TNDEX. 
Lilies, dividing, 359 
Lilium lancifolium, 28; culture, 60, 345 
Lime and stable manure, 117 ; (super-plios- 
phate of), to make, 77 
Linum catharticum, 344 
I Liquid-manure, 344; house slops, 309 ; and 
gypsum, 42; for flowers, 230 ; for kitchen- 
garden, 117, 231, 360 
Little matters, 5 
Loaf of bread, 400 
I Loam, 3 
Lobelia ramosa for bedding, 329 ; culture, 408 
i Locke (J.), 325 
; Lodger, removing plants of, 282 
Lcelias, list of and culture, 382 
Looper caterpillars, 15 
Lucerne culture, 10, 118 
Lumbricus terrestris, 183 
Lupine culture, 237 
Lvgodium scandens diseased, 14 
Macaw laying excessively, 137 
Magnolia grandiflora, 77 
Magpie moth, 15 
Mandevilla suaveolens not pruned, 139 ; train¬ 
ing, 231; its hardiness, 172 
Malvaceoe, 56 ; mallows, 56 
Mangold wurtzel, 51 ; storing, 399 
Manure heap, 258 ; for an acre, 360 
Manuring (self) 216 
Manures, 284 
Marshall (W.), 361 
Martyn, Professor, 119 
Market-gardening, 51, 372 
Marvel of Peru, 359 
Marl, 328 
Mason (Rev. W.), 29 
Maurandya Barcleyana in border, 182 
Mead, to make, 338 
Mealy bug on orchids, &c., 71 
I Meal worms, 269 
Melaleuca lanceolata not flowering, 302 
Melons, growing late, 80; culture, 212; grow¬ 
ing, 168 ; soil of bed, 409 ; cuttings of, 409 
Mesembryanthemum purpureum culture, 282 
Mice, to frustrate, 76 
Mignonette for winter, 182 
Mildew on nectarine, 281; on vines and cucum¬ 
bers, 295 
Milk, its uses, 86; to ascertain purity, 154 
Miller’s Gardener’s Dictionary, 119 
Mimulus culture, 324 
Mites preying upon man, 233 
Mock orange, 63 
Moth in carpets, &c., 389 
Mountain ash berries, preserving, 3/4 
Mulberry branch layered, 104 ; moving, 408 
Mulching, 107 ; and draining, 143 
Mushrooms in boxes, 90; culture, 126; beds, 
255, 278, 383 ; spawn, 24; and salt, 40 
Musk plant, transplanting, 308 
Myrtle leafless, 42; treatment of old, 63; cul¬ 
ture, 345 
Names, change of, 90 
Narcissus, 63 
Nasturtium as edging, 223 
Natural system preferable, 302 
Nectarine stopping, 301; for small garden, 344; 
disbudding, 186; ripening and root pruning, 
377 „ 
Nemophila insignis, 96 , 122; maculata, 118,309 
Netting for shade, 309 
Nettles, to destroy, 374 
Nightingale trapping and feeding, 115; its song, 
116 
Nitrate of soda, 62 
Oak (evergreen), 266 
Odontoglossum citrosmum, 188 
(Enothera macrocarpa culture, 315 
CEstrus bovis, 163 
Oily refuse as manure, 232 
Oleanders, 13; culture, 167 ; just rooted, 103 
Onions disappearing, 90; culture, 112; for 
allotments, 128; storing, 292, 332,334; cul¬ 
ture, 122 ; (tree), 231 
Orchard planting, 295 
Orchid culture, 290 ; on blocks, 290, 317, 382 ; 
in April, 6; in May, 70; in June, 125 ; insects, 
35; Mr. Rucker’s collection, 97; list of for 
baskets, 124 
Orchids in baskets, 225; culture, 253 ; on 
blocks, 254, 353 
Orchids requiring baskets, 188 ; prize, 178 ; cul¬ 
ture, l6l 
Otiorhyncus sulcatus, and tenebricosus, 106 
Our Village Walks, 8, 37, 72, 99, 126 , 163, 190, 
227, 255, 292, 384 
Oxygen to roots, 28 
Pansy, obtaining varieties, 90; stand for, 90 ; 
sowing, 90; for exhibition, 77 ; names, &c., 
119; characteristics, 120; cuttings, 125, 306 ; 
culture, 7 
Parsley, to destroy wild, 232 ; culture, 112, 255 
Parasites, 14 
Parsnips, hoeing, 51 
Parrot losing its feathers, 138, 202, 203 ; to 
cure, 217 
Passion-flower, pruning, 63, 324 ; described, 152 
Pasture-laying down, 14 
Pea-fowl, rearing, 258 , 
Peach: leaves blistered, 90; shedding its 
leaves, 104, 139 ; disbudding, 45, 186; for 
