INDEX. 



ity to Bees, 69 ; Kensall Green Cemetery, 153 ; 

 Ladies' " Pet Fancies," Dogs, 165 ; Ladies' Hair, 

 36 ; Love, general and particular, 331 ; " Man 

 Overboard !" 173, 204 ; Memory, 296 ; Men and 

 Brutes, 226 ; Mischief of Fun, 382 ; My First 

 Salmon, 124 ; Nature's Goodness, 323 ; Night, A 

 Fragment, 116 ; Notes by a Naturalist, 162, 180, 

 242, 290, 353, 385; Our Climate, 6; Our 

 Codes of Health and Religion, 209, 344, 394 ; 

 Pen, The, Danger resulting from its Use, 271 ; 

 Poetry,— What is it ? 68 ; Philosophy of Sleep, 

 250 ; Pictures of Society, by Forestiera, 337, 

 369 ; Power of Love, 330 ; Progress of the Sea- 

 sons, 8, 24, 40, 56, 62, 72, 88, 104, 120, 137, 

 152, 168, 184, 216, 233, 249, 264, 280, 296, 

 328, 360, 392, 408 ; Rambles to— Sharpham 

 Wood, 33 ; Wanstead and Hainault Forest, 139 ; 

 Montgomery, North Wales, 144, 244 ; Banks of 

 the Lea, 130 ; Shaking Hands, 204, 413 ; Sound, 

 the Nature of, 242, 404 ; Spider, The, 275 ; 

 Spring-Day in Winter, 373 ; Street Music, 91 ; 

 Sun, The, 357 ; Tame Hares, 135 ; Town or 

 Country? 286 ; Value of Reason, 257 ; Water- 

 ing-place Delights and Follies, 169, 200 ; 

 White Coral Islands, 84 ; Winter in the Olden 

 Time, 415 ; Woman, a "Fairy," 201 ; Women, 

 their Value, 342 ; Women, Powerful Influence 

 of, 143 ; Wonders of the Insect World, 228 ; 

 World, The, and its Inhabitants, 270 ; World 

 we Live in, 183. 



Evil Company, 80 



Fairy Rings, 10, 58 



Fertility of Animals, 123 



Fish, Artificial Fecundation of the Roe of, 139 



Fishes, Migration of, 197 



Five Fingers, The, 183, 



Flies, Destroyed by Flowers, 285 



Flint in Vegetables, 59 



Flowers, 59, 141 



To Strike Cuttings of, 364 



Flower Bulbs, 187, 284 



Fly-papers, The, 21, 42 



Flying-Fish, 364 



Forget me Not, Origin of the, 123 



Fox, Sagacity of a, 378 



Friends, (How Rare!), 99 



Friendship, A Trial of, 8 



Fright, Effects produced by, 95 



Frog, The, a Weather Glass, 140 



Frogs, 189, 203, 267, 283, 315 



Gall, Dr.. His Celebrated Work, 328 



Game of the " Christmas-Tree," 415 



Gardens, Hints on Watering, 284 



Gardening in Australia, 254 



Garden-Warbler, The, 211 



Goat, The Marching Military, 173 



Goats, 26, 108, 122, 143, 173 



Goldfinch-Mules, 27 



Gold-Fish, Odd Feat of a, 158 



Goldsmith, Anecdotes of, 215, 238, 311 



Good-Nature sometimes ridiculous, 96 



Good-Will to Man, 215 



Gossamer, The, 218, 228 



Grapes, How to Ripen Early, 189 



"Grave of Annie!" 154 



Green-eyed Monster, The, 379 



Grouse, A curious Hybrid, 218 



Guttapercha Tree, 236 



Hares, Tame, 135 



Harmony of Colors in a Garden, 237 



Harvest of 1852, Joys of the, 137 



Harvest Moon, The, 317 

 Hats, Modern, 45, 88 

 Haymaking. Joys of, 9, 25 

 Health of Mind, 288, 309 



Dependent on Light and Sun, 43 



and Ventilation, 252 



Hedgehog, The, 92, 97, 156, 364 

 Heron, The, 301 

 Hollyhock, The, 204, 348 

 Honors paid to the Rose, 265 

 Honey-Bees, 268, 284 



and Chloroform, 349 



" Hope on — Hope ever !" 56 

 Horse-Dragon Fly, 181 

 Horse, Revenge in a, 299 

 Human Head, The, and Figure, 352 



Pulse, The, 94 



Hyacinth, Management of the, 309 



with Diseased Roots, 348, 381 



Ichneumon, The, 83, 311 

 India-Rubber Tree of Brazil, 79 

 Indoor Plants, 346 

 Insects, To destroy, 266 

 Insects and Spiders, 266 



Remarkable Descent of, 218, 253 



their wonderful Strength, 327 



Intemperance, Horrors of, 32, 60 

 Iron, Utility of, 365 

 Jackdaw, A Remarkable, 410 

 John Bull, " proved to be mad," 329, 361, 362 

 Kangaroo Hunt in Australia, 75 

 Kindness to Animals, 170, 177 

 Lack-a-daisical Women, 136 

 Ladies, their Dress, and remarkable Taste, 88 

 141 



and Dogs, 165 



Monkeys, 285 



Ladies' Hair, 36 



" Shrouds," invented by Satan, 44, 107, 



201,253 



Life in Death— A Man Overboard, 174, 204 

 Light, Irradiation of, 365, 

 Lightning, Velocity of, 143 

 Lily, The, 318 

 Lion Ant, The, 329 



London and its Public Conveyances, 268, 282 

 London in November, 297 

 Long Faces, — Out of Date, 121 

 Love and Friendship, very different Things, 110 

 Lungs, Development of the, 412 

 Mackerel, The 7 119 

 Magnet, The, 142 

 Magpie, The, 61 

 Man, a Semi-Savage, 227, 285 

 Matrimonial Jars, 122 

 Mechanism of the Eyes of Birds, 295 

 Mice, Singularly marked, 110 

 " Might against Right," 205, 

 Migration of Birds, 261 

 Mind's Expanse, The, 192 

 Influence on the Body, 



349 



111 



MISCELLANOUS PARAGRAPHS. 



Ages Passed Away, 350 ; Authorship, 355 ; Be 

 Merry and Wise, 414 ; Beauty, 186, 335 ; 

 Beneficence of Nature, 220 ; Benevolence, 

 '416 ; Blue Glass for Hot-houses, 333 ; Case 

 of Conscience, 345 ; Californian Onions, 333 ; 

 Charity, 318 ; Child, The, we live for, 240 ; 

 Clove, The, 411 ; Cold in the Arctic Regions, 

 237; Confined Air, 397; Contentment, 240, 325 ; 



