INDEX 
Abelia FEORIBT7NDA, 327 
Abies canadensis, 30 
Abraxas grossulariata, 193 
Abutilon striatum, 82, 137 
Acacia, yellow, 123 
Acherontia atropos, 305 
Achimenes, list of, and culture, 199 
Acuba japonica bare of leaves, 247 
Agapanthus culture, 180 
Ageratum, 91 
Alloplectus capitatus, 259 
Allotment gardening, 39, 101, 157, 237, 338; 
flower beds, 13 ; rules, 46 
Aloysia citriodora, 179 
Alpine plant culture, 174 
Alpine strawberry seed, 20 
Alpinery, 174 
Althea frutex, 6l 
Amaryllid culture, 242; soil, 124; done 
flowering, 82 
Amaryllis belladonna, hybridizing, 242; 
longifolia, 147 
Ambury in cabbages, 126 
American cress, 145, 272 ; blight, 85, 165, 
273; plant culture, 175 
Amherstia nobilis, 259 
Ammonia, sulphate of, 138; sulphate and 
carbonate of, 169 ; fixing, 204 
Anemone roots, storing, 186; culture, 36, 45, 
86; sowing, 87 
Aneroid barometer, 328 
Angelica culture, 70 
Annuals, sowing, 129, 303; culture, 278 
Anthomyia ceparum, 149 
Antipathies of plants, 91 
Antirrhinum culture, 137 
Ants, destruction of, 30, 51, 114, 167 
Aphelexis humilis, 192 
Aphides, to destroy, 20, 47, 77, 110, 128, 138, 
231; list of, 149 
Aphis ribis, 82 ; fabae, 88 ; cerasi, 85; lani- 
gera, 273 
Aphrophora spumaria, 249 
Apples, storing, 295 ; pips, sowing, 203 ; da¬ 
maged bark, 271; caterpillars on, 180 ; 
cankered, 168 
Apricot, Haisha, 234; dropping, 180, 235; 
culture, 174, 251; stopping, 128; thinning, 
56; caterpillar, 56 
April showers, 21 
Aquarium, formation of, 184 
Aquatic plants injured, by insects, 348; list 
of hardy, 185 
Aquilegia glandulosa culture, 138 
Arbutus, 89 
Argynius euphrosyne, 293 
Argyrotoza bergmanniana, 86 
Aristolochia sipho, 62 
Artichoke culture, 70, 121, 232 
Arum culture, 51, 180 
Arundo donax, 204 
Asparagus culture, 70, 121, 132, 232, 281 ; 
stripping berries from, 288; soil, 248; 
seedlings, 272; beds making, 148, 290; 
badly made, 124, 168; salting, 92, 138; 
beetle, 125; liquid manure for, 101 ; va¬ 
rieties, 30 
Astelma eximium, 92 
Auricula seedlings, 259 ; culture, 15, 26, 78, 
8i, 265; gathering seed, 185; repotting, 130 
Autumn growth, mistake about, 321 
Azalea, Ghent, culture, 175 
Azaleas, China, culture, 72, 197 ; list of, 122; 
in vinery, 124; compost for, 147 ; their 
beauty, 99 
Balaninus Nucum,26i 
Balsam leaves dying, 191 
Banksian rose culture, 123 ; in pots, 114 
Barbarea vulgaris, 167 
Barley, black, 287 
Baskets, rustic, 97 
Bead tree, 223 
Bean aphis, 81; to destroy, 138; blossoms 
falling, 92 ^culture, 102 
Beans failing, 72 
Bedding-out, plants for, 35, 78. 90 ; potting, 
327; white flowers for, 123 
Bedding, roses for, 25, 35 
Bee, sting of, 42; Nutt’s discovery, 42; 
Roberts’ treatment, 43 ; feeding-trough, 
20 ; swarming, 20, 42, 43 ; appearance of 
drones, 21; dead larva, 51; moving swarms, 
104; putting glasses on, 104; joining 
swarms, 104 ; second swarms, 104 ; taking 
honey, 105; stupifying, 113; hive ventilat¬ 
ing, 112; failures in keeping, 111; flying 
distance, 161 ; ventilation, 161 ; Taylor’s 
hive, 161; glasses, l6l; shading, 161; love 
