VI 
INDEX. 
Cucumber and Melon house, 453 
Cucumber and Melon growing for 
Covent Garden, 270 
Currant (Black), 97 ; on south 
wall, 371; saving on the tree, 
401 
Cutleria, 368 
Cut flowers should be classed, 317 
Cuttings under bell-glasses, 110; 
wintering, 392 
Cyclamen not blooming, 92 ; (Per¬ 
sian) culture, 438 
Cydonia japonica, preserving its 
fruit, 352 
Cyrtopodium punctatum, 117 
Cystoseira, 2ofl; granulata, 230 
Dahlias, list of good, 70; Hogg 
on the, 215; its history, 21(j 
Danger and the Deliverer, 168 
Dart moth, 273 
Datura, cutting down, 31 
Datura ceratocaulon sowing, 151 
Death-watch, 1 73 
Dendrobium onosmum, 39 
Dendrobium filiforme, 315 
Deodar seed imported, 35 
Desmarestia, 349 
Deutzia gracilis, 79; as a standard, 
141 
Dianthus Altrinsonii (?), 52 
Dianthus Gardnerii, 339 
Dielytra, not Dielytra, 390 
Dictyanthus pavonia, 219 
Dictyosiphon, 3 G 9 
Dictyota, 369 
Dielytra spectabilis, 111; propa¬ 
gating, 150 ; producing seed, 352 
Dipladenia crassin»da, var. su- 
perba, 222 
Dipladenia hybrids, 258 
Disa grandiflora, 300; culture, 3/7 
Disbudding, 98 
Discontented Spirit, 84 
Duties on garden produce, 57 
Ectocakfcs, 408 
Edging for walks (Hogg’s), 151, 
263 ; for beds, 172 
Edgings of Geraniums, &c., 496 
Edwardsia grandiflora, 214, 232 
Elachistea, 389 
Endive, best for blanching, 131 
Engine-house gardening, 110, 191, 
312 
Entomological Society’s prize, 177 
Entomological Society’s meeting, 
296 , 356, 473 
Ericas, potting, 69 
Epidendrums, new, 156 
Epiphyllum, good properties of, 13 
Eriopsis altissima, 157 
Eriostemons, the best, and their 
culture, ISO 
Evil (doing) that good may come, 
Fence (The), 482 
Ferns, and their culture, 181 ; pot¬ 
ting stove, 261 ; in glass case, 
272 ; (stove), sowing, 304 
Filtering paper, 410 
Flies, to exclude, 432 
Floral devices, 478 ; What are? 492 
Florists’ Flower, what is a, 151 
Flour, keeping, 472 
Flower arrangement,, 452 ; beds, 
standard flowers in, 497 
Flower-bed colours, to judge of, 14 
Flower-border planting, 492 
Flower-garden plans, 144, 15P, 
293, 353, 433 
Flowering, to promote, 443 
Forcing-houses, angles for roofs, 
131 
Forest Trees of Britain, 413 
Forsythia viridissima,how to bloom 
well, 38 
Frame, a cold, 330 
French gardening, its progress, 312 
Friesia peduncularis, 140 
Frost, its effects on new trees, &c., 
^ 109 
Fruit preserved without sugar or 
vinegar, -40 
Fruit-tree planting, 4, 13 ; raising 
seedlings, 13 ; pruning old, 52 ; 
in pots, pruning, 312 ; what 
shall we do for in September, 
! 396 
Fruits, prospects of crop, 213 ; 
preserving through the winter, 
600 
Fuchsias, six good, 191; compost 
for, 211 ; list of, 283; for pyra¬ 
mids, 316 ; to cultivate for, 318 ; 
in cold room, 330 ; as standards, 
340 ; for windows, list of and 
culture, 362 ; rooted in spring, 
491 
Fucus vesiculosus, &c., 229 
Fumariaofficinalis, 133 ; parviflora, 
213 ; capreolata, 253 
Fumaric acid, 213 
Fumeworts, 53 
Furze, sowing, 31 ; propagating 
double-blossomed, 191 
Garden, a very poor, 330; old 
and neglected, 37 1 ; improving 
neglected, 472 
Garden plan, 28 
Gardeners’ Benevolent Institution, 
75, 253 
Gardeners’ Rcgistrating Society, 
434 
Gardening, love of, its value and 
universality, 233 
Garrya eliptica moving, 192 
Gas, heating boiler by, 52 
Gas tar, its garden uses, 155 
Gaultheria fcruginca and culture, 
1)3 
Gaura Lindheimerii sowing, 68 
Gaylussacia pulchra, 3)6 
Geissorhizas, 39 
Genista fragrans pruning, 191 
Gentianella, 272 
Gentians, soil for, 150 
Geraniums, for beds, 20; forcing 
varieties, 38; its cuttings, ma¬ 
