INDEX 
Abies, species described, 2/3 ; derivation of 
name, 347 
Abutilon striatum in open ground, 173 
Acacia grandis and armata, their culture, 214 
I Achimenes, list of, and culture as specimens, 
34 ; training, insects, watering, 64 ; culture, 
81 ; new, 178; notes on new, 256 
Aconitum napellus, 349 
Acorns for New Zealand, 403 
Acrophyllum venosum culture, 215 
Acteea spicata, 377 
Adenandra fragrans culture, 215 
Adiantum capillus veneris, 312 
Adonis autumnalis, 79 
Advertisements, fraudulent, 390 
Advertizing, 234 
.TEchmea miniata, 229 
TEschynanthus, new, 178 
Agalmyla staminea, 27‘* 
Agricultural Society’s Show at Lewes, 262 
Ajax (Narcissus) minor, 32 
Alamanda not blooming, 362 
All things are possible, 323 
Allotment Farming, May, 67; June, 132; July, 
195; August, 275; September, 337; Octo¬ 
ber, 416 
Allotments at Alnwick, 417 
Alstroemerias done growing, 312; Chili, 362 
Amaryllis aulica, var. platypetala, culture, 81 
American aloe, first blooming in England, 121 ; 
management, 247 
American blight, 205 
Anagallis cuttings, 140 
Anderson (A.) to Mr. Forsyth, 1, 16 , 29, 45, 80, 
94, 109 ; to J. Smith, 58 ; memoir of, 122 
Anectochilus Lobbianus, 178 
Anemones, moving after blooming, 12; de¬ 
formed, 56; pulsatilla and nemorosa, 107; 
ranunculoides and apennina, 143; treatment 
of seedlings, 312 
Angelica, preserving, 56 
Annuals, sowing, 27 ; transplanting distances, 
55; sown in turf, 141; autumn-sown, 354; 
list of best, 355; for early blooming, 375 
Ants in greenhouses, 205; destroying, 234 ; on 
Cinerarias, 389 
I Aotus gracillimus culture, 215 
Aphides, wash for, 248 ; on cherry tree, 248 
Apple, its history, 43 
Apricot culture, 1/4 ; bottling, 220 
Aquatics (hardy), list of, 56 
Aquilegia vulgaris, 285 
Araucaria imbricata, 129 , 385 ; species described, 
308; removing, 358 
Arbutus procera, effects of root-pruning, 414 
Artichoke, varieties, 298 
Ashburton, plants wintered at, 205 
Asparagus, time of first appearing, and culture, 
23 ; slug eaten, 56 ; old idea concerning, 157 ; 
beds, compost for, 205 ; beds, applying salt, 
403 
Astle Hall, 358 
Ataccia cristata, 127, 148 
! Auriculas, list of, 346; packing for export, 390 
! Azalea amcena, 98, 148, 162 ; large specimen to 
obtain quickly, 99 ; Chinese, 126 ; leaves 
diseased, 156 
i Bacon, curing in Northumberland, 11 
Balsamina latifolia alba, 229 
i Bamboo, its uses, 352 
Bane-berry, 377 
! Banks (Sir J.) to Mr. Forsyth, 122 
Banks, sloping, 184, 205 
- Bartholinas, new, 178 
Bartonia aurea culture, 247 
Bath Horticultural Society, 110 
Bath poultry prizes, 123 
Beale, Dr. J., 44 
Beaufortia purpurea culture, 307 
Beaumontia grandiflora training, 204 
! Bedding out tender plants, 335 ; raising stock 
of. 401 
Bedding plants, 42; warnings about, 204 ; 
preparing stock of, 374 
Bedder for a large bed, 92 
Beer from beet-root, 95 
Bees, their instinct and senses, 10; Neighbour’s 
hive, 12 ; new system of keeping, 26, 388, 
401 ; Cory’s Hive, 28 ; deserting hive, 38 ; best 
countries for, 41; houses, giving.water, &c., 
