GENERAL INDEX, 
119, 143, 192, 239 ; in winter, 
rules for, x. 264 
Wavertree, mode of heating by 
hot- water at, ii. 62 — 64 
Wavy-leaved Tree Rose Bay, iii. 
212 
Wax, analysis of, xi. 155 
Waxen Dove-flower, iv. 117 
Wax Palm, ii. 23 
Weak-leaved Adam's Needle, iii. 
263 
Weather, usefulness of marking its 
peculiai'ities, vii. 81 ; work to be 
done during winter, viii. 263 ; 
interesting particulars respect- 
ing that of 1844-6, xiv. 9; im- 
portance of adapting the treat- 
ment of plants in houses to the, 
x. 264 
Weeding by hand, suggestions on 
the propriety of, xi. 258 
Weeping Willow, places in which it 
should be planted, viii. 162 
Weigela rosea, xiv. 67, 118, 247, 
xv. 211; Mr. Fortune's account 
of, xiv. 247 
West-coast Banksia, iv. 20 
West Indian gooseberry, iv. 64 
Wheeler's Monkey- flower, iii. 214 
White Lily, narrow-sepaled, iv. 
42 
White Japan Camellia, iii. 71 
Whitfieldia lateritia, xii. 94, 147 ; 
the way to manage properly, xii. 
.148 ; brick-coloured, xii. 147 
Whortleberry tribe, ii. 209 
Wigandia caraccasana, iv. 1 36 
Wilhelm's-hoehe, fountain at, xi. 
226 
Wind-flower, history and culture 
of, ii. 16; Japanese, xiv. 25 
Winds, reduction of temperature 
by, vi. 205 ; unless violent, be- 
neficial to plants, vi. 206 ; and 
their influence on vegetation, 
vii. 81 ; advisability of screening 
tender plants from cold ones, 
viii. 71 
Wine-stained Godetia, iii. 213 
Winged Yam, iii. 200 
Winged-leaved Vervain, iii. 45 
Wing-point, large-flowered, xiv. 74 
Wing-stemmed Lobelia, iii. 93 
Winter management of hothouses, 
or plant stoves, ii. 237 ; treat- 
ment of plants, a test of the cul- 
tivator's ability, vii. 85 ; dis- 
agreeable contingencies of mild, 
ix. 203 ; gardens, xi. 252 ; a se- 
lection of plants for, xi. 253 ; to 
prepare plants for, xi. 256 ; re- 
trospect of the late, xii. 81; 
phenomena of, xii. 249 ; prepa- 
ratives to prevent injury from, 
xii. 250 ; phenomena of, xiv. 9 ; 
blooming plants, xiv. 131; ma- 
nagement of plants, xiv. 233, 251 
Wire-worm, modes of destroying, 
i. 74 
Wistaria consequana, mode of 
training it, &c, iv. 135 ; its suit- 
ability for training to a pole, vi. 
16, vii. 127; various plans for 
training, vii. 127; suggestions on 
propagating and pruning, vii. 
128 ; sinensis, various situations 
for, and modes of managing, xi. 
132 
Witsenia corymbosa, iii. 269 ; 
maura, vi. 92, viii. 221; its ma- 
nagement, viii. 222 
Witty's patent gas furnace, i. 133; 
Mr. Wilmot's opinion of its ad- 
vantages, i. 1 34 ; Mr. M'Intosh's, 
i. 134 
Woburn Abbey, hot- water appara- 
tus at, ii. 59, 60 
Wood, porosity of, ii. 22 ; its for- 
mation and constituent parts, vi. 
179 ; different hypotheses re- 
specting its enlargement, vi. 179; 
origin and formation of, xi. 34 
Wooden stands for training creep- 
ers to, iii. 31; rustic ornamental 
vases, iii. 258 ; roofs preferable 
to iron for plant houses, v. 35 
Woodlouse, xiv. 69 
Woody-fibre, analysis of, xi. 157 ; 
formation of, xi. 251 
Wood- wort, two-coloured, v. 18, 
163 
X. 
Xanthosia rotundifolia, i v. 1 36 
Y. 
Yam, iii. 200 
Young gardeners, vi. 207 
Young plants, vi. 87 
Yucca aloifolia, iii. 25 ; draconis, 
iii. 263 ; filamentosa, iii. 25 ; 
flaccida, iii. 263; gloriosa, iii. 25 
Z. 
Zalacca Reed, xv. 235 
Zanzee, xv. 38 
Zapotilla Plum, xv. 107 
Zauschneria californica, xv. 190, 
195, 216, 234 
Zedoary, i. 125 
Zenobia speciosa, iii. 1 17 
Zephyranthes, ii. 69; Drummondi, 
iii. 95 
Zerumbet speciosum, xiii. 125 
Zickya coccinea, x. 86 ; glabrata, 
ix. 168 ; molle, v. 93, ix. 119 ; 
pannosa, viii. 147 ; tricolor, vi. 
211, vii. 71; villosa, ix. 119 
Ziera laevigata, vii. 94, ix. 77, xiv. 
225 
Zigomeris flava, xiii. 173 
Zinc for horticultural purposes, i. 
155, 183, xii. 206 
Zygoglossum umbellatum, xiii. 140 
Zygopetalum africanum, vii. 166 ; 
cochleatum, iii. 144, iv, 166 ; 
Mackai,iii. 97, v. 186; maxillare, 
iv. 166, 271 ; rostratum, ii. 142 
