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Salt and soot for potatoes, 56, 326 
Salts in plants, 10 
Salvia patens failing, 55; sowing, 170; nemo- 
rosa, 262 
Sarcopodiura Lobhii and culture, 144 
Savoy storing, 168 
Saxifraga ciliosa, 367 
Scale, brown, its habits, &c., 282 
Scarifier, 264 
Scottish Gardener, 315 
Scrapers for gardens, 328 
■ Scythe, Boyd’s self-adjusting, 40, 44 ; how to 
set, 91 
Scythe stones, Seal’s, 2 
Sea-kale forcing, 53 
Seed trade, 300 
Seeds and their germination, 381 
Selago distans, 367 
Sericographis Gheisbreghtiana culture, 128 
Shallots, planting, 89 
Sheltering crops, 198 
Shrubs, select hardy flowering, 1/0 ; under 
trees, 389 
Shrubland Park, 69 
Siphocampylus, list of and culture, 9; (amce- 
nus), 173 
Sloane Museum, 143 
Smell, removing disagreeable, 140, 1/0 
Sobralia, list of, and culture, 23 
Solanums, list of and culture, 100 ; Mexi- 
canum as a bedder, 169 ; jasminoides as a 
climber, 204 ; nudiflorum, 204 ; jasminoides, 
346 
Soot, its components, 56 ; as a manure, 170 
j Spades, &c., Sander’s, 2 
Spinach, thinning, 26 
Spiranthes, list of and culture, 49 
Steaming vinery, 390 
Stem of plants, its uses, 108 
Stenia pallida, culture, 24 
i Stenorhynclius speciosus, 49 
j Stephanotis floribunda pruning, 262 
Stillingfleet, B., 79 
i Stocks, Ten-week, growing, 105 ; and Bromp- 
j ton, culture, 1 56 
1 Stove, temperatures for, 262 
I Strawberry tile, Smith’s, 1 ; bed making, 4 ; 
preserving from slugs, 40 ; Elton, on north 
border, 152 ; beds, tan for, 347 
Strophanthus Stanleyanus pruning, 264 
Strong drink is raging, 322 
Struthiopteris, its'derivation, 410 
Sulphur as a gardening agent, 213; using in 
greenhouse, 283 
Wallichia densiflora - 
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Craterina hirundinis 
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15 
Osbeckia stellata 
.. 
1 7 
Escallonia macrantha - 
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31 
Leucothoe andromeda 
. 
45 
Oncidium variegatum - 
- - 
45 
Thyrsacanthus lilacinus 
. 
58 
Dovehouse utensils 
• - 
74 
Jacobin Pigeon ... 
- 
7 5 
Helmeted Pigeon - 
- - 
75 
Trichopilia marginata 
- 
82 
Grevillea lavendulacea - 
- . 
95 
Episcia bicolor ... 
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Swallow fly, 15 
Swiss cream, recipes for, 28 
Tacsonia, wintering, 140 
Tares for fowls, 156 
Taverner, J., 329 
Taxodium sempervirens, probable height, 41 
Tea in Assam, its discovery and culture, 123 ; 
quantity used, 123 
Tea, to give flavour of green, 282, 361 
Tecoma jasminoides culture, 42; Australis, 56; 
radicans and grandiflora, 204 
Tclekia speciosa, 262 
Tenant right, 15 
Thctford meteorology, 16 
Tilings might be better, 231 
Thrift edgings, planting, 27 
Thyrsacanthus lilacinus, 58 
Tigridia, wintering, 33; pavonia sowing, 312 
Tobacco, how to dry, 41 
Tobacco, fumigating, 140 
Tomatoes, ripening, 25 ; diseased, 27 ; culture, 
389 
Tools, drawings of, 15 
Torrenia'Asiatica culture, 120 
Tradcscants and their tomb, 394 
Training, eyed nails for, 184 ; rods, iron, 389 
Transplanting tool, 393 
Traveller’s Joy, 209 
Trees, young, planting close, 140 ; removing 
large, 346 ; unthrifty, 347 
Trenching, how to be done, 38 ; light soils, 51 
Trentham gardens, notes on, 167 , 195 
Trellises, management of fruit-trees on, 237 
Xrichosma suavis culture, 115 
Trichopilia marginata, 82, 87; list of and cul¬ 
ture, 87 
