GENERAL INDEX. 
279 
Hardening tender plants in autumn, import- 
ance of, 216, 240 
Heat, philosophy and uses of bottom, 156 
Heaths, leaf-mould beneficial to, 138 ; advan- 
tages of cutting down old specimens, 258 
Heating houses, merits of different modes of, 
33 
Honeysuckles, on training them, and forming 
them into standards, 209 ; various modes of 
treating them, 210 
Hovea, new species of, 70 
— Celsii, hints for managing, 115 
— pungens ; var. major, 51 ; treatment of, 
52 
— racemulosa, 21 
— splendens, 70, 103 ; how to grow it, 104 
Hunt's patent garden-pots described, 89 
Huntleya meleagris, 189 
Hyacinths, hints for growing them in the open 
air, 240 
Hydrangea japonica, 119 
Hydrangeas, on disbudding, 61 
Hydrangea hortensis, probable cause of the 
change of colour in the flowers of, 177, 225 
Hypocyrta strigillosa, 238 
Hypocalymma robustum, 68 
I. 
Indian cress, many-leaved, 175 
Indigofera stachyoides, 69 
Ipomsea cymosa, 117 
— Leari, excellent mode of propagating, 
185 
Iris persica, 77 ; how to grow, 78 
Isopogon scabra, 213 
Ivy, remarks on growing it in detached speci- 
mens upon lawns, and on its various uses, 16 
L. 
Labichea bipunctata, 150; how to grow, 151 
Lselia acuminata, 49 ; mode of cultivating, 60 
Lantana crocea, 53 ; its culture, 54 
Lathyrus nervosus, 21 
— pubescens, 69 
Leaves, their value to plants, 154 ; as a source of 
bottom-heat, 161 
— influence of light on some, 11 
Leaf-mould for exotics, importance of, 133 ; 
its preparation, 138 
Leianthus nigrescens, 238 
Lemonia spectabilis, 189 
Light, its general influence on vegetation, 9 
Lilium speciosum, 215 
— testaceum, 69, 221 ; its management, 
222 
Liparia parva; var. angustifolia, 187 
Lisianthus Russellianus, 189 ; hints on disbud- 
ding, 64 
Loam, constituents and varieties of, 58 
Lobelia Erinus ; var. grandiflora, 75 ; way in 
which it can be grown, 76 
— longiflora, 190 
Lomatia ilicifolia ; var. pinnatifida, 143 
Luxemburgia ciliosa, 190, 261 
Lycaste plana, 165 
Lychnis mutabilis, 190 
M. 
Malva Creeana alba, 190 
Mammillaria turbinata, 21 
Manettia bicolor, mode of managing, 23 
Manures, philosophy of, 105, 129 
Marcetia excoriata, 165 
Martynia fragrans, 269 
Maxillaria Harrisoni alba, 190 
— Steelii, 70 
— ^Eanthina, 190 
Medinilla erythrophylla, 79 ; best system of 
cultivating, 80 
Miltonia spectabilis, 190 
Moisture, the cause of a demand for fire- heat 
in winter, 231 
Mormodes aromaticum, 261 
— luxatum, 165 
— roseo-alba, 71 
N. 
Narcissi, hybrid, 187 
Nematanthus longipes, 166 
Nemophila discoidalis, 262 
Nitrogen, modes of fixing it in manures, 129 
O. 
Odontoglossum citrosmum, 22 
Oncidium bicallosum, 69, 71 
— microchilum, 118 
— uniflorum, 187 
Operations for January, 274 
— February, 23 
— March, 47 
— April, 71 
— May, 95 
— June, 119 
— July, 143 
— August, 167 
— - September, 191 
— October, 216 
— November, 239 
— December, 263 
Orchidacese, uses of leaf- mould for some kinds 
of, 135 ; bottom-heat good for, 160 
Othonna tuberosa, 213 
Oxvlobium capitatum, 69 
" __ obovatum, 166, 243 ; its culture, 
244 
P. 
Passiflora Actinia, 93 
Paulo wnia imperialis, 8 ; how to treat, 9 
Pelargonium, Shepherd's Queen Victoria, 190 
Peristeria Humboldti, 93 
Petalidium barlerioides, 261 
Phaseolus caracalla, 267 ; its cultivation, 268 
Phlox Van Houtte's, 22 
Pimeleas, hints about disbudding, 63 
