VI 
INDEX. 
Daisies, to destroy, 138 
Daphne odorata pruninp;, 126; 
grafting, 354; indica, propaga¬ 
ting, 38(5 
Davies’s Poultry, sale of Mr., 342 
December, plants blooming in, 
177 
Deep calling unto Deep, 24 
Delphinium sinensis tor bedding, 
46l 
Dendrobium speciosum culture, 
391 
Dendrobiums for greenhouse cul¬ 
ture, 279 
Desfontainesla spinosa, planting 
out, 168 
Devonshire’s (Duke of) Villa at 
Chiswick, 69 , 108 
Dichorisandra thyrsiflora culture, 
293 
Dielytra spectabilis, its hardiness, 
26 ; soil for, 188; seedlings, 313 
Dioscorea japonica, its failure, 130 
Dioscorca battata, this season, 
158, 166 , 202 , 468 ; culture, 233, 
240 
Diseased fowl, treatment, 300 
Diseases of fruit-trees, 122, 348 
Diseases of fowls, 189 
Distance from glass of plants, 441 
Dorchester Poultry Show, 97 
Dorking cocks, prices for, 284 ; 
hen, productiveness of, 360 
Dorkings, their present state, 12; 
Loder’s, 232 
Doronicum Austriacum as a bed- 
der, 460 
Dorsetshire Poultry Show Prizes, 
78 
Drainage, 222 
Drake with diseased throat, 438 
Dray, W., Colonel Colt’s gardener, 
88 
Drying plants and flowers, 428 
Dublin Poultry Show, Prizes 
offered, 80 
Dublin Society’s proposed rules 
for poultry judging, 171 , 284, 
300 
Dublin Society’s Poultry Show, 
267 
Duck and fowl, union of, 456 
Ducks, pedigree of Mrs. Ford’s, 
13; state of, 189; comparative 
value of Aylesbury and llouen, 
342 
Durham and Yorkshire Poultry 
I Show, 359 
I Dwarf fruit-trees v. Standards, 90 
i 
I Earthen WAKE - PIPES for a 
Flub, 411 
Earwig trapping, 274 
Earwigs destroy the Green-fly, 
398 
Eccremocarpus sowing, 151 
Edgings, evergreen, 27 
Egg-dropping, to prevent, 362 
I Eggs, preventing shell - less, 26 ; 
preserving, 81 ; colour of, 270 ; 
causes of bad flavour in, 362 ; 
how long influenced by a pre¬ 
vious cock, 386 ; consumption 
of, 377 : how to preserve, 403 ; 
distorted, 419; influence of 
male on, 419; temperature for 
keeping, 435 ; recent time of 
hatching, 435 
Embnthrium lanceolatum, 6 
Entomological Society’s meeting, 
32, !03, 193 , 310, 388, 457 
Entries, should the charge vary 
with the prizes ? 153 
Entrance Ledges, 445 
Epacris culture, 392 
Epacrises not flowering, 158; list 
of, 407 
Epidendrums for greenhouse cul¬ 
ture, 279 
Erincum lanosum, 83 
Essex Poultry Association, 154, 
169 
Eucharis grandiflora, 406 
Eugenia malaccensis, 51 
Eugeni ugni, 152 
Euphorbia punicea culture, 462 
Evergreens from cuttings, 411 
Everlasting flowers, 433 
Every one for his own fancy, 382 
Evenley, the village of, 90 
Exhibiting poultry, its results, 27 
Exhibition, management of fowls 
for, 400 
Fareham Poultry Show, 303, 
324 
Farmers neglectful of Poultry 
Shows, 12 
Fashion in poultry-keeping, 436 
Fawsley Park, 21, 51 
Feathers of fowls, how to clean, 
326 
February, points to be thought of 
in, 329 , 353 ; plants which may 
be bloomed in, 321 
Felicite perpetuelle Rose, to bloom, 
93 
Felling timber, time for, 93 
Fences, construction of live, 110; 
of cottage gardens, 352; of 
dead timber, 444 
Fencing for poultry-yards, 455 
Ferns, Hardy British, I 7 , 65 ; 
British, 157,213; under shade, 
187; potting, 188; for garnish¬ 
ing, 243; Hardy, under glass, 
333; Hardy, 355, 421 ; their 
retention of life, 356; Hardy, 
under trees, 420 
Fiacre (St.), patron of French 
gardening, 114 
Ficaria verna planting, 133 
Figs, in turf pits, 102; how to 
grow in turf-pits, 467 
Filberts, storing, 16 
Fish pudding, 305 
Fishes, do they hear ? 204 
Flax culture, 138 
“ Flora of the Colosseum,” 187 
Flower - Gardener and Florist, 
peace between, 312 
Flower-bed, a beautiful, 357; a 
block or raised, 410 
Flower-garden Plans, 374, 399 
Flowers, succession of, under 
glass, 383 
Flowers in season, use of list of, 
263 
Flues versus Hot-water, 425 
Forelle Pear, its excellence, 397 
Fountain for Fernery, 174 
Fountains, portable, 112 
Frame, heating a, 386, 434 
Franciscea culture, 392 , 393 
Franciscea Hopcana in the green¬ 
house, 357 
Fricandellana, to make, 92 
Frost, how shall we protect from ? 
