INDEX. 
Collinson and Lord Bute, 3/0 
Concrete roads, to manage, 4(5 
Conifers, selection of hardy, 75 
Coniferse, 413 
Cookery for the Many, 105 
“ Coral Necklace,” 225 
Corn flower, its usefulness, 50 
Cramp in fowls, 18 
Crassula cultrata culture, 150 
Crickets, how to destroy, 279 
Crimea, seeds sent to, 119 
Crocus, soil for the blue, 14 j blue, 
96; taking them up, 134 
Crops, prospects of, 220, 312 
Crosse, A., death of, 306 
Crowing, is it a nuisance ? 171 
Cryptomeria viridis, 446 
Crystal Palace Flower-show, 1 
Crystal Palace — Emperor and 
Empress of France there, 66; 
ring-beds there, 68; Horticul¬ 
tural Exhibition, 1/4, 1/6; Hor¬ 
ticultural fOte, 198 ; Street, 21 7 ; 
Report, 346 
Cuckoo first heard, 163 
Cucumber, forcing, care needed, 
25; on ridges, 57 ; diseased, 
91 ; disease, to avoid, 139; not 
fruiting, I 70 ; not growing freely, 
209; for table need not be 
fertilised, 245 ; frames, a thief 
in, 265 
Cup prizes at Poultry Shows, 379 
Curd cheese, 448 
Currants (Black, Red, and White), 
summer culture, 231 
Currants at Athens, 423 
Cuttings, new mode of striking, 4; 
boxes for, 24; glazed boxes for, 
215; in summer, 268; cheap 
glazed box for, 269 ; principles 
of striking, 319 
Cyclamens, managing, 211 
Cypripedium insignis culture, 151 
Cytisus racemosus and Coronilla 
glauca combined, 69 
Cytisuses, culture of greenhouse, 
86 
Dahlias, saving from their ene¬ 
mies, 31 ; dwarfing tall, 371 
Dairy Maid, 136 
Daisies on lawns, 227 ; treatment 
of Double, 378 
Damson Wine, 474 
Daphne odora, odora rubra, and 
odora variegata culture, 237 
Deep calling unto deep, 448 
Desserts, how they should be ar¬ 
ranged, 199; bow to arrange, 
288 
Dewsbury Poultry Show, 435 
Dickson’s Early Favourite Pea, 
433 
Dielytra, spectabilis, planting out, 
135; management, 211; seed¬ 
lings, 270 ; seed, 337 
Disbudding defined, 212 
Diseases of digestive organs in 
fowls, 169 
Diseases of vegetables, 366 
Diplazium thelypteroides, 90 
Divining Rod, 47 
Doves, food for, 321 
1 Dowsing for water, 47 
| Dried plants, preserving, 32 
| Drimys Winteri, 167 
| Dry season, notes for a, 76 
Ducklings, food for, 118 
Ducks, Mrs. Ford’s, 455 
Earthenware pites for hot- 
water and as flues, 7 j pipes for 
flues, 60 
Edgings, for walks and borders, 
388 ; evergreen, 429, 430 
1 Edinburgh, Public Parks in, 169 
Effect in arranging plants, ] 77 
stealers at Poultry Shows, 
*,ggs and Poultry, quantity 
Eggs, for hatching, 18 ; 
vent shell-less, 46 ; rem( 
from sitting hen, 77 
breed produces most, 4 ; 
Embothrium coccineum, 
Emigration, its conseque 
Employment, appropriate 
Entomological Society’s 
33, 119, 193, 303 ( 384, < 
' Entomologists’ Annu; 
1855,” 101 
Epipogon Gmclini, 301 
Eria Silkworm and its Moth, 385 
Eriostemon scabrum, 34 
Eriostemons, list of, 106 
Eschscholtzia tenuifolia, 1G8 
Evergreens, times for transplant¬ 
ing, 467 
Evil Step (The) 28 
Exeter Poultry Show, 261 
Exhibitions, Gardeners should at¬ 
tend, 4 0 
“Family Economist,” 225 
Farm, its true value, 192 
Farmer, an extensive, 205 
Feathers, fowls plucking each 
others, 362 
Felicity perpetuelle Rose pruning, 
310 
Fenzlia dianthiflora, 290 
Ferns and their parts described, 
193 ; first sown, 195 
Ferns, Hardy, 9 , 267 , 303, 343, 
421 ; list of hardy, 90 ; Hardy 
British, 229 , 384, 459; photo¬ 
graphic portraits of, 234 ; 
shades for, 396 
Fig culture, 360 
Fish and fish-ponds, 339 
Florelle Pear, 285 
Flower - garden, desirable plants 
1 for, 49; a natural, 277 
Flower-garden Plan, 173 
Flowers of our childhood, 95 
Flowers, arrangement of, 20 ; 
arranged in beds, 298 
