VI 
INDEX. 
Crotolaria culture, 356 
Croton picta and varicgata, 151 
Crowfoots, sections of, 161 
I Crystal l’alace, its flower suppliers, 95 ; as a 
winter garden, 123; nurserymen exhibiting 
there, 145; plants at, 1/3; Exhibition, 185, 
237 ; for plants, 324 
Cucumber, seedlings, raising, 16 ; ridges, 38 ; 
linings turning, 47 ; culture, 52 ; temperature 
for, 62 ; and melons in September, 91» ridged 
out, 106; from cuttings, 187 
Currant (R. W. and B.) culture, 97 ; crosses of, 
93 ; summer dressing, 238 ; (black) rob, 260 ; 
training and protecting, 324, 353 
Cupressus inacrocarpa, 61 
Cuttings, planting, 0, 8 ; of roses, 7 > and slips 
of perennials, 84; permanent bed for, 149, 
189, 204 ; desirable to be sold, 208 ; in flower- 
garden, 290 ; not potted, 390 ; their culture, 
355 
Cydonia japonica, standard, 91 
Cypripedlum guttatum, 82 ; list of and culture, 
179 
Dahlias, propagating, 22; staking, 22; pre¬ 
paring ground for, 26 ; King of, 31, 67, 266 ; 
prices of, 42 ; dwarfing, 6l ; propagating, 70 ; 
culture, 38, 74, 193, 295; dressing, 80; list 
of best, 108; Show, Shacklewell, 123, 401 ; 
prizes for new, 158 ; Shows of 1851, 174 ; cut¬ 
tings, 139; wintering slips, 203 ; shows, ap¬ 
proaching, 251; pegging down, 212, 22o ; 
treatment of late struck, 261 ; cause of dis¬ 
torted, 262; Shows, error in, 287 ; pruning, 
296; its pronunciation, 297 ; as bedders, 318: 
Dr. Frampton, 321 ; at Surrey Gardens, 328; 
list of select, 346 ; packing for travelling, 
371 ; some of the best, 386; Beeswing, 390 ; 
roots, preserving in winter, 390 ; Show, great 
annual Metropolitan, 393 
Daphne culture, 305 
Delphinium sowing, 390 
Dcndrobium transparens, 2; their extent, 3 
Deodar, transplanting large, 325 
Deutzia scabra, 262 ; gracilis, culture, 394 
Devonshire’s (Duke of) Chiswick Villa, 94 
Devon (South) Horticultural Society, 266 
Dibbling, first suggested, 185 
Didymocarpus crinita, 252 
Dieffenbachja maculata culture, 179 
Dielytra spectabilis, drawing of, 26 ; culture, 
90, 119; cuttings, 269 ; sowing, 282; soil for, 
312 ; and its synonyms, 346 
Diosma culture, 306 
Diptcracantlius spectabilis culture, 307 
Disbudding, lfiO; the peach, &c., 187; fruit 
trees, 33 
Distemper in dogs, 77 
Dog-tooth violet culture, 139 
Dombeya viburniflora, 209 
Dorking fowl, 169 ; hints for its management, 
&c., 264 ; characteristics, 264 
Douglas (D.), 26.3 
Downton described, 29 
Dracienas, list of and culture, 179 
Drainage materials, 60 
Draining, autumn, 403 
Dressing flowers objectionable, 80 
Drill, Padwick’s, 350 
Ducks, to keep on a pond, 283; paralysed, 346 ; 
for a weedy pond, 376 
Eagle Gardens, 31 
Ealing Park Gardens, 94 
Earth grub, 156 
Earwig trap for Dahlias, 314 
Eccremocarpus scabra in open air, 346 
Echinocacti culture, 306 
Edging for borders, 91 
Egg-plant culture, 25 
Eggs, shell-less, 169 ; addled, cause of, 261 
Elementary Catechisms, 17 
Kleodendron indicum culture, 180 
Elichrysum culture, 306 
Engine (Read’s watering), 300 
Epacris, plant, cutting down, 12 ; culture, 306 
Epidendrums, list of and culture, 9 
Epilobium angustifolium, history and culture, 
262 , 2 g 7 
Epiphyllums, grafted, treatment, 203 
Eranthemum leuconcrvum culture, 180 
Eria, list of and culture, 9 
Erysimum Peroffskianum, 174 
Erythrina culture, 86 
Eucaridium grandiflorum as a bedder, 355 
Eulopliia guinecusis culture, 9 
Euphorbia splendcns for bouquets, 31 
Evergreens, time for transplanting, 162 ; trans¬ 
planting large, 204 ; pruning, 226 ; cuttings 
of hardy, 290 ; planting, 345 
Exhibition (Great), its lessons, 349 
Fairchild (T.), 143; lectures, 143 
Fairy rings, destroying, 362 
Fashion, its influence, 29 
Ferns for Wardian Case, 76 , 297 
Fertility promoted by checking the flowering, 97 
Fertilizing powder, 13 
Feverfew (Double) culture, 103 
Figs, casting their fruit, 47 ; training, 69 , 225; 
stopping, 382 
Fitzherbert (Sir A.), 121 
Fleas in hen’s nests, 12 
Floricultural Society (National), 2, 186, 192 , 
351; London, 152, ISO; Show ( 8 . London), 
287 
Floricultural Societies, their discordant de¬ 
cisions, 107 
Floriculture, Society for encouraging, 144, 180 
Florists’ Flowers, 74 ; pernicious increase of 
bad, 31 ; Societies for improving, 31 ; Mr. 
