INDEX 
Abuus precatoiuus SKKns, 150 
Acacias at Kew Gardens, 36 
Achiineiies picta culture, 3()1 
Advertisers, hint to, 187 
^^Ichmea fulgens culture, 292 
I Agatheca amelloides, 60 
; Agricultural Society’s (Uoyal) 
I Poultry Prize-list, 454 
I Air, rules for admitting, 215 
I Allamanda eulture, 238 
Almeidia rubra culture, 238 
I Allotment Farming—November, 
( 72; December, 147; January, 
I 222; JIarch, 394 ; April, 465 
, Alpine and rock plants, 447 
I Alstromerias in winter, 94 
Alyssum, propagation of varie¬ 
gated, 299 ; seed of variegated, 
i 399 
I Amaryllids, culture of, 393 
j Ambition’s Ladder, 230 
I American Aloes in bloom, 73 
American Blight, 122 
I Amerimura ebenus culture, 403 
; Andalusian cock, characteristics 
I of, 344 
j Anerley Poultry Show, the Protest 
at, 28, 44, 6l, 64, 77 ; Pigeons 
I at, 98 ; Prize List, 471 
Angle beds at Crystal Palace, 36 
Aotus gracillima culture, 126 
Aphelandra culture, 236 
Aphis, or plant louse, 74 
! Aponogeton distachyon, an open 
j ground aquatic, 331 
j Apple jelly, 47 
! Apples and rice, 99 
i Apples, stewed with red cabbage; 
with sausage and onion; jelly, 
99; butter, 119 ; bread, 119; 
sauce, 119 ; poultice, cake, and 
pudding, 137 
Apple-tree diseases, 122 
Approaches, their width, ll6 
Approach to houses, 445 
Apricots, diseases of, 273; shad- 
I ing, 466 
; Aquarium, a salt water, 26 ; plants j 
j for a marine, 451 ! 
Arauearia imbricata sowing, 423 j 
Araucaria shoots turned brown, 452 ! 
Arbutus in the Crimea, 330 
Architectural embellishment, 
flowers for, 427 
Arnott’s stoves of brick, 37 
Arthrostemraa fragilis, 449 
Asclepias tuberosa culture, 434 
! Asparagus forcing, temperature of 
I soil, 30; moving old, 64; ob- 
j taining early, 151 ; thinning, 
152; forcing, l65; cutting, 452; 
planting, 463 
Asplenium septentrionale, 17 ; 
trichomanes, 65 ; viride, 121 
Aster seed, raising in England, 9; 
home-grown German, 74 
Athyrium fllix focmina, 157 
Auracaria imbricata, moving, 270 
Auricula culture, 466 
Autumn, effects of a dry, 22 
Avenue, making the most of an, 
338 
Aylesbury Vale Poultry Prize List, 
I 155, 169 ; Show, 266 
Azalea forcing, 411 
Azaleas not blooming, 344 ; shed- 
■ ding their buds, 392 
: Babylon, Revelations from, 
i 373 
j Bacon curing, 172 
I Bantam cock’s (Sebright) tail, 232 
; Bantams, entry charge at Dar- j 
lington, 153; state of, 189; At ' 
in, 362 ; White and Silky, 404 j 
Barbarossa Grape, extraordinary | 
bunch, 102 j 
j Barkeria spectabilis culture, 199 ■ 
\ Barley-sugar for Bees, 386 j 
Barton Poultry Show, 266, 288, 325 
Baskets, making rustic, 295 
Bean culture and cookery, 73 
Bean sowing, 464 
Beatonian Burning Bush, 89 
Bedding-out at theCrystal Palace, 
2 ; at Kew, 66 
Bedding-out plants, 317 
Bedding-out, preparing for, 327 
Bedding plants, new or good, 86 ; 
some valuable, 459 
Bedford Poultry Show, 134 ; mis- i 
takes at, 211 ^ 
Bees — Calendar for November, | 
78 ; feeding with barley sugar, 
76 ; feeding and shading, 224 ; 
removing, 225 ; Hives of comb, 
pollen, pedestals, 319 
Begonia echinata, opuliflora, and 
velutina, 6 
Begonia culture, 292 
Beet, to boil, bake, stew, fry, fri- 
casee, piekle, soup, and sand¬ 
wich, 91 ; in snow, 149 ; sow¬ 
ing, 463 
