INDEX. 
viii 
Saurauja cauliflora, 148 
Saxifraga, sarmentosa culture, 92; hypnoides as 
an edging, 347 
Scarlet runners, perennials, 312 
Schomburgckia propagation, 85 
Scraper, garden, 409 
Scuticaria propagation, 85 
Scythe, Boyd’s, 110 
Sea sand for potting, 347 
Season, its consequences, 80 ; reminiscences of, 
259; its peculiarities, 319; its effects on 
crops, 415 
Seeds, transmission of foreign, 209; their 
growth in autumn, 358 ; sowing small, 374 
Sewage, how to employ, 183 
Shaddock, why so named, 121 
Shading, 257 
Shading greenhouse, 119 
Shallots, storing, 338 
Sheep, Southdown and Shropshire, 46 
Shows, list of Horticultural and Poultry, 60, 
81, 96, 110, 123, 145, 159, 173, 188, 210, 224, 
238, 253, 268, 288, 303, 316, 330, 352, 365, 
380, 393, 410 
Shows, Regent’s Park, 240, 243 
Sick, a lesson for the, 131 
Silver sand, where obtained, 156 
Sinningia, guttata, 101 ; punctata, 229 
Sion House, 297 
Siphocampvlos, new, 229 
Skirving’s Nursery, 385 
Sky-lark, management, 246 
Sobralia propagation, 85 
Soil, over-fertile. 140 
Sollya heterophylla cuttings, 326 
Song birds, naturalizing foreign, 73 ; British, 
246, 296 
Sophronites propagation, 86 
Sowing, 69 
Species do not become extinct, 43 
Specimens (single) need not now be removed, 1 91 
Specimens, prizes not needed for single, 212 
Sphserostema propinqua and culture, 327 
Spigelia marilandica, 415 
Spinach, winter, 337 
Stable drainage, to apply, 362 
Stakes for dahlias, See., 283 
Stanhopea propagation, 86 
Statice Americana, wintering, 3 
Stephanotis floribunda culture, 140, 357 ; oblisii, 
229 
Stove plants in the open air, 305 
Strawberry, forcing in pots, 50 ; (Alpine) cul¬ 
ture, 175; runners, 184; forcing, 220, 269; 
promoting runners, 220; runners removing, 
234; planting, 288, 423; preparing for forcing, 
291 ; after being forced, 292 ; their history, 
300 ; consumption of, 301 ; estimate of varie¬ 
ties, 302 ; (Alpine), trimming, 332 ; cutting 
off leaves, 390 ; seedlings, bearing, 403 
St. Vincent’s, Botanic Garden at, 58 
Sugar and sugar apparatus, treatise on, 57 ; its 
history, 299 
Sulphur fumigations, 257 
Sun-flower, large size of, 390 
Tacca intkgrifolia, 229 
Tagetes lucida, 140 
Tan hot-bed, and its uses, 399, 403 
Taxodium, sempervirens, 129; distichum, 414 
Tecoma jasminoides not flowering, 424 
Tenant removing shrubs, 140 ; trees, See., 220 
Tetratheca verticillata culture, 305 
Thalictrum alpinum and minus, 29 ; majus and 
flavum, 57 
Thetford, weather in 1851, 326 
Thinning cultivated plants, 117 
Thistles, time for destroying, 282 
Tillandsia vittata and carnea, 229 
Tobacco, growing, 247 
Tobacco-water, making, 56 
Tobacco paper, 119 
Tomato culture, 87 
Top-dressings for fruit borders, 111 
Torch thistle introduced, 121 
Tradescant’s (jun.) birth-place, 3 
Training fruit-trees, 225 
Trollius Europseus, 207 
Transplanting in autumn, 394 
Trees, law of removing, 74 
Trentham, 413 
Trichopilia propagation, 115 
Trollius chinensis, 1 76 
Tropceolum canariense culture, 12; tricolorum 
sowing, 27 ; after blooming, 155; speciosum 
successfully grown, 156, 173; speciosum in 
the open air, 233 ; and against a wall, 262 ; 
tuberosum, large specimen of, and cuttings, 
312 
Trowbridge Exhibition, 110 
Tulip bed, cost of, 376 
