INDEX. 



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Abraxas grossulariata, 516 



Achinienes, culture, 519 ; propagation, 

 51 



Actinia, the Strawberry, 413 



Ada aurantiaca, 306 



Adiantum, Feei, 240; pedatum, 69 



Agapanthus treatment, S15 



Acaricus procerus, 328 



Aldborough Poultry Show, 153 



Algerian gardening, 290 



Allamanda violacea and culture, 357 



Allerton Poultry Show, 111 



Alternanthera Linden i, propagating, 

 273 



Alton Towers, 287, 807 



Amateur, or Florist? 51; gardener, 

 the, 26, 163, 245 



American blight, 334, 337 



American winter garden, 312 



Amorphoph alius bulbiferus culture, 

 834 



AnBectochilusDawsonianus sickly, 2T3 



Andalusians, 320 



Angnecums, winter- blooming, 306 



Annuals, for autumn sowing, 192; for 

 greenhouse, 315 



Anomatheca omenta, 123 



Anthonomus pomorum, 413 



Anthurium, ornatum, 26; Scherzeria- 

 num, temperature for, and propa- 

 gating, 16 



Antipodes, gardening at the, 810 



Antirrhinums, list of, 171 



Ants, driving away, 108; to destroy, 

 135 ; in dwelling-house, 218 



Aphides, tobacco and bitter aloes for 

 destroying, 91 ; on Cabbageworts, 

 273 



Apples— gathering fruit, 211 ; grafts, 

 243, 262 ; for small gardens, 322 ; py- 

 ramids unfruitful, 212; select, 233; 

 stocks, 243, 803, 346; training mina- 

 ture, 171 ; for walls, 334 ; for north- 

 west of England, and pyramids, 

 377; Burr Knot, 282, 326; Ecklin- 

 ville Seedling, 263, 281, 324 ; Paradise 

 Pippin, sowing, 437; on Pommier 

 de Paradis, 293; on French Para- 

 dise, 271; Jacques Lebel, 274; Sum- 

 mer Thorle, 284 ; "Whorle Pippin, 284 



Appleton-le-Street Poultry Show, 93 ; 

 Floral and Agricultural Show, 104 



Apricots, branches dying off, 90 ; pro- 

 lific standard, 245 ; unfruitful, 293 



Aralia Sieboldi, is it hardy? 426 



Araucaria imbricata, lichen on ; pro- 

 ducing cones, 109 ; at Bicton, 1 



Arbour, trees for, 316 



Arbutus procera transplanting, 356 



Aristolochia barbata, 393 



Arkleton, 283 



Artbropterises, climbing, 886 



Artichokes, 133 



Artillery plant, S4 



Arums in a pond, 315 



Ash trees, insects attacking, 110 ; 



treatment of hollow, 336 

 Asimena triloba, 165 

 Asparagus, beds, salt for, 316; salting, 

 834; Kale, 457; management, 233 ; 

 planting, 234 

 Asters, green fly on, 69 

 August, plants flowering in, 202 

 Auriculas, in 1S70, 449 ; Alpine, 393 

 Australia, sending cuttings to, 148 

 Avenue planting, 252 

 Awards at poultry shows, 378, 398,498 

 Aykleyheads, 166 

 Aylesbury Poultry Show, 235 

 Aylesbury Ducks' bills yellow, 320 

 Ayr Pigeon and Bird Show, 401 

 AzaleaB, leaves falling, 478; browned, 

 69; leaves yellow, 457; out of doors, 

 51; select Indian, 357 



Bacon, insect in, 238 



Balsam culture, 59 



Bamboo culture, 191 



Bank, plant for sloping, 433 



Bantams — dying, 424; breeding, 526; 

