INDEX. 
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Labels, Smith’s enamelled, 1; to write on 
zinc, ) 04 
Labelling plants, 155 
Lacama, Lidia, Leptotes, Lissochilus, and 
Lycaste propagating, 399 
Ladder, Starkey’s telescopic, 2 
Lahore, Horticultural Garden at, 251 
Lantana crocea as a bedder, 105 
Lapageria rosea planting, 6 
Larkspur, Chinese, wintering, 117 
Laurel hedge, 219 
Laurels, to cover a wall, 201; diseased, 205 
Laurestinus layers, 317 
Lawn, mossy, to improve, 262 
Leaf cart, 195 
Leonotus leonurus losing leaves, 14 
Lettuce, planting, 11, 39; culture, 65; its 
names, 107 ; forcing, Dutch mode, 135; win¬ 
tering, 217 
Leucothoe neriifolia and culture, 45 
Leycesteria forntosa sowing, 234 
Lice on canaries, 361 
Lilac, blooming unseasonably, 92 
Lily (white) culture, 14; (Jacobsea) planting 
offsets, 361 
Lime as a manure, 170 
Lingard (Dr.), a gardener, 120 
Liquid-manure, old opinion of, 1; for roses, 14 ; 
applying, 120 
Lithospermum rosmarinifolium, 367 
LitLea geminiflora culture, 159 
Lobelia (ramosa), sowing, 27 ; culture, 219 
London Floricultural Society, 115 
Loquat culture, 41 
Luculia culture, 291 
Lyon’s magnetic powder, 106 
Maciies, or Hasketts, 207 
Madeira wine, British, 42 
Magnolias as standards, 91 
Maidstone Horticultural Show, 2 
Mangold wurtzel, storing, 67; sowing, 402 
Manures, saline, 16 
Marigold, double-yellow French, 70 ; (African), 
as a bedder, 99 ; French, wintering, 147 
Market-gardening round London, 249 
Matricaria as a bedder, 99 
Maurandya Barclayana, cutting down, 282 
Maxillaria, Marmodes, and Miltonia propaga¬ 
tion, 399 
Medicine an early friend of gardening, 221 
Melilotus leucantha, 36l 
Melons, best sorts, 204 ; seed need not be old, 
297 ; Cassabar, 297 > a chapter on, soil, 357 j 
culture, the bed, &c., 371 
Mespilus japonica, 41 
Mexico (trip to), 265 ; English garden there, 
265 ; climates, 265 
Mice, destroying, 170 
Mignonette for spring, 326 
Mikania Guaco, 248 
Miller, P., and the Chelsea garden, 109 
Miniature plants, 76 
Misletoe culture, 248, 361 
Morel, the, 325, 376 
Mortimer, J., 207 
Moss, its uses, 397 
Mosses, British, 300 
Mossy pasture, treatment of, 204 
Mowing machine, 195 
Mulberry, removing, 91 
Mushroom beds, 11, 66; spawn, making, 102; 
management, 259 
National Floricultural Society, 379 
Nectarines for forcing, 156 ; list of, 303 ; Eirugc, 
why so named, 391 
Neill, Dr. Patrick, 121 
Nemophilas after tulips, 376 
Nepenthes, list of and culture, 355, 383 
Nets, tanning, 361 
Night soil, and peat charcoal as a manure, 14; 
to sweeten, 388 
North borders, their value, 152 
Nunn, Kit, 185 
Nurserymen, the earliest named, 391 
Nymphsea ccerulea, 209 
Oak-tree moving, 14 
Odontoglossum grande, 44 
ffinotheras, their propagation, 288; speciosa, 
351 
Oleander culture, 283, 318 ; buds shrivelling, 
325 
Oncidium variegatum, 45 
Onions in California, 266; culture, 308, 337, 
339 ; varieties, 309 ; sowing. 402 
Orchard-house management, 301, 410 
Orchids, in pots, 23, 49, 149, 215, 241 ; thriving, 
115, 178; their propagation, 271 , 307, 334, 
369, 398 
Oregon, plants from, 123 
Osbeckia stellata, 17 
Our Villagers, 26, 53, 89, 118, 153, 181 
Oxalis Bowiana as a bedder, 147 
Oxford Horticultural Show, 17 ; Society, 3/9 
Oxylobium, culture, 23 
Packing trees, &c., for export, 331, 352 
Pseony, tree, culture, 219 ; grafting tree, 388 
Paint, cheap brown, 184 
Pampas grass, 298 
Pansies, variegated, 101 ; twenty-four good, 
36l ; wintering, 388 
Paring and burning fenny soil, 140 
Parsnip storing, 156; sowing, 401 
Paulownia imperialis, 77 
Peach leaves, thinning, 41 
