VI 
INDEX. 
Cruoria, 103 
Cryptocarya peumus, 314 
Crystal Palace, its opening and 
size, &c., 209 ; its flower-garden- 
i ing, 401, 422; Calceolarias, yel¬ 
low, as bedders at, 423 ; its bed- 
ding-out, 490 
Cucumber and its enemies, 254; 
diseases, 276 ; failures, 308 
Cucumbers with male blooms only, 
, 13 ; checked in growth, 86 ; dc- 
I cay ing at the tips, 245 ; at 
Christmas, to obtain, 424 ; dis¬ 
eased, 465; productive, 465 
Cultivators, advice to small, 3 
Currant (black)Aphis, 133 ; (black), 
its failure in Kent, 160 ; (black, 
red, and white,) culture, 231 ; 
trees unfruitful, 425 
Cut-flowers of the season, 5 
Cuttings in autumn, 355 ; best 
mode of striking, 432 
I Cvdonia japonica sports, 54 
Oynoglossum, 437 
Cyrtomium fateatum, 496 
Cy tisus racemosus latifolius and its 
culture, 36 
Czackia, 438 
Daisy (double), list of, and raising 
from seed, 257; propagating by 
division, 300 ; soil, &c., 301 
j Dahlia, its best varieties, 58 
I Dalibardia violreoides, 477 
Dandelion, cooked, 125 
Davicsia culture, 37 
I Delphiniums, early, 477 
Delphinium sinensc, culture, 406 
Den tar ia bulbifera, 169 
Dentarias, early, 477 
j Depilatory, 2-17 
Desfontainia spinosa, 369 
Devon and Cornwall Poultry Show, 
92, 262 , 281 
Diantliuses, early, 477 
Dianthus splendens culture, 245 
Dictymia^ttenuata, 496 
Dielytras and their culture, 84; 
| early, 477 
Dielytra spectabilis seedlings, 227 J 
seeds, 325 
Dill, the Anise of the Bible, 2 
Diphylleja cymosa, 478 
Dipladenia crassinoda culture, 27 
Disa granditlora culture, 232, 332 
Diseases of Poultry, 10 ; Ulcerated 
throat, 145; Lungs diseased, 
166 , 173 ; Roup, 246; Protru¬ 
sion of egg-passage, 326 
Dodecathcons, early, 478 
Donald’s Nursery, 27 1 
Doronicums, early, 478 
Dorking Fowls, their fifth claw, 
S3; chicken, their early weights, 
179 
Dorkings v. Shanghae, ns table- 
fowls, 9; how they fat, 9 
Dorsetshire Poultry Show, 412 
Draba aizoides, 249 ; in can a, 289 
Draba muralis, 349; verna, 389 
Drabas, early, 478 M, 
Drake’s curled tail feathers, 288 
Drainage, shreds for, 115 
Draining, 71 
Drynarias, greenhouse, 196 
Dry season, work fora, 58 
Dublin Society’s Poultry Show, 86 ; 
Amateur Poultry Show, 91 ; 
Natural History Society, 180, 
200 , 281 
Ducklings, blindness in, 228 
Dudrcsnaia, 103 
Dumontia, 40 
Durham Poultry Show, 421 
Ealing Park, sale of plants, 102 
Earthing up, its use, 332 
Edgings of flowers, 336 
j lodging tiles, need of good, 236, 268 
Egg-eating hen, 14; Egg-produc¬ 
tiveness, comparative, 363; pas¬ 
sage, its protrusion, 401 ; occur¬ 
rence of two, 404 
Eggs, chilled while sat on, 14, 102 ; 
retentive of vitality, 42, 05; hens 
lading soft, 48, 67 ; time they 
will keep fertile, 143; chilled, 
yet productive, 144; distinction 
between Dorking and Spanish, 
145; vitality in, 201; without 
shells, cause of, 247; weight of 
pullets’, 445; without yolks,466 
Eleocarpus dentatus, 35 
Employers and the employed, 56 
Embothrium ferruginium, and 
lanceolatum, 314 
Endive, cooked, 125 ; culture, 331, 
459 
Entomological Society’s Meeting, 
51, 110, 390, 250, 311, 470 
Enville Hall, 456 
Epacrises with soft-wooded plants, 
196 
Epimedium hybrids, 325 
Epimcdiums, early, 494 
Eremurus, early, 494 
Erinus, early, 494 
Esclischoltzia tenuifolia, 315 
Eucharis Candida, 155 
Euchnida Bartonioides, 469 
Europcdium Lin deni, 194 
Euteromorpha, 263 
Euthales macrocarpa as an edging, 
297 
Evergreens, list of rare, 317; for 
a screen, 366 ; time for moving, 
427 ; time for planting, 431 
