vi 
pcrature of bed, 124; blossoms impregnat¬ 
ing, 134; in pits, 51, 6l ; deformed, 147; 
bitter, 260 ; bitter tasted, 291 ; diseased, 
248, 260 
Cucumis Colocyntliis, 260 
Cuphea platycentra, 30, 82, 14/; seed, 1/0; 
melvilla, 71 
Curculio Nucum, 261 
Currants, watering black, 56, 128 ; planting, 
248; pruning, 129,148; shoots, 148; sphinx, 
115 ; protecting, 240; culture, 174; the flow¬ 
ering, 70 ; aphis, to destroy, 82, 85 
Cuttings, of flowers, 36 ; for emigrants, 51 ; 
to raise, 107; to strike, 166,210; of soft 
wooded plants, 309 ; striking, 327 ; winter¬ 
ing, 334 ; in phials, 248 
Cyclamen, seed, to grow, 87 ; culture, 174 
Cynips quereus-ramuli, 123 
Cypripedia, hardy, their culture, 286 
Cyrtochilum Citrinum, 259 
Cytisus culture, 123 
Daddy Long-legs, 61 
Dahlia culture, 36, 108, 197, 309, 229, 259, 
278; cuttings of, 36, 315, 347; seedlings, 
98, 143 ; manure for, 92 ; list of, 109 ; pans, 
169 ; characteristic of good, 143 ; destroyed 
by slugs, 147; not growing, 180; shading, 
209 ; green-centred, 291 ; leaving in border, 
304 
Dames’ violet, 167 
Damson blighted, 180 
Dandelion, to kill, 61 
Death’s-head moth, 305 
Dees, John, 167 
Delphinium, the genus, 265 
Dew, cause of, 329 
Dianthus genus, 296 
Dibblers, 235 
Dielytra spectabilis, 82 
Digging, 171 , 250; implement for, 122 
Disbudding fruit-trees, 12, 127 
Diseases of plants, 125 
Dolphin, 88 
Draba aizoides, 167 ; incana, 167 
Draining clayey soil, 112 
Drilling and surface stirring, 342 
Drip from glass, 291 
Dutch bulbs, 334 
Earth nut culture, 316 
Edgings of turf, 221 
Efts, 260 
Elder causing blight, 1/9 
Elichrysum spectabile culture, 192 
Emigration, 279 
Erica Cavendishii, fine specimen, 303 
Eriosoma lanigera, 273 ; lactucse, 307 
Eriostemon intermedium, 41 
Ermine moth, 73 
Erodium defined, 222 ; moschatum, 260 
Espalier training, 148 
Evergreens, transplanting, 320 ; propagating, 
321 ; fence a good one, 328 ; from seeds, 
333; for balcony, 81 ; for walls, 109 ; cut¬ 
tings of, 253, 258; for chalk soil, 286 
Everlasting flowers, 246 
Fermentation caused by fungi, 95 
Fern, culture, 174 ; native, 314 
Fernery, 264 
Fig, culture, 3 ; varieties of, 4 ; disbudding, 
84 ; training, 85 ; pruning, 294 ; Brianzolo 
and Nerii, 315 
Filbert suckers, 85; from seed, 168 ; caterpil¬ 
lar on, 260 
Fingers and toes, 126 
Finochio culture, 72 
Firs, new, 234 
Flea locust, 83 
Florence fennel, 51 
Florists’ flowers, garden for, 24 
Flower-gardens, laying out, 5 
Flowers, arrangement of, 118 ; training, 142; 
stand for, 103 ; their parts, 93, 130 ; to 
arrange and preserve, 193, 206 ; sowing, 
210, 223, 236; shades for, 186, 220 ; storing 
roots of, 265; protecting, 247; their colours, 
331 
Forsythia viridissima, 29,112 
Frame plants turning yellow, 92 
Frame for melons, 327; two-light, 128 
Frog-hopper, 83 
Froth-hopper, 249 
Fruit, gathering and storing, 275, 308; ripen¬ 
ing phenomena, 1Q3 
Fruiterers’ Company, arms of, 291 
Fruit-garden, planting, 303 
Fruit-tree, borders, 39 ; in hedge-row*. 141 ; 
packing for exportation, 335, 346 ; for north 
wall, 347 ; over-luxuriant, 192 
Fuchsia, ieaves curling, 10,223; flowerless, 
20 ; sowing, 20; spectabilis, 20; cuttings, 
36, 236 ; in a hot-bed, 61 ; flowers falling. 
INDEX. 
