vi 
Cropping, mixed, 338 
Cross-breeding, 239 
Crowfoots, 285 ; Less spear-wort, 263 ; Wood or 
Golden-haired, Water or Celery-leaved, and 
Alpine, 313 ; Bulbous, Hairy, and Creeping, 
349 ; Upright Meadow, Corn, and Ivy-like, 
377 
Crown of Thorns, 140 
Cryptomeria Japonica manured, 196 
Cucumbers, gum in, 27 ; in winter, 89 ; longest 
and earliest, 204 ; notes on forcing, 243; 
planting, 322 ; culture, 36l 
I Cumberland Lodge Vine, 219 
Cupbea platycentra soil, 312 
Cupressus Goveniana, &c., 7; various species, 
41 
Curd for chickens, 389 
Currant, red, pruning, 58; protecting, 91; 
white, rest-pruning, 110; black, rest-pruning, 
124; training, 1 67 » list of, 298; against a 
wall, 298 
Custons, 207 
Cuttings of roses, &c., 224, 298 
Cydonia japonica, moving, 219 
Cyclamens flowering unnaturally, 14 ; list of and 
culture, 201; new, 381 
Uaiilias, best of the season, 3; Zelinda, for 
bedding, 6 ; fancy, becoming seifs, 13; cul¬ 
ture, 13; at Floricultural Society, 16; King 
of, 30; Mr. Bragg’s Show, 31; showing in 
classes, 44, 50; list of best new, 44 ; for 
bedding out, 46 ; raising single, 47 ; change¬ 
able, 77 ; list of, 81 ; storing, 84, 94 ; list of 
new, 150; limit of size, 151; showing in 
classes, 244 ; storing, 248; growing, old 
lessons on, 272 ; characteristics, 2/3 ; propa¬ 
gating, 297, 315 ; classes of, 311; showing, 
370 ; roots decaying, 376 
Daisies, planting Belgian, 361 
Daphne mezereum seeds poisonous to fowls, 
156 
Datura arborea culture, 41; ceratocaulon cul¬ 
ture, 219 
Dendrobium (moschatum) culture, 361 ; propa¬ 
gation, 370 
Deodar cedar, 283 
Devil’s Coach-Horse, 188 
Dickson, Rev. Adam, 157 
Dielytra spectabilis culture, 389 
Dipladenia crassinoda, 203 ; too large, 262 
Dodecatheons, list of and culture, 201 
Dodoens, R,, 221 
Draining, 197 , 219 ; practised by the Romans, 
157 
Drill first suggested, 1 
Drill hoe, 261 
Duck-keeping, 136 
Dung-bed management, 252 
Dunbar, Professor, 187 
Early kitchen crops, 275 
Edgworthia chrysantha, 367 
Edwards, Mr., charge against, 144, 315 
Eggs, preserving, 156; laid at Poultry Shows, 
296 ; rendering unproductive, 312 
Electricity as an aid to plants, 364 
Eleocarpus dentatus culture, 36 
Emigrant, seeds, &c., for, 170 
Endive planting, 39 
Epacris culture, 262 
Epiderulrum propagation, 370 
Epigjea repens for winter rooms, 224 
Epiphyllum, a new, 166 
Episcia bicolor, its culture, &c., 110 
Eria propagating, 398 
Eriobotrya japonica, 41 
Escallonia macrantha and culture, 31 
Espaliers, management of, 237 
Euphorbias, list of and culture, 63 
Evergreens, planting, 6 ; times for planting, 85 ; 
for clay soil, 105; for screen, 140; cuttings 
of, 219 ; flowering, 297 
Fallowing, 198 
Family Economist, 186 
Fastigiatc plants, 347 
Feathering our nests, 275 
Fernandesia propagating, 398 
Ferns for a Ward’s case, 92 , 156 
Fig-orchard in Sussex, 11 
Figs, thinning leaves, 41 ; list of, 303 ; unfruit¬ 
ful, 361 
Filberts, pruning, 41 
Filtration, its effects, 329 
Five-shift system, 156 
Fleming’s weed destroyer, 195 
Floricultural Literature, changes in, 159 
b loricultural Society, National, 41 ; proceedings 
of National, 129 
INDEX. 
