INDEX. 
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Combretums, list of and culture, 243 
Compost, 156 ; for plants, 178 
Concrete, for fruit-trees, 289 ; walks, 344, 373, 
409 ; and roads, 225 
Contradenia rosea, 321 
Coniferous plants (Knight and Perry), 15 
Corn moth, 121 
Coronilla glauca, 292 
Coryanthes, list of and culture, 255 
Corraea, culture and list of, 191 
Cottage Gardeners’ Dictionary, 5 
Cottagers hives (Payne’s), price of, 408 
Cottage built for ^610, 375 
Couve Tronchuda cabbage, 75 
Covent Garden market, 171 
Cow, keeping, 79, 80; rules for keeping, 17, 
70 ; points of excellence, 80; management 
of, 133; feeding, 346 ; Alderney, their supe¬ 
riority, 410 
Cow-dung and soot for roses, 281 
Crassula culture, 92 
Crataegus species, 112 , 126 
Creeper, red-leaved in autumn, 283 
Cress, list of sorts, 217 
Cricket-ground turf, 41 
Crocus bulbs mildewed, 106 ; sulphate of am¬ 
monia for, 140 
Crops, mixing, 274 
Cropping, plan of, 70 
Crown imperial culture, 140 
Crust for pies, "5 
Cucumber, cuttings, 27, 32; in winter, 28, 31, 
39 ; vinery, 141 ; (early) culture, 267, 273, 
324, 387; length of, 362; the longest, 374 ; 
leaves diseased, 345 
Cuphea purpurea, 59 ; cinnabarina, 95 
Cupressus funebris, macrocarpa, Goveniana, and 
thurifera, 354, 355 
Currant-trees, black, to protect from frost, 125; 
pruning, 183 ; soap-suds for, 331 
Currants, on trellis, soil for, 82 ; pruning, 
planting, 88 ; list of, 28 
Cuttings, of flowers, 290 ; in hotbeds, &c., 306 ; 
in dung-heat, 336; treatment of, 183; in 
water, 361 ; system of growing, 396, 398; 
exportation of, 409 
Cutting down shrubby stove plants, 373 
Cycas revoluta, 145 
Cyclamen seedlings disturbed, 119 ; blooms 
dying, 344, 389; Persicum, wintering, 13 
Cycnoches, list of and culture, 257 
Cyder, a poem, 299 
Cydonia japonica, 14 
Cymbidiums, list of and culture, 292 
Cypripediums, list of and culture, 293 
Cytisus, list of and culture, 291 
Dahlias, prolonging bloom of, 23 ; taking up, 
38, 42; list of, for 1850, 54 ; roots storing, 
106, 245; show, 301; new varieties, 301; 
planting, 311 ; Societies, 315; cuttings, 315; 
culture, 336, 344 ; list of, 344, 406; size of, 
for exhibition, 364 
Daisies on lawns, 298 
Damson wine, 56 
Daphne, tender kinks, 375 ; odorata, 326 ; For- 
tunii, in cold greenhouse, 361 
Decanter, stopper fixed in, 262 
Dendrobiums, list of and culture, 322, 357 
Dendrochilum filiforme culture, 385 
Deodar cedar, 16 
Desmodium gyrans, 3 
Deutzia scabra, 163 
Devon Horticultural Societies, 301 
Dianthus cruentus, 109 
Dictamnus culture, 402 
Dictionary of the farm, 43 
Dielytras, 410 
Dionaea muscipula, 327 
Disbudding, 380 
Docks, 74 
Dog-distemper, medicine for, 409 
Douglas’s journals, 266 
Drain making, 61 , 69 , 76 
Draining, 138, 153, 172, 197, 252, 298; its 
effects, 378 ; Donald, on, 378 
Drain-pipes choked by shoots, 194 
Drain-mud for manure, 205 
Dress of villagers, 103 
Drip, in frames and pits, 130 
Ducks, 77 
Dwarf shrubs for rock work, 91 
Earths soluble in water, 262 
Echeandria terniflora, 173 
Echites, list of, and culture, 151; Franciscea, 
301 
Eggs, to preserve, 91; old for hatching, 326; 
price of, 375 
Elder-flower wine, 155, 169 , 184 
Elm felling, 66 
Employer and employed, 66 
Endive, two kinds of, 217 ; blanching, 247 
English botany, 29 
Epidendrum, culture and list of, 385 
Epiphyllum truncatum, 321 
Eranthemum pulchellum, 320 
Erinus propagating, 56 
Eschscholtzia compacta, 362 
