280 
GENERAL INDEX. 
Plant-houses, general management of, 24,48, 72, 
96, 120, 144, 168, 192, 216, 240, 264 
— on economizing room in, 252 
Planting out half-hardy plants, directions for, 
96 
Pleroma Benthamiana, 93 
Poinciana Gilliesii, 94 
Portulaca splendens, 166, 263 
Potentilla, new varieties of, 262 
Pots for plants, improved forms of, 42, 89 ; 
Brown's patent, 42 ; Hunt's patent, 90 
Potting plants, remarks on a novel method of, 
12, 36, 84, 108 
— hints about, 48 
Premature development in plants, modes of 
remedying, 23 
Propagating plants, observations on, 96 
Pruning evergreens, advantage of doing it par- 
tially in the summer, 167 
Pruning, substitution of disbudding for, advo- 
cated, 65 
R. 
Raking ground ought not to be done in hot 
weather, 71 
Renanthera matutina, 23, 188 
Repton's works on Landscape Gardening re- 
viewed, 45 
Reviews of Loudon's edition of Repton's Land- 
scape Gardening, 45 ; and the Suburban 
Horticulturist, 46 
Rhexia virginica should be grown in heath- 
mould, 263 
Rhipsalis brachiata, 213 
Rhododendron fragrans, 147 ; treatment of, 148 
— RoUissonii, 118 
Rhododendrons, suggestions for growing them 
in leaf-mould, 137 
Ribes albidum, 55, 95 ; its culture, 56 
Rosa Brunonii, 188 
— Hardii, 195 ; way to grow, 196. 
Rose, M. Hardy's, 195 
Roy lea elegans, 71 
S. 
Sagittaria sagittaefolia plena, 263 
Sap of plants, remarks about the, 81 
Sarauja spectabilis, 22 
Saucers for flower-pots, Hunt's patent, 90 
Schizanthus Candidas, 214 
Science of Gardening, 9, 33, 57, 79, 105, 129, 
153, 177, 201, 225, 249 
Scilla Peruviana ; var. discolor, 214 
Scutellaria japonica, 123 ; its treatment, 124 
— splendens, 99 
Scyphanthus elegans, 3, 190 ; culture of, 4 
Seed-pods, necessity of removing them from 
Rhododendrons, &c., 167 
Seeds, rules for sowing, 192 
Senecio calamifolius, 94 
Shelves in plant-houses, economy in the use of^ 
254 
Silene speciosa, 219 ; management of, 220 
Sipanea carnea, 263 
Siphocampylus betulsefolius, 71 
— longipedunculatus, 118 
Snail plant, 267 
Snapdragon, larger four-coloured, 1 97 
Sobralia macrantha, 263 
Soils, description of various sorts of, 57 
Speedwell, showy, 247 
Stages in plant-houses, how to make them so as 
to save room, 253 
Standard specimens of Ivy, hints on preparing, 
— Honeysuckles, how to form, 209 
Stanhopea Martiana ; var. bicolor, 191, 214 
— tigrina, 191 
Statice macrophylla, 263 
Stenomesson vitellinum, 22 
Stephanotis floribundus, best way of multiply- 
ing, 186 
Stigmaphyllum heterophyllum, 118 
Stove plants, advantages of bottom-heat for, 
160 
T. 
Talinum teretifolium, 22 
Temperature, general remarks upon, 32; that 
of plant-houses should be lower at night, 34 
Tetranema mexicanum, 239 
Thinning annuals, rules for, 120 
Trailing plants and their culture, 233 
Triptilion spinosum, 269 ; how to manage, 270 
Trollius acaulis, 166 
Tropseolum polyphyllum, 175 ; cultivation of, 
176 
Trumpet-flower, painted, 125 
Turf-edgings for gravel walks should not be too 
low, 71 
Turf, its uses in potting plants, 60 
V. 
Vegetable physiology, proper range of, 249 
Veronica speciosa, 247 ; its treatment, 248 
Viscaria oculata, 239 
Vriesia psittacina, 69 
W. 
Watering plants in Winter, rules for, 264 
Weather, importance of adapting the treatment 
of plants in houses to the, 264 
Z. 
Zichya coccinea, its treatment according to the 
new system of potting, 86 
LONDON : 
BRADBURY AND EVANS, PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS. 
