INDEX. 
“ Lying and Laying,” 186 
MaCLISe’S ANACRONISM, 451 
Maiden-hair Fern culture, 150 
Maiden-hair Fern, 195 
Manchester and Liverpool Poultry 
Show, 437, 454 
Mangosteenripenedat Sion House, 
124 
Mangosteen, 143; Who first 
fruited it in England ? 226 ; 
at Sion House, 391 
ManureManufactory of the London 
Manure Company, 113 
Maple Sugar in America, 190 
March, plants flowering in, 78 
Markets (London), prices at, 245, 
265, 283, 301, 320, 341, 36l, 381, 
400, 419, 437, 458, 476 
Maxillaria Harrisonise’s blooming 
time, 378 
May blossom first seen, 163 
Mealy Bug, to destroy, 328 
Medinilla speciosa culture, 15; 
magnifica culture, 145 
Melbourne Botanic Garden and 
Museums, 272 
Melon and Cucumber soil, 46 
Melon culture, 348 
Melons and Cucumbers on trellis, 
145 
Melons diseased, 91 
Meteoric Stone, mistake coneern- 
| ing, 255 
Mevenia erecta, 160 
Mice, destroying, 18 
Mignonette, tree, 150 ; at North¬ 
ampton, 186 
Mildew in Grapes, 321 ; on Tur¬ 
nips, 367; on the Vine, to pre¬ 
vent, 390 ; on Vines, cure for, 
415 
Milla biflora culture, 377, 3/9 
Milk-pans of glass, 396 
Mis-spelling names of plants, 150 
Mitraria coccinea not flowering, 
209 ; culture, 276 
Moor Park, Notes on, 185; Gar¬ 
dens, 233 
Moss Roses, forcing, 378 
Mowing Machines, 134, 188. 3S9 
Monks—Were they ever useful 7 
97 
Morozka, a fruit, 95 
Musa Cavendishii, 124 
Mulching defined, 212 
Muscovy Ducklings, rearing, 381 
Mushroom culture in vinery, 341 
Mushrooms, how forced should be 
exhibited, 36; management of 
beds, and bow long they last, 
45 ; monster, 428 
Myrtus bullata, 168 
Myrtles on walls, protecting, 416 
Naptha varnish injurious to 
fruit-trees, 225 
Natural phenomena, dates of 
occurring, 240 
Nectarines, in pots, 15; summer 
culture, 196 ; training in Au¬ 
gust, 326 ; Stanwick, and a 
variety, 345 
Nemophila, how to spell, 211 ; 
how derived, 227 ; how it should 
be spelt, 240 ; its history, 241 ; 
its derivation, 279 , 319, 357, 
415, 452 
Northamptonshire Show, 107 
Northampton Horticultural Show, 
291 
Newcastle-on-Tyne Poultry Show, 
57 
Newly-introduced plant, What is 
a ? 379 
Newspapers, rules for sending to 
the Colonies, 390 
Notes of the week, 1 63 
Nursery, The largest in the world, 
462 
| Nut-tree, a large, 445 
I Oaks, Why do seedlings not 
spring up at Belvoir Castle, 
209; seedling, at Belvoir Castle, 
22 7 
Onion thinning, 100 ; grub, 266 , 
280 ; sowing, 334 
Orange Wood of Milis, 117 
Orange Wine recipes, 276 
Orange-trees at Paris, 275 ; at 
Versailles, 328 
Orange culture, 373 
Oranges (Mandarin) in pots, 143 
Oranges, 425; raising from seed, 
467 
Orchard-house, number of trees in, 
17; management of an, 320 
Orcharding, queries about, 81 
Orchards, Apples, and the Mar¬ 
kets, 100 
Orchids in April, 22; list of, 
106, 140, 179; sale of, 185; list 
of, exhibited, 248 ; in duly, 289 ; 
of North America, 429 
Osage Orange, 164 
“ Out of Fashion,” 118 
Oxford, thoughts and memories it 
recalled, 241 
Paint for barns, 388 
Pansies, list of, 106; list of su¬ 
perior, 473 
Pansey-culture in pots, 254 
Paper, Fibre Company for making, 
181 ; from Hollyhocks, 183 
Papyrus, its history, 404 
Paralysed Pullet, 18 
Paris, Notes from, 41, 92, 148, 
187, 223, 275, 297, 336, 374, 428, 
471 ; Universal Exhibition, 41 ; 
Jardin des Plants, 43; fruits 
and vegetables in April, 93 ; 
Horticultural Show, 93, 148 ; 
Industrial Exhibition, 98 ; fruit 
and vegetables at, 275 ; garden 
of its Horticultural Show, 297; 
its weather and crops, 376 ; fruit 
at the Exhibition, 471 
Paris Exhibition, its opening, 127 
Parsley canker, 366 
Passion Flower (Scarlet) pruning, 
