ing, 372; Jacobins not mating, 
372; canker in, 488 ; Arabian 
Laughing, 429 
Pig fatting, 451 
Pigs and poultry, growing food 
for, 331 
Pine-apple, use of its crown, &c., 
112, 338; the Smooth - leaved 
Cayenne, 438 
Pines not fruiting, 232 
Pinus laricio and its timber, 480 
Pit heating and using, 112 ; venti¬ 
lating cold, 250 
Pits and small houses versus large 
I ones, 7, 41 ; made of turf, 7 ; 
heating and ventilating, 8 
Plantations, thinning, 280 
Plantia flava, 98 
Planting forest trees, 300, 341, 362 
I Planting, the right and wrong 
way, 351 
Pleroma elegans culture, 192 
I Plocamium coccineum, 350 
I Plumieria Jamesoni, 3/3 
I Plums, list of, 32 
I Plunging in bog turf, 391 
Podolepis chrysantha, 193 
I Poeonies, pruning Tree, 1/2 
Polianthes, 99 
Polmaise heating, 186, 371, 429, 
490 
Polysipkonia, list of species, 14 
Pomological Society, 477 
Pony, The Cottage Gardener’s, 13, 
187 
Potatoes, autumn - planting, 52; 
not manured, 66; early, 112; ! 
murrain, 171 ; manuring with 
guano, and in frames, 176 ; 
mode of culture, 246 ; rota¬ 
tion, 247; their winter manage- j 
ment, 297; without manure, l 
312 ; culture, 397 ; artificial 
manures for, 431 
! Pots, greenness on, to cure, 491 
; Poultry—Bedfordshire Prize List, 
4 ; Fairlie’s sale, 5 ; Grey Shan- 
ghaes, 12; combining Shanghacs 
and Dorkings, 16; Does the 
nurse influence the nursling’s 
disposition? 16; colour of Shan- 
ghae’s legs, 16 ; pullets not 
hastened in laying by the male, 
16 ; feeding, 16 ; getting up a 
Show, 16 ; weakness in legs, 
16 f objects of Societies, 18 ; 
Newton Abbot and Winchester 
Exhibitions, 19 ; Fox’s sale, 20 ; 
Malvern Show, 28 ; GreyShang- 
haes, 30 ; Dealers Prize at Surrey 
Zoological, 32 ; Turkeys becom¬ 
ing blind, 32; Spanish cockerel 
with white feathers, 32; beak 
of Aylesbury duck, 32; Mor¬ 
ton’s Cyclopaedia on, 49 ; yard- 
report, 50 ; pens, 51 ; Fair- 
lie’s and George’s sales, 51 ; 
early productiveness of Sbang- 
haes, 52; diseased Dorking, 52 ; 
Spanish hen not laying, 52 ; 
chickens and old fowls not to 
be classed together, 67; Bed¬ 
fordshire Show, 57 ; duration 
of exhibitions, 57 ; cottagers 
keeping, 6/; Grey Shan ghaes, 
weight of. See., 68 ; is roup con¬ 
tagious? 69 ; what is the gapes? 
70; White Spanish, 70; Black 
Shanghacs, 7b; weight of L 
geese and ducks, 71 ; diseased 
Dorking, 71 > Game fowls with 
Bantams, 71 ; weight of Shanghac i 
chickens, 72 ; smaller numbers in ; 
each pen, 75 ; separation of sexes 
at Show's, 76 ; Norwich and Ho- ! 
niton Show's, 85; Dorsetshire 
Show, 88; Ceylon Jungle fowl, 
90; Guinea fowls constant to 
their nest, 90 ; plans for houses, 
91 ; wheezing, 91 ; Black Shang- 
haes, 91 ; what kind to keep, 94 ; 
Grey Shanghacs, 106 ; Gapes, 
what is the ? 109; Rcigate 
Show, 110; Should they be ex¬ 
hibited in pairs ? Ill; diseased 
crop, 111; Black Shanghacs, 
111; beak of Silver-spangled 
Hamburghs, 112; fatting Shang- 
haes, 112 ; weight of Geese, 
112; Noise in the hatching- 
egg, 115; Stevens’s sale-room, 
118; treatment at exhibitions, 
INDEX. 
