INDEX. 



Vll 



-NAIL, DOUBLE ON s-owl's tOE, 139 



Napoleon's flower, 429 



Nectarines, cricket-eaten* 151 ; notes 

 ■on, 302; Rivers's seedling, 283; Vic- 

 toria, 247 ; withering, 192 



•Nephrolepises> 454 ; duvallioides, 493 



NewcaBtle*upon-Tyne Ornithological 

 Society^ Show, 420: post entries, 



New York Poultry Show, 360 

 Nightingales, food for young, 20 

 Night soil as manure, 393, 412 

 Northampton Poultry Show, 235,443; 



Canary Show, 402 

 North border, plants for, 356 

 Nostrils of chiokens discharging, 196 

 November, caterpillars, 801; plants 



flowering in, 469 

 Nurseries, rating, 493 



Oak. a large, 185 ; Evergreen, 465 



Oakham Poultry Show, 443 



Oats, ground, &C.. 156 



October, plants (lowering in, 369 



Oenothera Whitneyi, 398 



Oiling exhibited birds, 499 



Okeford Fitzpaine, 61 



Oleanders, climbing, 386; scale, 33G 



Oncidium cryptocopis, 204 



Onions— at Okeford Fitzpaine, 100; 



culture, 89 ; crop, 141 ; manuring 



ground for, 69 : preparing ground 



for, 457 

 Orange trees not fruiting, 51 

 Orchard, GUbey's glass, 63 

 Orchard-house, experience, 281, 283 ; 



management, 8; produce, 147 

 Orchards, Kentish, 117 

 Orchid-house wall, plant for, 336 

 Orchids— importing from India, 519; 



winter-blooming, 186, 203, 228, 306, 



365, 483 

 " Ornamental-leaved Plants, Stove and 



Greenhouse," 307 

 Orobanoho on Ciasus discolor, 478 

 Oswestry Poultry Show, 276 

 Oundle Poultry Show, 54 

 Oxford botanists, 124 

 Oxfordshire Horticultural SooietVe 



Show, 81 

 Ozone, production of, 25 



Painting, charge fob, 29S ; garden 



STRUCTURES, 325 



Pampas Grass, cutting off leaves and 

 protecting, 497 : transplanting, 356 



Pansiee, Imperial Blue, 99; for sum- 

 mer, 273 ; replanting, 293 



Papering damp walls, 862 



Parisian markets, 525 



Parks, gardening in the London, 142 



Parrot, breathing with difficulty, 96 ; 

 dull, 298; feather-eating, 362 



Parsley become brown and yellow, 15 



Passiflora arhorea, 267 ; quadrangu- 

 laris for conservatories, 406 



Passion-flower, protecting, 336 



Paullinia sorbilis, 891 



Peach's (Rev. C. P.) garden, 368 



Peaches— and Nectarines, 241 ; Ame- 

 rican trade, 432 ; budding. 185 ; in a 

 cool house, 437 ; diseased, 152 ; 

 doublo blossomed, 91; early, 252; 

 early in the north, 93 ; falling early, 

 91; fruiting, 91; heading maiden 

 trees, 518; house painting, 252, and 

 ventilation, 877; keepi g ripe, 91; 

 late, 457; leaves rutting, 284, 217; 

 leaveB scalded, 91; notes on, 171, 

 802 ; planting a house, 69 ; pruning, 

 835 ; not ripening, 293 ; Rivers' seed 

 ling, 233; scale on, 453: select, 69' 

 standard, 201; not swelling, 151; 

 training, 213; Dymond, 211, 222; 

 Early York, 201; Marquis of Down; 

 shire, 304 



Pears— early, 231 ; fruiting irregularly, 

 252; gathering, 211; insects in- 

 jurious to, 11, 27, 206, 411; leaves 

 diseased, 171; for north of Ireland, 

 298 ; miniature trees training, 171 ; 

 for N.W. of England, 377 ; in pots, 

 488; for orchard, 416; orchard in 

 California, 351; planting, 357; pro- 

 fitable, 231; pyramid, 377; pyramid 

 unfruitful. 212; for small gardens, 

 322; select, 233; storing. 315; spur- 

 less, 69; stocks for wall trees, 497; 

 for walls, 835; Avocat Allard, 284, 

 328; Belle RouennaiBe, 268, S23; 

