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post for, 265 ; pots for, 265 : propagation 
by, 2/6, 287 ; leaves on, 2/7 ; soil and pots 
for, 278 ; principles applied to, 278 ; water¬ 
ing, 288 ; in rooms, 327 
Crvptomeria japonica, soil for, 123 : culture, 
3-10 
Cyclamen seed, 284 
Cyclamens, 302 : in borders, 192 : persicum, 
228 : planting, 358 
Cypripediums, list of, 310 : Lowil, 310 
Cyrtopodium culture, 267 
Cytisus, culture, 166 : racemosus, 259 
Dahlias, sportive, 23; lists of, 28; storing 
roots, 29,-32, 112; wintering, 54; tubers 
ripening, 57 ; late in autumn, 74 ; list of 
fancy, 112; cutting down, 151; cuttings, 
336 : hybridizing, 228 ; propagating, 254, 
280 
Dairying, 240 
Date-stones, 260 
Datura culture, 36, 359 
Death watch, 305 
December calendars, 124 
Delphinum, two species of, 175 
Dendrobium, shoots planting, 160 ; speciosum, 
324 
Dermestes tomentosus, 229 
Dial of flowers, 161 
Digging per day, 204 
Diosma culture, 167 
Disbudding, 319 
Ditula angustiorana, 81 
Diurnea novembris, 57 
Dogs, indicative of w eather, 105 
Dolichos lignosus, shifting, 104 
Dorcus parallelipipedus, 105 
Drainage of fruit-tree borders, 82; of gardens, 
113 
Draining, 299 
Drains, indicative of weather, 105 
Drills, new modes of making, 178 
Ducks, 294, 351; feeding, 51; indicative of 
weather, 105; slug destroyers, 122; pro¬ 
portion to drakes, 122 
Dung, management of fresh, 65 ; promoting 
decay of, 358 
Dwarfing, its effect, 3 
Early crops, 238 
Earwigs, catching, 36 
East wind, its effects, 125 
Eccremocarpus longiflorus, 327 
Eddies of air, indicating weather, 137 
Egg-plant, 259 
Eggs shell-less, 328 
Elater segetis and striatus, 93 
Elder tree, its uses, 34 
Endive, sheltering, 33, 46; blanching, 81 
Epacris culture, 167, 309; cuttings, 328 
Epidendrum rhizophorum, 200 
Epimedium pinnatum, 35 
Epiphany, 181 
Epiphyllum truncatum, 186 
Eranthemum pulchellum, 198 
Erica, elegantissima, 156 
Eucomis undulata. 12 
Euphorbia Jacquinioeflora, 187 
Evening primroses, 262, 344 
Evergreens, treatment of large, 41 ; pruning, 
165 
Fallowing, 170 
Feathers for the poor, 174 
February calendar, 248 
Fernery in shaded garden, 160 
Ferns in a bottle, 123 : manure for, 123 
Fieldfares early arriving, 137 
Fig-tree over-luxuriant, 23 : borders for, 36 : 
forcing, 263 : in pots, 263 
Fires brightly burning, 137 
Firs, cutting tops off, 228 
Fish gambling, 137 
Flax, 354 
Fleur de luce, 359 
Flora’s clock, 161 
Florists’ flowers, 188, 200, 225 
Flower-bed, arranging, 82 : supporter (Hamil¬ 
ton’s), 91 : succession of, 123: trenching, 
222 : digging, 232: arranging, 303: geo¬ 
metrical, 332 
Flower-pots, their size and drainage, 138 : 
their form and substance, 150 
Flowers, naming seedling, 179 : soil for, 334 : 
for bed, 358 
Fluxweed, 242 
Forcing early, 72 : failure in, 272 
Forcing-house forming, 204 
Forest pruning, 192 
Forest-tree sowing, 82 
Forsythia viridissitna, 328 
Fowls’ dung, its use, 24 
Fowls, lime necessary for, 172 : Cochin-China 
breed, 172, 299, 301 : diseases of, 173, 179 : 
INDEX. 
