Cochin-Chinas, 424 ; points in, 100 

 legs of, 246; Siiver-Buffs, 301 

 cock, weight, 324; merit?, 401 

 diarrhoea in, 526 ; at the Birming- 

 ham Show, 501; tail of Partridge 

 cock, 504 



Cockatoo eating its feathers, 424 

 Cocoa-nut fibre refuse for mulching, 

 229 



Ccelogyne odoratissima, 111 



Coleus Verschaffelti, wintering, 440, 

 467 ; Blumei and Vericbaffelti, 

 wintering, 467 



Collicgham Poultry Show, 402 



Coltsfoot, to eradicate, 158 



Compost-heaps, charred, fermenting, 

 and turf, 315 



Conifers — fast-growing, 21 ; for 

 sandy soil, 47S 



Conservatory shading, 116; healing, 

 338 ; stage, 36A 



Cooking meats, GO 



Cookery again, 159 



Cooks, cookery, and Wilts bacon, 323, 

 423 



Co.-n bin, moth in, 20 



Corylopsis spicata. Ill 



Cottage gardens, 278 



Cottages and how to tenant them, 

 289 



" Cottager's Garden. Guide," 511 



Cottingham Poultry Show, 131 



Cotton cake as manure, 29S 



Covent Garden Market, 15, 35. 55. 76, 

 94, 115, 136. 157, 179, 197, 219, 242. 

 260, 278, 297, 315 3 JS. 35S, 379, 

 399, 417. 440, 456, 478, 495, 517 



Cows ronbed of milk, 319, 342,361; 

 pelf-milked, 424, 444; jumping, 

 464 



Creve Cccur fowls, 483 



Orinumsiiot blooming, 399 



Crarnp ia chickens, 181 



Crocuses -culture, 270; list of, 221 ; 

 forcing, 248 ; at Christmas, 260 



Crystal P.-lace Rose Miow, 4; Gar- 

 dens, 185 ; Show, 211 



Cuckoo?, 142, food for, 183 ; winter- 

 ing, 204, 265 



Cucumber— disease, 13, 35 ; and re- 

 medies 131; gum in, 94; dying, 

 do; Snake, not setting fruit, 137; 

 mildew, 137 ; pit or house, 158 ; 

 culture, 258 ; pit, heating, 360 ; 

 pollen preserving, 360; large crop, 

 411 ; house, hot-water pipes for, 

 479; in winter, 241 ; in dung-beds, 

 467 



Currants— new, 27: best varieties, 

 63 ; on rreliise3, 296 



Cut'ines of various plants, 230 



Cyanotis nodiflora, 291 



Cymbidium tigrinum, 51 



Cypripedium caricinum, 215 



Dahlia olabrata, 370 

 Dandelions for salads, 397 

 Darlington Poultry Show, 480 

 Datura arborea, cutting hack, 298 

 Deane Poultry Show, 201 

 Delphinium Brunonianum, 111 

 Dendrobiams — marginatum, 51 ; 



eburneum, 11 1 ; nodatum, 291 ; 



after, blooming, 316; japonicutn, 



513 

 Derby Poultry Show, 263 

 Derbyshire, absence of cottage gar- 

 dening in north, 473 

 Dewsbury Poultry Show, 199 

 Dibbling, 54 

 Dickson & Sons* Chester Nursery, 



288. 430 

 Dinorben House, 435; fountains, 



&c , at, 514 

 Dioecious plants, remarks en some, 



253 

 Disa grandiflon superba, 513 

 Dominique fowls, 37, 182 

 Dorking cock — bumble-footed, 20: 



wheezing, 100; weight of, 266; 



feet swollen. 304 

 Driffield Poultry Show, 119 

 Drought and its consequences, 



177 

 Dry weather ani watering, 143 

 Dacks— assuming drake's plumage, 



119; wild, preventing flying, 184; 



plumage of bla k, 304; Rouen's 



legs, 341 ; murd'-r among, 463 ; bid 



and legs of Biack Indian, 464; 



