INDEX. 
Lois Weedon system of cultiva¬ 
tion, 121 
Lotus Jacobseus culture, 363 
Lycaste Harmonise and Skinnerii 
culture, 384 
Manchester Horticultural 
Show, 203 
Manchester and Liverpool Agricul¬ 
tural 3ociety, 351 ; its Poultry 
Show, 35 7 
Mangles’s Variegated Geraniums 
seedling, 371 
Mangold Wurtzel seed failing, 
193 ; leaves, cooking, 412 
“ Manual of Domestic Economy,” 
390 
Manure, how to apply, 201 
March, plants to be bloomed in, 
21 
Marigold, its derivation, 407 
Markets, London, 26 , 42, 58, 74, 
90, 108, 126, 144, 162, 178, 198, 
216, 234, 250, 268, 286, 304, 322, 
340, 358, 376, 394, 412, 428, 444, 
466, 482 
Marking fowls, 26, 481 ; chickens, 
268 
Masdevallia Wageneriana, 229 
Measuring hilly land, 478 
Medinilla magnifica culture, 399 
Melon culture and failure, 352 ; 
pits and their failures, 435 
Melons ripening, 409; not fruit¬ 
ful, 424 
Methonica virescens, 461 
Meyenia erecta, 437 
Mignonette blooming three times, 
135 
Mildew of the Vine and Hop, 438 
Millhill Black Hamburgh Grape, 
480 
Miltonia spectabilis culture, 384 
Mint, variegated, as a bedder, 
182 ; variegated, 289 
Monnina obtusifolia, 78 
Moss (House) for potting purposes, 
260 
Mossing pot-plants, 319 
Mosses, the British, 70 
Mulberries falling, 247 
Mulligatawney Soup, 376 
Muscat de Sarbelle Grape, 343 
Mushroom-bed failing, 72 
Mushrooms, growing them in 
boxes, 294 ; for White Sauce, 
412; culture, 423 
Myrtus microphylla, 238 
Names of Poultry, 125 
Nectarine Seedling Pitmaston, 416 
Nectarines, out of doors, 236 ; 
pinching shoots, 2 Q 8 
Nemesia versicolor ,76 ; floribunda, 
77 
Newcastle Poultry Show, 25 
Night-smelling Stock, 330 
Norfolk Poultry Show, 249 
Nottingham Poultry Society, 32 ; 
Show, 411 
Nycterinia selaginioides, 100 
Nympheea Amazonum, 19 
Oak-galls, 409 
Oaks from Kurdistan, 458 
Oats, when to give to fowls, 466 
October, general notes for, 4/6 
Odontoglossum hastilabium var. 
fuscatum, and membranaceum, 
229 ; citrosmum, grande, and 
pulchellum culture, 384 
CEnothera macrocarpa seed, 72 
Old plants, notes on some, 153 
Oleanders, propagating, 462 
Oncidium leucochilum, microchi- 
lum, sphacelatum, and flexuo- 
sum culture, 456 ; Pinellianum, 
474 
Onion brull£, 35 
Onion, best white, 175; yellow, 
210 
Onions, from fresh seed, 186; 
winter-standing, 389 
Orange tribe culture, 176 
Orchard failure in Kent, 244 
Orchard, its derivation, 314 
“ Orchard House, The,” 331 
Orchard Houses, what they are, 
139; construction and uses, 
341; cost of erecting, 426; at 
Penllergare, 208 
Orchids, sale of Mr. Loddige’s, 
vii | 
146 ; bearing cool treatment, 
383, 456 
Ordeal Bean of Calabar, 60 
Othonna arborescens culture, 363 
Oxalis Bowii, to have a bed of in 
autumn, 130 
Oxen, merits of British and French, 
317 
Oxylobium culture, 347 
Packing plants, 157 
Pseonies, list of, 255 
Pampas Grass culture, 73 
Panmure’s (Lord), new gardens, 
219 
Pansy Show at Edinburgh, 213 
Pansies, Prussian, 255 ; list of, 
256 ; in autumn, 456 
Papilionidse, British, 225 
Paris Show, Poultry at, 24 ; rules 
for. 24 ; Notes from, 84, 117, 170 / 
226, 317, 333, 349, 401, 419, 433, 
475 ; Industrial Palace, Show at, 
171 ; Agricultural Show, Poul¬ 
try at, 10; Horticultural Show, 
210; Poultry at Exhibition, 
232 
Park and Paddock arrangement, 
85, 120 
Partridges, rearing, 106; rearing 1 
young, 444 
Passion-Flowers in autumn, 455 
Pea, a new early, 364 
Peas mildewed, 231 
Peach leaves, caterpillars on, 141 ; 
pinching shoots, 298 ; mode of 
bearing, 463; fruit falling, 463 
Peaches in greenhouse falling, 87 ; 
out of doors, 236; forcing in 