nagement of, 80 ; rose-scented, 
111 ; Mangle’s variegated, 111 ; 
leaves “spotted,” 132; forced, 
prone to seed, 231 ; wild, and 
Glaucum grandiflorum, 314 ; for 
bedding, 315; standards, 330 ; 
wintering, 330 ; Harry More’s 
and Aunt Harriet’s, 330 ; fancy, 
pruning, 331 ; for bedding, 
337; at Chiswick House, 338; 
Shrubland Pet, 387 ; fancy, 392 ; 
Fancy and Scarlet, treatment, 
410; in pots, 422 ; seed-sow¬ 
ing, 429 ; golden, 442 ; cut¬ 
tings, 442, 452 ; Mangles’ varie¬ 
gated, with white leaves, 452 ; 
cuttings, 491 ; for outside win¬ 
dow, 491 ; white ivy-leaved cut¬ 
tings, 495 ; in parlour window, 
509 
Gladioli, 315 ; list of, 331 
Gladiolus sowing, 510 
Glass covers for walls, 464 
Gnats, to prevent their stinging,251 
Goats, management of, 111 
Gold fish, 506, 511 ; management, 
449 
Gongora cymbiformis, 157 
Gooseberries, what to do with, 213 
Gooseberry, caterpillars, removing, 
255; culture, 305 ; birds and 
caterpillars infesting, 305 ; deri¬ 
vation of name, 330 
Graft, how influenced by stock, 68 
Grapes, in Cephalonia diseased, 35 ; 
the Muscat de Jesu, 816 ; mode 
of arranging for dessert, 316; 
for an early and a late house, 
352 ; mildewed, 372 ; time to 
bag, 411 ; Canon Hall Muscat, to 
keep from spotting, 423 ; split¬ 
ting, 472 
Grass, seeds, sowing, 44 ; under 
cedars, 70 ; lawn lately sown, 150 
Grasses, history of their intro¬ 
duction, 55 ; comparative value 
as fodder, 210 
Greenhouse, treatment of one neg¬ 
lected, 31, 40, 60 ; improving a 
neglected, 79 ; plants, list of, 92 ; 
vinery,constructing, 122 ; plants, 
moving them into the open 
air, 134; structure for protect¬ 
ing, 135; improving one neg¬ 
lected, 163 ; ornamenting it eco¬ 
nomically, 220 ; heating by gas, 
251 ; ornamenting economically, 
280 ; plants, protecting out-of- 
doors, 302; flowers at Christ¬ 
mas, 410; vinery, its construc¬ 
tion, 371 ; work in September, 
421 ; hot-water piping for, 431 ; 
angle of its roof, 432; heating 
small, 452 ; and stove com¬ 
bined, 452 ; to construct as not 
a fixture, 452 ; cost of heating, 
472 ; heating small, 472 ; tank 
for heating, 491 
Groups, planting in, 73 
Grubs, destroying, 510 
Guano, quantities imported, 76; 
tests for, 76 ; its adulteration, 
177 
Gutta Percha hose, 32 
Hacmantiius, 3/9; species and 
culture, 5 
Hair-rooted plants, potting, 443 
Halidrys, 206 
Haliseris, 368 
Hand-cultivator, 327 
Hawkers of plants, 357 
Hayloclcia pusilla, 6 
Hay-making, 225, 245 
Haytian agricultural fete, 235 
Heaths, sale of, 97 ; notes on. 223, 
284 
Heath mould, what it is, 481 
Heating a span-roofed vinery, Sec., 
172 
Heaton Norris, 482 
Heaton Park, 463 
Ilemerocallis lancifolium, 52 
Hepaticas not blooming, 92 
Heracleum giganteum, 311 
Heracleums, their use, 452 
Herbaceous plants, a plea for, 488; 
too neglected, 494 
Herbertia, species of, 6 
Hesperantha, species of, 6 
Hcspcroscordium, 6 
Himanthalia lorea, 230 
Hippeasters, their propagation and 
culture, 196 
Hippeastrums, and soil for, 6 ; 
culture, 7 ; species described, 
178 ; .lohnsoniiculture, 271 
Hoe (Gidney’s Prussian), im¬ 
proved, 137 
Horseradish, 410 
horticultural shows — their in¬ 
fluence, 173; of London, their 
errors, 174 ; Regent’s Park, 
181 ; meeting of exhibitors, 194 ; 
Chiswick, 218, 238; Liverpool 
and Manchester, 4/6 
Horticultural Society’s Meeting, 37 , 
78; Show,139 
Horticultural Society (London), 
its position, 354; its plant col¬ 
lectors, 355; Meeting, 377 
Horticultural Society’s show, July, 
300, 314 
Horticultural Exhibitors’ Society, 
273 ; its rules, 274 
Hotbed making, an economical 