Ewes and Lambs (Shropshire) 
diseased, 13 
Ewing’s Glass-walls, 325 
Exacum macranthum, 69 
Exchanges usual and to be en¬ 
couraged, 19 
Exeter Poultry Show, 70, 102 
Exhibitions, rules for Horticul¬ 
tural, 235 
Exhibiting Poultry honestly, 183 
Exostemma aquaticum, 315 
Fa 1 luues should be told, 74 
Fanny Bell, 221 
Farm-yard paviug, 30 ; Fowls for, 
145 
Feathers falling off, 107; hasten¬ 
ing their growth, 288 
Feeding fowls, results of excessive, 
66 
Ferns, Stove, 7,, 77, 138, 176 , 197; 
279, 360 ; their abnormal forms, 
187 ; moving, 287 ; list of stove, 
315 ; for a cold greenhouse, 324 ; 
Greenhouse, 377, 436, 476 , 495 ; 
Hardy, 364, 366; for Wardian 
case, 425; common, to raise, 
487 ; culture of the Bristle, 505 
Ficaria verna, 495 
Filberts, treatment of old, 86 
Fire-woods, 39 
Firs, moving large, 343 
Fish-pond mossy, 245 
Five-toed fowls, 285 
Flora Bristoliensis, 350 
Flora’s Clock, 182 
Flower-garden Plan, No. 13, 89 
Flowering plants in July, 320; 
in August, 424, 442 
Flowers, good mode of packing, 
67 ; in July, 342; in Paris, 381 
Forest-trees, weeding young, 419 
Fowls for cold soil, 67 ; miscella¬ 
neous, as recently exhibited, 
122 ; reviewed, 400 
Frame, heating a, 445 
Frenchman, The dying, 259 
Frodsham, 336 
Frost on April 24th, and its 
effects, 69 , 74, 75 , 97 
Fruit, retarding, 242; in Kent, 
339; keeping, 413 
Fruit-trees, management of young, 
171 ; training in particular forms, 
190 
Fruit-room, its form and manage¬ 
ment, 438 
Fruits, want improvement, 290; 
how to improve, 291 ; raising 
from seed, 303 
Fuchsia culture for a succession, 
217 ; fulgens shedding its buds, 
205 
Fuchsias shedding their leaves, 29 ; 
list of new, 38 ; list of, 253 ; as 
standards, 3/6; wintering out- 
of-doors, 406; for bedding and 
other purposes, 405 
Fulham 1 alace gardens, 355 
Fumeworts, 84 
Furcellaria, 40 
Galega culture, 459 
Game Fowls, colour of Pile, 86; 
of Ccylcn, 180 
Gapes in chicken, 107 
Gardeners* Company, 487 
Gardenia globosa, 483 
Geese, difficulty in knowing their 
sex, 91 
Genetyllis tulipifera, 155 
Gentiana Fortuni, 309 ; early, 495 
Geranium, Unique, not flowering, 
75 ; sowing and seedlings, 274 ; 
management of seedlings, 275 ; 
propagation, 873; standards, 
grafting, &c., 4 16 
Geraniums, distances in beds, 94 ; 
the hardy, 143; Fancy, list of, 
193; list 'of, 253, 293; win¬ 
tering, 205; leaves turning 
yellow, and cuttings, 265; shown 
in July, how arranged, 3 16 
Ginannia, 40 
Glass shelters, 381 ; for plant- 
culture, was it used by the 
ancients? 344 
Gloiosiphonia, 103 
Gloxinias, new, 294 
Golden Drop Plum, 36 
Gooseberry caterpillars, 133; cul¬ 
ture, 232 
Gooseberries (table), list of, 268 
Grafting on roots, 55, 65 
Grapes mildewed, 305; not colour¬ 
ing, 486 
Grass plant of China for textile 
purposes, 36 
Green-fly, to destroy, 180, 255 
Greenhouse, spring flowers for, 36; 
use of small, 147; plants flower¬ 
ing in May, 150; against a high 
bank, 344 ; adjoining a residence, 
443 ; wooden better than iron, 
444 ; a cheap and useful at 
Hitchin, 492 
Grevillea calendulacea, 35 
Griffithsia, 104 
Guclderlands and other anomalous 
Poland fowls, 103 
Gymnogougrusj 40 
Gypsum in potato culture, 205 
IlAcaUETiA epipactris, 495 
ILemanthus Rooperi, 253 
Half-hardy plants last winter, 45 
Halymenia, 41 
Hamburglis, hen-feathered, 125; 
points in Silver-pencilled, 184 
Hamburgh fowls, 399 ; at Lin¬ 
coln, 426 
Hampstead Heath, 442 
Hand-glasses, a few words about, 
61 
Hants (South) Poultry Association, 