 Brockworth Park, 268 ; Heliote 

 Dundas, 284, 328; Henri Nicaise, 

 284; Marie Louise, 135; Melon de 

 Namur, 298 ; Spina, 232 



Peas in 1870, 324, 345, 367, 369 ; autumn, 

 133: culture, 77, 141; early, 14; 

 early for market, 356; estimate of, 

 497 ; grub on leaves, 51 ; late, 334, 

 514 ; Laxton's, 139 ; mildew on, 14 ; 

 out of doors in December, 493; 

 trials, 158, S04; trials at Seaham 

 Hall, 366 



Peat charcoal, 458 



Pelargoniums— disqualified by judges, 

 162; double-flowered as bedders, 78, 

 105 ; for Easter, 856 ; large-flowered 

 culture, 89; leaves spotted, 457; 

 leaves yellow, 438; name, use of, 

 132 ; new, 425 ; potting Show, 151 ; 

 President Reveil, 88 ; select, 171 ; 

 sowing, 479; wintering, 356 

 Penistone Poultry Shew, 154 



Perennials for a border, 386 



Peristeronic Society's meetings, 296 



Pets, My live. 522 [252 



Petunias, fading, 151; shoots dying, 



Phajus, 488 



Pheasants, breeding, 156 



Philoperisteron Sooiety's Show, 236 



Phlox, Drummondi culture, 232; seeds, 

 cleaning, 251 ; list of, 171 ; select 

 herbaceous, 398 



Phoenix Park, 408 



Phceuix Park Vice-Regal Lodge, 473 



Phyaalis edulis, 69 



Picotees, seedling, 104 



Pie, the largest known, 153 



Pigeons— Almond Tumbler, 112; Ant- 

 werp, 234, 295, prizes for, 275, white- 

 eyed, 320; Archangels' eyes, 156; 

 Balds and Beards, 468 ; Barb, 339, 

 eyes of, 384; at Birmingham, 462; 

 not breeding, 138; canker in, 76, 138; 

 Carrier, 486, diseased, 424, head, 

 464, measuring face, 384, plumage, 

 526, at Spalding, 20; dealers, ama- 

 teurs, professional fanciers, 419 ; 

 diarrhoea in Pouters, 258 ; diseases 

 in a loft, 320; exhibiting diseased, 

 20 ; eggs for sale, 20 ; eyes diseased, 

 862; food for, 112; Fantails' eggs 

 not hatching, 342; pole house for, 

 342; commencing keeping, 238; 

 leaving their cote, 362 ; manure in 

 cote, 862 ; on the Nile, 360 ; points of 

 Nuns. 116; Owls, 253, English and 

 Foreign, 506 ; Pouters, 358, 500, ma- 

 nagement, 404: sick, 362; separat- 

 ing, 258; with Rabbits, 424; roup in, 

 138, 404 ; trimming, 4?0 ; Trumpeter 

 breeding, 298; Tumbler, the Flying, 

 523 ; Tnrbits, 486, 526 ; at Whitworth, 

 195; wing diseased, 862 



Pimpernel, the Blue, 69 



Pine Apples,446 ; fruit from variegated, 

 478 ; removing, 190 ; repotting, 234 ; 

 starting, 45S; suckers, 190 



Pine Bawdust manure, 170 



Pinks, cuttingB, 150; for forcing, 184 



Pipes, fixing hot-water, on Vine 

 border, 417 ; removing hot water, 

 836 ; valve of hot water, 438 



Pitcher plants, culture, 103; leggy, 

 457 ; liquid in, 890 



Pits, heating, 191 ; heating in parts, 

 253 ; brick, in forcing houses, 496 



Plans, drawing, 823 



Planting, 334, 468, 517 



Plants, Looker's covers for, 107 ; neg- 

 lected, 128 



Platyloma flexuosa, 248 



Pleionos, winter-blooming, 229 



Plumage defective, 278 



Plum orchard, 161 



Plums, early, 91; leaves injured, 135; 

 for small gardens, 322 ; preserving 

 without Bugar. 342; heading-down 

 young, trees, 377; spurless trees, 69 



Plunging pots, 396 



Plymouth Poultry Show, COO ; cupb at, 

 234 



Poinsettia pulcherrima, culture, 497; 

