INDEX. 
V 
Hardy garden flowers, 352 
Heating small plant houses ,339 
Heating apparatus, combined lime kiln 
and hot water 317 
Hedges, coniferous trees for, 351 
Hepaticas, 128 
Hollyhocks, select, 348 
Hollyhocks in winter, 319 
Houses, fruit and plant, 267 
Hyacinths for the conservatory, 302 
Hydrangeas for the conservatory, 169 
Iberis, 207 
Ireland, garden plants of the north-east 
of, 151 ; garden plants of Kingstown, 
172 
Iris in pots, 128 
Irvine, death of Mr. J., 287 
Kales, list of, 37 
Kale, Scotch, 71 
Kales, variegated, 97 
Kew Gardens, 223 
Kitchen garden, cropping, 74 
Kitchen garden. May work in the, 152 
Labels, Shakespearian, 29 
Leaf embroidered flower beds, 234 
Leafing of the oak and ash, 58 
Leaves, preparing skeleton, 233 
Lettuces, select, 61 
Lettuce, winter, 231 
Lilium auratum, 291 
Lilium concolor, 292 
Lilium speciosum, 293 
Lilies, cultivation of, 289 
Lily, the smallest in the world, 307 
Litanthus pusillus, 307 
Lobelias, bedding, 107 
Lyons, Horticultural Society of, 29 
Magnolias, 256 ; protecting, 31 
Manchester, fruit show at, 158, 286 
Manchester Horticultural Society, 222 
Manetti, brier, 31 
Masdevallias, culture of, 193 
Mignonette, 140 
Myosotis, 208 
Oleanders, 256 
Olearia dentata, 326 ? 
Onion, culture of the, 245 
Onions, select, 61 
Oranges in Sicily, 94 
Orchard houses, management of, 182 
Orchids, spot on, 192 
Orchids, terrestial, 82 
Orchids in vinery, 64 
Palm, large date, 51 
Pampas grass, burning the, 108 
Pansies, bedding, 208 ; fancy, 224 ; 
select, 349 ; new show, 1 ; cultiva- 
tion of show, 2 
Pears, choice, 315 
Peas, select, 61 
Peas, the best garden, 52 
Pelargonium, Harry King, 271 
Pelargonium, Imogene, 353 
Pelargoniums, bedding, 110, 285 
Pelargoniums with ornamental leaves, 
bedding, 177 
Pelargoniums, new, 317 
Pelargoniums, propagating, 192, 277 
Pelargoniums, show, 95 
Pelargoniums, specimen show, 264 
Pelargoniums for winter flowers, 355 
Pelargoniums for the conservatory, 
zonal, 106 
Pelargoniums, Denny’s new zonal, 353 
Pentstemons, select, 349 
Perennials from seed, raising hardy, 203 
Petunias, 192 ; for the conservatory, 
137 
Perfumes on health, effect of vegetable, 
317 
Phloxes, select, 348, 349 
Picotees, 350 
Pine apples from the Azores, 125 
Pinks, select show, 350 
Plants in pots, cultivating, 116, 145 
Plants, struggle for life amongst, 101 
Plant houses, 267 
Plant stove, the amateur’s, 296 
Plantations, on mixed, 334 
Plums for small gardens, 257, 258 
Pollen of plants, protection of, 233 
Potato, the Ashleaf, 126 
Potatoes at Chiswick, 223 
Potatoes, importation of, 62, 158, 371 
Potatoes, notes on, 16 
Potatoes, select, 61 
Potatoes with lime, storing, 317 
Potting shed, the, 117 
Pratt’s flowering plants, Miss, 223 
Primroses, hardy, 33 
Prodromus, De Candolle’s, 259 
Propagating greenhouse plants, 145 
Propagating pelargoniums, 277 
Propagating roses in autumn, 319 
Rainbow of flowers, 173 
Rainfall of 1872, 29 
Rhododendron venusta, 287, 323 
Rhododendrons, exhibitions of, 222 
Rhododendrons, propagating, 64 
Rhododendrons, select, 160 
Root crops, storage of, 309 
Rose, the Alpine, 321 ; a climbing, 256 ; 
Madame Lacharme, 94; Marechal 
