INDEX 
Abctilion striatum, hardy, 
near London, 399 
Acacias, in windows, 315; Drum¬ 
mondii and grandis culture, 375 ; 
longifolia, Drummondii, celas- 
trifolia, longissima, laxifolia, 
and vestita, 39-t, 395 ; falcata, 
401; Drummondii, 437 ; in 
March, 450 
Achimenes culture, 113 
Acrophyllum venosum culture, 140 
Adiantum pedatum, 221 
TEchmea miniata culture, 120 
Agave americana, 214 
Age of chicken uncertain, 233 
Ageratum cuttings, 411 
Air-giving, how to regulate, 133 
Air pillars, 99 
Almond, its history, 270 
Aloe margaritifera culture, 29 
Althorpe Hall, notes on, 59 ; Gar¬ 
dens, notes and gleanings from, 
77, 98 
Altrincham, poultry pens at, 32 
Allamanda verticillata not flower- 
ing, 51; Schottii culture, 120 
Allosorus crispus, 222 
Allotment - farming — November, 
83; December, 165; January 
and February, 336; February, 
358; March, 417 ; April, 495 
Allotment cropping in spring and 
summer, 479 
Amaryllis vittata management, 110 
American Groundsel as a bedder, 
351 
American Sketches, 458 
America, a rural custom there, 481 
Ammonia, valuable as a manure, 
327 
Anagallis cuttings, 351 
Anchusa capensis sowing, 372 
Andalusian Fowls, how to be 
classed, 234 ; their character¬ 
istics, 328 
Andover Pictures, 458 
Anaectochiluses exhibited, 372 
Animals and Plants dependaut on 
each other, 327 
Annuals (Half-hardy), their cul¬ 
ture, 125; for groups, sowing, 
451 ; list of, 452 
Ants, destroyers of blossom, 398 
Apricot pruning, 115; its history, 
270 
Apricots in greenhouse, 189 ; Sloe 
as a stock for, 249 
Apples, unfruitful, 31 ; exhibited, 
218; its history, 269; in Feb¬ 
ruary, 392 ; the oldest variety, 
360; list of hardy dessert, 447 ; 
list of kitchen, 468; in March, 
470 
Arctotis grandiflora sowing, 373 
Ardisia crenulata culture, 473 
Arsenical soap, to make, 268 
Arthrotaxus selaginelloides, 333 
Ash, its culture, planting, 43; 
pruning for timber, 81 ; its uses 
and culture, 122 
Asparagus, on heavy soil, 79 ; beds, 
dressing, 310; Drumstick, 339 ; 
London, 463 ; its size, 469 
Aspleniums, hardy, 222 
Atad of the Bible, 387 
Australian seeds, sowing, 131 
Australian contributions to the 
Paris Exhibition, 442 
Australasian Horticultural Society, 
209 
Autumn operations, 44 
Aylesbury Poultry Show, 48 
Aylesbury Ducks, a year with, 
208 
Azaleas, in windows, 315 ; forcing, 
3d3 
Baker’s raspings as food for 
fowls, 422 
Balsam sowing, 488 
Bantam, origin of the Sebright, 13 
Bantams, their characteristics, 
388 
Barrenness in fruit-trees, its usual 
causes, 2 
Barbe du Capuchin, 471 
Baskets for flower-pots, 471 
Bean of the Bible, 93 
Beans and Cabbages together, 359 
Beaton (D.), his Autobiography, 
153 
Bedding-plants, list of blue, 15 
Bedding plants and colour, 437 
Bedding-out, providing for, 350 
Bedfordshire Poultry Show, 108 
Bedroom, plants beneficial in, 428 
Bees—joining swarms ; sending to 
the moors ; size of Payne’s hive, 
51 ; Moors, Wasps, Covers, 84 ; 
stupifying by chloroform, 84 ; 
present honey harvest, 87 ; feed¬ 
ing in old hive, 91; Calendar, 
December, ventilation, shallow 
hives, 183; Calendar for Janu¬ 
ary, 243; the season, enemies, 
ventilating, snow, 243; new 
hive for, 295 ; feeding, 359 ; 
snow, feeding, &c., 418; of 
South Africa, 465 ; pass flowers 
without anthers, 435 
Bee-hives, Downic’s, 444 
Begonia, cinnabarina culture, 96 ; 
incarnata, 198; fuchsioides cul¬ 
ture, 299 ; hybridizing, 435 
Bilberry culture, 30 
Birds, preserving specimens of, 266 
Birmingham Poultry Show, 73, 
224, 233; receipts at, 250 ; 
Poultry prize-list, 348 
Bitter herbs of the Bible, 233 
Black Beetles, 48 
Blackberry, the New Rochelle, 
386 
Bletias, 262 
Blight on Brussels Sprouts, 321 
Block-bank planting, 362 
Bog soil, its difference, 461 ; earth, 
artificial, 189 
Boiler, heating five structures 
with one, 149, 264; heating 
two houses by one, 321 ; 
Munro’s, 392; fixing a saddle- 
backed, 398 ; new doublo, 462 
Book-keeping, Garden, 350 
Book of the Garden (The), 485 
Books, elementary, 251 
Borassus fiabelliformis, 215 
Border plants, early, 22, 63, 101 ; 