pots, 258 
Pear-trees and their ailments, 92 ; 
Stocks for, 92 
Pelargonium cucullatum, the 
parent of varieties, 183 
Pelargoniums, retarding their 
blooming, 72 ; six good, and six 
good Fancy, 73 ; list of, 86 ; de¬ 
scriptive list of, 97; (Fancy), 
their properties and list of, 112 ; 
origin of Nosegay, 129 ; new, 
238 ; cutting down, 390 
Pentaraphia Cubensis, 260 
Pentapterygium flavura, 71 
Peppercorns not to be given to 
chickens, 126 
Perilla Nankinensis culture, 55 
Peristeria eiata culture, 457 
Pernettya furens, 229 
Perth, gardens near, 219 
Pescatore, Memoir of M., 84 
Petit Patties for garnishing, 
376 
Petunia, its culture for exhibition, 
52 ; imperials, 123, 130, 437 
Petunias, bedding, 3 ; list of, 205, 
255 ; notes on, 360 ; in autumn, 
422 
Phaius albus culture, 457 
Phalaenopsis grandiflora, propa¬ 
gating, 159; culture, 281, 331 
Pheasant, sudden death of a 
Golden, 25 
Pheasants and Partridges, nurses 
for, 42 
Pheasants, rearing, 106 ; Gold 
and Silver, their management, 
126 ; Silver and Gold, time of 
sitting, 286 
Phlox Drummondi from cuttings, 
426 
Phloxes, notes on, 360 
Phosphate of lime, 17 
Physianthus culture, 399 
Picea nobilis seeds, 232, 262, 318 
Pickle for Tongues, Beef, and 
Pork, 376 
Picotees, list, of, 293 
Pigeon, Wild Blue Rock, 265 
Pigeons, gizzard-fallen, 26 ; killed 
by excess of salt, 73 ; a plea for, 
106; poisoned by lead, 375 ; to 
prevent their flying away, 393 ; 
fancy, 482 
Pincushion beds, 271 ; edging for, 
390 
Pine Stoves at Bicton, 50 
Pink pipings, to strike, 151 
Pink, list of varieties and culture, 
328 
Pinks in autumn, 422 
Pipes of earthenware instead of 
flues, 13; how to avoid a door¬ 
way with, 54 
Pit, forming a cheap, 71 ; for 
wintering flowers, 424; built 
with oily lime, 435 
Pits, Economical cold, 353 
Plants falsely named, 247 
Plantations, arrangement of, 85 
Planting-out disagreeable objects, 
23 
Platylobium culture, 347 
Pleasure ground, its arrangement, 
151 
Pleione maculata, pnecox, and 
Wallichiana culture, 457 
Pleurothallis saurocephalus cul¬ 
ture, 72 
Plumbago Capensis culture, 363 
Plums, various, 416 
Polands, Mr. Baker’s, 25 ; cha¬ 
racteristics of Golden-spangled, 
268; correspondence about, 336 
Polyanthus, raising from seed, 72 
Polyanthuses in autumn, 456 
Pomological Society’s Meeting, 
44, 118, 287, 342, 415 
Pompones, soil for, 280 
Pond, muddy water in, 301 
Poppy, Himalayan, 318 
Potato tubers becoming black, 
141 ; Murrain in Cornwall, 219 ; 
culture, 343 ; haulm pruning, 
350 ; factory of imperishable, 
403 ; American culture of. 407 
Potatoes, salt for, 123 ; v. Frost, 
156; early round. 175; from 
fresh tubers, 186; notes on 
I wild, 190 ; imported, 332; time 
for taking up, 423 ; early- 
planted, least diseased, 460 
Pots, material for standing on, 231 
Poultry exhibitions, benefits of, 
39 ; Congress, close of, 55 ; dis¬ 
ordered, 90 ; house and yard, 
90 ; yard, hedge for, 250 ; im¬ 
ported, 332; Show, Getting up 
a, 373, 442 ; sales, 375 ; houses, 
not to be heated, 428 ; trespass¬ 
ing, 428; house floor, 444 ; 
house, warming, 466 
Preston Poultry Sliow, 284, 411 
Prices in the Middles Ages, 460 ; 
of Poultry, 481 
Primrose, Chinese, its introduc¬ 
tion, 21 
Primula mollis, 77 ; Sinensis 
sowing, 331 
Propagating Case, French, 227 
Protecting and shading, 113 ; late 
vegetables, 296 
Protection of wall-fruit trees, 351 
Prunes in Tasmania, 354 
Pruning forest trees, 225 
Prunus serrulataand salicina, their 
introduction, 21 
Pullets, age for laying, 444 
Putty, softening old, 247 
Quamoclit globosa, 242 
