INDEX. 
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in August, 261 ; list of, 261 ; Solfatare, 262 ; 
in midland counties, 280 i double-yellow, to 
manage, 282 ; climbing, 282 ; tea-scented, to 
manage, 282; for south wall, 311; for north 
of Ireland, 311; arrangement in bed, 320 ; 
leaves mildewed, 326; moving at Michielnws, j 
315; grubs in, 347 ! leaves, blotched, 3/0 ; | 
Gloire de Rosamene cuttings, 31)0 
Rosherville Gardens, flower show, 158 
Rotation of crops, 195 
Roxburgh, Dr., 65 
Ruellia maculata, 214 
Rustic work, 104 
Russell (Lord W.), a gardener, 93 
Sabine (J.), 363 
Saccharometer, 261 
Sago fruit pudding, 325 
Salad, ancient recipe for, 391 
Salt for flowers, 119 
Salvia, patens culture, “0; white, “1 ; bedaed 
out, 212 ; for bedding, 326; patens in baskets, 
333; (failures in culture) fulgens, 397 ; patens, 
398 
Songster’s Florumbra, 184 
Saponaria calabrica, 2 
Savings, 245 
Scale, white, to kill, 12 
Scarifier, 3-pronged, 362 
Schcenia oppositifolia, 124 .... 
Schombergia, crispa, marginata, tibicinis, and 
undulata culture, 399 
Scilla, list of and culture, 137 ; esculcnta, 390 
Scot (R.), 171 
Scythe, Boyd’s self-adjusting, 392 
Sea-kale culture, 117 
Seeds, to promote growth of, 49 ; tropical, to 
pack, 105; foreign flower, usually worthless, 
255 ; raising plants from exotic, 270 ; sowing 
exotic, 291 
Seedlings, raising early, 16 ; flowers, thinning, 
85; pleasure of raising, 109 
Sensitive plant culture, 51 
Sertum Ecclesise, 143 
Sewage Company, 67 
Shading, rules for and modes of, 213 
Shanking of grapes, 346 
Shelter for plants in winter, 6 l 
Shrubland Park Gardens opened, 187 
Silene pendula for edgings, 212; list of and 
culture, 279 
Sion House Gardens, 94 
Sipliocampylus microstoma, 139, 314 
Slugs in hotbed, 184 
Soap-suds for strawberries, 277 
Sobralia sessilis, 267 
Soils, mixing, early recommendation, 185 ; 
their composition and influence over plants, 
378 
Solandra laevis, 45 ; the genus, 46 
Solanum macranthum cuttings, 325 
Soot, excellent for strawberries, 277 ; as a ; 
manure, 362 
South Devon Horticultural Society, 31 
South London Florists, 81, 251 
Sowing in greenhouse, 8; in wet weather, 10; 
how to perform, 53 
Sparaxis seedlings, 139 
Spinach, sowing, 295 ; why acrid ? 346 
Sponge-cake recipe, 26:1 
Squirrel, 42 
Staines Horticultural Show, 209 
Stall-feeding sheep, 77 
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Dendrobium transparens .... 3 
Glass for cucumber plants . . . . 16 
Potentilla ochreata.19 
Bertolonia maculata.32 
| Gaultheria bracteata. 32 
: Solandra lsevis..46 
Uropedium Lindenii.46 j 
j Rogiera amsena . . . . . . 67 1 
Monarda amplexicaulis , . . .68 
' Portlandia platantha.81 
Cypripedium guttatum . . . .82 
1 Pistia stratiotes. 95 
Hydromestus maculatus . . . .96 
Mvrtus orbiculatus.110 
j Schcenia oppositifolia . . . .124 
1 Metrodorea nigra.124 | 
