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INDEX. 
Dendrobium alpestre, 187 
— amplum, 121 ; peculiar character 
and management of, 122 
Dendrobium aureum ; var. pallidum, 20 
— calceolare, 117 
— coerulescens, 46 
— cupreum, 117 
— denudans, 238 
Devonianum, 169 ; best cultivated 
in baskets, 170 
Dendrobium fimbriatum, remarkably prolific 
specimen of, 69 
Dendrobium macropbyllum, 68, 93 
■ — moschatum, 117 
■ — ■ nobile, 7 ; difference in the culture 
of young and old plants of, 8 
Dendrobium revolutum, 213 
— diversity of habitude in the species 
of, 121 
Deutzia corymbosa, 1 8 
Dillwynia clavata, 117 
— speciosa, 27 ; care necessary in the 
tendance of, 28 
Diploltena Dampierii, 142 
Diplopeltis Hugelii, 1^5 
Diuris filifolia, 43 
Draining flower or shrubbery borders, great 
utility of, 263 
Drought, essential to succulents at particular 
periods, 180, 208, 228 ; its importance to all 
plants in the winter, 47, 216, 240, 264 
Dwarfness, a constituent of beauty in plants, 99 
E. 
EcHEVERiA secunda, 235 
Echeverias, common features in the treatment 
of, 256 
Echinocactus, general principles in the culture 
of the genus and its congeners, 206 
Echites suberecta, 101 ; poisonous nature and 
appropriate management of, 102 
Electrical fluid, probably beneficial to plants, 
IfiO ; perhaps attracted by spinous processes, 
180 
Embryo, description of the, 259 
Endogenous plants, distinctive features of, 37 
Epidendrum armeniacum, 238 
— Eoothianum, 238 
— cepiforme, 18 
— cinnabarinum, 118 
— floribundum, 261 
— glumaceum, 18 
— papillosum, 143 
— Parkinsonianum, 41 
— Skinneri, 30 
— vitellinum, 139 
Epiphylla, comprehensive system of cultivating, 
225 
Epiphyllum oxypetalum, 186 
Epiphyllum speciosum, suggestion for suspend- 
ing it in the Orchidaceous-house during 
summer, 226 ; beneficial effects of exposure 
on, 228 
Eriadensiflora, 188 
Erica Banksiana, 243 
Erica Macnabiana, 125 
— revival in the culture of the genus, 125, 
243 ; most suitable position for the species 
of, 244 
Escalonnia montevidensis, quite hardy, 137 
Euphorbia, temperature most congenial to the 
exotic species of, 251 
Evaporation, heat disengaged in, 82 ; partly 
occasioned by winds, 82 ; partly by more 
immediate solar agency, 83 
Evergreen flowering shrubs, great beauty and 
value of, 55 
Exemplification, special importance of judicious, 
36 
Exogenous plants, their principal peculiarities, 
37 
Experience, utility of, 225 
F. 
Facts, great advantage of amassing, 135 
Fasciculated roots, described, 112 
Fernandezia lunifera, 213 
Fire-heat, hints on the employment of, 24, 72, 
Floricultural Notices, 17, 40, 66, 88, 114, 139^ 
163, 184, 210, 234, 260, 2 
Flower-beds, best mode of filling, 95, 119 ; 
plants intended for them should be prepared 
in pots, 119 
Flowering plants, means for inducing a more 
continuous development of their blossoms, 
96 ; the maturation of seeds debilitative to 
most of them, 96 
Flowers, great differences in the mode of their 
production, 119; shade useful in preserving 
them expanded, 119 ; two kinds of beauty in 
them, 145 
Fluids, heat always resident in, 82 
Foramen, position and character of the, 258 
Forcing plants, chief peculiarities in the practice 
of, 240, 264 
Frames, best adapted for growing Cactacese in 
through the summer, 207 ; also for Pelargo- 
niums at all seasons, 33, 87 ; excellent 
method of covering them, 88 ; plan for 
elevating them, and preserving them dry, 88 
Fruit, constituent parts of, 258 
Fuchsia corymbiflora, 262 
— decumbens, 188 
— fulgens, propriety of assigning it to a 
new genus, 1 82 
Fuchsia microphylla, its affinity with F. ful- 
gens in the form of the corolla, 183 
Fuchsia Standishii, its combination of the cha- 
racters of both its parents, 183 
Fuchsia, characteristics of the original species 
of, 183 
Fuchsias, instructions for hybridizing, 184 
G. 
Galeandra Baueri, 211 
— new species of, 166 
Gardenia Rothmannia, 21 
Gardoquia betonicoides, partial hardihood of, 
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