INDEX. 
Lilium lancifolium bulbs, taking 
them up, 188; giganteum sow¬ 
ing, 423 
Lily of the Valley forcing, 392 
Lime-water for destroying worms 
in pots, 384 
Lindley, Dr. John, Memoir of, 
307 
Liverpool Poultry Show, 304, 322, 
34) ; sales at, 342 
Lobby, arrangement of orna¬ 
mental plants for, 4 
Lobelia syphilitica and ramosoides, 
333 
Lobelias, preserving large, 198; 
mildewing, 432 
Louis Bonne d’Avranches Pear, 
I 139 
Lucern sowing, 395 
Lucullia gratissima culture, 100, 
125 
Luxuriance to be reduced in 
winter plants, 310 
Lycopodium selago culture, 434 
Lycopodiums, propagating, 384 
Macaw, food for a, 326 
Mahogany-tree described, 434 
Malay fowls, state of, 188 
Male bird, influence of, 456 
Manchester and Liverpool Poultry 
Prize List, 454 
Mangold-wurtzel seed, growing, 
362 ; sowing, 466 
Mandevillea suaveolens pruning, 
133 ; in a pot, 278 
Mandirolia Roezlii, and picturata, 
Manetti Rose cuttings, 386 
Marcetia andicola, 55 
March, plants which may bloom 
in, 46 i 
Markets, London, 15, 29, 47, 63, 
81, 99, 119, 137, 155, 173, 191, 
212, 231,251, 269 , 287, 305, 324, 
343, 361 , 385, 403, 419, 438, 456, 
472 
Marking linen, 15 
Marks for poultry, 288 
IMarsdenia lucida, 55 
Mats and other coverings, 239 
Mealy Bug, destroying, 142 
Medlar Jelly, 231 
Melksham Poultry Show, 210 
Melons on espaliers, 331 ; for pre¬ 
serving, 386 ; free-setting varie¬ 
ties, 399 
Mildew on Vines, treatment of, 38, 
115 
Minorcas, 6l 
Mixed flower - borders, arrange¬ 
ment of, 319 
Monthly list ot blooming plants, 116 
Moonwort, relative superstitions, 
272 
Morland, G., anecdote of, 272 
Moselle, sparkling, 15; red, 15 
Moulting time, food at, 12 
Musa coccinea rotting at the 
collar, 433 
Mushroom culture, 110 
' Mushrooms in greenhouse, 409 
- Myosotis azoricus for bedding, 
i 469 
1 Myrtle culture, 384 
j Nasturtiums, double, be- 
i COMING SINGLE, 73 
Neapolitan Violet culture, 384 
Nectarine diseases, 348 
Nectarines in pots, 109 ; Olden- 
burgh and Stanwick, 18; Red 
Roman, 25 
Nestlings in an aviary, 150 
New Year gifts, 233 
New Year, work at its commence¬ 
ment, 259 
Newspapers sent to France, 291 
Nierembergias on the one-shift 
I system, 26 O 
, Northumberland, Pe.ar and Plum 
for, 16 
Northamptonshire Poultry Show, 
28, 44 
Nottinghamshire Poultry Show, 
229 , 249 
Nursery for forest-trees, 180 
Nursery management of timber- 
trees, 258 
Nur.serymen’s Catalogues. 26l 
Nyctanthes arbor-tristis, 149 
Oats, proportion of meal in, 
436 
Odontoglossum Insleayi var. B. 
