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INDEX. 
Crowfoots, small-flowered and white-floating, 
1; meadow-rue, or rue-weed, 29, 57 
Crowfoots, 79, 107, H3, 171, 207, 235, 285, 313, 
377, 405 
Cryptomeria japonica, 398 
Cryptostegia grandiflora, 205 
Crystal Palace, shall it be destroyed? 15 ; why 
it should remain, 44; exertions for, 59, 95 ; 
at Sydenham, 144, 187; company, 172; and 
its prospects, 207; arrangement of, 237 ; its 
capabilities, 264 ; proposed construction, 205 ; 
commenced, 315 
Crystal palaces proposed, 329, 379 
Cubitt, Sir W., 95 
Cucumber culture, 37, 169; on n °S e ?> ? 3 » 
diseased, 55; temperature for, 150; forcing 
and sorts, 346; very early, 347 
Cunningham & Co.’s Nursery, 386 
Cuphea platycentra culture, 13 
Cupressus funebris, 351 ; macrocarpa, or Lam- 
bertiana, 411, 414 
Currant culture, 175 
Cutting down (the), 294 
Cuttings, for America, 205; of greenhouse 
plants, 396 
Cyclamen culture, 176 
Cyrtanthera magnifica, 178 
Dahlia roots, grub eaten, 92 ; wintering, 424 
Dancer (Dr. J.), 159 
Daphne odorata grafting, 402 
Datura culture, 402 
Davies and Co.’s Nursery, 386 
Delphinium consolida, 313 
Dendrobium macrophyllum, 49 
Deodara Cedar, 56 ; large, 91 
Deodar with broken leader, 184 
Devonshire crops, 237 
Dickens, Mr. C., speech for the Gardeners’ 
Benevolent Institution, 186 
Dickson’s Nursery, 414 
Dictyanthus campanulatus, and culture, 236 
Dielytra spectabilis culture, 5, 312; crossing, 
13, 83 ; wintering, 347 
Disbudding, 6l 
Downing (J. A.), his death, 329 
Draciena nobilis, 178 
Dry weather, influence on crops, 275 
East wind, its effects, 36 
Eaton Hall, 414 
Echites Harrisonii, 178 
Edgings for geranium beds, 50 ; of box, 56 ; 
for walks, 194 ; London Pride for, 234 
Eggs, their associations and cooking, 25 ; how 
to preserve, 31 ; shell-less, 42 ; number im¬ 
ported, 46, 288 
Elder wine, recipe, 204 
Ellis, W., 15 
Elm bleeding, 75 
Elvaston Castle Gardens, 123, 329 
Eriobotrya grafting, 5 
Erythrina culture in beds, 368 
Evergreens, time for pruning, 298 : time for 
making cuttings of, 383 
Exhibitions, failure and success at, 148; in 
June, 212 ; final notes on, 270 
Exhibitors, rules for, 191 
Experimental cultivators, 15 
Fagopyrum cymosum, 412 
Falconer (Dr. W.), 299 
Fans of flowers, 30 
Farmer and Cottager’s guide, 58 
Feathers, their value, form, &c., 197 
Ferns, list of genera, 326 
Fig culture, 174; falling, 203; from seeds of 
grocers, 326 
Fish, effect of salt on, 420 
Fitzroya Patagonica, history and culture, 47 
Flooring of asphalt, 13 
Florists’ Flowers, 22, 86 ; suggestion for 
naming, 121; opinions on, 129; at Regent’s 
Park Show, 150; at Chiswick, 216, 257; in 
Regent’s Park, 243 
Flower-beds, modes of planting, 318 
Flower-bed plans, 423 
Flower basket bed, plants for, 105 
Flower gardens, arranging, 18 
Flower market at Lima, 17 
Fool’s pence, 67 
Fork, for digging, 79 ; dimensions, 248 
Forsyth MSS., 1, 16, 29, 45, 58, 80, 94, 109, 
122, 144, 159, 187, 208, 223, 252, 286, 302, 
314, 328, 351, 364, 378 
Forsythia viridissima against a wall, 5 
Fraser (John), 250; to Mr. Forsyth, 252 
Fraudulent tricks, 382 
Fritillarias, forcing, 423 
Fruit-trees, position of trained, at present time, 
60; autumn-planting, 353 ; rules for select¬ 
ing, 410 
Fruits for North Ireland, 91 ; prospect of crops, 