Belgian Daisies, 133 
Belt of trees for shelter, 26 
Berkhampstead Nurseries, 19 , 36 ; 
Castle, 37 
Berner’s (Lord), sale of stock, 34 
Birmingham Poultry Show, a hint 
for, 46 
Birmingham Poultry Show Cups, 
78 
Birmingham Poultry Show, 98, 
168 , 205; arrangements, 117; 
notes on, 226 ; Committee, sug¬ 
gestions to, 268 
Blacking for shoes, 230 
Blechnum boreale, 213; grown 
under glass, 261; culture, 333 
Bletia hyacinthina and Shepherdii 
culture, 199 
Bletia culture, 292 
Blight on fruit-trees, 122 
Boiler for heating various struc¬ 
tures, 357 
Books, New, 186 
Borage culture, 184 
Borders for fruit forcing, 50 ; ar¬ 
rangement of, 214; systematic 
arrangement of mixed, 254 
Borecole culture and cooking, 184 
Boronia serrulata culture, 126 
Botrychium lunaria, 271 
Bouquet, a new form of, 58 
Bouquets, rushes for, 113; of 
fruits and flowers, 181: sending 
by post, 411; arrangement of, 
427 
Bouvardias, their culture, 197 
Bowood Muscat Grape, 101 
Brachysemas, culture of, 392 
Brahma Pootra, good points in a, 
326 
Brent Goose, 419 
Breeds of poultry, their state, 12 
Bridgnorth Poultry Show, 45 
Bright’s disease in a hen, 189 
Brigg and Lindsey Poultry Show, 
228 
Brocoli, laying down, 145; culture 
and cookery, 395 ; sowing, 463 
Brugmansia Knightii culture, 127 
Brugraansia culture, 399 
Brussels Sjrrouts, culture and 
cookery, 451 : sowing, 463 
Budgerigars, how to manage, 472 
Burnet culture and cookery, 451 
Bury Poultry Show, 13 
Cabbage salad, 81 
Cacalia coccinea culture, 404 
Cake, a light, plain, 137 ; Miss 
Mokam’s, 305 
Calanthe veratrifolia, and vestita 
culture, 199 
Calceolaria euttings, 431 
Calceolarias, in winter, 108; 
(Shrubby), their spring manage¬ 
ment, 320; (Bedding), rooting 
and wintering cuttings, 335 
Calistegia pubescens, its use, 9 
Californian Vineyards, 441 
Californian gigantic produce, 142 
Calliandra Tweedii, 51 
Calyptraria hoemantha, 6 
Camassia esculenta sowing 94 
Camellia, Archduchess Maria, 
105; culture in France, 221; 
buds dropping, 325 ; grafting, 
354 ; buds falling, 411 
Camellias casting their buds, 
270 ; shedding their flower- 
buds, 336 , 344; manure-water 
for, 392 
Campanulas for bedding, 460 
Campanula lanceolata, 6 
Camphire of the Bible, 31 
Canary bird, breeding, 42, 115, 
418; its varieties, 184; in its 
wild state, 223 
Canaries, breeding mules, 271 ; 
rearing, 471 
Canarina campanulata and laevi¬ 
gata culture, 462 
Candied fruits, list of, 181 
Canna culture, 292 
Carp breeding, 138, 167 
Carnation layering, 395 
Carrot sowing, 464, 466 
Carrots, sowing early, 362 
Cassiopefastigiata, 6 
Cauliflower sowing, 463 
Caution to plant buyers, 403 
Cedars at Topinghoe Hall, 272 
Celery Slewed, Sauce, and Sauce 
purde, 81 
Celery sowing, 463 ; pricking-out, 
466 
Cephalotus follicularis, its habitat 
and culture, 423 
Cestrum Regelii, 6 
Ceterach ofBcinarum, 355 ; in 
Scotland, 398, 434 
Cetradenia rosea culture, 292 
Chapped hands, 305 
Cheilanthes lendigera culture, 263 
“ Chemical Field Lectures,” 186 
Chemistry, its use to the cultivator, 
186 
Chester Poultry Exhibition, 62 
Chicken, selecting for exhibition, 
61 
Chicken versus Chickens, 248 
Chickens versus Chicken, 190 
Chickens, rearing early prize, 283 
Chinese and Poles, 247 
