INDEX. 
291 
Leeks, notes on, 02, 271. 
Libonia penrliosiensis, 168. 
Lilies, Garden: Chap, viii., Liliuni canadense 
and its varieties, 157; Chap, ix , Liliuni 
Humboldtii, and L. pardalinum, and their 
varieties, 217. 
Lilies, Japanese hybrid, 215. 
Liliuni, monograph of, Elwes’s, 46. 
Liliuni auratum at Buckley Hall, 262 ; L. au- 
ratum, Mr. McIntosh’s specimens of, 240; 
L. avenaceum, 190, 263; L. callosum, 190 ; 
L. canadense, (woodcut) 157; L. c. rubro- 
flavum, (col. plate) 157; L. c. rubrum, (col. 
plate) 157 ; L. cordifolium, 238 ; L. Eliza¬ 
beths?, 215; L. Hansoni, 263; L. Hum- 
bold ti ; , (col. plate) 217; L. japonicum 
= Krameri, 240; L. medeoloides, 189; L. 
nepalense, 189; L. oxypetalum, 189; L. 
pardalinum, (col. plate) 218 ; L. p. californi- 
cuoa, (col. plate) 218; L. Parkmanni, 215, 
263 ; L. Purity, 287. 
Liparis elegantissima, 238. 
Liquids, cooling apparatus for, 144. 
Litliospermum prostratum, 171. 
Loasa coronata, 136. 
Lupinus arboreus as a sea-side shrub, 70. 
Maranta Massangeana, 238. 
Martinezia erosa, 117. 
Melon, Suttons’ new pear-shaped, (woodcut) 44 
Melons, new, of 1874, 43 ; soil for, 196. 
Mildew, destruction of, by sulphur, 24. 
Mimulus, fine strain of maculosus type, 96. 
Mistleto parasitic on itself, 69. 
Musa Champa, 43. 
Mushrooms, growing, in saw-dust, 270. 
Narcissus ; its history and culture, Burbidge’s, 
noticed, 140. 
Nectarine, Welbeck Seedling, (col. plate) 13. 
Nectarines, culture of, 169, 274; early, 177. 
Nepenthes intermedia, (woodcut) 257. 
Newman’s History of British Ferns, noticed, 
286. 
Novelties, improved, amongst Florists’flowers, 
118; at Cologne International Horticultural 
Exhibition, 237; at Royal Horticultural 
Society, 117. 
Oak, Lucombe, 69. 
Oaks, new Japanese evergreen, (woodcuts) 
89, (woodcuts) 199. 
Obituary : Appleby, Thomas, 264; Ayres, 
William Port, 48 ; Bewlev, Thomas, 120; 
Boreau, Alexander, 288 ; Bragg, W. R., 72 ; 
Brown, George, 24 ; Bruclnnuller, Albert, 
, 288; Buckley, Wilbraliam, 48; Burnett, 
Thomas, 72; Courtois - Gerard, M., 48; 
Cullum, Lady, 72 ; Edward, George, 192 ; 
Fielder, Benjamin, 72 ; Gibson, John, 48; 
Ginger, W. S., 264; Gray, Dr. J. E., 1^0; 
Hanbury, Daniel, 120, Hextall, J. D., 120 ; 
Lancashire, Robert, 120; Leroy, Andrd, 216; 
Nash, Daniel, 24 ; Plant, Dr. William, 288 ; 
Rollisson, William, 192 ; Rucker, Sigismund, 
264; Schonofeld, W. de, 238 ; Standish, John, 
216; Stelzner, Adolphe, 240; Tait, Alex¬ 
ander, 24; Taylor, Thomas, 216; Thuret, 
Gustave Adolphe, 192 ; Turnbull, Archi¬ 
bald, 48 ; Von Jacobi, General, 48 ; Weaver, 
Thomas, 72 ; Willison, William, 264. 
Onion, Queen, 168. 
Orchard-trees, trenching the ground for, 254. 
Orchids, cool, watering, 18. 
Pansies, bedding, at Chiswick, 150. 
Paste for fixing labels on glass, wood, or paper, 
23. 
Pavonia Wiotii, 238. 
Pea, Beck’s Gem or Tom Thumb, 7; Dr. 
Maclean, 287 ; Supplanter, (woodcut) 45. 
Peas, early, 6 ; new, 37. 
Peach, Condor, (col. plate) 133; Dr. Hogg, 
(col. plate) 185 ; Desse Tardive as a late, 18. 
Peaches, early, 177. 
Peach, culture of, 169, 274. 
Peach and Nectarine blossoms, premature 
di'opping of, 74. 
Peach-borders, covering, 152. 
Peach-trees, standard, in the open ground, 258. 
Pear, Groom’s Princess Royal, alias Matthews’ 
Eliza, (woodcut) 77; Louise Bonne 
d’Aranches Panacheo, (col. plate) 281; 
Lucy Grieve, (col. plate) 85; Souvenir 
du Congres, (col. plate) 37. 
Pears, Chaumontel and other, at Floors, 244 ; 
influence cf soils on, 162 ; late, 36, 79, 158 ; 
new, of 1874, 42; for July till May, 216; 
for the North of Scotland, 280. 
Peat-soil, 263. 
Pelargonium, Beauty of Oxton, 288 ; P. Crown 
Prince, (col. plate) 25 ; P. Constance, (col. 
plate) 25; P. pseudo-zonale, 68 ; P. Rienzi, 
(woodcut) 116; P. Buchner, (double) 238; 
P. Sylpliide, (double) 238. 
Pelargonium, fancy, origin of the, 239. 
Pelargoniums, bedding, 238 ; M. Jean Sisley’s 
new double, 263 ; select zonal and nosegav, 
259, 284. 
Pelargonium and Geranium, supposed cross 
between, 23. 
Pentagonia macrophvlla, 238. 
Pentstemon liumilis, (col. plate) 241. 
Pentstemons, for mixed borders, 158. 
Pcronospora infestans, (woodcuts) 171. 
Phloxes, herbaceous, the best, 286. 
Pliormium tenax Colensoi, flowering of, 191. 
Phylloxera, plan for destroying, 47. 
Picoa magnifica, coning for the first time at 
Knap Hill, 216. 
Picotees, notes on, 40, 222. 
Pinetum, Gordon’s, 2nd edition, noticed, 134. 
Plants, edging, 262; sickly pot, cure for, 239. 
Platanus orientalis Rosentlialii, 71. 
Pleroma macranthum and its allies, 3. 
Plum, Prince Englebert, 240; Prince of 
Wales, (col. plate) 253; Sultan, (col. plate) 
145. 
Plums for a north wall, 64, 269. 
Polyanthuses, 281; gold-laced and otlior, 93. 
