INDEX. 
Ice heaps, to make, 147, 204 
Indian corn culture, 219 
Indian rubber dissolving, 14 
Indian Shot, treatment of, 408; seeds, 409 
Infants, managing, 75 
Insects, destroying, 75 
Ipomsea, list of and culture, 244 
Italian Eye Grass, 326 
Ivy neglected, to prune, 120; planting, 282 
Ivy and Roses planted together, 141 
Ixias, wintering, 56 
Jacobea lilies culture, 344 ; double, culture, 
246 
Jalap plant, 330 
Jasmine pruning, 27 ; pruning large, 183 
Jerusalem artichokes, 245 ; storing, 167 , 181 
Judges at Horticultural Shows, 364 
Kean’s Beauties of Middlesex, 158 
Kemp, on laying out gardens, 98 
Kew Gardens, 363 ; sketch of, 263 
Kidney beans, list of, 195 ; in pots, 273 
Kitchen-garden, formation of, 18, 45 ; routine, 
23, 28, 38, 102, 116 , 153, I 67 , 180, 194, 216 , 
230, 245, 257 , 273, 294, 309, 323, 336, 338, 358, 
372, 386, 400; barren, 41 
Knol-kohl, description and culture, 264 
Kohl-rubi culture, 264 
Label foe Pots, 365 
Laburnum decaying, 390 
Lachenalia tricolor culture, 119 
Landscape gardening, 249; its principles, 377 
Lantana Sellowii a bedder, 56 
Lapiedra placiana, 333 
Laurels, time for pruning, 27 ; (Portugal) prun¬ 
ing, 28 ; freshly moved, 141 
Lawn, improving its grass, 76 ; dressing, 141 ; 
to clean, 282 
Leasowes (The) described, 107 
Leaves, right to fallen, 77 
Leek sowing, 338 
Lemon, 164 
Leptotes, list and culture, 9 
Lettsom, John Coakley, 79 
Lettuces, list of, 217; treatment of, 273; sowing, 
10, 276 ; planting, 309 
Lichen pyxidatus, 247 
Lilies, anecdotes of, 109; of the Valley, forcing, 
28 i 
Lilium Japonicum culture, 120 ; Wallichianum, 
109 
Lilium lancifolium, 326; list of, 262 ; treatment 
of, 408 
Lily of the Nile, 408 
Lime, 164 
Linnsean Society founded, 185 
Liquid manure, to apply, 106 , 184 
Lists of plants, remarks on, 111 
Lobelia propagating, 56; erinus albus sowing, 
248 ; ramosa sowing, 326 ; culture, 374 ; erinus 
grandiflorus, 92 
London (G.), 171 
London, annual consumption of garden produce, 
171 
Lonicera flexuosa pruning, 183 
Loudon (J. C.), 143 
Lucerne, essay on, 313; feeding off, 325; sowing, 
326; culture, 410 
Lumps for building, 232 
Lycopodium caesium, 42 
Magnolia grandiflora, protecting, 119; 
propagating, 344 
Malt wine recipes, 27 , 41 
Mamestra oleracea, 207 
Mandevilla suaveolens, 55; cuttings, 311 
Mangold wurtzel first recommended, 79 ; cul¬ 
ture, 401 
Manures, economy of, 197 ; how to apply, 248 
Market-gardening, 103 
Marshall (the Rev. C.), 349. 