Flower-seed sowing, 368 
Flower-borders, mixed, 441 
Flue of greenhouse, 62 
Flue, dung heated, 420 
Food for fowls, 100 
Frame, value of a homely, 427 
Frames, hints for making, 24 
French agricultural news, 297 
Frost at Midsummer, 24 4 
Frosts in May, 84 
Fruit models, 4 2 
Fruit, bow affected by last winter, 
103 ; forcing in ungenial spring, 
139; models of, 149; trees, 
thinning their blossom, 155; 
at the Crystal Palace, 181 ; 
crops of past and present 
season, 239 J trees, causes of 
failures in, 256 ; thinning, con¬ 
sequences of neglecting, 305 ; 
in Paris, 428 
Fruit-garden in August, 325 
Fruits at the Chiswick Show, 288 ; 
of Great Britain, 323, 363 
Fuchsias in a greenhouse partially 
shaded, 116 ; in June, 199; list 
of 293 ; this season, 351 ; as 
hanging plants, 3/7 ; with white 
corolla, 458 
Game Fowl, Indian, 18 
Gardener, how to become a, 14 
Gardening for the Many, 30, 77, 
312; May, 54; June, 162, 185; 
July, 220; September, 391 ; 
October, 468 
Gardener (Under), is he a gentle¬ 
man’s gardener? 361, 433 ; 
when taxable, 416 
Gardens near London worth 
seeing, 213, 230 
Garden-visiting, routes for, 251, 
270 
Gardeners and their employers, 
270 
Gardeners’ Benevolent Institution, 
326 
Gardeners, Advice to Young, 40, 
109, 146, 219 , 332 
Gardenias, their culture and pot¬ 
ting, 123 
Garden, selecting its situation, 126 
Gas, beating by, 71 
Gathering fruit, 231 
Gentianella, soil for, 170 
Gcnetyllis tulipifera, 142 
Genistas, culture of greenhouse, 
86 
Geographical Society’s Anniver¬ 
sary, 163 
Geranium citriodora minor, strik¬ 
ing cuttings, 211 
Geranium cuttings, 306 ; soil for 
and planting, 30/ 
Geraniums (Golden Chain, and 
Pink Cup, and Pink Ivy-leaved), 
their management, 71 ; Hybrid 
Perpetual, 156; mode of cross¬ 
ing, 157 ; list of variegated, 290 ; 
bedding, 307 ; this season, 351 ; 
growing large specimens, 463 
Glass-covered street proposed, 181 
Glass, clouding it to prevent 
scorching, 46 ; width of lap, 62 ; 
influence over seeds and seed¬ 
lings of coloured, 95 ; deaden¬ 
ing, 326 
Gloriosa Plantii culture, 15 
Gloriosa, list of species and cul¬ 
ture, 53 
Gloxinia culture, 135, 432 
Gloxinias, list of, 290 
Gold Fish management, 245 
Gooseberry Caterpillar, its pre¬ 
valence, 183 ; to avoid, 237 ; to 
destroy, 357 
Gooseberry culture in summer, 
230; sowing seeds of, 245 
Gooseberry and Currant Show 
(Daventry), 406 
Gooseberries, &c., eaten by Rats, 
415 
Goslings, rule for exhibiting, 316 
Grafting against a wall, 371; on 
Rose-roots, 372 
Grape (Stockwood’s Golden 
Hambro’), 314, 403 ; Joslin’s 
St. Albans, to prevent its crack¬ 
ing, 210 ; thinning, 226 , 266 ; 
The Catawba, 276 ; a new 
White, 289 
Grapes turning yellow, 135 
Grass seed, Australian, 32 
Grass at the Crystal Palace, 114 
Grattan on old trees, 231 
Grease spots, removing from 
stone, 246 
Greenhouse Vinery over a shed, 36 
Greenhouse plants, list of, 140; 
glass and ventilators, 210 ; 
plants exhibited, 249 ; back 
wall, evergreen for, 431 
Greenhouses, stoves inside, 7 ; 
heating and airing, 8, 16 ; 
climbers and plants for back 
wall, 16 
Green centre in Roses, 301, 340 
Greengage Plum, 439 
Guano, its Natural History, 19! : 
new sources of, 235 ; its natural 
history, 280 
Guernsey Lily, blooming it a 
second year, 45; culture, 129 
Hallingdon Hall and its gar¬ 
dens, 310 
Haltica rerata on Rose trees, 212 
Hamburgh versus Polish, 1/6 
Hay, its price, 156 
Hay-making, 165 - 
Heaths, list of, 141, ISO; ex¬ 
hibited, 249 ; culture of hardy, 
273 ; how to group hardy, 331 ; 
flowering in August, 340 
