INDEX 
Abercrombie (J.)> 65 
Abraxas grossulame, 15 
Acacia cuttings, 77 
Acaridse, 233 
Acclimatizing, 159 
Achimenes culture, 147 
Achmea fulgens culture, 331 
Acinetas, list of, 124 
Acropera Loddigesii, 124 
Aerides, list of, 124 
.Eschynanthus culture, 110, 117 » list of, 111 
Air, circulation of warm, 266 
Allamanda cathartica, straggling, 308 
Aloe culture, 324 
Allotment farming, 50; June, 127; Jutyt 191 J 
August, 257; September, 333; October, 398 
Aloysia citriodora, 344 
Alstrcemerias for beds, 359 
Alum as a manure, 284 
Alyssum, sweet, 4 
American blight, 77, 106, 281 
Ammonia, sulphate of, 62 
Ammoniacal liquor, 360 
Anagallis, cuttings of, 251 ; cornea, 47 
Andromeda polifolia, 103 
Anemones (double), 41; done flowering, 117; 
japonica and vitsefolia, 264; culture and seed¬ 
lings, 331 
Angelica, 36; culture, 111; sowing, 291, 355 
Angrcecums, list of, l6l; bilobum, 254 
Annuals, their use, sowing, &c., 95; for bed¬ 
ding out, 209 ; their importance, 366 ; Cali¬ 
fornian, 367 ; for autumn sowing, 409 
Ants, invading bees, 90 ; to drive away, 118 ; on 
peach trees, 61 ; their utility, 267 ; destroy¬ 
ing, 167 , 343, 406 
Aphelandra culture, 395 
Aphides, destroying, 17 
Aphis Humili and Rosae, 105 
Apiary, history of an, 39, 165, 199* 279, 356 
Apples, variety recommended, 282 ; list of, 295 
Apple-trees cankered, 2 7 ; weevil, 90; training, 
106 
April, articles in season, 2 7 
Apricot, leaves holes in, 168 ; unfruitful, 203; 
thinning, 107 ; ripening, 221; breast-wood, 
302 ; for small garden, 344 
Aquatics, 28 
Araucarias, 359 
Arbours, designs for, 138 
Arctia caja, 325 
Artichoke culture, 2 77* 282; management, 85 ; 
dressing, 355 ; bed dressing, 397 
Artichokes (Jerusalem), 36 
Arundo donax, 62 
Arum dracunculus, 182 
Ashmole (Elias), 269 
Asparagus, culture and cutting, 75; planting, 
36 ; salt for, 62 ; bed, glazed, 77 ; shoots de¬ 
caying, 104; cutting small, 118; cankered, 
153; culture, 162, 175; forcing, 383; beds 
dressing, 22, 397 
Atholl plantations, 91 
Auricula, 49 ; its history, 29 ; characteristics, 
30 ; pips not opening, 90 ; propagating, 111; 
sowing, 118; culture, 189; moving, 291 ; 
seedlings, &c., 318 
Australia, plants for, 90 
Australian seed sowing, 295 
Autumn cropping, 333 
Azalea Indica cuttings, 63; culture, 145 
Azaleas done flowering, 104 ; potting, 5; soil 
for, 203 
Bacon curing, 358 
Balconies, plants for, 69 , 83 
Balsams, damped off, 138 ; growing, 343 
Banks (Sir Joseph), 169 
Banks, sloping, 86 
Barkerias, list of and culture, 254 
Barley-sugar, to make, 55 
Baskets (rustic), premium for, 44 
Bast for budding, 285 
Bedding-plants, white and scarlet, 4; scarlet 
and purple, 18,32; pink, 46; arrangement 
of, 68 ; yellow flowering, 68 ; blue, 81 ; list of 
various, 83; in pots, 104 ; plants, 264 
Bedding-out, 162 
Bedded-out flowers correcting, 171 
Beds, arranging, 33 
Bee, description of queen, 311 
Bee-keeping, consultation on, 373, 385 
Bee-keeper’s dress, 66 
Bee-keeper’s calendar, May, 54; June, 129; 
July, 193; August, 259 ; September, 337 ; 
October, 402 
Bee (worker), habits described, 283; weight of, 
283 
Bees, removing comb from, 11; from various 
places, 14; feeding, 14; in an old hive, 25, 
27 ; their monthly consumption, 25; chang¬ 
ing hive, 39; covering hive, 42; Nutt’s hives, 
42 ; ventilation, 42 ; honey produced by, 42; 
fumigation, 54 ; feeding on solid food, 54 ; 
purchasing, 55; early swarm, 6l ; winter 
