INDEX. 
raising from seed, 140; for forc¬ 
ing, 214 ; new sorts, 287; how 
long they last, 320; Sir Harry, 
342 ; artificial manures for, 463 
Strelitzia ovata and reginae cul¬ 
ture, 22; reginse, 308 
Suburban Villa and Country Re¬ 
sidence, 18, 85, 120, 138, 151, 
211, 261, 282, 312, 369 
Succulent vegetables, how to grow, 
200 
Succulents in autumn, 472 
Sulphurator, Note on a new, 369 
Sulphur, its effects on Camellias, 
333 
Sunflower seed as poultry food, 90 
Swammerdamia antennaria, 279 
Swarms without queens, 46l 
Swedish Turnips, sowing, 80 
Sweet Briar, propagating, 141 
Sydney Horticultural Society, 354 
Syllabubs, 375 
Tabernasmontana culture, 
240 
Tacsonia mollissima as a green¬ 
house climber, 23; mollissima, 
36 
Tallies, Edwards* Garden, 368, 405 
Tar varnish for iron, 105 
Tea culture in India, 297 
Tecoma fulva, 19 
Thorne Poultry Show, 248 
Thrips, destroying, 38 ; cure for, 
386; on Dahlias, 424 
Tidworth House, 276 
Timber Trees, home v, foreign, 257 
Titmouse, derivation of, 408 
Toes, thirteen, on chickens, 126 
Tom-tits and Peach blossoms, 71 
Tottington Poultry Show, 392 
Tree fence and support, 120 
Trifle, to make, 394 
Trimming poultry, 88, 411 
Tropseolum Lobbianum culture, 
32 ; Scheuzrianum culture, 64 
Tropseolums, Hybrid, 289 
Tulip offsets planting, 477 
Tumour in fowl, 74 
Tunbridge Fern, 199 
Tupidanthus calyptratus, 70 
Turbot, new mode of cooking a, 
192 
Turtle Dove, 142; The Collard, 
195; keeping them at liberty, 
375 
Unity of expression, 309 
Varieties of Poultry, esti¬ 
mate of, 301 
Variegated plants, 430 
Varnish for wood and iron, 159 
Vegetable culture and cookery, 478 
Ventilation, 2 
Verbena, list of, and charac¬ 
teristics, 148; upon exhibiting 
the, 172; bedding, 345 
Verbenas, for exhibition, 22 ; in 
borders, to manage, 183; stand 
for cut, 424 ; in autumn, 456, 
473 ; in winter, 478 
Versailles Horticultural Show, 475 
Vetch, Winter, 313 
| Vine forcing with roots outside, 
39; borders, making, 59; heat¬ 
ing them for forcing, 69 ; fail¬ 
ures, rectifying, 300; mildew, 
438; grafting and inarching, 
.479 
Vinery planting, 258 ; construction 
of, 258 ; roof and heating, 355 
Vines, fibres from their joints, 87 ; 
and their ailments, 128 ; mois¬ 
ture for the leaves of forced, 
176 ; raising roots of old, 230 ; 
and Pines together, 372; for 
cold greenhouse, 463 
Vineyard prospects, 349 
Violet culture under glass, 226 
Walks, their arrangement, 
212 
Wall, plants for a low, 171 
Wall-fruit crops, prospect of, 
103; summer culture, 236 
Walls, evergreens for S. and W., 
273; climbers for, 281 
Wallflowers, cuttings of double, 
32 
Waltonian Propagating Case, 72 ; 
for cuttings, 115 
Wardian Case and Aquarium com¬ 
bined, 242 
Wartzia aurea, 238 
Water cistern, plants for, 141 
Water, ornamental, 282 
Water-plants, hardy, 273, 437 
Watering, rules for, 80 
Waterproof cloth, to make, 303 
Weeds, how increased, 153; law 
for destroying, 378; seeds they 
produce, 379 
Weeks’ boiler, heating various 
houses with, 53 
Wellington Road Nursery, 344, 
360 
Wellingtonia cuttings, 310; gi- 
gantea, 402 
Wharfdale Poultry Show, 90 
Wheat Grub, 320 
Whitby Poultry Show, 327 
White fowls, keeping in a town, 
58 
White comb, remedy for, 144 ; in 
Spanish fowls, 394 
White flowers, their beauty, 149 
Wigan Poultry Exhibition, 358 
Windsor Poultry Show, 196 , 214, 
232, 234 ; mistake of Com¬ 
mittee, 215 ; Cochin chickens at, 
250 
Wing of fowl paralysed, 482 
Winter, succession of flowers, 434 
Wintering plants in a cold frame, 
176 
Wire netting for poultry-yard, 162 
Wireworms, to destroy, 87 
Woodlice trapping, 367 
Woodstock, Doings at, 311 
Wormwood, derivation of, 408 
Yarrell, death of Mr., 414; 
memoir of, 456 
Zinc drinking-pans, 286 
Zichya culture, 114 
WOODCUTS. 
Mr. John Smith ..... 
Approach to a House 
Eucalyptus coccifera 
Tacsonia mollissima.. 
Pine Stoves at Bicton . 
Rustic Work.. 
Vine borders at Trentham . 
Nycterinia selaginioides. 
Fruit Room . 
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Dodecatheon integrifolium... 
15 
. 18 
20 
. 36 
37 
43 
. 50 
53 
59 
. 68 
■ 69 
. 75 
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Wardian Case and Aquarium . 
82 
. 260 
91 
100 
. 101 
... 2/8 
270 
. 120 
. 122 
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Gardens in the Olden Time. 314 
Lastraea filix-mas. 323 
Abronia umbellata . 332 
Eria acervata. 333 
Orchard-house. 341 
Ceanothus verrucosus. 350 
Shelter for Wall Trees. 351 
Sonerila orbiculata . 368 
Sulphurator .. 369 
Lastraea Fcenisecii .. 377 
Colletia serratifolia. 386 
Bailey’s Boiler. 387 
Flower-garden Plan. 395 
White-stemmed Amaranth . 404 
Runt Pigeon. 410 
Lastraea oreopteris . 413 
Fruit Cylinders. 420 
Mildew of the Vine and Hop. 438, 439 
Lastraea rigida. 449 
Acorns of Quercus Brantii and infectoria 458 
Flower Planting in Shades. 470 
Oncidium Pinellianum . 474 
Fungus of Potato Scab .. 475 