eastern aspect, 409 ; ripening and root pruning, 
377; tree blighted, 168 ; blistered, 168 ; 
packing, 208; mildewed, 218; thinning 
leaves, 222; leaves blistering, 265, 324; 
stopping shoots, 301 ; for small garden, 344 
Pear, leaves insect eaten, 295 ; stopping shoots, 
301; bark splitting, 323 ; moth, 341; root- 
pruning and disbudding, 121 
Pea-supporters, 14 ; trainer, 341 
Peas: to preserve green, 267 ; storing green, 
405; to boil soft, 407 ; sowing dwarf, 21 
Peat, what is, 118 
Peaty soil, to improve, 281 
Pegging down, modes of, 171 
Pelargonium cuttings, 288 ; (Florists'), cuttings, 
303; growing for exhibiting, 304; list of, 
309; history of, 205 ; properties of, 206 ; 
cross-breeding, 172 
Petunias, pegging down, 78 ; soil for, 409; 
stopping, 315 ; cuttings, 252; nyctaginiflora, 
4 ; purple, 18 
Phaius grandifolius, 34 
Phlox Drummondi, 19 
Physic garden, 56, 130 
Physiology, important to gardeners,'347 
Pickled vegetable marrow, 343 
Piootee, properties of, 249; list of, 7 ; yellow, 
21 ; red-edged, 36; layers removing, 354 
Pigeons: their history, 87; rock-dove, 88; 
stock-dove, 89 ; management of, 128 ; his¬ 
tory and varieties, 1 66 , 244, 261 ; kinds—tam¬ 
bour, 262 ; fugitive rock, 166 ; description of, 
195; history of, 196 ; crossing breeds, 357; 
profitable kinds, 281 
Pigs, to weigh, 60 ; keeping, 401 ; fatting, 358 
Pine-apple : suckers falling, 230 ; Hamiltonian 
culture of, 249; preserve, 267 ; first in Eng¬ 
land, 389 ; easy culture, 93 
Pine-pits, ridge and furrow, 204 
Pink culture, 7, 49, 162 ; planting time for, 
355, 408 ; planting out, 306 ; striking cuttings, 
203; piping, 111 , 397 
Pit, heat a small, 103, 137, 138 ; for climbers, 
408; heating, 345 
Pits (cold), 231 
Planting, shallow, 230 ; early autumn, 349 
Plants, restoring neglected, 223; failing, 231 ; 
true to stock, 360 
Plumbago larpentse, hardy, 1/2, 264 
Plum aphis, 107 
Plums (Victoria), 409 ; stopping, 302 
Poeony, propagating tree, 310; frost-bitten, 
217 ; house temperature, 217» diseased, 246 
Polygala vulgaris, 309 
Polyanthus, 49 ; its characteristics, 65; pro¬ 
pagating, 111 ; repotting, 162 ; moving, 291 ; 
seedlings, 318 
Polmaise heating, 12, 407 
Pomegranate not flowering, 42 ; culture, 345 
Pork v. Bacon for profit, 60 
Porter, to brew, 296 
Porridge, 76 
Portlandia grandiflora culture, 48 
Portugal laurel pruning, 281 
Potatoes: prospect of, 149; not earthed, 
154; culture, 191 ; thinning stems, &c., 71; 
planting, 27 ; leaves frosted, 104, 139 ; hoeing, 
127; seedling culture, 135; stems topping, 
182 ; stemless producing tubers, 182 ; cooking, 
12 ; bottom heat for, 13; from seed, 41; in 
shade, 42 ; weeding, 51 ; large produce, 60 ; 
prospect of the, 292, 312 ; storing, 348, 355 ; 
Cuthill on cultivating, 362; murrain, 362; 
haulm diseased, 295 ; introduced in Bavaria, 
297; for Australia, 309; list of, 312; disease, 
257, 267 , 333; manure for, 409 ; murrain, 
406 ; autumn planting, 360, 409 ; best kinds, 
388 ; seed, 333 ; Rylott’s Flour-ball, (3-15 > 
Ash-leaved kidneys, 333 
Potato soup and stew, 38 
Potted head, 38 
Potting, 5; pots, Blackheath registered, &c., 
5 ; coating pots, 408 ; diameter of pots, 359 ; 
time for potting, 146 
Poultry: inflamed rump gland, 281 ; feeding, 
213 ; coops and trough for, 404 ; cramp in, 
407; plan of house, 406; constipated, 118 
Poultry-Keeper’s Calendar, 53, 128, 192, 258, 
337, 403 
Portugal laurel pruning, 281 
Preserving fruit, 323 ; general rules for, 256 