Peach and nectarine pruning, 189 
Peaches, with faulty stones, 27 ; for forcing, 156, 
222; shedding their fruit, 219; list of, 303 ; 
tree with excrescence, 326 ; in conservatory, 
376 
Pear, Gansel’s Bergamot, 41 ; trees bearing at 
the points, 55 ; for espaliers, 56 ; Bishop’s 
Thumb, 58; for north wall, 77 ; bearing at 
end of branches, 140 ; training, 167 ; on 
quince stocks, 204 ; list of, 298, 303 ; pruning, 
331 
Peas, early sorts and culture, 103; stopping, 
170; growing early, 274 ; sowing, 345 
Peat earth, 376 ; soil, 410 
Peaty soil, charring, 184 
Pelargonium echinatum culture, 41 
Pelargoniums benefited by powdered oyster- 
shells, 92; six new, 151; hybridizing, 163 ; 
training, 382 
Penstemons in winter, 105 
Penstemon variabilis, 166 ; time for propagating, 
204 
Periodical literature, its progress and value, 186 
Petunia, improving, and its properties, 335 
Pheasants, Golden and Silver, 323, 341, 359, 
373, 385, 403 
Phloxes, six good, 361 
Physalis edulis culture, 137 
Physoclaina grandifiora, and culture, 160 
Pigeon, domestic, care of dove-house, 72 ; dung 
as a manure, 73 ; utensils for dovehouse, 73 ; 
cowled or Jacobin pigeons, 74; helmeted, 
75; the domestic, the aviary, 138; swallow 
pigeons, 139; at Birmingham Show, 173; 
care of aviary, 202 ; Carmelite variety, 203 ; 
their utility, 280, 312; Polish, 281 ; food for, 
344 , 407 ; Turbits, 345 ; carrier, 408 
Pigs, keeping, 133, 135 ; hints on managing, 
154, 278; feeding, 219, 248; killing and 
dressing, 278 ; worms in, 347 
Pilewort, 285 
Pine-apple (Queen), weight of, 44 ; culture in 
winter, 83 ; errors in cultivating, 282; cul¬ 
ture, 395 
Pinks, improved by saltpetre, 16 ; raising from 
seed, 37 ; propagating by pipings, 131 
Pink culture, planting, 151 ; management when 
blooming, 166, ISO; insects on, 166 
Pipes for hot-water, treatment of, 105 
Pitcher plants, 41, 355 
Pit, covering for, 140; its elevation, &c., 183; 
heating a small, 234, 282 
Pits, hints for building, 7 ; of turf, for winter¬ 
ing plants, 28 ; cold, their management, 146 
Plagiolobium, culture, 23 
Planting, old rule for, 1 
Plants, buying and choosing, 240 
Plattes, Gabriel, 1 
Platylobium, culture, 23 
Plums for espaliers, 56; for north wall, 77 > 
pruning, 174; unfruitful, 233 ; list of, 303 ; 
preserving, 388 
Plunging materials, 156 
Podolobium, culture, 23 
Polyanthuses, two new, 151 
Pomology, Hogg’s, 43 ; British, 120 
Ponds, duck-weed in, 55 
Poor-rates, florists’ greenhouses not liable to, 77 
Potatoes, planting diseased, 14 ; planting, rules 
for, 30, 77 ; disease may be avoided, 30 ; 
planting on heavy soil, 41, 168 , 248 ; too much 
neglected, 66 ; in orchard, 92 ; autumn-plant¬ 
ing, 92; planting, early, 117; planting, 140; 
from New Zealand, 173; manure for, 184; 
forcing, 216 ; not diseased in the Arctic Re¬ 
gions, 237; early kinds, 248; in Mexico, 265 ; 
growing, anomalies of, 296 ; successful mode 
of, 297 ; leaving in ground, 346; disease dis¬ 
appearing, 401 
Poultry-keeping rules, 90 
Poultry, as profitable stock, 171 ; Birmingham 
Show, 172; Dorking, Game, Cochin-China, 
and hybrids, 172; geese, their weight, 173; 
in a confined space, 199 ; Cochin-China, 202; 
vii ; 
food they require,'204 ; keeping for pleasure, 
232; Birmingham Exhibition, list of prizes, 
232; Cochin-China, weight a merit, 233 ; cock 
Guinea fowls, to distinguish, 233; White 
Turkies, 234 ; moveable house, 234 ; keeping 
as a useful employment, 236 ; Cochin-China, 
productiveness, 247, 260 , 279; quarrelsome, 
248; white Cochin-Chinas, 248; compared 
with Malays, 261 ; bearded Polish, 262 ,; 