Guinea, 173: (game) 293 : eggs for hatch- 1 
ing, 294 
Frariciscea hydrangereformis, 359 
French marigold cuttings, 254 
Frame for plant protecting, 179 
Frost, its penetrating power, 15 
Frosted plants, 142 
Fruit garden, stocking, 247 
Fruit gathering, 15 : storing, 16 
Fruit-trees, failing, 55 : for Australia, 124 : soil 
for, 152: removing old, 178: arrangement 
of, 183 : cleaning, 307 ; newly-planted, 307 : 
for S.E. wall, 316 
Fuchsias, wintering, 5, 12, 24, 35, 69, 123 : 
seed and cuttings, 67, 135 : seed sowing, 35: 
cut down too early, 104 : raised from 
leaves, 136: for bedding, 159: light-co¬ 
loured, 122, 246 : in beds, 254 : gracilis and 
Carolina, 254 : culture, 167: generally, 255 : 
soil, manure, propagating, 256 : lists of, 
272 : bear shade, 284: pruning, 284 
Fuchsia corymbiflora, 327, 340 : wintering, 55: 
grafting, 328 
Fuchsia fulgens, 296, 358 
Fumigating, 54 
Fungi, edible, 247 
Furze sowing, 328 
Gallus Pendactulus, 50 
Garden plan, 68 
Gardeners’ Magazine of Botany, 207, 26l 
Gas, heating by, 191 
Geese, 239, 294, 351 ; feeding, 51 
Gentiana, sowing Swiss, 103 
Geometra cervinaria and clavaria, 37 
Geraniums, wintering (scarlet), 4, 23, 24, 55, 
68, 77 ; cuttings crowded, 23 ; cuttings win¬ 
tering, 24, 36, 68 ; scarlet, in beds, 35 ; list 
of scented-leaved, 68; moving in-doors, 76 ; 
scarlet, list of, 85, 96; pruning, 92; cut 
down, 104 ; boxes for, 104 ; late blooming, 
127; golden chain, 148; stored, 315; left 
in beds, 327 ; yellow, 328, 330 ; white, 344; 
scarlet, 359 
Germination, influence of water on, 58 ; of 
seed, 161 
Gesnera, Douglasii and Zebrina, culture, 104, 
289; elongata, 290 
Gesnerias, wintering, 12 
Ghost moth, 181 
Gladioli, planting, 7 ; late flowering, 55; win¬ 
ter treatment, 82; in pots, 92; sowing, 
125 ; in wrong soil, 272 
Gladiolus insignis, culture, 180; gandavensis, 
328 
Glass, rough for greenhouse, 36, 136 
Globe amaranthe, 346 
Gloxinias, wintering, 12 
Glycine sinensis, 184; diseased, 68 
Goat-keeping, 314 
Goat moth, 137 
Goldfussia anisophylla, 198 
Gompholobium culture, 166 
Gooseberries, good kinds, 227; pruning, 247; 
cuttings, 303; planting, 35; bushes, pro¬ 
tecting, 159 ; trees, purchasing, 121 ; cater¬ 
pillar, to destroy, 357 
Grafting, 307 
Grape (royal muscadine), 284 
Grass, sowing, 107; for hay, 114; under 
trees, 24; sowing, 148, 292; garden, 159; 
seed for lawn, 160 ; breaking-up, 292 
Green crops, 349 
Green-fly, to banish, 215 
Greenhouse, plants returning to, 8 ; erecting, 
23 ; heating, 23, 82, 123, 160, 216, 247, 340, 
355 ; formed from peach-house, 35 ; creep¬ 
ers, 68 ; and cow-house combined, 91 ; and 
stove combined, 94 ; room adjoining, 104 ; 
plants, seed sowing, 136; leaky, 159, 192; 
against dwelling. 179; covering, 222; over 
kitchen, 192 ; heated by kitchen, 203 ; plan 
for, 204 ; management, 265; facing north, 
316 ; plants, planting out large, 358 ; plants 
for cold, 358 
Groundsel, 296 
Gryllotalpa vulgaris, 205 
Guano, 259 
Guernsey lilies, soil for, 12; offset, 92; cul¬ 
ture, 204 
Hamburgh Fowls, 238 
Ham, to cure, 174 
Half-hardy plants, propagating, 253 
Hatching, 350, 353 
Hawthornden apple, 67 
Hawthorn berry, sowing, 82 
Headaches, 205 
Heating by gas, 104 