 Game, colour of, 361: "White, clean- 

 legged 178; classes for 254, 340; 

 feather-legged, 820; prizes for at 

 Manchester, 499 



Barkerias, winter-blooming, 806 



Barleria Mackenii, 267 



Barnstaple Poultry Show, 18 



Barrow, Staplehurst Roller, 47 



Barton Poultry Show, 521 



Baskets, armour-plated for poultry, 



479; plants for, 197, 220 

 Battersea Park, 142 

 Bay, Sweet, pruning, 79 

 Beans, various, 1G9; Scarlet Runners, 



189 

 Bedding plants in 1870, 129, 147, 227 ; 

 propagating, 151, 251 ; a few, 158 ; in 

 tkeoorth, 200 ; gifts of, 282 

 Beech trees, insect on, 16; mast and 

 fungus, 190; white substance on, 

 213; the Purple, 491; for chalky 

 soil, 494 

 Bees— ants in hive, 56; attacking 

 chickens, 17 ; bar frames v. early 

 supers, 19; coal tarring beo house, 

 525; breeding late, '444; building 

 outside of hive, 175 ; carbolic acid, 

 uses, 257; cells, structure, 277; 

 driving, 55, 218; drones in Novem- 

 ber, 422; drone slaughter, 20: egg- 

 eating, 444; feeding. 362; feeding 

 and strengthening. 176; foul brood, 

 463, 505, experiments with, 342, ex- 

 periments with permanganate of 

 potash, 403,423; remedy for, 524; 

 glasses, remedying shape of, 319; 

 heath pasturage, 33 : in old hive, 56 ; 

 hives frame, 138; large r. small 

 hives, 55 ; at Liskeard Show, 188 ; 

 honey cheap, 278, insipid, 506 ; 

 taking, 95; honey harvest, 137, de- 

 ficient. 96, in Jersey, 94 ; commenc- 

 ing to keep, 20, 96, 196 ; leaving their 

 hive, 18; taking lime water, 38; 

 Ligurians, queens introductions, 

 18, 95, in Jersey, 75, 94, second 

 swarms, 423 ; at Manchester, 175 ; 

 nadiring, 38 ; queens, contests, 277 ; 

 controlling lertilisation, 95. 155, 217, 

 218, 233, 297, 485; how long are 

 queens and workers in their cells ? 

 55, 115, 195, 297. 313; when do they 

 commence ecg-laying. 115 ; intro- 

 ducing Ligurian, 18, 95; removing, 

 116 ; robbing. 231 ; in Scotland, 175 ; 

 stocks dwindling, 56, removing, 320, 

 506: in "West Suffolk, 95, supers 

 early, 18, removing, 278, supering, 

 20, swarms, artificial, 23, abnor- 

 mally early, 360, obtaining early. 258, 

 hiving, 188, successful, 20, uniting. 

 196; swarming, 54,237; not swarm- 

 ing, 88; waspB,176 



Beet— for a flower garden. 143_, 179. 181, 

 200, 281 ; for spring gardening, 273 ; 

 storing. 281 



"Beetroot Sugar Question," 470 



Belfast notes, 222 



Belfast Poultry Show, IS 



Belladonna Lily culture, 33 



Berberis Darwin ii, 7S 



Berberries, the common, 180; keeping 

 on bush, 356 



Berkshire Boot Show, 430 



Berwick Ornithological Show, 483, 504 



Beta Cicla chilensis, 99 



Beverley Poultry Show, 17 



Bingley Poultry Show, 194; Pigeon 

 Show, 503, 522 



Bird shows, management of, 216 



Birmingham Poultrv Show of 1870, 254, 

 274, 419, 438, 480 ; Philoperisteron So- 

 ciety's Show, 341 



Bishop Auckland Poultry Show, 36 



Blackberry wine, 258 



Blackpool' Poultry Show, 1S6 



Bluebells and Harebells, 185 



Boiler, 316; Foster's for small house, 

 253; for greenhouse, 478; heatinc 

 from house, 255 ; proposed, 247 ; 

