INDEX 
Abies bracteata, 2/3 
Abney House, 10 
Abronia umbellata, sowing, 499 
Acacia Drummondi, 4/8 
Acanthus mollis, 230 
Achillea eupatorium, 111 ; tomen- 
tosa culture, 127 ; rosea, 1/0; 
ptarmica, double, 186 
Aconitum versicolor culture, 249; 
variegatum culture, 268; pani- 
culatum culture, 291 ; cammarum 
culture, 325 ; japonicum, and its 
culture, 348 ; anthora culture, 
3/1; ochrolcucum, and its cul¬ 
ture, 408 
Acrostichum, vernum, 25 
Adiantums, list of, 25, 45 
/Echmea fulgens culture, 330 
Agave Americana culture, 380 
Age of Common Sense, 274 
Agricultural and Horticultural 
Society of India, 469 
Air as a non-conductor of heat, 108; 
giving, 141; admitting, 1 72 ; 
admitting in winter, 300 
Alamanda culture, 330 
Alerce-tree, 480 
Aloes of Scripture, 473 
Allosorous flexuosus, 493 
Allotment culture, 166 
Allotment Farming — November, 
66; December, J46; January, 
245; February, 324; March, 406; 
April, 505 
j Almond, as mentioned in the 
Bible, 334 
Almug Tree, 234 
Alonsoa acutifolia, 73 
Alpine plants, 44 
Alsophilas, 45 
American Aloe keeping, 112; 
Notes, 4/0; Groundsel, 509 
i Ammonia a most important part 
of manures, 415 
Anemone culture, 44; storing, 
j forcing, and propagating, 62 
Anetium citrifolium, 46 
1 Androsace lanuginosa, 451 
Angraecum eburneum, 493 
, Annual flower-seed, sowing, 4Q8 
! Anoectochilus culture, 345 
j Antirrhinum; its properties, 402 ; 
raising from seed, 424 ; propa¬ 
gating by cuttings, 442 ; 460 ; 
j culture in pots, 461; manage¬ 
ment in the border, 483; sowing 
in open ground, 499 
■ Antrophyum lanceolatum, 46 
I Ants, to destroy, 128 
Aphelandra culture, 76 
Aphelexis culture, 179 
Apple trees planted shallow, 16 ; 
list of, 32 
Apples for Yorkshire, 312 
Apples and Pears newly planted, 
232 
Apricot, its decay, 124 
Arabis thaliana, 113; stricta, 
173 ; hispida, 233 ; ciliata, 253 ; 
hirsuta, 293 ; turrita, 353 
Araucaria turned brown, 409 
Arctic Regions, their plants, 394 
Ashburton’s, Lord, proposal for 
school-masters, 274 
Asparagus seedlings, 91 
Aspidiums, 46 
Asplcniums, 46 , 62 
Atoms for the times. 269 
Australia, value of land there, 472 
Australian Emigrant’s progress, 
270 ; Horticultural Society, 489 
Azalea crispiflora, 133; ovata and 
am sen a, 400 
Azalea ramentacea, 479 
Azaleas, list of, 132; squamata 
andobtusa, 439 
Babiana culture, 330 
Badorgan, 320 
Bahia latifolia, 133 
Bamborough Castle, 1 1 
Bank of Faith, 165 
Barbarea vulgaris and prwcox, 1,17 
Barkcria spectabilis culture, 338 ; 
elegans, 438 
Bean (Kidney) forcing, 132 
Bedding plants, 6, 39 
Bedding-out plants in frames, 112 
Beekeeping for Cottagers—swarms, 
casts, colts, and preventing 
swarming, 15; chloroform for 
stupifying, 31 ; queen dead, 32 ; 
food for, 32 ; leaving hive, 52; 
robbers and queen producing only 
drones, 52; November Calendar, 
66 ; preserving, feeding, and 
uniting, 67 ; Calendars for March 
and April, 446,506; for May and 
June, 490 ; for July, August, and 
September, 509; uniting swarms, 
&c., 509 
Beer, its spirit and acidity, 450 
Bees eaten by toads, 74 ; December 
Calendar, 147; food and venti¬ 
lation, 147; uniting and feeding, 
170 ; hives of gutta percha, 172 ; 
loss of queen, 191 ; feeding, 191 ; 
feeding, 231 ; Calendar for Jan¬ 
uary ; Floor-boards, food, &c., 
245 ; position of hives, stocking 
a bee-garden, age of hives, de¬ 
priving, cleanliness, enemies, 
stings, 248; hives, top hives, 
glasses, floor-boards and pedes¬ 
tals, 271; Chinese mode of taking 
honey, 294; coverings, adapting- 
boards, water-pans, weighing, 
and feeders, 311; floor-boards, 
feeding, hives of comb, 325 ; 
feeding, 330; condensers, furni- 
gators, bee-dress, knives, &c., 
388; feeding, 391 ; March Calen¬ 
dar, pollen gathering, forsaking 
hives, wasps, 407 ; rejecting 
food, 410; mortality among, 47 1 
Beet-root cooking, 352 
Begonia biserrata, 373 
Berberis Asiatica, 431 
Berberris concinna, 313 
Berberies, list of evergreen, 357 
Billbergia thyrsoidca, 413 
Blechnums, 63; list of, 81 
Boiler, heating two structures from 
one, 250 
Bonnemaisonia, species of, 287 
Border plants, hardy, 186, 230, 249, 
268, 291, 325, 348, 371, 408, 445, 
489 
Bottom-heat from flues, 91 ; 232 
Bouquets, 118 
Box leaves, 192 
Bravoa geminiflora, 373, 491 
Bread, recipes for, 331, 470 
Bread — punishment for short- 
weighted, 353 ; to make cheaply, 
354; 396; 409; profit of stale, 35 4 
