INDEX 
I Abutxlon striatum pruning, 120 
I Acacia floribunda, 156 
Acantholimon glumaceum, 302 
Acclimatizing, 47 
I Achimenes seedlings, 345 
j Advertisements, 264 
Aerides maculosum, var., Schrcederi, 45 
| ^Eschynanthus Javanicus culture, 216 ; train¬ 
ing, 393 
| Agalmyla staminea culture, 86 
! Ageratum Mexicanum, 282 
j Agriculture ever improvable, 313 
Air plant (Schroeder’s), 45 
Aiton, William, 263 
Allium acuminatum, 366 
Allotment ground for food for a cow and pigs, 
282 
Allotments, profit of, 18 ; farming—November, 
69; December, 132; January, 196; February, 
2/4; March, 337 ; April, 400 ; principles of, 
196 
Almeidea rubra, 223 
Alstroemeria culture, 362 
Amaryllis longifolia planting, 55 
Amateur (defined), 156 
American plants, planting, 6l 
Ammonia, carbonate of, 1 ; fixing, 184 
Ammoniacal liquor, 156 ; as manure, 13 
Anagallis for bedding, 184 
Anemone, its culture, 221 ; its history, 222 ; 
sowing, 298 ; beds, treatment of, 408 
Anderson (Dr. J.), 1 
Anguloa, list of and culture, 129 
Annuals, autumn-sown, 92 , 32d; winter, 113 ; 
flower-border, 305 ; for greenhouse, 361, 370 ; 
under trees, 409 
Ancectochilus setaceus culture, 130 
Anomatheca cruenta, 169 
Antler moth, 1 
Ants attacking hive, 13 
Apiary, history of, 259, 227, 404 
Apiarian’s Calendar, for November, 70; De¬ 
cember, 133; January, 198; February, 276 ; 
March, 339; April, 402 
Apple cheese, 90 
Apple-trees, moving large, 106 ; manuring, 298 
Apples, list of, 317; for dwarfs, 345 
Apricot (Moor Park), 235 ; shedding fruit, 262 ; 
list of, 318; grub, 331 
Aquatics, list of hardy, 184 ; planting, 311 
Araucaria excelsa and Cunninghamii in winter, 
14 
Arbor vitae in pots, 42 
Arbutus, moving large, 298 
Arcade, its use, 45 
Arnott’s stove, management of, 409 
Artichoke culture, 56, 167 
Arum for window, 282 
Arundina, list of and culture, 133 
Ash (weeping), pruning, 42 ; training, 247 
Ash-tree, its exclusiveness, 361 
Asparagus, forcing, 88, 131, 245 ; salting, 13; 
beds, 156; in October, 143; beds, dressing, 
51 ; beds, making, 345 
Astrapjea viscosa, 352 
Auriculas, sheltering, 10; wintering, 51, 1 67 ; 
culture, 245, 257 ; dressing, 309 
Aylsliam Horticultural Society, 42 
Azaleas, not flowering, 91 ; in large pots, 119; 
suckers, 184 ; shifting, 361 ; sinensis culture, 
311; (Chinese), select list of, 218; losing 
leaves, 248 ; pruning, 374 
Bacon, 246; to keep, 274 
Balconies, 213; evergreen plants for, 214 
Balsams, 301 ; true from seed, 238; culture, 370 
Bank of marl, 409 
Banks (sloping), their use, 11®, 204, 298 ; for 
flowers, 240 ; for roses, 253 
Barbacenia Hogierii, 379 
Barberry pruning, 176 
Bark for hotbed, 346 
Bath bricks, 300 
Bartrams (J. and W.), 327 
Beans, to plant, 276 ; sowiug, 102, 309 ; list of, 
195 
Bedeguar on roses, 28 
Bedded-out plants, 304 ; preserving and propa¬ 
gating, 85, 96 
Bedding-out plants (white), 92 ; (yellow), 36l 
Bee-flower, earliest, 283 
Bee-keeper’s Calendar. See Apiarian’s. 
