INDEX. 
Abhonia. pmbellata, 12 
Abutilon, not flowering, 282; (striatum) soil 
for, 27 
1 Acacias, list of greenhouse and culture, 313 
Aennthads, 0(5 
Achimoncs, culture, 130! propagating, 326 J 
mismanaged, 220 j (picta) 150 
Acres (English and Irish), 62 ; in England, 340 
.'Echmea discolor, and fulgens striatilolia, 151 
/Eschynanthus astrosanguineus and zebrinus, 
151 
] Agapanthus and Gladiolus bedded together, 318 
j Agapanthus umbellatus culture, 362 
Agave, American, in bloom, 320 
Age of seeds, 77 
Air, rules for admitting, 212 
1 Albert, Prince, at Shruliland Park, 210 
Allamanda Neriifolia culture, 272 
Allotment Farming, May, 53 ; June, 133; July, 
195 ; August, 274 ; September, 337, October, 
402 
Almanack, first Gardeners’, 107 
Alonsoa as a bedder, 204 
Alsop’s Sulphurator and Fumigator, 327 
Alstrosmeria aurea, sowing, 4 1 1 
Alyssum saxatile culture, 103 
Amateur Florist’s Society, 18, 370 
American, blight, to destroy, 20 ; gardening, 27 ; 
plants, Waterer’s, 109, 174 ; ground at Chis¬ 
wick, 186 
Ammonia, water for syringing, 77 ! sulphate of, 
as a manure, 251 ; carbonate of, 282; fixing, 
346 
Anemones thinning, 139; sowing, 140, 289; 
planting, 354 
Angelica culture, 153, 21 7 , 359 
Annuals sowing, 6; raising tender, 21; (stove), 
list of, 51 ; culture, 71 ; sowing, 84, 85, 290; 
transplanting, 90; for June sowing, 148; for 
beds, management of, 176 , 354 ; list of hardy, 
280 
Ancectochilus setaceus, 150 
Anomatheca cruenta, 368 
Antirrhinums, their faults, 273 ; crossbreeding, 
340 
Ants, to get rid of, 283 
Aphides, to destroy, 1 9 , 22, 27, 68 
Apiarian’s Calendar—May, 54 ; June, 134; 
July, 197; August, 275 ; September, 339; 
October, 404 
Apiary, History of an, 73, 198 
Aponogeton distachyon, 365 
Apple cuttings, 91 
Apple-blossom grub, 155 
Apples, gathering and keeping, 395, 406 
Apprentices, nurserymens’, 91 
Apricot, pruning, disbudding, &c., 6 g, 183; 
thinning, 160 ; gumming, 140 
Aquatics, greenhouse and hardy, 76 , 365 
Araucaria imbricata, 155 
Arbutus pruning, 311 
Arrangement of garden stock, 49 
Artichokes, dressing, 359; winter dressing, 247 
Asparagus, planting, 38; beds, making, 39, 
77; cutting, 74; culture, 181, 217 , 372 ; beds, 
not productive, 183 
Asphalte, for flooring, 105 
Auctions of flowers, 2 
Auricula, culture, 38, 76 , 117, 131 ; in borders, 
84, 289 ; protecting, 88 ; ancient varieties, 
107; (Beauty of Bath), 94; sowing, 203 ; 
seedlings and culture, 294 
Balcony plants, air and light for, 71 
Balm of Gilead, 346 
Balsams coming single, 287; culture, 24, 314; 
from cuttings, 209 ; growing, 243 
Bark-bed, to promote heat of, 119 
Barley-bread making, 411 
Baron, Mr., 301 
Bartolina maculata, 151 
Basket beds, flowers for, 41 
Basing House Siege, 313 
Bean weevil, 169 
Beauty ? What is, 29 
Bees: preventing swarming, 13, 140; results 
of burying, 11, 40, 57, 58, 154 ; oil annoying 
to, 27 ; swarming, 27 , 197, 134; dress, 27; 
barley-sugar for, 54 ; putting on small hives, 
54 ; ventilation, 54 ; transferring, 54 ; guide- 
combs, 54 ; floor-boards for, 57 ; their winter 
consumption, 60 ; large flat-topped hive, 61 ; 
aspect for, 61; queenless, 61 , 134, 204 ; 
Payne’s hives, 61 ; space between hives, 62 ; 
straw versus wood hives, 62 ; driving from 
hive, 77 ; hives infested with moths, 77 ; 
books on, 77, 105; vessels for honey, 90; 
hive with old comb, go; bellows for fumi¬ 
gating, 105; uniting swarms, 105,233,246; 
barley-sugar for feeding, 105, 129 , 139; 
robber, 119 ; weighing hives, 119 ; old opinion 
of drones, 121; The English Bee-Keeper, 
122; putting into mourning, 135; house for, 
140; first swarm, 140; water for, 140; notes 
about, 154; working upwards, 183; Huber’s 
j hive, 183; hive capable of being altered in 
