I N D E X. 
Abutilon striatum in open ground, 410 
Achiineues, shifting, 297 ; starting, 32(3 
i Adiantum capillus-veneris culture, 32(3 
Advertising, philosophy of, 300 
TEschynanthus, a new, 44 
i Agapanthus, wintering and culture, 31 
Ageratum lUexicauum, 40, 140 
! Akebia quinata, 301 
Aleyrodes proletella, 262 
Allamanda cathartica, 203 
Alloplectus capitatus culture, 227 
Allotment gardening in November, 66 ; Decem¬ 
ber, 133; January, 197; February, 276 ; 
March, 338; April, 401 
Allspice, time for moving, 105 
Alstroemeria, planting, 5, 225, 261 ; culture, 
219 ; sowing, 312 
Alyssum saxatile culture, 311 
Amateur Society, 252 
American aloe, spirit from, 265 
American cowslips, 201 
| American plants, soil for, 298 
Amherstia nobilis, 368, 394 
Ammonia, sulphate of, for dahlias and holly¬ 
hocks, 156 
Anagallises, their neglect, 345 
Anderson (Dr. J.) to Mr. Forsyth, 365, 378 
Anemone planting, 6, 84; Kilkenny, 170; 
blooming, 248 ; sowing, 297 5 double crowned, 
312 
\ Annuals, prizes for, 266 ; for succession, 312 
I Ancectocliilus, propagating, 307 
! Anomatheca sowing, 312 
Ansellia Africana, 368 
Antirrhinum, improving, 387 
Apiarian’s calendar for November, 67 ; Decem¬ 
ber, 134; January, 198; February, 277; 
March, 339 ; April, 402 
Apple-trees, with mistletoe, 36l ; from cuttings, 
405 
Apples, raising seedling, 32 ; for standards, 56 ; 
for espaliers, 56; eight dessert, 184; diseased, 
204, 248 ; pruning, 267 ; list of, 298, 303 
Apricots, list of, 303; pruning, 330; in conser¬ 
vatory, 376 
Aquarium, heated in open air, 93 
Arabis albida as a bedder, 368 
Araucaria Cookii, 367 
Arctic Regions gardening, 237 
Arnold, J., 330 
Artichokes, dressing beds, 11 ; culture, 336 
Artocalyx Endlicherianus culture, 256 
Arundina, propagating, 307 
Asclepias tuberosa culture, 204, 219 
Ashford Exhibition, 2 
Asparagus, early cutting, 13; beds, dressing and 
making, 41, 42, 52; seedlings, moving, 92 ; 
forcing, 168 ; culture (Roman), 249; beds, 
salting, 36l 
Asters, German and China, failing, 55 
Astrology and plants, 221 
Auriculas, list of select, 151; culture, 259 ; list 
of, 260 ; dressing of, 386 
Austcu, Ralph, 363, 391 
Azalea seed, 225 ; leaves brown, 283 ; repotting, 
305 
Azalea Iudica in window, 183 
Bacon curing, 56 , 279 
I Balfour, Professor, 187 
Barkeria, Blctia, and Brassavola, propagating, 
307 
Barnes, Mr. W., 173 
Bay-tree, removing large, 41 
Beale (Dr. J.), 391 
Bean sowing, 118 
Beaton, Mr. D., 159 
Bedded-out plants, covering, 33 
Bedding plants, 14, 70 
Beer, fermenting, 50 
Bees, new plan of keeping, 12, 39 ; keeping- 
honey in comb, 13; Payne’s glasses, 13; 
preservmg combs, 27 ; in Nutt’s hive, 27; 
barley-sugar for, 28 ; driving, 41, 91, 119, 242 ; 
north aspect for, 67 , 72 ; houses for, 67 ; 
wasps, protecting from, 67 ; removing hives, 
67 ; keeping old stocks, 68 ; promoting early 
breeding, 68; hives in Crystal Palace, 70 ; 
taking off glasses, &c., 71 ; artificial swarms, 
72 ; fumigators, 72 ; supplying water, 72 ; ivy 
yields honey, 92 ; cause of fanning, 92 ; re¬ 
