Macroglossa stellatarum, 1 
Madame Laft'ay rose, 47 
Magpie moth, 193 
Magnolia grandiflora not blooming, 235, 327: 
hardy, 70, 138 
Mamestra brassicm, 83 
Mandevilla suaveolens, 36, 82, 271 
Mangold-wurtzel, taking up, 339: leaves, 
236: culture, 39 , 52, 103: manuring, 113 
Mannington’s pearmai.n, 19 
Marigolds, their history, 285 
Marl defined, 84 
Marvel of Peru seedlings, 169 
Masses, plants in, 35 
Maurandia barclayana, 30 
Meadow, ornamented, 18 
Melia azederach, 223 
Melilesea euphrosyne, 293 
Melilotus leucantha, 71 
Melolontha horticola, 171 
Melons, their produce, 235 : not setting, 248: 
diseased, 248 : Bromham hall, 271 ; Flem¬ 
ming’s hybrid, 271 : culture, 17 , 28, 61 , 89 , 
101, 190: in pits, 51 : Queen Anne’s, 30: 
temperature of bed, 124 : forcing, 200 
Mermis, 147 
Mesembryanthemums not blooming, 168 : 
culture, 272 
Mice, to protect peas from, 315 
Midsummer shoots on fruit trees, 95 
Mignonette, pruning tree, 37, 191, 327: its 
history, 269 : sowing, 210 
Mildew on vines, 33, 137 : in Wardian cases, 
169 : its causes, 149: on apple trees, 148, 
204 : on peaches, 148 
Mistletoe culture, 22, 106 
Moles, banishing, 165 : their use, 71 
Moon’s influence, 11, 165 
Moss as a covering, 235: on fruit trees, 168 : 
round plants, 71 
Mountain ash, 286 
Mulberries falling, 291 
Mulching trees, 128, 235: kitchen vegetables, 
157, 178 
Mullein moth, 181 
Muriatic acid, 19 
Mushroom beds, watering, 314: making, 17 , 
30, 51, 200, 235, 325: spawn, 62, 248 
My Flowers, 7, 17 , 28, 44, 70, 80, 89, 121, 
146, 160 , 178 , 190 , 200, 217 , 233, 245, 258, 
269, 285, 301, 314, 326, 342 
Myrtle, dividing root, 260 : moving from 
border, 291 : cuttings, 266 : sowing, 267 : 
layering, 71 
Narcissi, forced, 260 , 311 : potting, 346 
Nasturtiums for pickles, 40 
Nectarine disbudding, 13: stopping, 55, 140, 
227 
Nematus trimaculatus, 31 
Nemophila, 92 : atomaria, 191 
Nerine sarniensis, 291 
Nerium oleander, 169 
Nettles, to kill, 92: uses, 233, 327 
Nicothecium roseum, 92 
Nightingale heard, 83 
Night soil, 191 : to use, 260 
Noctua brassica, 83: verbasci, 181: pro- 
nuba, 317 
Normandy cress, 272 
Northern aspect, plants for, 138 
Notanecta, 204 
Nutt’s bee management, 42 
Nut weevil, 261 
Oak-gall, woolly, 123 
Oidium tuckerii, 53 : erysiphoides, 91 : leu- 
conium, 92 
Oleander buds withering, 236, culture, 72: 
pruning, 169 : potting, 291 : straggling, 291 : 
cuttings, 266 : scale, 10 : mismanaged, 29 
Onions, transplanting, 124: fly, 149: cul¬ 
ture, 40: sowing, 215; ripening, 215: 
storing, 282, 300 : potato, 304 : failure, 113 : 
winter standing, 258: bending down stems, 
282 : transplanted, 290 : tree planting, 290 : 
grub, to prevent, 103 
Orange trees casting their leaves, 204 : house, 
climbers for, 204: myrtle-leaved, 72 : scale, 
92 : soil for, 113 
Orchadist’s crook, 275 
Orgyia antiqua, 316 
Oyster plant, 180 
Pansy (see Heartsease) culture, 25, 229 : list 
of, 133 : layers and cuttings, 143, 242 ; its 
history, 320 
Papilio Euphrosyne, 293 
Parsley culture, 200, 269 
Parsnip culture, 103, 48 i for pigs, 49 i taking 
up, 339 
Partridge, anecdote of, 273 
Passion-flower, 37; culture, 123; cuttings, 291 
Pasture, to improve, 10 
INDEX. 