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126; Roup, 127; crowing-hen, 
postmortem examination, 128; 
Dorkings at the lleigatc Show, 
130; colour of Shanghae’s legs, 
132; fountains for, 132; white 
comb cure, 132 ; Essex Prize-list, 
135 ; Hitchin Prize-list, 136 ; dis¬ 
cerning the sex in the egg, 147 ; 
Winchester Show, 148 ; South 
Devon, 150 ; weight of goslings, 
151 ; profitable, 151 ; mixing to¬ 
gether, 151 , comb of White ' 
Dorking, 151; Birmingham Show, 
154; Grey Shanghacs, 167; 
Derbyshire Show, 168 ; White 
Game Fowl characteristics, 172 ; 
Guinea Fowl characteristics, 
1/2; pullets eggs, 172; Rules 
for judging, 174 ; Hamburghs, 
rules for judging, 175; Shrews¬ 
bury Show, 175; South 
Hants Show, 184 ; Gapes and 
its worm, 186 ; Yard Report, 
188; Bearded Golden Polands, 
191 ; Shanghae lien diseased, 
192 ; eggs diseased, 192 ; vulture- 
hocked, 192 ; fountains, 192 ; 
comb of Spanish cock, 192; 
query as to right to exhibit a 
lent bird, 192 ; aids to moult¬ 
ing, 192 ; Birmingham Show, 
192 ; Brahma Pootras are Grey 
Shanghacs, 1Q7; Liverpool, Ken¬ 
dal, and Manchester Shows, 198 ; 
Ptarmigans, 207; Great Northern 
Show, 207; Eastern Counties, 
210; Bedfordshire, 210; Spanish 
fowls, the feathers between face 
and comb, 212; Geese, weight 
of, 212; Gapes, 212; Gapes and 
Roup, 224; Leeds and Surrey 
Zoological Shows,225 ; Birming¬ 
ham, 226 ; contagion of Roup, 
231; maggots for, 231 ; sulphur 
for lice, 231 ; combs of Dorkings, 
231 ; judges of, 232; Roup, 232 ; 
South Devon, Devon and Corn¬ 
wall,Truro, and Salisbury Shows, 
235; White Comb, cure for, 1 
245 ; Yard Report, food and 
cost, 246); colour of Shanghacs 
legs, 246 ; out-door perches, 
249 ; black feathers over Spanish 
cock’s eye, 250 ; points of ex¬ 
cellence, 250; extensive keeping, 
250 ; comb of Spanish rock, 
250 ; pullet not laying, 251 ; 
price of Shanghaes, 251; softeggs, 
251; Metropolitan Show, 257 ; 
Hereford Show, 258; Poisonous 
secretions and Roup, 267 ; Ken¬ 
dal . Show, 268 ; Birmingham 
Show, its return in money, 272 ; 
Roup contagious, 272 ; Golden 
Hamburghs, which hardiest, 
272 ; gapes, and diseases con¬ 
founded with it, 284 ; Spangled- 
Hamburghs, 288 ; combs of 
White Dorkings, 288; chick¬ 
ens from pullets and cockerel^, 
288 ; roup, 288 ; Cornwall, 
Honiton, and Salisbury show's, 
290 ; lien dead in nest, 2Q2; 
cock with diseased tail, 292 ; 
Shangliaes, their superior qua¬ 
lities, 294 ; Suell v. Chan- I 
wing, 295 ; Sales of Sturgeon’s, j 
Herbert’s, and Punchard’s 
stocks, 295 ; Cornwall, Truro, 
and Metropolitan Shows, 304 ; 
Shanghacs vulture-hocked, 309 ; 
bumble feet in Dorkings, 310; 
lien laying when roosting, 312 ; 
feeding newly-hatched chickens, 
312 ; Shropshire and Torquay 
Shows, 326; Pcntalogue re¬ 
viewed, 328 ; gapes, and inflam¬ 
mation of windpipe, 329; Me¬ 
tropolitan Show, 330; food for 
ducks,330; Shanghacs with white 
ear lobe, &c., 331; Brahma Poo¬ 
tras, 331; Malvern prize list, 
334; Bantams as recently shown, 
344 ; 370 ; White, 3/0, 3/2 ; 
Liverpool, and Devon and 
Cornwall shows, 346 ; cock-hen, 
post-mortem examination of, 
348 ; Baker-street Show, 352 ; 
clear-hackled Buff Shangliaes, 
362; Shanghaes the earliest 
layers, 371; not laying, 391 ; 
Spanish cockerel, with spasmed 
legs, 352 ; red on Spanish cock’s 
face, 409; Rouen ducks, 352 ; 
Golden - pencilled Hamburghs, 
352; characteristics of Silver- 
spangled Hamburgh, 389; hen. 