Glenny’s opinions on, 117, 130, 152, 164, 180, 
183, 192, 215, 229, 242, 257, 272,293, 307, 321, 
335, 358, 371, 386, 400 ; at Chiswick, 152, 
216 ; at Botanic Garden, 230, 242; and seed¬ 
lings at Botanic Garden Show, 183 ; preparing 
for exhibition, 220; how to be estimated, 
299 ; of the year, 364 ; culture, 401 
Flower-beds, dressing, 5; arrangement, <31 ; 
varieties for autumn, 70 ; pruning the bedders, 
211 ; edgings of, 212 
Flower markets (Paris), 39 
Flower-pots, best kind, 337 ; porous or glazed, 
411 
Flower seeds, sowing, 84 ; from abroad, 255 
Flowers and their poetry, 18 
Flowers, list of white, 103, 105 ; how to send 
cut, 139; list of hardy spring, 219; can be 
shown, though from different gardens, 221 ; 
at Covent Garden, 224 ; artificial, an old in¬ 
vention, 262 ; drying for herbarium, 297 ; 
over luxuriant, to check, 303 ; in winter, 360 ; 
influence of the late seasons on, 374 
Flues, heating, with small, 91 
Forcing, seedlings, 16 ; arrangements, 26 
Forsyth (VV.), 1 
Forsythia viridissima, 351 
French gardening, notes on, 278 
Fritillaria meleagris and impcrialis, 138 
Frogmore Gardens, 93, 119 
Frontiniac (English), 13 
Fruit, report 011 crop proposed, 158, 160 
Fruit crops, state of, 310 
Fruit-room and gathering, 395 
Fruit trees, list of eight, 326 ; renovating, 365 ; 
transplanting, 381 
Fruits shown in pots, &c., 251 ; retarding, 253 
Fruits of India, 65 
Fuchsia, not breaking, 62 ; buds dropping, 155, 
184; list of, 180; culture, 230, 243, 295 ; 
seeds, collecting, 262 ; new, 272 ; Coralina, 
against a house, 296 ; pale variety, 326; bed 
of, 326; as a standard, 367 ; against a wall, 
383; its parentage, 390; corymbiflora, 411 
Furze (double-blossomed), to propagate, 139 
Galeandra, list of and culture, 9 
Garden Engine, Jones’ Portable Hand, 328 
Garden net (Hall’s), 350 
Gardeners, their ignorance formerly, 93; versus 
tailors, 220 
Gardening, American, 27 ; books on, 27 
Gardens, worth seeing near London, 94 
Gardiner’s (W.) botanical offer, 158 
Garnishing, plants for, 390 
Gas-lime, how to apply, 233 
Gaultheria bracteata, 32 
Geraniums: a few fancy, 12; scarlet, old, 26 ; 
Tom Thumb, 26 ; cuttings, 42, 148, 189 , 269 , 
411; for windows, 42; grafting, 60 ; with 
verbenas, 6l ; combination of, 6l ; diseased, 
61 ; in borders, 119 ; fancy scented, to pro¬ 
pagate, 149; scarlet, 169 ; for bedding, 176 , 
362; Wilmore’s Surprize, 181; in pots in 
July, 190 ; grafting, 203 ; cutting down, 204 ; 
bedded out, 212 ; sickly, in beds, 262 ; not 
blooming, 282 ; over-luxuriant, 304 ; plunged 
in border, 317 ; Lady Middleton variety, 318; 
White, 318; Golden Chain, 326; cuttings, 
potting, 345 ; arrangement in borders, 368 ; 
their management in rooms, 368 ; (fancy) in 
rooms, 369 ; hardy sorts, 317; seeding, to 
check,411 
Geranium wall, 382 
Gerarde, John, 207 
Gerarde’s Herbal, Johnson’s cd., 313 
German dwarf succulents, 326 
Gilbert, Samuel, 107 
Gilia seedlings, 139 
Ginger, to preserve, 155 
Gladioli, list of garden varieties, 27 ; culture, 48 ; 
sowing, 42, 204 
Glass, rough plate, 105; temperature under 
without artificial heat, 169 ; form of panes, 
325 ; Hartley’s rough, 346 
Glazing, new mode of, 186 
Glenny, Mr., as a judge of flowers, 108 
Globe amaranth culture, 52, 220 
Gloxinia, culture, 139 ; mismanaged, 220 
Glycine sinensis on trees, 127 
Gomphrena globosa culture, 52 
Goodia latifolia culture, 355 
Goodyeria discolor, for bouquets, 2 
Gooseberries, culture, 96 ; bottling, 204 ; sum- j 
