INDEX. 



Dahlia tubers, storing, S15 



Dalcehampia Eoealeaua rosea cul- 

 ture, 51 



Dalkeith Palace Gardens, 329 ; Grapes 

 at, 40S 



Damper, use of, 370 



Damsons, 19S,222 



Darlington Canary Show, 382 



Datura suaveolens flagging, 377 



Deane and Bolton Poultry Show, 154 



Deciduous trees for a lawn and shrub- 

 bery, 29-1 



Dendrobium MacCarthise, S3 



Deodar cones, 316 



Derby Canary Show, 360, SSI : Poultry 

 Show, 276 



Diarrhoea in fowls, 38 



Dicksnnia, antarctica culture, 69 ; re- 

 potting, S76 



Diffusion of plants, 451 



Dillistone, "W., 225 



Disa grandiflora not thriving, 43S 



Discolor, meaning of, 110 



Dixon testimonial, 17 



Dodders, 269 



Dodecatheon Meadia var. f rigidum, 393 



Dorking Poultry Show, 4S3 



Dorkings— cock's comb discoloured, 

 298 ; dark, 4G4 ; earlobes, 5G6 ; feed- 

 ing, 257; feet swollen, 176, 361; 

 "White,358; weak-legged, 361 



Doves, food for, 362 



Dracaena cylindrica, 20 



Drainage, 90 



Draining a garden, 336 



Driffield Poultry Show. 94 



Drighlington Poultry Show, 35 



Drill, Le Butt's, 158 



Drought, summer, 206 



Dublin Poultry Show, 4S5 



Ducklings cramped, 113 



Ducks— fattening, 156; killing annu- 

 ally, 424 ; Aylesbury bills black 

 specked, 76; Rouen bills, 257; feed- 

 ing, 218; plumage, 342 



Durham County Poultry Show, 136,520 



Dust from stove furnace, 478 



Earwigs, 34 



Eccleshill Poultry Show. 214, 275 



Echeverias, wintering, 2S2 ; secunda 

 glauca, 233 



Echites splendens not flowering, 315 



Edinburgh Poultry Show, 432 



Egerton House gardens, 29 



Eggs — in autumn and winter, 362; 

 early for hatching, 92; hatching ar- 

 tificially, 76 ; hatching expected, 72 ; 

 hatching troubles, 73 ; hens eating, 

 4S6 ; imported, 418 : organs in- 

 flamed. 20; poultry for laying, 526; 

 purchased, 380; sex, foretelling, 238; 

 soft, 383 ; Belling by weight, 275 



Elders, 157 



Elm trees, inject in, 91 



Elms in Scotland, 33 



Elsham Hall, 510 



Endive, blanching, 473; culture, 230; 

 planting, 250 



Entomological Society's Meetings, 26, 

 413, 494, 512 



Epidendrums, winter-blooming, 365 



Equisetum arvense eradication, 51 



Eritrichium nanum, 165 



Eucharis amazonica culture, 433 



Eulop'a helleborina, 471 



Euphorbia, cross-fertilising, and law 

 of sex, 11 ; prostrata spreading, 451 



Evergreens, for screen, 437; on light 

 soil, 213 ; sowing, 315 ; transplanting, 

 253 ; for tubs. 273 



Everlasting flowers ? are Grasses 

 dried, 151 



Exhibition birds, unpacking, 254 



Exhibition stands for Koses, &c, 273 



Fairy Rings, 315 



Falkirk Poultry Show, 521 



Fallacies, horticultural, 301 



Farnworth Poultry Show, 194 



Fasciatioo,law of and its relation to 

 sex, 4S0 



Feather-eating hen, 526 



Feathers broken, 38 



Fern cases, 299 



Fern, Oak, not thriving, 69 



Ferns— climbing, 239, 345, 386, 453; 

