INDEX. 



Aa FAGB 



Advantages of keeping bees 141 



Andalusian fowls 105 



Annuals, hardy, list of forty-six varie- 

 ties 86 



Annuals, hardy, to cultivate V2 



Apoplexy in fowls 131 



Apples, autumn, list of twelve varie- 

 ties 46 



Apples for the South, select list of. . . 51 



Apples, hardy, for the West 67 



Apples, summer, fourteen varieties. . 44 

 Apples, winter, fourteen varieties. ... 60 



Apricots; four varieties of 64 



Apricots, insects infesting 65 



Artichoke, how to cultivate 16 



Asparagus, how to cultivate 16 



Asthma in fowls 133 



Autumn apples 46 



Autumn pears, six varieties of 53 



B. 



Bantam fowls 110 



Bantam, the Seabright Ill 



Beans, how to cultivate 18 



.Bee-dress, description of 147 



Bee-feeder, Phelps's description of. . 166 

 Bee flowers, list of, to be cultivated. . 153 



Bees, advantages of keeping 141 



" birds and hornets, enemies of. . 152 



" enemies of 151 



*' enemies of their own kind.... 152 



*' housing; them in winter 150 



" fall-feeding of 149 



" feeding In the spring 142 



" fowls enemies of 151 



*' the fumigation of. 154 



" lice peculiar to, how destroyed, 152 



" management of 141 



" method of transporting by water 153 



" mice enemies of. ;u^% 151 



" snails and caterpillarl^nemies of 151 

 " spiders and ants enemies of. . . . 152 



" spring management of 141 



" toads and frogs enemies of . . . . 151 



Bee story , . 161 



Bees, summer management of 144 



" transportation of 141 



" various methods of driving .... 156 



" swarming of, in summer 144 



" wonderful instincts of 140 



Bee, the drone, description of 139 



" the queen, de3criptio#of 139 



" the working, description of . . . 140 



Beet, how to cultivate ^ 18 



Biennials, hardy, list of ten varieties, 88 

 Birds and hornets enemies of bees. . 152 

 Blackberry, how to cultivate the. ... 27 



Black combs, management of 148 



Black Hamburg fowls 108 



Borecole, or kale, bow to cultivate ... 19 

 Bulbous-rooted plants 91 



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Cabbage, how to cultivate 20 



Canada goose, account of 124 



Caponizing 130 



Cauliflower, how to cultivate 19 



Cherry, diseases of the 64 



Cherry, ten varieties of the 63 



Chimney plants in winter 93 



Climbers and ireepers, ten kinds of.. 93 



Cochin China fowls 104 



Combs, black, management of. 148 



Cress, how to cultivate 21 



Cucumber, how to cultivate 21 



Currant, how propagated 28 



D. 

 Dahlia, account of the origin of the. . 9S 



Diseases of fowls 131 



" of the cherry 64 



" " peach 58 



" " plum 62 



Domestic duck, varieties of the 121 



Domestic goose 121 



Dorking fowls 108 



Driving bees, Sevan's method of . . . . 156 

 Drones among bees, description of. . 139 

 Dwarf pear, varieties of 56 



E. 



Eggs and poultry, how to ship 134 



Egg-plant, how to cultivate 22 



Endive, how to cultivate 22 



Enemies of bees 151 



English dwarf-beans, how to cultivate 18 

 F. 



Fall apples 46 



Fall sowing 12 



Feeding bees in the spring 142 



Feeding poultry 127 



Flowers and shrubs, classes of 71 



Flowering plants and shrubs, list of, 72 



Fowl, Andalusian 105 



" Bantam 110 



" black Hamburg 108 



" Cochin China, or Shanghai. . . . 104 



" domestic, eleven varieties 103 



" Dorking 108 



" game 109 



" game Bantam Ill 



" Hamburg 107 



" Malay 103 



" Minorca 105 



if "^i penciled Hamburg 107 



^ '*toIish :..... 106 



Fowls, care of, during moulting 134 



; " . diseases of 131 



*\i"& enemies of bees 151 



'-*'^ spangled Hamburg 107 



FbSTllSussex 109 



•«V the Guinea 117 



^^Kithe pea 119 



^jtiihe Seabright Bantam Ill 



"♦^^hite Spanish 105 



