Abies Cilicia, 84 
Abronia culture, 3*28 ; umbellata, 
332 
Abutilon culture, 328 
Acacia culture, 79 
Achimenes in autumn, 454 
Adanson, memoir of, 432 
Adesmia Uspallatensis culture, 
346 
jEchmea culture, 397 
JEschynanthus fulgens, 19; cul¬ 
ture, 398 
Agave Celsii, 368 
Ageratum Mexicanum culture, 31 
“ Agricultural Chemistry,” Nis- 
bet’s, 121 
Agricultural Society’s Show, Poul¬ 
try at, 23 
Agricultural Society’s (Royal) 
Poultry Rules, 125; Poultry 
Show, 302; Exhibition of Poul¬ 
try, 320 ; of Implements, 318 
Air, admitting in Vineries at Bo- 
wood, 278 
Allamandas in autumn, 455 
Allotment Farming — May, 79 ; 
June, 150 
Aloe culture, 346 
Alstromerias, notes on, 360 
Amaranth, White-stemmed, cul¬ 
ture and use, 404 
Amber, insects in, 288 
Ammoniacal liquor as a remedy 
for blight, 311 
Anacampseros propagating, 346 
Andalusian Fowls, 57 
Anemone, culture as a Florists’ 
flower, 4 
Anerley Poultry Show, 234, 303, 
338,355; Protests, 442 ; Prizes, 
464 
“ Animal Kingdom,” Dallas’s, 262 
Anisanthus Cunonia sowing, 318 
Annual flowers, should be thinned, 
151 
Anomatheca cruenta culture, 346 
Antirrhinum culture, 399 
Antirrhinums, list of, and culture, 
240 
Ants, driving away, 176 , 371 
Aphelandra variegata, 19 
“Aphorisms on Drawing,” 391 
Apoplexy in Polish Fowls, 482 
Apple-eating Beetle, 247 
Apple, the Councillor, 416 
Approach to a House, 18 
Apricot, training, 306; mode of 
bearing, 463 
Apricots, soil for, 54; Dutch 
method of forcing, 1/2 
April, plants that may bloom in, 
78; plants blooming in, 114 
“Aquarium,” 408 
Araucaria imbricata suckers, 405 
Aralia papyrifera, 70 
Arbour, old mode of making, 316 
Arboricultural Society’s Transac¬ 
tions (Scottish), 225 
Areca nut, 55 
Aristolochia Thwaitesii, 229 
Asclepias Curassavica culture, 398 
Asparagus, cutting, 138; forcing 
with hot water, 261,468 ; bed, 
forcing, 277 ; making, 283 ; beds, 
dressing, 4/6 
August, work for, 313; plants 
blooming in, 397; house plants, 
454 
Auricula culture, 62, 399; pro¬ 
perties, 65 
Australia and Van Diemen’s Land, 
sending plants to, 10 
Australian wilderness, How to 
subdue, 12 
INDEX. 
