VI 
INDEX. 
Cypripediums, their culture, 48; 
propagation, 49 
Cystopteris angustata, 43; den- 
tata, 59; Dickieana, 75 ; fra- 
gilis, 91 ; montana, 127 
Dahlia bed, 55 
Dahlia culture, 399 
Dahlias, descriptive list of, 33 ; 
list of Fancy 67 ; potting, 80; 
in Australia, 354 
Daresbury Poultry Show, 465 
Darwinia culture, 347 
Daviesia culture, 347 
Day of Small Things, 366; of 
Great Things, 400 
Delphinium Sinense in winter, 426 
Delphiniums, descriptive list of, 
102; notes on, 360 
Dendrobium bigibbum, 19 ; den- 
siflorura, thinning its flowers, 
177 ; Amboinense, 461 
Deutzia gracilis in the open 
border, 462 
Diastema culture, 398 
Dielytra spectabilis, culture in 
spring, 114; dividing, 159, 462 
Difficulties in gardening, a Me¬ 
chanic’s, 425 
Dipladenia culture, 240 
Dodecatheon vitifolia, 77 ; inte- 
grifolium, 154 
Don (Mr. G.), death of, 35; 
memoir of, 152 
Dorchester Poultry Show, 464, 480 
Dorking chickens, how to manage, 
216 
Doronicum Austriacum, 35, 55 
Double flowers, raising, 247 
Double glazing, its use, 408 
Dove-house Pigeon, 321 
Doves, food for, 21 6 
Drones, destroying, 405 
Drunkenness, 222 
Duck and cock, effects of union, 
74 
Duck feeding, 178 
Ducks, best age for laying, 340 ; 
fattening, 412 
Dung-bed for cuttings, and in 
Vinery, management of, 54 
Dunkeld House, 166 
Dysart House, 256 
Earwig-trap (Edwards’s), 122 
Earwig trapping, 367 
Echites suberecta culture, 240 
Economical dish for a family, 230 
Egg within egg, 107 
Egg not passing a cause of barren¬ 
ness, 144 
Eggs, cause of monster, 24 ; pre¬ 
venting soft, 57; hens laying 
soft,89,178; geese laying double- 
yolked, 90; large produce of, 
108 ; age of for sitting, 108 ; to 
preserve, 117 , 126; lor hatch¬ 
ing, how to mark, 143; dis¬ 
tinguishing fertile, 1 78 ; im¬ 
ported, 332; need no turning 
during hatching, 411 
Embellishments of gardens, 282 
Entomological Society’s Meeting, 
75, 127, 200, 214, 288, 359 
Epacris out of bloom, 114 
Epacrises in autumn, 473 
Eria acervata, 333 
Errington (Robert), memoir of, 
118 
Escallonia macrantha out of 
doors, 281 
Espalier fruit-trees, neglected, 471 
Eucalyptus coccifera, 20; a 
gigantic, 354 
, Eucharis grandiflora, 72 
Eugenia Ugni, 463 
Evergreens, the hardiest, 259 
Exeter Poultry Show, 17 s, 193 
I 
I Fareham Poultry Show, 144, 
195 
Feather Grass, 23 
Fence of the flower-garden, 133 ; 
of Roses, 372 
Fern an anthelmintic, 324 
Fern-seed, superstitions concern¬ 
ing, 324 
1 Ferns, list of hardy foreign, 318 
Fernery, glass of a, 425 
F6te of the Emperor, 419 
! Figs falling off, cause of, 54; 
young, turning yellow, 176 
Firs, for hiding objects, 39 
Flannel, to wash, 322 
Florists’Flowers, naming correctly, 
4 77 
Flower seeds, times for sowing, 
300; garden plans, 312; beds in 
a hollow, 373 ; garden, simple 
plan of, 395 ; seeds, storing, 460 
Flowers in panels, 408 
Food, properties of, for fowls, 74 ; 
quantity required by fowls, 266 
Fore-quarter of lamb, to carve, 303 
Fowls, poisoned by insects, 126 ; 
rearing weakly, 376 ; estimate 
of breed*, 410 ; tenacious of life, 
411 ; flying over fences, to pre¬ 
vent, 444 
Fruit room described, 100, 103; 
storing, requisites for, 102 ; 
trees, training aslant, 84 ; in 
pots, exhibiting, 277 ; tree plant¬ 
ing, 416, 477; tree cylinders, 420 
Fruits, state of, this year, 306, 312 
Fuchsia serratifolia culture, 31 
Fuchsias, soil for, 177 ; select list 
of, 185 ; for beds, 361 ; in pots 
and open borders, 422; White, 
to winter out of doors, 462 
Fuugi, anaesthetic principle of, 30 
Furze, 409 
Game, rearing, 105 
Game fowls, how to breed Pile, 41 ; 
