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INDEX. 
Succession flower sowings, 85 
Sulphur v. Mildew on the Hop, 417 
Surnames derived from plants, 128 
Stylidiums, their irritability, 39; 
list of and culture, 73 
Swans, unproductive, 319 
Synonymes of plants, 319 
Tan versus Stable manure, 91 
Tanks for liot-watcr heating, 31; 
for heating, 310 
Tale of Trials, 274, 314 
Tea chests, their marks, 295 
Temperature of the first quarter 
of the year, 277 
Temperatures of January and 
February, 12 
Tempering steel, 325 
Thermometer, how to place, 136 
Thinning in time, 147 
Tliorburn (Grant), the New York 
nurseryman, 317 
Thrip on Azaleas and Vines, 982 
Thrips and cure, 70 > to destroy, 
265 
Thuja Craigianoe, 446 
Toad, is it poisonous ? 149 
Tomato culture, 11; in pots under 
glass, 17 
Tomato plant, perennial, 117 
Tomato sauce, catsup, soup, paste, 
and stewed, 414 ; sauce, 450 
Tomb for the million, 451 
Tongues in trees, 464 
Tools, improvement of gardening, 
315 
Tottington Poultry Show, 4 16 
Tricliodesma zeylanicum, 300 
Tritonia aurca culture, 255 ; aurca, 
340 
Trcntham Hall, a visit to, 405 
Trellis, evergreens for, 378 
Trout Pear, 285 
Truffles, 18 
Tuillerics Gardens, 187 
Tulips, Mr. Groom’s show of, 
138 
Turf pits, 217 
Turnip culture, 57 
Turnip-tops blanched, 438 
Turnips, White Swede, 474 
Turtle Dove, is it hardy? 456 
Variegated plants, exhibited, 
250; mistakes concerning, 316; 
synonymes of, 319 
Vallota purpurea, potting offsets, 
189 
Van Diemen’s Land, truths con¬ 
cerning, 334 
Varieties, raising new, 394 
Vegetable Marrow culture, 57; 
rotting, 342 
Vegetables protected in winter, 104 
Vegetable culture and cookery, 263 
Ventilating a stove, 61 
Ventilators for small greenhouse, 
210 
Verbena cuttings, 445 
Verbenas, list of, 294 ; for bed¬ 
ding, 989 
Versailles, 328, 336 
Vertigo in Poland chicken, 380 
Vine flagging, 31 
Vine mildew in France, 138 
Vine-training, 432 
Vines, in pots at Bank Grove, 6 ; 
in pots, 124 ; not fruitful, 
causes and cures, 158; affected 
with Thrip, 182 
Vinegar from Rhubarb, 114 ; from 
Gooseberries, 226 
Vinegar Plant, 184 
Vinegar making, 244 
Vinegar-making animal, 357 
Vinery heated by Arnott’s Stove, 
298 
Vintage and the Vintagers, 282, 
358 
Vinaigre, Ne plus ultra, 451 
Walks, their formation, 27 
Wallflower sowing, 50 
Wall, Evergreens for a north, 
189 
Walls, constructing cheap, 17; 
flowering plants on, 116 
Wardian Case, plants for, 116 
Watering-pot (French), 93 
1 Waste land, importance of im¬ 
proving, 155 
Water, finding by hazel rods, 47 
Watering, with warm water, 8; 
time for, 8 ; care needed, 23 
Waybred, derivation of the name, 
397, 453 
Wax, preparing, 121 
Weather and the crops, 340 
Weather in Lincolnshire, 200 
Weeks and Co.’s mode of heating, 
78 
Weeks’s hot-water heating, 29 
Wcigelia amabilis, 180 
Weinmannia tricosperma, 98 O 
Wcllingtonea gigantea, 447 
West London Gardeners’Associa¬ 
tion, 115 
Wheat, in America, store for, 
425 ; sowing, 471 ; Chinese, 340 
Whitiavia grandiflora, 168 
Wight (I. of), Poultry Show, 356 
Windsor Pear, its description and 
history, 363 
Windsor Poultry Show, 259, 264 
Windsor Bean Soup, 430 
Winter’s Bark, I 67 
Winter effects near Dublin, 21 1 
Winter Garden at Sunderland, 
310 
Winter-blooming plants, 408 
Winter vegetables, 411 
Withers’ Poems, 453 
Whittlebury Gardens, notes on, 
144 
Woods and Forests, 26 , 236 
Woodcraft, 374, 410, 466 
Wooden pits, 218 
Worms, destroying, 211 
Yew, cows poisoned p.y, 211 
Yucca at Bulwick Park, 430 
Yuccas this season, 351 ; culture, 
360 
WOODCUTS. 
Page. 
Gidney’s Bean Cutter. 13 
French Watering Pot . 93 
Pittosporum flavum . 129 
Drimys Winteri. 167 
Flower Garden Plan . 173 
Page. 
Maiden Hair Fern .. .. 1 95 
Pyramidal Bouquet Stand .. 213 
Parsley Fern . 229 
Black Maiden Ilair Fern .... 267 
Forelle Pear. 285 
Page. 
Smooth Rock Splecnwort .. 303 
Reine Hortense Cherry .... 323 
Asplenium gcrraanicum .... 343 
Windsor Pear. 363 
Spear-shaped Spleenwort .. 383 
Page. 
Stockwood Gulden Hambro’ 
Grape . 403 
Sea Spleenwort . 421 
Greengage Plum . 439 
Wall Rue Fern . 459 