mer dressing, 238; twelve show varieties, I 
283 ; training, 324 ; pruning, 362 
Gooseberry caterpillars, to destroy, 201 
Gordunia Javanica, its native place and habit, j 
144 ; culture, 272 
Govenias, list of and culture, 36 
Grafting, flowering-shrubs, 0; early work on, 
285 
Grammatophyllums, list of and culture, 37 
Grapes, importance of air to, 47 ; shanking, 62 ; 
diseased, 411 
Grape wine, to make, 13 
Grasses for lawn pasture on heavy soil, 42 
Grave, Flowers for, 362 , 390 
Gravel, splashing, 13; walks, dressing, 5; 
walks, killing weeds on, 233 
Gravy, for vegetable-marrow, 260 ; best pro¬ 
vision for, 262 
Green fly, destroying, 62 , 208 
Greenhouse, general management of, 7 i and 
vinery, to construct, 90 ; plants (hardier cul¬ 
ture), 99; to erect cheaply, 140; climbers 
for, 156; building, 1 69 ; constructing, 240 ; 
portable, 326 ; Toby’s model of, 350 
Groom’s flowers, 108, 109 
Grubs, in land newly enclosed, I 
Guano water for flowers, 77; as a general ma¬ 
nure, 119 
Gutta Percha membrane, 60 
Hahrotiiamnus fascicularis culture, 345 ; 
hardy, 390 
Ham (Westphalia), to make, 104 
Hambqyough parsley sowing, 38 
Hardy, border flowers, 279 ; aquatics, 365 
Harvest moon, explained, 411 
Harward, Simon, 327 
Haworth (A. II.), 157 
Hawthorn, double pink, to propagate, 169 
Hay-making, 133, 201 
Heaths, list of, 232 ; for each month, 375 
Ilebeclinium iantliimum, 266 
Iledychium flavum, in open air, 326 
Heliotrope leaves black, 326 
Hemiandra pungens, 352 
Henfreya seandens, culture, 375 
Hen-coop, to protect from rats, 205 
Hen eating eggs, 247 
Hens and chickens, their management, 138 
Hen-yard, management in May, 54 ; June, 135 ; 
July, 197; August, 276 ; September, 340 ; 
October, 404 ; daily routine of, 135 
Ileracleum giganteum, in a tub, 26 ; culture 
and size, 203, 326 
Herbaceous (hardy) plants, 137; for spring 
decoration, 117 , 168 
Herbs, drying, 194 
Hereford Horticultural Society, 95, 187 
Herefordshire, shows in, 286 
Hcsperis matronalis culture, 41 
Highbury Horticultural Show, 123 
Ilimalayah pumpkin, form and colour,, 27 
Hoeing, 53 
Hoes, improved forms of, 250 ; the Vernon, 327 
Hogg’s (Mr. R.) British pomology, 393 
Holbollia acuminata, 365 
Hollies, budding yellow-berried, 148; trimming, 
261 
Hollyhocks, list of, 77; culture, 7°, 88 > 117> 
showing, 186; propagating by buds, 190 ; an 
hour with, 264 ; its history, and list of, 265 ; 
manure watering, 294 ; its first improver, 
308 ; their points of excellence, 379 
Honey, price of, 325 
Hop culture in the l6tli century, 171 
Horticultural Society (London), its history, 43, 
45, 363 
Horticultural Society’s Show, 94; Chiswick, 
136, 198, 216 
Horticultural Shows in June and July, 140 
Horticultural Show, South London, 163 
Iloullctias, list of and culture, 37 
House, plants for training over, 376 
Hoveas, list of and culture, 333 
Iloyas, list of and culture, 180 
Humeas, sowing, 204 
Hybrid Brunsvigia and Valotta, 49 
Hyacinths in beds, 88 ; cuttiug down, 203 
Ilydromestus maculatus, 95 
Ice plant, analysis of crystals on, 105 
Ilex (holly), new species, 265 
Indian fruits and flowers, 65 
Insects, causes of prevalence, 175 ; bites of, 183 
Ipomsea culture, 25 ; rubro cocrulea, 77 > Bur- 
ridgii and Dicksonii culture, 90 
Ireland, its rare wild flowers, 202 
Isotoma axillaris, culture, 119 , 397 
Ivy leaves for vegetable mould, 41; displaced 
by wind, 296 
Ixias, 27; culture, 48, 183 
James the First’s love of fruit, 249 
Japan lily culture, 48 
Joanneting apple, 393 
