INDEX. 
viii 
Soldanella alpina, 360 
I Sow pigging too soon, 154 
Sparaxis versicolor, 168 
Speechley (W.), 389 
Spence (Dr. Joseph), 311 
; Spinach sowing, 190, 292 ; culture, 332 
Spruce fir losing its top, 13; in towns, 309 
Squirrels on fir-trees, 136 
Stakes for flowers, 222 
Stanhopeas, list of, 189, 225; culture, 225 
Stains of port wine, 77 
i Steaming apparatus, 323 
I Steel-pens, to save, 168 
Stephanotis cuttings, 230; floribunda not 
flowering, 374 
Stewed ox-liead, &c.,76 
Stirring soil, its effects, 44 
Stocks (Ten-week) for winter, 182; when ready 
for budding, 286 
Storing vegetables, 404 
Stoves, improved, 297 ; for summer, 181; (iron) 
for greenhouse, 104 
Stove plants, required qualities of, 48 ; list of 
new, &c., 178 ; list of choice, 102 
Stout, to brew, 295 
Stove heating and strawberry culture, 13 
Stove climbers, pit for, 359 
Strawberry culture, 157, 185 ; sorts, 158; 
British Queen, 167 ; covering beds, 107; un¬ 
productive, 63 ; mite, 233 ; packing, 207 ; 
watering Alpine,' 221 ; planting, 235 ; varieties, 
235 ; seed, saving, 267 ; preserving whole, 
282 ; Myatt’s Hautbois, 294; to ripen in 
April, 295 ; cutting off leaves, 310; for forcing, 
313, 359; listof, 359; culture, 323; planting, 
324 ; late, 324 ; pruning, 378 
St. Peter’s and St. John’s worts, 57 
Sugar 113 
Sulphuric acid and manure, 14 
Sulphur paint, 89 
Sulphur-dressing greenhouse, 313 
Super-phosphate of lime, 217 
Sun-burning, remedy, 218 
Surface-stirring, 281 
Swallows, 126 
Swallows, appearance, 50 
Sylvia hortensis and cinerea, 340 
Sylvia sylviella, 385 
Syringing walls, 104 
Tabanus bovinus, 169 
Tagetes tenuifolia, 28 
Tanners’ bark for plunging, 41; for heating, 
232 
Taylor’s hives, 296 
Tea-making, 271 , 284 ; analysis of, 284 ; drink¬ 
ing, 149 
Tenebrio molitor, 269 
Tecoma jasminoides, 90 
Thrip, destroying, 6; on cucumbers, 310; on 
vine, 387 
Thompson (Sir B.), 297 
Thrush (Missel), 405 
Tiger moth, 325 
Tinea pellionella, &c., 389 
Tillandsia stricta culture, 370 
Tobacco drying, 374 ; fumigation, 202 
Tomato culture, 163 ; training, 371 
Tool house, 63 
Tortoise, how to treat, 267 
Training pot plants, 380, 394 
Tree felling, 99 
Trellis for house front, 388 
Trenching, 372 ; heavy soil, 359 
Tradescants (The), 269 
Transplanting old trees easily, 352 
Tropceolum pentaphyllum and speciosum cul¬ 
ture, 223 ; tricolorum, 63 ; speciosum, 274 ; 
pentaphyllum, 309, 323 
Tulips, protecting, 7, 49, 85 ; history and cha¬ 
racteristics of, 91 ; terms applied to, 92; for 
borders, 122; done flowering, 148; treat¬ 
ment of beds, 277 ; roots, 318 ; culture, 382 
Turkeys, 128; hatching, 258 
Tull (Jethro), 141 
Turf on bank, 232 
Turner’s garden scissors, 237 
Turnips (Swedish), 51 
Turnip-sowing, 255, 257, 370 ; fly, 360 ; after 
tares, 90 ; culture, 127, 400, 175 
Tutsan, 67 
Tyrophaga casei, 79 
Urine as a manure, 309 
Vallota purpurea, watering, 137 
Vandas, listof, 226, 253 ; culture, 254 
Vases, flowers for, 78, 94 ; plants for, 62 
Verbena venosa, 32, 182 
Vegetable cookery, 26 ; broth, 38 ; staticks, 347 
Verbenas, white and scarlet, 4; listof, 186; 
purple for bedding, 104 ; seedlings, 232 ; 
cuttings, 252 ; mismanaged, 266 ; purple, 18 ; 
pink, 47 ; wintering, 62 ; mildew on, 63 ; 
insect on cuttings, 62 ; mildew, to prevent, 
315; for bedding, 344; training, 394; soil 
for, 409 
Verandah, to grow plants under, 90; climbers 
for, 203 
Veratrum nigrum culture, 139 
Victoria regina, 390 
Vinegar plant, 324, 334; from honey, 338 ; from 
unripe grapes, 409 
Vines : mildew on, 295, 309 ; for window, 295 ; 
syringing, 309; in greenhouse, 312; early 
forced, autumn treatment, 313; on walls, 
313 ; on roof, 359; in hothouse, 365 ; training 
on Hoar’s plan, 374 ; history of its culture, 
