INDEX 
Abronia umbellata, its history 
and culture, 106 
Acacias, Australian, 30 
Achimenes, pans for, 106 
Adiantum, 436 
Agricultural Society’s Show at 
Lincoln, 1 7 , 325 
Agriculture v. Horticulture, 243 
Allosorus calomelanos, 31 
Allotment Farming — June, 140; 
July, 238; August, 322 ; Sep¬ 
tember, 420 ; October, 497 ; 
Gardening—May, 59 
Allotments at Seal, 299 
Alsophila, 436 
Alstromeria culture, 246 
Altrincham Poultry Show, 481 
Alyssum maritimura, 299 
American Blight, its prevention, 
403 
American Groundsel cuttings, 20 
Amomum Danielli, 31 
Angelica preserving, 268 
Animals, chemistry of, 10 
Anise of the Bible, 1 
Antigramma, 436 
Antipodes, sending plants to, 502 
Antirrhinums, list of new, 7 
Ants, as destroyers of predatory 
insects, 52; climbing trees, to 
check, 106; extirpating, 208; 
v. Green Fly, 344 
Aotus culture, 3 7 
Aphelandra lateritia, 72 
Aphides, destroyed by aloes, 208; 
their prevalence, 290 
Appetite of fowls varies, 403 
Apple of Scripture, 31 
Apple insects, 133 ; stocks, 354 
Apricot-trees unfruitful, 127; in¬ 
sects, 132; stocks, 354; mil¬ 
dewed, 445 
April—its vegetables and fruits, 62 j 
Arabis, early species, 378 
Arbor vitae, removing a large, 48 ; 
pruning, 325 
Ardisia crenulata culture, 21 
Arenaria, early species, 378 
Aretia, early species, 379 
Aquilegia glandulosa culture, 144 
Ash-tree of the Bible, 109 ; cater¬ 
pillar on, 111 
Asparagus beds, salt for, 147» 
holder, 178 ; culture, 244 
Asphalt covers, 443 
Asplenium, 436; list of, 4/6 
Aster, early species, 379 
Aubrietia, early species, 379 
August — plants in flower, 363 ; 
flowers, 387 
Auriculas, list of best, 160 
Australian Botanic and Horticul¬ 
tural Society, 123 
Aylesbury Poultry Show, 52 
Azalea narcissiflora, 7 3 
Azaleas (Chinese) dropping their 
flower-buds, 29 ; shedding their 
buds, 75; list of, 155; done 
blooming, 174; potting, 205 ; 
mismanaged, 487 
Badorgan, 417 
Balantium culcitum, 495 
Balm of Gilead, 149 
Balsamodendron Giieadense, 150 
Bank, evergreens for, 266 
Barkeria spectabilis and Skinneri 
culture, 13 
Barley of the Bible, 189 
Bath Poultry Show, 223 
Bay Tree of the Bible, 389 
Beau sejour garden, 501 
Beautiful (The) and Expensive 
not identical, 334 
Bedding-out-plant cuttings, 19 ; 
distances for, 94 ; rules for, 114; 
flowers, examples of, 452, 464 
Bee-keeping for Cottagers—Calen¬ 
dar from October to February, 
43; for May, 62 ; removing con¬ 
densers and floor-boards, 105 
Bees with excess of queens, 28; 
giving water to, destroying 
vermin, removing hives, putting 
on supers, hiving and founding 
swarms, 124, 142; preventing 
8warms, 145 ; removing supers, 
joining stocks, fumigating, feed ¬ 
ing, system of management, 180; 
swarming, 228 ; benefit of shal¬ 
low hives, 165; Calendar for 
July; swarms, Taylor’s Hive, 
queens, 242; medical quality of 
honey, 243 ; on the depriving 
system will swarm, 263 ; uniting 
swarms, 307; swarming June 
8th, 314; swarms, cottager’s 
honey, autumnal unions, wasps, 
324 ; putting swarm in the place 
of stock, 403; the season, au¬ 
tumn unions, wasps, 421 ; 
joining, 467; stupifying with 
chloroform, 485 ; winter prepa¬ 
ration for, 500 
Bejaria cestuans, 315 
Berberis aquifolium, sowing, 343; 
berries, 388 
Bideford Poultry Show, 286 
Birmingham Botanic Garden, 279; 
Horticultural Show, 396 
Black Beetles, bait for, 267 
Blights of 1854, 390 
Bleclmums, greenhouse, 495 
Bleeding internally in Poultry, 466 
Bcehmcria vinea, 36 
Boiler, rule for its size, 67 
Boiled food for pigs, 448 
Bone powder for chicken, 289 
Bones dissolved by wood-ashes, 208 
Border for fruit-trees, its width, 
127 
Border Plants, early - flowering, 
337, 378, 437, 477, 494 (Hardy), 
43, 84, 143, 459 
Borders, cropping wall, 100 
Botanical excursion, its pleasure, 
350 ; Society’s Exhibition, 252 
Botanic Garden Exhibition, 292 ; 
Society, its show tent, 317 
Botany, Why do not gardeners 
attend more to ? 198 ; its use as 
a study, 349 
Bouquet, a new one, 5; French, 461 
