VI 
INDEX. 
Cucumber, forcing, 262,281 ; rais¬ 
ing seedlings, 263; soil for, 
282; pit heating, 289 ; in a 
Pinery, 360 ; Mr. Fleming’s, 4/1 
Currants (Black, Red, and White), 
pruning, 94 ; (Red), peculiar 
mode of growing, 181 
Cuttings, order in making, 3; 
joint and single-eye, 4; winter, 
in open air, 176 ; greenhouse, 
333; hotbed for, 410 
Cyclamens, in windows, 315; list 
of, 450 
Cydonia japonica propagation, 131 
Cylindrical boilers for heating, 1 29 
Cypress, its history, 322 
Dahlia roots, storing, 89 
Dahlias, for bedding, 99; new, 
184; new mode of propagating, 
330 
Daisies, Double, 148 
Daphnes in windows, 315 
Derbyshire Poultry Society’s prize 
list, 18 
Derbyshire, fruit trees for, 169 
Derby Poultry Show, 205 
Desfontainea spinosa culture, l 6 l 
Devon and Cornwall Poultry Show, 
73, 124 
Dielytra spcctabilis sowing, 2/8 ; 
blooming it early, 329 ; specta- 
bilis in the open air, 249 ; specta- 
bilis cuttings, 489 
Digging deep, its importance, 44 
Dinner table, plants for, 440 
| Dioacea muscipula culture, 162 
Dioscorea battata, and its culture, 
311, 320, 326, 377, 392, 407 
Diosma alba sowing, 374 
Dipladcnia crassinoda dying down, 
401 
Dolichos lignosus sowing, 371 
Dorkings, characteristics of 
coloured, 90; crossing, 132; 
their points of merit, 158; not 
laying, 291 
Dorsetshire Poultry Show, 45 
Dredging for marine insects, &c., 
268 
Drill, a simple one, 385 
Dripping i t from a glass-roof, to 
prevent, 363 
Drynaria quercifolia culture, 444 
Dublin Amateur Poultry Show, 
245 
Ducks, Buenos Ayres, but one 
variety, 14; bill of the Ayles¬ 
bury, 32; characteristics, 447 
Eccleston Hall, 7 
Eggs, deformed and stale pro¬ 
ductive, 13; deformed, layed by a 
Shanghae hen, 49; how long 
influenced by male bird, 132; 
cheap and new in winter, 461 
Egg-bound, treatment of hen, 251 
I Elm and its uses, 202; grafting, 
240 ; sowing and soil for, 241 
I Emigrant (The), 65, 104 
| Entomological Society’s Meeting, 
54, 133, 195, 294, 387, 465 
Epucrises, new, 371 ; list of, 4 49 
I Eriocephalus corymbosus sowing, 
i 374 
Essex Society’s Poultry Show 
] rules, 135 
j Essex Poultry Show, 304 
Eucnida Bartonioides sowing, 48S 
j Euphorbia meloformis culture, 30 
Evergreens, best time for moving, 
95; planting, 249 ; in Derby¬ 
shire, their fate last winter, 281 
! 
| Faxes, analysis of, 193 
Failures in plant-growing, 118 
Farming, Amateur, 335 
Fatting Chicken, 232 
| Feather-headed, The, 182, 242 
Ferns—planting common, 14 ; soil 
for common, 28; Greenhouse, 
23, 62, 100 ; their culture, 101 ; 
Hardy, their culture, 163; for 
Wardian Case, 307 ; (Hardy), 
list of, 356, 395; sowing, 421; 
Hardy, 433 
Fernery, at Rollcston, 281 ; ven¬ 
tilating a stove, 500 
Fig, its history, 27 1, 308 
Figs at Althorpe, 80 
Fish in stews, 232 
Fishes, preserving specimens of, 
297 
Finocchio, its history, 150 
Flanders Pippin described, 194; 
two varieties, 4 67 
Flax, its history, 152 
Fleming (G.), Memoir of, 33 
Flowers, early, for bedding, 481 ; 
and perfumery, 483 
Floor of Poultry-house, 251 
Flower - garden, at the Priory, 
Argyleshirc, 130; stocking, 409, 
420 ; for the many—April, 493 
Flower-gardening in March, 409 
Flowers and Sunny Memories, 380 
Flower markets of Paris, 498 
Flower-seeds sowing, 487 
Flue, curing a smoking, 266 , 306 ; 
stopping cracks in, 438 
Food of France and England, 128 
Forest, an experimental, suggested, 
453 
Forsythia viridissinia, 398 
Foulness Island, a visit to, 477 
Fowl, a horned, 261 
Frame, uses of a three-light, 318 
Franciscea confertiflora culture, 
239 
Frizzled Fowls’ characteristics, 368 
Frost predicted, 311 