389 ; olives and silk, observations on, 325 ; 
in pots, 167 ; training on wall, 154 ; (Muscat 
of Alexandria) culture, 198, 204 ; drops on its 
branches, 203 ; roots from stems, 204 ; culture 
in greenhouse, 209; pruning, 221 ; borders 
in-doors, 2 ; planting, 13; on span-roof, 28 ; 
dressing, 31 ; leading shoot of, 31; pruning, 
62 ; inarching, 63, 104; insects on leaves, 
387 ; mildewed, 359,408, 409 ; weak, 408 
Vine scale, 90 
Vinery, constructing, 344 
Vinery and cow-house, 16, 152 
Viola canina, its qualities, 246 
Vriesia culture, 370 
Walks, making, 263, 286 
Walls, smoke-stained, 76 ; printing, 265; of 
slate, 388 
Walnut-tree, moving, 408 
Walnuts, storing, 387 
Wardian-case, 153 
Wasps (Queen), 55, 168 ; destroying, 378 
Watering, care required, 47 , * 63; kitchen- 
garden, 149 
Watson (Sir W.), 79 
Water: test for hard, 270; lead in, to remove, 
271 ; influence in tea-making, 271 ; conse¬ 
quences of hard, 284 ; to remove, 285 ; cook¬ 
ing and bread-making with hard, 326; to 
soften, 154; medical effects of hard, 234; 
softening, 90 , 117 , 137 
Weather indications: distant objects, 1 ; sounds, 
moon, 15; sea, mock moon and sun, 29; 
peacocks, pigeons, Guinea fowls, 43 ; pim¬ 
pernel, quarries, 65; ravens, rooks, 79 ; 
sheep, spiders, 91 ; stars, 119 ; swallows, 
swans, violins, 21 9 ; wasps, 247> soot smoke, 
155 
Weeds, their injury, 127 
Weevils abounding, 106 ; Red-legged and Fur¬ 
rowed, 106 ; on thorns, 138 
Weigela rosea in autumn, 345 
What we can do, and what we can do without, 
52 
Whateley (T.), 247 
Wheat, midge, 43; weevil, 347; sowing, 3/4 
White flowers for bedding, 59 
Whitethroat, 340; (lesser), 385 
White (Gilbert), 219 
Wild flowers of May, 58, 73 ; of June, 164, 180 ; 
of July, 229 , 241 ; of August, 336; of Sep¬ 
tember, 387, 401 
Wild plants, books on, 281 
Wine making, 293 ; home made, 338; red 
currant, black currant, and elder, 338 ; as a 
n dicine, 130 
Winter greens, 257 
Wintering plants, 409 
Window plants, treatment of, 63 , 103; not 
blooming, 231 
Wireworms, 63 ; in compost, 104 
Wisteria sinensis, 230 
Woodbine pruning, 232 
Woodlice in orchid-house, 70 ; trapping, 409 
Woollen rags as a manure, 79 
Wood, its suggestions, 163 ; ripening, 300 
Worm, its history, 183 
Worms and alpine plants, 360 
Yarn bleachers refuse, 62 
Yeast, to make, 307 
Yellows (the), 43 
Young (A.), 375 
Yucca culture, 324 ; repotting, 359 
Zauchsneria seed sowing, 104 
Zimb (the), 169 
WOODCUTS. 
Hyacinth 
Caterpillar and Chrysalis of Magpie 
moth » 
Brown’s Fumigator 
Auricula 
Cucumber-house . 
Wheat midge . 
Rouen duck 
Apparatus for heating pit or frame 
Polyanthus 
Summer water boiler 
Payne’s Cottage Hive 
Cheese maggot and fly 
Stock dove . 
Dinner pitcher » 
Tulip 
Rose aphis 
Nightingale’s head 
I-trap 
I Pansey , 
Page 
2 
Dutch flower garden 
Page 
134 
Glow worm 
141 
15 
Cineraria 
156 
16 
Frame for inverting pots 
166 
30 
Gad fly 
169 
38 
Water filter 
181 
43 
Kitchen fire box . 
181 
53 
Earth worm and eggs 
183 
56 
Hen coop 
192 
66 
Mixture pigeon 
196 
74 
Blackcap’s head . 
198 
77 
Pelargonium 
206 
79 
Gordian worm 
219 
89 
Itch and cheese mites 
233 
89 
Limosin pigeon . 
245 
92 
Carnation 
248 
105 
Picotec 
249 
115 
Tambour pigeon . 
262 
115 
Meal-worm and beetle 
269 
120 
Working bee 
Page 
. 283 
Dahlia 
. 300 
Queen bee 
. 311 
Bee trap 
. 323 
Garden Tiger moth 
. 325 
Garden warbler’s head 
. 340 
Whitevthroated fauvet’s head 
. 340 
Pea trainer 
. 341 
American gate spring 
. 341 
Sloping banks 
. 344 
Wheat weevil 
347 
Drone bee 
. 36l 
Chrysanthemum . 
. 376 
Clothes moth 
. 389 
Gooseberry trellis 
. 391 
Maltese-cross flower-bed 
. 398 
Chicken’s water-trough 
. 404 
Missel thrush’s head 
. 405 
Poultry-house heated 
. 406 
