INDEX. 
Mother’s lesson (A), 218 
Mouse-tail, 171 
Mulching, 6 l 
Mushroom, making spawn and beds, 371 
I Mustard (French), to make, 106 
( Myrtle cuttings, 27 
| Myosurus minimus, 171 
Nails, for tying branches to, 365 
Nautylocalyx bracteatum, 178 
Nectarine-tree over-fruitful, 140 
Nectarines, protecting and disbudding, 146; 
shoots leafless, 184 ; stopping, 331 
Nelumbiums, 256 
Neottia propagation, 22 
Nepenthes culture, situation, soil, and propa¬ 
gation, 7 
New Holland plants, varying in culture, 176 
Odontoglossum propagation, 22 
(Enothera speciosa, as a bedder, 70 ; macro- 
carpa, plan ting-out, 119; treatment, 312 
Oldaker (J.)» 3 
Oleander culture, 13 
Oncidium propagation, 36 
One thing lacking, 37 
Onion culture, 68 ; thinning, 118; winter 
standing, 336 ; general culture, 338, 339 
Orchard-house, training, 3 
Orchards in England, 43 
Orchard unproductive, 28; treatment of old, 
203 
Orchard houses, their construction, 82, 160; 
proportions for, 220 
Orchids diseased, 119; at Chiswick, 127, 213; 
notes on, 147; choice, l 6 l ; propagation, 22, 
36, 52, 85, 115 
Orchid flowers, preserving, 262 
Osage orange, 120 
P/EONIA CORRALINA, 405 
Pampas grass, 412 
Panama grass, 414 
Pandanus Javanicus variegatus, 178 
Pannell’s heating apparatus, 224, 317 
Pansies in pots, 99 ; notes on, 151 ; list of, 193, 
243; new, 216; exhibiting, 226; packing for 
exportation, 390 ; preserving from wire- 
worms, 390 
Papaw tree, 121 
Paphinia, Paxtonia, Peristeria, Phaius, and 
Phalsenopsis propagation, 36 
Parsley, varieties, 297 
Parsnip sowing, 58 ; culture, 68 
Passiflora, Buonapartea, 156 ; new, 179; culture 
of, 356 
Paterson (W.), 328; in India, 351; to Mr. 
Forsyth, 365, 378 
Paulownia imperialis culture, 262 
Pavetta caffra culture, 270 
Pavia grafting, 4 
Pea, skinless (new hybrid), 329 
Peach, double crimson and double white, 50; 
mildewed, 120 
Peaches, protecting and disbudding, 146; bot¬ 
tling, 220 ; mildewed, treatment of, 283 ; time 
of ripeness when forced, 283; stopping, 331 
Peacocks destructive, 170 ; cut in yew, 283 
Pears, disbudding and thinning, 146 ; pruning, 
&c., 332 ; succession of, 347 
Pear-tree unfruitful, 27 ; from layers, 74 
Peas, best kinds and pruning, 41 ; for a late 
crop, 152; the crown variety, 283 ; varieties, 
297 ; raising late crops, 377 
| Pelargoniums, 125; fancy, 126, 193; notes on, 
150; new, 162; list of best, 190, 192; notes 
of good, 216; list of, 227, 240, 243 ; their 
colour, cutting down, &c., 257 ; fancy va¬ 
rieties, 258 
Pentstemon gentianoides and its varieties, 197 ; 
species and culture, 233 
Petunia, Shrubland Rose, 389 ; beds, arrang¬ 
ing, 402 
Phsenocoma prolifera culture, 307 
Phalsenopsis Lobbii, 49 ; diseased, 92 
Pharbitis limbata, 156 
Pheasants (Common), its fertility, 91; the 
Bohemian, 104; rearing, 134, 298; rearing 
in captivity, 153 ; eggs, time to buy, 283 
Pheasants, gold and silver, 9 , 70 ; anecdotes 
of, 39 ; not tender, 376 
Pheasant’s, eye, 79 
Phillips (Governor), 302 
Philoaendron pertusum, 214 
Phlox, procumbens, subulata, nivalis, and rep- 
tans, 168 ; decussata, 326 ; list of, 414 
Physalis edulis, 27 
Phytolacca acinosa, 412 
Physurus propagation, 52 
Picturesque gardening, 263 
Pigeons, laying and hatching, 138, 201, 279; 
coupling, 71 ; tumblers, 72; smilter, 139; 
pied race, 202 ; shaker varieties, 280; not 
rearing young, 344 ; Swiss varieties, 345 ; 
Antwerps, 362 
Pig feeding, 276 , 339 
Pigstye wall, protective, 91 
Pine-apple, its introduction, 121 ; blotching, 
220 ; shifting, &c., 238 ; preserve, 248 ; heat 
required for, 282; produce, 312; at high 
temperatures, 312 ; cheapest mode of growing, 
316, 326; bottom-heat for, 317; points in 
growing, 389 
Pinetum, forming a, 1 64 
Pinks, piping, 92; list of, 21 6 , 243, 258 
Pit for wintering plants, 27 
Pits, heating, 13 ; heated by kitchen fire, 106 ; 
constructing Dutch, 155; of turf and earth, 
203; for strawberries, &c., 268 ; mode of 
heating, 283 ; uses of forcing, 386 ; form of, 
386 ; over a well, 424 
Pits and greenhouses, their proper construction, 