41, 42 ; Payne’s square straw hives, 42; hive 
partly filled, 42 ; King’s or Cory’s hive, 55 ; 
robbing hive, 56 ; in old hive, 56 ; calendars— 
May, 69; June, 133 ; July, 1 96 ; August, 277; 
September, 339; October, 419; transferring 
bees in the north, adding small hives, venti¬ 
lation, 69 ; feeding, JO ; to obtain largest 
amount of honey, 73, 135; wild, to destroy, 
76 ; hives and artificial swarms, 88 ; enemies 
of, 89; hive disliked by bees, 92; Nutt’s Col¬ 
lateral Hive, 92 ; drones in autumn, 104 ; 
Payne’s glasses, 106; in house, 106 ; wild in 
lawn to destroy, 106 ; Apiarian Society, pro¬ 
posed, 109 ; prize for essay on, 110 ; treat¬ 
ment of swarm, 119 ; emigrating, 120 ; first 
swarms, 123; guide combs, glasses, drones, 
early breeding, 133; putting on glasses, 140; 
moving hive, 140, 1/0; earwigs and hornets 
their enemies, 154; Nutt’s hives, 155, 204 ; 
King’s hive, 167 ; not working, 170 ; swarm 
returning, 170 ; injuring flowers, 170 ; effect 
of heat and cold, 183 ; early swarms and 
enemies, 183; dead young, 184; killing 
queens, 184 ; swarms, 1 96 ; raising hive, 197 ; 
transferring glasses, 197; honey harvest, 200; 
monthly weight of hive, 203 ; swarming, 204 ; 
leaving hive, 204 ; early swarms, 205 ; moving 
glasses of honey, 205 ; to keep ants from, 220; 
preventing swarming, 220 ; queen piping, 
220 ; the queen, 231 ; drone, 232 ; bad season 
for, 233; in Australia, 233 ; honey dew, 234 ; 
weights in April and June, 234 ; returning to 
hive, 234 ; early drone-killing, 234 ; honey- 
dew for, 246; artificial swarm, 247 ; Taylor’s 
bar-hive, 247 ; driving, 247 ; melted combs, 
additional room, transporting hives, 277 ; 
swarm in place of stock, 282, 298 ; the season, 
296 , 298 ; taking honey, 2 77 , 312, 325, 375, 
376 ; time for buying, 326; wild, 340, 372 ; 
Apis lucorum, 341; confining, 342; losing 
queen, 346; fumigating and driving, 346; 
uniting swarms, 375 ; shelter they require, 
376 ; fumigating at the top of hive, 389 ; sub¬ 
stituting queens, 402 ; melting wax, 403 ; 
barley-sugar for, 403 ; taking queens, 403 ; 
state of stocks, 419; straw hives, 419; wild, 
Apis Hortorura, 422 
Beet-root sugar, 57 
Begonia Puseyii, 1/8; fuchsioides, 234 
Begonias, hybridizing, 234 ; new, 382 
Benefit clubs, 260 , 359 ; their rules and advan¬ 
tages, 387 
Benthamia fragifera, 143 
Berberis, trifurcata and Bealii, 226 ; aquifolium 
as an edging, 318 
Bignonia, culture of, 356 ; Chirere, 424 
Bilbergias, new, 229 
Black beetles, to destroy, 252 
Blackbird management, 24 ; the Vicar’s, 136 
Bleeding of vines, to cure, 119 
Blossom unfruitful, 170 
Border flowers, hardy, 168 
Borders, mode of stocking, 6 l ; tender plants 
for, 62 
Boronia serrulata culture, 176 
Botanical exchanges, 13 
Botanical Society’s Show in Regent’s Park, 189, 
192 
Botany Bay, its early difficulties, 303 
Botany cultivated by Lancashire weavers, 350 
Bouquets at Lima, 17 ; arranging, 18 
Bread-making, 71 
Bread-fruit to the West Indies, 95 
Breast wood, 224 
Brocoli, notes on its culture, 102 
Bromelia longifolia, 96 
