ame- 

 rican, 31 ; ventilation of, 32 ; 

 houses andice-keeping, 119; trade 

 and manufacture, 419 



Imantophyllum miniatum, 343 



Impatiens bicolor, 229 



Incubator, 126 



Indian seeds, 250 



Indiarubber tubing, vulcanised, is it 

 injurious? 295 



" In-door Gardener," 453 



Insect-destroying compound?, 14 



Insect enemies of the Chrysanthe- 

 mum, 239; on plants in vinerv, 

 250 



Insects— to destroy, 200, 472 



Ipomsea Learii not blooming, 169 



Ireland, a few days in, 183 



Ivy pruning, 3ul 



Japanese fowls, 461 

 Japanese plants, acclimatising, 162 

 Jasminum grandiflorum in green- 

 house, 141 

 Jeans, Rev. George, 272 

 Jedburgh Poultry ?how, 105 

 Judging garden produce, 408 

 Judging plants, 170; fruit.-*, 171 

 Juniper hedge, 101 



