INDEX. 
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Naccauia, 103 
Nectarine culture in June, 153 
Nectarines shrivelling, 127; in¬ 
sects, J33 
Nemaleon, 103 
Neottopteris, list of, 77 
Ncphrodiums, list of, 77 
Nervous system in plants, 33 
Netting, square-meshed, to make, 
84 
Nettle fibre for paper-making, 412 
Newcastle Poultry Show, 28, 60 
Newcastle, Northumberland, and 
Durham Poultry Show, 87 
New Plants at July Exhibitions, 
314 
New York Poultry Show, 206 
New Zealand, packing for, 208 
Nidularia fulgens, 194 
Niphobolus, list of, 77 
Nomenclature of Poultry, 225, 450, 
460 
Northampton Horticultural Show, 
135, 317 
Nothochlienas, 138 
Nuneham, 157; Hardens, 117 
Nycterinia Selaginoides, 149 
Oak, the best species, 6 ; soil and 
situation for, 39; the best 
variety of, 63 ; raising from seed, 
119; planting, 159 ; raising from 
Acorns, 220; culture, thinning 
seedlings, 257 ; at Welbeck, 299 
Oaks—Hatfield, QueenElizabeth’s, 
Winfield, Queen’s, Lady Ma¬ 
rian’s, and Ampthiil, 22 ; with¬ 
out underwood, 396 
Oleander culture, 456 
Olfersia ccrvina, 138 
Onion, notes on its culture, 321 ; 
of past season, 497 
Onychium lucidum, 138 
Orange-trees failing, 12; leaves 
blotched, 95 
Orchard, weedy, 107 
Orchid-house (The), 242 
Orchids blooming in March, 6 ; for 
a cool stove, 11 ; pruning and 
its effects, 12; in April, 35, 73 ; 
in pinery, 84 ; in May, 154 ; 
exhibited in June, 215 ; list of, 
254; 296 
Oxalis Bowiei too luxuriant, 97 ; 
bulbs not vegetating, 266 ; 
and its compeers, 384 
Ox-eye Daisy, 346 
Oxford Botanic Garden, 156 
Paint, cheap, 14 
Pansey soil, 188 
Pansies, list of new, 76 
Paper, its high price and materials 
for, 411 
Paris, notes from, 380, 461 
Pasture, weedy, 366 
Paxton, Sir J., memoir of, 409; 
notes on, 470 
Pawlonia imperialis, probability of 
tlowering, 126 
Peach, its deterioration, 8; its 
better management, 23 ; insects, 
133; border, making, 145; 
culture in June, 153; Stocks, 354 
Peaches in a vinery, 244 ; falling, 
485 
Pea (Pois mange tous), 308 
Pear dressing or disbudding, 112 ; 
training on trellises, 213 ; stocks, 
354 ; tree, a prolific, 440; un¬ 
fruitful, 464 
Pears, benefit of thinning, 199; 
on Quince stocks, 222 
Peasant Properties, 304 
Peas, estimate of kinds, 1 ; Bel¬ 
lamy’s and Noble’s Early Green 
Marrow, 90; Charlton and 
Auvergne, 151 ; Bishop’s Early, 
Bishop’s Long-podded, and Ne 
plus ultra, 189; Milford Mar¬ 
row, Spanish Dwarf, Burbidge’s 
Eclipse, Matchless Marrow, and 
Dwarf Marrow, 230; culture of 
late, 258; Flack’s Imperial, 
Bedman’s Imperial, Groom’s 
Superb, 310; Indented Green 
Marrow, Blue Prussian, White 
Prussian, Woodford Marrow, 
329; late, 332; Le Maun, 345, 
402; in fields, 361; on a parch¬ 
ing soil, 405; the Forward Lea, 
418; of past season, 496 
Pelargoniums, list of new, 22; 
shedding their leaves, 29 ; notes 
on, 155; their colours and novel¬ 
ties, 214; saving seed, 227; the 
Spot in, 233; list of, 253, 254, 
293 ; repotting, and treatment of 
cuttings, 394 ; to raise pyrami¬ 
dal, 472, 486; moving from 
borders, 484 
Penrhyn Castle, 418 
Petunias, distances in beds, 94 
Petunia, Shrubland White and 
Hose, 49 ; new, 58 
Peyssonella dubyi, 40 
Philodendron Simsii, 6 
Phlcbodiums, 138 
Phyllophoras, 40 
Picotces, list of, 99 
Picotce seed sowing, 465 
Pig feeding, 33; crops for, 53 ; 
fattening, 406 
Pigeon, new kind ? 487 
Pigeons not pairing, 247 ; Dung, 
liquid-manure of, 147 
Pilgrim’s Progress, 499 
Pine-apples deficient in flavour, 
266, 281 ; distances for, 365 
Pink propagation, 359 
Pinus Roylcana, 149 
Pitcairnia muscosa, 69 ; longifolia, 
309 
Pit for Geraniums, &c., 64 ; for 
Cucumbers and Melons, 144; 
made of turf, 462 
Pits with straw walls, 298 
Planting season, which is the best, 
431 
Plants, chemistry of, 10 
Platycerium culture, 176 
Platylomas, 176 
Plum Stocks, 354 ; when to be 
headed-down, 60 ; insects, 133; 
(the General Hand) its origin, 
206 
Plunging potted plants, 392 
Podocarpus nubigensis and chi- 
lena, 314 
Poisoned chickens, are they 
