INDEX. 
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Lithospermum Hendersonii pruning, - 36 
Little matters, 333 
Liquid manure, applied under-ground, 12 ; 
modes of using, 35, 26o, 303 
Lucanus parallelipipedus, 105 
Lucerne, 349 
Luculia gratissima culture, 310 
Lupine culture, 320 
Lupinus Hartwegii, 84 
Lychnis coeli-rosea, 203 
Magnolia, purpurea, moving, 14; layer¬ 
ing, 359 
Mallow moth (large), 3 7 
Mandevilla suaveolens, 36, 358 
Manettia bicolor, 198 
Mangold wurtzel, 350 ; for seed, 104 
Manures, to manage, 1/1 
Manuring, 349 
March dust and May sun, 305 
Marigolds before rain, 317 
Martagon, 91 
Martin (yellow-breasted), 229 
Martynia fragrans, sowing, 56 ; in borders, 
117 
Mathiola odoratissima, 12 
Maurandya Barclayana, pruning, 36 
Meadow rue, 175 
Megachile centuncularis, 217 
Mellilot clovers, 304 
Melons, heat for, &c., 258 ; forcing, 331, 337: 
culture, 348 
Mesembryanthemum tricolor, 308 ; glabrum, 
308 
Mice to baffle, 191 ; destroying, 132, 227 
Mignonette (tree) culture, 135, 303 
Mildew, 254 
Mild seasons, their consequences, 165 
Milk indicative of weather, 93 
Milkwort, 353 
Mimulus tricolor, 35 
Mint forcing, 214 
Mistletoe on apple-trees, 302 ; to supply seed 
of, 303 ; culture, 192, 229 
Mole cricket, 205 
Monkshood, 175 
Moor hen, its habits, 145 
Moon indicative of weather, 341 
Mormodes Lentiginosa, 35 
Mulberry-tree, root pruning, 12 
Mulching, why useful, 305, 307 
Mushroom culture, 33; beds, to make, 46, 
144, 158, 189, 281, 348; too dry, 124; in 
stable, 179 ; caused by salt, 337 
Mustard, 242 
My flowers, 11 
Myrtle failing, 55 
Nails, preparing, 95 
Narcissi, planting, 7, 18 
Narrow-winged, Red-bar moth, 81 
Nectarine, root-pruning, S3 ; unpruined, 284 
Nierembergia, 345 
Neja gracilis, 84 
Nemophylla insignis sowing, 35, 255 
Netting for walls, 260 
Night blooming stock, culture, 12 
Nightmare, 217 
Night-soil, 300; when too rich, 316 
Nigger grub, 149 
Noctua exoleta, 25 
November Dagger moth, 57 
Notylia bicolor culture, 143 
Nut-tree suckers, 160 
Oak, remarks on, 133 
October weather, 1 
CEnothera, 344 
Oleander buds, dropping, 14 ; cuttings, 55 ; 
culture, 250 
Old-fashioned plants, 345 
Onions, sowing, 292 : tree, 298: potato, 92; 
culture, 169, 226 : transplanting, 22 : 
ground for, 315 
Orange-trees frozen, 284 
Oranges, soil for, 272 
Orchidaceie, culture, 9, 20 ; house for, 31 ; 
October culture, 20; potting, 20 ; treat¬ 
ment of fresh imported, 41 ; logs and soil 
for, 45 ; British, list of and culture, 49 ; 
orchid house, heating, shelves, &c., 64 ; 
cistern in, 77 : syringing, 77 : shading, 77: 
November calendar, 78 : pots for, baskets 
for, 87, 111: peat for, 99 : for pot and 
basket culture, 100 : for greenhouse, 104 : 
orchids, blocks, for, 130 : moving from, 
131 : December calendar, 131 : terrestrial, 
144 : list of winter-blooming, 156 : ex¬ 
hibited, 155 : amount of heat, air, and 
moisture required, 168 : list of hardy, 
169 : orchids giving air to, 224 : syringing 
and dipping, 199 : winter blooming, 200 : 
culture, moisture, in, 187: leaf cleaning, 
235 ; steaming and shading, 235 : creepers 
with, 236 : orchid-house, moisture of air, 
212: orchid-culture, 256, 267 , 279 , 323, 310, 
335 : resting, 257 : list of cheap, 272 : 
calendar, March, 290 
Orchises, time for moving, 251 
Orchis seed, 192 
Orobanche, 249 : minor and cterulea, 342 
Otiorchynchus sulcatus, 125 
