VI 
INDEX. 
Damp, wliJit is, 194 ; walls, to cure, 234 
Damsons, 93 ; wine, lining, 333 
Danish Isles, sixteen mouths in, 119 j abundance 
of fruit there, 119 
Dantzic, a visit to, 428 
Daphnes, a few of the best, l07j imlica rubra, 
221 ; list of, 422 
Datura just blooming, 19 ; requires shelter, 113; 
sanguinea in the open border, 221; in room, 
234 
Daubenyas, 439 
Decay, its increase in plants, 338 
Decorative planting, 473 
Decoy pond and its water-fowl, 190 
De la Pre, 106 
Dendrobiuin nobilc Dlamlianum, 500 
Dessert, fruits for winter, 259 
Deutzia gracilis and scabra culture, 8 
Dewing, its meaning and mode of applying, 402 
Dianellas, 439 
Dibble for wheat, 233 
Dichorisandra, 82 
Diplacus puniceus, 422 
Double-glazing and a well as protectors from 
frost, 455 
Draining, 65, 497 , 505 
Drain, to construct, 134 
Drimias, 439 
Dryandras, list of, 423 
Dung-beds, construction of for forcing, 286 
Karly life of Poor Man’s well-wisher, 272, 450 
Dcheandia ternifolia, 439 
Echeveria rosea, 421 
Edgings, 108 ; Hogg’s, 258 
Edwardsia grandiflora seeding, 214, 333, 423 
Eisenbeck (Professor Von), 118, 158 
Elder juice frauds, 36 
Elisene longipetala culture, 439 
Pllm, the fastigiatc, 452 
Kpimedium Alpinuin, 55 
Eranthemums, 305 
Erica bicolor, with pale llowers, 73 ; Banksia 
dropping its buds, 152 
Eriobotrya japonica, 423 
Erythrina crista-galii propagating, 20, 423 
Escallonia macrantha culture, 9 , 423 
Espalier rail, 234 
Eucalyptus, 423 
EucliiUis obcordatus culture, 263 
Encomia culture, 440 
Kucrosia bicolor, 440 
Euphorbia jacquiniflora, for wreaths, 59 , 305 
Eutaxia myrtifolia culture, 262 
Everlasting flowers mingled with grasses, 223 
Exhibitors of flowers, their tricks, 418 
Fairy-rings explained, 46 y 
Fault (A) among us, 287 
Feathers, difFercnt markings described, 387; 
their varieties, Pencilled, 406; the Laced, 465 
Ferns, moving hardy, 54; fogging ofi', 94 ; 
Moore’s labels for, 99 ; shoots, cooking, 314, 
354 
Ferrarias, 440 
Finedon Park, 106 
Fish diseased, 4/2 
Fitzroya wood, 403 
Flax thrashing, 492 
hlower-bcds, plans to be given, 20 ; a new one, 
Oo ; new mode of trying colours in, 471 
Flower-buds, to distinguish double and single, 
Flower-garden plans, (No. 1 ) 67 , 73 , 113 , (No. 2 ) 
^ 117 , (No. 3) 289, 393 , 427 
Flower-markets, London, 212 
Flowers, general competition with, 218; co¬ 
loured everlasting, 471 
Forcing, preparations for early, loi ; notes on, 
238 ; operations of the season, 286 ; its 
general principles, 300 
Forest Trees of Great Britain, 355 
Forests (Uoyal), their mismanagement, 379 
porsaken Heritage (The), 13 
Forsythia viridissima pruning, 394 423 
Korsyth MSS., 3, 30, 77 , 9S, 1/6, 367, 377, •117 
Fourcroyas, 440 * 
Frenelas, List of, 87 ^ 
Fruit, sturcs, managing, 38 ; and vegetable eul- 
tme combined, 80 ; influence of soil on, 313 ; 
growing, its commercial importance, 395 : 
how to secure a crop, 419 ^ > 
bruits, Belgian Commission on, 300 
Fruit-trees, general planting of, 137; on walls, 
their distances, 162; for north walls. 162 - 
rciiovatmn of, 178 218; for Cuiiiberlaiui: 
•lyi, after the mild winter, 318; grass-walk 
over roots, 333 
F uchiiias, list of good, 32 ; spectahilis, 33, 114 
with a single stem, 52; wintering, 53 , 1 U 5 
hot of and culture, 92; list of liest, 132 
straggling, 152; Fuchsia bed, to make, I 74 
culture, 249 , 460 ; budding, 294 ; cordata, 
342; serratifolia culture, 412 