Floricultural Review, 2091 Society, South Lon- [ 
don, and Mr. Edwards, 209; Society, South ' 
London, 252; Society, London, 266 
Floriculture, Society for Promoting, 179 ; its | 
prospects, 194 
Floriculture in 1851, 227 
Florists’ Flowers, Mr. Glenny on, 24, 37, 50, 
63, 101, 150, 166, 179, 193, 257,292, 307, 320, 
335, 356; use of rules for judging, 63; 
judging, 94, 343 ; their early introduction, 
185; prizes for, 251 
Florists’ meeting, a general, 150 
Flower-borders in kitchen-garden, 196 
Flowers, effect of imposition, 209 ; cut, 329 
Flower, dressing, 185 ; tubs, 346 
Flower-pot protector (Gotch’s), 393 
Forcing, its general principles, 380 
Forsyth Manuscripts, 328 ; (Addingtons), 350 ; 
(Dr. J. Anderson), 364, 377 
Forsyth plaister, 378 
Fortune’s, Mr., return from China, 122 ; and 
the Chinese, 208 
Fothergill, Dr. J., 327 
Frosted plants, treatment of, 226, 233 
Fruits, requisites for naming, 57, 108 ; list of 
hardy, for Northumberland, 183 ; collected 
by Romans, 249 ; and forced by them, 249 ; 
bottling, 350 
Fruit-gardens, forming, 365 
Fruit-trees, list of, 27 ; raising seedlings, 32; 
for New Zealand, 26 l ; culture of their roots, 
287 1 newly planted, 410 
Fuchsias for bedding, 14, 77; Great Western, 
30; wintering, 77, 140; list of, 101,131,312; 
list of select, 150 ; forcing, 297 ; for windows, 
&c., 306; for beds, 368 ; old, to manage, 368 ; 
that have endured the winter, 396 ; cordifolia 
culture, 409 
Fuel consumed by a boiler, 361 
Fulham Gardens, 171 
Fumigating with Cayenne, 379 
Fungi, edible, English, 122; their beauty and 
use, 122, 390; British, 182; eatable, 200 
Galeandra, Gongora, Goodyera, Govenia, 
and Grammatophyllum propagation, 398 
Garden Companion and Florists’ Guide, 250 
Garden engine, Crump’s, 2 
Garden, plants for town, 184 
Gardeners’ Benevolent Institution, 17 
Garlic planting, 89 
Gas stove, 139 
Gas-tar, to prevent damp, 99 ; and ammonia, 361 
Gastrolobium, culture, 22 
Geese, management of, 246, 295, 340 
Geraniums for bedding, 7, 27, 77, 170, 268, 303, 
316 ; for shaded bed, 13 ; preserving in winter, 
19, 55, 61, 77; wintering in basket, 41 ; pro¬ 
tecting, 105; Ivy-leaved kinds, 105; Nettle¬ 
leaved, 105; old varieties, 112; touched by 
frost, 120; Moore’s Victory, 122; wintering 
scarlet, 127; for conservatory, 140; wintering, 
204, 326, 353; crossing, 219; raising new 
bedders, 238 ; Shrubland Pet, 239; selecting, 
241 ; barren, 254 ; unique section, 254 ; 
Sidonia, Moore’s Victory, Quercifolium, 
Spleenii, &c., 269 ; Flower of the Day, 297 ; 
cuttings of scarlet, 297 ; Diadematums, 303 ; 
The Curate, 304 ; Yetmenianas, 304 ; list of, 
312; ardens, 316; bipinnatifida, siepeflorens, 
cortusaefolium, and echinatum, 317 ; shifting, 
326; Sidonia seedling, 346, 360 ; Unique, cut¬ 
tings, 360 ; six good fancy, 36l ; fulgidum, 
381; sanguineum, bicolor, and gibbosum, 
382 ; in basket, 389 
Gesnera zebrina shedding its flowers, 203 
Ginger culture, 56 
Gladiolus, moving, 55 ; planting, 84, 225; 
sowing, 92 ; byzantinus, planting, 120 ; 
psittacinus wintering, 156; gandavensis cul¬ 
ture, 219 
Glass, rough plate for vinery, 92 ; shelters, Mr. 