Trigonidums, list of and culture, 115 
Tropoeolum Jarrattii, brachyceras, and penta- 
phylluin culture, 204 ; tricolorum culture, 
219 
Trumpet Lily, 219 
Tulip planting, 6, 25; shelter for, 10; show, 
Great Northern, 30 ; arranging, 94 ; break¬ 
ing of, 151 
Turner (Dr. W.), 107 
Turnips, Swedes, storing, 67 ; culture, 402 
Vandas for pot-culture, 115 
Vanilla, list of and culture, 149 
Vauxhall, once intended for a college, 29 
Vegetable marrow seed, 297 
Veranda, plants for, 27; climbers for exposed, 
360 
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Pultemea ericoides ... - 124 
Cochin-China Fowls - - - - 137 
Swallow Pigeon .... 139 
Sarcopodium Lobbii - - - - 144 
Wheelbarrows - - - - - 158 
Hyoscyamus grandiflora - - - 160 
Siphocampylus ammnus - - - 173 
Browallia Jamesoui - - - - 188 
Hive ventilator - - - - - 199 
Carmelite Pigeon.203 
Clematis vitalba - - - 209 
Pannell’s boiler - - - - - 222 
Chrysobactron Hookerii - 252 
Ranunculus flammula - - - - 263 
Scarifiers ------ 264 
Verbenas, improved by saltpetre, 16 ; wintering, 
28; mildewed, 7"; yellow, 131 ; culture for 
exhibiting, 194, 229, 242, 257, 273 ; soil for, 
195 ; culture in pots, 215 ; cuttings shanked, 
233; potting, &c., for exhibiting, 292 ; pro¬ 
pagating by cuttings, 370 ; list of and sowing, 
321 ; culture, insects on, 336, 356 
Versailles Gardens, 93 
Victoria Regia in open air, 44 ; late blooming, 
160 
Vincas in stove, 283 
Vine-border, covering, 140; dressing, 156 
Vine planting and pruning, 95 ; list of, 97 ; 
bleeding, cure for, 120, 346; in pots, 140, 
233 ; grafting, 248 ; inarching, 282 ; forcing, 
311; protecting, 347 ; for forcing, green¬ 
house, and pots, list of, 347 ; in-doors, 351 
Vinery, managementof early, 101 ; temperature 
in, 162 ; heated by cows, 221 ; planting, 261 
Violets, Neapolitan, &c., culture, 54 
Virgin’s Bower, 209 
Walks, concrete, 27 ; 409 
Wallflower culture, 312 
Wallich (Dr.), 3 
Wallichia densiflora, 3 
Walls, fruit for different aspects, 183 
Walls of glass, 159; a new form of, 225; for 
fruit, 36l 
Walnut keeping, 170 
Walnut tree, barren, 297 
Warreas, list of and culture, 178 
Water in a mineral district, 140 
Watering-pot, Thompson’s, 140 
Watering in winter, 224 
Way to be miserable, 373, 401 
Wheelbarrows, on their construction, 157; 
dimensions, 204 
Whitehaven Horticultural Societv, 394 
Wild flowers, British, 263, 285, 3’l3, 349, 377 
Window plants of cottagers, 77 
Wine-making, home, 71, 137; bottling, 71 ; 
grape, &c., 138 
Window, plants in N.E., 183 
Wintering plants, 28; different modes, 33, 41 
Wire-worm, destroying, 140, 204 
Wise, H., 391 
Withering, W., 43 
Worms in grass, 106 
Yarrow as a medicine, 91 
Zausciineria culture, 283 
Zygopetalums, list of, 215; culture, 241 
Polish Pigeon - 
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Ranunculus ficaria 
- - 
285 
Bee-liouse - - - 
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295 
Grafting .... 
- - 
298 
Taylor’s hive-board - 
- 
312 
Ranunculus alpestris 
- - 
313 
Scrapers - - - - 
- 
329 
Turbit Pigeon - 
- - 
345 
Ranunculus repens - 
- 
349 
Ranunculus liedcraccus 
- - 
377 
Catheartia villosa 
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379 
Transplanter ... 
- - 
393 
Flower-pot retainer - 
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393 
Cow vinery - 
- - 
393 
Carrier Pigeon - 
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409 
