INDEX. 



Acer Lobelii, 190 

 Achimenes — not fl wering, 261 ; 

 roots, preserving, 399; Rollissonii, 

 414 

 Acmena florlbunda, 513 

 Aconite, Winter, culture, 2G9 

 Agapanthusumbellatus, culture, 15; 



potting, 2S0 

 Aglaonema commutatum, 179 

 Agricultural Show, jottings at, 17 

 Agricultural Hall -Poultry Show, 96, 

 118, 138, 230; and the Poultry 

 Club, 160, 180, 199 

 Ailanthi culture, lecture on, 432 

 Air-giving, 93 

 Alligator Pear, sowing, 279 

 Alocasia metallic^ and Lowii drying 



off, 380 

 Allspice, propagating Carolina, 220 

 Alpines in masses, 449 

 Alstrcemeria culture, 32S 

 Alyssurn saxatile seedling?, 399 

 Aniaranthus melanchoticus ruber,13G 

 Amarylli9 formosissirna, is it hardy? 

 179; longifolia and rosea culture, 

 380 

 Ammoniacal liquor, use of, 95 

 Among the Welsh Mountains, 151 

 Amphiblemma cymosum, 291 

 Aneectocbiluses and tbeir culture, 41 

 Anemone — culture, 327 ; apennina 



culture, 491 

 Annuals for garden decoration, 26S 

 Ants— driving away, 35 ; to destroy, 

 110, 157 ; protecting wall fruit 

 from, 173 ; trap, 276 

 Aphelandra Liboniana, 111 

 Aphides, destroying, 62, 15S 

 Appetite, depraved, in fowls, 344 

 Apples as food for poultry, 142 ; for 

 espaliers, 292, 316; dwarf, 33S; 

 sauce (New England), 344 

 Apricots— new, Royal de Luxem- 

 bourg, De Jonghe's Sweet Kernel, 

 127 ; Do Jonghe's Diamant, 12S ; 

 bush, 157; in pots, 198; gum on, 

 517 

 Aquatics in pots, 193 

 Aquilegia coerulea, 414 

 Arabis lucida variegata, 276 

 Araucaria imbricata forming cones, 



116 

 Arauja angustifolia, 513 

 Arbor Yitce browned, 359 

 Artichokes — preserving, 137; win- 

 ter dressing, 438 

 Asparagus — making beds, 35, 400, 

 415; covering in winter, 479; re- 

 moving, 137; culture, 351; sea- 

 weed for, 400 ; forcing, 476 ; 

 French culture of, 510 

 Asphalt path, 517 

 Aucuba japonica bearing berries, 



405; sex of, 518 

 Auricula, Lord Clyde, 51 

 Aviary, mice in, 4S4 

 Azaleas— Souvenir de Prince Albert, 

 51; grafting, 56, 19S ; buds not 

 expanding, 116; amcena potted in 

 loam, 440; shifting, 499; leaves 

 falling, 518 



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Babiana culture, 328 



Bacon — preserving, 4G4; Wilts v. 

 Herts, 526; C-tring, 526 



Bantams — keeping small, 20; my 

 Black, 160; Nankin, 206, 324 

 Black Game, 223; legs of, 324 

 buying, 266; legs and weight, 424 

 white, 504 ; weight of, 504 



Eartonia nuda, 513 



Battersea Park, 214 



Bath and West of England Poultry 

 Show, jottings on, IS ; Turkeys at, 

 19 

 Bedding-plants, hardv, list and cul- 

 ture of, 81, 110, 137 ; propagating, 

 135 ; management, 432 

 Bedding for winter and spring, 



365 

 " Bee-keeping," 321 

 Bee-book, is one wanted? 361 ; new, 



422, 484 

 Bees— unhousing, price of honej', Li- 

 gurianisine an aniary, 20, 39; su- 

 pering, 20; artificial swarmmg, 

 flowers. 33; in Australia, a "bee- 

 bob," 39; ascertaining loss of 

 queen, rules for purchasing, foul 

 brood and dysentery, preventing 

 swarming, outside a hive, queens, 

 &C..40; in Lincolnshire, 59; Li- 

 gurian swarms, Lignrians in Ayr- 

 shire, maiden swarms, uniting weak 

 stocks ; transferring, 60 ; in Perth- 

 shire, 79 ; queen worried, natural 

 and artificial swarms, in supers, 

 SO; transferring, aspect for, re- 

 moving to the moors, times of 

 swarming, existence of queen 

 doubtful, 98 ; adding queens, at 

 Royal Agricultural Society's Show, 

 in Surrey, substituting boxes for 

 straw hives, 99; Lieiurian swarm?, 

 dying from confinement, dura- 

 tion of HTe, do not injure poultrv, 

 flowers for, 100; at Daventry.106; 