Chinese Geese and their hybrids, 
230 
Chippenham Poultry Show, 250 
Chirp, The last, 284 
Chrysanthemum, its history, va¬ 
rieties, and culture, 29 O 
Chysanthemums, lists of, 140; 
suckers, 151; at Stoke New¬ 
ington Show, 177 ; early bloom¬ 
ing, 188; prolonging their 
blooming, 326, 337 
Cider for bottling, 15 
Cineraria maritima propagation, 
299 ; maritima wild, 357 
Cinerarias in winter, 108 
Cirencester Poultry Show, 190 , 228, 
270 
Citron Pudding, 231 
Clapton Nursery, 422 
Cleanliness of plants, its import¬ 
ance, 142 
Clematis Sieboldii newly planted, 
262 
Clerodendron Bungei, 6 
Climbers for a cool conservatory, 
2 ; for a west wall, 244 ; newly 
planted in a conservatory, 262 ; 
on trellises and in pots, 277 : 
for greenhouse, 344 ; for con¬ 
servatory, 467 
Clivia nobilis culture, 391 ; Gar- 
deni, 429 
Coal tar paint, 462 
Coboea scandens in a pot, 277 
Cochin-China fowls in a town, 46 ; 
their hardiness and keep, 229 ; 
becoming silky, 269 
Cochin-China cock, breast of Par¬ 
tridge-coloured, 174 
Cochin-China hen, productiveness 
of a, 285 
Coelia macrostachya culture, 200 
Cold cream, 305 
Colchester Poultry Show, 250, 264 
Coleus Blumei culture, 263 
Columbarian Society’s Show (Bir¬ 
mingham), 29 , 47 
Combs of parents and their pro¬ 
geny, 362 
Committee-men, should they ex¬ 
hibit? 289 
Compost-heap of Cottagers, 353 
Cornposts, accumulating, 222 
Conifers, French work on, 24; 
hint for grafting, 4 O 7 ; sowing 
seeds of Indian, 420 
Conoclinium ianthemum culture, 
391 
Conservatory, for the working 
classes, 93 ; roof, glass for, 408 
Consequences, 111 , 163 , 202 , 369 
Cool tankard, 184 
Coops, new sort, for hire, 62 
Copaiba for roup and catarrh, 361 
Cornish heavy cake, 231 
“ Cottage Gardeners’ Dictionary,” 
299 
Cottage Stove versus Flues, 426 
Cottagers’ gardens and their pro¬ 
duce, 7 
Cottagers’ Prizes, frauds practised 
for, 283; at Birmingham, 301; 
at Poultry Shows, 47 O 
Couve Tronchouda sowing, 131 
Cow-keeping, work on, 288 
Crassane Pears, gathering, 25 
Cratffigus orientaiis, its fruit, 25 
Crataeguses, excressences on, 469 
Crescentia macrophylla, 429 
Crimean Wines, 312; fruit, 329 ; 
vegetables, 347 
Crocuses, arrangement of good, 
69 ; how to arrange, 255 
Crooked-breasted fowls, 288 
Crystal Palace, in Sept., 2; 
climbers at, 18 ; Gardens, 34 
Cuckoo Dorkings, cock for, 301 
Cucumber, for cooking, 15 ; forc¬ 
ing-pits, 52 ; varieties for forc¬ 
ing, 54 ; forcing, 60; pit, un¬ 
successful, 299 ; disease, ex¬ 
periments on, 444; glass for 
frames, 452; ridge-bed, 466 
Cucumbers & Melons together, 132 
Cucumbers in pots and boxes, 
256; for dung bed, 270 
Currant-trees, planting distance, 
306 
Cuttings, potting of, 364; ex¬ 
change of, 420 ; temperature, 
&c., for, 424 ; striking in cold 
frames, 443 
Cyclamen persicum culture, 314 
Cymbidium sinense culture, 292 
Cypripedium barbatum, insigne, 
pd venustum culture, 200 ; 
insigne culture, 293; venustum 
culture, 391 
Cypripediums, list of hardy, 217 : 
hardy, 299 ; soil and potting, 426 
Cyrtopodium Andersonii and 
punctatum, 200 
Cystopteris alpina, 421 
Cytisus filipes culture, 392 
DaHLI.A (ZeLINDA) rilOPAGA- 
TING, 432 
Dahlias, at the Crystal Palace, 34 ; 
for bedding, 179 