Paul’s Rosery, 227 
Paedisca Angustiorana, 56 
Peach, disbudding, 13: trees, dressing for, 
30 : without blossom, 30 : training horizon¬ 
tally, 124 : mildew, 150 : stopping, 55, 140, 
223, 22 7, 316: the Catherine, 260 : late, 
308 
Pearl-bordered Fritillary moth, 293 
Pear-trees, unfruitful, 20 : for Westmoreland, 
50 : culture, 30, 174 : list of, 29 : Blister 
moth, 53 : shoots, training, 62 : blossoms, 
thinning, 62 : unfruitful, 81 : falling off, 179 : 
why barren, 183 : fruitless, 223 : stopping, 
239 : late dessert, 309 
Peas, on heavy soil, 71 : culture, 102 : boiled 
in their pods, 82; sticks, 110 : supporters, 
46 : early crops, 49: skinless, 164 , 165, 168 : 
to grow fine, 179 : to guard from mice, 289 , 
315: early long-podded dwarf, 307 : list of 
dwarf, 19 : cause of failure, 10 : height of, 50 
Peat, 71 : paths, 110 
Pelargoniums, list of, 133, 164, 234 ; hybridi¬ 
zing, 148, 156 : petals falling, 148 : exhibi¬ 
tion, 165 ; leaves withered, 169 ; cutting back 
and cuttings, 170 : defined, 222 : Unique, 
277 : autumn-blooming, list of, 341: win¬ 
tering seedlings, 347 
Pemphigus laetucse, 307 
Penstamons in winter, 291 
Penton cabbage sowing, 191 
Perennials, hearbaceous, propagating, 129 : 
sowing, 303 
Periodicals of gardening, 31 
Periwinkle, 46 : stove kinds, 213 
Petals, their uses, 125 
Petunia cuttings, 36 : training, 142 : sowing, 
192 , 210 , hybridizing, 212 
Phahena Evonymella, 73 
Phalena pronuba, 317 
Phlox, leaves diseased, 169 : list of, 304 
Phyllopertha horticola, 171 
Physalis edulis, 71 
Physiology, its importance, 318 
Picotee (see Carnation) culture, 25 : in bor¬ 
ders, 204 : list of, 235 : potting, 321 
Pigeon’s dung, 91 
Pig keeping, 341 
Pine appl» crowns, 260 , 271 
Pines with vines, 304 
Pink, piping, 98 : culture, 25, 229 , 278 : buds 
bursting, 143, 155 : prejudice concerning, 
148 ; list of, 235 : species, 296 
Pinus benthamiana, radiata, muricata, and 
tuberculata, 234 
Pistil, anatomy of, 171 , defined, 316 
Pit, heating air of, 72 : heating small, 259 
Plan of garden. 108, 112 
Planter’s puzzle, 47 
Planting, time for, 19 : rule for, 51 
Plants, indicating weather, 93 : near glass, 248 
Plum disbudding, 65 : with broken leader, 71 : 
pruning 113, 251 ; shedding its fruit, 138 ; 
trees, unfruitful, 1 68 ; culture, 174 
Plumbago Larpentse, 81, 105 ; culture, 186, 
220, 223, 303 
Podura fuliginosa, 148 
Pceony, propagation, 148 
Poles, the seat of R. Hanbury, 252 
Pollards, plants in hollow, 62 
Pollen, relative contrivances, 181: quantity 
required, 205 
Polmaise heating, 108 
Polyanthus culture, 15, 26: insects on, 51 : 
narcissus, 51 : seedlings, 113; repotting, 
130: seed gathering, 185 : watering, 197: 
sowing, 248: not a species, 316 
Pomegranate, not flowering, 291 
Popular errors, 321 
Portulaca splendens, 222 
Pot pourri, to make, 290 
Potatoes, sprouted, 10 : thinning stems, 17, 
80 : storing, 52, 315, 316, 338, 347 : insect 
on, 52 : planting, 51, 52 : stems frosted, 92 : 
Farmer’s Glory, 109 , keeping, 113 : Epsom 
salt for, 123 : murrain, 124 : autumn plant¬ 
ing, 165: stemless, 124: storing, 138: cul¬ 
ture, 163 : earthing up, 148 : destroyed by 
frost, I 67 : disease, 179 , 191,283, 338: sets, 
180: earthing-up, 180: taking up, 214: 
hollow, 222; for seed, 248, 259: haum 
turned black, 292: ill flavoured, 259: sprout¬ 
ing, 271, 304 : ash-leaved kidney, 291 : 
winter planting, 345 : Rylott’s flower-ball, 
345 : two crops a year, 346 
Pots becoming green, 291 
Potting, soil for, 168 : double, 248 
Poultry, produce, 30 : yard, 92; gapes in, 112 : 
chip in, 204 : laying, 259 : feeding, 289; ! 