 "Weeks & Co.'s duplex, 161 



Bone dust, 96 ; for chickens, 173, 526 



Border, re-arranging, 377 



Borecoles, 509 



Borning rods, 301 



Boston Poultry Show. 35 



Botanic (Royal) Society's Show, 5 



Bougainvillea lateritia, 836 



Bouquets, 351 ; leaves lor, 357 



Box, 79; edging, 347 ; replanting, 251 



Brahmas— chickens' legs weak, 116; 

 cock's comb, 176; colour, 384; legs 

 diseased, 361; crosa-b reeding, 298; 

 eyes swollen, 383; exhibiting, 464; 

 feeding for exhibition, 444: twisted 

 flight, 834; losing feathers, 464; 

 history of, 296; foot swollen, 293; 

 prize "for Light, 319 ; cock's mark- 

 ings, 95: moulting, 196,424: pullets 

 and cock, 384 ; new standard for, 

 520; vulture hocks. 404; war on, 

 403; weak-legged, 278; weight of, 

 361 



Breconshire Poultry Show, 256, 463, 

 436 



Brewers' grains for fowls. 278 



Brick dust lor pasture, 356 



Bricks, size. &c, 437 



Brisbane Botanic Gardens, extracts 

 from the Report of, 47, 67 



British Museum, botanical depart- 

 ment, 244 



Broccoli, laying down, 354 



Brodirea coccinea, 204 ; culture, 26 



Brussels Sprouts, cutting, 293 ; early, 

 230 



Bui*! culture, 347 



Bullfinch's foot swollen, 362 



Burnley Poultry Show, 17 



Cabbages — aphis on, 109 ; cater- 

 pillars, 110; cnlturc,250, 270; large, 

 IS ; planting, 315 



Cactuses, pruning, 91 



Caladium, culture. 519 ; esculentum 

 as a vegetable. 61; propagation, 51 



Caladinms. wintering, 109 



Calanthes, winter-flowering, 865 



Calceolarias, for bedding, 90; culture 

 of herbaceous. 118 



California, evertn-eens of, 80 ; horticul- 

 tural visit to, 245 



Calochortus Leichtlinii, 267 



Cambridgeshire Poultry Show, 36 



Camellias — budding, 437 : thinning 

 buds, 232, 315; buds falling. 478; out 

 of doors, 51 ; liquid manure for, 

 43S : leaves falling, 91 ; potting, 212 ; 

 cool treatment, 469 



Canada, poultry in, 17 



Canaries, lice on, 96; not pairing, 96; 

 pairing various, 176 



Canarina campanulata, 128 



Canary buti, 276 



Canker, 877 



C annas— culture, 252; seed sowing, 

 51; seeds not germinating, 1'9 : 

 seedling treatment, 479; wintering, 

 33, 315 



Capel Manor, 242 



Carnations — abnormal, 151; Clove, 

 and Picotee cuttings, 150; fertilis- 

 ing, 33 : and Picotees at Slough, 241 ; 

 seedling, 104 



Carter & Co.'s prizes for roots, &c., S70 



Cases for plants, 10 



Cassia mimosoides, rar. Telfairiana, 

 471 



Castle Howard, 372, 352 



Caterpillars, on Cabbages, 159; and 

 grubs. 189; October, 327; Novem- 

 ber, 391 ; in December, 470 



Cauliflower, culture, 133, 210,250,855; 

 maggoted, 336; planting, 89; plants, 

 framing, 315 



Celery, blanching, 409; culture, 170, 

 210; planting,82; protecting, 455 



Centaurea, candidissima culture, 416 ; 

 propagation, 336 



Cereus fulindus, 204 



Chalk bank, trees for, 478 



Chapman's flower cases, 20O 



Charcoal and coke fumps, 398 



Charring refuse, 162, 234 



Chatsworth, 432. 452 



Chaucer's Chanticleer, 383 



Cherries— early, 91 ; varieties as pyra- 

 mids, 2; f or wallB, 334; Late Duke, 

 497 



Chickens— dying wholesale, 56; se- 

 parating, 19 ; not true-coloured, 464 ; 

 watching the, 92 

 Chilwell Nurseries, 223 



Chinchilla Rabbit, 97 

 Chippenham Poultry Show, 442 

 Christmas Rose, 234. 499 

 Christmas poultry market, 519 

 Christmas temperature in I860, 376 

 Chrysanthemums— among the. 370 ; 