Heating greenhouse, &c., 247, 266 
Heaths, potting, 35 ; culture, 167 
Hedging, 171 
Hellebores, 175 
Heliotrope, wintering, 68 ; in autumn, 74 ; 
cuttings, 216 
Hemerocallis japonica, 284 
Hens miscarrying, 283 
Hepialus humuli, 181 
Herb, Robert, 295 
Hepatica (double blue), 328 
Herbaceous plant culture, 167 
Hive, Taylor’s amateur, 204 
Hoarfrost, 158 
Hollyhock, cuttings, 67 ; list of, 213 
Honeysuckle, pruning, 136; budding, 24/ 
Hops, 283 ; propagating, 68 
Horn-shavings, 123 
Horse-chesnut, to destroy its bitterness, 24 
Horse-radish, planting, 33, 112 ; culture, 236, 
242 
Horses starting, 249 
Hot water pipes, 272; joints of, 272 
Hotbeds, making small, 146; preparing dung, 
163 ; building and earthing, 164; of leaves, 
103 ; for cuttings, 247 
Hot water apparatus, 313 
Hoya carnosa flagging, 272; unhealthy, 284 
Huntleya violacea, 199 ; meleagris, 199 
Hyacinths, in pots, 67 ; small bulbs of, 68 ; 
mouldy, 91 ; planting, 17; in moss, 228 ; 
offsets, 259, 272, 283, 315 ; rotting, 260 ; 
retarding, 316 
Hydrangea, 203; forcing, 247; pruning, 247, 
328 
Hylotoma rosse, 249 
Hylurgus piniperda, 329 
Hypoxis stellata, 259 
Indian Corn not profitable, 67; culture, 135 
Indian rubber plant, 359 
Ink for zinc labels, 272 
Insects, foretelling weather, 149 
Isotoma axillaris, 74 
Italian Ray Grass, 159 
Ivy, on timber, 259; torn down, 283; a 
teacher, 119; berries, 204 
Ixia seedlings, 82; sowing, 92, 125; viridi- 
folia, 328; age of seeds, 148; offsets, 192 
Ixoras, culture, history, and list of, 346, 347 
Jackdaws clamoring, 249 
Japan lilies, soil for, 12 
Jasminum sambae, 350 
Jennings’ tube cocks, 67 
Jerusalem artichokes turning black, 272 ; 
culture, 78 
Jessamine, training, 103; budding, 247 
Jonquils, planting, 7, 67, 261 
Justicia speciosa, 198 
Kalmia Latifolia, 82 
Kidney beans, storing, 33 ; runners to winter, 
54 ; sowing, 324 ; forcing 144, 262, 291 
Kitchen garden, 200 
Kites as weather guides, 261 ; soaring high, 
273 
Kohl rabbi, seed, saving, 160 ; culture, 316 
Labelling, importance of, 233 
Labels, making, 200; for plants, 262; of 
zinc, 359 
Lancifolium culture, 55 
Lantana crocea, wintering, 56 
Larks soaring high, 273 
Larkspurs, 175 
Laurel hedge, moving, 192 
Laurentia cervinaria, 37 
Lawns dressing, 253 ; improving coarse, 316 
Leaf cutter bee, 217 
Leaves, collecting, 6 ; cleaning, 19, 131 ; pre¬ 
serving, 104 ; fall of, 119; on cuttings, 277 I 
for hotbed, 272 ; effect of gases on, 271 
Leech, weather-wise, 285 
Lechenaultia, formosa, 35; cuttings, 136; 
culture, 167, 234 
Leonotis leonurus culture, 105 
Lettuces, mildewed, to cure, 132 ; (Malta), 
12 ; culture, 225, 293 
Light and germination, 20 6 
Light for cuttings, &c., 328 
Liliums, list of, 103 
Lilium japonicum not flowering, 38; spe¬ 
ciosum sowing, 303 
Lilies, time of blooming, 305 
Lily of the valley, removing, ) 36, 328 
Lime and salt for potatoes, 192 
Lime-tree, its uses, 90 
Lime, super-phosphate of, 284, 303 
Lined weevil, 161 
Linece, 354 
Loam-making, 204 
Lobellia gracilis, erinus and ramosa, 321 
Locust tree, 260 
Loddiges, notices of the, 207 
Loelia superbiens, 323 
I.ophosphermuin cuttings, 82 
Love-lies-bleeding culture, 321 
Lisiauthus Russellianus, 328 