store, 6l; putting into old hive, 62; floor¬ 
board, 63 ; very early swarm, 66; feeding, 77 » 
Payne’s hives, 77 ; driving, 78 ; broken comb, 
78; floor-board, 78; in Taylor’s hive, 104; 
removing, 118; in Nutt’s hive, 118; bees 
dying, 129; making a queen, 130; adapting- 
board, 139 ; hole in small hive, 139; ejecting 
grubs, 138; premature swarm, 138; sticks 
across hive, 154 ; Taylor’s hives, 153 ; in old 
hive, 168; in Australia, 168 ; in bell-hive, 182; 
preventing swarming, 182; uniting swarms, 
193; turned regicides, 203; returning swarms, 
203; delay of swarm, 218; removing small 
hive, 218, 231; preventing swarming, 218, 
265 ; not staying in hive, 230, 231 ; second 
swarms, 230 ; giving room to, 231; honey¬ 
comb, 232 ; consequence of transferring, 246, 
266; trap, 259; excess of drones, 564; Payne’s 
hives, 265, 267 ; Taylor’s hives, 266 , 267 ; 
swarming late, 266 ; increasing stocks, 279 ; 
consequences of transferring, 296 ; Taylor’s 
hives, 296 ; intermediate hives, 309; troubles 
of bee-keeping, 309, 322; taking off caps, 310; 
unsealing cells, 310 ; substitute for puff-ball, 
310; joining hives, 310; preventing swarming, 
310; depriving, 310; uniting and feeding, 
310; trap, 323; autumn unions, 337, 345; 
wintering, 339; strengthening a hive, 343 ; 
under-hiving, 345; humming in hive, 345; 
bees half-formed, 345; uniting swarms, 356, 
360 ; adapting-board, its use, 360 ; drone de¬ 
scribed, 361 ; uniting swarms, 373; feeding, 
373 ; moving hives, 3/4; wintering, 386 ; de¬ 
priving, 388; uniting hives, 388 ; autumn 
unions, 402; making-up hives, 402; winter¬ 
ing, 402; artificial swarms, 402; feeding, 403; 
driving, 408 ; weight of hive, 409 
Begonia culture, 172 ; list of, 173 ; martiana, 78 
Beet (white and green), 203 
Beetles, to catch, 264 
Bind-weed, destroying, 281 
Bird’s, Morris’s History of British, 170; scar¬ 
ing, 341 ; blackcap, 198 
Blackberry jam, 256; wine, 359 
Bleaching powder as a manure, 348 
Blight on greenhouse plants, 182 
Blistering of peach leaves, 360 
Blossoms, male and female, 28 
Board of agriculture, 375 
Boiler, for summer use, 74 
Boiling, philosophy of, 326 
Bolbophyllums, list of, and culture, 254 
Bone boiler’s wash, 90 
Botanic Society’s Exhibition, 100, 113, 130; 
show, 195, 215, 243, 260 
Botany, difficulties in, formerly, 379 
Botanical Magazine, 205 
Border, plants for hot south, 63 
Borecole and brocoli seedlings, 50 
Box, moving large, 329 
Box-edging planting, 217 
Brassavolas, list of, and culture, 255 
Bread puddings, 6l ; bread-making, 342, 400; 
home-baked, 278 
Brewing at home, 74 
Brocoli sowing, 7 , 22, 50 ; planting, 162 ; sow¬ 
ing, 71 , 128 
Bromeliaceae, 331; culture, 369 
Broughtonias, list of, 290 
Brompton Stocks, 230 
Brugmansias for bedding, 159 > suaveolens cul¬ 
ture, 295 
Budding, mode of, 285 ; instrument, 285, 342 
Bulbs done flowering, 77 ; in pots, 87 ; (spring), 
culture of, 121 ; preparing beds for, 370 ; 
sowing seeds of, 294 
3ur-dock, 409 
Burlingtonias, list of, 290 
Cabbages and cauliflowers, 7 
Cabbages, not hearting, 232 ; sowing, 52, 255, 
257, 277, 292 ; planting, 306, 383, 397, 399 ; 
removing leaves, 282; louse, 295 
Cabbage-worts, planting, 190 
Cactus done blooming, 230 ; culture, 265 ; neg¬ 
lected, 224; hot water for, 231; overgrown, 
407 
Cage-birds, 115, 198, 340 385, 405 
Cake to keep a year, 343 
Calendars—May, 64; June, 139; July, 204 ; 
August, 267 , 268 ; September, 345 ; October, 