 Anemone-flowered, 398: culture, 448, 

 472: at Liverpool, 468; mildewed, 

 816; retarding, 336; seedlings, 492; 

 select, 397; Sensation for spring, 

 336; Show, 348; sowing, 458 

 Cidermaking.258 

 Cinchona culture, 312 

 Cinerarias — failing, 357 : mantima 

 culture, 233 ; not thriving, 293 ; 

 ovster shell -powder for, 458 

 Cleckheaton Poultry Show, 94 

 Clematis— for noith wall, 151 ; in pots, 



33' select ^52 

 Clerodendron Balfourianum, pruning, 



91 

 Cleveland Agricultural Society's Poul- 

 try Show, 215 

 Climbers, for a south-west wall, 21o ; 

 for low wall, 273 ; for north wall, 357 

 Clitheroe Poultry Show, 111 

 Clusiaodorata, 267 

 Coal ashes, 336 



Cochin-ChinaB— breeding, 257 ; comb 

 ■white. 526 : dving, 320 ; feathers pro- 

 jecting, 298; feeding, 56; pullets 

 dying, 384 ; unthriving. 444 ; vulture- 

 hocked, 404; White, 93; weight of 

 White, 361 

 Cockatoo feather-eating, 486 

 Cockchafer, 515 



Cockerel for exhibition, 486 [SS4 



Cock spurless, 38; with toe mutilated, 

 Ccelogynes, winter -blooming, 208 

 Cold, intense, 514 

 Coleus, for bedding, 171 ; losing colour, 



51; Verschaffelti, 90 

 Colour in tree scenery of gardens, 



parks, and landscapes, 82 

 Columbarian Society, City, 175: the 

 Scottish, 418; Show, 503; Ncrthern 

 Counties, 419 

 Combustion, slow, 321 

 Conifers, Californian, 141; insects at- 

 tacking, 70 

 Conservatorv, heating, 316, 357 



plants for, 274 

 Copings for walls, 259 

 Corbridge, rambles about, 177 

 Corchorus japonicus pruning, 458 

 Cornwall, early produce from, 202 

 Correa leaves falling, 458 

 Cottage garden shows, sales at, 491, 



512 

 Cottingham Poultry Show, 215 

 Cotton seed for paper, 24 

 Covent Garden Market, 20, 31, 56, 196, 



238, 362, 486, 526 

 Cows, Ash leaves as provender for, 76 

 Crassulas, pruning, 91 

 Creeper for a bank, 398 

 Creve-Cceur, characteristics, 288 ; de- 

 rivation, 254 ; comb and toes, 278, 

 404 ; gills, 404 

 Crop-bound chickens, 361, 384 

 Croton leggy, 457 

 Croydon columbarian Society, 382; 



Poultry Show, 93 

 Crystal Palace, garden, 207; Metropo- 

 litan Florists' Society's Show, 101, 

 182 ; Poultrv Show, 173, 194, 319, 338, 

 358, 382, 459, 500; entries, 500; prizes, 

 &c, 506 

 Cucumbers— aphis on plants, 24 ; cul- 

 ture, 32, 374; culture and disease. 

 231; damping-off, 69, 151; leaves 

 injured, 477; leaves scorched, 69 ; 

 notes on, 179; scabbed, 397 

 CuiTant, Black, 91; its culture and 

 profitableness,, 16, 97; moth, 515; 

 Red, planting, 498 

 Cuscuta genus, 269 

 Cuttings, managemen 4 of, 263 ; struck, 



292 ; planting, 253 

 Cyclamen persicum,262, 514 ; seedlings 

 blooming at ten monthB old, 493 ; 

 blooming early, 514 ; after flowering, 

 519 

 Cymbidium canaliculatum, 16a 

 Cypripedium candidum, 165 



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