82; exoniensis, 114; leaves spotted, 123; 
seedlings, 168 , 223, wintering, 347 ; flower 
buds dropping, 170 ; seed, to save, 179; 
not flowering, 223; its history, 190 ; ful- 
gens, 191 ; seratifolia, 223 ; to bloom in 
September, 223 ; corymbiflora, its culture, 
23o, 271 ; standard and wall, 229 ; cordi- 
folia, 327 ; Ricartoni, Macrostemon, Cora- 
lina, large, 344; history of genus, 328 ; 
treatment of old, 347 ; grown too large, 348 
Fumigation, 18, 162 , 232 
Furze, double blossomed, 271 
Gardener, Dr. George, 74 
Gardeners, longevity of, 22 
Gardenia radicans, 147 
Gardening, its moral influence, 151 
Garden, reel, 8; periodicals, 31 ; plan, 108; 
in towns, 123; beetle, 171; overflowed, 222 
Gas-lime, its uses, 151 ; compost, 271 
Gentiana acaulis (gentianella), 107 
Gentianella, culture, 30, 51 
Geometra grossulariata, 113, 193 
Geraniacete, 222 
Geranium, bed of scarlet, 62 ; culture of 
scarlet, 78; leaves diseased, 113; soil for, 
114 ; frame for, 62; boiling water to, 123 ; 
cuttings, 147 , 222, 248, 315 ; hybridizing, 
199 ; its history, 200, 222; defined, 222 ; 
pruning, 187 ; its kinds, 243 ; not flowering, 
276 ; sowing, 248; digest of culture, 287 1 
in winter, 259 ; scarlet, 272 ; liquid-manure 
for, 304 ; potting scarlet, 311 ; soil for 
scarlet, 316 ; Shrubland scarlet, 304 ; win¬ 
tering, 304, 347 
Gerarde (John), 31 
Germination, phenomena of, 11, 330 
Gesnera, losing colour, 271: zebrina, culture, 
316 
Gladioli, culture, 88 ; hybridizing, 156; plant¬ 
ing, 180 ; removing, 222 ; not flowering, 
224 ; in moss, 315 ; soilfor, 328 ; sowing, 347 
Gladiolus cardinalis, 51 : planting, 236 
Glass, rough, 262 
Glory pea, 17 
Goat keeping, 10 
Gold-fish, water for, 9 
Gompholobium venustum, 41 : hirsutum, 41 
Gooseberry, Saw-fly, 31, grubs, 317 : blos¬ 
soms, 46: pruning, 47: culture, 50: the 
flowering, 70: borer, 113: aphis, 148, 174 : 
protecting, 240 : raising seedlings, 301 : 
sheddingtheir leaves, 328; removingbushes, 
34 7 
Gowan, 53 
Grafting clay, removing, 148 
Grapes, out-door, 235 : dropping, 248 ; shank¬ 
ing, 248 : in pots, 291 : not setting, 222: 
list of 315 : ripening unequally, 347 
Grasses for pasture, 10 
Green-fly, to destroy, 20, 47, 77, HO 
Greengage, fruitless, 138 
Greenhouse climbers, 15, 36: adjoining par¬ 
lour, 19 : for vines, 23 : window, duty on, 
61 , 82: pit, 91 : plants out of doors, 99: 
roof, angle for, 113: cheap, 124: arrange¬ 
ment, 168: stages, 147 : heating, 162, 248, 
303, 336: united to hothouse, 336 
Grey streak moth, 21 
Guano as a manure, 2, 39: artificial, 3: 
water, to make, 180 
Guernsey lily, 291 
Gutta percha, for grafting, 18 
Habrotiiamnus faciculatus, 16 , 248 
Haltica nemorum, 93 
Hammatophora bucephala, 260 , 317 
Heartsease (see Pansy) cuttings, 121; layers, 
122 
Heath culture, 26 ; culture of hardy, 57; list 
of, 57, 122, 247; mould, 71 ; in gardens, 
168 ; turning yellow, 147 
Hedgehog, 73 
Hedges, weeding, 152; planting, 348 ; dress¬ 
ing, 233, 277 ; fruit trees near, 348 ; shape 
of, 218 
Helianthemum polifolium, vulgare, and 
guttatum, 167 
Hemlock spruce, 30 
Hemp, for fumigating, 18 
Heracleum giganteum, 347 
Herbaceous flowers, list of hardy, 304 
Herbert’s passion-flower, 37 
Herbs, gathering, 178 
Hesperis matronalis, 167 
Hibiscus syriacus, 6l 
Hives, painted, 6l 
Hoare, Clement, 306 
Hoeing, 158; its use, 101; and importance, 
215 
Hollyhock seedlings, 259 ; hybridizing, 271; 
their history, 285; staking, 197; propa¬ 
gating and training, 296 ; sowing, 315, 316 
Honey, how exhibited, 328 
Honey-dew, to remove, 147 ; its nature, 181 
Honeysuckles, green fly on, 138 
Horse-dung for flowers, 235 
Horseradish, to kill, 235 
Horticultural Society’s shows, 133 , 201,205, 
234, 246, and Supplement. 
