INDEX. 
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Vegetables (forced) in February, 
392 , 398 ; compressed, 450 
Veitch (James), Memoir of, 2/3; 
plants introduced by, 275 
Ventilating, law of, 58 
Ventilator in greenhouse, 444 
Venus’s Flytrap culture, 162 
Verbena cuttings and list, 411 
Verbenas for near London, 400 
Victoria Lily in a small tank, 
72 ; culture, 26 ] 
Vine, growing the Zante, 1 G 9 ; 
pruning, different modes of, 
176 ; planting in greenhouse, 
189; late-growing laterals on, 
189; the Barbarossa, 207; graft¬ 
ing, 210; its history, 211; 
planting, Greenhouse, 231 ; 
mildew, cure for, 378 
Vines in pots, propagating, 21; 
pit for, 31 ; treatment of young, 
31; moved in flower, 66 ; propa¬ 
gating for pot-culture, 84; 
growing in pots, 106 ; first who 
fruited them in pots, 156; in¬ 
arching, 320; breaking late, 
326; breaking slowly, 344 ; time 
to start, 383 ; for a cold green¬ 
house, 383 
Vinery and Pinery, with one 
boiler, 32 
Vinery, a double, its uses, 149 
Vinery, Cucumber and Melon 
House, 362 ; plants for, 384 
Vineyards in Australia, 52, 69 
Violet, forcing, 37 ; Tree, culture, 
265 
Violets, Red Spider on, 169 ; in 
windows, 31 6 
Vittadinia lobata, 109 
Vriesia splendens culture, 120 
Walks, their formation, 77 ; of 
gas-tar and gravel, 400 
Wall-fruit trees for Durham, 88 
Walls, sloping and heated, 486; 
choice plants for south, 601 
Walnut, its history, 271 ; shavings 
for nests, 385 
Wasps’ nests, 28 
Waste in corn, 209 
Water-ram, 100; finding springs 
by hazel-rods, 243 
Watering potted-plants in winter, 
238 
Weather, foretelling the, 330 
Weeks and Co’s, consumption of 
fuel, 419 
Wellingtonia gigantea, its age, 
393 
Westwood’s Butterflies, 445 
Willow, its history, 323 
Window plants, monthly list of, 
314 
Winesour Plum, 15 
Winter, effects on plants at Bishop- 
stoke, 1; and in Kent, 10 ; tem¬ 
perature of the last, 425 ; effects 
of last, 475, 481 
Wintering half-hardy plants, 76 , 
90 
Wire-worms, to keep from carrots, 
464 
Wood lot in winter (Our), 458 
Woods and Forests, 81, 122, 202, 
240, 334, 375, 415 
Woodwardia radicans, 100 
Woody fibre, its uses, 213; its 
strength, 214 
Worms, in Poultry, 89 ; driving 
from bark-bed, 265 
Wrington Poultry Show, 107 
Yam, the Chinese, 311, 361, 377, 
407 
Yeovil Poultry Exhibition, 12 
Yews at Gresford, 231 
Zamia horrid a culture, 30 
Zauschneria californica cuttings, 
411 
Zephyranthes candidus, and cari- 
natus, culture, 27 
Zinnias, 126 
WOODCUTS. 
Page. 
Peas — Egg, British Queen, 
and Scimetar. 17 
Portrait of Mr, G. Fleming.. 35 
Crystal Palace, interior. 67 
Priory Flower Garden . 130 
Minasi’s Incubator. 147 
Portrait of Mr. D. Beaton .. 154 
Page. 
Agave Americana . 214 
Fibres of Cotton, Flax, Silk, 
and Wool. 215 
Palmyra Palm .215 
Casiiope fastigiata. 224 
Black Shanghae Fowls. 226 
Horned Fowl . 264 
Page. 
Portrait of Mr. Veitch. 274 
Peas — Waterloo Marrow, 
Thurston’s Reliance, and 
Knight’s Tall White Mar¬ 
row . 347 
Greenhouse Rafter. 354 
Peas — Knight’s Tall Green 
Page. 
“ Marrow, and Hay’s Mam¬ 
moth . 367 
Garden Plan. 457 
Propagating Pot. 460 
Hot-water Boiler . 462 
Garden Plan. 493 