mode, 69 
Hoteia japotiica, 472 
Hyacinths, list of good, 38 ; cul¬ 
ture in glasses, 445 ; culture in 
pots, 463; culture in beds, 483 
Hybridizing, 258 ; Geraniums, 37 1 
Hydrangea calture, 221 ; too neg¬ 
lected, 343 
Hydrottenia meleagris, 359 
Hymenocallis and its species, 359 ; 
acutifolia, 432 
H vmenophyllum Tunbridgense, 
410, 402 
Hypoxia, 361 ; list of species, 398 
Imcatiens Hookekiana and 
culture, 33 
Indian-rubber plant culture, 52 
ludigofera decora, 239 
Inoculating grass, 285 
Iris, The Peacock, 510 
Irony water, 232 
Ipomtea Horsfallire pruning, 91 
lsmene and its species, 361 
Ivory (vegetable), 68 
Ivy, pruning, 69 ; not clinging, 
251 ; substituted for grass, 339 ; 
culture, 472 
Ixia, list of species, 398 
Ixiolirions, 478 
James’s (St.) Park, its history, 95 
Japan Lilies, hardy, 172 
Jersey, scraps from, 351 
Jottings by the way, 364 , 380 
Jussieu (A de) memoir of, 490 
Kidney bean, and its culture, 26 
Kitchen-garden routine, 62, 66 
Kitchen-garden crops, 146 
Labels of GuttaPercha, 18 
Laburnum checks blight? 351 
Lachenalias, 442, 478 
Ltelia grandis, 39 
Laminaria, 349 
Landlord and Tenant, 411 
Lapageria rosea, 300 
Laurel hedge, cutting down, 331 
Lawn, plants for in boxes, ] 72 ; 
forming and keeping, 284 
Leathesia, 389 
Leaves, making skeletons of, 205 ; 
dissecting, 232 ; anatomizing, 269 
Ledcbourghia hyacinthina, 479 
Leptosiphon luteus and culture, 
73, 219 
Lesson of God’s own teaching, 128 
Lettuce culture, 43; (Cos) grown 
near London, 118; Saw-fly, 
233 ; to stand the winter, 424 ; 
for winter, 446 
Lcucocorynes, 478 
Liatris spicata, 494 
Libertia, 4/9 
Librocedrus Chilensis, its rapid { 
growth, 338 
Lilium giganteum, 140 
Lily of the Valley culture and 
forcing, 358 
Lime, superphosphate of, 185 
Lime-tree dormant, 291 
Linaria Dalmatica, 52 
Liquid-manure, 110, 301 ; of poul¬ 
try dung, 12; clarifying, 411 
Liquorice culture, 159 
Litosiplion, 369 
Liverpool Horticultural Show, 161 
Loam defined, 1 19 ; what is it ? 481 
Lobelias, 81 ; ramosa and syphili¬ 
tica, 232 ; culture, 282 ; winter¬ 
ing, 510 ; ramosoides, 510 
Luculia gratissima culture, 198 
Lychnises, 52 
Lycopodiums, list and culture, 42, 
82; in a Wardian Case, 125 
Mangold, culture,66,102 ; manure 
for, 111 
Manuring, 110 
Manure waterings, 301 
Magnolia grandiflora not flower¬ 
ing, 451 
Manchester Botanic Garden, 499 
Marble, to remove grease stains 
from, 92 
Marica, 479 
Mason wasps’ nest, 292 
Masses, planting in, 73 
Massing plants, 494 
Massonia, 479 
Matthiola incana and sinuata, 333 
Maxillarias, new, 156 
Medicines, vegetable, 394 
Medlar bloom unfertile, 132 
Melanthium, 479 
Melilotus leucantha, 472 
Melons, culture during growth, 
224, 244 ; Golden Queen, 238 ; 
culture, 293 ; house, 453 
Mesologia, 388 
Middleton Hall, 381 
Mignonette, 372 
Mildew on Melons, 411 
Millia, 479 
Miller (P.), his monument re¬ 
paired, 117 
Milk, butter, eggs, and bacon, for 
a family, 212 
Mimulus, when it will bloom, 171 
Mixed borders, plants for, 59 
Moles, 331, 371 ; mischievous or 
not? 458 
Montbrettia, 479 
Mount Pleasant, 482 
Mowing machine, 13 
Mulberry-tree, moving large, 492 
Mushroom failures, 92 
Musk plants raised by Chelsea 
pensioners, 238 
Mustard-culture for sheep, 485 
Myrionema, 389 
Myriotrichia, 408 
Naming new plants, 257, 271 
Nasturtium officinale Sc sylvestre, 
393 ; terrestre, 473 ; amphibiuin, 
493 
Neglected plants, 342 
Nemophila insignis and maculata j 
sowing, 81; insignis culture, 163 | 
Nerines, 479 
New York Crystal Palace—agri¬ 
cultural implements, 408 
Northampton Flower Show, 316 I 