laying bad eggs, 484 

 Ducklings — dying, 20; rearing, 



36 

 Dudley Hill Poultry Show, 202 

 Durdham Down, jottings on, IS 



Eel, an aged, 122 



Eggs— importation of, 57, 526; white- 

 spotted, 184 ; packing for trans- 

 port, 266 ; unfertile, 344 



Elder, propagating variegated, 457 



Elephant's foot, 158 



Ellesmere Poultry Show, 282 



Emigrating to Is'ew Zealand, 242, 

 * 371, 392 



Endive culture, 397 



Entomological Societv's Meeting, 

 32, 92, 174, 255, 332. 437, 513 



Enville Hall, 353, 372, 393; vinery 

 at, 499 



Epistephium Williamsii, 513 



Eranthemum Cooperi, 215 



Eriocntma marmorea, 179 



Erythronium culture, 2S5 



Espaliers, wood r. iron, 417 



Evergreens — removing and planting, 

 259 ; branches in winter flower- 

 beds. 316 



Evidences of progress, 106 



Eye, education of, 112, 238 



Experiences of a country parson, 144 



Eyes and no eyes, 174 



Fancier, recollections of an old, 

 363 



Farfugiam, wintering, 417 



Ferguson— Mr. D., death of, 25 ; Mr. 

 W. H., appointed Curator of Bel- 

 fast Botanic Gardens, 133 



Ferae — sowing spores, 136, 198 ; 

 drying specimen, 179 ; hardy, how 

 I collected and cultivated, 267, 325, 

 365, 405, 474, 486; in higher tem- 

 perature, 311 ; moving common, 

 339 ; potting, 417, 499 ; replanting 

 nnder gl-iss, 441; British for ex- 

 hibition, 440; for glass-case, 410 



Feverfew sowing, 77 



Figs— culture. 55, 75. 296,439; and 

 packing. 55 ; tree throwing its 

 fruit, 131; trees, managing, 359; 

 protecting, 399; for back wall of 

 vinery, 400 ; Singleton or White 

 Ischia. 439, 511 : in orchard-house, 

 94, 259 



Filberts— pruning, 191 ; storing, 25S, 

 279; culture, 435 



Finlayson, J., deceased, 89 



Fire too powerful, 10 



Flower shows— remarks on, 145 ; 

 our metropolitan, 163; improving 

 our. 229 



Flower-beds, raised, 260 ; garden- 

 ing in 1864, 275 ; for garden deco- 

 ration in winter and spring, 306, 

 345, 365, 367, 385, 390; garden 

 plan3, 30, 236, 474; farming, 352 



Fountains, 332 



Fowls —useful, 206: washing plu- 

 mage of, 206, 3S4.484; for profit, 

 404; eating walnut husks, 444; 

 preventing their raids, 480; for 

 cold weL district, 524 



Frame-lights, 2S0 ; double-glazed, 

 350 



Franciscea to free from thrips, 116 



Frome Poultry Show, 340 



Frost in August. 192 



Foxglove eaten by cattle (?), 15 



Fruit, new, 27 ; raising seedling, 

 85; maturing of, 512; under glass 

 v. that on walls, 6 ; time for 

 gathering, 176; garden, forming, 

 198 ; trees, protecting, 198; dwan, 

 management, 291; planting, 314, 

 496,498; on east wall, 499 ; room 

 management 407 



Fuchsia — stopping, 35 ; Cloth of 

 Gold, 51; buds falling, 180; red 

 spider on, 180; drying, 399; win- 

 tering, 360 



Fumigating imparts flavour to fruit, 

 14 



Furze, propagating, 479 



Gallery, shrub foe, 410 



Galvanised netting, its effect on 

 flowers, 148 



Game fowl?, Red-breasted Duck- 

 winged, 164; at Islington Show, 

 300 ; cock's tail, fluff at base, 444 ; 

 cockerel crowing, 526 



Gape.*, 134 



Gardening under difficulties, 87 



Gardens — visiting distant, and how 

 to see them, 129; produce of a 

 gentleman's and a market, 74 



Gardener's Royal Benevolent Anni- 

 versary, 28 



Gardeners benefited by travelling, 51 



Garlic— culture, 35 ; planting, 415 

 Gas— heating by, 50, 479, 517; in 

 greenhouse, 55 ; tar inside boxes, 

 380 

 Genethyllis fimbriaia, 215 

 Geraniums— bedding, 71, 85, 159, 193, 

 216, 221; propaeating, 71, 85, 166, 

 219; selecr, 116; Beaton's, 233; 

