INDEX 
Abronia cmbellata, 156 
Acacia, cuttings of yellow, 92 ; culture, 166 
Aches, as foretelling weather, 25 
Achimenes, wintering, 12 ; spot on, 328 
Aconite seedlings, 358 
Aconitum Napellus, 175 
Agapanthus, wintering, 55 
Ageratum culture, 36 ; Mexicanum, 75 
Agrotis segetum, 359 
Air admitting, 272 
Allamanda cathartica, 227 
Allotments, their benefits, 102 ; gardening, 
46, 113; for January, 170; February, 236 ; 
farming for April, 348 
Aloe, soil for, 284 
Alstroemeria roots, 192 
Alyssum, sweet, 84 
Amaryllis belladonna, planting, 18 ; longiflora 
not flowering, 36; formosissima, 123; cul¬ 
ture, 340 
American blight, destroying, 95 
American groundsel, 344 
Ammonia, salts of, as a manure, 12 ; sulphate 
of, 123 
Anagallis cuttings, 254 
Ansectochilus setaceus culture, 224, 256 
Anemones, wintering, 12; seedlings, moving, 
23 ; sowing, 303 ; transplanting, 359 
Angelica sowing, 324 
Annuals, sowing, 165, 255, 308, 316; under 
hand glasses, 340 
Anobium striatum, 305 
Antirrhinum, 344; hybridizing, 123 ; on walls, 
203 
Ants, indicative of the weather, 1 ; to destroy, 
284 ; on peach, 315 
Aphelandra aurantiaca, 156 
Apiary, history of, 202 , 324 
Apples, root pruning, 27 ; their utility, 53; 
storing, 56 ; list of, 6 l ; trees, small fruited, 
103; tree pruning, 106; refuse as a manure, 
179 ; unfruitful, 192 : two good kinds, 227 ; 
cuttings, 247, 284 ; tortrix, 285 ; unhealthy, 
302 
Apricot, protecting, 251 ; moth, 252 ; un¬ 
pruned, 284 ; root pruning, 84 ; branches 
dying, 328 
Araucaria Cunninghamii, hardy, 148 
Arbutus from seed, 204 
Artichoke Tortoise Beetle, 317 
Artichokes (common) dressing, 45, 336; (Je¬ 
rusalem) protecting, 33 ; culture, 132; 
planting, 324 
Arum, wintering, 55 
Asparagus, forcing, 10, 65, 92, 144, 280 ; beds, 
dressing, 10, 21, 312 ; moving, 82; sowing, 
160 ; Dutch mode of growing, 246; sub¬ 
surface, manuring, 272 ; open ground, 280, 
284; beds, making, &c., 29 1 ; culture, 324, 
336; planting, 348 
Ass, indicative of the weather, 13 
Athalia centifolise, 149 
Aubrieta, propagating, 340 
Auriculas, wintering, 7 ; list of, 188, 225 ; 
culture, 271 , 336; and heaths, 271 
Autumn flowers (hardy), 74, 84 
Avenue of firs, 359 
Azalea indica culture, 8 , I 67 ; diseased, 204 ; 
pruning, 328 
Balsam, sowing, 56 ; culture, 345, 346, 358 
Bark-bound trees, 247 
Barkeria culture, 267 ; spectabilis, 267 ; deri¬ 
vation, 303; Skinneri culture, 155 
Barometer, registering, 179 
Beans, planting, 101 , 121 , 293; beetle, 13; 
Hang-down long pod, 295 
Bcdding-out flowers, 203 ; early, 340 
Bedding plants, white, 343 
Beech tree, its uses, 66 
Bee-Keeper’s Calendar : Novemher, 51 ; De¬ 
cember, 116 ; January, 1"3; February, 240 ; 
March, 294 ; April, 35-2 
Bees, removing, 24, 82 ; cleaning floor-board, 
51; entrances, narrowing, 51 ; titmice ene¬ 
mies to, 52, 116; in cottage hive, 82; 
a er weight, 82, 179 ; swarms and casts, 
stinguish, 82; new feeder, 91 ; bram¬ 
