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INDEX. 
PAGE 
Begonia Digswelliana . . . . 108 
Bel voir Castle, spring gardening at .119 
Berberry blight . . . . . 230 
Billbergia palescens . . . .132 
Birmingham Fruit and Chrysanthemum 
Show.13 
Rose Show .... 135, 175 
Book, “ Hardy Ferns, How I Collected 
and Cultivated them” . . .154 
Rivers’s “ Orchard-House ” . .266 
Borders, fruit tree . . . ... 24 
renovating . . . .43 
Vine.84 
heating . . . . 30, 60 
Botanical appointments . . 86, 229 
Botanic (Royal) Society’s Shows 85, 110, 134, 
157, 182 
Bougainvillaea and bottom heat . . .126 
speciosa.202 
Brie-Comte-Robert Rose Show . . . 204 
Brugmansia suaveolens, remarks on .211 
Brussels Horticultural Congress . . 37 
Bryonopsis laciniosa erythrocarpa . .107 
Bulbs, spring-flowering . . . . 241 
Conifers, new. 
list of cones exhibited from Bicton . 
Contemporaries, Our . . 35, 106, 
Crocus, rooks eating bulbs . . . . 
selection and culture of . 
Cruger, M., death of. 
Crystal Palace Show . 
Cucumbers, culture in winter . . . 
Cultivation, deep, importance of 
Cyclamens, culture of . . . . 
Cypripedium Veitchianum , 
Daffodils, hybridisation of . . 
Dahlias, bouquet . 
Debrichy, M., appointed director at 
Vilvorde . . . . 
De Candolle’s library and herbarium 
Delphinium, Triomphe de Pontoise . . 
Dendrobium nodatum .... 
Dipladenia nobilis ..... 
Dischidia Rafflesiana .... 
Dye, Hollyhock flowers as . . . . 
Cabbage, Schweinfurth . 
. 85 
Calceolarias, wintering bedding 
. . 140 
Bird of Paradise 
. 36 
Calcutta Botanic Garden . 
. . 37 
Calendar of Garden Operations 
for— 
January .... 
. 14 
February . . 
. . 39 
March .... 
. 62 
April. 
. . 87 
May .... 
. Ill 
June. 
. . 135 
J uly .... 
. 159 
August .... 
. . 183 
September 
. 207 
October 
. . 231 
November 
. 255 
December .... 
. . 273 
Camellia, culture of 
. 55, 196 
planipetala .... 
. . 109 
Carnations, tree 
. 36 
Cauliflower, Lenormand 
. . 86 
Celery, culture of . 
. 96 
Celosias, culture of . 
. . 95 
Chitty, Mr. F., death of 
. 86 
Chronicle, Our Monthly, 12, 37, 60, 85, 109, 
133, 156, 181, 203, 228, 253, 269 
Chronicles of a Town Garden, 2, 18, 42, 66, 
90, 113, 137, 161, 185, 209, 235, 257 
Chrysanthemum, culture . . 5, 25, 265 
Golden Ball.108 
Sensation . . . . . . 109 
Venus.108 
Cinchona culture at Darjeeling . 14, 231 
in Ceylon . . . . .61 
Cineraria, culture of.91 
Cockscomb, culture of . . . .58 
Codonopsis gracilis.35 
Cole, Mr. William, death of . . .37 
Edinburgh Horticultural Society . 228, 
Endive, blanching . .... 
Eranthemun sanguinolentum 
rubro-venium . . . . . 
Escrick Park ..... 
Euphorbia jacquinioeflora culture . . 
Exhibitions— 
Amsterdam ..... 
Birmingham Fruit and Chrysan¬ 
themum ..... 
Birmingham Rose . . 135, 
Botanic Society’s, 85, 110, 134, 157, 
Brie Rose ..... 
Crystal Palace . . . . . 
Edinburgh International 
Horticultural (Royal) Society’s, 12, 
109, 157, 181, 
International of 1866, . 204, 
Liverpool Chrysanthemum 
United Horticultural , . . . 
Falconer, Dr. Hugh, death of . . . 
Ferns, planting out in summer 
“Hardy, How I Collected and Culti¬ 
vated them ” . . . . 
Fern-hunting in Island of Arran . 
Fig culture . . . . .21, 
Fruit, preservation of . 
new work on . . . . 
and ice-house. 
rooms, notes on . . . . . 
trees, borders for 
renovation of. 
culture of . . 191,212,254, 
on walls, management of the roots . 
root-pruning dwarf.... 
PAGE 
230 
179 
132 
122 
220 
14 
134 
192 
145 
80 
107 
233 
235 
205 
37 
36 
35 
106 
132 
13 
269 
86 
35 
35 
222 
46 
110 
13 
175 
182 
204 
134 
228 
85, 
203 
225 
139 
262 
61 
183 
154 
239 
120 
74 
81 
76 
134 
24 
43 
259 
125 
58 