Aylesbury ducks, prolific, 108 
Aylesbury Ducks’ bills and feet, 
444 
Azaleas, culture of greenhouse, 79 i 
in autumn, 473 
Babraiiam Sheep letting, 310 
Backgrounds to flower-gardens, 
309 
Bantams, Gold-laced, 394 
Barley-sugar making for bees, 
385, 452 
Barley as poultry food, 394 
Baskets, hanging, and plants for, 
452 
Bedding-plants, 182, 202, 289; 
best time for propagating, 46 ; 
a native, 55 ; a white, 188 
Beef, re-cooking cold boiled, 229 
Beech leaves for Vinery heating, 
4/9 
Bees, feeding, 86; treatment of 
weak, 87 ; seasonable notes on, 
135 ; ventilating, 177 ; their 
swarming, 187; early swarm, 
205; removing, 214; replacing 
swarms, 241 ; depriving of 
honey, 258 ; leaving their hive, 
301 ; swarming, 320 ; without a 
queen, 335 ; barley-sugar for, 
354 ; weak queens, 354 ; swarm¬ 
ing without a queen, 371 ; not 
filling a bell-glass, 389 ; prolific 
hive of, 391 ; dislodging, 409 ; 
to induce to fill glasses, 459 
Begonia culture, 239, 398; rotata, 
77 
Belladonna Lily, 300 
Berberis Fortuni, 14 ; Asiatica as 
a fence, 87; Asiatica sowing, 
193 ; Asiatica as a hedge plant, 
46l 
Besom, a patent, 167 
Billardiera culture, 346 
Birmingham Poultry Show, 463 
Blackboards, to make, 303 
Blind for conservatory, 230 
Boiler, heating two houses with 
one, 258 ; for heating two 
houses, 176 , 207 ; Bailey’s, 387 
Borbonia culture, 346 
Borders, hardy plants for, 362 
Botanic Society’s Show (Royal), 
228 
Botanic (Royal) Society’s Exhibi¬ 
tion, 279 
Boule de Neige Geranium, 331 ; 
as a bedder, 371 
Bouquets, to send by post, 50 ; at 
Versailles, 4/6 
Brahma Pootra hens dying, 108 
Brahma Pootras, their merits, 
160; their extraction, 427; at 
Anerley, 481 
Brahma Pootras, 463 
Breathing, difficult, in a Poland 
fowl, to cure, 74 
Breeding of Poultry, what is care¬ 
ful, 42; rules for, 123; Notes 
on, 264 
Bricks with white efflorescence, 
480 
Brier, how to spell it, 434 
Brillant de Vaise Verbena, 437 
Brillant de Vaise, 461 
Bristol and Clifton Poultry Show, 
219, 266 
Brocoli, Melville’s White May, 
171; new late white, 207; Flint- 
ham’s, 364 ; planting, 459 
Brugmansia, culture, 346 ; flowers 
decaying, 372 
Bud, derivation of, 408 
Budgaree-gars, breeding, 74 
Bulbs should be from a distance, 
186 ; for autumn-flowering, 103 ; 
growing too deep, 130; for a 
Greenhouse in spring, 273; for 
Vinery, 274; planting Cape, 319 
Burning Clay, 263 
Butter, to remove a turnipy taste 
from, 117, 386 
Buttercup, Double, as a bedder, 
202 
“ Butterflies and Moths,” 225 
Butter-making, 227 
Cabbage culture and cook¬ 
ery, 1 1 ; time between sowing 
and cutting, 192; sowing, 348; 
(Red), pickling, stewing, lard¬ 
ed, and marinaded, 423 ; plant¬ 
ing, 4/6 
Calandrinia umbellata culture, 
103 
Calboa globosa and culture, 242 
Calceolaria, its properties and cul¬ 
ture, 110; seedlings and cut¬ 
tings, 184; bedding, 345 ; vio- 
lacea, 367 ; culture, 399 
Calceolarias, listof, 168; improve¬ 
ment of, and time of planting, 
169 
Caledonian Horticultural Society’s 
Meeting, 9 
Callistachys retusa culture, 347 
Calystegia pubescens, 172 , 362, 372 
Camellia pruning, 38 ; culture, 79 ; 
leaves spotted, 141, 176 ; leaves 
diseased, 300 ; culture, points 
in, 379 
Camellias in a vinery, 87 
Canary, hen not laying, 58 
Canker in Pigeons, 376 
Cannon Hall Muscat Grape, 385, 
441 
Cantua dependens, how to bloom, 
138 
Canvass for shading, 264 
Cape Jasmine culture, 479 
Capsicum, Currant-fruited, 381 
Capsicum pickle, vinegar, and 
wine, 434 
Cardoon culture and cookery, 478 
j Carnation layering, 246 ; culture, 
399; pipings, 424 
Carnations, list of, 293 
Carolina Superba Strawberry, 342 
Castor - oil, good medicine for 
fowls, 463 
Cattleya bicolor, 70 ; Skinneri var. 