Ewing’s, 159; Hartley’s rough, 184; with 
close laps, 219 ; walls, 266 , 289 ; houses, 
economical, 289 ; for pit, 389 
Gloxinias, shifting, 297 ; starting, 326 
Gloucester Horticultural Shows, 351 
Goerius olens, 188 
Gold-fish in warm water, 94 
Goldilocks, 313 
Gompholobium, culture, 23 
Gooseberries, rest-pruning, &c., Ill ; cater¬ 
pillars destroying, 156, 282; training, 167 ; 
list of, 298; history of, 313; list of prize 
winners and largest, 314 ; good ones, 326 
Grafting-wax, 388 
Grafts on upper side of branch, 298 
Grapes forced in open air, 93; packing for 
travelling, 106 ; the Charlesworth Tokay, 168 ; 
list of, 303 
Grape wine, 105 
Grass under cedar, 389 
Grass (bunch), what is, 406 
Gravel walks, Fleming’s weed-destroyer for, 2 ; . 
loose, 183 
Graves, flowers for, 27, 41, 54 
Greenhouses, hints for building, 7; heating 
with hot water, 8 ; plants, preparations for 
housing, 48 ; connected with public works, 
77 ; plants for small, 77 ; heating small, 106 ; 
plants for cold, 183; early form of, 207; ice ! 
inside its glass, 234 ; of boards, 234 ; stoves 
for, 281. 282 ; cost of sashes, 326; econo¬ 
mical, 347 ; covering, 350; lights, 409 
Greenhouse plants in a room, 120 
Grevillea lavendulacea, 95 
Guano, as a garden manure, 13 ; and lime, 298 ; 
whv a powerful fertilizer, 392 ; its history, 
392 ' 
Guernsey Lily culture, 76 , 281 
Guinea fowls poisoned, 156 ; management, 169 ; 
to distinguish, 233 ; pairing, 282 
Gutta percha trellis, 297 , 360 
Habrothamnus elegans culture, 13 
Hair, as a manure, 185 
Hampton Court Vine, 219 
Hanbury, Rev. W., 299 
Hardy flowers defined, 41 
Hartlib, Samuel, 29 
Heating by hot-water, Pannell’s, 221 
Heaths, pruning, 140; their culture, 164; cut¬ 
tings of, 177 , 191 ; soil for, 178 ; management 
of, 255 ; potting, &c., 270 ; growing in beds, 
333 ; watering, 334 
Heavenly tree, 346 
Hedgehogs, 184; keeping, 220 
Heliotropes, wintering, 28 
Hen-house, constructing, 68 
Hen-yard Transactions, November, 68; Decem¬ 
ber, 136 
Hepaticas in pots, 92 
Heracleum giganteum culture, 70 
Herbaceous border plants, 77 
Herbarium, Fielding’s, 188 
Herbs, drying, 103 
Hereford Horticultural Show', 2 
Hesperis matronalis, 92 
Hide-bound, its cause, 108 
Hogg, T., 185 
Holly hedge, 219; yellow'-berried, 262 ; layer¬ 
ing, 280 
Hollyhocks in beds, 47; list of and culture, 81, 
101 
Honeysuckle, Japan, as a standard, 224 
Horse-radish, to destroy, 92 ; culture, 337 
Horticultural Society, alteration in its rules, 109; 
South Devon, 314 
Horticultural Societies, their rules, 207 
Hotbed, its duration, 183 
Hothouse, requisites for cheap, 248 
Hot water, to the roots of plants, 93; appa¬ 
ratus, 389 
Houlletia and Huntleya propagation, 399 
Household property, hints about, 80 
Hoya carnosa in greenhouse, 77; in window', 326 
Hyacinth, supporter, Smith’s, 1 ; planting, 6, 
84; list of for glasses and pots, 27 ; in 
glasses, &c., 183 ; in moss, 233; moving 
from pots to glasses, 248; done flowering, 
347 
Hybridizing, 381 
Hyssop as a medicine, 221 
Iberis culture, 310 
Ice, collecting, 147 
India, flower-seeds for North, 26 l 
Indian gardening, 251 
Insects, &c., in bark, to destroy, 109 
Ipomsea Horsfalliae shedding its flowers, 203 
Ireland, first improver of its husbandry, 15; i 
flowers in south of, 160 ; plants there in 
winter, 301 
Iris Chincnsis, 56 
Italian rye-grass, 170 
Ixias, and other bulbs, planting, 204 
Java, cultivation there, 301 
Judges at shows, 266 
Jujubes, what are, 140 
Jussieu, A. L. de, 57 
Kalmia latieolia culture, 219 
Kew, Botanic Gardens, 209 
Kidney-beans, forcing, 65, 153, 210 
Kitchen-garden routine, 10, 26, 38, 51, 65, 89, 
132, 153, 168 , 181, 196 , 217 , 244, 259, 358 ; 
sundries, 275 , 294, 310, 322 ; rotation of crops, 1 
293, 337; forming, 365; vegetables, lists of 
good varieties, 400 
Kohl-rabi, 219 
Kopros as a manure, 156 
