4S464 
INDEX. 
I 
Abelia uniflora and its culture, 453 
Acacia culture, 441; dealbata, or affinis hardy, 
421 ; celastrifolia, 50(J 
Achimenes in autumn, IM ; list of, for green¬ 
house, 151; culture, 440 
Advertisements, 33 
/Egilops ovata, 215 
Aerides, culture, 233 
iEschynanthus splendidus, 122 
Agapanthus umbellatus, 20 ; list of, 141 
Age, exemptions, 413 
Agricultural Society of England's IMeeting, 465 
Agricultural training for boys, 46/ ; operations 
for March, 605 
Air, promoting its circulation, 333; admitting, 
440 
Albuca, list of, 141 
Ale, the pint o*, 464 
Allamanda, treatment of weak, 53; in pots, to 
manage, lyi ; Scliottii, I 94 
Allotment Farming—November, 64 ; December, 
148; January, 247; February, 327 ; March, 
407 ; April, 506 
Allotments, rules for their establishment, 201 
Alpinia nutans not flowering, 472 
Alstromerias, list of, 142, idO; dying down, 194 
Amaryllis, culture at Claremont, 60 ; list of, 
161 ; reticulata, 221 ; to discern from a lily, 
303; culture, 332; Atainasco and formosis- 
sima culture, 893 
American garden, to construct, 2/1 
Animals, notes about, 469 
Q ^ Anomathcca cruenta and j uncea, 240 
* ® 5 Antholyza, list of species, 203 
I Annuals, rules for sowing, 134 ; sowing in turf, 
491 
dQApis musconim, 89 
Apples, list of, for espaliers, 33; Beauty of 
Kent, 36 ; list of dessert, 157; descriptive list 
of kitchen, 1/6 ; gathering, 294 ; list of, 314 ; 
annual imports, 357, *^97; in Derbyshire, 891 
< C Approaches, to form, 296 
I Apricot as a standard, 72 ; pruning, time for, 
194 ; diseased, 234 ; cause of decay, 317 
Aralia japonica, 82 
Araucaria Buiwilliana, 499 
Arbor viUe sowing, 354 
Arches over walks, 20 
Asparagus, beds, making, 325 ; forced, 421 
Attachment, singular, 313 
Auricula, soil for, 363 ; spring treatment of, 
284; autumn and winter culture, 30(>; its 
M’inter treatment, 323; its properties, 3 42; 
diseases, 343 ; list of, 343 
Australia, plants for, 20 
Azalea japonica, 142; sowing, 353 ; indica cul¬ 
ture, 441 
Azara intcgrifolia culture, 284 
Babianas, their culture, 203 
Bacon Hopper, 252, 354 
Balsam cuttings, 52; sowing, 374 ; culture, 442; 
sowing for July, 431 
Bank, sloping, for fruit, 94 ; plants for a green, 
233 ; plants for river, 234 
Barnardia scilloides, its culture, 203 
Barrenwort, 55 
Bath and West of England Agricultural Show, 
418 
Beans, culture of, 385 
Beatonia, species of, 203 
Beautiful, influence of the, 221 
Bedding-out plants, 26 ; distances for, 134 
Bedding plants and bulbs, 20 ; white, 374 
Bees ; honey harvest, 15 ; new mode of manag¬ 
ing, 15, 63; particulars of twelve stocks, 16 ; 
drones seen late, 33; honey season in Nor¬ 
thumberland, 48; confining, 49; wild, Apis 
lapidaria, 51; Calendars — November, 66 ; 
December, 150; January, 248 ; February, 
328; April, 507; ventilation, 66 ; north aspect 
for, 66 ; dividing hive for obtaining artificial 
swarms, 66 ; Taylor’s notes on, 66 ; Golding’s 
improved hive, 73 j age of young broods, 73 » 
wild, 89, 112; harvest of 1852, 93 ; honey- 
harvest on moors, 110 ; swarming with young 
queen, 153; management, 173; in Taylor’s 
hive, 174 ; using old comb, 174 ; notes on, 
192 , 252; honey harvest in Lincolnshire, 213 ; 
destroying royal cells, 214 ; feeding and hives, 
248; necessity for feeding, 269; in boxes, 
353; feeding, early breeding, cleaning floor¬ 
boards, snow, recipe for barley-sugar, 409 ; 
excess of drones, 491; entrance to Taylor’s 
hive, 492 ; artificial swarms, 430 
Bee-boxes, 449 > with the comb broken down, 
452 
Begonia parviflora hybrid, 17; Evansiana, win¬ 
tering, 105; hybrid, 123; winter blooming 
and culture, 304; Thuaitesii and culture, 
415; sowing, 471 
Bell-glasses, 496 
Belts of trees, 474 
Berberis vulgaris, 21 
Bessera, list of species, 204 
Bignonia radicans, treatment, 53; radicans 
major not thriving, 193 
I Birds, familiarity of, 19 
i Blanclfordias, list of and culture, 204 
‘ Boleti, list of eatable, 169 
I Bomareas, list of and culture, 240 
’ Borders, arrangement of, and list of plants, 345 
Botanical terms explained, 452 
I Bouquet in Covent-Garden, 78, 99 ; model, 158 ; 
I d’amour, 313 ; price of, 341 
Bravoa geminiflora, 241 
Broditeas, list of and culture, 241 
Brunsvigias, 242 ; list of and culture, 260 
Buds and bulbs, on the possibility of combin¬ 
ing, 875 
Bulbine, 301 
Bulbs, hardy and half-hardy, their culture, 140, 
160 , 203, 240, 260 , 301, 319 , 3 GI, 399 , 438, 
477 ; for large beds, 173; leaves, 451 