poisonous ? 366 
Poland fowls, their origin, 399; 
delicacy of chicken, 403 ; v, Ham¬ 
burgh, 450, 460 
Polybotrya cylindrica, 197 
Polypodiums (Stove), 197 
Polyides, 40 
Pomegranate fruiting, 30 
Pomological Society proposed, 151, 
190; founded, 289; its objects, 
290, 291 ; (British), 372, 405 ; 
Society, its rules, 429 ; Meeting, 
451 
Pompe Gontier, 381 
Poplar (Black Italian), 406 
Populus canadcnsii, 348 
Porphyra, 264 
Portraits of Gardeners, 331 
Potato culture, 60 ; murrain, 1Q0'; 
culture and prospects, 323; 
crop prospects, 353 ; storing, 
420 ; stalks, maggots in diseased, 
441 ; water, 468; culture, 47 1; 
time for taking up, 483 ; state 
of, 497, 493 
Potatoes, prize for the worst, 
243 
Pots, substitutes for, 56 
Poultry, fraudulent purchases, 
of, 3 ; a few facts relative to, 61 ; 
confusion of names, 199 ; for 
profit, 247, 340 ; Show, its perils, 
352; why disappointing, 371; 
nomenclature, 399 ; fattening, 
406; Shows, Metropolitan, 466 
Poultry-yard Report, 43, 83, 105, 
202, 304 
Prescot Poultry Show, 422 
Pride and Self-will, 141, 177 
Primrose culture, 219 
Primula sinensis fimbriataculture, 
29 ; Stuartii, 208 
Prince Albert fowls, 228 
Profligate, The old, 302 
Propagation, spring and summer, 
51; efforts made by plants for, 
24p 
Psidium pyriferum, 30 
Ptarmigan, the wild, 5 ; Fowls, 122 
Pteris (Stove), 197 
Ptilota, 121 
Puddling Cabbageworts, 323 
Pullet wasting away, 466 
Pulmonaria virginica culture, 43 
Quercus, sessiliflora, 63 
Question, The great, 383 
Quince stock for Pears, 80 
Radishes for autumn, 332 
Rape-cake as a manure, 269 ; its 
composition, 270 
Rape, edible-rooted, 183 
Raspberries, autumn-fruiting, 57 
Raspberry-bud grub, 106 
Raspberry culture, 231 
Repent, or Perish, 339 
Red Spider on Cucumbers, 226 ; 
to destroy, 255 
Rhododendron, Princess Alice, 5; 
ciliatum, 5; arboreum not flower¬ 
ing, 11; Dalhousianum, 35; 
these flo rum, 36 ; grafting, 48 ; 
Gibsonii hardy, 67 
Rhododendrons, 73 ; list of, 293 ; 
pruning, 325 ; not flowering, 465 
Rhubarb champagne, 426 ; forcing, 
486 
Rhyzoclonium, 200 
Road-making where gravel is 
scarce, 505 
Root crons, 60 ; grafting, 55; 
Roses, Oft 
Rosary, its arrangement, 158 
Rose culture, 172 ; pruning Bank- 
sian, &c., 172 ; Manetti stocks 
for, 173 , 222 ; on their own roots, 
173; summer cuttings, 174; 
in pots, 193 ; Amateur’s Guide, 
264 ; cuttings, best mode of 
striking, 433 
Roses, forced into bloom in April, 
35; list of new, 118; under 
canvass, 126; in pots, 133,193; 
their culture, and list of, 134; 
grafting in spring and summer, 
264 ; manuring, 265; bank of, 
306; beds of, 308; faded should 
be cut off, 327; pruning on 
trellis or wall, 346 ; pruning too 
late, 387; 406; propagating by 
cuttings, 414 ; forcing those in 
borders, 424 ; Banksian not 
blooming, 425 ; in pots, moving 
from borders, 484 ; Cloth of Gold, 
in pots, 505 ; climbing, 505 
Rotation of crops, 93 
Roup, 11; its treatment, 246 ; 
causes of, 288 ; its symptoms 
and remedies, 415 
Russian Fowls, 122 
Saccolabium dcnticulatuna, 69 
Sagenia, 860 
Salmon breeding, 201 
Salsafy cooking, 204 
Salvia gesnertefolia not flowering, 
11 ; patens (White) shedding its 
buds, 64; splendens, fulgens, 
gesneneflora, aud involucrata, 
grown as standards, 474 
Salvias, plunging, 392 
Sanvitalia procumbcns culture, 
455 
Saponaria calabrica, bedding out, 
95 ; culture, 455 
Savoys for spring, 332 
Sawbridgcworth Nurseries, 381, 
398 
Sawdust as a manure, 388 
Scarifier, 109 
Scilla culture, 365 
Scolopendriurn Krebsii, 31 
Scorching on back shelf, 96 
Scotch garden notes, 462 
Season, The, 338 
Sea Weeds, 40, 103, 121 , 164, 199, 
263 ; their uses, 169 ; as a 
manure, 170 ; described, 179 
Seeds of flowers, age at which 
they will grow, 145; directions 
for gathering, 453 
Scirospora, 164 
Sensitive Plant culture, 20 ; af¬ 
fected by ether, 33 
Sewage used as a manure near 
towns, its consequences, 310; 
as a manure, 370 
Shanghae cockerel with Dorking 
hens, 14; (Grey), as recently 
exhibited, 81 
Shanghaes v. Dorkings, 9; v. 