bles for hive making, 135, 147 ; Taylor’s 
hives, 166, 359; ill managed, 148; hives 
providing, 1 73 ; in Australia, 1 73 ; in towns, 
173 ; profit of, 240 ; stupifying, 246, 297 ; 
moving from hive, 228 ; diseases, 294 ; feed¬ 
ing, 295 , 297, 340; buying stocks, 272, 
295 ; hives, 302 ; glasses, 302, 303 ; Payne’s 
hive, 315; transferring, 315, 340; progres¬ 
sive weight, 316; flowers for, 316; guide 
combs, pollen, bee dress, young bees, drone 
bees, and robbers, 359 
Beet, storing 32; different kinds, 182 ; green, 
247 
Begonia argyrostigma, 290 ; fuchsioides, 272 ; 
injured, 340 ; for window culture, 68 
Beloperone oblongata, 67 
Benthamia fragifera, 156 
Bignonia venusta, 260 
Blackberry jam, 22 
Black grub, 149 
Blue sky, 25 
Boilers, heating, 282 
Bombyx cossus, 137 
Borders, digging, 68; plants moving from, 
in-doors, 75; too dry, 91; dressing, 23; 
shrubs for N. 148 ; for fruit trees, 183 
Borecoles, laying in, 65 : for seed, 280 
Bostrichus typographus, 329 
Bottom heat, principle of, 12 
Bower, to make, 303 
Bramble, its beauty, 145; hazel-leaved, 272 
Brachycome iberidifolia, 322 
Broad beans, 350 
Brocoli culture, 33 ; storing, 46 ; laying, 65, 
147 
Broomheadia palustris, 279 
Broom rape, 250 
Browallia, 346 
Bruchus granarius, 13 
Brugmansia sanguinea, 327 
Bubbles, indicating rain, 71 
Buchnera viscosa, 344 
Bulbocodium vernum culture, 148 
Bulbous plant culture, 1 67 ; sowing seeds of, 
177 
Bulbs, planting hardy, 6, 17; potting, 8; 
soils for, 36; in moss, 36; in borders, 233; 
in moss, watering, 148; propagating, 179 
Buns, to make, 341 
Butterflies and moths indicative of weather, 37 
Butter-making, 240 
Buttoning of cauliflowers, 123 
Byturus tomentosus, 229 
Cabbages, 189, 350; seedlings, in winter, 21; 
large sized, 56 ; seed saving, 160 ; medical 
uses of, 242 ; per acre, 260 ; list of, 311 
Cacti, 186 ; wintering, 55 ; not flowering, 179 ; 
unhealthy, 284 ; broken, 328 
Cflestrum aurantiacum, frosted, 303 
Calampelis scabra, 359 
Calandrinia umbellata, 55 
Calanthe veratrifolia, 235 
Calceolarias, wintering, 35 ; history and cul¬ 
ture, 42, 62 ; Kentish Hero, 75; hardy 
kinds, 85; cuttings, 134, 190; rugosa, 141 
Calendar for Nov. 56 ; Dec. 124; Jan. 180; 
Feb. 248 ; March, 304; April, 360 
Calms, premonitory, 37 
Calocampa exoleta, 25 
Camellia, history and culture of, 29, 167 , 357 ; 
leaves curling, 55 ; in a room, 179; buds 
falling, 304 ; list of, 271, 327, 338 
Campanula, carpatica, 35; sylvatica, 322 ; 
culture, .144 
Candles indicative of weather, 37, 273 
Canker, to cure, 147 
Canna indica, 359 
Cantua, 12 
Cape jasmine pruning, 148 
Cardoons, blanching, 45 ; sowing, 336 
Carnations, 311 ; wintering, 21; seedlings. 35; 
cuttings, 103; wintering cuttings, 136; list 
of, 225, 347 , 348 ; spots on, 257; in borders, 
272 ; old clove, 311; and picotees, 336 
Carpenter bee, 217 
Carrot, sowing, 21 ; storing, 33, 47, 112, 136; 
tasteless, 147; early, 201 ; parasite, 249 ; 
