VI 
INDEX. 
I Daisies on lawns, 112 
Damp soil, trees for, 430 
Dane-wort, 16 
Daphne Fortuni, 3 99 
Dark, keeping growing plants in, 
239 
Dasya, species of, 287 
Dclesseria, species of, 349 
Delphinium sincnse as a blue 
bedder, 41 ; sincnse culture, 191; 
sowing, 500 
Dendrobium cymbidioides, 413 
Deodar Cedar in towns, 187 ; pro¬ 
bably the Almug, 234; as timber, 
439 
Deutzia culture, 112 
Diamond-bed for flowers, 40 
Dibble, Newington’s, 352 
Dichorisandra thyrsifolia, 77 ; 
picta, 493 
Dictyoglossum, 162 
Didymocarpus Huuiboldtiana, 313 
Dielytra spectabilis management, 
!72 
Diplaziums, list of, 162 , 205 
Disappointments, 238 
Doodias, list of, 205 
Domestic economy, 469 
Doryopteris, list of, 205 
Draining allotments, 66 
Draining, 91 
Dropmore Gardens, 101 
Drymoglossums, list of, 205 
Drynarias, list of, 206 , 382 
Edging Tiles (Hogg’s), 29 , 410 
Edgworthia chrysantha, 3Q9 
Education should be more prac¬ 
tical, 274 
Egg Plant culture, 319 
Elaphaglossums, list of, 383, 403 
Elder Wine recipe, 16 
Elms, destroyed by insects, 214 ; 
holes in, 232 
Emigrants, plants for, and Lark, 
53 ; packing plants for, 55 
Emigrant, letter from an, 270 
Emigration, 410 
Endive, preserving in winter, 39 
Entomological Society’s Meeting, 
73, 136, 214, 293, 416, 476 
Enville Park, 263 
Epacrises, pruning and potting, 
441 
Epidendrum Stamfordianum, 493 
Episcia mellittifolia, 53 
Erica carnea culture, 445 
Erythrochiton Brasilicuse, 313 
Eucaridium and Saponaria, 430 
Evergreens, how late can they be 
planted? 1/2; the season for 
plantiug, 373 
Ewes, management of, 183, 206 ; 
management of forward, 221 ; 
management of Down, 243, 
265, 283 ; breeding, 302; 
management of long-woolled, 
322, 343 
Fad yen 1 a prolifera, 403 
Family Friend, 291 
Farm-yard economy, 425 ; 436; 484 
Feathers, how to prepare, 352 
Fences, Garden, 404 
Fernery, rock-work f«»r, 292 
Fern Islands, 11 
Ferns, list of stove, 25, 45, 62 , 122 , 
144, 162, 205, 382, 403, 412; 
number of British, 352 
Fig-house management, 212 
Figs dropping, 250 
Filbert culture in Kent, 27 
Fish, analysis of, 414 
Flower-garden Plans, 393 , 153, 213 
Flower-pots as protectors, 4Q8 
Flowers for late blooming in gar¬ 
dens, 145 
Food, chemistry of, 4(58 
Forest culture, 181 
Fowl’s Dung, 16 
Frame, Child’s Night Lights for, 
192 
Francisceas, list of and culture, 
217 
Freezing between glass laps, to 
prevent, 31 
Front garden planting, 312 
Frost, easy mode of excluding, 287 
Frigi domo as a covering, 250 
Fruit blossoms, retarding, 455 
Fruit culture, principles of, 258 
Fruit not promotive of Cholera, 2 
Fruit-trees for Derbyshire, 90 ; 
Durham, 90 ; fruits for North 
Cheshire, 90 ; cutting down old, 
112 
Fruit-growing, Errington’s mode 
of, 180 
Fruit, importance of stock, 356; 
obtainable in February, 365 
Fruits for exhibition, 32; the de¬ 
cay of old, 123 
Fuchsia cuttings, 16 ; crossing, 77 ; 
Dominiana, 77 ; suckers, 90 ; list 
of new, 91 ; serratifolia culture, 
121 ; eordata culture, 171 ; ser¬ 
ratifolia, 232 ; its history, 254 
Fuchsias, Pillar, 132 ; white, 
stained, 491 
Fungi, culture of, 71 
Fuorcroya culture, 381 
Game, cover for, 409 
Gardens, renovating old, 156 , 270, 
316 
Gardenia Stanleyana shedding its 
buds, 32 
Gas stove in greenhouse, 71 
Gelidium, its species, 4 47 
Geraniums, for bedding, 6 ; Pelar¬ 
goniums, and Erodiums, 10; 
wintering, 31, 90; as standards, 
41; Pillar, 132 ; wintering Scar¬ 
let, 160 ; cuttings of Scarlet, in 
August, 462; bedding - out in 
pots, 510 
Gesnerworts with diseased leaves, 
292 
Gesnera zebrina culture, 337 
Gigartina, its species, 447 
Gladioli, and soil for, 16 
Gladiolus culture, 80; in pels, 
102 ; propagating by seed, 122 ; 
propagation by offsets, 143; its 
disease, 143; insignis culture, 
166 ; seedlings, 171 
Glass, Hartley’s rough, 112; not 
lapped, 372 
Glass-walls as managed by INI r. 