 leaves falling, 398 ; shading, 171 



Points, breeding for, 295 



" Poison in everything," 493 



Polands, feathers of Golden, 278; not 

 laying, 96 



Polybotryas, climbing, 336 



Pomegranate pruning, 518 



Pond for garden, 212 



Pentefract Poultry Show, 75 



Post, specimens by, 24 



Potatoes, 263, 324 ; in 1870, 367 ; Ame- 

 rican. 6, 78, 186; crop, 100; culture, 

 222, 279, 405, 427. 44S, 467 ; large. 478; 

 in London market. 850; and Man- 

 gold alternately, 376; notes on, 179; 

 Onion-flavoured, 34; planting, 16, 

 389 f an acre, 293, in autumn, 347, pre- 

 paring for, 277; produce, compara- 

 tive, 282. large, 349; for seed, 162; 

 select, 438; sets, 509; storing, 51; 

 taking up, 271 ; varieties, 23 ; Bo- 

 vinia, 864, 409; Lapstone, large crop 

 of, 287, 293 ° l 



Pot-herbB, penn'orth of, 471 



Potting, 14 



" Poultry Chronicle, the Canadian," 72 



Poultry— classes, revising, 275 : new 

 market, 275; show reforms, 294, 317 ; 

 show reports. 337; feeding. 444, 486, 

 526; fattening for table, 444; sticks 

 and umbrellas at shows. 500; keep- 

 ing, rational, 34; management, 70; 

 dying suddenly, 76 ; trip into Glou- 

 cestershire after, 172 ; and birds, 

 192 ; keeping as a business, 213 : 

 profit of, 218; in small space, 238; 

 preventing fraudulent practices at 

 Shows, 110 ; feeding in France, 135; 

 prizes, judging, reporting, buying, 

 357; for sale, 384; house floor, 404, 

 424; shows, care of birds at, 419; 

 yard arrangements, 56 



Preston Poultry Show, 93 



Primula cortusoides, amcena, 91 ; va- 

 rieties, 204 



Primulas not thriving, 293 



Privet edging, 272 



Prizes, at poultry shows, 378; non- 

 payment, 400 ; for poultrv 418 

 Prize list, extraordinary, 504 

 Protection, 518 



Pruning ornamental trees and shrubs, 

 3, 21, 78, 445, 513 



Pteris, argynea culture, 09; serrulata 

 varieties, 416 



Pullets, preventing laying, 417 



Pump for a garden, 15 



Pyrethrum Golden Feather for bed- 

 ding, 147; sowing, 151; wintering 

 Golden, 330 



Quinces, gathering, 231 



KADBIT3— breeding age, 298 : at Cli- 

 theroe, 111; feeding, 116; food for, 

 196,298; hutch cover, 298; manage- 

 ment, 116; milk for, 298; with Pi- 

 geons, 424; points of Lop-eared, 

 258; reports on, 54; skins, dressing, 

 varieties, 37 ; at Haslingden, 70; at 

 the York Show, 319, 359 ; Angora's 

 fur matted, 298; Andalusian, 156; 

 Lops, 156; Patugonian,lS6; Spanish, 

 156 



Railway neglects. 499 



Rainfall, varying, 63 



Ranunculus planting, 293 



Raspberry vinegar, 38 



Rats, puzzling, 196 



Red bud caterpillar, 11 



'•RedCiirrc, a poor fvshcr town e," 79, 

 100, 131 



Red spider, 334 ; conservatory plants 

 infested with, 185 



Reigate Poultry Show, 501 



Renanthera Lowii, 85, 109 



Reports of poultry shows, 379 



Rhododendrons, beds, forming. 110; 

 cocoa-nut fibre refuse for, 519; re- 

 potting Sikkim, 252 



Rhubarb, scarlet, 234; for market, 335 



Rhus Cotinus culture, 518 



Ribbon borders, early v. late plant- 

 ing, 2, 40 



Ribes, edible-fruited, 86 



Riohardia a>thiopica culture, 213 



Rivers, portrait of Mr., 306, 32S, S50, 

 370, 395, 413, 432, 473, 495, 514 



Room, growing plants in, 498 



Roosting-plaees for chickens, 172 



Roots descending for moisture, 13 



Root-pruning, 292 ; fruit trees, 822 



Roses, 22 : aphis brush, 15 ; for cover- 

 ing arches, 487 ; budding on Manetti 

 stock, 497; charcoal for, 15; climb- 

 ing, 33 ; culture, 22 ; cuttings. 417 ; 

 cutting out wood, 356; differences 

 about, 159; different on the Bame 

 stock, S3, 186; exhibiting, 109 : Rev. 

