INDEX. 
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j Abutilon striatum pruning, 120 
| Acacia floribunda, 156 
j Acantholimon glumaceum, 302 
Acclimatizing, 47 
1 Achimenes seedlings, 345 
Advertisements, 204 
| Aerides maculosum, var., Schroederi, 45 
TEschynanthus Javanicus culture, 216; train¬ 
ing, 393 
Agalmyla staminea culture, 86 
Ageratum Mexicanum, 2S2 
Agriculture ever improvable, 313 
Air plant (Schroeder’s), 45 
Aiton, William, 263 
i Allium acuminatum, 366 
' Allotment ground for food for a cow and pigs, 
I 282 
■ Allotments, profit of, 18 ; farming—November, 
i 69; December, 132; January, 196; February, 
i 274 ; March, 337 i April, 400 ; principles of, 
196 
! Almeidea rubra, 223 
j Alstroemeria culture, 362 
I Amaryllis longifolia planting, 55 
Amateur (defined), 156 
American plants, planting, 61 
Ammonia, carbonate of, 1 ; fixing, 184 
Ammoniacal liquor, 156 ; as manure, 13 
Anagallis for bedding, 184 
Anemone, its culture, 221 ; its history, 222 ; 
sowing, 298 ; beds, treatment of, 408 
Anderson (Dr. J.), 1 
Anguloa, list of and culture, 129 
Annuals, autumn-sown, 92, 326; winter, 113 ; 
flower-border, 305 ; for greenhouse, 3Gl, 370 ; 
under trees, 409 
Anoectochilus setaceus culture, 130 
Anoraatheca cruenta, 169 
Antler moth, 1 
Ants attacking hive, 13 
Apiary, history of, 259, 22", 404 
Apiarian’s Calendar, for November, "0; De¬ 
cember, 133; January, 198; February, 276; 
March, 339 1 April, 402 
Apple cheese, 90 
Apple-trees, moving large, 106; manuring, 298 
Apples, list of, 317; for dwarfs, 345 
Apricot (Moor Park), 235 ; shedding fruit, 262 ; 
list of, 318; grub, 331 
Aquatics, list of hardy, 184; planting, 311 
Araucaria cxcelsa and Cunninghamii in winter, 
14 
Arbor vitoe in pots, 42 
Arbutus, moving large, 298 
Arcade, its use, 45 
Arnott’s stove, management of, 409 
Artichoke culture, 56, 167 
Arum for window, 282 
Arundina, list of and culture, 133 
Ash (weeping), pruning, 42 ; training, 247 
Ash-tree, its exclusiveness, 361 
Asparagus, forcing, 88, 131, 245; salting, 13; 
beds, 156; in October, 143; beds, dressing, 
51 ; beds, making, 345 
1 Astraptea viscosa, 352 
Auriculas, sheltering, 10; wintering, 51, 167 ; 
culture, 245, 257 ; dressing, 309 
Aylsham Horticultural Society, 42 
Azaleas, not flowering, 91; in large pots, 119; 
suckers, 184 ; shifting, 3fil ; sinensis culture, 
311; (Chinese), select list of, 218; losing 
leaves, 248 ; pruning, 374 
Bacon, 246; to keep, 274 
Balconies, 213; evergreen plants for, 214 
Balsams, 301 ; true from seed, 238 ; culture, 370 
Bank of marl, 409 
Banks (sloping), their use, 116, 204,298; for 
flowers, 240 ; for roses, 253 
Barbacenia Rogierii, 379 
Barberry pruning, 176 
Bark for hothed, 346 
Bath bricks, 300 
Bartrams (J. and W.), 327 
Beans, to plant, 276 ; sowing, 102, 309 5 list of, 
195 
Bcdeguar on roses, 28 
Bedded-out plants, 304 ; preserving and propa¬ 
gating, 85, 96 
Bedding-out plants (white), 92 ; (yellow), 36l 
Bee-flower, earliest, 283 
Bee-keeper’s Calendar. See Apiarian’s. 