Tulips, list of, 376 
Tulip shows, 168 , (National), 209 
Turf laying, 27 
Turnips, growing early, 8 ; (Swedish) culture, 
68 ; (Swedes) transplanting, 133; the Orange 
Jelly, 276 
Turtle Dove, management, 297 
Upper Chamber, the, 180 
Vacant ground, occupation of, 309 
Vanda propagation, 115; Batemanii, 213 
Variegated-leaved plants, stove and hardy, 82 
Variegated plants, 214 
Varieties wear out, 43 
Vase in hall, plants for, 106 
Vegetable marrow, 297 
Ventilation, consequences of bad, 297 
Verbenas, list of, 55 ; venosa propagating, 92, 
183, 362; training, 312; cuttings, 397; win¬ 
tering, 424 
Veronica decussata, 204 
Village decorations, 264 
Vinegar plant, 375 
Vines, under glass, 18, 304 ; mildew, to remove, 
27; Josling’s St. Alban’s, 28 ; roots of stove, 
92 ; moving, 92 ; under glass, ventilation, 
temperature, &c., 97; management of young, 
124; syringing, 141 ; mildewed, 1 69 ; blossom 
unfruitful, 170 ; weevil, 170 ; scale, to destroy, 
205 ; pruning, 210,362; from Canada, 247 ; 
pruning the third year, 366 
Visiting gardens, its utility, 412 
Vriesia speciosa, 126; psittacina, 229 
Walks, gas-tar, 11, 90; rules for making and 
keeping, 413 
Wall-flower, cuttings, 27; hybridizing with the 
Stock, 262 
Walls, hollow, 106 
Wardian Case, plants for, 156 
Warts, cure for, 75 
Warrea propagation, 115 
Wasp catcher, 122 
Water, its uses and abuses, 66 ; hard, to im¬ 
prove, 76 ; boiling in wooden vessel, 106 
Water Lilies in heated pond, 287 
Weeds in court-yard, 247 
Weigela rosea, hardy, 75 
Wheat, its origin, 267 ; best variety, 362 
Wild flowers, British, 1, 29, 57, 79 , 107, 143, 
171, 207, 249, 285, 313, 349, 377, 405 
Wilton Hall, 358 
Window gardening, rules for, 20 
Wine, when to bottle, 362 
Winter cherries not eatable, 170; gardens and 
wintering plants, 175 ; greens, 196 
Wintering plants in rooms, &c., 271; in a 
stable, 424 
Wistaria Chinensis, its discovery, 352 
Woodlark, 296 
Woodlice, to destroy, 312 
Wolfsbane, 349 
Yew hedge, cutting tall, 155 
Zygopetalum propagation, 115 
WOODCUTS. 
Ranunculus aquatilis . 
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. . 1 
Blackbirds • . 
. . . 24 
Thalictrum alpinum . 
. . 29 
Fitz-roya Patagonica 
. . 47 
King’s Safety Hive . 
. 55, 167 
Thalictrum majus . 
. . 57 
Tumbler Pigeon... 
. 72 
Hive Boards . . 
. . 73 
Adonis autumnalis . 
. 79 
Trident digging-fork 
. . . 80 
Bromelia longifolia 
. . 96 
Anemone pulsatilla 
. . . 107 
Fumigator .... 
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122 
Wasp catcher. . . . 
122 
Hen coop .... 
134 
Hen’s nests . . . . 
134 
Smilter Pigeon . 
139 
Anemone ranunculoides. 
143 
Benthamia fragifera . 
144 
Myosurus minimus 
171 
Pied Pigeon 
202 
Trollius europseus . 
207 
Caltha palustris . . 
235 
Dictyanthus campanulatus 
236 
Skylark .... 
246 
Heleborus viridis . . 
249 
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Budding facilitator .... 253 
Shaker Pigeon.280 
Aquilegia vulgaris .... 285 
Woodlark ...... 296 
Sphserostema propinqua . . . 327 
Swiss Pigeon. 345 
Aconitum napellus . . . .349 
Delphinum consolida . . . . 349 
Klugia notoniana .... 363 
Training nails.365 
Actsea spicata ..... 3 77 
Centranthus macrosiphon . . . 391 
Pseonia corallina .... 405 
Garden scraper. 409 