estimate of sorts, 345 
Pricking out seedlings, 124 
Prickly pear, 72 
yii 
Primrose (China), sowing, 210: changing 
colour, 124, 147 
Prince Albert rose, 47 
Principles of gardening, 317, 330 
Prize plants, list of, 109 
Prizes, classification of, 226 
Psilura monacha, 237 
Pumpkin seed, 347 
Puss moth caterpillars, 317 
Pyralis Pomona, 63 
Pyrus japonica, 14 : apples, preserving, 288 : 
pruning, 291 : fruit, 220 
Pytchley Horticultural Society, 116 
Quarenden Apple, 112 
Quicken grass, to destroy, 138, 166 
Ranunculus Culture, 78, 130; destroyed 
by slugs, 147; soil, 191 
Raspberry culture, 47; pruning, 251, 173; 
thinning suckers, 56, 92 , 96 , 129; insect, 
82 ; blossomless, 147; moved in spring, 
222 ; branching, 304 ; training, 304 : double 
bearing, 308: espalier, 347 
Rats, to destroy, 72 
Red Bar moth, 56 
Red spider, to kill, 67 , 75 : on celery, 260 
Redstart singing, 83 
Reel, garden, 8 
Rhododendron culture, 175 : pruning, 191 
Rhubarb gathering, 92 : culture, 19 48, 145, 
192, 204: preserving, 124: cutting, 148: 
manuring, 303: pruning, 304 : removing, 
328 
Rhus coriaria, 271 
Rhynchenus nucum, 26 J 
Ribbon grass culture, 204 
Ripeness, symptoms of, 276 
Ripening of wood, 320 
Roberts’ flower supporters, 142 
Rochea falcata culture, 248, 265 
Rockery, 174 , 304 : plants for shaded, 223 
Rocket, tinea, 21 : yellow, 167 
Rock plants, 113: culture, 174 
Rock rose, spotted, common, and polium- 
leaved, 167 
Roofs, to find angle of, 304 
Rooks, building, 1 
Roots, excrements from, 323 : pruning, 65, 
319, 331; storing, maxims for, 340; im¬ 
portance of surface, 183; sending abroad, 
278 
RosaBanksia, pruning, 14 
Rose budding, 8 , 176 , 192 ; manure for, 10 ; 
for bedding, 25 ; in November, 50 ; list of 
China, 25: Austrian, for bedding, 57: per¬ 
petual, for bedding, 56 : culture of moss, 66; 
cuttings, 67 , 211 : climbing, 76 : pillar, 76 , 
85, 96 : in pots, 92 , 114 : pot cultivation of, 
119, 130 : hybridizing, 132, 143, 145 : suck¬ 
ers, 138: green centred, 143, 147, 192: 
weeping, 154: buds falling, 169 : its his¬ 
tory, 160: caterpillars on, 169 , 179 , 222 : 
list for a terrace side, 169 : layering, 176 : 
pruning, 223: in pots, 176 : stocks for, 
176 : list of, 209 : climbers in pots, 177 : 
aphides on, 180: culture, 180: (Bank- 
sian) not flowering, 192, 223, 204 : buds 
turning yellow, 204: nursery (Paul’s), 208: 
soil for, 211: on light sod, 224: double 
yellow, 223 : for bedding, 228: wall, 228 : 
weeping, 228 : new and old, 228 : shading 
seedlings, 228 : done flowering, 248: stocks 
for, 272 : abortive, 291 : list of perpetual, 
271 : charred turf for, 292 : dark climbing, 
271 : Persian yellow, 272: pruning climb¬ 
ing, 303: cuttings and budding, 303, 328, 
347: moving, 316: stocks for, 327; rais¬ 
ing hybrid perpetual, 327 : over luxuriant, 
to cure, 328: caterpillar, 86 
Rosemary, its uses, 327 
Runcia crataegata, 11 
Rustic baskets, 118: plants for, 119 
Salt, as a cure for mildew, 54 
Salvia cultivation, 342 
Salvia patens shedding buds, 247 > in winter, 
291 ; flowering, 223 
Samaritan, 20 
Saxifrages, 122; (pyramidal) propagating, 
223 
Scale, to remove, 51 
Scaring birds, 23 
Scarlet runner culture, 102 
Scatophaga ceparum, 149 
Schizanthus rctusus culture, 323 
Science of gardening, 318 
Scissors for pruning, 113 
Scotch Pine-bark beetle, 320 
Scurvy grass, 167 
Seacomu Garden Society, 237 
Sea kale, pots, substitute for, 107 j culture, 
145; bed making, 290 
Sea overflowing garden, 222 