Brewing, Cottage, 86, 107, 189 
Brillantaisia Owariensis, 33 
Brocoli-culture, to secure a suc¬ 
cession, 137 ; growing to keep up 
a succession, 116; its varieties, 
117; protecting, 3/6 ; (Autumn) 
sowing, 451 ; Snow’s, 469 
Broom corn, 47 1 
Brugmansias, their culture, 121 
Brussels Sprouts, sowing, 500 
Buddlca Lindleyana culture, 90 
Bulb, a new, 448 ; planting be¬ 
tween, 510 ; growing, 16 , 97 > 
139, 157; pit for, 263 
Bulls, rules forjudging, 175 
Cabbage, its culture and history, 
93; for winter, 147 ; transplant¬ 
ing, 331 
Cabbage Oil Plant, 469 
Calceolarias, arrangement in a bed, 
10 ; raising varieties, 31 ; hys- 
sopifolia, 77 ; for late blooming, 
145 ; shrubby in pots, l6l ; cut¬ 
tings of shrubby, 161 ; amplexi- 
caulis, 441 ; list of, 472 
Calendar for November, 71 ; De¬ 
cember, 151 ; January, 251 ; 
February, 331 ; April, 510 
Calendrinia speciosa, sowing, 352 
Callipteris, list of, 81 
Callitris quadrivalvis, 480 
Camellia grafting, 90; diseased 
leaves, 151 ; course of culture, 
436; some good ones, 437 ; from 
cuttings, 492; 
Campanula Vidalii, 373 
Campteria biaurita, 81 
Canaries* nests, 431 
Caper plant culture, 320 
Capsicum culture, 319 
Cardaniine impatiens, 453; belli- 
difolia, 433 ; hirsuta, 4/3 
Carnation (Tree) cuttings, 391 
Carrot storing, 52, 164 ; growing 
early, 324, 331 ; (Horn) sowing, 
406 
Carrots and their culture, 462; 
sowing, 505 
Cassibeera, list of, 81; pedata, 122 
Castor oil plant culture, 320 
Cauliflowers, their winter manage¬ 
ment, 296; culture, 500 
Cedar pruning, 298; at Stanford 
Court, 429 
Cedrus Deodara and Lebani, 482 
Celery, preserving in winter, 38 ; 
best varieties, 119 ; manure for, 
331 
Cenia formosa and turbinata, 78 
Centaurea cyanea, sowing, 499 
Ceratopteris, list of species, 123 
Ceropegia Thwaitesii, 413 
Cestrum aurantiacum half-hardy ? 
77; culture, 120 
Chatsworth, 423 
Cheilanthes, list of species, 123 
Cherries, list of, 32 
Cherry Orchard, management in 
Kent, 350 
Chicory culture in Guernsey, 168 
China Asters, sowing, 499 
Cholera, precautions to avoid, 2; 
Board of Health’s Notification, 
3; the influence of water, 18; 
not infectious, 56 ; and insects, 
73; as influenced by cold and 
damp, 74; in connection with 
bad air, 155 ; influence of decay¬ 
ing vegetables, 196 ; influenced | 
by temperance, 256, 315 ; Irish 
College of Physicians on, 354 ; 
its preventives, 434 ; as influ¬ 
enced by w r ater, 474; poison, 495 
Chondrus, its species, 448 
Chrysanthemum flies, 73; list of 
Pompone, 120 ; list of, 292 
Chrysymenia, species of, 288 
Chylocladia, species of, 288 
Cibotiums, list of, 144 
Cineraria management, 132 
Circular surface v its base, 451 
Cirropetalum cornutum, 413 
Cleanliness as a protection from 
disease, 114 
Clethra arborea culture, 312 
Climbers for conservatory, 132, 
232; arches, 491 
Clotted cream, making, 352 
Cocoa-nut, its construction, 292 
Cold, its recent intensity, 276 
Coleseed culture, 103 
Coleus Blumei, 413 
Coleworts, culture of, 276 ; pro¬ 
tecting, 376 
Collodion for cuttings, 410 
Conifers, six graceful, 132 
Conoclinium ianthemum and its 
culture, 479 
Conservatory vinery, 31; plants 
for, 52, 132 
Contrast (The), 464 
Corallina, species of, 310 
Coreopsis coronaria, 78 
Cottage garden produce, 63 
Cotoncaster microphylla as a 
standard, 459 
Covent Garden, 118 
Coverings for pits, See., 43 
Cow milking herself, 32 ; produce 
of Jersey, 371 
Cress (Winter) 1 ; in winter, 39 
Crocus, culture of small, hybri¬ 
dizing and forcing, 9 ; Sir Walter 
Scott, 439 
Crowea saligna culture, 24 
Cucumber and Melon house, heat¬ 
ing, 390 
Cucumbers not ripening, 391; to , 
keep after cutting, 423; pit 
heated by flues, 501 
Cuphea cuttings, 16 ; strigillosa 
for late blooming, 145 
Currant (Black) culture, 199 » 
culture in Kent, 308 
Cuttings, striking, 90; how to 
make and manage, 3 77 ; taken in 
spring, their management, 418 ; 
theory and practice of propa>- 
gating by, 421 ; treated with 
collodion, 449 
Cyatheas, list of, 144 
Cyclamens just imported, 132; 
planting, 250; summer and 1 
winter culture, 382; its propa¬ 
gation and culture, 340; soil 
and potting, 361; new, and 
their culture, 438 
Cyrtogoniums, list of, 144 
Cyrtophlebiums, 162 
Cytisus ramosus culture, 479 
Dahlias, to arrange in mass, 7; 
keeping, propagating, and bed¬ 
ding, 480, 191 
Dairy, locality for, 191 