late-flowering, 26 
Boronia serrulata culture, 179 
Bottom-heat as relative to heat of 
air, 37 
Bouquets, at Paris, 1S4; of Chry¬ 
santhemums, &c.,217; of Paris, 
400 ; construction of French, 
283, 336 
Bouvardia longiflora, culture and 
history, 432; leiantha, 433 
Box-tree of the Bible, 293 
Brahma Pootras, at Malvern, their 
remonstrance, 28 ; a few more 
notes about, 291 
Bramble of the Bible, 387 
Brocoli, for a successive supply, 
401; sowing, 476; and varieties, 
496 
Brunsvigia Josephinse culture, 29 ; 
multirlora, 30 ; Josephinae soil, 
499 
Brussels Sprouts, 91 ; sowing, 
495 
Bulb forcing, 196 
Bulbine floribunda sowing, 3/2 
Bulbs in windows, 315 
Butterflies of Great Britain, 415 
Cabbageworts sowing, 4/5 
Cactuses, in windows, 315; ex¬ 
hibited, 372 
Caliiote, The, 300 
Calceolarias, cuttings of shrubby, 
68; the first in England, 157; 
list of, 169, 410; in windows, 
315; for near London, 400 ; cut¬ 
tings, 410 ; sowing, 462 
Calendars — for November, 91; 
December, 1/1 ; January, 251 ; 
February, 34 4 ; March, 422; 
April, 501 
Calves sent to London, 290 
Cambridge Poultry Exhibition, 
144 
Camellia, growth promoting, 266 ; 
culture, 312; buds falling, 307 ; 
exhibited, 37 1; petals becoming 
rusty, 401 ; new, 450 ; pot- 
bound, 462; reticulata, bloom¬ 
ing largely, 487 
Canaries, their management, 344 
Cana Warewicsii, 333 
Carnation, its history, 323 
Carrots and similar roots, pre¬ 
serving and propagating, 313 
Carrots, storing, 83 ; sowing, 377, 
476 ; to keep wire-worms from, 
464 ; Belgian, profit of an acre, 
497 
Casks, Australian woods for, 70 
Cassiope fastigiata, 223 
Cedar of Lebanon, its history, 322 
Cedrus deodara without a leader, 
111 
Celery sowing, 475, 496 
Ccmetries, their arrangement, 438 
Centaurca cyanus, 91 
Cephalotus follicularis culture, 355 
Ceratostema longiflorum culture, 
160 
Cetaceous animals, preserving 
specimens of, 250 
Ceterach otficinarum, 356 
Charcoal for potting, 462 
Charred materials, 19 
Cherry, its history, 269 
Chesnut, its history, 271 
Chicken, influence of parents 
on, 28, 68 , 85 
Children’s gardens, 258 
Chinese Primroses, Mr. Wild’s, 
433 ; 448 ; saving seed, 450 
Chippenham Poultry Show, 230 
Christmas Rose, 344 
Christ’s Thorn, 387 
Chrysanthemums (Pompone), list 
of best, 118, 146 ; grafting and 
new culture, 176 ; new, 184; 
manured with sewage, 193; list 
of Pompones, 197 ; culture, 198 
Churn for two cows, 91 
Cinerarias, list of, 169 , 450; mari- 
tima cuttings, 232; in windows, 
315 ; seedlings dying off, 384; 
amelloides cuttings, 411 
Circle of the Sciences, 213 
Cissus discolor culture, 178 
Citrons, when to preserve, and how 
to dish, 218 
Clay, burning, 79; soil, improving 
its staple, 364 ; improving its 
depth, 402 
Clerodendrons, their culture, 278 
Climbers, artificial arrangement 
of, 40; list of, and planting 
in a stove, 89 ; for greenhouse, 
265 
Cloches, their form, 235 
Clover (Red) sowing, 359 
Cobsea scandens, 52; against a 
south wall, 150 
Cochin-China characteristics, 294; 
eater, his first experience, 320 
Cochins not laying, 291 
Cockroach, a destroyer of bed¬ 
bugs, 383 
Cold situations, shrubs for, 288 
Coleus Blumei culture, 1/9 
Compost-yard, 18 
Concreting border surfaces, 99 
Conifers from cuttings, 247 
Conoclinium ianthemum culture, 
472 
Conservatory, heating a, 31 
Coprolites, their nature, use, and 
composition, 439 
Coronillas in windows, 315 
Coronilla glauca cuttings, 411 
Corrosive Sublimate as a cure for 
mildew, 210 
Cornwall, a rural custom, 481. 
Cottage gardening, its benefits, 4 
Cottage Gardeners’ Dictionary, 
its merits, 152 
Cottagers and their horticultural 
shows, 142; admitting to 
shows, 146 
Couvc trouchuda culture, 192 
Covent Garden, 29, 217 ; scenes, 
403 
Covering, materials for, 241; which 
are the best, 332 
Cow-dung, 19 
Cow, daily food for, 402 
Cranberry culture, 30 
Crimea, its climate and produc¬ 
tions, 174 
Cropping the Kitchen-garden, 369 
Crystal Palace? What do you 
think of the, 14, 49; bedding- 
out at, 38 ; its interior, 56 
Cucumber-house, heating, 132 