Heating Greenhouse, Pit, and 
Orchard-house, 80 
Heating pits, 347 
Hedaroma tulipifera, 104, 142 
Hedera glomerulata, 130 
Hemiandra pungens, 290 
Hen, with twitching head, 82; 
eating her eggs, 82 
Herb borders, 34 2 
Hessian Fly in America, 303 
Heteropterys nitida culture, 280 
“ Hints on Agriculture adapted to 
a Midland County,” 83 
Hippeasters, crossed, 34 
Hollyhock seedlings, raising, 345 
“ Hollyhock, An hour with the,” 
419 
Holly as a fence, 466 
Homely contrivances, 427 
Honey, preserving, 130; for mar¬ 
ket, 131 ; season, The present, 
415 
Hooker, Dr. J., at Kew, 369 
Hop tops, 36 
Hops, effect of sulphur on, 447 ; 
mode of drying, 447 
Hornets, their history, 166 
Horticultural Society’s Meeting— 
April, 20, 34 
Horticultural Society of London’s 
anniversary, 84, 104 
Horticultural Society’s Show at 
Gore House, 119 , 139 
Horticultural Shows (Local), their 
management, 101 , 108 
Horticultural Society’s Exhibition, 
224 
Horticultural Society’s Show, 279 
Horticultural Society’s Meeting 
in Regent-street, 202 
Horticultural Society’s Exhibition 
—June, 231, 248, 287 
Hot - water pipes sinking below 
boiler, 80 
Hothouse, cost of erecting an 
amateur, 44 
Hothouses, atmosphere in, 115 
Household (The), 396 , 4J0, 474 
Hovea Celsii management, 105 
Hoya Bella culture, 123 ; flowers 
falling, 170 ; notflowering, 209 ; 
carnosa as a window-plant, 430 
Humea elegans culture, i25; how 
to be shewn, 280 
Hyacinths, new, 35 
Hydrolea azurea, 180 
Hygrometer, Self-registering, 164 
Bypocalymna robusta, 143 
Hypoxis latifolia, 2/6 
Ice, preserving, 473 
Illness, average among labouring 
classes, 291 
Ink, recipe for, 450 
Insect troublesome in autumn, 432 
Insects on fruit-trees, 69 ; to avoid 
and destroy, 16o; under glass 
to destroy, 328 
Ipomsea Horsfallise culture, 183 
Island, planting an, 320, 3/6, 419 
Iron pipes as flues, 7, 15 
Ivy, its culture and training, 120; 
at Bishop’s Waltham i’alace, 
277 ; as an edging, 389 
Ixias, list of and culture, 258 
Ixora coccinca culture, 265 ; flori- 
bunda, 290 
Jackson’s Potato preserva- 
| tive, 30 
Jams, cost of, 357 
Jasminum Wallichianum, 192 
Joanneting, derivation of, 4 16 
Johnston, death of Dr. G., 350 
Josling’s St. Alban’s Grape, cause 
of its cracking, 390 
Joyce’s Stove for a greenhouse, 61 
Joyce’s Stove, 100 
June, Calendars for, 153 
Junipcrus sphcerica, 446 
Keighley Poultry Show, 456 
Kew Gardens, 302 
Kidney Bean, Fulmer’s Early, 
forforcing, 6 ; Gidney’s cutter, 13 
Kidney Beans, Dwarf, for forcing, 
145; preserving green, 1/5; 
preserving, 430 
Kirkpatrick (Dr.) medal given to, 
138 
Kitchen-garden seeds,list of, 30 
Kitchen-gardening in August, 313, 
316 
Kniazniki, a fruit, 95 
Kniphofia uvaria, 276 
Knowesley Park, /2 
Knypersley Hall, 46l 
Lancashire, fruits for, 302 
Lantana cruciata culture, 123 
Larch pruning and thinning, 26 
Larks in America, 349 
Lastrseas, list of hardy, 9 
Laurels, cutting down large, 46 
Lawns, their mowing expensive, 
189 ; sowing grass seeds on, 24(i 
Lawrence, Mrs., death of, 366 
Lemons, 426 
Lepidoptera, how to rear, kill, and 
preserve, 102 
Leptodachylon Californicum, 290 
Leptosiphon californicum, 233 
Lettuce sowing, 334, 353 
Lettuces, cultivatin g on dry soil, 205 
Lice on poultry, 436 
Lily, the Water, 339 
Limes, 426 
Linaria vulgaris var. Peloria, 
395 
Lincolnshire Poultry Show, 399 
Little matters, 23 
Lobby, plants for a, 464 
Louth Fiower Show, 318 
Luculia gratissima culture, 10 
Luton Hoo, gleaning from, 369 
Lycopods, list of, 291 
j Lycaste Skinnerii’s blooming time, 
| 3/8 
Lycopodium Braziliense culture, 
| 124 
