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INDEX. 
I 270 ; diseased, 403 ; colour of 
eyes, 403 
I Shanking, cause of, in Grapes, 64 
I Shrewsbury Poultry Show, 212 
Skimniia japonica, planting out, 
168 
Slugs, how to destroy, 434 
Soda as a manure, 100 
Solanum jasminoides newly 
planted, 262 
Soot violently heated, 362 
Spanish fowls, 98 ; their present 
state, 13; Henry’s, 232; Capt. 
Hornby’s, 383 ; how many kinds 
are there 7 455 
Spanish cock’s comb, 64 
Spermadictyon azureum culture, 
314 
Spinach tasting earthy, 158 ; sow¬ 
ing, 463 
Spring flowers, management of, 
282 
Spur of hens, 252 
Spurs, removing from a cock, 30 
Stages in Fernery, 51 
Staking plants, 26 
Stamford Pippin, 101 
Stands for beer, 137 
Standards, ornamental, 20 
Stations for fruit-trees, 33 
Stanwick Nectarine, its merits, 
397 
Steppe-Witch, the, 351 
Stocks, their kinds and manage¬ 
ment, 151 
Stoke Newington Chrysanthemum 
Show, 177 
Stove - plants blooming in De¬ 
cember, 177 
Strawberry forcing, 60 
Strawberries, to fruit in April, 
^5; ripening forced under 
calico, 384 
Sugar-cane, Chinese, 376 
Sunflower, its uses, 43 
Sweetbreads, Dutch, 305 
Sydney Horticultural Society, 123 
TAGETBS SIGNATA FOB BED¬ 
DING, i60 
Taps for rain-water, 137 
Taunton Poultry Show, 155, 170 ; 
prizes offered, 79; plate-takers 
at, 232 
Tecoma jasminoides, 278 
Testacellus scutulura, 167 
Thermometer, new self-register¬ 
ing, 451 
Thirsk Poultry Show, 44 
Thrips, destroying, 143; on Sik¬ 
kim Rhododendrons, 168 
Thuja gigantea, 424 
Thyrsacanthus Scomburgkii and 
rutilans, 406 
Tipperary, gardening in, 75 
Toads, mortality among, 36 
Tokay, English, 15 
Tomato salad, 81; catsup, 172; 
plants, 463 
Tomatoes, to dress, 137; how to 
hasten their fruitfulness, 311 
Tredegar Poultry Show, 250 
Trees, killing, 251; modes of kill¬ 
ing, 283 
Tristrapcedia, chapters from, 211, 
323 
Tropoeolum macrophyUum 133; 
as a garden plant, 10 
Tropoeolum Triomphe de Gande, 
culture, 226 , 344 ; tricoloitlm 
culture, 354 
Tumours in poultry, 419 
Turf, manuring, 16 
Turf-pits for fruit culture, 467 
Turkeys, state of, 189 
Turnips, procuring early, 463 
Turtle Dove, its hardiness, 46 
Tying materials, 239 
Unioue Geranium, Rollin- 
son’s purple, 399 
Urine, to apply solid, 320 
Vanda cierulea in its native 
STATE, 390 
Variegated plants, list of, 141 
Vegetable culture and cookery, 73, 
91 , 184, 395 , 451 
Vegetables, list of new, 332 
Veitcb’s Nursery at Chelsea, 442 
Ventilator, Moore’s Patent, 442 
Verbena, Bluebeard, 59 ; layers, 
131 ; sweet-scented, preserving, 
198; venosa culture, 197 
Verbenas, good bedding, 87 ; mil¬ 
dewing, 432 ; raisng from seed, 
469 
Veronica Meldensis, 113 
Victoria, Queen, her courtesy, 59 
Villa and Country House, 445 
Villas and Country houses, their 
position and grounds, 4l2 
“ Vine Disease, Treatise on the,” 
187 
Vine training, 64, 288; border, 
compost for, 262, 325 ; borders, 
386 ; shoots, stopping, 432 
^Vines, in pots, 264, 338; tempe¬ 
rature for forcing, 425 
Vines and Peaches in one house, 
425 
Vineries, ventilating, walks in, 
concreting and draining bor¬ 
ders, 349 ; compost for, width 
of borders, planting, water¬ 
proofing outside borders, 350 ; 
heating, and kind of Grapes for, 
351 
Vinery, construction of, 85; its 
useful purposes, 293 
Wall of house, plants for 
SOUTH-WEST, 452 
Walls, plants for clothing, 357 
Walks, their construction, 56 
Walnut ketsup, 15 
Walton’s Propagating Case, 386, 
429 
Wardian-cases, 263 
Water for plants, 434 
Waterford Farming Society 
Poultry Show, 83 
Wedding breakfast. A, 390 
Weeks’ one-boiler system of heat¬ 
ing, 365 
Weigela amabilis, 429 
Wellingtonca gigantea, 30 
Wellington (Salop) Poultry Show, 
418, 436 
Wheat plant grubs, 457 
White Sauce, 137 
White comb, how to cure, 472 
Wilts Agricultural Poultry Show, 
155 
Winchester Botanic Nursery, 127 
Window gardening, 329 
Windsor Poultry Show, 322 
Winesour Plum, soil for, 11 
Wing, cut, disqualifies, 270 
Winning, chances against, 134 
Winter, consequences of a mild, 
409 
Wintering vegetables, 310; plants, 
330 ; bedding-outplants, 41 I 
Withering of branch point, 348 
Woodcraft, 110, 144 
Wood-ashes as a manure, 362 
Woods and Forests, 180, 258, 351, 
367 
Woodlouse trapping, 274 
“ Workman, The British,” 59 
Worms banishing, 143 
Yeast, German, 305 
“ Year Book for the Country,” 
298 
Zauchsneria Californica 
FOR BEDDING, 461 
Z^pherine Gr^goire Pear, 363 
Zoological Gardens,sale of animals 
at Surrey, 180 
Zygopetalum culture, 314 
WOODCUTS. 
Page. I 
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Seckle Pear. 1 
Peach-tree. 10 
Asplen'um septentrionalc . I 7 
Conservatory at Handstyle House. 39 
Aspleniuin trichomanes . fi5 
Conservatory Fountain. 113 
Asplenium viride . 121 
Louis Bonne d’Avranches Pear. 139 
Athyrium filix foemina . 157 
Orchard Houses and Pits. 183, 203, 204 
Blechnum borcale . 213 
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Botrycliiuin lunaria . 271 
Layering Trays . 296 
Dr. Lindley. 307 
Geometrical Garden Plan. 327 
Ceterach officinarum. 355 
Josephine de Malines Pear. 3 f 3 
Zepherine Gregoire Pear. 364 
Plan of small Flower Garden. 374 
Poultry Coop and Trough . 380 
House Plans . 412, 413 
Cystopteris alpina. 421 ^ 
P.age. 
Waltonian Propagating Case . 430, 431 
Protector for Fruit Blossom. 433 
House Approaches. 446 
Pernettya ciliaris.448 
Arfhrostemma fragile. 449 
Poultry Fence. 455 
Odontoglossnm Inslcayi var. B. macran- 
thum. 461 
Parsonia hetcrophylla . 465 
Turf Pit . 467 