127 
Plant Clubs, 199 
Pleroma elegans culture, 270 
Ploughing, Peruvian, 17 
Plums, preserving, 204 ; diseased, 312 
Ponds, to cure green scum in, 283 
Poppy (white) culture, 283 
Portlandia platantha, 179 
Potato disease, 237, 288, 316; means of avoid¬ 
ing, 327, 337, 406 
Potato-leaf diseased, 234 
Potatoes, leaving in ground, 12 ; in Peru, 17; 
cooking, 30; planting in autumn, 58 ; shelter¬ 
ing, 68 ; left where grown, 75; culture, 132, 
312 ; growing for sets, 276 ; early and late 
kinds, 283 ; obtaining early, 347; depth for 
planting, 390 ; its history, 391, 405 ; planting, 
403 ; murrain, its cause and prevention, 406 
Potting, benefit of hard, 42; effects of firm and 
loose, 50 
Poultry, prizes, 2 ; Cochin-China hatching, 12; 
Polands, 12 ; eating their eggs, 13; greaves 
for, 13; Newcastle Prize list, 17; cost of 
chicken nursing, 28 ; Judges at Shows, 46 ; 
not laying, 55; treatment of roup, 56; Cochin- 
China eggs, 56; egg-eaters, 70, 74, 76; plen¬ 
tiful feeding, 70 ; gapes in, 75 ; Cochins v. 
Polish, 76 ; profit and loss account of, 90 ; 
eating eggs, 105,119; losses in hatching, 106 ; 
Shanghai and Cochin, 106 ; Cochin in garden, 
106 ; prizes, 108; Cochin-China, points of 
excellence, 108; price of certificate at Lewes, 
110; Dorkings not laying, 119; nests, to 
make, 119; packing eggs, 120; Egyptian 
geese, 120; Cochin-China v. Spanish, 120, 
360 ; and Dorkings, 388, 400 ; coops and 
nests, 134; points of beauty, 137; hen de¬ 
prived of eggs, 140; number of eggs (Dork¬ 
ings), 140; egg-eating fowls, 140, 141 ; cure 
for white-comb, 154; with swollen eyes, 156; 
profitable keeping, 156; ducks not laying, 
1 56 ; chickens dying, 1 56 ; rumpless,, 150 ; 
failures in hatching, 156 ; classifying for show, 
158; young turkeys, 170 ; sale of Cochins, 
173 ; wounded hens, 184 ; Cochin-Chinas, 
their merits, 197 ; Malays, their merits, 200 ; 
exhibitions, rule for, 200 ; game, their merits, 
201; nests to be warm, 202 ; lameness in, 
204 ; best to keep, 204; in limited space, 204 ; 
Dorking combs and Poland ruffs, 204 ; chilled 
eggs, 205 ; Cochin-China, its history, 209 ; 
points of merit, 209 ; price of Cochin-China, 
210, 238; Game and Poland, 219; chickens 
for exhibition, 220 : Roman, Greek, and 
Hebrew, 222 ; sale of, 223 ; cross-bred, their 
merits, 232; eggs for hatching, 234 ; Roman 
opinion of their excellent points, 235 ; ancient 
British, 236 ; Malay described, 245 ; Lovell 
breed, 248, 296, 376; space required for, 
248; the vanished hen, 261 ; black Polands, 
26l ; at Crystal Palace, 266 ; what breed is 
most profitable, 2 77 ; Cochin-China manage¬ 
ment, 277 ; Polands, beards or no-beards ? 
279 ; white comb in, 283 ; early English 
notices of, 285; estimate of kinds, 295, 297; 
greaves for, 298 ; Cochin-China, 298 ; winter 
roosting place, 298; Black Cochin-Chinas, 
298 ; Polands, 298 ; Mr. Punchard’s mode of 
sending eggs, 303 ; of the Calaisis and the 
Ardresis, 310, 324, 339; which is most profit¬ 
able, 311; Cochin-China chickens, 312 ; form 
of tail, 312; not tender, 312; Trotter on, 
313; Cochins, their form, laying, &c., 314; 
sales of, 315; Malays, their merits, 325; 
rules for judging needed, 325, 326 ; gapes, 
its nature and cure, 326 ; Spanish v. Cochin, 
326; Polands v. Hamburghs, 342; class forty 
at Birmingham, 343 ; Cochins in Turkey, 
344 ; Cape of Good Hope, 344 ; Rumpless 
and Silk, 344 ; goslings, weight of, 346 ; 
carriage of eggs, 347 ; Dorkings varying in 
claws, 345 ; profitable kinds, 345 ; Cochin- 
China Cockerels, 362 ; hens laying two eggs 
in a day, 362, 403, 424 ; G. Markham on, 
vii 
363 ; shape of, management of, and eggs, 
364; gapes, to cure, 374 ; imported Cochin, 
375 ; Cochins not booted, 375 ; age of breed¬ 
ing, 3"6; lice, to kill, 376 ; nomenclature, 
376 ; fowls in a confined space, 376 ; call 
ducks, 376 ; Cochins roosting, 403 ; food for 
chickens, 403 ; characteristics of pure Cochins, 
403 ; merits of Cochins, 420; Dutch Every¬ 
day-Layers, 422; Golden-Spangled Ham¬ 
burghs, 424 
Poultry shows, list of, see Snows. 