 Scarlet, planting-out and plunging, 

 115; qualifications of for bedding, 

 165, 2al : select variegated, 159 ; 

 Golden .Fleece, 159; autumn pro- 

 pagation, 166; planting-out, 167; 

 in nots and planted ont, 137 ; 

 Cloth of Gold failing, 198; cuttings, 

 219; autumn treatment, 279; Ma- 

 dame Vaucher, Cloth of Gold, and 

 Golden Chain. 253. 293 ; Zonale, 

 classed list of, 305, 330; wintering, 

 243, 316, 360, 416 

 German paste, 404 

 Gesnera flowers falling, 417 

 Gishurst coaipound v. American 



blight, 62 

 Gladiolus — manoeuvre with, 238 ; 

 exhibiting, 250 ; taking up bulbs, 

 220, 498; successful, 271; plant- 

 ing, 457; Eleanor Norman, 513 

 Glasgow Pigeon and Canary Show, 



443 

 Glazing, double, 517 

 Gloucestershire Bird Show, 402 

 Gloxinias — in vinery, 317 ; winter- 

 ing, 479 



Gnaphalinm lanatum, 399 

 Gold fish breeding, 164 

 Goldfinch — beak elongating, 164 ; 



lice on, 424 

 Gooseberries, S3 ; a few show, 61 ; se- 

 lect show, 63; and Currants, &c, 

 in kitchen garden, 76 ; en trellises, 

 296 ; green fly on, 517 ; shows, 

 150 

 Gooseberry caterpillar r. "White 

 Hellebore, Furze, Garlic, Tan, 

 and Broom, 46; destroying, 12; 

 sawfly propagation, 91 

 Goose — breeding, 59; distinguishing 

 from gander, 2S4, 344; young, 

 laying, 424 ; giddy, 444 

 Grape growers, American, 274 

 Grapes— Muscat. 29 ; varieties set- 

 tled, 188 ; not ripening, 261 ; Black 

 Prince, 45 ; spotted, 56, 380 ; shri- 

 velling, 76, 19S; growing large ' 

 hunches, 76; blotched, 77; mil- I 

 dewed, 116; at Carhead, 12S ; not ; 

 colonring, 137, 357; shanking, 279; 

 failure of Black Frontignan, 297 ; ! 

 Trentham Black, 410, 473, 514 ; I 

 Chasselas Vibert, 411 ; Trentham [ 

 Black and Chasselas Vibert, 426 ; j 

 admitting air to, 316: for late 

 vinery, 430; at Coombe Abbev, 

 455 

 Grasses— ornamental, 123; annual, 



and culture, 171 

 Grease spot3, &c, removing, 234 

 Green fly, de3troying,14 

 Greenhouse — to supply conserva- 

 tory, 77 ; building, 146; and stove, 

 a cheap, 148 ; for Vines, Peaches, 

 and plants, 1S7 ; heatine, 192, 316 ; 

 stove for, 77, 220 ; heating a small 

 261; heating from kitchen boiler, 

 298 ; removable, 209 ; facing north, 

 316; ventilation, 457; had smell 

 in, 479 ; plants management, 297 ; 

 evergreens for inside back walL 35 

 Grievance, a gardener's, 15S 

 Grubs, 295; at the greens, 176, 191 

 Guano water, 159 ; for evergreens, 



400 

 Guinea fowls in trees, 424 

 Gypsum, use of, 15 



Haglev Hall, 509 



Halifax Poultry Show, 200 



Hamburghs— Silver-pencilled cock*s 

 tail, 334, 424 ; fowls, are they pro- 

 fitable, 419; in south of England, 

 420; hackle of Silver-pencilled, 

 341 ; Spangled pullets' feathers, 

 484; early brood of, 504; profit- 

 able, 51S; characteristics of Black, 

 526. 



