Vll 



Leeds Horticultural Show, doubt at, 



4 ; Poultry Show, 502 

 Leg weakness in fowls, 266, 314; 



of cock ulcerated, 526 

 Leicestershire and Wallham Poultry 



Show, 118 

 Leigh Poultry Show, 243 

 Leopard's Bane culture, 512 

 Leschenaultia culture, 15 

 Lettuce culture, 218 

 Light, influence on insects, 173 

 Lily culture, 359 

 Lilies ot the Valley forcing, 416 ; 



not blooming, 457 

 Liliums — wintering, 399; lancifo- 



liura in a window, 260; culture, 



359, 393, 431 

 Limnanthes gTandiflora sowing, 457 

 Linnsa boreaiis culture, 449 

 Linseed oil-cake as a manure, 418 

 Linum flavum, autumn-transplant- 

 ing. 221; Macrae! and Chamis- 



sonis, 291 

 Liquid manure, evaporating. 56 

 Liverpool Botanic Gardens, 170, 252 

 Lobelia— pink-flowered, 198; Gor- 



donii, 518 

 Long Sutton Poultry Show, 318 

 Love Birds dying, 444 



MACLEANIA — SPECIOBI8SIMA, 51; 

 PULCHBA, 215 



Maidstone Gardeners* Mutual Im- 

 provement Association, 369 



Malay fowlc, 96 



Manchester Gooseberry Show, 150; 

 Poultry Show, 520 



Mangold" Wurtzel and Swedes grow- 

 ing alternately, 427 



Market gardening— to learn, 137 ; 

 commencing, ISu 



Marking fowls, 246 



Marlborough, a few days at, 233 



Masdevallia civilis, 413 



Manrandya Barclavana wintering, 

 299 



Meadow or clay soil, 220 



Mealy Bug, destroying, 417 



Medioilla magnifica, 179 



Medlar seedlings, 469 



Mcconopsis aculeata, 51 



Melon culture— soil, planting out, 

 airing, watering, fruit setting, 22 ; 

 shedding fruit, 86 ; watering, train- 

 ing, pruning, renewing growth, 

 42; succession, supply, fermenting 

 materials, economising heat, se- 

 cond crop, shading, 62-4 ; cracking, 

 95; culture, 22, 114, 274, 293, 412, 

 494; frames and pits for, 110, 132, 

 133; pits for, 194 ; water, 137; 

 hot-water pits for, 152 ; pit and 

 vinery, 158; not setting, 219; pit 

 drain, £20; seed, old p. new, 230; 

 shrivelling, 261; late, 511 



Miconia pulverulenta, 179 



Micranthella Candoilei, 51 



Middleton Poultry Show, 264, 232 



Mimulus — striking cuttings, 116; 

 cupreus flowers eaten, 16; cul- 

 ture, 220 : luteu3 var, cupreus, 

 414 



Miuley Manor, 433 



Mistletoe on the Oak, 73 



MonochEetum ensiferum leaves shri- 

 velling, 493 



Monmouth Poultry Show, 341 



Morley Poultry Show, 263 



Moss, toTemove, 158 



Mulching, 53 



Musa Cavendishii culture, 36 



Mushrooms, culture, 116, 218, 258, 

 277, 337, 440; beds out of doors, 

 137; beds, 197; bed in a frame, 

 298; forcing, 477 ; growing mon- 

 ster, 257 ; in London cellars, 359 



Myrsiphylluai asparagoides culture, 

 316 



Naecissus, FoncrNo, 247 ; culture 



286 

 Nastuninra propagation, 316 

 Nectarines, period of ripening in 



orchard - houses, 125; on west 



aspect 316; not ripening, 456 

 Nepenthes distillatoria re-ting, 3S0 

 New Zealand — gardeners emigrating 



to, 242, 371, 392; garden Teouire- 



ments for, 352 

 Newcastle-on-Tyne Poultry Show. 7S 

 Newmillerdam Poultry Show, 139 

 New York, city gardening in, 105 

 Nice, Society centrale ti' Agriculture, 



&c., 253 



North British. Columbarian Show, 



523 

 Northwich Gooseberry Show, 150 

 Nosegays, preserving, 88 

 Notice to quit service, 298 



Oak paling, staining, 498 

 Occupations, changing, 49. 68 

 Onions, maggotted, 76 ; storing, 136 ; 