159, 173 ; at Chiswick, 212 
Fruit culture, points to be observed, 174 ; grow¬ 
ing for exhibition, 188 
Fuchsias, leaves curled, 120; blooms diseased, 
204 ; list of, 227 ; their great merits, 255 ; 
modes of culture, 256 ; which is the best ? 242 
Fumigation with cayenne unsuccessful, 106 
Fumigator, a simple one, 122 
Fungi, British parasitical, 136, 281 
Furniture oil, 205 
Gardeners’ Benevolent Institution An¬ 
niversary, 123, 185 
Gardeners’ wages, 326; importance of general 
knowledge to them, 334 ; what they ought to 
do, 403 
Gardenia Stanleyana shedding buds, 50 
Gardening, mutual dependance of its depart¬ 
ments, 334 
Gardiner (W), his distress, 94 ; death of, 210 
Gas tar for walls, 203 ; for floor, 205 
Gaultheria, a new species, 414 
Geissomeria aurantiaca, 178 
Gentianella culture, 12, 75, 169 
Geometric flower-garden, 423 
Geraniums, list of bedding, 55, 62; cuttings for 
summer blooming, 55 ; mode of growing, 75 ; 
fancy, 162; leaves diseased, 205; affected 
with thrips, 234 ; new bedding, 290; seed¬ 
lings from Sidonia, 306 ; against a wall, 319 ; 
six for bedding, 375 ; distinction between 
and Pelargoniums, 375 ; Sidonia, cross from, 
382 ; cuttings of, 396 ; wintering scarlet, 423 
German paste, for birds, 92; to make, 246 
Germination in autumn, 358 
Gesneras as specimens, 101 ; new, 178 
Gladiolus seedlings, 312 
Glass for vinery, 92 ; for pits, &c., 217 ; walls, 
411 
Globe flower, 207 
Gloriosa, Plantii, 178 ; superba, culture, 270 
Gloxinias as specimens, 101; new, 178 
Goat, the milch, and its food, 139, 154 
Goldfinches, feeding young, 140 
Gold fish, 362 
Golden Pippin, history of, 43 
Googe (Barnaby), 157 
Gooseberries to keep, 204 ; weight of prize, 350 
Gooseberry Shows, terms used at, 350 
Gourd (Mammoth) culture, 106 
Govenia, Grammatophyllum, and Grobya pro¬ 
pagation, 22 
Gowans, 235 
Grafting to promote hardiness, 4 
Grape, Joslin’s St. Albans, 56, 75 
Grape Hyacinths, hybridizing, 423 
Grapes, rusted, 119, 204 ; diseased, 248; culture 
of winter, 393; mildew on, 403; mildewed, 
to remedy, 424 
Grass under trees, 13 
Grasses, for bouquets, 42; for light soils, 42 ; 
English names of, 92 
Greaves, their price, 27 
Greenhouse, angle of roof and stage, 91 ; move- 
able, 92 ; building and heating, 99 ; its con¬ 
struction, 155 ; constructing economical, 162 ; 
managing warm, 227 ; with mixed objects, 
233; furnishing a small, 247; what is a 
warm, 356 
Guano (water), 13; mode of applying and 
analyses, 298 
Guava introduced, 121 
Gynerium argenteum, 412, 414 
Habrothamnus for trellis, 234 
Hamanthus not flowering, 92 
Hazlewood Castle gardens, 358 
Health of labourers, preserving, 299 
Heath-land, newly enclosed, 74 
Heaths, temperature, winter and spring bloom¬ 
ing, 6 ; list of, 7 ; pruning and training, 33 ; 
positions for, 63 ; fading, 402 ; culture, 403 
Helleborus viridis and feetidus, 249 
Henderson (L.) to Mr. Forsyth, 187 
Herb, Christopher, 377 
Heresbach’s Book of Husbandry, 157 
Hexacentras mysorensis, 113 
Hollyhock, its merits, &c., 321 ; its charac¬ 
teristics, 335 ; sowing, 336; mixing seed, 345 ; 
transplanting, 357 ; soil and planting, 370 ; 
thinning blooms, &c., 385 ; exhibiting, and 
cuttings of, 398 ; list of, 415 
Honesty the best policy, 103 
Honey-dew, 246 ; gathered by bees, 282 