Quercus infectoria and Brantii, 
458 
Quick and Quickset, meaning of, 
317 
Quickset hedge management, 8J 
Rabbit keeping, 40 
Radish, new winter, 210 
Radishes in hot weather, 329 
Raith, Recollections of, 308 
Raspberry, improvement of the, 
158; bud grub, 177; culture, 
364 
Ratafia pudding, 322 
Red Spider, destroying, 300 ; with 
sulphur, 417 
Reeves (John), death of, 21 
Rhodanthe Manglesii culture, 363 
Rhododendron jasminiflorum, 77 ; 
campilocarpum, 77; Falconeri, 
Hookeri, and campanulatum 
var. Wallichii, 280; Blandfor 
diieflorum and camelliaeflorum, 
367 ; Brookeanum and Edge- 
worthii, 461 
Rhododendrons, Bhotan, 77; not 
blooming, 177; grafting, 309; 
hardy, 319 
Rhubarb forcing, 296 ; early sorts, 
355 
Ribbon-gardening and young gar¬ 
deners, 36; arrangement of 
flowers, 274 ; planting, 470 
Ribes Gordoni, 77 
Rice-paper plant, 70 ; Cake, 375; 
for laying hens, 466 
! Iticinus rutilans sowing, 103 
j Ring Dove, The, 41 ; a robber, 
233 
Rockwork, 282 
Roella ciliata culture, 363 
Rondeletia spcciosa culture, 240 
Rookery, to establish, 301, 332 
Root-pruning, 306 
Roots, attention to temperature 
for, 129 
Rose, a green, 202 ; seeds, sowing, 
231 ; cuttings, 292 
Roses, soil for, 23 ; Tea-scented 
in pots, 38; treatment of seed¬ 
ling, 139 ; notes on budding, 
188; weeping, 264 ; beds for, 
272 ; list of new, 310; estimate 
of the varieties, 324 ; list of, 
349 ; for a fence and wall, 372 ; 
autumn-blooming, list of best, 
46l ; transplanting whilst in 
leaf, 461 
Roup may be eradicated, 144 ; 
influenced by food, 216 ; Co¬ 
paiba a cure for, 393 
Rubus eglanteria, 158 
Ruellia formosa culture, 21 
Runt Pigeon, 410 
Russelia juncea culture, 399 
Rustic work, ornaments for, 52; 
Basket gay in summer, 122 ; 
plants for, 182 
Salads, blanching winter, 
295 
Salvia fulgens, splendens, and 
gesneraeflora culture, 31 ; por- 
phyrata, 461 
Sand for potting, 372 
Saponaria calabricaand ocymoides, 
23 ; calabrica in the greenhouse, 
153 
Saprolegnia ferox on fish, 196 
Saxe-Gothaea conspicua, 136 
Saxifraga granulata plena culture, 
140; ciliata, 156 
Saves Court and Peter the Great, 
134 
Scab in Potatoes, 474 
Scale, destroying, 426 
Schizanthus culture, 364 
Scone and its gardens, 145 
Scotland,Random gleanings in,l 66 
Scythe, Boyd’s Vulcan, 2, 93 
Sea-kale forcing, 296 ; sowing, 478 
Seeds should be had from a dis¬ 
tance, 186 
September, general notes for, 387 ; 
house plrnts in, 454 
Shade, its value in summer, 
246 
Shanghae pullets, produce of, 56 
Shanking in Grapes, 231 
Sheffield Botanical Gardens, 6 ; 
its Camellia-house, 8 
Shrewsbury Poultry Show, 107, 
285, 301 
Shrubland Park, 452, 469 
Shrubberies, 261 ; in connection 
with the lawn, 211 
Silene pendula culture, 218 
Siphocampylos microstoma and 
Manettiflora culture, 22 
Sitting, to prevent hens, 108 
Skins of birds, how to soften. 58 
Smith (John), biography of, 15 
Snowdrop, the Crimean, 68 
Soils, how to treat dry, 206 
Solanum demissum and cardio- 
pliyllum, 190 
Sonerila orbiculata, 368 
Sophronites grandiflora culture, 
457 
Sowerby Bridge Poultry Show, 
443 
Spanish fowls, kinds of, 42 ; dis¬ 
eased, 376 ; productive, 464 
Sparrow having the Canary’s song, 
107, 143 
Spinach, winter-standing, 389 
Stephens, death of W., 110 
“ Stepping Stone to Natural His¬ 
tory,” 263 
Stilton cheese, 282 
Stock Dove, The, 124 
Stock (Intermediate) sowing, 246 
Stockport Poultry Show, 285 
St. Paul’s Churchyard, death of 
trees there, 13 
Strawberry plants rotting off, 53; 
culture, 150, 325 
“ Strawberry, The,” 295 
Strawberries for succession, 88 ; 