moving, 92 ; glass with brood in, 103; aspect 
for, 120; shade for, in a town, 120; winter 
treatment, 134; shallow hives, 134; barred 
straw hives, 134; breeding, 134; Yorkshire 
honey, 134; hives, 156; Taylor’s 8-bar-hive, 
170, 198 ; Improved Cottage hive, 199; 
Kitchener’s ventilating passage, 199; stock 
hives, 199 ; straw hives, 199 ; young queens, 
their prolificacy, 233 ; size of hivCB, 261 ; 
Neighbour’s hives, 278 ; feeding, 278 ; early 
breeding, 278 ; moving floor-board, 283 ; 
situation of apiary, 286; wintering, 294; 
Taylor’s hive-board, 312; practical observa¬ 
tions on, 324 ; pasturage, 325 ; broken combs, 
326 ; Melilotus lcucantha for, 326; Kings- 
bridge Society, 330; adjusting hives, 330; 
hives, 339 ; hives and boxes, 341 ; removing, 
346; near a town, 361 ; Taylor’s hives, 361 ; 
ventilation, 374 ; swarming, 374, 386; re¬ 
moving drones, 376 ; feeding, 389; colour ol 
hives, 389 ; Kalinia latifolia, &c., for, 389 ; 
feeding, floor-boards, cutting out old combs, 
drones, putting on glasses, young bees, for¬ 
saking hives, Dr. Bevan, 403 ; bee-houses, 
404 ; transport of hives, 405 ; forsaking hive, 
406; artificial swarms, 407 ; caprice in 
swarming, 407 
Beet culture, 132 
Beetles, destroying, 27 
Berberis Nepalcnsis, 381 
Berberry jam, 389 
Bignonia jasminoidcs culture, 389 
Birds, their usefulness, 104 ; scaring, 350 
Birmingham poultry prizes, 245 
Black beetles, destroying, 41 
Blackberry, White, 237 
Blith (Walter), 15 
Blossom, retarding and protecting, 315 
Blue stocking, origin of, 80 
Boilers, 262 ; size needed, 410 
Boiler, back-house, 55 
Bomarea acutifolia, 6 
Bones, dissolving, 298 
Border, planting north, 139 ; narrow fruit, 410 
Border flowers, hardy, 201 , 310 
Borecole, variegated, 106 
Botanical arrangement, its progress, 79 
Botany, natural system, 57 
Bottling fruit, 282 
Bottom-heat, its importance, 82; mode of 
furnishing, 83 
Box planting, 6 , 13 
Branches, their uses, 108 
Brassia, Broughtonia, and Burlingtonia propa¬ 
gating, 334 » 
British plants, 43 
Bridal bouquets, 262, 350 
Brocoli, protecting in winter, 230 
Bromfield, Dr. W. A., 123 
Brompton Park Nursery, account of, 391 
Browallia Jamesoni, 188 
Browneas, list of and culture, 319 
Brugmansia sanguinea shedding its leaves, 14 ; 
in winter, 120 
Brussels sprouts culture, 180 
Brussels stocks, 298 
Buddlaea, time for moving, 105 
Buds, protecting gooseberry, 296 
Bulbs, insects on, 13 ; hardy spring-flowering, 
21; in pots, 28, 262 ; for window culture, 34 ; 
planting, 84; protecting from mice, 170; 
time for planting, 204 
Burning versus Charring, 387 
Cabbages, pricking out, 11; spring, 26; club- 
rooted, 92 ; sowing, 402 
Cabbage-worts culture, 321 
Cacti, scale on, 311 
Cactus, crenatum, 347 ; management, 3/6 
Calabash, 297 
Calanthe, Camarotis, Catasetum, Cattleya, and 
Chysis propagating, 334 
Calceolarias, wintering shrubby, 85; potting 
and propagating, 128; propagating shrubby, 
128 ; Kayii culture, 218 
Caledonian Horticultural Society, its history, 
121 
Calendar for November, 77; December, 140; 