Essays on husbandry, 313 
Eucomis punctata, 156 
Eupatorium corymbosum, 77 
Euphorbia jacquiniflora, 320 
Evelyn (John), 57 
Evergreen shrubs, list of low, 77 ; hardy, 220, 
410; for pond edge, 36l ; ornamental, 354 
Evergreens, planting, American, 61 
Exhibition of 1851, 286 
Exhibitors and Judges, 77 
Expenditure, scales of, 24,52, 88 , 117, 153 
Falcon, Peregrine, 250 
Fanshawe’s (Sir H.) garden, 391 
Felons, employing, 57 
Ferns, flowers among, 247 ; (greenhouse), list 
of and culture, 261 ; list of British, 138; in 
Norfolk, 156; from seed, 343 
Figs, pit for, 106 ; unripe, to pickle and pre¬ 
serve, 106 , 120 ; just transplanted, 120 ; to 
protect, 125 ; in pots, 234 ; culture of dwarf, 
236, 248 
Filter (table), 54 
Fish, gold and silver, 91; in ponds, 349 
Floral Union Association, 329 
Floriculture, society for promoting, 365, 378, 314 
Florists’ flowers, protecting, 194 ; showing in 
pots, 393 ; defined, 393 ; routine culture, 400 ; 
model to aim at, 365 
Flower painting, 29 
Flowers, contrast of, 55; in a bed-room, 390; 
seeds sowing, 368 ; difficulty of selecting, 351; 
opinions of their merits, 379; seedlings dying, 
140 ; in masses and shades, 289 
Flowering plants, planting, 6 l 
Flower-bed, arranging, 97, 154, 155, 184; shapes, 
139, 201 ; shot-silk coloured, 3 97 ; new one, 
397; shapes, 220 ; and size, 290 ; arranging, 
368 
Flower-pots, casts of, 92 ; shape, 228 
Flower-garden plan, 233, 234, 389, 390, 409 
Forcing sea-kale and mushrooms, 282 
Fork and Spade Husbandry (Sillett’s), 17 
Fragments for the poor, 218 
Frames, their structure, 4 ; management of, 372 
Framing, 217, 359 
Franciscea, list of and culture, 22 , 371; eximia, 
172; Hopeana and latifolia, 321 
French beans, to force, 131 
Freziera theoides, 251 
Frogmore gardens, 91 
Frontignac (English), 155 
Fruit-garden, formation of, 18, 45; order of 
winter business, 60 
Fruit-trees, to protect from frost, 125; for espa¬ 
liers, list of, 141 ; borders, 141; plants on, 27; 
planting 60 ; manuring, 289 
Fruit, list of for N. Ireland, 248; culture of 
hardy, 251; list of hardy, 155; storng, 105; 
blossom protecting, 298 , 331; retarding, 329 
Fruit-rooms, construction of, 224 
Fuchsias, wintering, 14,48; in room, 76 ; for¬ 
warded too early, 389 ; sowing, 262 ; pruning, 
281; for standards, 312; characteristics of 
good, 329; coralina, 374; Brockmannii, 13 ; 
in large pots, 119 ; not flowering, 169 ; cordi- 
folia, macrantha, and corymbifolia, 169 ; ni¬ 
gricans, 173 
Fuel economy, 297, 326, 390 
Fumigating with Cannabis sativa, 345; with 
Cayenne pepper, 408, 203 
Game, to guard against, 343 
Garden plans, 141, 289, 304; formation of fruit 
and kitchen, 146 
Gardenia radicans, wintering, 155 
Garden walks, 212 
Gardening, its peacefulness, 235 ; instruction 
in ornamental, 282, 389 
Gardeners’ Benevolent Society, 351 
Garget in heifer, 220 
Garlick planting, 133 
Gas refuse for wheat, 94 ; lime, fresh, 156 ; for 
manure, 345 
Geissomeria, culture of, 23 
Genista, list of and culture, 291 
Geraniums, repotting, 14; seedlings, 14; win¬ 
tering, 47, 76 ; pit for wintering, 408; scarlet, 
in windows, 86 , 91 ; Tom Thumb, 91 ; cut¬ 
tings to keep, 140 ; manure for, 169 ; cuttings, 
183; for bedding, 204, 219 ; scarlet, 219; 
yellow, 220; for bedding, 248, 382 
Gesnera Cooperi major culture, 183; seedlings, 
345 
Gesnerworts, 187 
Gilia coronopifolia and aggregata, 297 
I Ginseng root, 362 
Gladioli hybridizing, 32 ; Herbert’s, 33 ; plant¬ 