 preparation of wax, depriving 

 stocks, 121; "A Devonshire Bee- 

 keeper" v. the Times " Bee- 

 master," 140, 162: uniting volun- 

 tarily, commencing bee-keepine', 

 purchasing stocks and hives, 

 works on. 142. 319. 321, 361, 422; 

 ill-success in bee-keeping, 162; 

 forsaking a stock-hive; depriving, 

 unions, good hives, 163, 164; au- 

 tumnal removing.and transferring. 

 163; selection of queens, small 

 swarms, 184; management and 

 food, uniting, honey from combs 

 not full, the season, foul brood, 

 queens in 1362. 205; in Surrey, 

 distance of flight, characteristics 

 of Ligurian, borage -sowing for, 

 2 6 ; working supers on common 

 hives, stocks from condemned, 

 comb- pruning, autumnal unions, 

 robbing, transporting, 224 ; ad- 

 ding queens, foul brood, 225; 

 "Wildman at Dobney's Gardens, 

 226; comb-pruning. 244; ruin of 

 a new etock. iriend mistaken 

 for an enemy, 245 ; are they 

 omnivorous? treatment of weak 

 swarm r honey dark - coloured, 

 24G ; managing on natural system, 

 2S5 ; foul brood in Tcrkihire, 

 266 ; wasps, and ivy blossoms ; 

 queen's excursions; comb plates, 

 283; at Whitworth show, causing 

 swarm to settle, analysis of 

 excreta, 2S4; management, 301 ; 

 dark honey, food, Woodbury-hives; 

 joining Ligurians to common ; foul 

 brood' in Yorkshire, 302 ; foul 

 brood, what, written about it, $03 ; 

 working hours ; spider and wax 

 moth, 301; book on, 319; boxes 

 and supers, 320; carnivorous ; lec- 

 ture on, 321 ; robbed by bees ; ear- 

 wigs in hives, from a distance, 

 324; uniting queens to, &&, varia- 

 tion in Ligurian, carnivorous, 

 342; foul brood, 343; winter feed- 



Bees— Continued, 

 ing, Woodbury and other hives, 

 344 ; Woodbury-hive. 361 ; are they 

 carnivorous? uniting queen to; 

 wasps eat, their management, 

 362; beginning keeping, feeding, 

 364; Ligurian degenerating, not 

 carnivorous, 382 ; joining Ligurian 

 to common, hive protectors, foul 

 brood, times of swarming, 383 ; 

 management in common hives, 

 4'13; rectifying irregular combs, 

 variation in Ligurian, joining 

 Ligurians to common, 404; work- 

 ers short-lived, voung reversed in 

 cells, apiary in 1S54, 420; taking 

 honey from common hives, new 

 bae-book, caution in operating 

 with, rules for purchasing, 422 ; 

 not carnivorous, stands for, 423; 

 removing honey from hives. 424 ; 

 swarming system, carefully feast- 

 ed, 444; open driving, 463; death 

 of a queen, 464; caution on mild 

 weather, regicidal, driving, new 

 book on, breeding Ligurian, re- 

 moving to a distance, 484; old 

 comb, fonl brood, 504; regicide 

 among, 521; swarming v. depri- 

 ving, 525 

 Beet culture. 241 

 Begonias, potting, 417; wintering, 



417 

 Belfast Poultry Show, 53 ; Botanic 



Gardens, 133 

 Eignonia jasminoides not blooming, 



158; radicans culture. 49S 

 Bewlej-'s, Mr., Rockville, Dublin, 



102 

 Bindweed killing, 218 

 Birds — compromise with, 333; crop 

 saved bv, 370 ; protecting buds 

 from, 511 

 Birmingham Rose Show, 27 ; Fruit, 

 Chrysanthemum, and Root Shows, 

 451,492,510 

 Birmingham Poultry Show, 401, 441, 

 458 ; matters relative to, 503 ; 

