4S465 
INDEX. 
Abelia floribunda, hardy, 444 
Achimenes, list of, 315, 318 
Adams, William, 203 
Adoxa moschatellina, 1/2 
TEclimea culture, 51 
Aerides crispum culture, 381 
African plants, names of, 69 
Agricultural operations for April, 
12, 63 
Agricultural (Royal) Society’s pro¬ 
ceedings, 35 
Agricultural Society of England, 
130, 151, 210 , 290 ; Meeting at 
Gloucester, 322 
Agrostographia, 55 
Agrotis segetum, 273 
Air-giving, 240 
Alaria, 349 
Alyssums for mixed borders, 59 
Allotment farming—May,65 ; July, 
248; August, 320; September, 
405 ; October, 503 
Allotment Gardens, system of 
managing at Southampton, 114; 
farming, 145 
Alovsia citriodora, 491 
Amaryllis belladonna culture, 291 
Ammocharis coranica, 231 
Anachaste sanguinea, 157 
Anagallises, 131 
Anemone sowing, 1/2 
Anemones for mixed borders, 59 
Anisanthuses, 441 
Anobium tessellatum, 173 
Antholizas, 441 
Anthomyia lactueae, 233 
Ants in fruit trees, 331 
Annuals for greenhouse, 81, 211 
Aphelexis culture, 108 
Apricot bloom, barren, 92 ; prun¬ 
ing, 397, 492 
Apples (Hanwell Souring), one of 
the most prohtable, 45 ; seed¬ 
lings, 232 ; unripe, for tarts, 352 ; 
Lady Lennox and King of the 
Pippins, 393 
Aquariums, 342 
Aquilegias, list of, 60 
Araucaria excelsa cuttings, 239, 242 
Arbutus in a belt, 70 
Argvreia (Lettsomial tomentosa, 
121 
Armitage Park, 342 
Arpophyllum giganteum, 39 
Arthrocladia, 349 
Asparagus, beds, salting, 52; 
planting, 68 ; culture, 89 , 206 
Asperococcus, 369 
Asters for exhibiting, 211 
Australia, seeds for, 352 
Azalea pruning, 52 ; list of, 121 ; 
indicas, 141; potting, 311; graft¬ 
ing Chinese, 330; hardiness of 
white Indian, 480 ; soil for, 481 
Babiana and its species, 400 
Balm (Lemon) wine, 291 , 311 
Balm of Gilead seedlings, 292 
Balsams, their flowers described, 
33 ; culture, 271 
Bananas at Chatsworth, 423 ; thin¬ 
ning, 491, 510 
Bank Grove gardens, 119 
Bank Grove, 336 
Barley, sowing,and its varieties, 12 ; 
winter, 272 ; harvesting, 404 
Barrel-system of planting, 392 
Baskets, crystal, 151 
Basket plants in greenhouse, 258 
Beans, culture of winter, 4S5 
Bedding-out plants, 20 , 32, 98 ; 
at Kew Gardens, 22 ; guide for, 
172 ; modes of, 496 
Beech, fern leaved, its branches 
taking root, 13 
Bees, excess of drones, 32; some¬ 
thing about, 47 ; flowers for, 51 ; 
Calendar for May, 68; losses, 
68; pollen, 68; supers, 68; in 
Australia, 68 ; driving, 106 ; 
Marriott’s hives, 109 ; flowers 
for, 110; rule for continuing to 
feed, 132 ; Calendar for June, 
149; the season, 149; queen 
wasps, 149; putting on supers, 
149 ; Taylor’s bar hive, 149 ; 
deserting hive, 172 ; the last 
season and swarming, 187; re¬ 
moving and driving, 189 ; glass 
stock-hive, 190; Taylor’s bar- 
hive, 190 ; preventing swarming,, 
191 ; early swarms, 206 , 212 , 249 ; 
flat glasses, 212; date of swarms, 
driving. Neighbour’s hive, &c., 
232 ; llesborough’s Prize Essay 
on their longevity, 236 ; return¬ 