Ewings himself, 320 
Glazing, double, its importance, 262 
Goats, their utility, 430 
Goldfussia glomerata, 493 
Gold Fish, 51, 90 
Goldfussia isophylla, 1 93 
Goniophlebiums, 403; sepultum, 
442 
Goniopteris fraxinifolia and pen- 
nigera, 443 
Gooseberries, 312 
Gooseberry buds, to protect from 
birds, 456 
Gourd shedding its fruit, 451 
Gracillaria, its species, 447 
Grapes — Black Barbarossa, 52 ; 
mildewed to cure, 52 ; preserving 
lute, 58, 71 ; for three vineries, 
112 ; new white, 215 ; the Rich¬ 
mond Villa, 312 
Grasses, ornamental, 509 
Grateloupia, its species, 447 
Greenhouse, converting into a con¬ 
servatory-vinery, 31 ; and pit, 
heating with dues, &c., 42; 
heat for grapes in, 90 ; height 
of front, 112 ; vinery without 
rafters, 112; winter blooming 
plants, 120; temperature, 232; 
and Melon-pit heated by one 
fire, 330; much shaded, 3/2; 
small ones attached to houses, 
459 ; rules for managing, 460; 
cheap gaieties for, 608 
Guano, quantity per acre, 311 ; its 
manufacture from Fish, analysis 
of Petit’s, See., 414 
Guernsey Lily culture, 86 
Gymnadcnia conopsea, 51 
Gyinnogrummas, list of, 443 
Habrotuamnus eleguns culture, 
121, 330 
Hamianthus insignis, 313 
Hand-glasses, suggestion for their 
improvement, 496 
Heaths, list of, 132 
Heaton Park, 461 
Herbaceous plants, hardy, 111,12/, 
170 
Hcrminium monorchis, 51 
Hildenbrandtia, species of, 310 
Hollies, list of, 398 
Holly, restoring an old, 1/7, 23/; 
moving old, 172 
Hollyhocks, propagating, 16 
Hoole House, 44 
Horticultural Society’s Meeting, 
76, 117, 215, 336, 437, 478 
Hotbeds, use of temporary, 341 
Hot-water pipes, rubble to sur¬ 
round, 171 ; tank lining, 472 
Humea elegans, 442 
Hydrangeas not blooming, 31, 509 
Ice, on keeping, 264 ; water, 272 ; 
preserving and serving, 277 
Illiciums, list of hardy, 357 
Impatiens Jerdonise, 77 ; latifolia 
culture, 78 ; latifolia alba, 79 
Indigo, Chinese liquid, 469 
Indian Rubber Plant culture, 391 
Iris ^culture, 220 ; pavonica and 
persica culture, 241 ; susiana 
culture, 262 ; xiphium and 
xipliioides culture, 281; Peacock, 
409 ; pavonia, 49 1 
Ixia planting, 52 ; achillioidcs, 250 
Jan 1 a, species of, 310 
Kenmel Park, 10 
Kew Gardens, 253 
Kitchen-garden cropping, 376 
Labels, 52 
Lambs, rearing early, 183 ; ma¬ 
nagement of early, 206 , 221 ; 
management of Down, 243, 283 ; 
their diseases, 265 ; management 
of long-woolled, 322, 343 
Land’s-End, and its agriculture, 
130 
Lantana crocea culture, 132 
Larch-culture for hop-poles, 363 
Latana Sellowii seed, 509 
Laurel leaves gangrened, 16 
Laurencia, species of, 287 
Lawn, evergreen trees for, 112 
Lease, covenants in, 71 
Leaves injured by watering, 52; 
withered of evergreens, 141; 
drying up, 440 
Leek, its culture, 236 
Lettuces, preserving in winter 39 ; 
protecting, 376 
Leptosiphon eiliatum, 93 ; lutea, 
192 
Lign Aloes of Scripture, 473 
Lilium roseum, 93 
Linutn tigrinum culture, 336 
Lisyanthus Russellianus culture, 
339 
Littiea geminiflora culture, 381 
Littonia modesta, 73 
Lobelia decumbens for late bloom¬ 
ing, 146; crinus, to bloom late, 
508 
Longevity influenced by tempe¬ 
rance, 256 
Look at the kernel, 84 
Lopczia macrophylla, 93 
Lucerne sowing, 250 
Luculia gratissima, 336 
Lycoris, list of, 97 
Magnolias, list of hardy, 357 
Main Chance (The) 267 , 323 
Mangold vvurtzel, its value, 66; 
storing, 124 ; sowing, 505 
Manures, artificial, 312 
