VI 
INDEX. 
Crickets, to trap, 310; destroying, 90 
Crassula, pruning, 168 ; leaves spotted, 182 
Crown imperial not blooming, 108 
Cryptostemma hypochondriacum, 77 
Cubic-petre, as a manure, 200 
Cucumber culture, 22, 212, 255; house, 38; 
sowing, 307, 383 ; unfruitful, 63 ; blossom not 
to be impregnated, 252 ; with male bloom 
only, 281 ; longest, 374 ; plants flagging, 
360 
Cuphea strigillosa, 308 ; platycentra, 118 
Currants, mulching black, 107; dropping, 63 ; 
matting up, 222 ; jelly, 256, 343 ; acid, 341 ; 
syrup, 341 
Curculio granarius, 347 
Curtis (W.), 205 
Cuttings, 138 ; treatment of, 246, 251 ; how to 
make, 409; propagation by, 273; definition 
of, 288 ; to strike, 289 
Cyclamen seed, 168; seedlings, 231 
Cyrtoceras reflexum culture, 246, 396 
Daffodils, for forcing, 122 
Dahlia culture, 49, 162, 291; its history, 298; 
characteristics, 299; plants and seedlings, 
318 ; mulching, 240 ; cuttings, 7 ; propa¬ 
gating, 36; planting out, 111; pruning, 
137 ; roots storing, 409 ; protecting, 370 
Dairying — butter, &c., 136 
Damsons not bearing, 168 
Daphne pruning, 168 ; Cneorum, 168 
Darning basket, 241 
Darwin (Dr. E.), 43 
Davy (Sir H.), 105 
Davallia canariensis, 408 
Dendrobes, list of 162, 353 
Digging, amount of exertion in, 142 
Dinner pitcher, 89 
Dinners, cheap, 227 
Disbudding, 139 ; wall trees, 45 
Distemper in dogs, 42 
Double flowers, planting cuttings of 239 
Drainage, 143 
Drainage of pots, 5 
Drains stopped by roots, 387 
Drilling, its importance, 141 
Dragon arum, hardy, 182 
Drinks, cooling, 340 
Ducks, 129 
Ducks: Rouen, Musk, and Labrador, 53; 
duckling feeding, 54 ; Aylesbury, 6l, 265 
Duck’s eggs, weight of, 117 ; Aylesbury, 118 
Dunghill not supersedable, 284 
Dutch flower gardening, 133 
Dyeing black and buff, 27 
Early rising, 52 
Earwigs, to trap, 221 
Economizing, 175 
Eccremocarpus scaber culture, 324 
Edgings of flowers, 223 
Eggs : carriage of &c., 55 ; their usual weight, 
90; addled, 154; and poultry, 177; in lime 
water, 217; preserving, 265 
Elder wine recipe, 324 
English garden (the), 29 
Epidendrums, list of, 354 
Eschscholtzia, new, 310; as an annual, 315 
Euphorbia jacquiniflora, 78 
Euprepia caja, 325 
Euthales grandiflora culture, 282 
Evergreens, moving large, 328; planting in 
summer, 350 
Everlasting flowers, preserving, 374 
Exhibition of 1851, its consequence to gar¬ 
deners, 366 
Expenditure, scales of, 332, 371 
Eye of the mistress, 212 
Eyed Hawk Moth, 168 
Fabiana imbricata, 118 
Fallowing needless, 51 
Farmers’ duties, 220 
Ferns: (exotic), culture of, 211; sowing, 239 ; 
list of, 240 ; list of hardy, 360 ; (exotic and 
British), culture, 305 ; listof, 305; under glass 
shade, 308 ; for greenhouse, 308 
Fern, hare’s foot, 408 
Fig, soil and aspect for, 281 
Filter for water, 181 
Fir seeds sowing, 139 
Fish cookery, 11 ; stew, 227 
Fishes drinking salt-water, 202 
Flora, change in English, 242 
Florists’ flowers, sowing, 71 
Flower-garden: plan, 153 ; arrangement, 182 ; 
always gay, 398 ; light soil to mend, 314 ; 
plans, 40 ; arrangement of small, 84 
Flowers: arranging, 12, 14, 139; to change 
colour, 203; succession of, 203 ; training, 
222 ; seeding should be prevented, 237 ; 
double, to raise, 238; impregnating, 246; to 
send by post, 295; (white) for garden uses, 
321 ; double raising, 322 ; list of hardy, 
Flower-beds: arrangement of, 76,7 8, 104; blue 