ing swarms, 23/ ; Apiarian’s Ca¬ 
lendar, July, 249 ; rapid honey 
gathering, 249 ; Taylor’s dividing 
hive, 249; swarming, to prevent, 
272 , 291 ; inactive, 2 / 2 ; joining 
casts to swarms, 291 ; lost their 
queen, 291 ; in Neighbour’s 
cottage hive, 311 ; in bar-hive, 
311 ; uniting swarms, 312, 321 ; 
Calendar for August, 321 ; mark¬ 
ing the queen, 321 ; Taylor’s di¬ 
viding hive, 321 ; consume honey 
dew, 328 ; deserting hive, &c., 
372 ; driving, 372 ; the honey 
season, 391 ; taking honey, 391 ; 
mortality among, 391 ; Calendar, 
September, 406; removing su¬ 
pers, uniting stocks, fumigating, 
and north aspect,407; marking 
queen, 411 ; feeding troughs, 
411; wax obtained from sugar, 
432 ; summer feeding needed, 
472 ; feeding, 492; October Ca¬ 
lendar, 504 ; chloroform, north 
aspect, 504 ; bee - keeping for 
cottagers, 508 ; history of bees, 
508 ; weight of hive, 511 
Beet, its history, and sugar-making 
from, 309 
Beetles (black), to destroy', 212 , 
231, 232 
Begonia fuchsioides culture, 172 ; 
Prestonensis, 301 ; cinnabarina 
seedlings, 472 
Belladonna culture, 18 
Bell - glasses superior to hand- 
lights, 9 
Berberis Darwinii, to seed, 79; its 
merits, 313 
Biennials, sowing, 99 
Birds’ e*gs, sale of collection, 157 
Birmingham Botanic Garden, 319, 
341 
Bones, preparing for manure, 12 
Borders in kitchen garden, their 
uses, 62 
Bostrychia, 469 
Botanic Society’s exhibition, Re¬ 
gent’s Park (June), 222 , 282 
Bottom-heat, best mode of ob¬ 
taining, 7 ; from water, 110 ; by 
hot-water, 411 
Botany, lectures on, 158 
Bouquet making, 58 ; in quartered 
style, 78 
Bourne (the) at Croydon, 148 
Box management, 263 
Brassia \illosa, 157 
Brazilian plants, list and notes of 
desirable, 279 ; collecting, 350 
Brocoli (winter), to obtain, 11 ; 
destroyed by the winter, 79 
Buckwheat culture, 190 
Bulbs, 5, 178 , 196 , 359, 398, 439, 
478; with distorted roots, 251 ; 
culture of Cape, 442 ; packing, 
451 ; planting depth, 510 
Bunga Bunga, 298 
Burning for manure, 12 
Butter, bad-flavoured, 111; cause 
of bad, 151 
Cabbage culture, 11, planting, 
446, 504 
Cabbage (stalks), what shall I do 
with ? 105 ; pickling, 132 
Cabbage and colewort culture, 320 
Cactus management, 79 ; seed, 
sowing, 212 ; Night-blooming, 
381 
Calceolarias for beds and baskets, 
8; cuttings under hand-lights, 
69 ; management, 80 ; cuttings 
under hand-lights, 95 ; sowing 
herbaceous, 164; when they will 
bloom, 171 ; leprosied, 303 ; Sul¬ 
tan, 303, 498; cut down, 383, 
410 ; cuttings, 421 
Calendars—May, 70 ; June, 151; 
July, 251 ; August, 331 ; Sep¬ 
tember, 411 ; October, 511 
Calistegia pubesccns culture, 172 
Camellia, cuttings, 14 ; potting, 
111, 138; reticulata (the Lion of 
Surrey), 120; culture, 120, 137; 
not forming flower-buds, 191 ; 
leaves spotted, 212; pot-bound, 
452 
Campanulas for mixed border, 60 ; 
pyramidalis culture, 280 ; grandis 
and nobilis, 282 
