GENERAL INDEX. 
279 
On the treatment of annuals, 6 1 
Oncidium, 166, 273 
— concolor, 118 
— lacerum, 116 
— oblongatum, 190 
— phymatochilum, 118 
— unguiculatum, 263 
Operations for January, 273 
— February, 23 
— March, 47 
— April, 71 
— May, 95 
— June, 119 
— July, 143 
— August, 167 
— September, 190 
— October, 215 
— November, 238 
— December, 264 
Ophrys cestrifera, 213 
— bicornis, 213 
— cornuta, 213 
Orphium frutescens, 221 
— shrubby, 221 
Oxalis sensitiva, 45 
Oxyramphis macrostyla, 115 
P. 
Paeonia Witmanniana, 45 
Park and Villa scenery, 105 
Passifiora Lemichezii, 238 
Peculiarities of plants, 225 
Pelargonium, remarks on the, 205 ; on what 
success in the culture of is principally depend- 
ent, 205 ; the fancy as a plant for bedding- 
out, 207 ; suitableness of various kinds of the 
for growing in rustic stands or baskets, 207 
Pentstemon ovatum, 199 
— ovate-leaved, 199 
Pergularia campanulata, 238 
Peristeria Barkeri, 45 
Pharbitis Learii, on growing in the open air, 84 ; 
where generally grown, 85 ; circumstances 
under which a plant turned out flourished, 86 ; 
where likely to succeed when planted out, 87 
Physianthus auricomus, 93 
Pilumna laxa, 237 
Pinguicula orchidioides, 116 
Pitcairnia undulatifolia, 164 
Plants, a consideration of growing in pots, 37 ; 
stimulants to the better cultivation of, 37 ; 
evils preventing the proper management of, 
38 ; points necessary to attend to in managing 
well, 39 
— diseases and affections of, 201 
— greenhouse, on planting in the open 
ground in summer, 221 
— parasitic diseases of, 225 ; various con- 
stitutionally liable to disease, 226 
— peculiarities of, 225 
— putting tender in the open ground in 
spring ought to be practised, 191 
Platycodon grandiflorum, 7 ; account of method 
of growing, 7 
— great-flowered, 7 
Platylobium formosum, 195 
Pleasure grounds, description of at Dropmore, 
108 
Pleroma elegans, 190, 237 
Plumbago Zeylanica, 93 
Polygonum acutatum, 115 
— cymosum, 115 
Potentilla McNabiana,190,219 ; the origin of, 21 9 
Preservation of flower-garden plants in winter, 
181 ; obstacles which prevent the proper, 181 ; 
the little fluid necessary for, 183 ; the best 
erection for, 1 84 
Primula involucrata, 141 
Propagation of flower-garden plants, 160 ; the 
best time to choose cuttings, 161'; kind of 
cuttings to be selected, 161 ; the manner of 
inducing cuttings to become plants, 161 
Pruning and training, 135 ; extensiveness of 
field for the practice of, 136 ; the best season 
to practise, 138 ; objects of, 138 
Pterostigma grandiflorum, 70 
Pv. 
Ramusatia vivapara, 92 
Raphistemma pulchella, 238 
Redoutea heterophylla, 69 
Reevesia thyrsoidea, 45 
Remarks on the Camellia, 109 
— ■ on the Pelargonium, 205 
Renealmia nutans, 125 
Retrospect of the seasons, 249 
Review of " The Vegetable Kingdom," bv J. 
Lindley, Ph. D. F.R.S., and L. S., &c, 185 
Rhodostemma gardenioides, 118 
Rhynchoglossum Zeylanicum, 45 
Rochea albiflora, 210 
— coccinea, 208 ; the synonymes of, 208 
• — falcata and synonymes, 208 
— jasminea, 209 ; synonymes of, 209 
— media and synonymes, 208 
— odoratissima,209 ; the synonymes of, 209 
— — alba, 209 
— versicolor, 208 ; its synonymes, 208 
Roses, the forcing of, 33 ; preparation and 
treatment of plants for forcing, 33 ; the most 
suitable soil for, 33 
Rosslinia frutescens, 221 
Royenia lucida, 164 
Ruellia Coromandeliana, 187 
— intrusa, 187 
— lilacina, 70, 188 
— longiflora, 70 
— macrophylla, 46 
• — obliqua, 187 
— secunda, 187 
S. 
Saccolabium ampullaceum, 49 
— flask-formed, 49 
Sarauja macrophylla, 190 
Sarcochilus calceolus, 93 
Sarcostemma campanulatum, 165 
Saxifraga thysanodes, 141 
Scenery, park and villa, 105 
Scliubertia auticoma, 93 