Hen coop.139 I 
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Standish (Arthur), 319 
Stephanotis floribunda culture, 345 
Stewpan, a new one, 389 
Stimulant for flowers, 346 
Stopping fruit-trees, 315 ; its objects, 310 
Stove, moisture in, 160 ; Smith’s Hot-water 
Gas. 350; cheap one for bed-room, 410 
Strawberries, mulching, &c., 69 ; liquid ma¬ 
nuring, 91 ; watering, 119 , 160 ; second crop, 
from forced, 161; (White Alpine), culture, 
203 ; ripening, 210; rooting runners, 211: 
new one, 224; (Alpine), dressing, 238; for 
forcing, 247, 283; (British Queen), tender, 
247 ; culture, 276 ; beds, re-planting, 282 ; 
(Cuthill’s), culture, 296 ; pruning, 353 
Strawberry Hill, 235 
Sulphurator (Alsop’s), 299 
Surrey Zoological Gardens, 224, 229 ; Flower 
Show, 314, 386 
Swartz, Olof, 3 
Swede turnip culture, 134 
Sweet-briar, budding double, 325 
Sweet peas, forced, 12 
Sweet Williams to flower in autumn, 84 
Switzer (Stephen), 93 
Tamarindus officinalis, 145 
Tarvin Hall exhibition, 372 
Taste defined, 29 
Taverner, John, 299 
Tea plantation at Kumaon, 301 
Tecoma jasminoides, on a wall, 367 
Temperature, how influenced by latitude and 
altitude, 271 
Thibaudia macrantha, 224 
Thinning with the hoe, 102 
Thunbergia alata culture, 51 
Tillandsia, splendens, 215 ; list of and culture, 
385 
Toads, their great utility, 89 
Tobacco culture, 52 
Tomato, culture, 353 
Tradescantia discolor, 215 
Transplanting, management, 53 
Trees, plant young, 1 ; lately removed, treat¬ 
ment of, 34; for park scenery, 40, 56; trans¬ 
planting large, 59 ; piercing, 276 
Trichomanes brevisetum culture, 77 
Tropceolum culture, 76 
Trowbridge Horticultural Society, 31 ; Show, 
145 
Tulips, protecting, 38 ; Lawrence’s collection, 
66; Mr. Groom’s, 108; culture, 117; Show, 
Amateur, 144 ; Great Northern, 158 ; Oxford, 
159; strains in, 145; Lawrence’s sale, 159, 
173; Mr. Goldham’s seedlings, 159; new, 
163; sale of dry, 173; Quelch’s, 180; French, 
180; Wragg’s, 180; annual sale of, 266; 
Show at Derby, 300 ; Show, Great Northern, 
364 ; culture, bed, &c., 371 
Turf, laying, 34 ; injured by plantain, 36l 
Turfy loam, very old, 346 
Turnip, insect destroying, 184; sowing, 244 ; 
Swedish, their value, 274 
Urofedium Lindenii, 46 
Valerian (Scarlet) culture, 104 
Vanda tricolor, 252 
Variegated-leaved stove plants, 179 
Variegated leaves, plants with, 150 
Variegated plants, 214 
Vauxhall Gardens, Horticultural Show, 144, 
158, 174, 209, 351 
Ventilator for rooms, 232 
WOODCUTS. 
Tamarindus officinalis . . 
Jonesia asoca .... 
Centrosolenia glabra . . 
l’igeon, Cavalier .... 
Dombeya viburniflora . 
Pigeon, Warted .... 
Thibaudia macrantha 
Hoes. 
Didymocarpus crinita . . . 
Bouvardia leiantha 
Vanda tricolor. 
Hebeclinium ianthinum 
Sobralia sessilis .... 
Shelter for trees .... 
Miltonia spectabilis, var. Morelliana 
Medinilla Javanensis . 
Malpighia glabra .... 