macranthum, 464 
CEnothera macrocarpa and pros¬ 
trata as bedders, 460 
Oldenlandia culture, 314 
Oleander culture, 34 4 
One-shift system, 260 
Onion Sauce, 137 
Onion sowing, 393 
Orange grafting, 354 
Orange-tree, removing a large, 344 
Orange tribe propagation by cut¬ 
tings, 7 
Orange-trees, wintering, 443 
Orchard-house at Berkhampstead, 
37 
Orchard-houses, 203, 220 , 241 ; 
their merits, and construction, 
92 ; various, 182 ; in other 
countries, 185; their merits, 
389 
Orcharding in November, 105 
Orchard-trees, title to, 252 
Orchards, their formation and 
culture, 186 
Orchid-house, to destroy beetles 
ill, 93 ; ripening fruit in, 410 
Orchids, Sale of Horticultural 
Society’s, 108; in November, 
141 ; which bear cool treatment, 
their culture, 163; bearing cool 
treatment, 199 , 279 ; bearing 
cool culture, 298 ; list of mode¬ 
rate priced, 432 
Ouvirandra fenestralis, 429 
Oxalic acid, promoting germina¬ 
tion, 225 
Oxalis in pots, 43 
Oxylobium Osberni, 55 
Oyster Scale, to destroy, 234 
Pair of Pigeons, what are a, 
416 
Paint, cheap green, 433 
Panama hats, 444 
Pampas Grass at Kew Gardens, 36 
Pampas Grass, 151 
Pansy sowing, 391 
Pansies (Fancy), list of, 225 
Paris, Notes from, 23, 57, 112, 
148, 181, 23.0, 295 , 330, 427 ; 
Fruits at its Exhibition, 23; 
its Place Royale, 221 
Paris Poultry Prize List, 455 
Parsonia heterophylla, 465 
Partridges, disappearance of red- 
legged, 269 
Passiflora coerulea newly planted, 
262 
Passion-flowers on trellises. 278 
Paulownia imperialis blooming, 
179 
Pea sowing, 464 
Peach passage, 191 
Peach diseases, 348 
Peach-trees, stocks for, 9; pot- 
bound, sliifting, 205 ; cause of 
decay, 398 
Peaches in pots, 109; not ripen¬ 
ing, 138 
Pear leaves, excressences on, 83 
Pear-tree diseases, 234 
Pear-trees for Somer.set, 306 
Pears, new varieties, 102; stewed 
red, 231 
Pelargoniums, wintering young, 
133 ; list of, 469 
Perilla japoniea, 151 
Pernettya ciliaris, 448 
Perry making, 173 
Petersburgh, Botanic Garden, 148 
Petunia, variegated, 420 
Petunias for bedding, 179 
Phaius grandifolius, and Wallichii 
culture, 462 ; albus, 463 
Phaseolus caracalla culture, 467 
Philoperistpron .Society’s Show,301 
Picea grandis and other species, 
424 
Pigeon Prizes at Birmingham, 
285, 323 ; at Poultry Shows, 323 
Pigeon awards at Birmingham, 
.301 
Pigeon Prize Cup at Birmingham, 
381 
Pigeons, at the Anerley Show, 
46 ; judging, 171 ; which four 
should be preferred, 247 ; Bir¬ 
mingham judgment on, 247 ; 
judging of, 285 ; at exhibitions, 
360 ; prizes for, 356 ; at Poultry 
Show.s, 401 ; classification of, 
417 ; profitable, 437 
Pinckneya ionantha, 55 
Pine-apple grow'ing, 288 
Pine-apples faulty inside, 262 
Pine pit, piping and boiler re¬ 
quired, 426 
Pink culture, 466 
Pinus Benthamia, 4 ’4 
Pinuses, plantation of, 152 
Pipes, forming their joints, 224 
Pipes versus Flues, 425 
Pits, dung-heated, 52 ; construct¬ 
ion of, 86 ; for fruit-forcing, 203 
Pittosporum flavum, 55 
Planting, preparing for, 144 
Plantinglargeor small trees, which 
to prefer, 200 
Planting fruit an d other trees, 317 
Plantations, improving old, 367 
Platycerium, anew, 108, 123 
Plum Fool, 47 
Plumbago capensis and Larpentse 
culture, 59 
Podolobium trilobatum culture, 
126 
Poiteau (Antoine) biography of, 
428 
Poland fowls, present state of, 6l 
Poland fowls, 98 
Poland (Silver) class at Liverpool, 
454 
Polands, as layers, 247; Black- 
crested Black, 301 ; Golden- 
pencilled, 301 ; tail of silver 
cockerel, 301 ; Silver, at Liver¬ 
pool, 402 
Polmaise heating, modified, 20 
Bornological Society’s Meeting, 18, 
101 , 359 ' 
Pompone Chrysanthemums, list 
of, 140, 160 ; descriptive list of, 
175 ; at Stoke Newington Show, 
177 ; their succession and 
names, 195 
Pork Pie with Apples, I 19 
Potato planting, 30 ; forcing, 165; 
Murrain, is it influenced by 
frost? 281, 449; disease, 369 ; 
planting, and some good varie¬ 
ties, 394 ; Murrain influenced 
by shade, 398 
Potatoes, retarding, 452; plant¬ 
ing, 463 
Pots, preparing for potting, 123 ; 
effects of liquid-manure on, 244 
Potting, preparing soil for, 143 
Potted plants, hotbed for, 76 
Poultry Shows, list of, and ex¬ 
hibiting at, 43 ; list of, 60 ; use¬ 
ful notice to exhibitors, 269 ; 
results of holding them simul¬ 
taneously, 453 
Poultry, state of breeds, 60 , 95 ; 
selecting for exhibition, 61 ; for 
profit, 64; search after suitable, 
rules for judging, 136 ; sales, 
136; breeding for market, 169 ; 
for a small enclosure, 172 ; pro¬ 
gress in past year, 245 ; feeding, 
246 ; in cold weather, 247; 
managing for exhibition, 416; 
recent sales of, 417; manage¬ 
ment at an exhibition, 338; 
fattening, 378 
Poultry-judging Rules, 118 
Poultry-house during frost, 342 
Poultry Congress, 415, 434 
Poultry purchasers, caution to, 
471 
Preston Poultry Show, 286 
Primroses, how to manage, 283 
Primulas, grub at their root, 362 
Prize Birds, Show for them only, 
402 
Propagating Case, 429 
Propagating apparatus, a humble, 
448 
Protecting frames, new mode, 149 
Protection for fruif-blossoms, 433 
Protecting blossoms, 440 
Pruning Forest-trees, 351 
Psammitis penduliflora, 55 
Pultensea ericoides culture. 239 
Pumpkin, preserved, 47 ; soup, 60 . 