Beer, use of, 154 ; from sugar, 181, 247, 312 
Bees, remedy for stiug, 26 ; collecting honey- 
dew, 28 ; uniting, 41, 70 ; wintering, 52; with 
eke to the hive, 55; burying, 56; cover for 
old hives, 56 ; shading, 70 ; weight of comb, 
70 ; management in former times, 71 ; turning 
to north, 76 ; preventing swarming with small 
hives, 76 ; notes about, 89 ; society proposed, 
79; transferring, 89, 138; uniting, 104; feed¬ 
ing, 104, 106; aspect for, 118; burying, 119; 
feeding artificial stocks, 134; ventilation, 134 ; 
feeding in old straw hive, 141; cover for hive, 
141; Taylor’s hive, 170; honey-candying, 
170; quality of honey, 198; over stocking, 
198; artificial stocks, 198 ; burying, 199; 
honey-dew, 199 ; hives, painting, 220 ; bury¬ 
ing, 231; house for, 234; in Taylor’s hive, 
247; history of apiary, 259; fumigating, 
259; shading, 260 ; feeding, 262 ; feeding pans 
for, 276 ; honey and hives for the Grand Ex¬ 
hibition, 276 ; feeding and depriving, 277 ; 
metal feeders, floats, taking off small hives, 
278 ; dampness in hives, 276 , 278 ; artificial 
swarms, 277 ; caps on hives, 281 ; transferring, 
3/4; shading and fumigating, 295 ; honey- 
dew eaten by, 296 ; depriving, 396 ; Payne’s 
hives for, 312; Calendar for March, 399; 
hives, preparing, 339 ; shading, 340 ; water 
for, 340; artificial swarms, 342; candied honey 
for, 344 ; feeding, 339, 346; excrements, 346 ; 
time of becoming torpid, 361 ; guide comb 
for, 361 ; young, 402 ; buried, 402; guide 
combs, 403 ; artificial swarms, 404 ; honey- 
dew, 405; honey consumed by, in winter, 406 
Begoniads, 159 
Begonias, 321; Ingramii, 159; Evansiana, 48; 
coccinea culture, 234 
Benthamia fragifera, 205 
Berberris Wallichiana, 59 
Berberry, 3 
Bethnal Green Societies, 315 
Bible, information of the, 3 Q 2 
Bignonia radicans, 170 ; list of and culture, 179; 
Australis unhealthy, 362 
Bignoniads from root cuttings, 238 
Black barley, 220 
Blancmange (Rice), 105 
Blenheim, 249 
Bletia, list of and culture, 130 
Blistering of nectarine leaves, 156 
Border for fruit-trees, 409 
Bokhara clover, 282 
Borecoles, list of, 195 
Blossoms, retarding, 252 
Botany, Natural System, 221 
Bottom heat, importance of, 256 ; mode of pro¬ 
ducing, 379 
Bottling ale, 77 
Bouquets, 305 
Box churn, 12 
Bradley (Richard), 93 
Brassia, list of and culture, 130 
Brawn (Oxford), 28 
Bread, milk, 75; brown, 203 
Bricks, Egyptian, 233 
Bridgesia spicata, 97 
Bright-line-brown-eye moth, 207 
British Birds (Morris’s History of), 249 
Brocoli introduced, 157; winter sorts, 182; list 
of, 195; protecting, 258; succession of and 
clubbing, 283 ; Walcheren, 300 ; laid in, 10, 
42, 133 ; sowing, 362, 410 
Bromelworts, 265 
Brompton Park Nursery, 171 
Broth, white, 75 
Brown (Lancelot), 249 
Browne, (Sir T.), 15 
Brugmansia, protecting, 204 
Brunsfelsias, 1/2 
Brunsvigias, are Amaryllises, 48; not flowering, 
92; culture, 120, 140 
Buckwheats, 287 ; Order, 317 
Budding knife, Turner’s, 390 
Bulbs, removing, 14; potting, 14; culture, 34; 
desirable, 48; from the Cape, culture, 120; 
first grown in glasses, 157,242; forcing for 
Christmas, 204 ; to ripen forced, 311,312; in 
winter, 114 ; culture, 140 
Bulleyn (Dr. W.), 207 
Burlingtonia rigida culture, 168 
Burns, treatment of, 373 
Cabbage crops, 180 
Cabbages, list of, 195; club-rooted, 13, 92; 
seed, insect eaten, 27; early planted, 2/3, 
276 
Cabool, plants for and from, 183, 234 
Cactus, speciosissimus, 155 ; yellow, 297 
Cage birds, 280 
Calanthe, list of and culture, 166 ; masuca, 223 ; 
veratrifolia, 224 