January, 205 ; February, 283 ; March, 347 i 
April, 410 
Calla /Ethiopica culture, 76 
Calfha palustris culture, 310 
Calves, scour in, 262 
Camellias in winter, 105; out of doors, 17**; 
buds dropping, 283; repotting, 305 ; stocks 
for, 312 ; resting, 312 ; planting out, 354 ; in 
open ground, 367; cutting freely, 376 
Campanula carpatica alba, 55 
Canaries, age for breeding, 388 
Candy-tufts, 310 
Canker in pear-tree, 361 ; in the apple, 376 
Canna culture, 76 
Cantua dependeus, wintering, 55 ; management, 
247 
Cape gooseberry, 233 
Cape jasmine cuttings, 2fil 
Capsicums, ripening, 25 
Capuchin capers, 207 
Cardamine pratensis culture, 310 
Carnation, layers, 6 ; tree, 346 
Carrots, storing, 11; to cure forking, 93; 
(Horn) early crop, 198 ; forcing, 258; sowing, 
402 
Cathcartia villosa, 379 
Cattleya mossiffi, cause of disease in, 13 
Cauliflower, sowing, 11 ; wintering, 39; in 
frames, 66 ; protecting, 88 , 181 ; plants, 337, 
388 
Cedar cones from Lebanon, 139 
Cedar of Lebanon, moving, 156 
Cedar planting, 207 ; leaves, 219 
Celery, earthing, 11, 39, 105; its derivation, 
&c., 120; rules forjudging, 156; sowing, 358 
Ceonothuses, hardy, 375 
Cestruni aurantiacum culture, 131 
Chalky soil, trees, &c., for, 13 
Charcoal, its use in plant-culture, 113, 148; as 
a manure, 203 
Charring, 390 
Chepones, what are, 406 
Cherries for espaliers and rest-pruning, 145; 
Morello, to grow on licavyisoil, 167 ; list of, 303 
Chimonanthus fragrans, 326 
Chicory, forcing, 118 
Chrysanthemum societies, 115; list of, 1 16 ; 
properties of, 1 1 6 ; shows, 150; under N.E. 
wall, 150; list of new, 166; (Pompone) cul¬ 
ture, 250 
Chrysobactron Hookerii, 252 
Church Langton, 299 
Churns, 56 , yi, 105 ; of zinc, 346 
Cineraria maritima, 92 
Cinerarias, list of new, 151 ; properties of, 179 ; 
winter and spring-flowering, 305 ; shifting, 
326 
Cirrhea,Cirrliopetalum, Ccelogyne, Comparettia, 
Coryanthes, Cycnoches, Cymbidium, Cypri- 
pedium, and Cyrtopodium propagation, 369 
Clematis, vitalba, 209; azurea grandiflora prun¬ 
ing, 326 
Climbers for house front, 55; for cold aspect, 
56; against a house, 91; for cold greenhouse, 
92 ; for greenhouse and stove, 219 ; sowing 
hardy, 396 
Clover, spontaneous growth of, 388 
Cobiea scandens, wintering, 55 ; culture, 376 
Cochin China fowls, the true, 137 ; Mr. Pun- 
cliard’s, 137; productiveness, 218 (See 
Poultry.) 
Coelestina ageratoidcs, 40 
Collinson, Peter, 143 
Columella, L. J. M., 235 
Comelina coelestis culture, 219 
Commons, enclosing and planting, 77 
Composts, preparing, 6 
Compton, Bishop, 1/1 
Conservatory, gas-heating, 92; temperature, 184 
Cooke, M., 391 
Corn, its northern limit, 237 
Cornwall Poultry Show, 235 ; prizes at, 244 
Correa leaves falling, 298 
Cottage Homes of England, 80 
Cottage Lamp, The, 186 
Cow, cabbage-plants, 156; old, 183 
Cow-dung, preparing, 6 
Cow-keeping, 297 
Cow slinking her calf, 205 
Cow vinery, 393 
Craterina hirundinis, 15 
Crickets, destroying, 27, 104 
Cromwell family, 207 
Crops, as deepeners, &c., 276 
