INDEX. 
viii 
Rose (Solfatare), 14 
Roses, list of, 91 ; Hybrid Perpetual for forcing, 
92; in pots, 136; in bad soil, 140; and ivy, 
141; in pots, culture of, 21 ; stocks, treat¬ 
ment of, 27 ; bedeguar on, 28 ; for a hedge, 
j 42; with green centres, 7/ ; planting, 62 ; 
trees, making in six weeks, 63; climbing, 
155; cause of failing, 169; soil for standard, 
184 ; standard, pruning, 205 ; pruning, 234 ; 
list of evergreen climbers, 247, 254 ; in pots, 
mulching, 247 ; cow-dung and soot for, 281 ; 
root-budding from, 281 ; forcing in pots, 293, 
312; soil for, 351, 383; pruning and pro¬ 
tecting, 369 ; Cloth of Gold, 374 ; for flower¬ 
beds, 381 ; standard, 390 ; at Royal Botanical 
Society, 379 
Rustic baskets, 300 
Sago palm, 145 
Saline refuse, 156 
Salpixantha culture, 272 
Salted meats, 274 
Salvia patens, dropping its flowers, 389; with 
bud at their top, 408 
Sand for cuttings, 184 
Sanvitalia procuinbens as a bedder, 326 
Saponaria calabrica, 290 , 389 
Sauari, or Suwarrow nuts, 298 
Scale (White), 13; destroying, 244 
Schomburghia culture, 66 
Scilla Siberica, 300 
Scoeva pyrastri, 43 
Scorching of plants in greenhouse, 91 
Scuticaria Stcelii culture, 101 
Sea-kale, to produce, 131 ; forcing, 245, 282 
Season, its forwardness, 258, 309 
Senecio elegans, double, 27 
Sensation in plant, 3 
Sensitive plant, 3 
Sericograpliis Ghiesbreghtiaua culture, 410 
Sewage of house, 170 
Shaddock, 164 
Shallots, 133 
Sheep, stall-feeding, 410 
Shenstone (W.), 107 
Shepherd’s purse, 74 
Shifting, reasons for, 248 ; potted plants, 356 
Shrubs newly planted, 247 
Sillett’s autobiography, 17 
Sinningia guttata culture, 21 6 
; Slugs, destroying, 66 
Smith (Sir J. E.), 185 
Soap-suds as manure, 13 
Society for Promoting Floriculture, 301 
Soil, test of its staple, 252 ; storing, 88 
Soiling cows, 326 
Soils, their components, 208; food obtained by 
plants from, 208 
Solandra grandiflora not flowering, 91 ; culture, 
308 
Solanum jasminoides, price of, 362 
Sophronitis, list of and culture, 101 
Soup for the poor, 139 
South London Floricultural Society, 300 
Sowerbv (James), 29 
Spade husbandry profits, 58 
Sparmannia Africana not blooming, 345 
Spathodea he vis, 237 
Spinach, list of kinds, 230 ; sowing, 276 , 284 ; 
New Zealand, culture, 400 
| Spirtea prunifolia, 160 
Spineas, list of and culture, 328 
Spring planting, consequences of, 62; of 1850 
(effects of), 25 
Statice pseudo-armeria, 155; glumacca, 303 
Stenocarpus Cunninghamii, 169 
Stephanotis floribunda, 27 
Steptocarpus Rexii, 169 
Stocks, Brompton, 55 ; time for sowing, 410 
Stoves heated by limekilns, 92 ; without flues, 
40, 56 ; for forwarding plants, 204 
Strawberries (Cisalpine\ 92; (British Queen), 
to protect, 125; culture, 394 ; Alpines, 395 ; 
forcing, 155, 160 ; seed, vegetating, 361 ; on 
light bank, 27 
Stylidium mucronifolium, 250 
Sugar beer, 220 
Sulphur and insects, 75 
Sulphur fumigator, 283 
Sunflower seed, to grow, 346 ; for poultry, 362 
Swede turnips, 276 ; their usefulness, 310 
Sweet William (blood-red), 109 
Synonvmes, how they arise, 111 
Sylva (Evelyn’s), 57 
Syringa, or Mock Orange, 163 
Table stew-pan, 12 
Tacsonia pinnatistinula and manicata, 5, “j 316 
Tallies, to prepare tor use, 216 
Tan for manure, 120 ; for hotbed, 326 
Tarring walls, 326 
Tea-making, 75 ; plant, 97; tree, history of, 79 
j Teazel culture, 83, 84 
j Tecoma radicans, 170 
i Temperature at night, 150 
! Temple (Sir W.), 235 
! Theobroma cacao, 352 
| Thorns, species of, 112; ornamental, 126; 
scarlet, 231 
Thrips adonidum, 93 
Thrush (the Song), 135 
Tigridias, wintering, 48 
Tinea granella, 121 
Tobacco drying, &c., 220 ; water, 297 ; use of, 
298 
Tomatos, pickling, 92 
Tools for an allotment, 234 
Top-dressing, 331 
Torenia Asiatica culture, 393 
Tradescantia vclutina, 95 
Training rods, 56 ; pot plants excessive, 393 
I Train-road scrapings, 298 
Training to studs, 262 
Treees, for park scenery, 403; large, transplant¬ 
ing, 319, 332 
Trellises for red and white currants, 82 ; for 
house, 120; for fruit-trees, 303 ; iron for 
trees, 325 
Trenching, 197 
Trichopilia suavis, 160 
Tropceolum Benthii, 95 ; speciosum, 374 ; for 
conservatory, 27 
Tulip Show, Great Northern, 351 ; beds, shad¬ 