Pile, to breed, 74; chickens, 
exhibiting, 376 ; dubbing, 427 
Gaping in chickens, 74 
Gapes, to cure, 42 
Garden ground, draining and ma¬ 
nuring new, 365 
Gardener, difficulties of a young, 
34; how to get on as a, 49, 80, 
153 
Gardener or Cottager? 320 
Gardeners’ Benevolent Institution, 
290 ; its value, 65; anniversary, 
212 
Gardeners, golden rules for, 299 ; 
advice to, 347 
Gardenia radicans culture, 479 
Gardens in the olden time, 314 
Gardens and Parks, cost of Royal, 
78 
Gas, heating by, 7L 192, 223, 
426; advantages and cost of 
heating by, 158 
Gastronema sanguineum, 296 
Gazania rigens culture, 347 
Geese laying soft eggs, 124 
Geometric gardening, a principle 
in, 166 
Geometric Gardens, 312 
“ Geography of England, Descrip¬ 
tive,” 263 
Geranium grafting, 175 ; colum- 
binum, 193; for bedding, 193 , 
344 ; climbing Scarlet, 231 ; 
cuttings, 327,331, 3/2; Ivy-leaf, 
sport, 389 ; leaves, diseased, 442 
Geraniums, bedding, 2, 44, 93, 
156, 289, 307; Scarlet Ivy-leaf, 
3; Fancy, 45; Variegated, 
Dandy, Golden Chain, &c., 45 ; 
bedding, Variegated, and Ivy¬ 
leaved, 6l ; scarlet breed, 93; 
breeding from shy-seeding, 109 ; 
white-eyed, bedding, 146; dis¬ 
eased, 159; Etoile de Vase, 307; 
training, 309 ; for beds, 361 ; 
parentage ot some bedding, 381 ; 
propagated by leaves, flower- 
stalks, and cuttings, 396 ; cul¬ 
ture, 400; grafted, 431; not 
blooming, 462 
Germination, protecting and pro¬ 
moting, 98 
Gesnera Donckliiri, 77 
Gesnera zebrina in autumn, 472 
Gingerbread and Gingerbread 
Nuts, 322 
Gingerbread, 394 
Ginger Cakes, 322 
Gizzard fallen, 58 
Gladiolus culture, 389 
Glass for greenhouse roof, 105; 
Hartley’s Plate, 177 ; distance 
of plants from, 451 
Glazing, directions for, 231 
Gloxinia culture, 240 
Gloxinias in autumn, 455 
Gnidia culture, 347 
Gold Fish management, 123; 
disease in, 196 
Gompholobiuin culture, 347 
Goodenia culture, 362 
Gooseberry caterpillar, to prevent, 
99 . 295 ; destroying, 188 
Gooseberries, good sorts, 357 » list 
of, 463 
Gorrie (Mr. D.), death of, 35; 
Memoir of, 98 
Grape, New White, 217; Snow’s 
Muscat, 287; Muscat St. Lau¬ 
rent, 287 
Grapes, why bunches become ten¬ 
drils, 203; concreted borders 
for, 204 ; Black Champion, Tre- 
biana, and Golden Hamburgh, 
409 ; Ivery’s White, 415; Pro¬ 
lific Sweetwater, 415; Chasselas 
Pr£coce, 415; Trebiana, 423 ; 
collection of, 432 
Grass sowing, 409; upder trees, 
462 
Grave, plants for a, 37 
Green Fly, to kill, 177 
Greenhouse, a moveable, 37; in a 
shaded town yard, 38; heating 
from a cellar, 39 ; plants, sum¬ 
mer-house for, 185; soil for, 
272 ; heating from a kitchen 
fire, 436 
Grits in the husk, 178 
Guano imported, 332; earliest 
notice of, 454 
Gymnogramma leptophylla, 181 ; 
hybrida Martensii, 333 
Hair falling, to prevent, 391 
Hakea culture, 362 
Halim Pasha’s Gardens at Cairo, 
370 
Hambro’, Gold-spangled cock, his 
marks, 126 
Hambros’, their name should not 
be altered, 125 
Hamburgh fowl, 58 
Hamburghs v. Cochins, 160, 194, 
195, 234 ; change of colour in, 
l 6 l ; spangled (Moonies), 162 ; 
white - lobed, 234 ; hackle of 
silver, 481 
Hardenbergia culture, 114 
Harmony, Contrast, and Variety, 
369 
Hartshill Flower Show, 283 
Hatching season, 178 
Hautbois Strawberry, 424 
Havannah cigar tobacco, 153 
Haymaking, 151 
Heaths, treatment after flowering, 
185 
Heating, remarks, 154 
Hedges, garden, 21 
Hedychium culture, 240 
Hens not laying, cause of, 42; sud¬ 
den death of laying, 42 ; allow- i 
ing to sit, 126 ; dying suddenly, 
322; longevity of, 427 J sitting , 
where they choose, 443 