Poultry Shows: Newcastle, 54 ; Metropolitan, 
96 ; Lewes (price of certificate), 110; Chel¬ 
tenham and Gloucester, 181 ; Lewes, 262, 
267 ; Yorkshire, 361 ; Cottager’s, 365 ; Royal 
North Lancashire, 372 ; Bury and RadclifFe, 
389 ; Yarmouth, 418 
Price (Sir Uvedale), 263 
Prices, nurserymen’s, 121 
Prices of fancy live stock, 252 
Primula sinensis not seeding, 13 
Protection, or no-protection, 182 
Protecting material, cheap, 42 
Protection of blossom, 31 
Pruning rules, 93, (spur) 346 
Pulteney vDr. R.), 314 
Puya Funckiana, 229 
Rabbits, fattening, 76 ; out of health, 362 
Ranunculaceae, 29 , 57, 79, 107, 143, 171 , 207, 
235, 313, 377, 405 
Ranunculus parviflorus and aquatilis, 1; aqua- 
ticus as cow-food, 46 ; arvensis for warts, 75 
Ranunculuses, from Rome, 262 ; list of, 346 ; 
in pots, 362 
Raphistemma pulchella, 329 
Raspberry culture, 175 ; (autumn) culture, 332 
Rayner’s (Mr.) aviary, 379 
Redbreast, food for, 234 
Red spider on melons, 166 
Regent’s Park Horticultural Show, 146, 150, l6l 
Relhania squarrosa, 241 
Renanthera propagation, 52 
Retarding blossom, 31 
Rhododendrons, Sikkim, 4, 190 ; treatment of 
forced, 106; unhealthy, 120; yellow, 148; 
Himalayah, seedlings, 183; Anthopogon and 
Lepidotum, 204 ; leaves diseased, 326, 375; 
culture and list, 332 ; budding and grafting, 
367 ; making standards, 368, 394 ; cinna- 
monum, its hardiness, 414 
Rhodoleia Championii, 229 
Rhubarb wine, 12 ; fining, &c., 75 
Rhubarb, English, its qualities, 140; Elford, 
183; exporting, 184; preserving, 283; when 
to cease cutting, 347 
Ribes sanguineum, pruning, 262 
Ring of Pomona, 27 
Roellia ciliata, 240 
Rookery management, 56 
Rooks, killing young, 91 , 118; require thinning, 
281 
Root crops, 132 
Root-culture of fruit-trees, 111 
Root grafting, 4 
Root-pruning large fruit-trees, 74; rules for, 
380, 381 ; when to be done, 403 
Rose-buds, exchange of, 220 ; dying, 282 
Roses in pots for exhibition—budding, and 
rules for pruning, 8; shedding leaves, 13; 
management in winter, and cuttings, 21 ; 
house and pit for, 35 ; Cloth of Gold shedding 
leaves, 42 ; Felicity perpetuelle, 42 ; glazed 
pit for, 52 ; soil, and list of, 65, 226 ; budded, 
75 ; potting, 86 ; pruning, 87; manuring, 92 ; 
training, 101 ; summer treatment, 116 ; pot¬ 
ting neglected, 119 ; forcing damask, 120; 
mildewed, 120 ; winter treatment, 130, 151; 
time for starting, 130 ; insects on, 165 ; mildew 
and gangrene, 179 •* carriage of, selecting, 
preparing, and staging, 194 
Roses, double yellow, to bloom, 121 ; in pots, 
125; notes on, 150; newly budded, 155; 
light-coloured for greenhouse, 156; treat¬ 
ment of budded, 204; green centred, 205 ; 
exhibiting cut, 229 ; not flowering, 247 ; dis¬ 
tinguishing sorts, 247; weeping and union, 
247; list of, 258 ; saving seed, 258 ; classify¬ 
ing them, 262 ; leaves blotched, 283 ; raising 
varieties, 293 , 308 ; saving seed, 308; bud¬ 
ding, 311; sports, 312; autumn planting, 
394 ; management of seedlings, 402; planting 
standards, 403 
Rotation of crops, 309 
Rue weeds, 29 
Russelia juncea culture, 305 
Rustic flower-baskets, J3 
Rustic work (practical) work on, 122 
Saccolabium propagation, 52 
Salvias, gesneriflora, 126 ; patens, wintered out 
of doors, 205 ; in rows, 335 ; patens shedding 
its flowers, 375 