439 
Hardihood of plants near the sea, 
142 
Hatching months, 285 
Hay, manuring for, 227 
Hay thorn’s Garden Net, 49 
Hazlewood Hall, 236 
Heaths, a pit for, 85; with soft- 
wooded plants, 191 ; list of, 
293 
Heating, modes of, 13; by hot- 
water, 30 
Hedysarum, early, 495 
Heintzia tigrina, 149 
Heliotropes, list of best, 38 
Hcmitclia, its species, 8 
Hcracleum giganteum, its size, 
287 J large, 342 
Herbaceous plants, hardy, flower¬ 
ing in April and May, 1S2; 
propagating, 305 
Hermionitcs palmata, 7 
Hogg’s Edging Tiles, 228 
Holders, Advice to Small, 33, 52, 
71, 92 
Holly as a fence, 71; hedges, 
making, 327 
Hollyhock, its best varieties, 58 ; 
rules for exhibiting, 127 } ripen¬ 
ing seed after being cut, 249 
Holmflrth Spring Poultry Show, 
202 
Honey as a medicine and in soap, 
244 ; from Kalmia, 506 
Hoof, to cure a brittle, 49 
Hop Skim, 109 
Hornbeam as a fire-wood, 39 
Hornby (Capt. W. W.), parted 
with his Poultry, 2 
Horticultural Society’s Meeting, 
(March), 4 ; (April), 34 ; Meet¬ 
ing, 72, 154; Show, 133, 192, 
214; Society, its management, 
241; Society’s Exhibition, 294 
Hothouses, opening front lights, 
246 
Hyacinths done blooming in 
glasses, 14; list of in pots, 36; 
culture in glasses, 126 
Hydrangeas, to obtain blue, 227 ; 
not blooming, 324 
Hypolepis repens, 8 
Impatiens Jerdonue, 295 ; glan- 
duligera culture, 343 
India, fruits and flowers for, 16 
Insects in Fruit-Garden, 132 
Irish Moss as a fattener, 408 
Iris (Peacock), its history, 232 ; 
culture, 400 
Irrigation with different waters, 
270 
Ismene culture, 408 
Ivy-clad Fir, 157 
Ivy clipping, 204 
Ixia viridiflora, 343 
Jasmine, yellow, not floweriug, 
487 
Jottings by the way, 117 
Kallymenia, 41 
Kidney-beans of past season, 497 
Kinmell Park, 359 
Kitchen •• gardening in August, 
' 331 ; seasonable doings in, 397 
Knight and Co., of Eastbourne, 
22 7, 268 
Lantana, cuttings, 227 
Lantanas in beds, 504 
Larch aphis, 340 
Laurel ia aroraatica, 314 
Leaves, to dissect, 506 
Leptogramma villosum, 8 
Leschenaultia biloba culture, 28 
Lettuces for autumn, 331 
Lily of the Valley on heavy soil, 86 ; 
forcing, 437 
Lincoln Poultry Show, 342 
Linum grandiflorum, 149 
Liquid guano for grass, 268 ; ma¬ 
nure, 370, 448 
Lisianthus Russellianus culture, 
374 
Litobrockia lcptophylla, 8 
Liverpool Horticultural Show, 273 
Lobelias, bedding out, 95 ; dwarf¬ 
ing the tall, 205 
Lomarias, list of, 77 
Looking around us, 65, 454 
Lycopodiums for Wardian case, 
425 
Lysimachia Lesclienaulti, 263 
Malays, as recently exhibited, 
101 
Malvern Poultry Show, 503 
MangoldWurtzel management,408 
Manuring not always beneficial, 
379 
Manures, how beneficial, 269 ; 
use and abuse of, 471 
Markets of London, their history, 
367, 407, 445, 407 
Mead and Metheglin, recipes, 
214 
Mealy Bug, destroying the, 100 
Medicine Chest for Poultry, 501 
Melons falling from the stalk, 288 ; 
diseased, 298 , 465 
Melrose, crops at, 345 
Menisciums, list of, 77 
Mesembryanthemums in beds, 504 
Microladia, 121 
Microsperma Bartonioides, 469 
Mignonette in early summer, 21 ; 
in pots, 130 ; decaying, 343 
Mildew in Cucunjbers, 276 
Millet seed for fowls, 67 
Mimosa pudica culture, 344 
Minasi’s Incubator, 427 
Mirbelia culture, 38 
Mitraria coccinca, 306 
Mixed flower-gardening, 335 
Morello Cherries, pruning in 
spring, 118 
Mount Vernon and Washington, 
166 
Musa Cavendishii culture, 48 
Mushroom-culture made easy, 312; 
beds, 425 ; forcing, 480 
Myrica esculenta, 314 
Myrtle pruning, 344 