Primula sinensis culture, 19 
Profit from 6£ acres, 221 
Protecting blossom, why fails, 300 
| Purple flowers, 33 
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Pruning scissors, Turner’s, 107 
Pulmonaria Virginica, 78 
Pumpkin cooking, 309 ; dropping off, 324 
Purging flax, to destroy, 344 
Putty, to make, 309 
Puya culture, 369 
Tyracantha, 118 
Rabbit-skin refuse, 282 
Rabbits’ dung for liquid manure, 267 
Racodium cellare, 345 
Radish, Black Spanish, 14 
Raking its evils, 142 ; beds, 374 
Ranunculuses, 216; taking-up, 240 ; treatment 
of beds, 2 77 ; roots, 318 ; culture, 7 
Raspberry vinegar, 256, 341 ; syrup, 341 ; acid, 
342 ; jam, 250, 343 
Raspberries, manuring, 42 ; autumn-bearing, 
378 
Red spider, destroying, 17, 165, 309 
Rent, reduction of, 220 
Repotting, 6 
Reviving bees, 41 
Rhododendron pruning, 282; in beds, 309; 
weakly, 118; cutting down, 14; list of 227 
Rhubarb wine, 154, 293, 319, 323 ; culture, 163 ; 
forcing, 397 ; flower-stalks, 78; blanching, | 
136; manuring, 42 
Rhynchospermum jasminoides, 302 
Rice pudding, 227 ; for family use, 87 
Riddle, gardening, 153 
Rockery, soil for, 63 
Rock-work, to construct, 232 ; plants, list of, 
360 
Room plants, culture of, 315 
Roses: in shades, 78; strong, 78; cuttings, 42; 
climbing, 13 ; standard, 14; insects on, 117; 
suckers of, 118; caterpillars on, 139; frosted, 
154; producing suckers, 182; leaves blotched, 
359 ; cuttings for pots, 246 ; liquid manure 
for, 209; for forcing, list of, 231 ; pegged- 
down, 232 ; with green centres, 246 ; diseased, 
281; soil for, 282; time for budding, 287, 
344 ; stocks for, 287, 295, 303 ; sweet-scented 
for forcing, 295 ; soot-water for, 295; in bad 
order, 295 ; Cloth of Gold, 309 ; shoots of 
newly budded, 324 ; Aimee Vibert, 344 ; for 
trellis, 345 ; pruning perpetual, 379 ; pruning 
budded, 374 ; soil for, 359 ; arrangement of 
bed, 359 ; manuring and pruning, 392; Gloire 
de Rosamene, 392; white China, Madame 
Laffay, and Fulgore, 393 ; Felicite perpe- 
tuelle, 408 
Rotation of crops, 139 
Root-pruning, 272 
Roots invading beds, 63, 144; storing, 334; 
should not be strained, 351 
Roup in fowls, 182 
Rumford, Count, 297 
Rustic baskets, flowers for, 94 
Rustic furniture, 42 
Saccolabiums, list of, 189 
Salisburia adiantifolia, 296 
Salt, killing trees with, 324 
Saltpetre as a manure, 200 
Salvia patens and fulgens culture, 324 ; nemo- 
rosa, 130 
Sand for clay soil, 324 
Saponaria calabrica, 46 
Sanvitalia procumbens, 28, 139 
Savory cabbage, 38 
Savin, 409 
Savoy (feather-stemmed), 36 
Sawdust for hotbeds, 28 ; as a manure, 78 
Saxifrages for rockery, 408 
Scalded pudding, 76 
Scale (White and Brown) on orchids, 71 
Scuticaria Steelii, 189 
Sea-kale, dressing-bed of, 72 ; bitter, 78; 
manuring, 125; flower-stems, 138; culture, 
163 ; old plants, 62 ; forcing, 397 
Seeds not vegetating, 153 ; raising, 236 
Selborne, 219 
Seltzer water, 203 
Shading, different modes, 146, 245 
Shalots storing, 175 
Sheds for storing, to make, 175 
Sheep’s pluck, 38 ; head, 227 
Sheep-skin mats, 388 
Silene pendula, compacta and regia, 46, 122 
Sloping banks, 344 
Smith (James), 184 
Smoke-stained wall, 42 ; stains to cure, 137 
Snake millipedes on asparagus, 6 
Snails getting over wall, 182 ; and slugs in 
orchid-house, 70 
Snapdragon cuttings, 408 
Snow-drops sowing, 1 68 
Soap, 112 
Soil, breaking up new and heavy, 345 
Soot-water, 182 
Soot and salt as a manure, 154 
Soot for potatoes, 407 
Solanum jasminoides, 303 