 S. Reynolds Hole on, 65. 84 ; Hybrid 

 Perpetuals of last four seasons, 171, 

 for pots, 179 ; Laurel screen for, 212 ; 

 leaves almost black. 294; list of, 

 252 ; on Manetti stock, 91, 193, 497 ; 

 manuring, 110,497; mildew on, 192, 

 232; moving, 294; moving newly- 

 budded, 33 ; new, 7 ; new and old, 

 185 ; north and south, 144 ; notes on, 

 179 ; at Okeford Fitzpaine, 61 ; pillar, 

 411 ; in pots, 417, in pots weaklv, 

 232; potted for show, 39; pruning, 

 273, 315; pruning long shoots, 109; 

 to obtain on their own roots, 349; 

 repotting, 856; at Salisbury 98; 

 near the sea, 282; select, 336, 417; 

 select garden, 97, 119; select for 

 standards, 109; at Southwell, 87; 

 among the show, 58; showing, 135 ; 

 standard, 47 ; and stocks, 222 ; 

 Briars as stocks, 417 ; not succeed- 

 ing, 109; Tea- scented of last four 

 seasons. 171; house for, 315; out of 

 doors, 438,487, 50S ; transplanting, 

 417; for high walls, 273; Alfred 

 Colomb. 292; Boula de Nanteuil, 

 232 ; Felix Genero, 100, 109 ; Isabella 

 Gray, 203; Lady Suffield, 109; 

