INDEX. 
Johnson, Dr. Thomas, 313 
Jonesia asoca, 159 
Jonquill, pronunciation of name, 77 
.1 udgcs, on the qualification of, 31; consequences 
of disputing their decisions, 237 
Julian flower, 261 
IVALMIA GLAUCA, sickly, 262 
Kent (Win.), 15 
Kew Gardens, 44 
Kidney-bean, culture, 182; runner, culture, 54 
Kitchen-garden, routine, 10, 38, 52, 74, 89, 102, 
117 , 131, 153, 165, 182, 194, 217 , 244, 259, 
274 , 295 , 309, 322, 337 , 359 , 372; size for 
family, 169 
Knight (It. P.), 29 ; (T. A.), 43 
Knight and Perry’s Aquarium, 237 
Koenig (.1. G.), 65 
Kohl Rabi treatment, 362 
Labels of glass, 118 ; of porcelain, to write on, 
119 ; Restell’s Metallic, &c., 350 
Labichea diversifolia, culture, 394 
Laburnum with varied flowers, 204 
Lacmna bicolor culture, 37 
Lagerstrcemia indica culture, 335 
Landscape gardening, its commencement, 15 
Larch for water works, 1 
Larkspur (Chinese), to manage, 148 
Lathyrus latifolius, propagating, 26 
Laurels, rate of growth, 26l ; trimming, 20l ; 
naked, to remedy, 261 ; diseased, 376 
Laurustinus, soil for, 261 
Lawn, laying down, 411 
Lawrence (Rev. J.), 79 
Lawson, William, 327 
Layering, I 89 
Layers of evergreens, 6 
Lettuces, to grow large, 326; tying up, 362; 
sprouts, 376 
Libocedrus Chilensis, 240 
Lice on pigs, to destroy, 119 
Light and heat should correspond in plant 
culture, 210 
Lilium lancil'olium culture, 261 ; not flowering, 
282 
Lily of the Valley culture, 183 
Lily (white water) blooming in the dark, 282; 
done flowering, 362 
Lily worts, sections of, 162 
Line (Garden) Padwick’s, 350 
Liquid manure, for greenhouse plants, 105; an 
old practice, 171 ; the best, 233; of cowduug 
drainage, 346 
Lissochilus, list of and culture, 72 
Loam, its qualities, 268 
Lobelias for a bed border, 318 
London plants in 1722 , 143 
Lophospermum Hcndersonii culture, 220 
Lucerne, cause of failure, 184 
Lupines bedded out, 212 
Lycaste, list of and culture, 73 
Macsoom, visit to, 202 
Magazines, notes on, 104 
Malpighia glabra, 302 
Mangold wurtzel culture, 133 
Manure, management, 53; where to apply, 70 ; 
experiments with, 80; heap, 197 ; pit, its 
value, 217; heap, to increase, 338 
Maranta albo lineata and bicolor, 214 
Marble, to remove stains from, 326 
Markham (Gervase), 391 
Mascall, Leonard, 285 
Mason (Rev. W.), 221 
Matricaria as a bedder, 113 
Maund’s Botanic Garden, 17 
Maxillaria, list of and culture, 72 
Mealy bug, destroying, 364 
Medinilla Javanensis, 288 
Melilotus leucantlia, seed, 13; culture, 204 
Melitta, list of and culture, 89 
Melon, culture, 52; forcing, 125; bloom set¬ 
ting, 297; leaves diseased, 326; frame, new 
mode of constructing, 361 
Metrodorea nigra, 124 
Mice, 79 , 91 
Mildew on vine, supposed remedy for, 109 
Mildness of the past winter, 90 
Mills for corn-crushing, 246 
Miltonia, list of and culture, 100; Murelliana, 
287 
Mimosa pudica culture, 51 
Mimulus and its varieties, 144: seedlings, 266 
Mitraria coceinea, 390 
Monarda amplexicaulis, 68 
kroon, belief in its influence, 107 
Mormodes atro purpurea, 330 ; list of and cul¬ 
ture, 101 
Mosses (British), collection of, 94 ; twenty 
lessons on, British, 157 
Moth in clothes, to remove, 155 
Mountain (D.), 171 
Mulching, 160 ; roots of fruit-trees, 48 
Mulberry-tree, plaster for, 312; against a wall, 
345 
Mussmnda frondosa, 214 
Mushroom spawn, making, 132; forced, 184; 
spawn raising, 297 ; beds, making, 322 
My Flowers, 363 
Myrtle culture, 110 
Myrtus orbiculatus, 110 
Narcissus biflorus, 155 
National Floricultural Society, 81, 108, 109 , 236 , 
257, 266 , 301, 379; meeting, 30; show, 145, 
151 
Nectarine culture, 68 ; leaves blighted, 155; 
disbuddiug, &c., 187 ; training, 225. See 
Peach. 