Our village walks, 22, 33, 52, 66, 79, go, 102, 
119, 133, 145, 158, 176,j 189, 201, 214, 226, 
243, 258, 269,281, 295, 312, 354 
Oxalis tricolor, 234 
Oxalises, various, 259 
Oxygen necessary for germination, 192 : ab¬ 
sorbed by seed, 218 : by soils 330, 
Paint, not hurtful to flowers, 123; a cheap, 
247 
Pansy, planting, 88 ; list of new, 101,215; 
seedlings in pots, 35 ; under shrubs, 259 
Paper-maker’s refuse, 136 
Parsley sowing, 348 
Parsnips, 349 ; preserving, 46 ; cankered, 92 ; 
sowing, 292 ; parasite, 249 
Passion flowers, for south wall, 124 
Passiflora, culture for dessert, 342 ; edu’is or 
incarnata, quadrangularis, 342, 343 ; coe- 
rulea, 342 ; training, 356 
Pea beetle, 13 
Peach, forcing, 73, 297 , 319; root pruning, 
83: not bearing, 103: blossom screening, 
247 : house heating, 204 : unpruned, 284 
Pea-fowl cramped, 340 
Pear, root pruning, 27 ; over vigorous, 82 ; 
pruning, 106, 220, 223, 284 ; barren, 148 ; two 
good ones, 227 : tree training, 260 ; blos¬ 
som grub, 26l ; unfruitful, 284, 328 
Peas, 350 ; time of growth, 2 ; winter sowing, 
24; sticking, 104; Grimstone’s Egyptian, 
122; sowing, tall, 312; sowing, 200, 227, 228, 
230, 269 . 292,324 ; history of green, 1 93 ; 
list of 194; early 259; varieties, 257 ; 
select lists of, 274 ; sheltering, 281; Bur- 
bidge’s Eclipse, 302; culture, 337 
Peat tor potting, 36 
Pelargoniums, in Australia, 124 : standard, 
182, 301 : shifting, 192 
Penstemons, 344, 359 
Periwinkle, 204 
Persian iris, planting, 7: not blooming, 12, 
192 
Petunia, seedlings, 12: in autumn, 85: heat 
for, 267 : cuttings, 358 
Phaius, watering, 235 
Phalsenopsis amabile, culture, 122: watering, 
290 
Phlox culture, 232, 344 
Physic garden, 52, 118, 174, 241, 325, 353 
Physurus argentea culture, 257 
Picotee, wintering, 21 : yellow, list of, 225: 
spot on, 257 
Pieris Brassicte, 1 
Pig-keeping, 48, 49, 114, 117 
Pig-styes, fumigating, 23 
Pigs, their sagacity, 174 ; their diseases, 174; 
and the wind, 217 : fattening, 299 
Pine apple, culture (Hamiltonian), 59 , 92 , 
195: not fruiting, 103: Prince Albert, 150: 
sowing, 228 : emitting roots, 260 : forcing, 
263 : for market, 272 : repotting, 286: soil 
for, 286 : in vinery. 358 
Pink, 354 : after frost, 257 ; planting, 78 
Pits, heating, 12, 82, 218 : plants near glass 
in, 12, 36: of turf, &c., 154 
Plant, cause of growing upwards, 218 
Planting, rules for, 40, 82, 95 
Planting season, 3 
Platform planting, 192 
Plough Monday, 181 
Ploughing, depth of, 123 
Plum, root pruning, 83 : over luxuriant, 91 : 
tree pruning, loti, 316 : planting, 35 : un¬ 
pruned, 284 : Chapman’s Prince of Wales, 
326 
Plumbago Larpent*, 75, 228, 303 : wintering, 
56 
Plunging materials, 135 
Pcedisca angustiorana, 81, 252 
Poeony, tubers dividing, 82 
Poinsettia pulcherrima, 186 
Polyanthus, wintering, 7 : culture, 268 : lists 
of, 336 
Polydrusus oblongus, 261 
Polygaleae, 353 
Pomace, as a manure, 179 
Pomegranate culture, 67 
Pontia Brassicte, 1 
Pork curing, 116 
Porpuses, indicating weather, 93 
Portulaca culture, 321 
Potato planting, 36, 65, 71, 104, 269, 298, 303, 
327 : golden rules for, 72 : storing, 79 : 
manuring for, 91 : autumn planting, 122 : 
culture, 135 : sets, 136 ; sprouted, 179 , 247: 
forcing, 291 , 312; planting eyes, 300: 
earthing up, 302, 317 : cottage culture, 312 : 
disease, 313: in frames, 337: meaning of 
early, 340 
