INDEX. 
! viii 
Rooms, showing plants in, 6l 
Root storing, 65 
Root crops, removing leaves from, 236; digging 
for, 408 
Rosa microphylla culture, 281 
Rose and Ivy, 94 
Roses arranged according to their colour and 
growth, 10; protecting Tea-scented, 3.1; on 
turf, 64 ; renovating moss, 54 ; pegging down, 
64; soil for, 73; newly-bedded mismanaged, 
73; on back wall of forcing-house, 106; 
pruning budded, 113; climbing, 113, 451; 
I Devonicnsis, 153; management of Lamarque, 
I 173; pruning standard Chinese, 193; felicite 
perpetual, 253 ; pruning climbing, 374 ; plant- 
i ing cuttings, 413; leaves mildewed, 451; near 
I London, 452 ; from eyes, 509 
I Rotation of crops, 149 
Rustic seats and gates, 20 • 
SAiii-CLOTH for sheltering, 54 
Salading, lists of, 342, 600 
Salix, its species, 36 
Salt, goaCs fondness for, 339 
Salvia patens, wintering its roots, 73; hardy 
in Ireland, 152; sowing, 432 
Samphire pickling, 54 
Saponaria Calabrica culture, 374 
Schotia speciosa, 472 
Scotland, state of crops, 38 
Scrapers, garden, 218; moveable garden, 410 
Screen of evergreens, 491 
Sea-kale, forcing early, 145 
Sclago distans culture, 284 
Sewage, removing its smell, 114; how to use, 
134 ; unfermented, and irrigating with, 153 
Shaded border, plants for, 234 
Shanking, to prevent, 248 
Sheldrake and its haunts, 50, 70 
Sheep buying, 153; barking trees, 452 
Shows, list of, 4, 24, 38, 67, 79, 100, 120, 136, 
! 159, 173 , 201, 218, 238, 258, 2/9, 300, 313 
; Shrul)s, list of hardy, 94 
j Silk, its growth in England, 77 
I Sinclair (Sir J.), 77 , 98 , 136 
j Siphocampylos microstomus culture, 3 41 
I Skimmia japonica, 82, 220 
} Smith (Sir J. E.), to Mr. Forsyth, 36 
Snow as a protection from frost, 456 
Soil, what is a poor, 113 
Soils for fruit-trees, 179 
Solandra hevis, 82 
Sonerila orbiculare, 221; japonica culture, 341 
Song Birds (British), 132 
Soot as a manure, 273 
Sowing small seeds, 510 
I Sparaxis propagating, 63 
j Sparrows, out-manceuvering, 253 
! Spinsters, a word to, 367 
' Sports in plants, 216 
I Spring crops, preparing ground for, 34 4 
Spud (a useful garden), 371 
Stauntonia latifolia, a new hardy evergreen 
climber, 421, 471 
Stonclcigh Abbey, 6.1 
Stones beneficial to light soil, 373 
Stove for pines, 4 ; plants for exhibition, list of, 
35 ; in greenhouse, 303 
Strawberry, two new varieties, 100 ; forcing 
early, 102 ; forcing those in bloom in open 
ground, 274, 279 
Structures, gardening, 500 
Styvechale Hall, 63 
Suburban gardens, forming, 87; walks and 
edgings for, 107 
Succulents in the Oxford Garden, 181 
Suffolk Heaths, 130 
Sulphur, on hot surfaces, 273; symptoms of 
excess of, 413 
Sweet Pea, cuttings of roots, 472 
TaCSONIA SANGDINEA, 315 
Tailor, the poor, 246 
Talc, as a substitute for glass, 138 
Taste, jottings about, 27 
Taxodium sempervirens, 20 ; in bloom, 458 
Tea seeds, 4-59 
Tender plants that may be dormant in winter, 104 
Tetratheca pruning, 274 
Thunbergia alata in the open air, 60 
Titlark, its treatment, 132 
Tobacco, cultivating and harvesting, 31 ; plants 
producing, 175 
Torenia asiatica sickly, 114; culture, 304 ; pro¬ 
pagating, 412 
' Training with eyed nails, 314 
Transplanting large trees, 238; M‘Glashen’s 
plan, 379, 453 
Trees before a house, 20 ; fast growing, 113 
Trellis, climbers for, 20 ; table, for fruit, 420 
Tropceolum tuberosum, its produce, 174; tri- 
colorum, 174; tricolorum shedding its leaves, 
193; Lobbianum varieties, 220; Lobbianum, 
pentaphyllum, and tuberosum culture, 242 ; 
tricolorum culture, 311 ; roots, cooking, 412 
' Trymalium odoratissimum, 600 
Turnips, produce per acre, 236; sowing, 507 
Tying-down training, 2/3 