of, 162; second swarm, 169; mismanaged, 
169; returning swarms, 180,216; that will 
swarm, 192; housing in winter, 204 ; nar¬ 
rowing entrance, 216 ; additional room for, 
216; removing glasses, 216; knife for 
combs, 217 ; stings, cure for, 222 ; to pre¬ 
vent swarming, 223 ; Cotton’s hives for, 
223; not using upper hives, 192 ; under 
hiving, 236, 272 ; Taylor’s amateur’s hive, 
292 ; applying side hives, 236 ; fumigating, 
271 ; drone killing, prognosticators of wea¬ 
ther, union of stocks, 284; hives, 272; 
draining combs, preparing wax, 285; de¬ 
priving, 284, 281 ; moving small hives, 304; 
puffballs for fumigating, 304 ; treatises on, 
316; hives, size of, 327 ; autumnal unions, 
340; stocks, 341; Taylor’s hive, 340; co¬ 
verings to hives, 341 ; enemies, 341 ; pedes¬ 
tals, 341; Huish’s hive, 347; fumigation of, 
345 
Bee-keepers’ calendar, May, 41 ; June, 104; 
July, 161 ; August, 216; September, 284; 
October, 340 
Beet, red, 7; removing leaves, 271 
Begonia culture, 191; fucioides, 62; winter¬ 
ing, 348 
Benevolent Institution, 22 
Berberis dulcis, 315 
Biennials, sowing, 129 ; transplanting, 196; 
culture of, 277 
Bindweed, to extirpate, 224 , 303 
Birds, to destroy, 23; to scare, 110; conse¬ 
quences of destroying, 168 
Bishop, David, 306 
Black arch moth, 237 
Blackberry jam, 346 
Blackthorn winter, 18 
Blossoms falling, cause of, 71 
Boat fly, 204 
Bog earth, 71 
Boiler, open, 113 
Bombyx lubricipeda, 205 ; VEsculi, 225 ; mo- 
nacha, 237 
Bones, dissolved, 29, 51 ; for manure, 327; 
bone-dust charred, 61 
Borders, for fruit, 39, 257 ; cropping, 204 ; in 
conservatory, 61; formation of, 312; plants 
for south east, 348 ; plants, wintering, 328 
Boronia serrulata, 91 
Boscobel oak, 166 
Bouquets, to arrange, 193, 261, 330 
Bouvardia triphylla, 169 
Box-tree pruning, 10, 191 
Brachyglossa atropos, 305 
Braganza cabbage, 72 
Breast-wood, 96 
Brick-field, to reclaim, 124 
Brimstone moth, 11 
s British plants, 221, 270 
Brocoli culture, 28, 80; planting, 148; but¬ 
toning, 248; Wilcove, 347 
Broom, 178 
Brown beurre, 62 
Broxbournebury, Mrs. Bosanquet’s, 264 
Brugmansia culture, 124; arborea, 30; cul¬ 
ture, 347 
Brunsvigia Josephinaj, hybridizing, 242 
Brussels sprouts, when to cut, 337 
Budding fruit-trees, 260 
Buds, to distinguish, 248 
Buff tip moth, 260 ; caterpillars, 317 
Building, best time for, 229 
Bulb moving, 61, 62 
Bulbs, leaves of, preserve, 67; forcing, 311, 
334; autumn flowering, greenhouse, 316 ; 
Dutch, 332, 334 ; planting, 332 
Bunium bulbocastanum, 316 
Cabbage culture, 38, 200 ; sowing, 214; not 
hearting, 303: planting, 313, 337, 339; 
moth, 33 
Cactaceae in rooms, 44 
Cactus culture, 10, 44, 72 ; seed sowing, 147 ; 
done flowering, 236; turned brown, 248; 
cuttings, 316 
Caelestina ageratoides, 91, 223 
Calampelis scabra, 124 
Calandrina umbellata, propagating, 303 
Calceolaria sowing, 51, 210 ; list of, 133 
Calendar for May, 52 ; June, 114 ; July, 170; 
August, 224 ; September, 292; October, 348 
Calyx, its uses, 115 
Camellias, best kinds, 58 ; potting, 59 ; cul¬ 