 Filmy, 416; Golden, Silver, and 

 Hare's-foot, 171 ; insect on, 253; in a 

 Lily house, 151; native, 23; list of 

 hardy ; tree, 51 



Fig, petrified, 91 ; and its culture, fruit 

 setting, casting, ripening, 106 ; se- 

 cond crop. 107 ; tree roots, 356 



Fire, enduring, 321 ; regulating, 519 



Fish in glass globe, feeding, 444 



Fitzroya patagonica, 446 



Fleas in poultry house, 278 



Fleche fowls at Birmingham, 479, 506 



Flies, banishing, 218, 292 



Flints round shrubs, 233 



Floral criticism, 419 



Florists' flowers — Metropolitan So- 

 ciety's Exhibition, 131 



Flower— bed arrangements. 185, 304; 

 planting, 492; cases, Chapman's, 

 144 ; garden— site, 1 ; forming, the 

 design, plants for, 28; arrangement 

 of plants, accessories and surround- 

 ing features, CO; market, new, 166; 

 sermon, 225, 202 ; trade of St. Louis, 

 144 



Flowers, and Grasses for drying:, 144; 

 arranging, 166 , drying, 190, 234 



Flueheating,234,253 



Foliage but no fruit, 5 



Forest trees overgrown with grass, 274 



Forget-me-nots for spring decoration, 

 60 



Form v. weight, 33S 



Fountain, design for, 129 



Fowls— with crop inactive, 404 : ex- 

 porting, 74; selecting for exhibition. 

 318; fattening for table, 444; for 

 family use, 258; rearing large, 52; 

 legs scaly, 104; poisoned, 463 ; white 

 and black, 38 



Fragments, 166 



French breeds of fowls, 257 



French fowls, cup for, i96 



Frogmore fruit rooms, 363 



Frosts, early, 306 



Frnit— fruit trees, 376: dwarf pruning 

 458; for east and north aspects, 416; 

 for exhibiting. 191; for small gar- 

 dens, 385, 42S, 432: gardens, arrange- 

 ment, 416; houses, span-roofed, 16; 

 as plant houses in winter, 412; judg- 

 ing, 84 ; lists, 212, 213,253; naming, 

 324, 337 ; picking and marketing, 

 160; snags on trees, 253; storing, 

 252 ; trees unfruitful, 233 ; for walls, 

 334 



Fuchsias, exhibiting, 91; for stand- 

 ards, 478 : King of, 252; select, 336; 

 shoots and leaves diseased, 33 



Fuel, economy in, 321 ; for flueless 

 stoves, 457 ; for garden structures, 

 212 



Fulford Poultry Show, 112 



Fulton Mr., testimonial to, 111 



Funguses, eating, 246; show of, 265; 

 foray among, 310 



Funkia treatment, 479 



Furze sowing, 336 



Galvanising Plants, 15 



Game iowls— baffling, 314: chickens, 

 155; clubbing, 156; judging cocks ; 

 38; cock undubbed, 27S; at Leeds, 

 520; moulting, 362; roupy, 257; 

 Black Red, 464 ; Black-breasted Red 

 moulting untrue to colour, 444 

 crossing Black Red and Duck wing 

 -124; legs of Piles. 156 



Garden, plot tine, levelling.&e , 3P0, 323, 

 344, 364, 387, 407, 426, 446. 489; clean- 

 ing neglected, 458; opening to the 

 public, 4 



Gardeners' difficulties, 371 ; advice to, 

 376 ; examinations. 32S ; growl of a 

 young-, 285; Royal Benevolent In- 

 stitution, 6 



Gardenia, propagation, 109 ; citriodora 

 sickly, 273 



Gardening, and gardeners, 470 ; as a 

 recreation, 105 



Gas, heating by, 212,234,272; stoves, 

 terra cotta, 171; lime as manure,234 



Geese, breeding. 156 ; keeping. 76 



Geraniums— bedding. 178, 221, 227, 260, 

 302; in 1870, 178, 199; caterpillars 

 on, 233 ; cuttings in the open ground, 

 457; double, 121; leaves black, 336; 

 list of good, 159 : in rooms, heat for, 

 519 : protecting, 314 ; what they may 

 be, 141; wintering, 171, 213, 273,293; 

 Confederate, 294 ; Crown Prince, 

 151 ; compost for Mrs. Pollock, 438 ; 

 Mrs. Pollock failing, 191; Stella ab- 

 normal, 376 ; in pots, 376 ; growing 

 Zonal for show,180: Zonals in large 

 pots, 232. See also Pelargoniums. 