97 
Passiflora ccerulea pruning, 432 
Pea-chicks, to rear, 399 
Pea fowl, fertile, 455 
Peach, summer culture, 196 ; 
training in August, 326; train¬ 
ing, 432 
Peaches in pots, 15; gangrened, 
115 ; cause of failure in, 256 
Pear (Doyenne d’etd), 345 
Pears, for small gardens, 3; on 
White Thorn stocks, 17, 60 ; 
the best late, 35; Archduke 
Charles, 45 ; grafting on White 
Thorns, 94, 114; summer cul¬ 
ture, 196 ; history of, 285; of 
the Romans, 286; for a wall, 
401 
Peas, failed in Portugal, 138 ; in 
North America, 205 
“ The Pelargonium,” Mr. Dob¬ 
son’s, 137 ' 
Pelargoniums, forced, 35 ; hybri¬ 
dizing, 81; new, 105; for ex¬ 
hibition, 134 ; triste, its history, 
137; list of best, 137 ; for breed¬ 
ing, 138; at Gore House, 142; 
lists of, 198 ; in June, 232 ; not 
blooming, 341 
Perennials from seed, 85 
Periwinkle under trees, 63 
Persicaria not enough valued, 60 
Petunia cuttings, 445 
Petunias suddenly failing, 72; for 
bedding, 189 
“ Phytologist, The,” 453 
Phygelius capensis, 290 
Picea species, 413 
Pigeon prizes at Anerley, 435 
Pigeons, cost of feeding, 62 ; 
breeding in and in, 82; (The 
Swallow), 115 
Pine Beetle, 454 
Pink, Tree, 34 
Pinks, cuttings of, 268 
Pinus austriaca pruning, 225 ; 
sylvestris culture, 236 
Pins for Entomological specimens, 
33 
Pipes for hot-water, wood in, 25 
Pit for Melons, Cucumbers, and 
cuttings, 16 
Pits, Gossip about, 217, 234 ; 
heating, 234, 308; economising 
space in, 235 
Pittosporum flavum, 129 
Plum (Chapman’s Prince of 
Wales), 344 
Plum Wine, 474 
Poinsettia pulcherrima culture, 122 
Poivrea coccinea culture, 25 
Pomegranate culture, 11 
Pomological Society’s Transac¬ 
tions, 19 
Pomological Society’s Meeting, 
103, 344, 460 ; Members elected, 
366 
Potato-steaming, 414 
Potato disease in Cornwall, 222, 
325 ; in Essex, 340; Murrain 
again, 365 , 377; seed, how to 
sow, 398 
Potatoes, manuring, 46; with 
guano, 6 l ; frosted, their treat¬ 
ment, 115 ; how the Irish dress, 
117; new, in Scotland, 220; 
insects on, 266 
“ Poultry Book ” (The), Supple¬ 
ment, 176 
rotting (Under), 21 
Poultry Shows and their arrange¬ 
ments, 1 ; at Paris, 3 ; how to 
be sustained, 48; list of, 82, 
100, 212, 266 
Poultry-house, constructing, 118 
Poultry defects, their estimate, 433 
Poultry comparisons, 455 
Poultry-keeping, economical, 475 
Prayers, The two, 74 
Prescot Poultry Exhibition, 277 
Preserve jars of glass, 396 
Preserving, fruits, 357, 450 ; veget¬ 
ables green, 974 
Primula sinensis sowing, 378 
Primulas, desirable hardy, 49 ; 
raising from seed, 189 
Princess turned farmer, 202 
Protecting and rearing plants, 
different structures for, 200 
Pruning Knives, 325 
Pruning young timber, 374 
Pusey, death of Mr., 270 
Quince stock, its influence, 155 
Rabbit management, 399; 
keeping, profitable, 688 
Railing, to prevent its decay, 115 
Rain and temperature of the 
present year, 131 
Rain this spring in British Isles, 
168 
Rancidity in oil removed, 200 
Ranunculus planting, 14 
Raspberry summer culture, 231 ; 
the Cattawissa, 386 
Raspberries, forced, 36 
Red Spider and its cure, 69 ; to 
destroy, 139 
Reine Hortense Cherry, 323 
Retinospora ericoides, 446 
Retrenchment, unwise, 272 
Rhododendron Dalhousiana, &c., 
106 ; Maddeni, 130 
Rhododendron and Nasturtium 
trained together, 308 
Rhododendrons, new, 180; this 
season, 351 
Rhubarb Wine, fermenting, 62 
Rhubarb,not cultivated in France, 
223; preserving, 414 
Rhyncospermum jasminoides cul¬ 
ture, 352 
Rockwork, plants for, 438 
Rooks, inducing them to build, 
114, 134 
Room, plants in a look-out, 46 
Rose tops as a vegetable, 36 