feathered Silver-pencilled Ham* 
burgh cock, 39 1 ; Snell’s fowls 
at Torquay, 352; Manchester 
Exhibition, 366; Minorcas, 
what they are, 372 ; age of eggs 
for sitting,372 ; broken beak,3/2; 
fowls eating each other’s feathers, 
372; vertigo and apoplexy in 
laying hens, 390 ; eggs from late 
pullets, 391 ; Dorkings as re¬ 
cently exhibited, 407 ; lime-ash 
for floors, 409 ; Game will not 
bear confinement, 409 ; soft 
eggs, 409; turpentine for 
gapes, 410; Ducks not laying, 
410; pullet dying on her nest, 
410; Polands as recently ex¬ 
hibited, 427 ; Golden-pencilled 
Hamburghs, discrepant judg¬ 
ments, 429; Polands eating 
each other’s crests, 431 ; breed¬ 
ing Buff Shanghaes, 431 ; judges 
do not assign their reasons, 431 ; 
cramp in chickens, 431 ; gapes 
and turpentine fumes, 431 ; 
Brahma Pootras, 431 ; New¬ 
castle Show, 435; Spanish, 
Sale of Mrs. Stow’s, 444 ; 
Manchester Show, 445 ; dif¬ 
ferent produce of different 
strains of Shanghaes, 446 ; 
Spanish v. Shanghaes, 448; 
Brahma Pootras imported, 449 ; 
cost of keeping Shanghaes, 451 ; 
pip in, 451 ; Indian Game, 451 ; 
shell-less eggs, preventing, 451 ; 
white comb, 451 ; swollen face, 
451 ; Birmingham Prize - list, 
453 ; Spanish, as recently ex¬ 
hibited, 466 ; Dorkings, as 
recently exhibited, 468; me¬ 
rits of the Shanghae, 471; in¬ 
fluence of male, its duration, 
4/2; Bath Society’s Show, 
4/5; Hamburghs, as recently 
exhibited, 485 ; Polands, their 
merits, 48/ ; Spangled Ham- 
burghs, 489 ; mistakes at Shows, 
492 ; Snell’s Shanghaes, 492 ; 
Black Malays, 492; shell-less 
and imperfect eggs, 492 ; blood¬ 
stained egg, 492 ; eggs sent to a 
distance, 492 ; Brahma Pootras, 
492 ; time best for sitting, 492; 
Shanghacs with Bantams, 4Q2 ; 
Game fowls, as recently ex¬ 
hibited, 506 ; pulmonary dis¬ 
ease, 507; white feathers in Buff 
Shanghacs and Black Polands, 
510 ; March as a hatching time, 
5 JO ; mother for Silver-spangled 
Hamburghs, 510; feathers lull¬ 
ing off, 510 ; Silver Hamburghs, 
510; broody hen, how to treat, 
510 ; eggs joined together, 510 ; 
lameness in Shanghae, 510 
Propagating-house, 171 
Protecting material, 171, 191 ; 
vegetables, 376 ; fruit blossom, 
493 ; flower seedlings, 498 
Protection for pits, &c., 59 
Pruning, its principles, 200, 259 J 
practical, 297 
Pudding for invalids, 470 
Puttying glass laps, 240 
Pyrolirion, 140 
Quince stocks for Pears of limited 
use, 133, 216 
Rabbit with diseased ear, 292, 
330, 352; barking trees, 372 
Radishes in winter, 3Q; in frames, 
331 
Rain near Beverley in 1853, 310 
Rape culture, 103 
Reaping machine, 470 
lted-bar Moth’s eggs, 456 
Registry, United Gardener’s, 50 
Regularity required in flower- 
gardens, 393 
Retarding better than protection, 
113 
Rhododendrons, 15 ; Dalhoi^sue, 