flower for centre, 78 ; number of flowers for, 
104 ; arrangements, 158, 282 ; plans, 388 
Flower border, miscellaneous, 107 
Flower-seed sowing, 168 
Flower-pots, 309 
Flues, heating by, 200 
Forcing-house, dividing, 265 
Forget-me-not (White), 264 
Forsyth (W.), 233; his tree-plaister, 233 
Fowls, hatching, 259 
Forest trees, manuring, 374 ; culture, 387 5 
sowing, 388 
French polish for boots, 14 
French beans, storing, 404 
French marigold cuttings, 90 
Freezing, its effects on soils, 143 
Frosts, spring, 1 7 
Friction, its effects, 39 
Fruit-trees, treatment of newly-planted, 67 ; in 
kitchen-garden, 62 
Fruit-tree border, 265 
Fruit-borders, managing, 218; cropping, 246 
Fruit packing, 207; preserving, 221; room 
cleaning, 222 ; gathering, 378 
Fuchsia macrantha, serratifolia, and spectabilis, 
139; fulgens propagating, 408; seratifolia, 
not blooming, 408 ; listof for window, 408 ; 
wintering, 408; culture, 229; spectabilis 
culture, 246 ; exhibiting, 154; cuttings 
damping-off, 324 
Fumigator (Brown’s patent), 16 
Furze (double-blossomed), cuttings, 345 
Gad fly, 169 
Gaillardia picta culture, 408 
Galvanic plant protectors, 6 l 
Gardenia radicans, 62 , 408 ; florida plena, 230 
Gardenias, culture of, 20 
Gardening for young people, 23, 102 , 196 
Gardeners’ Benevolent Institution, 234 
Garden Warbler, 340 
Garden, What is a, 319, 355 
Garden tenants, laws relative to, 184 
Garlic storing, 175 
Gate spring, 341 
Geese, 128 
Gentiana verna, 103 
Gentianella, 76 ; not thriving, 90 ; sowing, 345 
Geranium, Mangles’variegated, 4 ; Tom Thumb, 
See., 5, 28; scarlet, 18; after winter, 28; old 
scarlet variegated, 33; pink, 46; wintering, 
62 ; leaves withering, 03 ; leaves diseased, 
90, 103 ; for basket, 78 ; for bouquets, 104, 
153 ; culture of fancy, 109 ; planting cuttings, 
109 ; dried cuttings, 118; (fancy), cuttings, 
soil, temperature, prunings, potting, Sec., 
123 ; for bedding, 186 ; leaves scorched, 1 68 ; 
cuttings, 237, 274, 409 ; growing, 265 ; (Aunt 
Harriet’s), 309; too leafy, 315 ; moving, 407; 
seedlings, 408; (Tom Thumb), 408; storing, 
409 
German asters, retarding, 266 
Gesnera culture, 147 ; list of, 306 
Gesneraceae, 147, 305 
Gherkin pickling, 282 
Gilpin (W.), 15 
Ginger, cultivation of, 266 
Ginger wine recipe, 104, 409 
Gladioli, taking-up, 370 
Glass, for greenhouse, 409, rough plate, 62 ; 
Hartley’s rough, 245 ; plate scorching, 265; 
blue for germinating, 344 
Gleaning, 401 
Glory pea, 203 
Glow-worm, 141 
Gloxinias, potting, 63 ; culture, 147 ; in vinery, 
187 ; listof, 188 
Glycine sinensis, 118 ; layering, 267 
Gnat bites, to prevent, Sec., 218 
Goats, 76 , 323; dung of, 62 
Godetia stopping, 168 
Gongoras, list of, 162 
Gooseberry borers, 182; caterpillars, 182; dis¬ 
eased, 154; culture, 390 ; list of, 295, 391 ; 
leaves blistering, 218 ; matting-up, 222 ; jam, 
256 ; preserving whole, 282; wine recipe, 296 ; 
trees neglected, 344 
Gordius aquaticus, 219 
Graft, its effect on stock, 230 
Grafting wax, 286 
Grapes, packing, 208; for greenhouse, 265 ; 
covering with bags, Sec., 360 ; wine from un¬ 
ripe, 409; list for hothouse ; 374 
Gravelly soil, 62 
Green fly and laurel leaves, 230 
Greenhouse, heating with hot water, 103 ; 
plants, list of rare and new, 101, 102, 133; 
painting inside, 137; to heat small, 232, 295 ; 
building, 265 ; heating, 267 , 324, 345 ; de¬ 