Rose, buds, removing wood from, 
61 ; moving rooted cuttings, 62 
(Cloth of Gold), good under 
glass, 97; Everlasting, What 
is ? 227 ; of Jericho, 227 ; Blairii 
No. 2, history and culture, 327 ; 
stocks and buds, when to collect, 
360 ; culture, its essentials, 385 ; 
pruning different kinds, 396 ; 
budding, 397 ; cuttings, winter¬ 
ing, 473 ; caterpillar and mildew 
on,474 
“ Rose Propagator,” 396 
Roses (Bourbon), for clumps, 16 ; 
in April, 21 ; growing tree, 31 ; 
good for pots, 32; blooming 
Fortune’s Yellow and Copper- 
coloured, 45 ; culture of in pots, 
81 ; grafting in a hotbed, 81 ; 
beetle on, 134 ; in pots, lists of, 
141 ; in June, 232; for a wall, 
319; potting large, 687; in 
June, 198; flea-beetle on, 212; 
Cloth of Gold, its merits, 279 ; 
green - centred, 284 ; General 
Jaqudminot, 291 ; list of in pots, 
292 ; green centre in, 301 ; cut¬ 
tings, 310; this season, 351; 
in clumps, how to manage, 361; 
vii 
grafting on roots, 372 ; for a 
house front, 378 ; time for plant¬ 
ing, 431 ; for pillars, 431 
Rotation of crops, 56 
Roslerstammia pronubelia, 102 
Rubbish heaps, their use, 72 
Rump gland inflamed in poultry, 
265 
Rust, on Grapes, 116; to prevent, 
450 
Rye culture, 316 
Salsafy culture, 321 
Salvia perphyranthus, 294 
San Francisco, price of fruit at, 
408 
Sandwich Islands, their produce, 
99 
Scion’s influence on the stock, 88 
Scolopendrium vulgare, 90 
Scotch Pine, its varieties and 
situation, 54 ; culture, 236 
Sea-kale Beet, 265 
Seasonable Notes, 353 
Sebastopol, native flowers there, 
244 
Seedling flowers, their treatment, 
84 
Seedlings, when deserving prizes, 
379 
Senecio prcecox, 130 
Sex of poultry, Committees should 
not answer for, 380 
Shaded garden, Shrubs, and 
Ferns for, 301 
Shaddock, 426 
Shanghae’s death from over-feed¬ 
ing, 114 
“ Shank, Don’t knowhow to,” 43, 
128 
Shepherd (G.), of Montreal, 429 
Siberian fruit, 95 
Sitolobium punctilobium, 90 
Sitting versus Setting, 97 
Sixpence, The wonderful, 253 
Skimmia japonica, 447 
Slugs, destroying, 172 
Soil, improving poor, light, 18; 
of flower-garden, 382 
Soot, its analysis and use, 364 
Sorrel sauce and soup, 451 
Sowing in wet seasons, 4 
Soyer’s Bivouac Cookery, 250 
Spanish fowls losing their neck 
feathers, 17 ; pecking each 
others feathers, 32 ; should be 
sheltered from frosts, 58 ; pluck¬ 
ing off feathers, 171 
Spirtea grandiflora, 180; hyperici- 
folia for Ladies wreaths, 227 
Spinach sowing, 334 
Spoiled Child, The, 164, 206 
Spring is come, 1 72 
Spring vegetables, early, 411 
Spring Breathings, 281 
Stanwick Nectarine, 39 1 
Starch, mixing, 396 
Statistics, their importance, 248 
Stcphanotis floribundus culture, 
124, 349 
St. Cloud, 375 
Sticks for pot-plants, their abuse, 
107 
Stock’s influence on the scion, 88 
Stoledium scandens, 290 
Stopping defined, 212 
Stopping summer growths, 215 
Stopping Roses and other plants, 
406 
Stove, climbers and plants for 
back wall, 16 ; plants, lists of, 
140, 141 ; construction of, 209; 
plants exhibited, 249 
Strawberries, forced, 36; (Black 
Prince), its management for 
forcing, 70 ; produced from an 
an acre, 82 ; plants, preparing for 
forcing, 96 ; for forcing another 
year, 111 ; forcing at Sion 
House, 125; fruited in pots 
without forcing, 202; in North 
America, 205 ; gathering, 220 ; 
runners, planting, 231; remov¬ 
ing runners from, 265 ; ‘‘Sir 
Harry,” 295, 297 , 438 ; Jam, 
Jelly, Cream, Cakes, Water- 
Ice, Marchpane, and preserved 
whole, 300 ; not producing a 
succession, 377; beds, their 
duration, 382 ; for forcing, 431 
Straw-walled pits, 218 
Subscription to a Society lapsed, 
117 