 Committee, censure on, 520; re- 

 sults, 524 

 Blindness in Cauliflowers, 16 

 Bloomsbury Flower Sbow, 69 

 Boiler— setting. 137; for stove, 457 ; 



without brickwork, 430,495 

 Bolton Greys, 344 

 Bones, crushed, as a manurp, 493 

 Border, plants for a dry, 49S 

 Botanic (Ruyal) Society's Show, 5, 



Bot'om heat— interrupted, 469; de- 

 ficient, 518 



Bougainvillcea splendens, 179 



Bouquets, artificial, 15 



Bowling green, mending, 293 ; 

 making, 333 



Box tree, moving, 359 



Brahma Pootras, 324. 400, 41S, 442, 

 463, 430, 499 ; characteristics, 284 ; 

 at Islington Show, 299, 300; 

 origin of, 360, 443; pullet stag- 

 gering, 504 



Bread, preventing bitterness in, 206 



Briars, moving budded. 230 



Brighton Horticultural Show, 254; 

 Poultrv Sbow, 483 



Brussels Sprouts, gathering, 360 



Rrvn-v-Neuadd, 294 



Eu'de-Haven Poultry Show, IIS 



Bulbs -forcing, 203, 247; culture, 

 227 ; for garden decoration, 268, 

 285, 327 

 Bromeliacese, notes on, 64 

 Butter, imported and exported, 6Q 



Cabbage— growing seed, S5; cul- 

 ture, 240, 277 

 Caladiums — in greenhouse, 261 ; 



wintering, 479 

 Calceolaria cuttings, 337, 378, 416 

 Calceolarias dying, 16,191; in beds, 



94; in exposed poor soil, 280 

 Calf, raising the, 3S4 

 Caliibrnian large trees, 237 

 Camellias— buds falling, 360; not 

 opening, 499; grafting, 360; 

 blooms failing, 441; in cocoa-nut 

 fibre refuse, 457 ; thrips on leaves, 

 457 

 Camlin. 149 

 Campylobotrys regalis culture, 116; 



refulgens, 179 

 Canaries— disordered, 40 ; asthmatic, 



464; dull and moulting, 526 

 Caponising, 266 

 Cirhead, 128 

 Carnations— perpetual, 213 ; seaweed 



as a manure for, 498 

 Carpets, to clean, 40 

 Carrots— grubs, 137; crop failing, 



441; trenching for, 478 

 Caterpillars, 296; on dbbageworts, 



315 

 Cattle, to prevent jumping,.3S3 

 Cattell's Nursery, 312 

 Cauliflower— blindness in. 16; cul- 

 ture, 33. 210, 296, 397; under 

 glass, 515 

 Cayenne pepper, 197 

 C e i er y — blanching, 196 ; earthing- 



up,*212; culture, 241, 258. 296 

 Cement to exclude air from bottles, 



40 

 Centaurea — caudirtissima, sowing, 

 198; wintering, 221, 279; propa- 

 gating, 279 ; argentea, propaga- 

 ting, 243 

 Cereus hexagonus, grafting, 116 

 Chalk soil, evergreens for, 180 

 Charcoal-heated stnves, 457 ; fumes 



among plants, 467 

 Cherry — trees in po f s, 14 ; De 



Jonghe's Transparent, 27 

 Chiciiens— decline in, 19; rearing, 

 36 ; v. green fly, 51, 86 ; mortality 

 among, 58 ; pudding, recipe for, 

 159 

 Chicory for salads, 397 

 Chippenham Poultry Show, 462 

 Chiswick garden, 1 ; trial bedding 



plants at, 191 

 Cbrvsanthemums — stopping, 76; 

 Show at the Agricultural Hall, 409 ; 

 Birmingham, 409; Mr. Salter's 

 428; Mr. Forsyth's. 429; select 

 list, 440; Bob, 493; childrens' 

 show, 493; not flowering, 49S ; 

 cuttings, 499; done blooming, 

 517 

 Churchyard, planting, 360 

 Cinerarias— seedlings, culture, 15 ; 

 wanted to bloom, 279 ; leaves 

 curling, 479; not blooming in 

 large pots, 480; maritima propa- 

 gating and wintering, 279 

 Cissus porphyrophyllus, 179 

 City gardening in New York, 105 

 Clay soil, improving, 95 

 Clematis— Townsend's seedling, 29; 

 Jackmauni, 215 ; rubro-violacea, 

 291.513 

 Clianthus Dampieri seedlings, 6 

 Climbers— evergreen, 13S ; for house 

 walls, 299 ; for conservatory, 

 440 

 Clover seed statistics, 35, 76 

 Cob-nut culture, 485 

 Cobcea scandens not flowering, 479 



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