Heterotropa asaroides, 367 
Hibbertias, 362 
Hollyhocks, list of, 221 ; in au¬ 
tumn, 422 
Honey, taking, 299, 478; dark- 
coloured, 390 
Hood’s arched boilers, 155 
Hop mildew, 438 
Horticultural Society’s Commit¬ 
tee’s Report, 1, 28; Meeting, 
27 , 76 , 182 , 235; Finance Re- 
port, 30; Anniversary, 92; 
proposed union with Crystal 
Palace, 92 ; Report from the 
Council, 115; Special Meeting, ' 
253; prospects, 269 ; Council j 
to the Public, 324 ; Council pro- | 
ceedings, 359; house, sale of, , 
396 ; house, 4 19 
Hot water, heating with, 54, 55 j 
Hot-water apparatus for dwelling 
and greenhouse, 81 
Hot-water heating apparatus, 406 
Hotbeds for propagating, their 
make and management, 95 
Hotbeds of dung, mixing lime 
with, 158 
House for early forcing, 382 , 
House plants in August and Sep¬ 
tember, 454, 472 
Household, The, 250 
Householdry, English, in the 
Middle Ages, 460 
Hovea culture, 362 
Hoya latifolia, 238 ; culture, 240 j 
Hoya bella culture, 385 
Hull Poultry Show, 267 
Humea elegans culture, 363 
Hybrid barrenness, 376 
Hydrangea, variegated, propagat¬ 
ing, 479 
Hvmenophyllum Tunbridgense, 
199 ; Wilsoni, 235 
Ice-houses, imperfect, 432 
Impatiens Jerdoniae culture, 67 
Implements at the Royal Agricul¬ 
tural Show, 318 
Imps, 317 
Improvement under difficulties, 
117 
Ipomopsis elegans culture, 363 
Indian Corn, its use, 35 ; as 
Poultry food, 268 
Irises, list of, 255 
Jardin d’Hiver, 401 
Jasmine not flowering, 231 
Jerusalem, cultivation near, 46 
Judges at Poultry Shows, why 
complained against, 141 ; their 
duties, 283; appointment of 
poultry, 274 ; should their de¬ 
cisions be final ? 335 
Jugged Hare, 376 
July, general notes for, 245 ; plants 
blooming in, 327 
June, Kitchen-garden work in, 
207 ; tender plants blooming 
in, 239 
Kale,Melville’s variegated, 
62 
Kalmia picta, 238 
Kenncdya culture, 114 
Kew Gardens, their improvement, 
16 ; report on, 78 
Kidney Bean (Dwarf and Runner) 
culture, 32 
Kidney Beans, preserving and 
cooking, 71 ; insects on, 177 ; 
rule for planting, 184; under 
glass, 301 
Kitchen-garden, Notes on its ar¬ 
rangement, 66; work, 330 ; 
sowing, 349 
Knot (Garden), meaning of, 317 
Labels, zinc, 473 
Lagerstromia culture, 398 
Lamb’s Fry, 230 
Lamb’s Tongue explained, 392 
Lancashire Poultry Show, 411 
Lantanas, notes on, 361 
Lapageria rosea var. albiflora, 19 ; 
rosea culture, 331 
Larch, a new, 238 
Larches, state of the two first 
introduced, 167 
Lastraea cristata, 270; dilatata, 
305 ; filix-mas, 323 ; foenisecii, 
377 ; oreopteris, 413 ; rigida, 449 
Laurel leaves, their fatal effect on 
insects, 360 
Lawn injured by grubs, 141, 159 
Lawns, 262 
Laying out a small space, 138 
Laying powers, why opinions 
differ concerning, 393 
Leamington Poultry Show, 302 
Leaves, to take impressions by 
light, 303 
Lemon Cake, 322 ; Sponge, 375 ; 
Pudding, ::94 
Leptotes bicolor and concolor cul¬ 
ture, 383 
Lettuce culture, 201 
Lettuces, Cabbage v. Cos, 243 ; 
running to seed, 329; in Janu¬ 
ary, ike., 367 ; winter-standing, 
389 ; in autumn, 422 
Lice on chickens, to cure, 143 
Lime-water for worms in pots, 308 
Lin mean system, hints on, 103 
Lipum grandiflorum, 103, 330, 
332; culture, 54, 130, 202 : 
sowing, 71 ; rubrum, 259, 441 ; 
seed, 281 ; culture, 298 ; colour, 
308, 320; and coccineum, 318; 
cuttings, 319; as a greenhouse 
plant, 355 ; lancifolium culture, 
389 
Lisianthus Russcllianus culture, 
298 
Liver and Bacon, and Liver and 
Bacon Cake, 230 
Lobelia ramosoides, can it be 
raised from seed ? 55 ; from 1 
seed, 109 
Lobelias, notes on, 361 ; in au¬ 
tumn, 455 