Mealy bug, 157; destroying, 244 
Meat, warming cold, 75 
Medicinal receipts, 296 
Medinilla, list of and culture, 215 
Melianthus major culture, 234 
Melolontha vulgaris, 15 
Melon cuttings, 27 , 42, 55; culture, 273, 324, 
387 
Mercury as spinach, 205 
Mertensia maritima, 106 
Meslin bread, 247 
Metrosideros buxifolia, 95 
Mice, destroying, 67 ; their kinds, 67 ; to keep 
from peas, 410 
I Mignonette (Tree), 105 
1 Mildew on crocuses, 1/0 
I Miller (P.), 157 ; his dictionary, 157 
Mimosa pudica, 76 
Miniature stove, 408 
Mixed cropping, 274 
Moor Park Gardens, 235 
Moss, transplanting, 77; on trees, to kill, 248 
Mosses, culture of British, 199 ; list of, 200 
Mossy meadow, 362 
Moussonia elegans, 81 
Mowing machines (Budding’s), 390 
Mulberries, preserving, 13, 42 
Mulch defined, 92 , 184; round fruit-trees, 312 
Mushrooms planting in pasture, 28; beds, 258, 
359 ; making, 51; to prepare, 131 
Musk plant culture, 346 
Myrtle (Woolly-leaved), 59 ; too large for room, 
219 
Myrtus tomentosa, 59 
Nail drawing, 61 
Nectarines known to ancients, 144 ; (the Stan- 
wick), 144 ; list of, 318 
Nemophila insignis as a bedder, 326 
Nettles, destroying, 14 
New plants, their history and biography, 81, 84 
Newtown pippin, 220 
Night-soil deodorizing, 13 
Norfolk Horticultural Society, 351 
Nosegays, plants for winter, 113 
North border, its use, 56 ; flowers for, 403 
Nursery for fruit-trees, 331 
OcHNA ATRO-PURPUREA, 18/ 
Odontoglossum, list of and culture, 9 ; citros- 
mum, 394 
Old pear and apple-trees, to manage, 362 
Oleander, with other plants, 184 ; not flowering, 
345 
Oleander scale, 13 
Olive-tree of Scripture, 392 
Oncidiums, list of, 9 ; culture and list, 36 
Onion (Tree), 106 , 156 ; culture, 116 
Onions, sowing and planting, 309, 337 ; orna¬ 
mental kinds, 366 ; list of, 217; diseased, 
410 
Opuntia Salmiana, 209 
Orange-trees from Italy, 362 
Orange tribe culture, 164, 177; red-juiced, 390 
Orchard house (Rivers’s), 235 
Orchid culture in pots, 193 , 229, 256, 292, 322, 
35/, 385 ; culture, 166 ; general rule for, 230 
Orchids on blocks, 101; list of autumn-bloom¬ 
ing, 102 ; culture, 129 
Our Village Walks, 10 
Our Villagers, 38, 68 , 103, 131, l 6 l, 181,195, 
231, 258, 294, 324, 359, 387 
Oyster vegetable, 106; plant, 154 
Oxalis Boweii, 169 
Palisot de Beauvois (A. M. F. J.), 238 
Pansies, potting, 66 ; culture, 200 , 336; list of, 
200 
Paper duty, its effects, 314 
Parsley sowing, 230 
Parsnips, good kinds, 230 ; sowing, 2 / 6 , 338 ; 
protecting, 23 
Parso.nia heterophylla, 160 
Passiflora, or passion-flower, list of, and culture, 
271, 308, 312; grafting, 362 
Passion-flower Order, 316 ; grafting, 326 
Passiflora quadrangularis, 248; impregnating, 
272 
Pasture land, dressing for, 282 
Pauper children, training, 58 
Pavias, list of, 162 
Paxton (Mr.), his design of the Glass Pavilion, 
287 
Peach forcing, 238 
Peaches, list of, 318; dressing, 331; newly 
planted, 362 
Peach-house, the, and culture, 380 
Pears, list of, 318 ; grafting old, 345 ; list of for 
dwarfs, 345 ; against north wall, 183; for 
Christmas, 42 
Pear-tree, neglected, 312; tying down shoots, 
409 
Peas, list of, 195; quantity required, 195; list 
of, 247 ; sowing, 102, 276 , 283, 309; list of 
early, 88 ; everlasting sweet, 312 ; soil for, 409 
Peat defined, 13 ; charred as manure, 373 
Pegging-down plants, 342, 390 
Pelargonium, grafting, 302 ; eclinatum culture, 
312; potting, 335 ; with vines, 345; shifting, 
248 
Penstemon Salterii, 329 
Pentas, culture of, 234 
Petunias, for bedding, 248 ; to train, 36l 
Phaius grandifolius, 321 
Phalsenopsis, culture and list, 37 
Pharbitis limbata, 330 
Phenocoma prolifera cuttings, 409 