size, 183; wintering in boxes, 184; Neigh¬ 
bour’s hives, 186; swarming prematurely, 
197 i removing from old hives, 107 ; new ven- 
| tilator, 197 ; nadir or under-hiving, 107; 
history of an apiary, 75, 103 ; Taylor’s hives, 
I 202, 233 ; crippled bees destroyed, 204 ; 
j Payne’s small hives, 204 ; brood in glasses, 
204 ; superstitions about, 210; destroying 
queen, 220 ; in Neighbour’s hives, 220 ; 
absence of drones, 220 ; cause of leaving 
super, 233 ; Taylor’s boxes and screens, 245 ; 
burying, 245 ; errors in managing, 246; ven¬ 
tilating, 247 ; flowers for, 247 ; supers, rules 
for using, 247 ; covering Nutt’s hive, 261 ; 
cutting down hive, 261 ; honey-dew, visited, 
by, 262 ; early swarms, 275 ; forcing swarms, 
275; dressing hives, 276 ; boxes on one 
another, 232 ; super, its use, 282; working 
upwards, 282 ; piping, when heard, 282; 
queen thrown out, 282; hive ventilator, 282 ; 
raising a queen, 310; in King’s hives, 311; 
not working in super, 311 ; size of hives, 311; 
too late for swarming, 311; feeding and trans¬ 
ferring, 311 ; artificial swarms, 134, 198, 325 ; 
hatching brood, 325 ; honey season, 339 ; 
early breeding, 339; shading, 339 ; stocks 
for next season, 339 1 driving, 339, 390, 409; 
wasps scarce, 339 ; transferring, 310 ; earwigs 
in hives, 346 ; stands, coverings, writers, on, 
and with a north aspect, 404 ; preventing 
winter failure of stocks, 405 ; honey varying 
in colour, 376 
Bee fumigator, 13 
Bee-Keepers, warning to, 13 ; guide, 264 
Bedded-flowers, new arrangement, 318 
Bedding-out plants, 84, 112 , 113, 174, 183 ; 
pink and white, 355 ; keeping in winter, 345 
Beds, arrangement of, 306 
Begonia, list of, 87; Evansiana, 91; Coccinea 
culture, 42; Cinnabarina culture, 375; cul¬ 
ture in stove, 115 
Berberries, sowing evergreen, 290 
Bertolonia maculata, 32 
Betonicas, list of and culture, 90 
Biennials, sowing, 6 , 21 ; seedlings, their treat¬ 
ment, 390 
Bignonia, flowerless, 7/1 jasminoides culture, 
311 
Billbergia zebrina, 151 
Blight, causes of, 175 
Blistered leaves, cause of in peaches, &c., 68 
Blossoms, how to retard, 1 , 4, 48; protecting, 3 
Boiler, gas-heated, 390 
Bolters to be removed, 275 
Bones, dissolving, 13, 91 
Bonnet for garden use, 247, 283 
Book of Husbandry, 12) 
Border flowers, hardy, 279 
Borders botanically arranged, 155, 161 
Bossiteas and their culture, 356 
Botanic Gardens (Royal), Regent’s Park, 66 , 80 
Botanical Society’s (Koval), Show, in Regent’s 
Park, 108, 123, 167 , 231 
Botanical gardens, their date, 207 
Botanical nomenclature, 405 ; bad, 252 
Bottom-heat, its importance, 47 ; rule for, 172 
Bouquets, flowers for, 2 ; making, 42 ; fashion¬ 
able, 95 
Bouvardia triphylla as a bedder, 113; lciantha, 
252 
Box from slips, 203 ; edging planting, 21 
Brewing, water not to be boiled over-night, 
389 ; with sugar and parsnips, 342 
British Ferns, 45 
Brocoli, Early White Malta, 26 
Browallias, list of and culture, 51 
Brown (Lancelot), 235 
Brugmansias, bed of, 105; sanguinca, shedding 
its buds, 119 ; arc Daturas, 140 
Buds, selling, 247, 283 ; exchanging, 283 
Budding, early notice of, 299 
Bulbs, arrangement in borders, 368 ; planting, 
354 ; treatment of small, 390 ; injured by 
manure, 48; management of, 84; why taken 
up, 147 
Bulbous plants, sowing, 289 
Butter, crumbly, 77; the cause of its being so, 
281 ; to cure bitter, 155 
Cabbage sowing, 309 ; autumn manage¬ 
ment, 403 
Cacti, for windows, &c., culture, 178, 203 ; 
require abundance of light, 305 ; grafting, 314 
Cselestina ageratoides, 77 
Cage Birds, English, 342, 409 
Caladium bicolor and variegatum, 151 
Calathea zebrina, 151 
Calceolarias, stopping, 91 ; culture, 10, 101, 
191 ; their usual defects, 164 ; list of, 346 ; 
cuttings, 370; against a wall, 383 ; sowing, 