Brahma Pootras are Grey Shan- 
ghaes, 44 ; identical with other 
Shanghaes, 340 
Brawn, making, 166 
Breeding from accidental varia¬ 
tions of fowls, 285 
Brick for garden-walls, 503 
Brocoli, notes on its culture, 161 ; 
for autumn and winter, 332 
Brussels Sprouts, 332 
Bryopsis, 200 
Buddleia crispa, 483 
Bulbs, removing spring-bloomed, 
86 ; moving when in leaf, 165 
Bury and Radcliffc Poultry Show, 
482 
Bush fruits in general, 231 
Butterflies, preserving, 408 
Butterfly, the Orange-tipped, 51 
Cabbage sowing, 301 
Cabbages to stand through the 
winter, 331 ; with Mangold 
Wurtzel, 482; management of, 
498 
Cacti, temperature] for, 13; not 
blooming, 216 
Calceolarias—Ajax, 73; list of new, 
76 ; done blooming, 175; in 
borders, 455 
Calendars for May, 67 ; June, 147; 
July, 247 ; August, 327 ; Sep¬ 
tember, 427; October, 507 
Calithamnion, 164, 1/9 
Calomel for Poultry, 501 
Camellia buds dropping, 30; sport¬ 
ing, 36 ; leaves blotched, 95 
Camellias done blooming, 194; 
inarching, 466 
Campanula, early species, 379 
Canker in fowls, 49 ; in Apples, 
227 ; in Cucumbers, 2/6 
Cantua dependens culture, 135, 426 
Cape Aster not blooming, 424 
Cardamine, 437; pratensis, 15; 
amara, 51 
Carnation propagation, 359 
Carnations, list of, 99; Tree, list 
of, 135 
Cashmeer, its fruits, 16 
Cassebeeras, greenhouse, 495 
Cassia corymbosa, its hardiness, 
376 
Catasetum naso, 483 
Catenella, 41 
Caterpillars, to destroy, 87, 168 
Cauliflowers for autumn, 332; of 
past season, 497 
Celeriac culture, 86 
Celery, and its culture, 220, 280, 
331 
Cephalotaxus pendula, 314 
Ceramiacese, 121 
Ceranium, 121 
Ceratostema longiflorum, 309 
Cestrufn aurantiacum manage¬ 
ment, 11 
Ceterach, its derivation, 264 
Charcoal, Animalized, 144 
Chaise (La) in Jersey, 25 
Cheilanthes farinosa, 31; green¬ 
house, 496 
Cheiranthera linearis, 35 
Cheiranthus, 437; Marshallii, 182; 
Marshallii propagation, 357 
Cheltenham Poultry Show, 70, 
239 
Cherries forced in pots, 216 ; in 
Kent, 362 
Cherry insects, 133 
Chick and Chicken versus Chicks 
and Chickens, 403 
Chicken, food for young, 14 ; 
their probable colour, 67 ; mis¬ 
representations as to age of, / 0 ; 
weight of young, 131, 147; 
artificial mother for, 165 ; age 
when exhibited, 166 ; delicacy of 
Dorking, 166 ; mortality among, 
188; unhatched, their retention 
of vitality, 287 
China Asters, latest sowing, 95 
Chiswick Gardens, 97 
Chocohitc Tree culture, 246 
Cholera—importance of clean¬ 
liness against, 430 ; influence of 
food, 449 ; modes of treatment, 
489 
Chrysanthemums, list of new, 
large, and Pompone, 7; plung¬ 
ing, 392 
Churchyard planting, 28 
Cinerarias, blind, 11; seedlings, 
11 ; list of new, 23; sowing, 
175 ; in borders, 455 
Citron probably the Tappuach of 
the Bible, 31 
Cladophora, 200 
Clematis lanuginosa, 253; barbel- 
lata, 483 
Clematises, new, 155 
Clerodendron Bungea, 155 
Climber for under a Walnut-tree, 
29 
Climbers for shaded wall, 266; for 
greenhouse, 266 ; for house side, 
505 
Cocoa-nut fibre as a source of 
heat, 327 
Codium, 200 
Coke stove injurious to plants, 408 
Ccelestial Tree, what is the, 388 
Coleworts for spring, 332 
Compton, Bishop, 355 
Concentration of aim, 56 
Confervm, 263 
Conifers in Australia, 123; at 
Donald’s Nursery, 272 ; at Bir¬ 
mingham, 279 ; their propaga¬ 
tion, 265 
Convallaria, 437 
Copartnership in a brood, 205 
Coppice-wood for fires, 39 
Coronilla culture, 460 
Cortusa, 437 
Corydalises and their culture, 85 
Corydalis, 437 
Covent Garden, 237 ; prices, &c., 
326, 342, 363, 387, 404, 423, 441, 
464, 484, 504 
Cow, rules for choosing, 4 ; ma¬ 
nagement of small holder’s, 17 ; 
crops for, 35 
Cows, best roots for, 106; maggots 
in back, 106 
Cranesbills, 143 
Crassula culture, 344 
Crataegus pyracantha fruiting, 48 
Cream, why it curdles in tea, 487 
Croceania, 103 
Crocus seed, 227 
Crops, state of, 278 ; in Blid-Kent 
and Uxbridge, 361, 362; the 
greatest produce of, 404; of past 
season, 496 
Cross-bred fowls ? 181 
Croup v. Roup, 10 