Hong-Kong gardens, 330 
Horticultural shows, list of, see Shows 
Horticultural Show at Chiswick, 112, 125; 
florists’flowers there, 116 
Horticultural Society’s Exhibition, 226, 255, 
257 ; prizes for kitchen-garden produce, 316 
Horse-radish, substitute for, 187 
Hot-water tank, heating, 13 
Houlletia and Huntleya propagation, 22 
Hoya carnosa diseased, 92; imperialis and Pax- 
tonii, l6l 
Hyacinths, management of forced, 49; list of, 1 
49 
Hydrangea, with blue flowers, 205 ; transplant¬ 
ing, 375 
Hygrometer (Mason’s), 343 
Indian Poke, 412 
Indigofera decora culture, 374 
Ipomea, palmata, 178 ; culture of, 357 
Ipomopsis culture, 28 
Iron frames and sashes, 13 
Isemene calathinum culture, 184 
Ivy, killing trees, 141 
Ivy and climbers, 248 
Ixora salicifolia, l6l ; aurantiaca, 178 
Jersey, and its flower show, 287; gardening 
in, 423 
Jews-ears, 118 
Jottings by the way, 358, 385 
Judges at flower and poultry shows, 30, 226 
Julus pulchellus, 220 
Kew Gardens, 123 
Kitchen-garden routine, 9, 67 , 131, 152, 294, 
309; notes, 36; sundries, 103, 275, 276 ; 
walks, 179, 194 ; vegetables, estimate of sorts, 
203 
Klugia, Zeylonica, 178; notoniana and culture, 
363 
Labels for plants, 12; for shrubs, &c., 31; of 
glass, 424 
Laburnum, hybrid purple, 205 
Laciena, Lselia, Leptotes, Lissochilus, Luisia, 
and Lycaste propagation, 22 
Laelia purpurata, 213, 216 
Lake (The) and its tenants, 419 
Land, rules for purchasing, 157 
Langley (Batty), 93 
Landscape gardeners, 402 
Larches Weeping, 414 
Larkspur, wild, 313 
Laurel, Colchian, 386 
Lawn, coarse grassed, 312, 375 
Laycock Abbey, gardens, &c., 123 
Leaf-mould substitutes, 424 
Leaves, plants with showy, 62 
Lettsom (Dr.) to Mr. Forsyth, 223 
Lettuces from France, 81; growing, 130; to 
stand the winter, 359 
Lewes Horticultural and Poultry Shows, 268 
Lilium lancifolium and its varieties, 365 
Lily of the Valley planting, 298 
Lime in excess, 262 
Limonia laureola, 385 
Lincoln Horticultural Society, 30 
Liquid manure, its effects, 171; of stable drain¬ 
age, 220 
Liverpool Horticultural Exhibition, 223, 409 
Lobelia, bed, 92 ; coelestis, 362 
Lunardi to Mr. Forsyth, 208 
Lycopodiums, their use and culture, 292; list 
of and uses, 321 
Mac a, a Peruvian tuber, 17 
Maiden-hair fern, hardy, 312 
Malt, substitute for, 281 
Mandevilla suaveolens, 356 
Mangold wurtzel, sowing, 27 ; and carrots, 55 ; 
transplanting, 75 ; leaves, 417 
Manure, best mode of applying, 171 ; for flowers, 
424 
Maranta sanguinea, 178 
Marble, removing smoke stains from, 42 
Marsh marigold, 235 
Martens seen, 46 
Masdevallia, Maxillaria, Miltonia, and Mor- 
modes propagation, 22 
Masson (F.), 286 
Mavor (Dr. W.), 221 
Meadow rues, 29 ; greater and yellow-rooted, 57 
Mealy bug, destroying, 13 
Medinilla magnifica, 113 
Melons, number per plant, 37; culture, 48, 
131, 269 ; temperature for, 156; cankering, 
220 ; culture of late, 253 ; best varieties, &c., 
312 ; new seedling, 403 
Menziesia erecta, 98 
Michaux (M.), the elder, 252 
Mignonette, only one kind, 27 
Mignonette (tree) culture, 155 
Mildew, its cause, cure, &c., 242 ; on vines, 
treatment, 304 ; on peas, &c., 322; cause of 
and prevention, 3/8 
Milne (Dr. Colin), 185 
Mistletoe culture, and in the north, 89; grow¬ 
ing, 281 
Morels, 118 
Moss (green), where obtained, 150 