295 
Frothy eyes in a Fowl, 325 
Fruit, forcing early, 49 ; at Paris, 
57 
Fruit-tree planting, 33, 72, 105 ; 
culture of to-day, 185 
Fruit-trees, in pots versus the 
border, 146; protecting, 224 ; 
old, 240 ; planted out versus 
in pots, 280; management of 
diseased, 282 ; spiral trained, 
331; in cottage gardens, 353; 
treatment of neglected, 386; in 
pots, 371 
Fruits, their varieties and peculi 
arities, 88; varieties in their 
decrepitude, 89; as a bouquet, 
181; selection of hardy, 220; 
(Hardy) of Great Britain, 363 
Fuchsia, dominiana, 84 ; cuttings 
in October, 75 
Fuchsias as bedding-out plants, 
317 
Funkia alba, culture, 399 
Galanthus plicatus, 406 
Game fowls, present state, 60 ; 
merits of, 284 ; their good 
points, 324 ; characteristics of 
a pen, 404 ; breeding Iled-dun, 
438; plumage of black, 438 
Garden Labourers not taxed, 138 
Gardening for the Many—Novem¬ 
ber, 70 : January, 218 
Gardening for the Many, 144, 315 
Gardening, its progress, 106 
Gardner, Lieutenant, career of, 
272 
Gardener, How to get on as a, 468 
Gardeners and their employers, 
152 
Gardeners, who are taxable as, 
387; who are Under, 424 
Garnishing, Ferns and Lycopods 
for, 243 
Gas, heating a boiler by, 263 ; tar 
as a paint, 386; Iieating by, 
386, 409 ; quantity consumed, 
410; for heating boilers, 468 
Geese, state of, 139 ; at the East 
Lancashire Show, 192 
Gentleman’s gardener ? Who is, 9 
Geometric flower-garden, 327 
Geranium, pink ivy-leaved climb¬ 
ing, 59; Hendersonii as a bed- 
der, 130 
Geraniums, saving old, 68 ; Lady 
Plymouth, 69 ; good bedding, 
87; wintering old Scarlet, 107; 
Variegated, for bedding, 127; 
storing Scarlet, 131 ; wintering, 
132; wintering and summer 
resting, 235 ; wintering Fancy, 
244 ; not flowering, 263; (Scar¬ 
let) blooming in winter, 275 ; 
cuttings from, 276 ; repotting, 
and pruning old, 411 
German Paste for iiirds, 434 
Germination, modes of promot¬ 
ing, 225 
Gesnera, Donklaariana, 7 ; zebrina 
in a greenhouse, 288 ; elongata 
culture, 392 
Gesneras, culture of, 354 
Gladioli, wintering, 59; culture, 
95; their hardiness, 133 
Glass, size of, for fi.xed roofs, 37; 
structures, their utilities, 76; 
case for plants, 93 
Gloucester Jelly, 231 
Gloxinias, culture of, 354 
Golden Pheasants versus Golden 
Hamburghs, 359 
Golden Pheasants v. Spangled 
Hamburghs, 382 
Gold Fish management, 386 
Goldfussia anisophylla culture, 
314 
Goodyea discolor culture, 391 
Goose laying monstrous eggs, 438 
Gooseberry-trees, disbudding, 224 
Grafts, time for cutting, 24 5 
Grafting, lecture on, 407 
Grasses, two ornamental, 263 ; for 
a lawn, 329 
Grass-bounded beds, flowers for, 
451 
Great Northern Poultry Show, 
324, 330 
Greenhouse Vinery, plants in, 107 
Greenhouse heating and glazing, 
132; cheap warming, 133; 
plants blooming in December, 
178 ; warming a small, 224 ; 
proportionate height of back 
and front, 299 ; routine in Feb¬ 
ruary, 330; heating from a 
kitchen boiler, 337; heating, 
344 ; over an oven, 344 ; stages, 
heating, fruiting plants in, 408 
Greenhouses, queries about, 425 
Ground, preparing new, 128 
Grubs, destro)ing, 224 
Gumming in trees, 348 
Gutters for pits, &c., 20 
Habrothamnus fasiculatus, j 
POTTING, 226 I 
Hakea acicularis, 406 
Ham, hoppers in, 230 
Hamburgh fowls, present state, 60 
Hamburgh Polands, 360, 436; 
What are, 284 
Hamburgh hen,single-combed,301 
Hamburghs, Golden - pencilled, 