Frosts, list of severe, 425 
Frozen plants recovering, 440 
Fruit, arranging for dessert, 137 
Fruit-tree planting, 1/3; soil lor, 
174; selecting, 204; borders, 
surface - dressing, 349 ; in a 
mixed garden, 363; dressing 
for, 363 
Fruits, ripening late, 24 ; season¬ 
able advice for hardy, 295 ; depth 
of soil for, 296 
Fuchsia culture for exhibition, 412; 
list of, 413 
Fuchsias, new hybrid, 1)7 
Fumigating with tobacco, 109 
Game consumed in London, 325 
Game fowl characteristics, 194 
Garden of Plants (Paris), 103 
Garden, arrangement of a small, 
456; of Eden (Plat’s), 485 
Gardeners, young, their attain¬ 
ments, 42; advice to, 80, 121, 
180, 18/, 317, 414, 473, 491; 
another example to young, 26 i 
Gardenia Stanlcyana culture, 98 
Gardening for the many, 455 , 492 
Garnier’s (Dr.), garden at Bishop- 
stoke, 1 
Gas tar, its alleged benefits as a 
paint, 32; injurious to fruit- 
trees, 210; in a stove, its fatal 
consequences, 361 
Gas, heating, 192 ; heating green¬ 
house and stoves with, 280 ; 
heating water by, 462; heat¬ 
ing by, 500 
Geese, distinguishing their sex, 
110; classification of, 235 
Gentian ell a, failing, 422 ; culture, 
461 
Geraniums, cuttings in February, 
10; 'old) for bedding, 21 ; as 
bedders, 39; sowing, 77; win¬ 
tering, 110; cuttings, 352; 
Unique, raising from root-cut¬ 
tings, 381; seed sowing, 409 
Gesnera zebrina with spotted 
leaves, 248 
Gillyflower of the Highlands, 14 
Glass, walls, 8; trade, its increase, 
246 
Gloriosa superba culture, 480 
Gloucester Poultry Show, 185 
Gloxinia cuttings, 110 ; seed sow¬ 
ing, I 69 
Goadby’s Solution, to make, 269 
Gold Fish, fungus on, 344 
Gordon, Lady Gumming, 156 
Gooseberry, winter-pruning, 74 ; 
planting cuttings, 75 
Goose, characteristics, 446 
Grapes, growing Barbarossa and 
Hambro* together, 112; exhi¬ 
bited, 219; forcing early, 329; 
in February, 390 , 398; and 
Peaches in tlic same house, 393 
Grass of an old orchard, to im¬ 
prove, 482 
Grasses, mining insects of, 54 
Gravelly soils, their culture, 44 
Greenhouse, flowers at Christmas, 
31; constructing, 50; shelves, 
height of, 87; hints for con¬ 
structing, 109 ; heating by a 
flue, 131 ; best mode of heating, 
131, 170 ; with west aspect, 188; 
laws relative to moving, 192; 
its. climbers, 265; plants, sum¬ 
mer blooming, for exhibition, 
29 I; at the end of a Cottage, 
343 ; climbers for, 344 ; and 
Stove, directions for building, 
352 ; heating from parlour fire, 
421 ; by gas, 421; heating from 
a kitchen boiler, 441 
Grcvillea lavernlucalea culture, 474 
Guano, quantity and mode of ob¬ 
taining, 85; analysis of, 193 
Gutta Perclia-trce, 112 
Half-hardy Plants, wintering, 
/6 
Hainburghs, characteristics of 
Gold - spangled, 99 ; character¬ 
istics, 173, 289 ; difficult to breed 
excellent, 234 ; exhibited at Bir¬ 
mingham, 249, 321 
Hamiltonia scabra culture, 471 
Hand-glasses, their construction, 
235 
Heath-soil, 19 
Heath-mould, artificial, 189 
Heating, by hot-water and flue 
combined, 188 ; a new mode, 
478 ; progressive improvements 
in, 485 
Hebecliiiium aurantiacum, 198 
Hedge, evergreen, 499 
Hedgehog as a destroyer of beetles, 
48 
Hellebores, early, 22 
Helonias, early, 22 
Hencheras, early, 63 
Henderson’s Nursery, Pine-Apple 
Place, 333 
Hen without appetite, 132 ; with 
twisting neck, 422 
Hepaticas, early, 22 
Heraeleum giganteum, its com¬ 
ponents, 381 ; culture, 406 
Herb Gardens of Mitcham, 405 ; 
441 
Herbaceous plants, Hardy, list of, 
494 
Ilesperis, early, 22 
Hexacentris Mysoriensis culture, 
486 ; lutea, 490 
Hieraciums, early, 63 
Highlands, Life in the, 153 
Hippeastrum Accraraanii culture, 
110 