410 
Calendarial index, 11 7 
Calceolaria cuttings, 139; sowing, 353; layer¬ 
ing, 342 ; Kentish Hero, 231 
Calandra granaria, 347 
Calves, recipe for scour in, 154 
Calla ethiopica, watering, 137 
Calystegia pubescens, single, 302; culture, 388 
Camarotis purpurea culture, 290 
Camellia, rules for growing, 147 ; potting, 5 ; in 
vinery, 62 ; kept too dry, 89 ; neglected, 138, 
223; reticulata, 232 
Campanula carpatica propagating, 408; cul¬ 
ture, 295, 315 
Canary a hard bird, 153 
Candles, 112 
Cape bulbs, 408 ; jasmine cuttings, 117; cul¬ 
ture, 408 ; marigolds, 4 
Capsicums and chillies, 163 
Cardoon culture, 86, 355, 360, 383; cooking, 
139; sowing, 50 
Carnations, propagating, 62 ; staking, 98 ; lay¬ 
ers, moving, 354; flowers, to protect, 226; 
history and properties of, 248 ; trimming, 
291; to prevent bursting, 323 ; cuttings, 344 
Cardon de Tours, 360 
Carraway culture, 60 
Carrots, sowing, 127, 307 » hoeing, 51; culture, 
191 ; maggot, 281; storing, 399 
Catasetums, list of, 290; culture, 291 
Cattleyas, list of, 317 
Caterpillars, to kill, 267 
Cauliflower plants, 50; culture, 125, 383, 397; 
planting, 148; storing, 175; grub eaten, 217; 
sowing, 255, 307, 370 
Cecidomyia tritici and destructor, 43 
Cedar (silver), 12, 208 
Celery, blanching, 217 ; watering, 212; culture, 
11, 255; planting, 111, 148; earthing, 318, 
370 
Charred matters, 327 
Charring—why beneficial, 45 ; sawdust, 6l 
Chamomile culture, 324 
Cheese maggot, 79; making, 9 ; mite, 233; 
(new) to make, 154 ; (Stilton) to make, 310 
Cheesecakes, everlasting, 343 
Chemistry applied to cultivation, 283 
Cherry, unfruitful, 63; aphis, 107; leaves in- 
sect-eaten, 295; preserving whole, 282; list 
of, 295 ; stopping, 302 
China-asters, propagating, 409 
Chinese primrose culture, 167 ; double, 19; gar¬ 
dening, 311 
Chironia floribunda, training, 381 
Chloride of lime, as a manure, &c., 348 
Chrysanthemum pruning, 212 ; its history, 375 ; 
properties, 376 ; culture, 360 ; layers, 253; 
slips, 281 
Chorozema chandleria culture, 282 
Chysis, list of, l6l 
Cineraria, its characteristics, 156; culture, 203 ; 
sowing, 246; heat for, 78; seedlings, 118 ; in 
windows, 138 
Cirrhoeas, list of, l6l 
Cirrhopetalums, list of, 317 
Citrons, preserving, 296 
Clarkia, white, 4 
Clematis tubulosa, hardy, 172; pruning, 324 
Clerodendrum culture, 84; list of, 85 ; in green¬ 
houses, 329 
Clianthus puniccus, 203, 265 
Climbers, hardy, 78; list of, 42, 276 ; list of 
hardy, 302 ; stove, list of, 276 ; for north wall, 
78 ; culture, 277 
Clot-bur, 409 
Clove-gilliflower, 247 
Club-rooting, 360 
Coal ashes for cuttings, 231 
Cobbett (Wm.), 155 
Cobcea scandens, 218 ; in border, 182 
Cochin-China fowls described, 60 , 117* 137 
Cockroaches, 35 
Coccus on plum-tree, 139 
Colours, combination of, 19 
Collinsia bicolor, 96 
Compton, Bishop, 183 
Comparettias, list of, 318 
Composts, preparing, 326 
Conservatory, heating, up-stairs, 104; defined, 
160 
Convolvolus minor edging, 223 
Cooking, 10 
Coops, for fowls, 265; a good kind, 192 
Corn, chafer, 347; salad, 138 
Corrcea alba cuttings, 139; speciosa, propagat¬ 
ing, 374 
Coronilla cuttings, 62 
Cottage gardens, 361 
Cottage Gardener, 167 
Cottage Gardeners’ Dictionary, 378 
Cottagers, exemplary, 8 
Cottagers’ horticultural societies, 343 
Cows for eight acres, 1 67 ; best mode of keep¬ 
ing, 154; (Miss Martineau’s), 334 
Cowdung, 117 
Creepers for north wall, 117 