Unity of expression in gardens, 27 
Vanda ccerulea, 81 ; influence of heat on, 
1*23; suavis, 220 
Vegetables, imported, 457 > borders, turfing, 471 
Ventilation, 252 
Veranda, plants for, 394 
Verbenas, damping off, 152; mode of preserv¬ 
ing, 194; propagating, 471 
Veronica speciosa in room, 234 ; Andersonii and 
speciosa culture, 283 
Victoria Regia at Glasgow, &c., 253 
Village Feast, 209 
Vinery, management of, 339 ; choice of vines 
for, 412 ; heating a small, 510 
Vines, culture, 20 ; at Bishop Stortford, 30; 
admitting stems, 31 ; for cool greenhouse, 
54, 393 ; ill pots, 72; border, 94, 152, 194 ; 
forcing early, lOl; removing, 106; bark re¬ 
moving, 152, 194 ; dressing for, 253; mildew, 
its prevalence, 258 ; grafting, 274 ; in pots 
from eyes, 274 ; disbudding, 339; stopping, 
340 ; shoots drooping, 413; forcing, when to 
begin, 457 ; dressing, 472; still unpruned, 
472 ; blighted, 509 ; gnawed by a dog, 452 
I Violets tlicir history, 35 ; Russian Superb, 36; 
modes of cultivating different kinds, l62 
Walks in small garden, 93,107 ; their classifi¬ 
cation and arrangement, 397; in orchard, 498 
I Walls, conservative, and heated fruit, 183; 
forming a conservative, 264; furnishing, 274 , 
305; plants for preservative, 343, 384, 4*22, 
461, 503 ; for fruit, 49"; flowers, &c., for 
north, 509, 510 
Wall-trees unfruitful, 274 
“ Wanting for nothing,” 128 
Ward’s case, plants for, 274, 491 
Water for orchard, 498 
Water lilies, 95; yellow, 135 
Watsonia fulgida in border, 193 
Weather during last fifty years, 486 
Wedgewood, John, 357, 377 
Weeds, modes of killing, 306 
Weigcia rosea culture, 9 ; pruning, 193, 304 
West Indies, useful plants for, 417 
Westringia Dampicrii culture, 262 
Wet days, work for, 29 
Wet season, influence.of, 165, 265 
Wheat, its origin, 215; sowing, 300 ; sowing 
spring, 485 
Whitley Abbey, 63 
Widow indeed (The), 47 
Wilderness, shrubs for, 181 
Wild Flowers (British), 21, 55, 95, 135, 195, 
; 215, 255, 295 , 335, 375, 395, 433, 473; profit 
from, 214 ; walks after, 300 
I Window gardening, points in, 42 
i Wintering plants, easy mode of, 234 
Wireworm, mode of destroying, 330 
Woodlice, destroying, 402 
Wrest Park Gardens, 143 
Year, close of the, 264 
Young, Dr. G., 417 
Yuccas, new mode of culture, 6; list of, 7 
ZErilYRANTUES AtAMASCO CUlturC, 393 
Zichyas, list of and culture, 84 
Zinc, for garden pots, 62 
Zygopetalum IMackayi, culture, 233 
WOODCUTS. 
Camptosema rubicunda 
PAGE 
Berberis vulgaris - - , 
21 
Front light of Vinery - 
31 
Cuminclina scabra 
35 
Epimedium alpinuiu - 
55 
Flower-Garden plan 
67 
Oxyanthus tubiflorus - 
75 
Nymphiea alba - - _ 
95 
Grindclia granditlora - 
115 
Titlark - - . . 
132 
Nuphar lutea - - . 
135 
Flower-Garden plan 
147 
fllachEeranthcra tanacetifolia - 
155 
Nicotiana alata ... 
175 
Cucumber Pit - 
187 
Papaver argemone 
PAGE 
- 195 
Papaver nudicaulc 
- 215 
Garden scraper 
- 218 
Mr. Punchard’s Poultry Yard 
- 231 
Paulowpia imperialis - 
- 235 
Papaver dubium - - - 
- 255 
Tent for Exhibitions - 
- 267 
American garden plan 
- 271 
Ccanothus rigidus 
- 275 
Flower-Garden plan 
- 289 
Poultry basket 
- 292 
Papaver somniferum 
- 295 
Tacsonia sa^^guinea - 
- 315 
Meconopsis cambrica 
- 335 
Salcey Forest Oak 
- 355 
Glaucium luteum 
PAGE 
- 375 
Label , - - - 
- 386 
Hot-water apparatus - 
- 387 
Glaucium corniculatum - 
- 395 
Pencilled feather 
- 406 
Moveable garden scraper - 
- 41U 
Begonia Thuaitesii 
- 415 
Flower-Garden plan 
- 427 
Romeria hyi>rida 
- 433 
Hot-water apparatus (gas-heated) 
- 434 
Abclia uniflora 
- 453 
Laced feather ... 
- 465 
Chelidonium majus - 
- 473 
Cinchona calisayu- 
- 493 
I 
