Yin 
INDEX. 
Rose (Solfatare), 14 
ltoscs, list of, 91 ; Hybrid Perpetual for forcing, 
92; in pots, 136;'in bad soil, 140; and ivy, 
141; in pots, culture of, 21 ; stocks, treat¬ 
ment of, 27 ; bedeguar on, 28 ; for a hedge, 
42; with green centres, 77 j planting, 62 ; 
trees, making in six weeks, 63; climbing, 
155; cause of failing, 169; soil for standard, 
184; standard, pruning, 205 ; pruning, 234 ; 
list of evergreen climbers, 247, 254 ; in pots, 
mulching, 247; cow-dung and soot for, 281 ; 
root-budding from, 281 ; forcing in pots, 293, 
312; soil for, 351, 383 ; pruning and pro¬ 
tecting, 369 ; Cloth of Gold, 374 ; for flower¬ 
beds, 381 ; standard, 390 ; at Royal Botanical 
Society, 379 
Rustic baskets, 300 
Sago palm, 145 
Saline refuse, 156 
Salpixantha culture, 272 
Salted meats, 274 
Salvia patens, dropping its flowers, 389 ; with 
bud at their top, 408 
Sand for cuttings, 184 
Sanvitalia procumbens as a bedder, 326 
Saponaria calabrica, 290, 389 
Sauari, or Suwarrow nuts, 298 
Scale (White), 13 ; destroying, 244 
Schomburghia culture, 66 
Scilla Siberica, 300 
Scoeva pyrastri, 43 
Scorching of plants in greenhouse, 91 
Scuticaria Steelii culture, 101 
Sea-kale, to produce, 131 ; forcing, 245, 282 
Season, its forwardness, 258, 309 
Senecio elegans, double, 27 
Sensation in plant, 3 
Sensitive plant, 3 
Sericographis Ghiesbreghtiana culture, 410 
Sewage of house, 170 
Shaddock, 164 
Shallots, 133 
Sheep, stall-feeding, 410 
Slienstone (W.), 107 
Shepherd’s purse, 74 
Shifting, reasons for, 248 ; potted plants, 356 
Shrubs newly planted, 247 
Sillett’s autobiography, 17 
I Sinningia guttata culture, 216 
I Slugs, destroying, 66 
| Smith (Sir J. E.), 185 
1 Soap-suds as manure, 13 
] Society for Promoting Floriculture, 301 
Soil, test of its staple, 252 ; storing, 88 
I Soiling cows, 326 
I Soils, their components, 208; food obtained by 
plants from, 208 
i Solandra grandiflora not flowering, 91 ; culture, 
308 
1 Solanum jasminoides, price of, 362 
j Sophronitis, list of and culture, 101 
j Soup for the poor, 139 
I South London Floricultural Society, 300 
j Sowerby (James), 29 
j Spade husbandry profits, 58 
j Sparmannia Africana not blooming, 345 
I Spatliodea lievis, 237 
1 Spinach, list of kinds, 230 ; sowing, 276 , 284; 
New Zealand, culture, 400 
Spireea prunifolia, 160 
Spineas, list of and culture, 328 
Spring planting, consequences of, 62; of 1850 
(effects of), 25 
Statice pseudo-armeria, 155; glumacea, 303 
Stenocarpus Cunninghamii, 169 
Stephanotis floribunda, 27 
Steptocarpus Rexii, 169 
Stocks, Brompton, 55 ; time for sowing, 410 
Stoves heated by limekilns, 92 ; without flues, 
40, 56 ; for forwarding plants, 204 
Strawberries (Cisalpine), 92 ; (British Queen), 
to protect, 125; culture, 394; Alpines, 395 ; 
forcing, 155, 160 ; seed, vegetating, 36l ; on 
light bank, 27 
Stylidium mucronifolium, 250 
Sugar beer, 220 
Sulphur and insects, 75 
Sulphur fumigator, 283 
Sunflower seed, to grow, 346 ; for poultry, 362 
Swede turnips, 276 ; their usefulness, 310 
Sweet William (blood-red), 109 
Synonymes, how they arise, 111 
Sylva (Evelyn’s), 57 
Syringa, or Mock Orange, 163 
Table stew-pan, 12 
Tacsonia pinnatistipula and manicata, 5, 7, 3 16 
Tallies, to prepare for use, 21 6 
Tan for manure, 120 ; for hotbed, 326 
Tarring walls, 326 
Tea-making, 75 ; plant, 97 ; tree, history of, 79 
Teazel culture, 83, 84 
Tecoma radicans, 170 
Temperature at night, 150 
Temple (Sir W.), 235 
Theobroma cacao, 352 
Thorns, species of, 112; ornamental, 126; 
scarlet, 231 
Thrips adonidum, 93 
Thrush (the Song), 135 
Tigridias, wintering, 48 
Tinea granella, 121 
Tobacco drying, &c., 220 ; water, 297 ; use of, 
293 
Tomatos, pickling, 92 
Tools for an allotment, 234 
Top-dressing, 331 
Torenia Asiatica culture, 393 
Tradescantia velutina, 95 
Training rods, 56 ; pot plants excessive, 393 
Train-road scrapings, 298 
Training to studs, 262 
Treees, for park scenery, 403; large, transplant¬ 
ing, 319, 332 
Trellises for red and white currants, 82 ; for 
house, 120; for fruit-trees, 303; iron for 
trees, 325 
Trenching, 197 
Trichopilia suavis, 160 
Tropoeolum Benthii, 95 ; speciosum, 374 ; for 
conservatory, 27 
Tulip Show, Great Northern, 351 ; beds, shad¬ 
ing, 245 
Tulips in Holland, 312; early for borders, 315; 
protecting, 323 
Turnips (Swede) for sprouts, 133 ; culture, 401 ; 
list of, 230 
Tusser, Thomas, 285 
Ulceus in plants, 44 
Vallota purpurea culture, 106 
Vanilla planifolia culture, 101 
Variation of compass, 56 
Vases, flowers for, 205 
Vegetables, selections for cottagers, 21 7 
Ventilation, how essential, 95, 106 , 128; in j 
greenhouses, &c., 149 
Venus’s fly-trap, 3, 327 
Verbascums, list of and culture, 402 
Verbenas, list of, 13 ; green fly on, 88 ; arrange¬ 
ment of, 204 ; on trellis, 248; list of, 248 ; and 
heliotropes, 297 ; and geraniums, 298 ; new, 
301 ; for exhibition, culture and list of, 344 ; 
list and colours of, 389 
Veronicas, list of, 119 
Victoria regia, its history, 122 
Villa Gardener (Mrs. Loudon’s), 16 
Vine, weak, 26 ; Tortrix, 29 ; pruning for 
forcing, 41; with red leaves, 156; leaves 
blotched, 156; removing, 183; the Tokay, 374 
Vinegar plant, 154, 220 ; propagating, 75 
Vinery ventilating, 311; and planthouse com- ! 