Siphocampylus microstoma 
145 
159 
174 
201 
210 
218 
224 
250 
252 
252 
253 
267 
267 
280 
287 
288 
302 
315 
Ventilation, arrangements, 62; its importance, 
161 
Verbena culture, 10, 117, 131; seed, sowing, , 
12, 6l ; bedding-out, 61, 90; list of, 104; 
qualities of new, 180; preserving flowers, 
326; layers, 361 ; without shelter, 237 
Veronica chanuedrys, bed of, 35 ; as a bedder, 
332 
Victoria regia in N urscries, 2 ; without shelter, j 
237 
Vines, syringing, 13; accustomed to be forced, 
26 ; young, 27; pruning, 61 ; unpruned, 62 ; 
ventilating, 62 ; out-of-door disbudding, 70 ; 
in-doors, 82; in greenhouse, 83; succession, 
83 ; West’s St. Peters, 83 ; managing young, i 
146; effects of temperature on, 169 ; roots on 
stem, 184; culture, 220; diseased leaves, 
220; training on walls, 224 ; Sanders’ work . 
on, 286 ; on walls, 286, 330 ; borders, 288, ! 
( 302 ; fumigating, 297 ; promoting ripening, 
330 ; scale, to kill, 156 
; Vinery and no greenhouse, 26 ; building, 91 
Vinegar plant, said to be injurious, 105 
Violet, double white, 78 
Walks, to kill grass on, 156; concrete, 156; 
• mossy, to cure, 246 
Wall-trees neglected, 326 
j Walpole, Horace, 235 
S Wandering sailor, 389 
I Wardian case of gutta percha, 119 
Warts, to cure, 246 
Warwickshire lad, 389 
Wasps, destroying, 48, 160; numbers destroyed, 
105 
Waste vegetables, to collect for pigs, 403 
Water, as a food for plants, 1 72 ; transpired by- 
plants, 172 ; temperature for watering, 172 
Watering, to what crops, 42 ; with hard water, i 
155; rules for, 227 ; why not in sunshine, 233 
Watering engine, 184 
Watering pots of the 16 th century, 171 
Weeding, 53 ; its importance, 196 
Weeks and Co.’s Victoria regia, 237 
Weigela rosea culture, 31 
W r heat, blooming phenomena, 99; temperature 
1 influencing, 341 
j Wigandia caracasina, 329 
Wild flowers, works on, 233 ; as bedders, 390 
Window plant culture, /l ; gardening in the 
north, 127 
Winter, consequences of the past, 55 ; garden, 
80 ; damp and mild, its effects on half-hardy 
plants, 97 ; aconite, 138; its benefits, 235 ; 
flowers in pots, 325 
Wine, fining home-made, 376 
Wire-worms, to extirpate, 105 
Wistarias against east wall, 297 
Witchcraft in 16 th century, 171 
Wood, ripening, 4 ; for fuel regulated by 
statute, 349 
Woodlice in cucumber frame, 62 ; destroyed by 
toads, 89 
World in its workshops, 349 
World’s Fair, its effects, 44 
Worms, in pots, 169 ; thread-like, 184 
Wren, Golden-crested and Fire-crested, 342 
Yucca, culture, 345 ; gloriosa, cutting down 
flower-stem, 376 
Zauciisneria Californica, to purchase, 78 ; 
to make flower late, 397 
j Zephyranthes carinata culture, 140 
i Zoological Gardens, Surrey, 174 
Chysis aurea, var. maculata 
Hoe, Vernon 
Wigandia Caracasina 
Mormodes atro-purpurea 
Pigeon, Persian 
Forsythia viridissima . 
Hemiandra pungens . 
Chimney-top, improved 
Aponogeton distachyon 
Holbollia acuminata 
Cantua buxifolia . 
Pleione humilis 
Stewpan, fast boiling 
Labichea diversifolia . 
Deutzia gracilis 
Pigeon, Runt . 
Pigeon, Looking-glass 
Stove, Economic . < 
. 315 
. 327 
. 329 
. 330 
. 345 
. 351 
. 352 
. 361 
. 365 
. 365 
. 380 
. 381 
. 389 
. 394 
. 394 
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. 409 
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