Spanish, 11, 43, 62; as recently 
exhibited, 26, 41 ; white cock 
saved by care, 45; roosting- 
place, 49; v. Spanish, 83; v. Mi- 
norcas, 105, 304; their merits, 
124; chicken, their hardihood, 
126 ; (Buff) wings, 308; why 
deteriorated, 330 ; (Cinnamon), 
do they ever get prizes ? 426 ; 
value of, 466 ; their deteriora¬ 
tion, 504 
Shanking in Grapes, 204 
Sheep diseased, 13 
Shifting, precautions needed, 95 
Short-horns, their prices, history, 
&c., 267 , 307 
Silk, unwinding from cocoons, 
250 
Skin’s influence over health, 32 
Soap-suds for gardening purposes, 
341 
Soils, their kinds and improve¬ 
ment, 72 ; near Loudon, 306 
Soldier, (The) what he ought not 
to be, 24 ; as he ought to be, 
79, 101 
Soot, to banish the Onion and 
Carrot fly, 239 
Spanish chicken, mortality among, 
107 ; Fowls (White), 125; v. 
Shanghae, 202 
Spawning of the Pipe-fish, 282 ; 
Salmon, 283 
Spell-bound cock, 107 
Spinach (New Zealand) culture, 
86 ; for winter, 332 
Spiraea granditiora, 483 
Spyridia, 1 64 
Stauntonia latifolia, the direction 
it twines, 287 
Standards as ornaments, 375 
Stenochlaeria, 360 
Stock (Biennial) culture, 196 
Stocks, their properties and 
sowing, 139; their culture in 
pots, 177; for fruit, choice of, 353 
Stove-plants flowering in May, 
156 ; exhibited in J uly, 317 
Strawberry—Black Prince, 152; 
the Shakspere, 242 ; not fruiting, 
247 ; Sir Harry, 363 ; weight of, 
403; propagation and culture, 
500 
Strawberries, list of, 208 
Suggestions from the Garden and 
the Field, 10 
Sunflower, its value, 441 
Sweden, sun not setting there, 
116 
Swindlers, 127 
Sydney, Gardens at, 145 
Tacna and its horticulture, 167 , 
184 
Tieniopsis, 361 
Tallies, preserving, 365 
Taunton Poultry Show, 260 
Tavistock Poultry Show, 386 
Taxodium distichum, 14 
Theobroma cacao culture, 246 
Thinning crops, its importance, 
238 
Thorn, cutfing of red-flowered, 165 
Thrip, to destroy, 255 
Tobacco culture in New York, 
107; paper, 388 
Tomato, its culture, 478 
Torreya, the genus, 369 
Transplanting, how to manage, 
228 
Tridiea, 41 
Turf, weedy, 388; sowing in, ' 
425 
Turnip greens forcing, 486 
Turnips (Swede) management, 
498 
Tuscany, historical notes on its 
cultivated plants, 346, 367 
Ulcers, in Dorking hen, 107 
Ulva, 263 
Vallota purpurea offsets, 65 
Variegated Plants, list of, 295 
Vaucheria, 200 
Verbena, a new purple, 192; pro¬ 
pagation, 375; not flowering, 
406 
Verbenas, list of, 38 ; distances in 
beds, 94 ; in pots, 293 ; list of, 
253 ; list of new, 320 
Veronica, its derivation, 264 
Vertigo in poultry, 341 
Victoria Lily in a small space, 441 
Vieusseuxia glaucopis culture, 
400 
Vinegar from honey, 244 