bined, 353 ; construction of, 389; fire for, 409 
Vines in greenhouse, 92 ; roots decayed, 92 ; in 
pots, forcing, 95; and cucumbers, to force, 
141; in pots, 210; with stove plants, 219; 
over-cropped, 262 ; mildew on, 312; with 
pelargoniums, 345; with pines, 361 ; forcing, 
353 
Violets in winter, 113 ; and red spider, 41 ; cul¬ 
ture of, 409 
Walks in kitchen-garden, 46; making, 153, 
190 ; garden, 168 , 225, 268 , 282, 361 ; over a 
swamp, 268 
Wall, covering with ivy, 247 ! of earth, 280 ; 
old, how to manage, 282 ; borders, 45 ; fruits 
for south and west, 183 
Ward’s Cases, why not ventilated, 205 
Wasps, destroying, 403 
Water, to improve hard, 28; not the only food 
of plants, 171 ; quantity required by plants, 
185 
Water lilies in tank, 56; Mr. Lawson’s work 
on, 122 
Water plants, 140 
Water violet, 311 
Weigela rosea, 56 ; culture, 315, 329; treatment, 
361 
Wheat gluten, 345 
Wild Flowers: October, 74; November, 118, j 
137; December, 19 s, 260 ; February, 340 
Window plants, to manage, 227 , 242,3*4 ; flow- , 
ers, sweet, 311 
Winter-blooming stove plants, list of, 180 
Women working in fields, 258 
Wood, newly grubbed, 220 
Wood warbler, wood wren, and willow wren, 280 
Woodlice, to destroy, 362 
Worms in pots, 262 
Worton cottage meetings, 315 
Wotton, Sir H., 39 1 
Yeast, making, 203 
Yuccas, roots out of soil, 14 
Zefhyranthes grandiplora culture, 312 
WOODCUTS. 
1 
Antler moth . 
Forcing-pit 
Room for plants . 
Box churn 
Table stew pan . 
Cockchafer grub . 
Vine tortrix and grubs * . 
Hawk fly . . . 
Aerides maculosum var. Schroederi . 
Cheese cooking pan 
Table filter 
Myrtus tomentosa. 
Rhyncospcrnum jasminoides 
Five-pound greenhouse . 60 , 
Ribbed black pouter pigeon 
Moussonia elegans . . 
Hakea cucullata . 
Thrips .... 
Metrosideros buxifolia 
Cattleya labiata rubra 
Liliurn Wallichianum . . 
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1 t Corn moth 
4 | Song thrush . . 
7 I Stan wick nectarine 
12 Catasetum fimbriatum 
12 : Fruit-tree arrangements 
15 Mealy bug . . 
29 J Begonia Ingramii . 
43 ] Rhodothamnus Kamtchaticus 
45 ' Franciscea eximia . 
54 Echeandia terniflora 
54 Hypocyrta gracilis , 
59 j Ochna atro-purpurea 
59 Gordonia Javanica 
24, 125 Pot-herb moth 
71 Hoya campanulata 
81 Opuntia Salmiana . 
81 | Almeidea rubra 
93 i Calanthe masuca . 
95 Pimelea macrocephala 
108 j Spatliodea lievis 
109 1 Stylidium mucronifolium 
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135 
144 
145 
147 
157 
159 
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172 
173 
186 
187 
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207 
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Freziera theoides . . . 251 
Pitcairnia Jacksoni . . 265 ' 
Calocliortus pallidus . . 266 , 
Bee-feeder . . . 276 
Lisle pigeon . . . 279 
Glass Pavilion in Hyde Park . 286 , 
Polygonum cuspidatum . . 287 
Echites Franciscea var. floribus sulphureis 301 ! 
Acantholimon glumaceum . . 302 
Tacsonia manicata . . 316 ' 
Coccoloba macropylla . . 317 j 
Pharbitis limbata . . . 330 | 
Jacinth pigeon . . .341 
Astrapaea viscosa . . . 362 
Primula capitata . . . 365 
Allium acuminatum . . 366 
Barbacenia ltogierii . . 3*9 
Olive-tree . . . 392 
Odontoglossum citrosmum . . 394 
Circular pond and borders . . 403 