ing, 245 
Tulips in Holland, 312 ; early for borders, 315 ; 
protecting, 323 
Turnips (Swede) for sprouts, 133 ; culture, 401 ; 
list of, 230 
Tusser, Thomas, 285 
Ulcers in plants, 44 
Vallota purpurea culture, 106 
Vanilla planifolia culture, 101 
Variation of compass, 56 
Vases, flowers for, 205 
Vegetables, selections for cottagers, 217 
Ventilation, how essential, 95, 106 , 128; in 
greenhouses, &c., 149 
Venus’s fly-trap, 3, 327 
Verbascums, list of and culture, 402 
Verbenas, list of, 13 ; green fly on, 88 ; arrange¬ 
ment of, 204 ; on trellis, 248 ; list of, 248 ; and 
heliotropes, 297 ; and geraniums, 2 p 8 ; new, 
301 ; for exhibition, culture and list of, 344 ; 
list and colours of, 389 
Veronicas, list of, 119 
Victoria regia, its history, 122 
Villa Gardener (Mrs. Loudon’s), 16 
Vine, weak, 26 ; Tortrix, 29 ; pruning for 
forcing, 41; with red leaves, 156; leaves 
blotched, 156; removing, 183; the Tokay, 374 
Vinegar plant, 154, 220 ; propagating, 75 
Vinery ventilating, 311; and planthousc com¬ 
bined, 353 ; construction of, 389; fire for, 409 
Vines in greenhouse, 92 ; roots decayed, 92 ; in 
pots, forcing, 95; and cucumbers, to force, 
141; in pots, 210; with stove plants, 219; 
over-cropped, 262 ; mildew on, 312; with 
pelargoniums, 345; with pines, 361 ; forcing, 
353 
Violets in winter, 113; and red spider, 41 ; cul¬ 
ture of, 409 
Walks in kitchen-garden, 46 ; making, 153, 
190; garden, 1 68, 225, 268, 282, 36l ; over a 
swamp, 268 
Wall, covering with ivy, 247 J of earth, 280 ; 
old, how to manage, 282 ; borders, 45 ; fruits 
for south and west, 183 
Ward’s Cases, why not ventilated, 205 
Wasps, destroying, 403 
Water, to improve hard, 28; not the only food 
of plants, 171 ; quantity required bv plants, 
185 
Water lilies in tank, 56; Mr. Lawson’s work 
on, 122 
Water plants, 140 
Water violet, 311 
Weigela rosea, 56 ; culture, 315, 329; treatment, 
361 
Wheat gluten, 345 
Wild Flowers: October. 74; November, 118, 
137 ; December, 1 98, 2t)0 ; February, 340 
Window plants, to manage, 227 , 242, 374 ; flow¬ 
ers, sweet, 311 
Winter-blooming stove plants, list of, 180 
Women working in fields, 258 
Wood, newly grubbed, 220 
Wood warbler, wood wren, and willow wren, 280 
Woodlice, to destroy, 362 
Worms in pots, 262 
Worton cottage meetings, 315 
Wotton, Sir H., 391 
Yeast, making, 203 
Yuccas, roots out of soil, 14 
Zephyrantiies grandiflora culture, 312 
WOODCUTS. 
1 Antler moth 
Page 
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Corn moth 
Fagc , 
121 
1 Forcing-pit 
. 4 
Song thrush 
. 135 
| Room for plants . 
• 7 
Stanwick nectarine 
. 144 
Box churn 
. 12 
Catasetum fimbriatum 
. 145 
Table stew pan 
. 12 
Fruit-tree arrangements 
147 
| Cockchafer grub . 
. 15 
Mealy bug . : 
157 
Vine tortrix and grubs 
. 29 
Begonia Ingramii . 
159 
j Hawk fly 
43 
Rhodothamnus Kamtchaticus 
159 
1 Aerides maculosum var. Schroederi 
. 45 
Franciscea eximia . . 
1/2 
Cheese cooking pan 
. 54 
Echeandia terniflora 
. 173 
Table filter 
. 54 
Hypocyrta gracilis , 
186 
Myrtus tomentosa. 
59 
Ochna atro-purpurea 
187 
Rhyncospernum jasminoides 
59 
Gordonia Javanica 
187 
Five-pound greenhouse . 
60, 124, 125 
Pot-herb moth 
207 
Ribbed black pouter pigeon 
• 71 
Hoya campanulata 
209 
Moussonia elegans 
. 81 
Opuntia Salmiana. 
210 
1 Hakea cucullata . 
. 81 
Almeidea rubra 
223 
Thrips 
93 
Calanthe masuca . 
. 223 
Metrosideros buxifolia 
95 
Pimelea inacrocephala 
237 
| Cattleva labiata rubra 
. 108 
Spathodea kevis 
237 
Lilium Wallichianum . 
1 
109 
Stylidium mucronifolium 
. 250 
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Freziera theoidcs . 
Pitcairnia J acksoni 
Calochortus pallidus 
Bee-feeder . 
Lisle pigeon 
Glass Pavilion in Hyde Park 
Polygonum cuspidatum 
Echites Franciscea var. floribus sulphurcis 
Acantholimon glumaccum . 
Tacsonia manicata . • 
Coccoloba macropylla 
Pharbitis lirabata . 
Jacinth pigeon . . 
Astrapsea viscosa . 
Primula capitata . . . 
Allium acuminatum . . 
Barbacenia Rogierii 
Olive-tree 
Odontoglossum citrosmum . 
Circular pond and borders . 
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266 
276 
279 
286 
297 
301 
302 
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