culture, 277 

 Orange seedling, to blossom, 279 

 Orchard-house, My, 1, 43, 84, 125, 



188,207,249, 287. 448 

 Orchard-bouses, 153, 337,452; pro- 

 duce, 62, 86, 512; glass for, 77; 

 experience of, 170, 190 ; in Guern- 

 sey and Herts, 83 ; in the north, 

 105 ; Mr. Rivers's and Mr. Pear- 

 son's, 130 ; at Great Marlow, 256, 

 313; p. walls, 250; lean-to, 271; 

 erecting, 290; routine, 296 ; trees, 

 30S, 313; top-dressing and pot- 

 ting, 259; pruning, 293 

 Orchard ot three acres, planting, 



317 

 Orchids and Grapes in same house, 

 189 ; packing for importation, 

 195, 209, 233; packing Phalte- 

 nopsis, Sophronitis, and Burling- 

 tonia, 252 ; for plant case, 399 ; in. 

 flower in November, 430 

 "Orchidaceous Plans, Select," 289 

 Ormskirk and Southport Poultry 



Show, 160 

 Ornamental trees and shrubs, 445 

 Ornamental-foliaged plants. 479 

 Ornithogalum thyrsoides, 51,280 

 Ornithology, 122 

 Owston Poultry Show, 182 



Pansy — its names. 371 ; John McNab 

 Mrs.Dombrain, Mrs. R.Dean, and 

 Mrs. Scott, 215 



Parks and Pleasure Grounds, ex- 

 penses of Royal, 107 



Paris, notes from, 41, 350 



Parroquets, taming, 526 



Parson, experiences of a country, 

 167 



Partridges in a town, 504 



Passion-Flower, pruniner, 498 



Paul & Sons Nursery, Cheshunt, 209 



Paul's, W., Nursery, 272 



Peaches— under glass at Bradford, 

 45; period of ripening in orchard- 

 houses, 125 ; Mr. Radclyffe's, 163 ; 

 in orchard-house, 207; spetted, 

 220 ; for market, 221 ; in America, 

 255; Belle de Doue, 159; Ex- 

 quisite, Early Albert, 152 ; Mon- 

 strueuse de Doue*, 257 ; on west 

 aspect, 316; larce crop o", 348, 

 379, 388 ; New American at Ae- 

 gers, 429; Canary and Honey, 

 511 ; trees, management of, 145; 

 repotting, 192; cutting down old, 

 276; manuring, 427; scale, 17, 

 35 ; planting in a greenhouse, 

 457; in pots and maiden trees, 

 management of, 472 ; pruning, 

 480 ; house, construction, 279, 

 heating, 392, trees for, 56; rou- 

 tine, 296 



Pears— grub on tree, 76; Fondante 

 de Cuerne, 128; Easter Beurre, 

 220 ; Conseiller de la Cour, 312 ; 

 Vicar of Winkfield, 414; 'Beurre" de 

 Ranee, 418 ; tree hidebound cared, 

 261 ; removing dwarf, 261 ; on 

 quince stocks, 313; for espaliers, 

 316; pyramidal, 316; preventing 

 fall of, 331; culture, 369; dwarf, 

 377 ; six for wall, 380 ; large speci- 

 men, 348; choice 352; trees dis- 

 eased, 499 ; for Thorn stocks, 510 



Peas— and sticks for, 13 ; mildewed, 

 35 : for seed, 116 ; raising early, 

 467, 490 l 



Pelargoniums— stopping, 35; Anne 

 Page, Edgar Turner, 112; select 

 fancy, 159: United Italy, 215; 

 British Sailor and John Hoyle, 

 291 ; seedlings, wintering, 261 ; 

 new greenhouse described, 506 



Pentstemons Princess of Wales and 

 Attraction, 513 



Peru, culture of its soil, 91 



Petunias — dwarfing, 220 ; propaga- 

 ting double, 250 



Pheasant hen assuming male plu- 

 mage, 37 



Pheasants, Golden, 284 



Phlox Drnmmondi, dwarfing, 220 



Picea amabilis unthrifty, 230 



Pig destroying fowls, 244 



Pigeons— Antwerp, 59; management, 

 97; at Newcastle-on-Tyne Exhi- 

 bition, 97, 183; canker in; sett- 

 ling in a new home, 120 ; Tumblers 

 dying, 122; at Newcastle-upon- 

 Tvne and DarUnglon Shows, 13S, 

 162, 203; food for, 161 ; Tumblers 

 not flying, 265 ; Laced Fantails, 

 364; training high-flying Tumb- 

 ler, 444; Satinette, 463. 524; 