Geissorhiza grandis, 471 



Gesnera, splendens buds falling, 398; 

 zehrina flowers falling, aphis on, 

 336 



Gladioluses — bulbs, potting, 191; of 

 1870,383; Bhow, 101; at South Ken- 

 sington, 140; taking up, 458; Saun- 

 dersii, 471 



Glasnevin, 387 



Glazing, 498; double, 519; garden 

 structures, 325 



Glaziers' work, measuring, 15 



Gleichenias, climbing, 345 



Glou Morceau, name of,"377 



Gloucestershire Poultry, 152 



Glowworms, 34 



Gloxinias, 471 ; after flowering, 192 ; 

 culture, US ; propagation, 51 ; bloom- 

 ing seedlings, 169 



Goldfinches, cock tapping the eggs, 20 



Goniophlebium appendiculatum, 109 



Gooseberries for preserving and des- 

 sert, 334 



Gooseberry Show, Bradford, 162 



Grafting wax, substitute for, 391 



Grapes— not colouring and shanking, 

 163; diseased, 16; for exhibition, 

 279; gathering, 232 ; for late hang. 

 ing, 272; keeping, 456; not keeping. 

 856; mildewed, 16; new, 221 ; rine, 

 211 ; not ripening. 135 ; setting, 478, 

 509: shanking, 151; show of, 265; 

 Bhrivelling, 211; Bpotted, 34; sub 

 phuring.16 ; removing sulphur from, 

 293 ; various, 233 ; Alicante in ground 

 vinery, 377 : Alicante small and 

 stoneless, 416; to prevent Chasselas 

 Musque cracking, 107 ; Gros Col- 

 man, 293; Madresfield Court, S16; 

 Royal Ascot, 2G3. Sec also Vines. 



Grass and Trifolium sowing, 234 



Graves, flowers on, 247 



Great Horton Poultry Show. 216 



Greenhouse, blinds, 157; floor, 397; 



for a small income, 219; heating, 



336, 47S ; heating a small, 33, 69, 110, 



294; plants for, 47S, 498 

 Greetland Poultry Show, 153 

 Grevillea Banksii, 393 

 Ground-nut pods, 472 

 Grubs destroying Cabbage plants, 192 

 Gueldres Rose berries, are they 



poisonous? 350 

 Guernsey Lilies not flowering. S98 

 Guildford Poultry Show, 53, 504, 521 

 Guinea Fowl and Dorking hybrid, 38 

 Gymnogramma flexuosa, 240 ; sport, 



251 



Hamburgh, pf.onttnciatton of, 444 



Hamburghs — Black, points of, 257; 

 chickens, exhibiting. 3S; Golden- 

 pencilled, 95, 479, 4S6; legs and 

 feathers, 95; legs and combs, 362; 

 Pencilled, breeding, 361 ; tails, 505; 

 earlobes, 384; Silver-spangled comb, 

 525 ; earlobes, 361, 525 ; earlobes 

 scabby, 626; points, 278; swelling 

 under eye, 342: throat rattling, 278 



Haslingden Poultry Show, 75 



Hassard, Col.F. C, 138 



Hatfield Orniihological Society's 

 Show, 340, 402 



Heating a removable house, 15; fail- 

 ure, 15 ; with fermenting materials, 

 477; by a stove, 497; by hot water, 

 212, 498 



Heckmondwike Poultry Show, 521 



Hedge for market garden, 478 



Heliotropes, dark, 498; leaves falling, 

 458 ; superior, 191 



Hens — cros'-bred, diseased,354; catch- 

 ing, 214: egg-bound, 486; exhibiting. 