their merits, 344; Silver - pen- ' 
cilled at Liverpool Show, 386 
Hamburgh Grapes not colouring, 
138 
Hampton Court Garden, 83; bed¬ 
ding-out there, 104 
Handstyle House, 38 
Harrogate Poultry Show, 14 
Harvest home in Norfolk, 4 ' 
Hawthorn as a stock for the Pear, ' 
363 i 
Heating from a cistern, 43 [ 
Heating a stove and greenhouse, 1 
264 
Heating materials, their economic 
use, 293 
Heating one house from another, 
426 
Hedge, quick evergreen, 149 
Hellebores, list of, 334 
Henna, 32 
Hens, food for confined, 100 ; ma¬ 
nagement of broody, 118; eating 
their eggs, 344 ; not laying and 
not sitting, 419 1 
Herbaceous plants for gardens, 1 
334 ; some early blooming, 39(5 i 
Herbs (Sweet) sowing, 403 
Himantophyllum miniatum, 392 ' 
Hock, imitation of Red, 15 
Holchus saccharatus, 376 , 
Hollyhocks, list of best, 67 
Home, advantages of, 349 ; 
I Honeysuckles, pruning old stand- 
I ard, 337 
Horticultural Society’s garden and 
management, 182 
Horticultural Society of London, 
present state of, 31 ; its future 
management, 49; suggestions 
I for, 114; changes in, 125; 
Meeting, 140; what should be 
done w'ith, 150 ; fruit at, 160 ; 
J proposed changes at, 253 ; sale 
j of Herbaria, 332; special Meet- 1 
ing, 345 ; financial account, I 
346 ; proposed alterations in, 1 
405, 440; Meeting, 439, 406 ; : 
I sale of its publications, 426; j 
Report of its Committee, 458 | 
, Horticultural Exhibition Prizes at j 
Paris, 414 ' 
Hot-water, heating by, 94; not 
I circulating, 132, 243, 282 ; circu- \ 
' lation, 357 ; heating, 452 
Hothouses, form of, 333 
Hotbed in greenhouse, 353 
Household, The, 15, 80, 99 , II 9 , 
136, 156 I 
House-pits, span-roofed, 443 
Hyacinths, list of, 407 1 
Hybernatories, 330 | 
Hymenophyllum Tunbridgense, ; 
its vitality, 356 
Ice-house sides, 132; forming 
its sides, 224 
Imp, meaning of, 245 
Industry, what it can do, 55 
Inga pulcherrima culture, 462 
Insects, to prevent their climbing, 
132 
Inverary, 25 | 
Ipomoea Learii in a pot, 277 j 
Ivy, as a screen, 86 ; pruning neg- | 
lected,411 j 
January, plants which may j 
BE bloomed in, 292, 314 
Jasminum revolutum, 452 
Jelly, restorative, 81 
Joseph de Malines Pear, 363 
Joyce’s Stove in a greenhouse, I 
288 ' 
Judges at Poultry Shows, 320 j 
Justicia coccinea culture, 314 j 
Kendal Poultry Show, 358 j 
Kew Gardens, 35, 66 ; present 
arrangement of, 50 ' 
Kitchen-garden, seeds, list of, 220 ; 
in winter, 310 ; seasonable notes 
for, 463 
Kohleria Wagneriana, 7 
Labelling fruit-trees, its 
IMPORTANCE, 193 j 
Labourer, duration of life in the 
British, 3/6 
Ltelia majalis and superbiens cul- i 
ture, 293 I 
Lamp-shades of flowers, 181 ; 
Lancashire, East, Poultry Show, 1 
117 
Lapageria rosea, culture, 36; ' 
seedlings, 423 
Lardizabula biternata culture, 162, 
337 
Laurel pruning, 466 
Lawn, time and mode of reno¬ 
vating, 26 ; on clay soil, improv¬ 
ing, 241; renovating a, 328; ' 
grasses for old, 386 
Lawrence’s (Mrs.)plants, sale of, 4 
Lawsonia spinosa, 32 ' 
Layering, troughs for, 296 | 
Leafing, Apple and Pear not, 344 
Leaf-mould, grubs in, 400 
Lee’s Nursery at Hammersmith, ! 
443 _ I 
Legs of cock, weakness in, 232 j 
Lemon-tree not blooming, 187 , 
Leschenaultia intermedia culture, ! 
158 _ ^ I 
Leschenaultias, list of, and cul¬ 
ture, 161 I 
Lettuce sowing, 463 | 
Lettuces, to increase their hardi- I 
hood, 311 ‘ 
Lilac forcing, 354 