Brompton Stock seedlings, 312 
Brown (Lancelot), 263 
Brugmansias not bedders, 42 
Brugmansia eximia, 178 
Brunsfelsia Jamaceensis, 178 
Bryanthus erectus, 98 
Bulb-bed, flowers to succeed, 105 
Budding, with wood in bud, 12 ; a ruling 
principle, 248 ; facilitator (Foulstone’s), 253 
Bulbs, early hardy, 32 ; not flowering, 65 ; in 
pots, 362; bottom-heat for, 382 
Bullocks, to calculate weight, 120 
Bury Horticultural Show, 159 
Cabbage sowing, 294 ; culture, 338 
Cactus not flowering, 92 
Calceolarias, list of new, 56, 212 ; list of, 193; 
done blooming, 203 ; best yellow, and pro¬ 
pagating, 369 ; Amplexicaulis and Sultan, 
369 ; cuttings, 397, 401 
Calder (Dr. J.), 144 
Calendars for May, 76 ; June, 141; July, 205 ; 
August, 283; September, 347; October, 424 
Callendrinia umbellata culture, 156 
Caltha palustris, 235 
Camellia, a yellow, 81 ; Daviesii, 386; shedding 
its buds, 424 
Campanula carpatica sowing, 312 
Canaries, male and two hens, 27 
Cantua dependens, 42; not flowering, 262 
Canvass for shelter, 27 
Cape Jasmine culture, 326 
Carnation layering, 92 ; when seedlings flower, 
403 
Carica papaya, 347 
Carrot sowing, 58; culture, 68 ; storing, 338 
Caterpillars in greenhouse, 106 
Cats, destroying, 75 
Cauliflower, to stand the winter, 359 
Cayenne fumigation, 140 
Cedrus, deodara, 129 ; Africana and deodara, 
336 ; Libani and elegans, 370 
Celery, culture of superior, 230 ; culture, 244 
Centranthus macrosiphon and culture, 391 
Cephalotus, species of, 397 
Charring, cleaning, &c., 338 
Cheap plants for windows, &c., 114 
Cheese, merits of different, 157 
Cheiranthus Marshallianus, its parentage, 83 
Chepstow Flower Show, 424 
Chicory, uses of, 59 ; culture in Jersey, 376 
Chilwell, 157 
Chimonanthus fragrans, 28 
Chrysanthemums, treatise on, 58; list of, 58 ; 
(Chinese) culture, 84; culture, 184; turning 
yellow, 375 
Churn (Drummond’s), 13 
Cider, clearing, 12 
Cinerarias, list of new, 56, l 6 l ; white and crim¬ 
son, list of, 92 ; notes on, 150 ; maritima, 
training, 184 ; done blooming, 203 : maritima 
and amelloides, 375 
Cissus marmorea discolor, 148 
Clematis Sieboldii dying, 184 
Clerodendrons, l 6 l; estimate of species, 270 
Clianthus, 312 
Climbers for windy aspect, 184 ; for warm con¬ 
servatories, 356, 374 ; new half-hardy, 375 
Club-root, preventing, 133 
Coal-ashes and sewage, 13 
Cockroaches, 184 
Columbine, 285 
Columnea aurantiaca, 178 ; Skinnerii potting, 
423 
Composts for fruit-trees, 353 
Concrete for play-ground, 204 
Coniferse, their characteristics, 129 ; soil for, 
164; arrangement and planting, 217; arrange¬ 
ment of, 244 
Conifers, Mr. Fortune’s new, 271; list of, 273 
Conservatory, what is a warm, 356 ; as a floral 
boudoir, 383 ; climbers for, 384 
Contrast (The), 342 
Coral plant out-of-doors, 75 
Coronilla glauca as an edging, 50 ; not bloom¬ 
ing, 55 
Cow, winter food for, 27 
Cowell, John, 121 
Crambe cordifolia, 187 
Cream, to obtain most, 362 
Crinum amabile culture, 362 
Crocuses, moving, 11 Q 
Cropping, autumn, 339 
Crops, rotation, 13 