ing time, 33, 76 , 77 ; list of, 77 ; in pots, 409 ; 
moving, 14; planting, 14 ; gandavensis, 26 ; 
communis planting, 55 
Glass, rough plate, 184, 326 ; as a shelter, 350 
Glass Pavillion in Hyde Park, 286 
Gloriosa superba culture, 87 
Gloxinia, seedlings, 345 ; propagating, 374 
Glycine sinensis pruning, 170 
Glycine pruning, 176 
Golden-eyed lace-wing fly, 13 
Goldfussia anisophylla not flowering, 312 
Gooseberries, training, 19 ; list of prize, 40; pit 
for, 408 
Gooseberry trellis, 76 
Goosefoots, 75 
Gordonia Javanica, 187 
Grafting old trees, 331; plants in dung heat, 
336; whip, 244 
Grapes cracking, 28; muscatel, 28; cracked 
and mildewed, 44 ; diseased, 390 
Grasses for cricket ground, 41 ; for lawn, 184, 
234 ; for pasture on light soil, 262 
Grass-plot irrigation, 39 
Gravel splashing against house, 374 
Green fly, to kill, 344 
Greengage, unfruitful, 106 
Greenhouse, plants for cool, 34; without heat, 
56 ; for five pounds, 59; heated, management, 
63, 383, 397 ; construction of, 384 ; charcoal 
fire in, 407 ; improving, 298 ; plants for, 64 ; 
climbers, 76 ; and vinery, 76 ; blind, 92 ; the 
4^5, 124; heating by steam, 138; aspect for 
building, 141; arranging, 1 69 ; blind, 170; 
five pound, 205 ; shrubs (yellow), 290 ; heat¬ 
ing by gas, 312 ; stove plants for, 320 ; build¬ 
ing, 325 ; plants management, 346 ; annuals 
aided by hotbed, 369 ; twelve good plants for, 
282; creepers for trellis, 282; temperature 
without fire-heat, 350 ; heated by kitchen, 
361 
Grub-killing, 140 
Guernsey soup, 246 ; pickle for meat, 274 
Guinea fowls, 26 , 77 
Habrothamnus fasciculatus wintering, 14 
Hakea cucullata, 81 
Hardy plants, forcing for winter, 254 ; list of, 
254, 255 ; what are, 365 
Hartweg’s dismissal, 266 
Haricot bean, 390 ; sowing, 375 
Harte (Rev. W.), 313 
Hatching, 405 
Hawk fly, 43 
Hawthorn, the new double scarlet, 126; species 
named, 127 ; berries, 170 
Heath seed, time for sowing, 219 ; large, flower¬ 
ing in July, 282 
Heaths in window, 41 ; list of autumnal, 55 ; in 
sitting room, 55 ; for rooms, 76 i diseased, 
344, 408 
Hen-coop, size of, 28 
Hen-yard, yearly transactions of, 339, 360; work 
in January and February, 361; March, 388 ; 
April, 405 
Hens eating eggs, 26 ; what is a good layer, 360 ; 
laying shell-less eggs, 156 
Hepaticas, soil for, 409 
Heracleum giganteum, 283, 36l ; in a tub, 410 
Herbaceous plants, hardy, neglected, 327 ; au¬ 
tumn-flowering, 345 ; list of, 408 
Herefordshire orchards, 299 
Hibiscus, culture and list of, 115 
Hill, Sir John, 121 
Hindsia longiflora culture, 399 
Hollow tree root, plants or seeds for, 390 
Holly, yellow-berried, 374 
Hollyhocks, 167 ; blooming, 55 
Home instruction needed, 195 
Honey (dew), 140; from Taylor’s hives, 389 ; 
! candying, 390 
J Honeysuckle trumpet, 374 
' Horse-chestnuts, scarlet, 162 , 231 
Horseradish planting, 258 
Horticultural Shows, rules for prizes, 364 
Hortus Kewensis, 263 
Hot water, heating by, in pipes, 55 ; apparatus, 
390 
Hotbed making, 267 
Hotbeds for cuttings, 306, 312; materials for, 
307; between walls, 345 
House, beBt form and aspect of, 16 ; paint for 
outside, 41 
Household hints, 75 ; economy, 246 
Houttuynia cordata, 288 
Hoyas, list of and culture, 49 ; campanulata, 
Pottsii, Trinervis, and Imperialis, 209 
Hundred points of good husbandry, 285 
Hyacinths, water for, 219 ; in glasses, 242, 375 ; 
culture, 66, 389 ; treatment, 408; for house, 
106 
Hybridizing, geraniums and verbenas, 408 
Hypocyrta gracilis, 186 
