GENERAL INDEX 
Achimenes Meteor, 321 
American plants, 247 
„ exhibitions, 222 
Apple tree. Original Ribston Pippin, 
202 
Aquatics for sitting rooms, 90 
Aster, quilled German, 70 
Auricula bloom, 165, 196 
Azaleas, select, 193 
Beaumontia grandiflora, 79 
Beauport, near Battle, 337 
Bicton, noticed, 144, 173 
Bignonia venusta, 142 
Bouvardia oriana, 97 
Budding, 113 
Bromham Park, noticed, 26 
Calceolarias, shrubby, 65 
Calendar for January, 29 
,, February, 60 
,, March, 93 
„ April, 125 
„ May, 157 
„ June, 191 
,, July, 223 
,, August, 254 
,, September, 286 
„ October, 318 
„ November, 349 
„ December, 376 
Castle Combe, 291 
Chrysanthemum Show, Stoke New¬ 
ington, 366 
i Cliveden, spring gardening at, 177 
! Crystal Palace Exhibition, 204, 216, 295 
Cupressus Lawsoniana, 239 
Dahlia Jupiter, 353 
! Dahlias, new, of 1857, 37, 375 
„ at Edinburgh, 296 
Drainage, effects of imperfect, 171 
Edinburgh new floral exhibition, 215 
Epacris, the, 348 
Erica Ingrami, 129 
Exhibitions, horticultural, 2, 34, 57, 
68, 239 
Exhibitions, horticultural. List of 
awards at, 242, 277, 303 
Farfugium grande, 33 
Ferns for sitting rooms, 90 
,, nomenclature of, 124 
,, propagation of, 343 
Fig, the, 71 
Flower gardening under difficulties, 341 
Fruit crops of 1857, 111 
Fruit culture, Powell on, 39, 85, 113, 
180, 234, 300 
Fruit trees, to train, 180, 234, 300 
,, wearing out of, 80, 136, 175, 
236 
„ causes of uuhealthiness in, 
227 
Fruit tree planting, 45 
Garden, Chronicles of a small, 230, 257, 
297, 330, 353 
Garden crops, preparation of soil for, 55 
Gardeners, questions to young, 53 
Gardeners’ Benevolent Institution, 162, 
233 
Gas heating, 151 
Gossip, 189 
Grafting, 87 
Grape, Bowood Muscat, 1 
Harewood House, 42 
Hippeastrums, 325 
Hogg’s Vegetable Kingdom, 253, 315 " 
Horticultural Society, 83, 117, 155, 178, 
211,335, 356 
Humphrey, old, 261 
Hyacinths, exhibition of, 108 
Irrigation, 229 
July, 214 
Kennedya inophylla floribunda, 39 
Landscape Gardening, hints on, 8, 98, 
164 
Lawns, improving, 103 
Liliura lancifolium, 74 
Luculia gratissima, 46 
Manchester Horticultural Society, 195 
Mandevilla suaveolens, 344 