 Turbit affected with cold, 526 



Pine Apples — • many- crowned, 77; 

 removing suckers, 316; bottom- 

 heat for, 360 ; scale, 95 



Pinery routine, 296 



Pinuses, digging round, 137 



Pipes— hot-water, coating for 379; 

 in open ground, 455 



Pits— heating, 220, 457, 518; con- 

 structing, 299 



Planting aod transplanting, 505 



Platycerium stemmaria, 35 



Plum— leaves diseased, 16 ; trees 

 blighted, 76 ; Green G.ige unfruit- 

 ful, 76, removinc, 159 ; dwarf, 

 339 ; six choice, 379 



Plumage, black turned white, 361 



Pocklington Poultry Show, 203 



Poinsettia pulcherrima, culture, 159 ; 

 dying, 479 ; propagating, 517 



Porch, evergreen for, 158 



Potatoes— Royal Ashleaf, 111 ; crop- 

 ping ground after, 137; storing, 

 159 ; supplying London with, 238 ; 

 produce, 352, 452, 472; pits, 258; 

 Hand's Freedom, 359; crop3 in 

 Ireland, 371; varieties for various 

 modes of culture, 465 



Poultry — season, the present, 20; 

 judging. 36, 56 ; keeping success- 

 fully. 57, 118 ; at Linton Park, 57 ; 

 pride in, 59; shows deficient in 

 the south, 221; in a small enclo- 

 sure, 243; judging, 244; show, 

 metropolitan, 262 ; sweepstakes, 

 trial about, 264; judges, 283, 381, 

 418, 457 ; shows north and south, 

 300, 419 ; Shows in the south, 339, 

 3S0, 461,403; feeding, 344; keep- 

 ing from a commercial point of 

 view, 501, 518; weights of. 503; 

 shows, why simultaneous? 520 



Poultry Club, 13S; Show, Judges 

 at, IS, 36, 56, 77; Meeting, 317, 

 461 



Primula— far in osa culture, 331 ; ni- 

 valis and cortusoides culture, 449 



Protecting materials, 516, 517 



Pudsey Poultry Show, 203 



Pvracantha pruning, 499 



Pyramid beds, 472 



Pyretbrams, Annie Holborn, Ful- 

 gens plenissima, and Nemesis, 215 



Quick hedge thin at bottom, 339 



Rabbits— hutches for, 120 ; losing, 

 hair ; ears falling to one side, 12) ; 

 indications of their age, 122 ; re- 

 collections of an old fancier, 203 ; 

 Patagouian, &c, 204 



Railway charges for poultry, 418, 

 444 



Ranunculus culture, 327 



Raspberries, in dry soil, 137; un- 

 fruitful, 480 



Red spider, destroying, 9, 261, 493 



Reed Hall, 310 ; Roses at, 311 



Renanthera Lowii, 413 



Reptile, monster, 122 



Retinospora obtusa culture, 512 



Rhododendrons— watering, 77 ; Prin- 

 cess Alice, 112 ; Princess Helena, 

 414 ; seedlings, 220 ; mulching, 

 229 ; leaves, holes in, 380 ; stocks, 

 457 ; soil for, 457 



Rhubarb— forcing, 477 ; to preserve, 

 142 



Ribbon-border — at Putter ids ebury, 

 94 ; planting, 220 



Ridging light soil, 440 



Ripon Poultry Show, 57 



Rochdale Poultry Show, 181 



Rockville, 102 



Rockery, flowering plants for, 242 



Rooks, 97, 121 



Root-pruning out of doors, 259 



Rosery, 33S 



Roses — on their own roots, 16 ; mil- 

 dewed, 16 ; lore (1364), 44 ; leaves, 

 drying, 35 ; Kev. \V. 1*'. Radclyffe's 

 lecture on, 66; at Christmas, 76; 

 leaves blotched, 76; pruning, 95; 



Roses— Continued. 