March, its vegetables aud fruits, 
468 
Marty ilia fragrans, 500 
Marvel of Peru culture, 16 
Blaster’s Blaster (Another), 125 
BicGlashen’s transplanter, 338 
Blelobcsia, species of, 310 
Blelon, its culture, 11 ; house, 
plant for back-wall, 151; pit 
heated by flues, 501 
BIctternicbia principis, 273 
Biice, to thwart, 492 
Blimuluscs, list of, 472 
Bloment (A), what it may bring 
forth, 426 
Blorcton Bay, emigrants at, 351 
BJoth in wardrobe, 331 
Blulbcrry leaves changing their 
shape, 112 
Blulcliing stems aud branches, 5 
Blushrooms, making bed, 46; 
spawning, 82; in beds out-of- 
doors, 102 
Blyrica Californica, 399 
Narcissus, its merits and hy¬ 
bridizing, 163; propagation, 181 ; 
forcing, 204 ; summer treatment, 
219 
Nasturtium leaves pickled, 430 
Nectarines, urmailing, 250 
Nectarine culture out-of-doors, 20 
Nepeta teucrioides as a bedder, 41 
Net for fruit-trees, 90 
New Brunswick, letter from, 490 
Nitophyllum, species of, 349 
Nottingham lace-net as a protect¬ 
ing material, 493 
Oak (Adam’s) 272; list of, 399 ; 
slabs for paling, 410 
Omphalodcs verna, 489 
Oncidium Hartwcgi, 93 
Onion, notes oil the, 443 
Ophrys apifera, 51 
Orange grafting, 90; tree, 432; 
mildewed, 477* 
Orchard-house, dressing for trees 
in,409 
Orchards in Kent, 27 , 308, 350 ; 
planting, 352 
Orchises, culture of British, 51 ; 
maculata, ustulata, hercina, and 
pyramidalis, 51 
Orchids blooming in November, 
/6, 119; in common stove, 91 ; 
shedding their bloom, 192 ; 
winter - blooming, 216 ; 438 ; 
blooming in January, 423 ; 461 
Ornithogalums, 97 
Oxalis, spectabilis (Braziliensis) 
culture, 31 ; Boweii culture, 1/1, 
232, 312 ; 
Pampas Grass from suckers not 
good, 120 
Pandamus pygnueus, 194 
Pansies, treatment of seedling, 
372 
Park scenery, trees for, 383 
Parsnip, its history and culture, 
194, 331 
Passiflora Blcdustea, 413 
Peachery, fruit for, 232 
Peach culture out-of-doors, 20; 
by amateurs, 88 
Peach trees gumming, 16 ; un- 
nailing, 250; dressing for, 456; 
peculiar mode of training, 462 
Pears, list of, 82; in 1853, 68 ; 
stocks for and culture, 69 ; 
splitting, 71 ; on Quince stocks, 
133, 285, 417 ; winter, 215; 
list of for, 286; for Yorkshire, 
312; espaliers, 46l; weight of , 
fruit, 444 ; trellises for, 477 
Peas, sowing and preserving, 282 ; 
its varieties, 313, 333, 3/5 ; 
mongraph of, 393, 435 ; descrip¬ 
tive list of, 455; and their cul¬ 
ture, 465 ; list of dwarf, 472 ; for 
first and second crop, 483 
Pelargonium seed, sowing, 359 ; 
leaves diseased, 3/2 ; estimate of 
hardiness, 3Q1 ; leaves spotted, 
410; cuttings, the management, j 
| 419; large, dying, 441; list of," ; 
4/2 ; Gauntlet, 486 
Peurhyn Castle, 461 
Penstemons for late blooming, 145 ; 
sowing, 491 
l’cntas carnea culture, 7£ 
l’cntlandia miniata, 97 
Perilla japonica, 78 
Petunia cuttings, 378; list of and | 
culture, 151, 4/2 
Peyrousias, 93 
Phacelia ratnosissima, 93 
Phiodrauassas, 98 
Plialocallis pluinbea, 99 
Pheasants, feeding imprisoned, 
409 ; hatching Golden, 410 
Philesia buxil'olia, 193 
Phosphate of Lime (Super) for 
Roses, &c., 409 
Phyccllas, list of, 139 
Pigeons breaking their eggs, 16 ; 
their history, 35 ; Eaton’s , 
Treatise on, 36 ; the points to 
be aimed at in, 37; dis¬ 
eased, 130 ; the Carrier, 131, ! 
190, 230 ; throat canker, 191 ; 1 
characteristics of Jacobins 
and Bald, 192 ; the Tumbler, 
249 ; the Pouter, 286 ; going 
light, 288 ; Andalusian Laugh. 