Nemophila maculata and insignis, bed of, 176 
Nerium Oleander treatment, 12 , 26 
Newbury Horticultural Show, 380 
New South Wales seed, 183 
New Zealand, gardening in, 144 
Nicol, Walter, 1 
Nierembergias, for rock-work, bedding, &c., 411 
Night heat, not excessive, 47 
Night-soil for gardens, 247 
Night violet, 261 
Norden (John), 377 
Nurserymens’ greenhouses not rateable, 222 
Nurseries round London, 2 , 45, 66 
Nympluea alba culture, 362 
Oak, Pyrenean, 26 
Oatmeal, cookery, 59 ; its uses, 281 
Odontoglossums, list of and culture, 129 
(Knothera prostrata or riparia, 148; for bedding 
out, 183; prostrata, as a bedder, 112 ; macro- 
carpa and taraxifolia culture, 139; riparia as 
bed border, 318 
Oleander in window, 96 
Oncidiums, list of and culture, 162, lp2, 228, 
25 7 
Onion grub, 220 ; keeping kinds, 220 ; culture, 
338 
Orange-trees, seedling, 91 ; pruning, 311 
Orange wine, to make, 13 
Orchard planting, 362 
Orchids, their habits, 3; in pots, 9, 36, 73, 100, 
129 , 162 , 192 , 228, 257 , 292 , 320, 357, 370 ; 
list of April flowering, 74 ; list of, 232 
Our Villagers, 11 , 38, 75, 102 , 132, 166 , 194, 231, 
259, 295, 323, 359, 388 
Oxalis purpurea and Bowiana culture, 90; 
iloribunda culture, 140 
Oxford Horticultural Society, 237 
P asony in light soil, 282 
Pancratium illyricum and maritimum culture, 
137 
Pandanus utile variegata, 214 
Pansies in pots, 18; arrangement in borders, 
35; culture, 52, 117, 152; in September, 6 l ; 
cuttings, 153; their usual defects, 164; for 
bedding out, 177 ; striped, 293 ; list of, 346 
Paphinia cristata culture, 257 
Paris nurserymen, 325 
Passiflora edulis fruit, 301; carulea culture, 362 
Parkinson, John, 249 
Parsley sowing, 38 
Pasture, making permanent, 262 
Pavetta Borbonica, 214 
l’avias, for grass plot, 26 
Paxtonea rosea, 257 
Peach and Nectarine disbudding, 33 ; leaves 
blistering, 68 ; not setting, 42; disbudding, 
161, 187; training, 225; leaves blistering, 
260 ; cause of failing, 105, 139 
Pear, training, disbudding, &c., 111 ; on quince 
stocks, 156; training, 225 ; trees, shelter for 
dwarf, 280 
Peas, for late crops, 27, 42; sowing, 52 ; Black- 
eyed Susan, 9 ! ; late crop culture, 182 ; new 
mode of growing, 328 
Pelargoniums, why not at Chiswick, 122 ; points 
in judging, 144 ; cure for spot in, 218 ; charac¬ 
teristics, 259 ; cuttings, 269 , 2/3 ; treatment 
of Queen Victoria, 270 ; classification, 296 ; 
Unique, propagating, 296 , 3118 ; cutting down, 
306; culture, 258, 309, 336; compost, &c., 
336; diadematum, its varieties, 346; their 
general management, training, Ike., 387 
Peustcmons, azureum, its merits, 332; gen- 
tianoides, 332 ; for bedding, 390 
Perennials, moving, 6 
Peristeria, list of and culture, 292 
Pesomeria tetragona culture, 320 
Petunias, hardy variety, 42; bedding out, 90 , 
212; pegging down, 204; their faults, 273; 
Shrubland Rose, 383 
l’haius, list of, 320 ; culture, 357 
Phloxes, their culture, 182; deprossa, its merits, 
331 
Picotee, its distinction, 36 1 . 