Lord Macaulay, 112 ; King's Acre, 

 179,291; Alba rosea, 215; Charles 

 Lefebvre, 493; select, compost for, 

 116; culture in pots, 137; propa- 

 gating Manetti i-tocks, 137 ; ele- 

 gant mulching for, 195; budding 

 Munelti, 193 ; Moss over-luxuriant, 

 220 ; Manetti stocks, 221 ; this 

 year, 232 ; standard, 242 ; to bloom 

 at Christmas, 260 ; White Per- 

 petual described, 290; bed=, pre- 

 paring, 298; cuttings, potting, 

 316; white, 325; pruning climb- 

 ing, 339 ; treatment of budded, 

 339; new, S7, 346, 349, 408, 426; 

 Committee on proposed, 343 ; past, 

 present, and future. 33S; pillar in 

 conservatory, 410; in the north of 

 Scotland, 436 ; seed sowing, 441 ; 

 budding on the Ulack'.errv, 456, 

 *70; suitable to the North, 468; 

 grafting on Manetti, 499 



Ruellia culture. 15 



Sal'x shoot fasciculated, 243 



Salvia argentea, 46 



Sand (pit) for potting, 359 



Saporiiiriii, dwarfing, 2i0 



Sarraeenia Drumraondi, 112 



Savernake House, 234 



Saxifraga Fortuni, 513 



Scale, destruction of, 490 



Scarborough Poultry Show, 132 



Scarlet Runner culture, 314 



Scilla culture, 2S5 



Sea-kale at Christmas, 279 j forc- 

 ing, 477, 493 



Season, lessons taught by this dry, 

 192 



Seat, Whittlesey's locomotive, 90 



Seaweed for Asparagus-beds, 427 



Seeds, sowing various, 359 



Selaginella denticulata, cause of 

 failure, 46 



Selby, &c, Poultry Show, 37 



Sewage, house, its value and mode 

 of application, 508 



Shallots — maggotted, 76 ; planting, 

 415 



Shot in fowls' crops, 304 



Shrubs— for a division hedge, 221 ; 

 flowering, for winter garden, 315 



Silene ncaulis culture, 450 



Skeletonising leave;, 8, 29 



Skylark foort, 404 



Smith's Nurseries, "Worcester, 3G9 



Smith's Nursery, Dulwich, 389 



Smoke, its effects on vegetation, 

 106 



Smoky localities, plants for, 11 



Snaith PoultTy Show, 58, 100 



Snowdon, wild plants found on, 152 



Snowdrop— forcing, 248 ; at Cnrist- 

 mas, 260 ; culture, 269 



Societies, small local scientific, 72 



Soldanella alpina culture, 449 



Somerford Park, 453 



Southampton Bird Show, 463, 4S3 



Spanish— chickens' combs, 100 ; pul- 

 lets moulting, 404 



Spar axis— culture, 328; failing, 359 ; . 

 forcing, 248; planting, 457 



Sparkenhoe Poultry Show, 222 



Spinach, New Zealand, 370 



Spring-blooming hardy plants, 242 



Squirrel in confinement, 344, 404 



Stand for a window, 137 



Stenocarpus Cunninghami, 339 



Stocks, Intermediate, sowing, 220 



Stoke Newington Chrysanthemum 

 Show, 391 - 



Stove and greenhousp, a cheap, 14S 



Stoves, heating by, 103 



Strawberries — Koyal Hautbois, 11, 

 71; Bijou, and Souvenir, 11; 

 Royal Hautbois, Luc-is, Boisselot, 

 Bijou, Lord Clyde, 31; La Con- 

 stante, 62 ; new, John Powefi, 31, 

 104; Ingram's Rifleman, The Pre- 

 sident. 104; Princess of Wales, Sir 

 Joseph Paxton, 105; clay for beds, 

 16; mildew, 16; rooting runners, 

 54; on chalky soil, 55; estimate 

 of sorts, 84; beds, making, 95; 

 planting, 221 ; this year, 231; 

 plants, reforciog, 249; culture, 

 296, 497 ; trade of Aberdeen, 329 ; 

 Alpine culture, 159, 389 ; potting 

 for forcing, 399 



Struthiopteris germaniea, 2SO 



Succulent plants, culture of, 135 



Sulphur— paint for fruit trees, 440j 

 v. red spider, 472 



Sultan fowls, 181 