Philadelphus, list of, 163 
Philips, John, 299 
Phlox culture, 27 ; layering, 329 
Picotees, selection of choice, 13/ ; culture, 386 
Pigeons, domestic, young ones, 2/9; the Lisle, 
279; Pouters, 70 ; diseases of, 340 ; speckled, 
341 
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Pigs, fatting, 120 
Pimelea macrocephala, 237 
Pimeleas, stocks for, 237 
Pine-apple seed, to sow, 220 
Pine culture, course of, 173, 188, 366; soil and 
potting, 367 ; culture of succession, 110 ; list 
of, 189 
Pinks and carnations, to purchase, 140 
Pitcher plant, 14 
Pit (Fortune’s,), 155; for forcing, 183; heated 
by dung, 335 ; heating small, 410 
Pits, their structure, 4 
Pitcairnia Jacksonii, 265 
Pittosporum undulatum, 119 
Planting, 60 ; flowers in masses, 289 
Plants and animals compared, 2 
Plants, portraits of new, 44; half-hardy, win¬ 
tering, 47; unhealthy, 234; to manage in 
vinery, 353 
Pleuro-pneumonia in cows, 410 
Plumbago Larpentse as a bedder, 47 
Plumbago capensis, 92, 169 ; rosea treatment, 
409 
Plums, list of, 318 
Poinsettia pulcherrima, 320; treatment, 389 
Polyanthuses, 245 ; dressing, 309; sheltering, 
10 ; protecting, 66 
Polygonum cuspidatum, and other species, 287 
Pond, ornamenting circular, 403 
Pony with irritated skin, 92 
Poor, modes of aiding the, 68 
Poroto bean, 184 
Portugal laurel, removing, 140 
Port Natal, plants there, 220 
Potatoes under an ash, 14 ; early sorts, 28 ; 
grown on dry soil, 44; murrain avoided, 44; 
Rylott’s Flour Balls, 44, 55 ; earthing over 
stems, 56; forcing, 56, 181; scabby and 
growing, 204 ; planting, 69 , 88 ; preserving, 
69 ; disease, 90 ; on dry soil, 91 ; scab on, 91 ; 
lime for, 120; in rich ground, 120; Rylott’s 
flour-ball, autumn planting in Devon, soot 
and salt for, lime for, sawdust for, 220 ; crop 
after, 234 ; planting, 258 ; salt and soot for, 
262 ; (sprouted) planting, 273, 282 ; early 
planting, with mangold, with Swedes, with 
cabbage, with broad beans, 275 ; on heavy 
land, 282; earthing-up, 389 ; in an orchard, 
390 ; planting, 410; after turnips, 410 ; storing, 
312; manuring, 375 
Potherb moth, 207 
Potting, 355 ; when to be done, 333 ; winter 
resting plants, 184; its principles, 334 
Poultry not laying, 56; feeding, 282; profit 
from, 375 ; management of broods, 388 
Poultry-yard, 406, 409 
Preserves, pasting down, 14; to keep, 55 
Primrose, Chinese and fringed, 374 
Primula cortusoides, 326 ; capitata, 365 
Profit of land, 104 
Pruning, 140 ; order of, 6 l ; flowering plants, 
175 ; trees newly planted, 247 
Pumpkins, their use, 28 
Pyramidal training, 42 
Pyrus Japonica, 14 
Quincunx planting, 15 
Rabbit trespassing, 120 
Radishes in frames, 38; good kinds, 230 ; sow¬ 
ing, 284 
Rain in 1850, 283 
Rampion culture, 13 
Ranting Widow, 77> 141 
Ranunculus planting, 245, 315 ; for borders, 
248 ; beds, treatment of, 408 ; culture, 358 
Raspberries, autumn-bearing, 345, 391 ; canes, 
rubbing off the buds, 361 
Rats, to kill, 55 ; poisoning, 205 
P-ay (John), 221 
Red spider on violets, 41 
Renanthera coccinea culture, 65 
Rham (Rev. W. L.)» 43 
Rhododendrons in peat, 140; Javanicum, 42; 
situation for, 247 ; grafting, 390 
Rhodotliamnus Kamtchaticus, 159 
Rhubarb culture, 133; forcing, 245 ; planting, 
338 
Rliynchospcrmum jasminoides, 59 
Rivers’s nursery, 237 
Road-making errors, 190 
Rockery, 91 
Rock-work, colouring, 262 
Rodriguezia secunda culture, 65 
Rondeletia tliyrsoidea culture, 116 
Room plants managing, 7 ; culture of, 186 
Rooms, plants for, 242 
Root-pruning, 41, 331 ; culture, 147 
Roots, their use, &c., 93 ; distance they extend, 
94 
I Rosa indica, 282 
j Rosary, The, 351, 383 
I Rose bank, 253; girdle, 365 