Pot plants, liquid rhanure for, 260 
Pot Pourri, to make, 134 
Poultry-keeper’s calendar, 50, 172 , 114,238, 
293, 350 
Poultry keeping, 50 : setting hens, 50, cocks 
and hens, relative number, 50 : Dorking 
breed, 50, 114: cramming, 50 : capons, 61 : 
indicating ram, 71 : Spanish, 115 : feeding, 
117, 147 : bald, 192 : enclosure, 228 : los¬ 
ing feathers, 246 : Cochin-China, size of, 
283 : with diseased eyes, 284 : prices, 315 : 
rearing, hatching, &c., slipping eggs, 359 
Primrose, cuttings of China, 284 
Primula Sinensis, sowing, 328 
Prince’s feather culture, 321 
Principles of gardening, 2 
Privet, moving large, 36 
Propagating plants, 264 
Protecting, plants, &c., 141, 154 
Protection for kitchen vegetables, 169 
Pruning, 96 : orchard trees, 106: espaliers 
and dwarfs, 274 : wall trees, 275 : trees, 
302 : its principles, 209 
Pumpkins, 204 
Quick planting. 204 
Quincunx order, 327 
Rabbit keeping, 315, 353 ; dung, 339 
Radishes in frames, 169 ; sowing, 225, 258, 
337; culture, 236 
Rain, average fall of, 13 ; its constituents, 59 
Ranunculus, beds for, 45 ; sowing 82 ; various 
species, 1/6; culture, 236, 272 ; list of, 236 
Ranunculaceoe, their medical qualities, 174 
Rape cake as a manure, 136 
Raspberry culture, 160; suckers, 327 
Raspberry-stalk beetle, 229 
Ravens soaring high, 273 
Redbreast, its habits, 158 
Refuse, vegetable, 227 
Renanthera coccinea culture, 131 
Rendle’s catalogue, 182 
Rhodanthe Manglesii, 308 ; sowing, 55 
Rhododendron, its history, 11 ; seed of scar¬ 
let, 68 ; not flowering, 103; moving, 194; 
in clay soil, 2/2 
Rhubarb forcing, 102 ; removing, 104 ; forcing 
in beds, 123; planting, 11; dressing, 132; 
roots, &c., exporting, 260 ; in open ground, 
312 
Ridging, best mode of, 92, 113 
Roofs, angle of, 92 
Rooks, 355 ; their habits, 243 
Roots, in cold soil, 25; pruning, 26, 83 ; 
storing, 47 ; grubbing up, 258; deeply 
buried, 153; propagating from, 154; why 
grow downwards, 206 ; increase of, 230 ; 
travel for food, 230 ; their excretions, 330 ; 
oxygen, beneficial to, 330 
Rose, quickly blooming, 12 : Manetti, 36 : 
China wintering, 36 : selection of, 68 : bud¬ 
ding, 82 : classifying, 82 : not flowering, 103 : 
Cloth of gold, 103: pegging down, 104 1 
Btocks worm-eaten, 123 : on north aspect, 
123 : for trellis, 124 : pruning transplanted, 
6tocks, moving, 147: pruning budded, 148: 
yellow Banksian, 148, 159 : list of new, 157 1 
groups of, 180 : Harrisonii, 180 : Banksian, 
not blooming, 159, 160 ; cuttings, 204 : 
pruning, 204, 209, 338 : for arbour, 191 : 
Queen of the Prairies, 192: from seed, 192: 
protecting and pruning, 221, 228 ; yellow 
Persian, 288 : for pillar, 260 : grub-eaten, 
260 : list of, 272 : converting standard to 
pillar, 299 : budded in hedgerow, 303 : 
budding, 359 
Rose beetle, 341 
Rose fly, 21 
Roup in poultry, 328 
Salts alfecting germination, 58 ; and lime as 
a manure, 82, 157, 281 ; to bulbs, 284 
Salvias, wintering, 5 ; not flowering, 23 
Salvia fulgens, patens, chanuedrvoides, and 
prunelloides, 84 ; splendens, 129 ! fulgent 
and gesnerseflora culture, 130 
Sand, 24 
Sanvitalia Procumbens, 74 
Saponaria Calabrica, 74 
Scaraboeus auratus, 341 
Scotch fir, picturesque, 145 
Scotch pine bark beetle, 329 
Scuticaria Steelii culture, 143 
Scurvy grass, 242 
Saucers, porous, 104 
Sea-kale, beds dressing, 22 ; forcing, 76 , 82, 
102 ; moving, 82, 104 ; bleaching, 123, 136; 