Fumigating greenhouse, 54 ; injury from, 47| 
Fungi, British eatable, 14; eatable, 109* 169 ; 
British, 189, 348; useful kinds, 312 
Funkia subcordata, 17; grandiflora alba, 27 
Galaxias, 440 
Gardeners and their masters, 22; who arc im¬ 
postors, 257 
(Gardenias for w'alls, 461 
Garden-orchard, 80 
Garden, restoring an old, 424, 431 
Gardens, benefits of exhibiting them, 222 
Gardiner (VV.), proposed biography of, 118 
Gas, heating by, 433 
Gastronemas and their culture, 477 
Gaura Lindheimeri, 26 
Geissoineria aurantiaca, 420 
Geissorhizas and their culture, 478 
Gelasinc and Gethyllis, 478 
Gcraiiiuifis, moving into greenhouse, 20; pro¬ 
pagating Golden-chain, 20 ; wintering scarlet, 
33; wintering, 53, 104, 471; (Scarlet), Amazon 
and others, 102; cuttings of Unique, 113; as 
standards, 114 ; turning yellow, 151 ; un¬ 
pruned, 234 ; (Commandcr-in-Chief) as a 
bedder, 273 ; management of scarlet, 354 ; 
gangrened, 35 4 ; treatment of seedling, 394; 
for forcing (Queen of February), 457 
Gesnera Zebrina, culture, 62, 103, 205 ; clongata 
culture, 304 ; Suttonii alba, mealy bug on, 3 i 4 
Gladioli, notes on species, 174 
Gladiolus gunclavensis, planting out, 194; cul¬ 
ture, 479 
Glasgow, garden near, 53; Floral Exhibition, 
418 
Glaucium lutcum, 375 ; corniculatum, 395 
Glazing, double, 20; laps in, 20; its benefits, 
5.'); to remedy drip, 94 
Gloxinias not bulbing, 33; management, 173; 
list of and culture, 252 ; from leaves, 376 
Gold fish in vases, 450 
Goosander, red breasted, its habits, 37 
Grafting on U])per side of branches, 252; in a 
liotbcd, 482 
Grapes, preserving, 20; Black Barbarossa, 84, 
499; growinglatc, 124; caterpillars on berries, 
131 ; diseased, 174; the Fox, as a stock, 180; 
forcing, good specimens of, 233; cause of their 
shanking, 381, 428; the Trebiaua, 477; La»- 
perione and others, 500 
Grasses as ornaments, 223 
Greasing the wheel, 166 
Greenhouse construction, 20; stages, 59; plants 
for back wall, 72; trellis plants, 84, 94 ; and 
vinery, 114, 363, 382; with west aspect, 114; 
facing the north, 214 ; plants, winter-bloom¬ 
ing, 282; vines and flowers in, 294 ; arrang¬ 
ing a new, 294 ; heating, 333, 387 ; climbers, 
374 ; modes of heating small, 422, 430; in 
March, jottings for, 459 ; work there, in 
March, 440 
Griiidelia grandiflora, 115 
Guano, its composition and value, 176 
Guernsey Lily dune flowering, 273 
Guzmannia tricolor, 83 
Habrantiius and their culture, 479 
Habrothanmus elcgans and fasciculatus culture, 
282 
Hujinony, what is it? 114 
Hardenbergias, list of and culture, 84; mono- 
phylla treatment, 234 
Haricot bean, a large white, 174 
Heath cuttings, management of, 354 ; propa¬ 
gating and growing, 412 
Heat, how to retain, 415 
Heating, easy mode of, 387 ; economical mode 
of, 410; by gas, 413; a small greenhouse, 
433 ; modes of, 501 
Hedyebium Gardnerianum, 47 1 
Hellebores, winter-flowering, 421 
Herbaceous plants, li§t of, 27 
Hickory nuts, sowing, 33 
Hippeastrum aulicum platyi)etalum culture, 342 
Hij)pophae rhamnoidcs, 174 
Hives (Taylor’s), 294 
Hoarca mclanantha, 17 
Hollyhocks, list of, 33, 53 
Honey harvest of 1852, 372 
Horticultural and Pomologicai Association, 399, 
452, 470 
Horticultural Society’s Meetings, 81, 122, 220, 
341, 420, 457 , 498 
Horticultural Society, rules for a Provincial, 
265 ; Pecblcslilre, * 266 ; of London first sug¬ 
gested, 358 ; its first formation, 377 ; in Tip¬ 
perary, 477 