139, 204 ; characteristics and culture, 215, 
266; desirable form, 243 
Calcutta Botanic Garden, 65 
Calendars for May, 62 ; June, 140; July, 205: 
August, 283 ; September, 347 ; October, 411 
Calendula hybrida, 355 
Calla, to bloom, 113; TEthiopica culture, 61 ; 
and to bloom, 183 ; culture, 26 1 
Callistacliyses and their culture, 357 
Cambridge Botanic Gardens, 207 
Camellias done flowering, 90 ; flower-buds 
dropping, 27 ; grafting, 27 ; pruning, 62 , j 
204 ; culture, 191 ; bedding-out, 91 ; leaves, 
scorched and spotted, 105; drooping, 105 
Campanula, carpatica seedlings, 247 ; speculum, 
247 ; carpatica alba, 326 ; vidalli, 329 1 pyra- 
midalis leaf-rooting, 203, 204 
Candle plant, 297 , 326, 346 
Canna Indica, 27 ; hardy, 27 
Cantua, dependens rivals the fuchsia, 269 ; buxi- 
folia, 380 
Capsicums, fumigation, 84; and Chilies, when 
to gather, 390 
Cardoons surviving the winter, 27 
Carnations, transplanting, 70 ; layering, 21, i 
290 , 294 ; sowing, 203 ; pipings, 294 ; cul- I 
ture, 305 ; list of, 346; its distinction, 361; 
sheltering, 88 ; in pots, 95, 265 ; should have 
six guard petals, 123 ; shows of, in July, 220 
Carnation and wireworm, 1 ; and picotee cul- ■ 
ture, 181 ; and picotee show, 301 ; distinction I 
between the two flowers, 346 
Carp, first in England, 285 
Carrots, Early Horn, time of sowing, 13; sow¬ 
ing, 53; storing, 403 
Carrot wine, fining, 27 
Catalpa syringtefolia culture, 42 
Catalogue of Plants, first English, 313 
Caterpillars destroyed, 62 ; by hellebore, 184 ; 
by furze, 184 ; by lime, 362 
Cauliflower culture, 182, 309 
Cayenne pepper for fumigating, 27 
Celery planting, 153 ; not hearting, 184 ; cul¬ 
ture, 194 
Centrosolenia glabra, 174 
Charcoal burning, 119 
Charles I., gardening in his reign, 249 
Charring refuse, size of heap, 77 
Chelsea Botanic Garden, 18, 66 
Cheltenham Flower Show, 174 ; Monster Flower 
Show, 222 ; Horticultural Society, 251 
Cherries, summer dressing, 238 
Chester Show of Horticultural and Agricul¬ 
tural Produce, 266 
Chickens, management of, 54 ; artificial mother 
for, 54 
Chicory culture, 297 
Chimney-pot, improved, 361 
Chiswick Garden, 45; plants in conservatory, 
174; seedling flowers at, 181 
Christmas, ancient omens connected with, 391 
Chrysanthemum layers, 189; wintering slips, 
203 ; culture, soil, and training, 322, 358; 
becoming yellow-leaved, 376 
Chysis aurea maculata, 315 
Cinclionads, 82 
Cineraria, scented, 27 ; new, 30 ; Heliotrope- 
scented, 62 ; their usual defects, 164; notch 
in, 173 ; culture, 191 ; blind, 119; rearing, 
345 ; Maritima, 396 
Citrus shedding its buds, 36l 
Clarkias, blue and white mixed, 71; prolonging 
in bloom, 355 
Clayey soil, to improve, 105 
Cleaning and charring, 403 
Clematis ligustrifolia, 390 
Cleomes, list of and culture, 51 
Clianthus puniceus, culture, 12 ; not flowering, 
27 
Climbers, training, 22 ; in cellar under green¬ 
house, 76 ; hardy under trees, 376 
Coal, its importance, 349 ; fund for the poor, 410 
Cochin-China fowls described, 9 1, 197; to 
choose, &c., 276 ; their varieties, price, &c., 
340, 376 
Cockscomb culture, 25 ; large, 286 
Composts for flower-beds, 6; their formation, 
268 
Concrete, beneath trees, 26 ; walks, 156 ; walks 
repairing, 291 
Coniferee supporter (Seward’s), 299 
Conservatory, building, 60 ; wall, cheap, 367 
Coop, a convenient, 139 
Cooper’s Hill, 94 
Coral-plant, its out-door treatment, 362; cul¬ 
ture, 86 
Cottage farming, 17 
Cows, keeping, 17; Scotch, 204 ; falling off in 
milk, 204 ; to cure sore teats, 297 
Crassula obvallata culture, 13 ; in window, 90 ; 
culture, 119, 311 
Creepers, list of annual, 6l ; near sea-side, 209, 
346 
Crocuses, new seedling, 2; as a bed-border, 318 
Crops, state of, 208 ; in Sussex, 346 