 S62: froth in throat, 404; nesting 

 and not laying, 463 ; trespassing, 

 214 



Hessle Poultry Show, 94 



Hinckley Poultry Show, 214 



Hocks swelled, 76 



Hollies, planting, 457 : pruning, 09 



Honeysuckle propagation, 357 



Hopper for fowls' food, 461 



Hornets' nest, destroying, 251 



Horticultural — xhibition, the French, 

 1C 



Horticultural (Royal) Society, Com- 

 mittees, Shows, &c, 84, 104, 126, 183, 

 226, 265, 312, 450. 467; garden, 149; 

 gardeners' examinations, 323; gar- 

 deners' prizes for vegetables, 493; 

 " Journal of Horticulture " prize, 33 ; 

 Nottingham Show, 159, 201, 472: Ox- 

 ford Show and Congress, 42, 62, 63, 

 63, 82, 101, 122; President's soiree, 

 12: sale of plants, 12 : weeds, 31 



Hot water, heating by, 453 ; circulat- 

 ing downwards. 469, 519; not circu- 

 lating in pipes. 417 



Houdan chickens' weight, 112; and 

 Dorkings, crossing, 196; toes, 436 ; 

 cock, points, 526 



Houdans almost featherless, hen with 

 brood. 56 



House for many things, 293 



Hoya carnosa, fruiting, 233; seed 

 sowing, 135 



Humphrey's clock, 167 



Hunslet Poultry Show, 153 



Hyacinths— for a Rose border, 192 ; 

 in pots. 416: Show of the Royal 

 Horticultural Society, 241 



Hvbviditv, imperfect, 493 



Hyde Park. 167 



Hydrangea not flowering, 273 



Ice— collecting, 517: keeping. 431; 



houses, 16, constructing, 390. floral, 



in New York, 128 ; storing, 415 

 Imports, 418 

 Incrustation in boilers and hot-water 



pipes, 316 

 Indian Shot culture, 252 

 Inquiry, 859 

 Insects, enemies, 333; some injurious 



in gardens, 514 

 International Exhibition of 1371, 149 

 Ipswich Poultry Show. 295, 338,420 

 Ireland, notes in, 343, S87, 403, 473 

 Iresine amabiliB. propagating, 273: 



Herbstii, 90 ; wintering, 83 

 Irises, 25; iberica, 26; Spanish and 



English, 258 

 Irish Roval Agricultural Sooiety's 



Poultry Show, 112 



Japanese plants, export of, 451 

 Jasminum grandiflorum for late flow- 

 ering, 321 

 •Tobnstone Poultry Show. 422 

 Judging, plants and flowers, 122 ; 



poultry, 378 

 July, plants flowering in, 120 

 June, plants flowering in, 25 



Kales, 509; vahif.gated.43G 

 Keighley Poultry Show, 154 

 Kenfield Hall and its Conifers, 145 

 Kent (East) Poultry Show, 502 

 Kidney beau culture, 376 

 Kilmarnock Ornithological Show, 4S1 



Kirkcudbright Poultry Show, 521 

 Kitchen garden, size needed, 519 



Labels, fop. fruit trees, 850, 429; 

 zinc and ink for, 357 



La?lias, winter-blooming, 186 



Land's End, about the, 164 



Lapageria rosea, culture, 91, 262; 