Pigeon, domestic, its diseases, 200, 217, 343; 
Cavalier kinds, 201; Warted variety, 218; 
dove-house, 343 ; Turkish, or Mawmet, its 
varieties, 345 ; to stock a dove-house, 407; 
varieties of, 408 
Pig feeding, 339, 346 
Pimeleas, list of and culture, 23 
Pine-apples, West Indian, 224 
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Pinguicula grandiflora, 202 
Pinks, culture, 52, 117, 164, 401 ; stage for, 61 ; 
with six guard petals, 123 ; new varieties of, 
265 ; list of, 346; their distinction, 361 
Pippins, first in England, 285 
Pistia stratiotes, 95 
Pitcher plants (Veitch’s), 173, 198 
Pits, heated by dung, 90; enduring flowers for, 
183 ; enlarging to greenhouses, 240 
Planting trees, &c., from pots, 126 ; directions, 
360 ; notes on fruit-tree, 373 ; hints on, 388, 
390 ; or re-planting, old gardens, 406 ; out in 
pots, 398 
Plants for early decoration, 103; scarce, to 
treat, 149; new, 168; their food, 377; tying 
them out denounced, 380 
Plate glass for greenhouse, Hartley’s rough, 13 
Platt, Sir Hugh, 185 
Plcione humilis, 381 
Pleuronomania in cows, 27 
Plum, summer dressing, 237 
Plymouth Botanical and Horticultural Gardens, 
158 
Poetry of flowers, 169 
Poedisca angustiorana, or Red-bar moth cater¬ 
pillar, 69 
Poinsettia pulcherrima, 214 
Poland fowls, top-knots of, 13 
Poles (The), 94 
Polyanthus culture, 38, 117, 118, 131 ; in bor¬ 
ders, 84 ; protecting, 88; seedlings, 294 
Pond (circular), flowers for, 13; to improve a 
stagnant, 296 
Portlandia platantha, 81 
Portulacca transplanting, 90 
Potato, culture, 38 ; protecting, 53 ; not vege¬ 
tating, 140, 156 ; stems, thinning, 155; 
prospect of crop, 165 ; some varieties, 220 ; 
disease, 247, 313, 406; storing, 314, 402 ; 
self-sown, their produce, 390 ; planting, 411 
Potentilla ochreata, 19 ; characteristics of 
shrubby ,19 
Potted trees, planting out, 155; plants, Bate’s 
instrument for removing, 350 
Potting, 7 ; one-shift system, 35, 50 ; double, 
mode of, 282; management, 362 ; when soak¬ 
ing the ball is useful, 384 
Poultry rearing, 118; prolific bantams, 154; 
dropping eggs from perch, 155 ; exhibition, 
187 ; early works on, 285 
Preserving, recipes for, 260 
Primroses, double dark, not blooming, 27 ; 
sporting, 91 ; as a bedder, 118 
Prizes, rules for lists of, 379 j offered by dealers, 
380 
Profits, from 6J acres, 59 ; from a small plot, 297 
Promenseas, list of and culture, 370 
Prunellas, list of and culture, 90 
Pumpkin (Himalayah) shedding its fruit, 390 
Quassia, for destroying the green fly, 169 
Quickset hedge, culture, 104; trimming, 297 
Raisin wine, to make, 12, 13, 27 , 42 
Rake (Ebbs’ lady’s), 299 
Raking, 53 
Ranting widow, 262 , 297, 389 
Ranunculus beds, 74 ; list of, 346 
Raspherry, buds, grubs in, 61 ; culture, 96 ; 
double-bearing, 96 , 238 ; training, 324 ; pru¬ 
ning, 352 
Receipts for the Cottager, 58 
lied Spider, to destroy, 20 , 297 
Redstart, 342 
Resting, its importance, 8 
Rhododendrons, seed sowing, 12 ; of the Hima¬ 
layah, 2 ; hybrid, their culture, 114; honey 
from, 115; treatment of sickly, 262 , 411; in 
light soil, 282 
Rhubarb wine, 261 
Rice cookery, 59 
Ridging, autumn, 403 
Rocket, Double White, culture, 41, 103 ; yel¬ 
low, 203 ; varieties of, 223 
Rockwork, rule for making, 325 
Rogiera amoena, 67 
Room plants, list of, 119 
Root, temperature, 172; crops, space between 
plants, 196 ; pruning, 382, 238; storing, 403 
Rose, cuttings, to strike, 6 , 42 ; Gloire de Rosu- 
rnene, 27 ; stocks for budding, 22, 62 ; pru¬ 
ning, 26 , 169 ; Nursery at Ealing, 31 ; pru¬ 
ning and propagating, 49; killing aphis on, 
84; supporting tree, 85; guano tor, 91 ; 
watering, 99 ; double-yellow, to bloom, 107 ; 
green fly, to cure, 110; budding perpetual, 
148; tea-scented, near London, 155; manur¬ 
ing, See., 1 77; fungus on shoots, 184; July- 
pruning, 189; in pots, treatment, 203 ; cut¬ 
tings, their management, 203; cutting off 
flower-stalks, 204 ; to destroy fly on, 208 ; ca¬ 
terpillar on, 220 ; Banksian, pruning, 226 ; in 
Regent’s Park, 237 ; unpruned and pruning, 
239; cuttings, 247, 307, 376, 411 ; suckers to 
be discriminated, 254 ; Gcant des Battailles, 
254 ; Souvenir de Malmaison, 255 ; moving 