parviflora, 156 
Cauliflower, winter-standing, cul¬ 
ture, 388 
Cauliflowers in winter and spring, 
309 
Cavendishia nobilis, 72 
Cayenne, 434 
Ceanothus verrucosus, 342, 350 
Celery leaves for soup, 35 ; culture, 
201, 275 ; insect-eaten, 392 
Cement for rooms, 20 
Cephalotaxus cuttings, 310 
Ceropegia culture, 398 
Characteristics of fowls, 428 
Cheilanthes landigera culture, 86 
Cheiranthus Marshallii, as a bed¬ 
der, 170 
Cherry-tree unfruitful, 283 
Chickens, rearing, 73; food for, 
162 ; dying without apparent 
cause, 162; feeding, 322 ; mor¬ 
tality among, 428; dying sud¬ 
denly, 466 
Chilblains, to cure, 303 
Children’s gardens, 13, 52, 121, 
137, 157, 176, 214 
Chili vinegar and wine, 434 
Chinese tree, 409 
Chironia culture, 347 
Christmas puddings, 376 
Chrysanthemum annuum culture, 
31 
“Chrysanthemum, The,” by J. 
Dale, 189; arrangement and 
list of, 189 
Chrysanthemum culture, 399 
Cineraria sowing and seedlings, 
184; culture, 399 
Cinerarias, Lidyard’s Brilliant, 77 ; 
list of, 78 ; done blooming, 114; 
lists of, 132 ; in autumn, 473 
Cissus discolor culture, 239 
Clavija ornata, 229 
Clerodendron culture, 398 
Clifton Horticultural Show, 223 
Climbers for east front of a house, 
159 ; for a Greenhouse, 264 , 273 
Coal tar, its fatal consequences, 70 
Cocks fighting, to prevent, 73 
Cockscombs, their good points, 
462 
Coleus Blumei culture, 239 
Colletia serratifolia, 386 
Collinsia, bicolor alba, 156 ; verna, 
280 ; bicolor, sowing, 300 
Collops, White, 322 
Colour changing in fowls, 1 Q4 
Columba palumbus torquatus, 41 ; 
turtur, 142; risoria, 195; saxa- 
tilis livida, 265; agrestis, 321 
Columbines, improving, 202 ; 
Double, 260 
Colt, to know his mature height, 
322 
Combs, to polish tortoise-shell,303 
Committees, Have mercy on, 264 
Compost-heap management, 380 
Consequences, 9 , 104 
Coop, water in fatting, 73 
Coreopsis tinctoria culture, 32 
Correas in autumn, 473 
Cotoneastcrs, cutting down old, 
22 
Cramp in a turkey, 143 
Cranberry, culture of American, 
20 
Crested Fern, 2/0 
Cr£ve Cceurs, What are, 265 
Crickets, destroying, 407 
Crocus sowing, 218 
Crooked toe does not disqualify a 
fowl, 42 
Crops, good prospect of, 359 
Cross-breeding,influence of mother 
plant, 255 
Crowfoots, Double, 318 
Crystal Palace — the Peace cele¬ 
bration, 131 ; Flower Show— 
May, 163 ; Prizes, 179 ; opening 
of the great fountains, 217 ; 
Horticultural Show, 237, 429, 
445; List of Prizes, 251 
Crystal Palace and its arrange¬ 
ments, 450 
Crystal Palace Gardens criticised, 
467 
Cuckoo’s appearance in Worces¬ 
tershire, 183 
Cuckoo-buds, 318 
Cucumber-bed, funguses in, 39 
Cucumbers, why bitter, 189; 
failure of early, I 92 
Cuphea platycentra culture, 32 
Custard Pudding, 394 
Cuttings in pots, 4 ; striking, 231; 
management of, 292; how to 
strike, 326 ; in a cold pit, 330 
Cyclamens, the water they require, 
114 
Cypripedium purpuratum, 19 ; 
chloranthum, 70 