114, 148 
Pumpkins, large, 205 ; their 
greatest weight, 243 
Pusey, Mr. P., sale of his stock, 34 
Pyracanthas on dwarf wall, 138 
Pyramidal Pears, pruning, 194 
Quamoclit vitifoliA culture, 
331 
Quince-stocks for Pears, 195 
yii 
Quince cakes, 305 j 
Rabbits, barking tree.s, to 
PREVENT, 192; Fancy, their I 
characteristics and varieties, 
335 ; cause of barrenness, 344 | 
Radish, the Bredalbane, 297 ! 
Ranunculus culture, 397 | 
Raphinia tigrina, 141 | 
Raspberry vinegar, 230 j 
Rats, no Samaritan among, 149 1 
Red-bar Moth, 273 
Red Spider, 122, 348 
Retarding blossoms, 440 
Revue Horticole and its new 
editor, 330 
Revue Horticole, its foundation, 
428 
Rhexia glandulosa, 55 
Rhodoleia Championi culture, 337 
Rhododendrons, new Bhotan, 424 
Rhubarb-bed dressing, 138 
Bhyncospermum jasminoides, 
newly-planted, 262 ; culture, 
392 
Rice for poultry, 120 
Rice paper, 373 
Ridge-and-furrow glass roof, what 
light it admits, 264, 297, 298 
River water, 344 
Rock plants, planting, 226 
Rock Gardens, 447 
Rockery in minature, 11 ; plants 
for a moist, 27 
Rogeria cordata culture, 392 
Roofs, form of glazed, 441 
Room-plants in winter, their ma¬ 
nagement, 106 , 147 
Root-pruning, 194 
Roots of trees not to be deeply 
covered, 163 
Rose, shoots over luxuriant, 75 ; 
cuttings 131 ; Mrs. Bosanquet, 
culture, 282 ; cuttings, 329 ; for 
rustic baskets, 344 ; (Yellow 
Persian) cuttings, 434 ; cut¬ 
tings, spring treatment of, 451 
Roses on light soil, 94 ; sweet briar 
stocks, 95 ; forcing, 354 ; au¬ 
tumn-flowering, 447 
Rouen Ducks, neck ring on, 174 : 
Drake’s bill, 120 * 
“ Rustic Adornments,” 450 
Roup, Copaiba a remedy for, 342, 
361 , 427; Spanish preventive, 
342 
Russian Gardener in the Crimea, 
314 
Rustic baskets, how to make, 396 
Sabbatia stellaris, 65 
Sales at Poultry Shows, should be 
written about to the owners. 401 
Salmon, pickling, I 72 
Salvia patens, cuttings, 75 ; gesne- 
raeflora, 84 ; splendens flowers 
failing, 116 ; strictiflora and 
cordata, 187 ; patens, preserv¬ 
ing, 198 ; fulgens variegata, 
preserving, igS; gesnereeflora 
culture, 398 ; patens, match for, 
434 
Sanvitalia procumbens for bed¬ 
ding, 460 
Saponaria calabrica for bedding, 
460 ; sowing, 420 i 
Saxe-Gothea culture, 152 
Sea-kale forcing, l65 ; cause of its I 
weakness, 288 j 
Scarcity of grain, 76 ; 
Scale, destroying, 143 
Scarlet-seed beads, 150 
.Schwabe’s, Mr., Conservatory, 39 
Sciodocalyx Warsewickii, 55 | 
Scotch Gardener in the Crimea, ! 
466 i 
Screen-bank planting, 43 I 
Scrofulous tubercles in a pigeon’ 
189 
Scutellaria villosa, 55 
.Scythe, The Vulcan. 440 
Sea-kale sowing, 464 
Season, the coming Poultry-Show, 
455 
Secltle Pear, 1 
Seedlings, potting of, 364 
Selago distans, 56 
Selago culture, 392 
Sell only for cash, 454 
Shanghaes, state of breed, 95 ; 
crossing White and Buff, 120; 
Partridge-coloured, 269 ; treat- 
I ment of, 269 ; feathers on legs. 