Hand! worth Horticultural Societv's 

 rules, 492, 510 



Hasringaen Poultry Show, 119 



Hautbois, derivation of name, 95, 

 109 



Heaths, culture, 15 ; shifting, 499 



Heating— by stove, 103 ; from a 

 kitchen boiler, 498 



Hedge trimmer, 216 



Hedgehogs sucking cows, 301 



Hens, eating their eggs. 142, 444, 

 484; eating each other's feathers, 

 464 



Herbarium, insects in, to destroy, 

 457 



Hibiscns Cooperi, 179 



Hives, Marriott's, 184 



Holly hedge unthrifty, 77 



Hollies— not thriving, 242; moving, 

 339 



Hollyhocks — new, 147, 148; win- 

 tering, 417 



Honey, keeping, 204 



Horticultural (Royal) Society's Chis- 

 wick Garden, 1 ; Kensington Gar- 

 den, 62; Show, 23, 210, 328,470; 

 Rose Show, 2 ; Show of New 

 Plants, 169; Chrysanthemum 

 Show, 391 ; Floral Committee, 3, 

 24, 67, 147, 232, 261, 271, 310. 391, 

 471 ; Fruit Committee, 25, 68, 148, 

 190, 251, 272,471 ; intended Straw- 

 berrv Fete, &c, 42; lecture on. 

 the Rose, 66; Sir J. Paston on its 

 Exhibitions, 126; "Proceedings," 

 127; and its flower shows, 145; 

 decay, 425 ; management, 450 ; 

 special general meeting, 488 



Horticultural prizes, and for what 

 they should be given, 169 



Horticultural shows; hints for pro- 

 vincial, 399 



Horticultural society, a national one 

 well-managed, 238 



Horseradish culture, 473 



Hot-water apparatus, water boiling 

 over, 70 



Hothouse near the sea, 149 



Hotbeds, remarks on, 155 ; a fanner's, 

 154 



Hottentot's Bread, 158 



Hoya culture, 15 ; earaosa culture, 

 339 



Hyacinths— rules for growing in 

 glasses, 172 ; for forcing, 208 ; in 

 pots, 227 ; in glasses and baskets, 

 22S ; culture, 235 ; in water, 299 ; 

 how grown for prizes, 411 



Hybridising, 242 



Hydrangea (variegated) cuttings, 

 379 



Ice, 516; houses and ice heaps, 

 hints foe Making, 47 



Illinois cultivators, 332 



" Hinstrated Bouquet." 450 



Indian gardening, 127 ; seeds sow- 

 ing, 441 



Insects, destroying, 199 



Iris Madamoiselle Patti, 112 ; forc- 

 ing, 24S; culture, 32S 



Iresine Herbstii, 414 



Islington Poultry Show, 341 ; Judges, 

 56, 77; prize list errors, 300 



Ismene calathinnna potting, 380 



Ivy — detached from a walL 179 ; 

 propagating, 221 ; not poisonous to 

 sheep, 266; on an Oak, 359; for 

 edgings, 473 



I very & Son's Nursery, 8 



Ixi as— forcing, 248; culture, 32S; 

 planting, 457 



Jacob-EA Lilt, 359 ; hardy, 198 



Japanese plants and culture, 372 



Jonquil forcing, 24S 



Jottings, 116,138 



Judging poultry, rules for, 79 



Kadgang,417 



Kalanchoe grandinora, 111 



Keighlev Poultry Show, 222 



Kent PoV.try Show, 523 



Kew Gardens, Sir J. W. Hooker's 



Report on, 107 

 Kidney Beans, forcing, 258 

 Kilskeery Gardening Society, 213 

 Kitchen garden, changing site of, 



70 

 Knotty point, 264 



Labous, lessening in flowee 



GABDENS, 115 



Lapageria rosea culture, 35 



Larimers, 333, 347 



Laurel cuttings, 220, 261 



Lawn — panelled, 45 ; mossy, 56 ; 

 weed on a, 76 ; sowing, 95 ; Seven 

 Years' History of, 101 ; mowing 

 in winter, 359 



Leather-coat Grub, 191 



Leaves, collecting, 456 



