INDEX. 



Tulip Tree seeds, 815 



Tunbridge Wells, Spanish fowls at, S42 



Turf, beds on, 356; heaps, 134; under 

 Limes, 51 



Turkeys, 52 ; breeding, 156 : Cam- 

 bridge, 464 ; heads swollen, 424 ; 

 vertigo in, 278; young dying, 196 



Turnips, grubs destroying, 202 



Tussilago Farfara variegata, propa- 

 gating, 273 



Tydaas, aphis on, 338 



Dlsteb, horticultural society foe, 

 429 



Vallota puepubea culture, 16, 213 



Vanda Cathcarti, 26 



Vases, plants for, 197, 220 



Vegetables, better than nothing, 19, 

 37; crop, profitable, 213; for exhi- 

 biting, 191; for the besieged, 491; 

 gardeners' prizes for at Nottingham 

 Show, 493 



Vegetable Marrows, 169; cooking, 196 



Veitch, memorial, 332; Mr. John 

 Gould, death of, 132 



Verbenas, for bedding, 108; new bed- 

 ding, 147 ; soil for Sweet-scented, 376 



Veronicas, 356 



Vine border, heating, 272 ; making, 

 479 



Vinegar plant, 109, 138 



Vinery, and conservatory heating, 

 334; arrangement of, 497; building 

 over a Vine, 191; burning sulphur 



Vis eey— Continued. 

 in, 172; planting a small cool, 416; 

 greenhouse, 478; ground, 268, 457, 

 478, 491, 519 ; stove for, plant-cuttings 

 in, 497 



Viaes— aerial roots, 23, 34; borders, 

 109, 212, 498 ; hush in pots, 179 : cow 

 dung for, 213; ends growing, 438; 

 commencing forcing, 456; glass 

 covering, 397 ; in greenhouse, 356 ; 

 for grsund vineries, 519; injured, 

 212; leaves diseased, 33, as fodder, 

 264; removing, 84 ; manuring, 438, 

 487 ; mildewed, 3, 16. 29 ; for outside 

 border, 479; planting, 109, 233, 316, 

 376, 457; pruning, 272, 876; in pots, 

 15S, 316, 376 ; removing, 493 ; protect- 

 ing roots, 272; select, 508; for a 

 small house, 478; shoots dying, 33, 

 152; training, 438; transplanting, 

 433 ; fer an unheated house, 437 ; on 

 a wall, 316; on glass-covered walls, 

 519 ; on an open wall, 376 ; on hack 

 wall of a vinery, 91 ; watering in 

 conservatory, 174. See also Grapes. 



Viola cornuta, as a hedder, 105; dy- 

 ing, 192 



Violets, culture of Neapolitan and 

 Russian, 171; Czar, culture, 316; 

 not flowering, 477 ; culture of Russ- 

 ian, 497 ; under glass, 375 



Wakefield Pouxtet Show, 193 

 "Walks, 150: gravel, to make smooth, 

 213 



Walls, protecting blossoms of fruit 

 trees on walls, 283; glass, 66, 86; 

 plant for shaded, 416 



Walnuts, keeping, 170, 315, 834 



Walsall Poultry Show, 256 



War, French losses from, 252 ; inter- 

 rupts French floriculture, 388 



Warrington Poultry Show, 93, 153 



Wasps attacking fruit, 103 ; not com- 

 mon at Southampton, 110 



Water Cresses grown out of water, 

 225 



Water, dirty, 33 ; supply of, 1S4 



Watering, 230, 250, 490. 495 ; and no 

 watering, 4S; is it needed? 11 



Watford Poultry Show, 503 



Wayside jottings, 244 



Weather prognostics, 414 



Weeds, 128, 204, 366 ; creeping-rooted, 

 282; eradicating, 234 



Weeks's one-boiler system, 34 



Week, work for, 12, 81, 48, 67, 88, 107, 

 132, 149, 168, 1SS, 209, 229, 249, 269, 290, 

 312, 332, 354. 373, 395, 413, 435, 455. 476, 

 495, 516; doings of last, 13, 32, 43, 63, 

 89. 108, 133, 150, 169, 1S9, 210, 230, 250, 

 270, 291, 313, 333, 355. 374, 396, 414, 436, 

 455, 476, 496, 517 



Weight, feeding fowls to increase, 

 464 : of fowls influencing judges, 318 



Wellingtonia gigantea and the rab- 

 bits, 252 



Wellington Poultry Show, 236 



Welshpool Poultrv Show, 256 



West of England Poultry Show, 500 



Westward Ho Poultry Show, 74 



Wetherhy Poultry Show, 256 



Wheeling, 415 



Whitby Canary Show, 135, 216,233 

 Poultry Show, 137, 154 



Wbitworth Poultry Show, 174 



Wigandia treatment, 479 



'• Wild Garden," 20S 



Willow Herb as a bedder, 267 



Willow with curled leaves, 417 



Wintering plants, in a cold vinery, 

 233; in a room, 393 



Winter, plants flowering in, 192 ; pro- 

 tection for, 134; vegetables, 169 



"Wines, Home-made," 56 



Wiring a fruit wall, 191 



Wonders of an amateur, 469 



Woodlice, destroying, 252.; in Cucum- 

 ber frame, 152 



Wood Leopard Moth, 27 



Woodsome Poultry Show, 154 



Woodstock Poultry Show, 257 



Wuolhope Naturalists'Club,310 



World's wear and tear, 6 



Worms, a rare remedy, 446; banish- 

 ing, 469 ; driving out of pots, 91,409 ; 

 in lawn, 417 



Worsley Poultry Show, 173 



Yew, transplanting Irish, 357 

 York Poultrv, &c, Show, 4S3 

 York Rabbit Show, 382, 403 



ZEPHYBANTHES BQSEA, 



Zeuzera fesculi, 27 

 Zinc exposed te fire, 234. 



WOODCUTS, 



PiOE. 



Abraxas grossulariata 616 



Alton Towers views 238,289,308, 809 



Anemones, Sea 435 



Bees, feeding 362 



Boiler, proposed 248 



Bracket for coping boards 260 



Castle Howard views 352, 353, 372, 373 



Chatsworth Conservatory 434 



Crystal Palace, flower border at 207 



Cuscuta calif ornica 269 



Dalkeith Palace flower borders 830, 831 



Egerton House Flower Garden 29 



Fig fruiting 106 



Flower garden plans 29, 186, 207, 305, 330, 331, 474, 492 



Flower shades 478 



Force Pump, cheap 15 



Fountain 129 



GlasswaUs 66, 87 



Ground levelling and garden plotting. .301, 323, 344, 845, 864, S65, 886, 



387,407,426,447, 439 



Heating 248 



Humphrey's Clock 167 



Icehouse 393 



Lffilia superbiens 1S7 



Nephrolepis exsltata 454 



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Oleandra nodosa 836 



Orchard, Gilbev's glass 68 



Pear, Avocat Allard 328 



„ Brockworth Park 288 



„ insects 11, 28, 206 



Pigeon, Almond Tumbler 112 



„ Barb 839 



Flying Tumbler 524 



Pleione humilis 229 



„ lagenaria 229 



Plant covers, Looker's 107 



„ tub, improved 19 



Planting, ornamental 445, 512, 513 



Roller-barrow, Staplehnrst 47 



watering engine 47 



Spilonota cynosbatella ■ 11 



Stenocblaana scandens 454 



Sulphurator 10 



Thames Embankment, planting and laying out S94 



Tortrix angustiorana 206 



Vice-Regal Lodge 475 



„ Flower Garden 474 



Wall trees, protecting 283 



Zeuzera ffisculi 28 