Beer, use of, 154 ; from sugar, 18], 247, 312 
Bees, remedy for sting, 26 ; collecting honey- 
dew, 28 ; uniting, 41, 70 ; wintering, 52 ; with 
eke to the hive, 55 ; burying, 56; cover for 
old hives, 56 ; shading, 70 ; weight of comb, 
70 ; management in former times, 71; turning 
to north, 76 ; preventing swarming with small 
hives, 76; notes about, 89; society proposed, 
79; transferring, 89, 138; uniting, 104; feed¬ 
ing, 104, 106; aspect for, 118; burying, 119; 
feeding artificial stocks, 134; ventilation, 134 ; 
feeding in old straw hive, 141 ; cover for hive, 
141; Taylor’s hive, 170; honey-candying, 
170; quality of honey, 198; over stocking, 
198; artificial stocks, 198; burying, 199; 
honey-dew, 199; hives, painting, 220 ; bury¬ 
ing, 231; house for, 234; in Taylor’s hive, 
247 ; history of apiary, 259; fumigating, 
259; shading, 260 ; feeding, 262 ; feeding pans 
for, 276 ; honey and hives for the Grand Ex¬ 
hibition, 276; feeding and depriving, 277; 
metal feeders, floats, taking off small hives, 
278; dampness in hives, 276, 278 ; artificial 
swarms, 277; caps on hives, 281; transferring, 
374; shading and fumigating, 295 ; honey- 
dew eaten by, 296; depriving, 396; Payne’s 
hives for, 312; Calendar for March, 399; 
hives, preparing, 339 ; shading, 340 ; water 
for, 340; artificial swarms, 342 ; candied honey 
for, 344; feeding, 339, 346; excrements, 346 ; 
time of becoming torpid, 361 ; guide comb 
for, 361 ; young, 402 ; buried, 402; guide 
combs, 403 ; artificial swarms, 404 ; honey- 
dew, 405; honey consumed by, in winter, 406 
Begoniads, 159 
Begonias, 321; Ingramii, 159; Evansiana, 48; 
coccinea culture, 234 
Bentbamia fragifera, 205 
Berberris Wallichiana, 59 
Berberry, 3 
Bethnal Green Societies, 315 
Bible, information of the, 392 
Bignonia radicans, 170 ; list of and culture, 179; 
Australis unhealthy, 362 
Bignoniads from root cuttings, 238 
Black barley, 220 
Blancmange (Rice), 105 
Blenheim, 249 
Bletia, list of and culture, 130 
Blistering of nectarine leaves, 156 
Border for fruit-trees, 409 
Bokhara clover, 282 
Borecoles, list of, 195 
Blossoms, retarding, 252 
Botany, Natural System, 221 
Bottom heat, importance of, 256; mode of pro¬ 
ducing, 379 
Bottling ale, 77 
Bouquets, 305 
Box churn, 12 
Bradley (Richard), 93 
Brassia, list of and culture, 130 
Brawn (Oxford), 28 
Bread, milk, 75; brown, 203 
Bricks, Egyptian, 233 
Bridgesia spicata, 97 
Bright-line-brown-eye moth, 207 
British Birds (Morris’s History of), 249 
Brocoli introduced, 157; winter sorts, 182; list 
of, 195; protecting, 258; succession of and 
clubbing, 283 ; Walcheren, 300 ; laid in, 10, 
42, 133 ; sowing, 362, 410 
Bromelworts, 265 
Brompton Park Nursery, 171 
Broth, white, 75 
Brown (Lancelot), 249 
Browne, (SirT.), 15 
Brugmansia, protecting, 204 
Brunsfelsias, 172 
Brunsvigias, are Amaryllises, 48; not flow ering, 
92; culture, 120, 140 
Buckw'heats, 287 ; Order, 317 
Budding knife, Turner’s, 390 
Bulbs, removing, 14; potting, 14; culture, 34; 
desirable, 48; from the Cape, culture, 120; 
first grown in glasses, 157,242; forcing for 
Christmas, 204 ; to ripen forced, 311, 312 ; in 
winter, 114 ; culture, 140 
Bulleyn (Dr. W.), 207 
Burlingtonia rigida culture, 168 
Burns, treatment of, 373 
Cabbage crops, 180 
Cabbages, list of, 195; club-rooted, 13, 92; 
seed, insect eaten, 27 ; early planted, 273, 
276 
Cabool, plants for and from, 183, 234 
Cactus, speciosissimus, 155 ; yellow, 297 
Cage birds, 280 
Calanthc, list of and culture, 166 ; masuca, 223 ; 
veratrifolia, 224 