Calceolarias cuttings, 91 ; shrubby, culture. 99 ; 
list of new, 201 ; seedlings, 219 ; for bedding, 
248 : potting, 345 ; to obtain, 408 
Calendars, how calculated, 14; for November, 
77 ; December, 141 ; January, 205 ; February, 
283; March, 346; April, 410 ; companion to, 
397 
Calico transparent covering, 13 
California, 248 
Calla iEthiopica culture, 345 
Calliandra Tweediei culture, 398 
Calochortus pallidus, 266 
Camellia, leaves blotched, 77 ; propagating, 119; 
buds falling, 169 , 262 ; potting, 219 ; leaves 
brown, 247 ; leaves diseased, 345 ; shifting, 
361 ; grafting, 374 
Campanula carpatica, 120, 141, 156, 204 ; 
white, 374 ; Vidalii, 368; (white), 290, 304 ; 
(blue), 304 ; pumila, 304 
Canaries, red bug on, 120 
Candles, 24 
Canker in cauliflowers, 294 
Cantua bicolor, 297 
Carbonate of ammonia as a manure, 30 
Carnations, list of new, 90 ; winter blooming, 
141; protecting, 66 ; culture, 386; in pots, 
389 ; list of, 389 ; showing in pots, 393 
Carrots, sowing and storing, 10, 23, 338; late- 
sown, 91 V forcing, 181; selection for cot- I 
tagers; 217; in frames, 2”3 ; horn, 276 , 282 ; 
culture, 401 
Catalogues, 253 
Catalpa pruning, 282 
Catasetidee, notes on, 145 
Catasetum fimbriatum, 145 ; list of and cul- 
l turc, 166 
Cattleyas, culture and list of, 193 ; superba cul- 
j ture, 298 ; labiata alba, 108 ; anecdotes of 
I species, 109 
Cauliflower, culture, 10, 116,257; storing, 38; 
pricking out, 51; protecting, 167 ; in pots, 
230, 294 ; canker in, 294 
Ceanothus azureus, 219 
Cedars, 16 ; moving large, 205 
Celery cankering, 120 ; culture, 167 , 343 
Cellar heated, 409 
Cement to unite zinc and glass, 375 
Cephalotus, 14 
Ceraptcryx graminis, 1 
Ceylon seeds, 219 
Chambers, Sir W., and his Chinese gardening, 
363 
Chalk downs, 170 
Chapped hands, 105 
Charcoal, burning in-doors, 156; for disinfect¬ 
ing, 262 ; drainage, 344 
Charring, how to manage, 310 ; earth, 324 ; saw¬ 
dust, 337; rubbish, 28, 258 ; tan and peat, 
373 ; wood, 387 
Cheep in chickens, 13 
Cheese pan, 54 
Chelsea Gardens, 157, 158 
Cherry grafting, 248; list of, 318 ; (winter) cul¬ 
ture, 408 
Cherry-tree cankered, 262 
Chickens, feeding young, 407 
I Chickweed, 75 
j China-aster culture, 19 
Chinese primrose culture, 374 
Chocolate and cocoa, 352 
, Chorozema, list of, culture, &c., 269 
I Chloride of lime as a manure, 408 
! Chrysanthemum (Madame Pompadour), 170 
I Chrysanthemums, their winter treatment, 184 ; 
not flowering, 204 ; green fly on, 88 ; blind, 
I 92; season, bad, 107; stopping, 119; cul¬ 
ture, 10 ; selected list of, 278 : failures, 281 
I Chrysopa perla, 13 
Cider from turnips, 77 
Cider apples, list of, 299 
Cineraria culture, 102 , 180, 202 ; list of, 182; 
leaves curling, 234 ; for bedding, 248 
Cinerarias prematurely blooming, 297 ; not 
blooming, 298 ; potting, 335 ; protecting, &c., 
372 ; seedlings, 410 
Cirrhsea, culture of and list, 229 
Citron, 163 
Citrus, species of, 163 
Clay marl, of Norfolk, &c., 232; of Suffolk, 
11 
i Clayey soil, improving, I/O ; for garden, 345 
Cleanliness in cottages, 294, 342 
Clematis Sieboldii, treatment of, 220 
1 Clerodendrum potting, 334 
1 Climbers for greenhouse, 248 ; for stove, 243, 
298 ; for trellis, 374 ; for wall, 409 
Club-root in cabbages, 13, 92 
Coccoloba macrophylla, 317 
Cochylis vitisana, 29 
Cochchafer grub. 15 
Cockscomb culture, 370 
Cochin China fowls, 360, 361 ; to buy, 408 
Ccelogyne, list of and culture, 229 
Coccus adonidum, 157 
Colchicum planting, 55 
1 Coleworts planting, 51, 133 
1 Colquhounia, vestita, 84 ; coccinea, 173 