 L'Enfant Trouve, 877; Marquise de 

 Mortemart. 171 



Rossendale Poultrv Show, 53 



Roup, cure f jr, 74. 235 ; symptoms, 38 



Rubbish heap, 211 



Rue as a poultry medicine, 464 



Saccolabicms. 4S1 



Salad herbs, 163 



Salsafy, leaving in bed, 457 



Salt as a manure, 234 



Salvia, interrupts, 204; violaeea and 



culture, 411 

 Sambucus genus, 157 

 Sand, from glass works, 477 : silver, 



376 

 Sandhoe, 177 

 Saxifraga aretioides, 26 

 Scale, 334; destroying, 316 

 Scales on fowl's legs, 196 

 Scarborough Canary Show, 290, 340 

 Scarborough Lily culture, 213 

 Scolytus destructor, 91 

 Scorzonera, cooking, 384 

 Screen, for building, 416 ; to hide a 



wall, 315 

 Scurf in fowls, 526 

 Sea, fruits for garden near, 232 

 Seal skin, moth in, 506 

 Seaside planting, 65 

 " Sea-side walks." 434 

 Season, eccentricities of, 408 ; lessons 



of the past, 490 

 Secretaries exhibiting, 91 ; liable for 



their mistakes, 274 

 Seeds, sowing, 315 



Selsey Island, 67 ; manufactory, 8 



Sempervivum californicum culture, 

 232 



September, plants flowering in, 285 



Serapias cordigera and lingua, 393 



Sermon, the flower, 208 



Sewage, 417 



Sex in plants and nutrition, 240 



Shade for flowers, 478 



Shading to prevent evaporation, 68 



Sheffield Ornithological Society's 

 Show, 341 



Shows, damaging fowls at, 35 ; prizes 

 at oountry horticultural, 231 



Shrubs, before cottage, 273; for low 

 wall, 336 ; under trees, 316 



Silenes, distinguishing, 273 



Silkies' claws, 342 



Silkworm, oak, 138 



Skylarks, food for young, 20 



Sleaford Poultry Show, 94 



Snaith Poultry Show, 35 



Snowberry pruning. 458 



Soap, soft. 91 ; for destroying inseots, 

 28,62 



Sobralia macrantha, 936 



Soils, improving sandy, 69 ; their fax- 

 mation, 101 ; origin of, 518 



Soot as a manure, 231 



Southampton Poultrv Show, 319, SG9 S 

 399, 401 ; going to, 879, 880 



Sowing seeds, 293 



Spalding Poultry Show, 16 



Spanish, exhibiting, 444; fowls losing 

 their feathers, 116 



Spilonota cynosbatella, 11 



Spira;a japonica and palmata culture, 

 191 ; forcing, 453 



Stanningley Poultry Show, 194 



Stenochlxnas, 453 



Stenoglottis timbriata, 471 



Stephanotis floribunda culture, 109 ; 

 fruiting, 211 



Stocks, Emperor, 213; East Lothian, 

 99, 233 ; after flowering, 283 



Stocks lor fruit trees and Roses, work- 

 ing, 497 ; spreading to scion, 243 



Stockton Bird Show, 401 



Stoke Newington Chrysanthemum 

 Show, 891 



Stokesley Poultry Show, 256 



Stoking, good and bad, 466 



Stove, ilueless, 437 ; heating by, 190 



Stove, plants for, 293, 457 ; Belect, 498 



Strawberries— beds lasting, 51; for- 

 warding out-of-door crops, 57; thin- 

 ning crowns, 316 ; losing colour, 172 ; 

 culture, 40, 104, 1S9 ; in the open 

 ground, 57 ; estimate of various, 

 159 ; plants failing, 52 ; produce of 

 forced, 109 ; forcing, 271 ; not fruit- 

 ing, 7, 25 ; cutting off leaves, S3 ; 

 liquid manuring, 171; making plan- 

 tations, 250; planting, 34, 51, 192; 

 potting, 90: new, 119; notes on, 180; 

 runners from barren, 202 ; for sandy 

 soil, 69 ; 1870, Beason, 41, 143 ; trans- 

 planting, 519; comparative value of 

 different varieties. 99; worthy and 

 unworthy of cultivation, 121 : Alpine, 

 222; Garabaldi, 184, 210; Duke of 

 Edinburgh, 52 ; Myati's Filbert 

 Pine, 81; Myatt's Prolific, 99; Vi- 

 comtesse Hericart de Thury, 184 



Stroud Poultry Show, 137 



Sub-tropical plants, raising, 274 



" Sulphur Cure," 6 



Sulphur, burning in vinery, 190 ; op. 

 hot-water pipe*?, 151 



Sunderland Poultry Show, 136 



TABERN. ^MONTANA Bakteri, 204 



Table decorations, 22 



Tacsonia, mollissima not flowering, 



21 ; quitensis. 461 

 Tan manure, 170 

 Tar pavement making, 165 

 Temperature of soil, retaining, 896 ; 



of subsoils, 350 

 Tenant removing, 252 ; shrubs, 15 

 Thames Embankment, planting, &c, 



393 

 Thermometers discordant, 437 

 Thirsk Poultry Show, S3 

 Thistles not a nuisance everywhere, 



351 

 Tillandsia Lindeninna, 165 

 Tobacco for destroying aphides, 91 

 Todmorden Poultry Show, 215 

 Tomatoes, open-ground culture, S67 

 Tonbridge "Wells Poultry Show, 29G 

 Tortoise, 252 ; wintering, 404 

 Tortrix angustiorana, 206 

 Tous-les-mbis, 233 

 Trafalgar Square trees, 31 

 Trailers, evergreen in stove, 376 

 Transplanting. 334 ; shrubs, 316 

 Tredegar Poultry Show, 485, 504 

 Trees, .and shrubs for planting near 

 the sea, 65; as condensers of mois- 

 ture, 134; notes on our native, 423 

 overhanging, group in park, 377 

 Trellis wires breaking, 478 

 Trimming, 418 ; exhibited fowls, 378, 



398,498; rule against, 275 

 Tritnma leaves, cutting off, 497 

 TropiEolura, sowing, 437 ; tuberosum, 

 336; tuberosum and pentaphyllum 

 flowerless, 213 

 Tulips, early. 416; in pots, 416; John 

 Henry, 165; replanting, 171, 251; for 

 a Rose border, 192 