Calceolarias cuttings, 91 ; shrubby, culture, 99; 
list of new’, 201 ; seedlings, 219 ; for bedding, 
248 : potting, 345 ; to obtain, 408 
Calendars, how calculated, 14; for November, 
77 ; December, 141 ; January, 205 ; February, 
283 ; March, 346 ; April, 410 ; companion to, 
397 
Calico transparent covering, 13 
California, 248 
Calla JEthiopica culture, 345 
Calliandra Tweediei culture, 398 
Calochortus pallidus, 266 
Camellia, leaves blotched, 77 ; propagating, 119; 
buds falling, 169, 262; potting, 219; leaves 
brown, 247 ; leaves diseased, 345 ; shifting, 
36l ; grafting, 374 
Campanula carpatica, 120, 141, 156, 204 ; 
white, 374 ; Vidalii, 368; (white!, 290, 304 ; 
(blue), 304 ; pumila, 304 
Canaries, red bug on, 120 
Candles, 24 
Canker in cauliflowers, 294 
Can tua bicolor, 297 
Carbonate of ammonia as a manure, 30 
Carnations, list of new, 90 ; winter blooming, 
141; protecting, 66; culture, 386; in pots, ’ 
389 ; list of, 389 ; showing in pots, 393 
Carrots, sowing and storing, 10, 23, 338; late- 
sown, 91; forcing, 181 ; selection for cot¬ 
tagers; 217; in frames, 273 ; horn, 276, 282 ; 
culture, 401 
Catalogues, 253 
Catalpa pruning, 282 
Catasetidse, notes on, 145 
Catasetum fimbriatum, 145 ; list of and cul¬ 
ture, 166 
Cattleyas, culture and list of, 193 ; superba cul¬ 
ture, 298; labiata alba, 108; anecdotes of 
species, 109 
Cauliflower, culture, 10, 116,257; storing, 38; 
pricking out, 51 ; protecting, 167; in pots, 
230, 294 ; canker in, 294 
Ceanothus azureus, 219 
Cedars, 16 ; moving large, 205 
Celery cankering, 120 ; culture, 167, 343 
Cellar heated, 409 
Cement to unite zinc and glass, 375 
Cephalotus, 14 
Cerapteryx graminis, 1 
Ceylon seeds, 219 
Chambers, Sir W., and his Chinese gardening, 
363 
Chalk downs, 170 
Chapped hands, 105 
Charcoal, burning in-doors, 156; for disinfect¬ 
ing, 262 ; drainage, 344 
Charring, how to manage, 310 ; earth, 324 ; saw¬ 
dust, 337; rubbish, 28, 258 ; tan and peat, 
373 ; wood, 387 
Cheep in chickens, 13 
Cheese pan, 54 
Chelsea Gardens, 157, 1=8 
Cherry grafting, 248 ; list of, 318 ; (winter) cul¬ 
ture, 408 
Cherry-tree cankered, 262 
Chickens, feeding young, 407 
1 Chickweed, 75 
China-aster culture, 19 
Chinese primrose culture, 374 
Chocolate and cocoa, 352 
Chorozema, list of, culture, &c., 269 
Chloride of lime as a manure, 408 
Chrysanthemum (Madame Pompadour), 170 
Chrysanthemums, their wdnter treatment, 184 ; 
not flowering, 204 ; green fly on, 88 ; blind, 
92; season, bad, 107; stopping, 119; cul¬ 
ture, 10 ; selected list of, 278 : failures, 281 
Chrysopa perla, 13 
Cider from turnips, 77 
Cider apples, list of, 299 
Cineraria culture, 102, 180, 202; list of, 182; 
leaves curling, 234 ; for bedding, 248 
Cinerarias prematurely blooming, 297 ; not 
blooming, 298; potting, 335 ; protecting, &c., 
372 ; seedlings, 410 
Cirrhiea, culture of and list, 229 
Citron, 163 ( 
Citrus, species of, 163 
Clay marl, of Norfolk, &c., 232; of Suffolk, 1 
11 
Clayey soil, improving, 170 ; for garden, 345 
Cleanliness in cottages, 294, 342 
Clematis Sieboldii, treatment of, 220 
Clerodendrum potting, 334 
Climbers for greenhouse, 248 ; for stove, 243, 
298 ; for trellis, 374 ; for wall, 409 
Club-root in cabbages, 13, 92 
Coccoloba macrophylla, 317 
Cochylis vitisana, 29 
I Coclichafer grub. 15 
Cockscomb culture, 370 
i Cochin China fowls, 360, 361 ; to buy, 408 
Cmlogyne, list of and culture, 229 
Coccus adonidum, 157 
Colchicum planting, 55 
Coleworts planting, 51, 133 
Colquhounia, vestita, 84 ; coccinea, 173 