manuring, 284 : 349 
Caryophyllacie, 354 
Cassia, soil for, 12 
Cassida viridis, 317 
Catalogues (seedsmens’ &c.) 273 
Cataphagus lineatus, 93 
Catleya citrina culture, 143 
Cats indicative of weather, 57, 216 
Cattle indicative of weather, 57 
Cauliflowers, 188, 269 , 311 ; storing, 21 ; cul¬ 
ture, 33 ; to obtain early, 45 ; in frames, 132 ; 
in pots, 213 ; protecting, 225 
Cedar, the silver, 166 : sowing, 228 
Celery for seed, 22 ; taking up, 22 ; laying in, 
112; culture, 120, 177. 244 ; Nutt’s Cham¬ 
pion, 122; protecting, 144; splitting, 303 ; 
sowing, 337 
Cestrum aurantiacum, 228 
Cetonia aurata, 341 
Chsenostoma polyanthus, 74 
Charcoal (animal) as a manure, 260 
Charcoal for potting, 82 
Charred refuse, 359 
Chaumontel pear, 67 
Cherry, Saw-fly, 71 ; root pruning, 84 ; tree 
pruning, 107 : tree, unfruitful, 360 
Chilliness indicative of weather, 81 
Chlorine aiding germination, 1 62 
Chloroform for bees, 246 
Chorozema culture, 166 
Chrysanthemums, stopping, 12 ; cuttings, 56: 
culture, 86 ; list of, 87; dwarf, 156 
Cineraria culture, 98 ; list of, 99 ; winter- 
ing, 32 
Cistuses, wintering yellow, 36 
Clarkias, 322 
Clay soil, to improve, 136 
Cleanliness in plant culture, 18 
Clematis azurea, pruning, 36 ; propagating, 
68; pruning, 136, 185 ; montana, &c., 197 
Clianthus puniceus, 204 
Clianthus puniceus culture, 1 66 
Climbers, culture of hardy, 185: for green¬ 
house, 192, 328: hardy,' 196 : for conser¬ 
vatory, 210: list of, 211: beneath trees, 
220 : in vinery, 284 : evergreen, 339 : among 
trees, 303 : for trellises, in pots, 167 : in 
greenhouse, 68 
Clintonia pulchella, 308 
Clouds, foretelling weather, 149 
Clouds indicative of weather, 81 
Coal-dust as a manure, 104 
Coboea scandens, pruning, 36; shifting, 104 ; 
322 
Coccus vitis, 273 
Cochin-China fowls, 246 
Cockroaches, 192 : destroying, 227 : to kill, 246 
Cockscomb culture, 340 
Coelogynes, 279 ; asperata, 34 
Coincidences of nature, 26, 37 
Colours arranged in shades, 75 : gamut of, 
118: complementary, 53: hamonizing, 21 6 
Commelina coelestis, 303 
Compost, a good, 237 ; for flowers, 200 
Conservatory winter plants, 186, 198 : banks 
in a, 302 
Coronilla culture, 166 
Corroeas, 339 
Cossus ligniperda, 137 
Cottages, building, 226 
Covering, semi-transparent, 246 : for green¬ 
houses, 299 
Cow-keeping, 47, 17L 292, 3l6, 353 
Cow-tree, 358 
Cranberry culture, 146 
Crassulas, done flowering, 24 
Cress not growing, 284 
Crocuses, list of 81 : culture, 340 
Crown imperial, planting, 18, 67 
Crowsfoot, various kinds of, 175 
Cucumbers, 189; setting, 12; list of, 24; 
forcing, 101, 144, 16.3; bottom-heat, soil, 
252, 258 ; in frames, 311 ; culture, 337 
Cuphea platycentra culture, 24, 35, 74 
Curculio sulcatus, 125 : Lineatus, l6l 
Currant (black) fly, 271 
Currants, planting, 35 
Cuscuta eDithvmum, 342 
Cuttings, * wintering, 16 , 35; to strike, 191 ; 
early spring, 254 ; hotbed for, 264 ; com- 