Bullfinch diseased, 114 
CAunAGE, culture of Thousand-headed, 33 ; 
tribe, notes on, 46 ; protteting, 248; culture, 
328, 380; weevil, 359 
Cabbage-worts, their value, 65 
Cactus culture, 472 
Calceolaria seed, sowing, 62; list of yellow, 152; 
for bedding in shades, 412, 471 ; culture, 459; 
compost, 431 
Calendar for November, 78; December, 153; 
January, 253; February, 333; March, 413; 
April, 510 
Californian agriculture and horticulture, 373 
Calliphruria Hartwegiana, 302 
Callithauma, species and culture, 302 
Calochortus, species and culture, 302 
Calostemmas, list of and culture, 319 
Calthorpe’s (Lord) small garden tenants, 158 
Camellia buds falling, 94 ; turned brown, 252 
Campanula Carpaticas flowering, 113 
Camptosema rubicunda, 1 
Canna, wintering, 105 
Cantua dependens culture, 8; injured by lieat, 
33 
Cape Jasmine not flowering, 152 
Cape of Good Hope wines, 318 
Carnation soil, 73 ; layering, 19*; culture of 
perpetual, 205 
Carpodotes, its culture, 320 
Carpolyza spiralis, 320 
Carrot failure, 234; culture on unsuitable soil, i 
463 ; sowing, 506 | 
Cassia corymbosa as a standard, 145 
Castuses when resting, 194 
Cattlcya guttata, 220; mossiae, culture, 233 ; 
pallida, 500 
Cauliflowers, wintering, 46, 63 
Ceanothus rigidus culture, 9, 275 ; azurcus, 33, 
92 ; in Devonshire, 2/5; list of and culture, 
281, 422 
Celery blight, 94; best kinds, 134; coal-ashes 
as a preservative of, 185; cause of decay, 234 ; 
and its cultivation, 484 
Celsia Cretica, 91 
Cereus (night-blowing) in greenhouse, 52 
Chaffinch’s familiarity, 19 
Cheese dairying, 138 
Chelidoniums, 473 
Cherries in Derbyshire, 394 
Chilvvorth’s (Rev. J. L.) residence, 103 
Chiswick Shows in 1853, 138 
Chlidanthus fragrans culture, 320 
Chorelis, list of and culture, 320 
Chrysanthemum forcing, 20 ; Pomponc Hcii- 
dersonii, 82; time of flowering, 122 ; culture, 
223 ; list of, 213 
Cider-making in Herefordshire, 291 ; sweet, 
making, 488 
Cinchona Calisaya, and culture, 493 
Cinchonads, how known from Madderworts, 75 
Cinerarias mildewed, 20 ; sowing, 73, 460; 
blooming in November, 152; blooming in 
March, 294; amelloidcs, propagating, 412; 
compost, 431 
Claremont, visit to, 59 
Clianthus puniceus, wintering, 204, 314 ; in 
room, 234 
Climate, vicissitudes in our, 486 
Climbers, a purple autumn, 33 ; for greenhouse, 
72 ; list of tender, 173 ; in stove, 332; hardy, 
393 ; for high wall, 413; combination of, 422 
Cliviu nobilis culture, 320 
Coburghias, list of and culture, 320 
Cochlearia acaulis, 83, 342 
Cockle beds, 72 
Cockscomb culture, 442 
Collanias, and their culture, 36l 
Coloscordium culture, 302 
Commelina scabra, and culture, 35; wintering, 
105 
Conantheras, and their culture, 3Cl 
Coniferre, 86 , 125, 164, 206, 244, 285, 324, .365, 
403, 443, 482 ; at Finedon Park, 106 ; sowing 
Himalayah, 253 ; planting, 431 
Conifers, time for planting, 33 
Conservative walls, their use, 224 
Conservatory, heating a small, 134 
Cooperias, and their culture, 361 
Coreopsis filifolia, 83 
Cornelian cherry, as a fruit, 59 
Coronillas, list of, 422 
Correas, list of, 422 
Cosmos bipinnata, 83 
Cottage garden and its November crop, 48 
Cottagers, prizes for, at Shows, 106 ; a chapter 
for, 385 
Couch grass, its impoverishing power, 467 
Country Gentleman’s Companion, 152 
Courtecn Hall Gardens, 144 
Couve tronchuda, 492 
Covent-Garden notes, 2, 23, 36, 56, 77 » 99i 
136, 157, 176 , I9y, 216 , 236, 257 , 298 , 316, 337, 
359 , 378, 398 , 417 , 435, 456 , 475 , 493 ; fraudu¬ 
lent measures at, 2/8 ; cut flowers at, 341 
Cows, oat straw for, 214 ; turnips required for, 
214 ; murrain in, 432 
Crab stocks, grafting, 114 
Crinums, and their culture, 36l 
Crystal palaces, Rivers’s, 18 
Cucumber house, 73 ; pit and its management, 
187; forcing, 234; early, in dung-bed, 239; 
removing male blossoms, 253; culture, 412; 
useful sorts, 432 
Cummingia, species and culture, 399 
Cunninghamia sinensis, 9 
Cupressus, various species, 9; list of species, 
45 ; Govenii in bloom, 458 
Cuttings, how to strike, 152; bottom-heat for, 
354 
Cyanella, species and culture, 400 
Cyclamen, leaves deca 3 'iDg, 173 ; lost their 
leaves, 393 
Cyclobothra, species and culture, 400 
('ypella, species and culture, 401 
Cypripedium soil, 492 
Cyrtanthus, species and h 3 'brid 8 , 401; list of 
species, 4 38 
Cytisus filipes, 422 
Dacrydiums, list of, 86 
Dahlias, seedlings for 1853, 29; house-sewage 
for, 114; of 1851, 186, 290 
Dammaras, list of, 87 