 thrips on, 336 



Lasiandra macrantha, 336 



Laurels, dying, 397 ; hedges, trim- 

 ming, 406; pruning, 293; pruning 

 Portugal, 73 



Laurustinus, pruning, 79 



Lavender, distilling, 116 



Lawn — burning in summer, 233 

 covered with Daisies, 16; forming, 

 110: Mowers, 47, 81, 120, 165, 200, 

 Archimedean, 25; making and 

 mending, 151 ; patchy, 498; rolling, 

 397; top-dressing, 416; trees for 

 sloping, 2T4 ; weedy. 191 



Laying, hastening, 486 



Leaf, its work, 66 



Leaves for hotbeds, &c, 495; with 

 dung for manure, 493 



Leeds Poultry Show, 502 



Leghorn fowls, 330, 381 



Leicestershire Bird Show, 53 



Leigh Poultry Show, 215 



Leptosiphon rosaceus, 267 



Lettuce, culture, 490 ; planting, 250 



Leyburn Poultry Show, 214 



Libonia leaves falling, 519 



Lice in hen house, 53 



Lilies of the Valley, 51 



Liliums, culture of, 252: auratum, 

 culture, 16, 303, 347, large, 184. out 

 of doors, 416, potting, 212 , winter- 

 ing, 316 ; lancifolium culture, 16 ; 

 after blooming, 191 



Lily of the Valley, forcing, 232; sow 

 ing, 273 



Lime dressing, 313 



Limerick Poultry Show, 195 



Linaria Cymbalaria, 323 



Linum seeds, cleaning, 251 



Liquid manure. 192 ; applying, 233 



Liskeard Poultry Show, 136 



Lissochilus Krebsii, 267 



LittjEa jnncea,149 



Littleborongh Poultry Show, 276 



Lobelia speciosa, propagating, 30 



London Poultry Show, 40i 



Long Sutton Poultry Show. 295 



Lowestoft Poultry Show, 524 



Lucerne, sowing. 96 



Luculia, gratissima leaves falling, 212 ; 

 propagation, 69 



Lygodictyon Forsteri, 249 



Lygodiums, climbing, 239 



Lythe Poultry Show, 175 



Magnolia, soil, 416; TF.ANSPLANTi>"a 



LARGE, 457 



Maiden-hair browning. 357 



Maidstone Gardeners' Improvement 

 Association, 389 



Maize, 511 



Malays, 275, 3S4 



Malope malaeoides, 165 



Mandevilla suaveolens hardy, 201 



Manures, ashes, &c, 15; preparing, 

 377 



Manuring, the principles of, 64 



Maranta leaves browned, 315 



Market gardening, amateur, 267 



Marketing fruits, 272 



Markets, 76, 155, 176, 25S, 278, 298, 320, 

 342, 362, 384, 404, 424, 454, 506 



Measures, boxes for holding, 164, 252 



Medlars, gathering, 212, 335 



Meigle Poultry Show, 175 



Melolontha vulgaris, 515 



Melon -Bd Cucumber house, 294 



Melons— aphis on, 24; decaying, 91; 

 going off, 33 ; in a ground vinery, 

 161; large, 213; out of doors, 261; 

 plants, 24; small, 518; spoton,211; 

 treatment, 16 ; varieties, *£l3 : Beech- 

 wood, 91 ; Malvern Hall, 170 ; Vic- 

 tory of Bath, 247 



MeFenibryanthemum culture, 152 



Mesospinidium sanguineum, 4S9 



Metropolitan Floral Society, 200, 201, 

 225 



Mice, keeping from bulbs, 477 



Middlesbrough Bird Show, 366 



Middleton Poultry Show, 255 



Mimetic analogy, 494 



" Miniature Fruit Garden," 469 



Mistletoe on the Oak, 225, 247 



Moon's influence over rainfall, 804 



Morley Poultry Show, 112 



Mormons, horticulture among,21S 



Morpeth Poultry Show. 214 



Moulting this season, 417,459 



Moulton Poultry Show, 36 



Mulberries, what to do with them, 362 



Mulberrv trees, transplanting, 135 



Mulching, 50, 68, 108 



Mushrooms, abundance, 225; beds, 

 4115, lasting, 52, making, 49, iron 

 gratings for bottoms of, 495 ; houso 

 management, 431; catsup, 96; cu 

 tare, 69, 170, 291, 374; in Paris, 346; 

 decaying and maggotty, 34, 293; 

 in a London cellar, 261 



Myosotis dissitiflora for table decora- 

 tion, 59 



Mvrtles nut flowering, 69 



