GENERAL INDEX. 
A. 
Acacia biflora, 221 ; culture of, 222 
— diptera, var. erioptera, 92 
— platyptera, 70 
— pulchella, var. magna, 46 
— urophylla, 94 
Acbimenes longiflora, 92, 151, 166 ; manage- 
ment of, 152 
— pedunculata, 142 
— rosea, 20, 166^ 
Aerides Brookii, 145, 238 ; its treatment, 146 
— crispum, 238 
— quinquevulnerum, 214 
^schynanthus, on suspending the species of, in 
stoves, 135 
Agapanthus umbellatus, culture of, 65 
Air-plant, Sir W. i^rooks's, 145 
Alstrojmeria nemorosa, 189 
— psittacina var. Eremboultii, 115 
Amaryllis Banksiana, 45 
— japonica, 166 
— hints on the treatment of the genus, 
45 
Anemone rivularis, 45 
Annuals, plan of keeping a succession of, 24, 48 
Antirrhinum majus flore pleno, 166 
Aquilegia Skinneri, 20 
Arboretums, objections to, 180 
Arctostaphylos pungens, 45 
Aristolochia hyperborea, 214 
— gigas, 261 
Arrangement of plants in conservatories, on the, 
13 
Arundina densa, 164 
Aspasia epidendroides, 47, 189 
— new species of, 214 
Avenues of trees, where suitable, 160 
Azalea altaclarensis, 115 
Azote, its nature, 178 
B. 
Babingtonia camphorosmse, 45 
Baskets for Orchidacese, numerous designs for, 
89 ; made of turf, 90 ; of cocoa-nut husks, 
90 ; of shells, 91 
Begonia crassicaulis, 95, 190 
— hydrocotylifolia, 212 
— manicata, 47 
— vitifolia, 95 
Bignonia picta, 190 
— treatment of the species of, 252 
Billbergias, and their allies, best flowered by 
being suspended in balls of moss, 135 
Blandfordia nobilis, 166 
Boronia anemonsefolia, 123 ; its culture, 124 
Brachysema hybrida, 7 i 
Brassia verrucosa, 2 1 5 
Bravoa geminiflora, 215 
Brownea coccinea, 213 
Brugmansia floribunda, 3 ; cultivation of, 4 
Brugmansia parviflora, 3 
Budding, theory of, 153 ; its process described, 
155 
Bulbs, time for potting, 240 ; general hints on 
potting, 13 
C. 
Cact^, suggestions for training, 187 ; plan for 
growing them on a wall, 188 
Calanthe Masuca, 215 
Calceolaria Standishii, 75 ; treatment of, 76 
Cambium, nature of, 153 
Camellias, observations on watering, 24, 96 ; 
hints on blooming them, 48 
Campanula grandis, 117 
Carnations, hints for layering, 106 
Catasetum abruptum, 70 
■ — globiflorum, 115 
— Wailesii, 92 
Cattleya Aclandise, 1 ; treatment of, 2 
— Candida, 262 
— granulosa, 20 
— ■ superba, 263, 265 ; its culture, 266 
Cereus coerulescens, 45 
— flagelliformis, mode of training it down a 
wall, and grafting other species upon it, 188 
— speciosissimus, var. 213 
Chimonanthus fragrans, its propagation by cut- 
tings, 105 
Chorozema cordatum, culture of, 161 ; different 
plans of treating, 164 