ture, 30, 60, 68, 89 ; soil, 62 ; in peat, 137 ; 
cuttings, 235, 266; in open air, 272 
Campanula pyramidalis, culture, 50, 297; 
varieties and hybridizing, 298; carpatica, 
167 
Canary nasturtium, 30, 38 ; creeper, 81 
Canterbury bell seedlings, 259 
Cape gooseberry, 71 
Cape jasmine, 147 
Capsus damicus, 292 
Cardamine pratensis, 167 
Cardoons, 38; culture, 132 
Carnation culture, 25, 50, 62, 130, 197, 278; 
layering, 155; carding, 186; potting. 321 ; 
soil for, 138 ; list of, 234 ; tree, 260 
Carpathian bell-flower, 167 
Carpocapsa pomonella, 63 
Carrot culture, 103, 40; storing, 52; after 
potatoes, 168; to save from wire-worms, 
224 ; taking up, 339 
Caterpillars, hand-picking, 96 ; on standards, 
124 ; their phenomena, 317; to destroy, 
346 
Catharanthus, species of, 213 
Cauliflower culture, 28, 38, 80 ; kinds of, 6l ; 
failing, 113 ; heads spreading, 124 ; to stand 
the winter, 236 ; sheltering, 245 ; sowing, 
269 ; early, 338 
Cedar and Deodara alike, 32 
Celery culture, 7, 80, 132, 232, 300, 343; 
manure, 113; planting, 189; earthing, 325 
Centipedes, their use, 11 
Cerostema porrectella, 21 
Chamomile in turf, 137, 166 
Charcoal as drainage, 236 
Charred refuse, 340 
Chaumontel pear, 112 
Cherries falling, 180 
Cherry, aphis, 85 ; tree barren, 303 
Chicory in England, 50 ; sowing, 191 
China Aster, sowing, 28, 315 
Chinese manuring, 64 
Chiswick garden, 140 
Chou de Milan, 48 
Christmas rose culture, 180 
Chrysanthemum moving, 81; culture of, 106; 
cuttings, 88, 314 ; list of, 107, 147 ; train¬ 
ing, 148; bedding, 196; propagating, 230; 
layers, 288 ; liquid manure for, 304 
Chrysomela asparagi, 125 
Cicada, 83 
Cider grounds as a manure, 10 
Cinerarias, done blooming, 62, 99; seedlings, 
88; list of, 133; sowing, 191, 210; insects 
on roots, 327 
Citrus vulgaris myrtifolia, 72 
Clayey soil, to drain, 112; culture, 123, 138, 
147, 169 
Clianthus puniceus, 17, 272 
Climbers, pruning hardy, 14; for greenhouses, 
15, 36, 51; list of, 259 ; in balcony, 62 ; for 
s.e. walls, 223; for trellis, 316; dressing 
hardy, 277 
Clove and carnation, 291 
Clove carnation culture, 321 
Clubbing in cabbages, 20, 126 
Coal ashes, 204 
Coboea scandens, 123 
Coccus hesperidum, 92; testudo, 92 
Coccus Nerii, 10 
Codlin moth, 63 
Cochlearia officinalis, 167 
Coleworts, 159 
Colours of flowers, 51; their arrangement, 
262 
Compost of turf, 290 
Conservatory, Mr. Wilson’s, 262 
Convolvulus, blue, 38; arvensis, 224; major, 
270 ; spit, 249 
Copings for walls, 20 
Copper wire for training, 162 
Corraea cuttings, 91 
Corrosive sublimate applied to plants, 113 
Cossus iEsculi, 225 
Couve TroVichouda, 48 
Cowslip vinegar, 40 
Crab culture, 204 ; hedges, 327 
Crane fly grubs, 61 
Crassula culture, 253, 265 ; cuttings, 211 
Creepers, for window, 10, 30 ; (see climbers) 
Crinum, 147 
Crioceris asparaegi, 125 
Crocuses, 148 ; moving, 20 
Cross breeding, 90 
Cuckoo’s arrival, 31 ; heard, S3; flower, 167 
Cucullia verbasci, 181 
Cucumber culture, 17, 28, 40, 6l, 101, 189, 
314; planting out, 72; mildew, 92; tern- 