Horticultural shows for cottagers, 115, 148, 
151; village, their benefit, 219 ; societies, 
225; warning to, 139 
Hot-bed, of tan, 168 ; making, 244 
Hothouse, heating, 336; and greenhouse 
united, 336 
House sewage, 20, 123 
Housing plants, 310 
Hoya carnosa, 62 
Humming-bird moth, 1 
Hyacinths, 18; culture, 332, 334; feathered, 
62 ; after blooming in water, 72 ; in boxes, 
220 ; forced, 260 ; in pots, 333, 345 
Hybridizing, 90, 100, 143, 155, 199, 204, 211 
Hydrangeas without leaves, 137; cuttings, 
242; changing colour, 243; to make blue, 327 
Hylesinus piniperda, 329 
Hylurgus piniperda, 329 
Hypericum Nepalense and Chinese, 327 
Ice plant culture, 191 ; sowing, 291 
Inarching, 347 
Indian pink culture, 304 
Innoculating with grass, 114 
Ips piniperda, 329 
Iris, 236; chalcedonian, 192; hybridizing, 211; 
xiphioides, 223 
Italian ray grass, 215 
Ivy pruning, 8, 14 ; to grow quickly, 123 
Ixias, wintering, 347 
Jargonelle pear wearing out, 148; spots 
on leaves, 71 
Jasmine growing weak, 303 
Jasminum grandiflora, 17 
Jerusalem artichokes, 121, 271, 339 
Julus complanatus, 52; pulchellus, 139, 191 
Kalosanthes, 256 
Kennedya eximia, 41 
Kennel manure, 19 
Kerr, H. B., Swiss Cottage, 240 
Kidney bean culture, 28, 40, 60; runners, 
102; pruning, 146, 159 
Kirby, Rev. W., 212 
Kleinia articulata, 179 
Labels, zinc, 9; china, 10 
Ladder, orchard, 275 
Lamb Abbey Pearmain, 61 
Lapageria rosea, 234 
Larch, 46 
Larkspur culture, 265 ; list of, 265 
Lashmar’s seedling grape, 110 
Lathyrus californicus, 71 
Laurustinus, withered, 137 
Lavender planting, 217 
Lawn, treatment of, 197 ; mossy, to cure, 235 
Leather jackets, 61 
Leaves, colour and size of, 53; their uses, 63; 
blistered, 204 ; cause of falling, 293, 305 , 
autumn tints, 293 
Leeks, 40 ; transplanting, 271 ; culture, 328 
Lema asparagi, 126 
Lemons, soilfor, 113; culture of, 179 
Lepisma saccliarina, 191 
Lettuce culture, 28, 40, 103, 159; sowing, 215; 
to stand the winter, 272, 284 ; aphis, 307 > 
planting, 339 
Leycesteria formosa, 248 
Light, its importance, 173 
Lilium lancitolium, 175; compost for, 180; 
list of, 347 ; longifolium culture, 235 
Lily, stems of, 92 ; Japan, 260 ; culture, 175, 
180, 310; list of hardy, 309 
Lily of the Valley, done flowering, 123; cul¬ 
ture, 201 
Lime, super phosphate of 10 , its uses, 124 ; 
its lands, 147 ; in excess, 147, 292; burning, 
109 
Liparis monacha, 237 
Liquid manure for trees, 10,20, 51; forplaats, 
19 , 20 , 113, 138, 192 , 236; to ascertain 
strength of, 78, 101; value of, 169 , 274 ; of 
soot, 220 ; straining, 291 ; where to apply, 
293; diluting, 315, 3l6; mistake about, 322 ; 
making, 328 ; for fruit-trees, 348 
Liquorice culture, 148 
Loam, defined, 84 
Loamy compost, 113 
Lobelia densiflora, 41 
Lophospermum, 30 
Loves of the plants, 91 
Lozotsenia lievigana, 113 
Lucerne culture, 113; sowing, 147; cutting, 
235 
Lupinus polyphyllus culture, 223 
Lychnis fulgens culture, 222 