and its propagation, 33 ; glau- 
cum, 63 ; list of, 132; pruning, 
457, 472 
Rhodymenias, list of, 386 
Rhubarb culture, 220 ; forcing, 
242 
Rice, as a food for pigs, 450; for 
poultry, 451 
Rice bread, 189 
Rich, yet Poor, 366 
Rigidellas, 99 
Rio de Janeiro, seeds from, 16 
Rockwork, 191 
Rood of ground, culture—Novem¬ 
ber, 67 ; December, 188 
Rooks, to induce them to build, 492 
Root-crops on heavy soil, 472 
Roots, storing, 66, 124, 124, 164 
Rose, White Moss, 192 ; cuttings, 
their management, 420 ; pruning 
458; cuttings in the open air, 
458 ; budding, 472; in Australia, 
490 ; shoots, webs on, 510 
Rose Garden (Paul’s), 387 
Roses, to train as pillars, 22; list 
of for pillars, 70 ; soil can 
scarcely be too rich, 132; bud¬ 
ded but not started, 1/2; on 
poles, 172; manuring, 251 ; for 
umbrella trellises, 352; for | 
house-side, 372; estimate of new, 
387; awning for, and growing 
under trees, 391 
Rotation cropping, 377 
Roup, examples of its being con¬ 
tagious, 387 
Rufford Hall, 462 
Salads, preserving in winter, 38; 
recipes for, 291 
Salvia fulgens for late blooming, 
145; in early spring, 508 
Salpiglossis coccinca, sowing, 499 
Sambucus racemosa, 19, 91 
Scale (White), to destroy, 192 ; on 
fruit-trees, 391 
Schecria Mcxicana, 313 
Schizanthus violaceus, 133 
Scillas, list of, 140 
Scolytus destructor, 214 
Sea-kale forcing, 301 
Season, little matters of the, 141 
Sea Weeds, 14, 287, 3u9 ; gather¬ 
ing, 309, 349, 386, 447; works on, 
510. 
Sclago distans, 337 
Semeiandra granditlora, 133 
Sheep fatting, 343, 304, 384, 405 
Shrubs, descriptive list of hardy, 
357 
Shrubland Park, 5 
Shutters, wooden, their cost, 250, 
312 
Silk culture, 389 
Sinner, History of a, 48 
Skimmia Japonica, 33 
Slugs, to remove, 232 
Smyrna seeds, 232, 250 
Snow as a protector, 2/9 
Soap Boiler’s w-aste, 1/2 
Soot as a manure, 331 
Sphcerococcus coronopifolius, 3S7 1 
Spiraeas, list of, 400 
Spirits, their strength and acidity, 
450 
Sprekelias, list qf, 157 
Sprekelia forufosissima requires 
rest in winter, 509 
Statice, list of species, 202; culture, 
204 
Statistic returns desirable, 154 
Stcphanotis floribunda seed, 509 
Stenogramma interrupta, 386 
Stcnomessons, list of, 140 
Stove Ferns, 81 
Stove for plants, site for, 1/1 
Strawberry culture, 95 j forcing, 
132; the Black Prince, 469 
Strumarias, 158 
Suggestions from the Garden and 
the Field, 46/, 487, 507 
Sustained of life, 487 
Symplocos japonica, 399 
Syringing in winter, 300 
Tacsonia manicata, 41 ; culture, 
105 ; mollissima culture,/ 12 
Tagetes signata, sowing, . 
Tank system of heating, 507 
Thorns, budding them, 192 
Thunbergia alata, sowing, 499 
Thyrsacanthus rutilaus, 337 
Tobacco, its sorts and culture, 400 ; 
seed sowing, 491 
Tomato culture, 335 