fined, 160 ; arrangement, l 6 l ; gas stove in, 
310; repairs, 313; erecting cheaply, 363; 
fitly employed, 368 ; and vinery, 374 
Guano, quantity to use, 217; liquid, 90 
Guernsey lily not flowering, 138 
Guinea fowls, 129 with bad feet, 281 
Gusmannia tricolor, 369 
Haddington (E. of), 91 
Hair, to preserve, 203 ; to thicken, 167 ; dye, 
388 ; falling off to cure, 42, 137 
Hales (Dr. S.), 347 
Half-hardy plants, wintering, 246 
Hardy plants, list of choice, 102 
Hart’s everlasting rose, 62 
Harvest bug’s-bite, 231, 233 ; harvest scenes, 
384 
Hatching, artificial, 55 
Hautbois strawberry, 138 
Heaths, sowing, 63, 294 ; done flowering, 182 
Heating frame with hot water, 56; small green¬ 
house, 62 
Hedge-rows, cleaning, 245 
Heliotrope, 33 
Herbs, planting, 8 
Hessian fly, 43 
Heracleum giganteum, 27 , 137 
Ilimalayah pumpkin, 16, 43 
Hints for humble households, 10 
Hints on gardening for young people, 23, 102, 
196 
Hives, Payne’s improved, 17 (see Bees) 
Hoeing, its importance, 142 
Hoitzia coccinea culture, 246 
Holly pruning, 139 ; removing large, 266 
Hollyhock sowing, 374 
Home suggestions, 22 
Honey exhibiting, 1 29 
Hops (refuse) for heating, 231 
Horse with weak legs, 28 
Horse chestnut, as a medicine, 130 
Horticultural Society’s meetings, 14 ; prize 
lists, 390 
Horticultural Society’s Show, 132, 213, 150, 
178, 194, 280, 294, 320 
Horticultural Shows, their influence, 270 
Hotbed making, 6l; for cuttings, 63; just 
made, 139 
Hothouse, expense of building, 295 ; proper 
form of, 364 ; and greenhouse united, 28 
Hot-water piping for pit, 14 
House sewage for an acre, 154 
House drainage, 176 
Hovea Celsii, 28 
Housewife (the), 57 
Hoya carnosa neglected, 224 
Humea elegans culture, 11 
Hunter, choice of, 25 
Hyacinths, characteristics of excellence, 1; list 
of, 2 ; list of cheap, 388 ; their age, Sec., 122 
Hybridising, 252 ; rules for, 275 
Hydrangeas turning blue, 284 
Hypericums, 57 
Ice, to preserve, 287 > to make, 232 
Idsean vine, 118 
Indian rubber liquid, 27 
India rubber plant pruning, 282; cutting, 374 
Ink (blue) for pots, 137 
Ipomea Learii not flowering, 359 ; rubro-cce- 
rulea, 42 
Iris chinensis, 63 
Itch mite, 233 
Ixora javanica pruning, 282 
Ivy on trees, 73; to grow quick, 323 
Jacobcea lilies, 28 
Jasminum nudiflorum, 13 
Jasmine (Spanish), pruning old, 78; not thriv¬ 
ing, 89 ; yellow, 302, 309 
Jenning’s Indian rubber tap, 154 
Jerusalem artichokes, 128; boiling, 137 
Juniperus sabini, 409 
Kew garden, 186 
Kidney-bean culture, 332; sowing, 21, 36, 50, 
383; training, 407 
Kitchen-garden, crops withering, 344 ; ex¬ 
hausted, 217 ; its size, 203 ; routine, 226, 255, 
268, 277, 318, 332, 355, 371, 384, 397 
Labels of wood, 295 
Laburnum, with varied bloom, 167 
Laccena bicolor, 188 
Landscape gardening, its rise, 311 ; Downing’s 
book on, 170 ; observations on, 247 
Lantana crocea cuttings, 182; culture of green¬ 
house species, 352 ; Scllowii, 19 
Lapageria rosea, 208 
Larkspur (blue), its rarity, 236 ; culture, 237 
Laurustinus, overgrown, 13Q 
Lavender, gathering, 267 
Lavoisier (A. L.), 283 
Law relative to gardens, 184 
Lawn turfing, 27 ; to make fine, 168 
Laying in brocoli, &c., 399 
Leather waterproofing, 324 
Leaves, why variegated, 409 
Leek soup, 38 
Lemon pickle, 27 
Lemon-scented verbena, 42; cuttings, 344 
Lettuce sowing, 277 ; planting, 399 
Lightning, its effect on trees, 245 