Hippocrepis, early, 63 
Hoe, Mr. Wood’s, 471 
Hocmanthus coccineus culture, 30 
Holcus saccharatus, 408; for 
paper-making, 392 
Holly, Weeping, to train, 96 ; 
planting and pruning large, 190 ; 
grafting, 249; its merits for 
the shrubbery 275 
Hollyhock seed, sowing, 321 ; 
seedlings blooming first year, 
421 
Honesty, transplanting, 28 
Hop planting aud cultivating, 415 
Horned fowl, 288 
Horns on fowls, artificial, 307 
Horse Chesiiut, its history, 322 
Horticultural Society’s Meeting, 
116, 136, 197, 217, 370, 390, 398, 
448, 469 ; fruits aud vegetables 
at, 439 
Hot-water heating requires no 
pressure, 56 
Iloustonias, early, 63 
Hoya carnosa culture, 266 
Humca elegans culture, 15 
Hutchinsias, early, 64 
Hyacinth forcing, 196 
Ilydrophyllums, 64 
Hymenophyllum Tuubridgciisis 
Wilsoni, 433 
Hypolepis rugulosa, 23 
Iberis, list of early, 101 
Ice, modes of preserving, 331 ; 
preserving a small quantity, 360 
Impatiens Jcrdoniie culture, 316 
Imports of fruits and vegetables 
into London, 386 
Incubator, Minasi’s, 146 
Insects, composition to destroy, 
265; catching and preserving, 
267 
Iris, list of early, 101 
Isonandra gutta, 112 
Italy—plants there, 434 
Ivy and Roses for a wall, 72 
Ivy pruning, 192 
Ixora Griffithii culture, 119 
Jasminum gracile culture, 299 ; 
nudifloruin, 381 
Jasmine, its history, 324 
Jujube, its history, 270 
Kendal Poultry Show, 159, 
288, 305 
Kennedya rubicunda, 401 
Kew Palm-house, fuel consumed 
there, 418, 46l 
Kidney Beans, forcing, 301 
King of the Pippins, 463 
Kitchen - garden, large trees in, 
101; seeds, list of, 166; for the 
many—April, 494 
Knol - kohl culture, 482 ; Rubi 
culture, 482 
Lac-dye insect, 465 
Larch, the Weeping, 95 ; mode of 
grafting, 96 ; its uses, 334; 
seed, preparing and sowing, 375 ; 
soil and situation for, 415 
Larix Griffithii, 96 
Last of his Line, 282, 319, 3/9, 
435, 476 
Lathyrus, list of early, 102 
Laurel, its history, 322 
Laurustinuses, moving large, 190 ; 
cuttings, 249 
Lavender, for Lavender - water, 
441 ; from cuttings, 463 
Lawns, their winter management, 
76 ; how to dress, 487 
Layering pot, 460 
Leaf-mould, 19 
Lettuce culture, 396 ; sowing, 
476 
Leucadendron argenteum sowing, 
373 
Lilac, its history, 323 
Lilium lancifolium seed sowing, 
129; soil and shifting, 149; 
giganteum culture, 162 
Lily, Belladonna, moving when in 
flower, 96 
Linurn tigrinum, 193 
Liquid-mauure of poultry-dung, 
253 
Liquorice, 442 
Lisiantlius Russellianus history 
and culture, 421 
Litobrockia vespertilionis, 23 
Liverpool Poultry Show, 340 
Loam in gardening, 18 
Loams, definition of, 174 
Lobb (J. & W.), the collectors, 
2/3 
Lomaria, species of, 23; alpinum 
and spicaut, 356 
Loudon, how it is supplied with 
food, 290, 309, 324, 385, 403 
Lucca Broom, 421 
Lucerne sowing, 359 
Lunarias, 251 
Lycopods alias Selaginellas, 372, 
356 
Lycoris aurea culture, 208 
M aiialeb as a stock, 1?4 
Maidstone Poultry Show, 244 
Malay fowls, their merits, 150; 
characteristics, 216 
Manchester Poultry Show, 285 
Mandcvilla suaveolens not flower¬ 
ing, 219 
Mangold storing, 83 
Mangold Wurtzel, as poultry food, 
106 ; seed growing, 192 ; ambury 
in, 212 
Mangostcen, first bloomed in 
England, 261 
Manulea pedunculata, 383 
Manure, preparing, 164; econo¬ 
mical, 192 
Manuring, for immediate use, 45 
Market gardens near London, 326 
Mats of Rushes, &c., 241 
May, probably dry, 487 
Medlar, its history, 269 
M el i an thus major sowing, 373 
Melons, ripening late, 24; from 
cuttings, 363 
Mignonette in window boxes, time 
for sowing, 440 
Mildness ot season in Cornwall, 
320 
Milk Tree, the American, 246 
Mimulus culture, 20 
