GENERAL INDEX. 
277 
dwarf masses, 88 ; properties required to 
render suitable for dwarf massing, 88 ; how 
to manage to produce dwarf masses of, 89 ; 
circumstances under which dwarf can be 
introduced to gardens, 89 
Datura arborea, 21 1 
— cornigera, 211 
— frutescens, 211 
— Gardneri, 211 
Daviesia physodes, 163 
December, 1845, extraordinary mildness of, 9 
Dendrobium, 165 
— aduncum, 69 
— Dalhousieanum, 43 
— hymenophyllum, 142 
Dianthus Hendersoni, 189 
Diastema ochroleuca, 212 
Dichorizandra ovalifolia, 142 
Didymocarpus crinitus, 142 
Digitalis chinensis, 70 
Diseases and affections of plants, 201 ; what the 
consist of, 201 
Dracocephalum Altaiense, 51 
— grandiflorum, 51 
Dragon's head, great-flowered, 51 
Dropmore, pleasure grounds at described, 108 
Dysophylla stellata, 94 
E. 
Echeveria gibbiflora, 210 
Echites grandiflora, 103 
Elseocarpus peduncularis, 188 
Electrical wires, the disposal of, 153 ; the action 
of, 154 
Electricity and vegetation, 153 
— vegetable, 129 
Electro-culture, attention directed to, 131 
Electronometer, utility of the, 156 
Elephant's Ear, white and scarlet, 245 
Epacris dubia, 163 
— hyacinthiflora, 71 
Epidendrum, 166 
— vmbellatum, 140 
— verrucosum, 101 
— warted, 101 
Epiphytes, on growing plants as, 1 7 
Eranthemum albiflorum, 93 
— variabile, 75 
— variable, 75 
Erica Cavendishiana, 3 ; its origin and resem- 
blances, 3 
Eriostemon, rough, 127 
— scabrum, 127 ; small plants of 
most characteristic, 127 
Erythrochiton Braziliense, 117 
Estate, description of an, 105 
Eucalyptus Preissiana, 262 
Eustoma exaltatum, 99 
— exaltata, 99 
— silenifolium, 99 
— tall, 99 
Evergreens, account of removal of, in hot 
weather, 178 
E volvulus cseruleus, 166 
— purpuruo-C£eruleus, 21, 166 
F. 
Fagopyrum cymosum, 1 1 5 
Fagrsea obovata, 22 
Fir tribe, botanical characters of some of the,107 
Flat Pea, beautiful, 195 
Floricultural Notices, 20, 43, 68, 70, 92, 94, 115, 
117, 139, 141, 163, 165, 187, 189, 211, 213, 
235, 237, 262,263, 273 
Flower-garden plants, aptness of to become dry 
in spring, previous to being planted out, 95 ; 
the propagation of, 160 
Flowers, on furnishing the parterre with in early 
spring, 66 ; what to employ, 66 ; treatment 
of those employed, 67 
Flowering trees, shrubs and climbers, the prun- 
ing of, so as to produce uniform fructiferous- 
ness in every part, 23 
Fluids, motion of in plants, noticed, 129 
Forcing Roses, 33 
— frame, 34 ; suggested improvement in, 34 
Franciscea acuminata, 27 
— acuminate-leaved, 27 
— augusta, 189 
— hydrangeaeformis, 43, 71, 121 
— hydrangea-like, 121 
— Pohliana, 27 
Friesia peduncularis, 188 
Fuchsia, large-flowered 97 
— 94 
— macrantha, 97, 140 
— serratifolia, 237 
— the, as a standard, 13 
— kinds of very appropriate for forming 
standard, 16 ; advantage of training, 17 
Fugosia hakesefolia, 236 
— heterophylla, 69 
G. 
Galeandra, 166 
Gardenia Devonian a, 262, 269 
— Duke of Devonshire's, 269 
— florida, var. Fortuniana, 188 
— Lord Stanley's, 169 
f — Stanleyana, 169; the cultivation of, 1 7 0 
Garden scenery, 177 
Genista spinosa, 236 
Gerardia glutinosa, 70 
Gesnera bulbosa, var. lateritia, 164 
— cordata, 287 
elliptica, var. lutea, 164 
— Geradiana, 55 ; merits of, 55 
— — I ^Gerard's, 55 
— Hondensis, 69 
Gladiolus Gandiensis superba, 190 
Globba nutans, 125 
— sylvestris, 125 
Gloxinia pallidifiora, 44 
Gompholobium, 188 
— venustum, 236 
Govenia fasciata, 22 
Griffinia intermedia, 237 
Grouping of trees, shrubs, &c, 179 
H, 
Habrothamnus corymbosus, 22 
— fasciculatus, 84 