Hotbed, a shallow, 17; its duration if shallow', 
152; for early forcing, 366; its construction 
and management, 480 
Hothouse, law of removing, 314 
Hot water in bottles to exclude frost, 430 
Hot-water versus Pohnaise, 24.5 
Hyacinths in pots, 294; with many offsets, 471 ; 
deformed, 510 
Hybrid between sheep and deer, 470 ; between 
pheasant and fowl, 470 , 472 
Hydrangea culture, 413 
Ice, preserving, 214 
“ I have no one to take care of me,” 407 
Indian seeds, 17.3; corn, 499 
Indigofera decora pruning, 353 
Insects, Stephens’ Collection, 496 
Iponueas, to keep free from red spider, 1 94 
Iris (China) culture, 54 
Irrigating with sewage, 153 
Ivy keeping walls dry, 252; pruning and propa¬ 
gating, 354 ; against a wooden fence, 491 
Ixias, propagating, 53; culture at Claremont, 6l 
.Iackdaw’s familiarity, 19 
Japan Lilies for garden decoration, 508 
Jasniinum, dwarfs, 6l ; sambuc, management 
of, 194 
Jones, William and Ann, 88 
Junipers, list of, 126 
Juniperus, list of species, 164 , 206 
Justicia spcciosa culture, 304 
Kearsley House, 63 
Kennedya, list of and culture, 84 
Kidney beans, new varieties tried, iUO; forcing, 
239 
Kitchen-garden crops, 328; routine, 367 , 385, 
408; crops, arranging economically, 504 
Labels for Hoses, 234 ; cheap, 386 
Laljurnuni, origin of the purple, I 96 
Lachenalia tricolor, 83 
Lady gardeners, 490 
Landscape Gardening, 296 , 47.3; Major’s, 495 
Lantana mutabilis culture, 314 
Larch, its value and species, 206 
Laurels, pruning, 152; time for cutting down, 
234 
Leaves, consequences of removing, 135 ; re¬ 
moving from bulbs, 335 ; reciprocate with the 
roots, 336; propagating by, 452 
Lemon trees unhealthy, 472 
Lettuces for London markets, 78 
Librocedrus, list of species, 244 
Liglit, its importance to plants, 407 
Lilies, mixture of, 214 
Lilium lancifolium, culture in giecnhousc, 46l; 
in open ground, 508 
Liraatodes rosea, culture, 220 
Limuocharis Humboldtii, hardy, 399, 457 
Lions, tame, 47 0 
Lujuid manure, Roe’s mode of applying, 79 
Liquorice culture, 494 
Ijithosperinum rosmarinifolium culture, 284 
Lobelias, tall, propagating, 44, 62 ; culture, 02 ; 
wintering tall, 105 ; syphilitica and cardinalis, 
their culture, 151; list of tall, 152 
Look round, Taking a, 13 
Loquat, 423 
Lotus jacobteus, managing, 194 
Lupins, to arrange a bed of, 83 
Macgillivray (Dr. W.), his British Birds, 37 
Machieranthera tanacctifolia, and culture, 155 
IMugnolia grandiflora propagating, 354 
Malva umbellata, 220 
Mandeviila suaveolcns, proi)agating, 412 
Mancttia bicolor culture, 243 
IBangold sowing, 5o6 
Mantell (Dr. G. A.), 199 
Market gardens round London, 379 
Masters and their Gardeners, 134 
Maurandya Barclayana culture, I 9 
Blauritius, its sugar and gardening, 178 
McGlashen’s transplanting machine,37y,453, 4;6 
I^lcasures in Covent Garden, 435 
hleconopsis cambrica, 335 
Medinilla Sieboldii, 82; not flowering, 152 
Melidores, or Maladorcs, 94 
Melon steds, good age for, 234; culture, 412; 
under rough plate glass, 509 
IMelianthus major, 180 
Meteorology in Mauritius, 359 
Michaelmas Daisy, hybrids, 115 
Mildness of the season, 359 
Miltonia spectahilis culture, 353 
Mistletoe sowing, 114 
Mitraria coccinea culture, 9 
Mushroom beds, preparing dung for, 29 ; modes 
of cooking, 169 ; to establish 011 lawn, 231; 
preparing, 292 
Mussel layers, 71 
Mustard, its derivation, 300 
Nectarine (Stanwick) not hardy, 138 
Nelumbium speciosuni culture, 510 