Cankered apple-trees, 330 
Cape bulbs, their treatment, 69 ; 
arrived in June, 271 
Carnations for breeding, "0; cul¬ 
ture, 100; sowing, laying, and 
piping, 124; list of and charac¬ 
ters, 142; seedlings, 211; per¬ 
petual, their propagation, 221 
Carriage, expense of keeping, 471 
Carrot, culture, 65 ; field culture, 
86; grub, 248 
Carpomitra, 319 
Cassia corymbosa, 340 ; culture, 
379 
Cat nuisance, 272 
Catasetum secundum, 157 
Caterpillars, destroying, 212 
Cattle, sale of, 157 > prices in 
America, 509 
Cauliflowers to stand the winter, 
424 
Cedar of Lebanon, moving, 510 
Celery, unblanched, 32 ; cultivation 
of early, 93 ; culture, 459 
Cenia turbiuata, 339 
Ceratostema longiflorum, 300 
Ceylon, plants there, 36 
Channerops humilis, hardy, 251 
Charcoal dust as manure, 232 
Chatsworth Gardens, 402, 422 
Cheese, quantity imported, 158 
colouring Gloucester, 232 
Cheiranthus fruticulosus, 373 
Chelone glabra, 52; bavbata, 494 
Chelsea Garden, its threatened de¬ 
preciation, 394 
Chemistry of agriculture, 157 
Cherries in brandy, 331 
Cherry bloom unfruitful, 491 
Chester House, 482 
China Asters, transplanting in 
bloom, 495 
Chiswick House, 338 
Chorda, 350 
Chordaria, 388 
Chrysanthemums, list of twelve, 
2i 1 ; early, very desirable, 344 ; 
culture and layers, 422 
Chysis bractescens for ladies’ hair, 
39 
Cinerarias, list of for exhibition, 
13; list of good, 79, 140; early 
bedded, 162 ; sowing, 164 ; list 
of, 232; in cold room, 330; 
sport, 410 ; seedlings, 421 
Circle of dependencies, 275 
Cistus, pruning on rockwork, 472 
Cladostephus, 407 
Clianthus puniceus, noble speci¬ 
men on wall, 231 
Climbers for stove and greenhouse, 
31 ; half-hardy, 92 ; among roses, 
96 
Clitoria ternatea, double, 444 
Cloches, 109 
Clover sowing, 44 
Club-root, to prevent, 452 
Coal-barge, garden in, 76 
Coleus Blumei, 140 
Collinsia bicolor, 163 
Colocasia edulis half-hardy, 3 
Compost making, 110 
Coniferte, 10 , 62 , 100, 165 ; effects 
of the winter on in Scotand, 158 ; 
their propagation by seed, 200 ; 
propagating by cuttings, 242 ; 
grafting, 318 
Conifers, wintered at Bank Grove, 
122 
Copings, fixing, 69 
Coquilla nuts, 68 
Corydalis bulbosa, 53 
Corydalis lutea and claviculata, 93 
Cosmos bipinnata sowing, 68 
Cotoneasters as standards, 162 
Cottage Gardener’s holiday, 267 
Covent Garden, 3, 17, 58, 7d, 97, 
118, 137, 161, 177, 195, 216, 237, 
255, 277 , 314, 334, 357 
Covering fruit trees, 97 
Cows, sale of Earl lfucie’s, 450 ; 
milk, blood in, 451 
Crinum revolutum culture, 18 
Crocus-seed sowing, 272 ; bulbs, 
small, 492 ; culture, soil, and 
situation, 498 
Cropping a garden, 13 
Crops, prospects of, 298 , 306 ; in¬ 
fluence of weather over, 375,382 ; 
prospect of, 405 
Crossing, 452 
Crystal Palace, its progress and 
prospects, 34, 493 ; in New York, 
390 
Cucumbers in cold greenhouse, 
31 ; decaying at the tip, 191 ; 
plants producing only male blos¬ 
soms, 232 
Cucumber house, 423 