improved in England, 281; scour in, 282; in 
Java, 301; Cochin-China varieties, 311 ; new 
societies, 314 ; keeping for profit, 342 ; York¬ 
shire Society’s Exhibition, 343, 359, 375 ; 
Cochin-China, pale combed, 360; Cochin- 
China, black, 360 ; eggs chilled, 376 ; arrange¬ 
ment of yard, 376 ; curd for, 389 ; Exhibition j 
in London, 404 ; Agricultural Society’s prizes, i 
406 ; Shanghai and Cochin peculiarities, &c., 
407 ; Polish, 410; time of sitting, 410 
Prizes, awarding, 27 
Protecting material, 409 
Pruning, its results, 46, 58 ; its’objects,"263 ; 
rest, 267 
Pulque, made from the aloe, 265 
Pultentea ericoides, history and culture, 124 
Pumpkin, Himalayah, 55 
Pygmy plants, 204 
Quickset fences, treatment of young, 120 
Quintinic, J. de la, 93 
Radish forcing, 229 
Rambling Sailor, 56 
Rampion culture, 196 
Ranunculus planting, 6, 64,84; culture—soil, 
51 ; watering and shading, 87 ; culture, 102, 
116 ; storing and propagating, 102; seed 
sowing, 116 ; gvowing, 252; flammula, 263 ; 
lingua, gramineus, and ficaria, 285 ; aconiti- 
folius culture, 310; auricomus, sceleratus, 
and alpestris, 313; bulbosus, hirsutus, and 
repens, 349; acris, arvensis, and hederaceus, 
377 
Raspberry, cultivation, 18; double-bearing, 19; 
pruning, 125 ; the Falstoff and Autumn, 136; 
failing, 183 ; list of, 298 
Rest-pruning, 174 , 330; Peach, 189 
Rhododendron of the Sikkim-Himmalaya, 187: 
seed, 225 ; (ciliatum), 381 
Rhubarb forcing, 118, 249, 262 ; roots, 312 
Ribes, sanguineum, its fruit, 77 ; Gordonianus, 
375 
Richardia TEthiopica, culture, 76 
Richardson’s Rural Hand-books, 187 
Ridging, 152, 198 
Roman husbandry, 157 ; gardening, 235, 249 
Rondeletia speciosa pruning, 262 
Rooks, inducing to build, 312 
Room flowers, 92 
Root culture, 287 
Rose culture for exhibition—the rosary, 371 ; 
soil, 383 ; budding and pruning, 399 
Roses, management of budded, 6; for trellis, 
13 ; Yellow Briar, 41 ; Cloth of Gold, 41, 155 ; 
Devoniensis and Souvenir de Malmaison, 41 ; 
perpetual, training on bed, 60 ; not pruning, 
60; planting cuttings, 6l ; for south front, 
77 ; transplanting, 85 ; lists of best, 85 ; 11a- 
netti, 92 ; list of Bourbons, 97 ; list of China, 
98 ; of Tea-scented, 93; for an ivied wall, 
105 ; for pillars, 105, 156, 190, 212; Noisette, 
112; hardy-climbing, 113; list of show varie¬ 
ties for June and July, 116 ; evergreen climb¬ 
ing, 126 ; weeping, 126 ; culture, hints on, 
155; budded stocks, 155; covering wall with, 
155 ; insects on leaves, 156 ; list of Boursault, 
Ayrshire, and Musk, 163 ; climbing, manage¬ 
ment of, 163 ; Ayrshire for budding on, 164 ; 
for a veranda, 170, 409; list of evergreen 
climbing, 170; Banksian, 175; Grevillii or 
Multiflora, 176 ; Macartney, 176 ; Microphylla, 
176 ; cuttings, 183; list of pillar, 191 ; what 
should characterize, 193; Solfaterre culture, 
203; pruning climbing, 208; time for budding, 
204 ; in a Maltese Cross, 201 ; for north wall, 
204; standards, 219; manuring in winter, 
225; climbing, 247, 283, 376 ; bedding, 261 ; 
for wall, 26 l; for high, 262 ; potting, 262 ; 
Solfaterre, 266 ; liquid manure for, 282 ; 
budding, 292 , 312; standards, grafting, 297 ; 
mildewed in pots, 311 ; list of, 311 ; Banksian 
pruning, 312; in pots, pruning, &c., 312; 
pruning young, 346 ; old yellow' cabbage, 34/ ; 
pillars lor, 361 ; planting, 384 ; pruning, 388 
Rotation of crops, 248, 293 
Roup in fowls, 105 
Roupellia grata pruning, 264 
Rustic furniture, 170 
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Salt, how to apply, 92 ; for an old garden, 140; 
as a manure, 17<i; for kitchen-garden, 248 
