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INDEX. 
Sea-pink edgings, 328 
Seedlings in loose mould, to move, 92 
Seeds, structure of, 21 : fertilizing of, 205 : 
dispersion of, 237, 249, 26l; sending 
abroad, 278 : saving, 288, 31 6 : sowing, 330 
Selandria cethiops, 222 
Semi-transparent calico, 123 
Sepals, definition of, 191 
Shades for carnations, &c., 186, 220; for 
plants, 289 
Shading, with pots, 124 
Shallots, planting, 292 
Shamrock, 51 
Shells, as manure, 72 
Shelters, 6 : for plants, 6 l: for flowers, 166 : 
straw mat, 309 : winter, 327 
Shifting, reasons for, 311 
Shirehampton cottagers’ show, 290 
Shrubbery pruning, 242 
Silkworms, dying, 170; eggs, 113 
Sisyrinchium bermudianum, 292, 328 
Sloping banks, 281 
Slugs, to destroy, 30, 102 , 137, 138, 142, 220, 
209, 290 ; trapping, 313, 346 
Snake millepedes, 52, 139 
Snapdragon, 217 
Snowdrops, 148 
Soapsuds for watering, 29 
Soil, crops for wet, 303; undrainable, 316; 
poor gravelly to improve, 272 
Solanum Jasminoides, 16 
Soot, as a liquid manure, 148 
Soot as a manure, 220 ; and salt, 290 
Sour-krout, to make, 259, 316 
Sowing flower seeds, 45 
Spade, Irish, 9 
Spade, its construction, 250 
Sphinx atropos, 305 
Sphinx tipuliformis, 115 
Spilosoma lubricipeda, 205 
Spinach, 40; blighted, 291 ; (Flanders) sow¬ 
ing, 214 
Spot on geranium, 113 
Spotted Buff moth, 205 
Staking objectionable, 206 
Stamens, their uses, 139 
Stamford-hill Society, 225 
Standard authority, 291 
Statice maritima, 328 
Stock sowing, 29 ; cuttings, 67 ; and seeds, 
148, 169 ; removing, 223 ; culture, 72 ; (in¬ 
termediate) culture, 345 
Stopping, 55; meaning of, 170; fruit trees, 227 
Storing, modes of, 276 
Stove for greenhouse, 260 ; plants, least ten¬ 
der, 280 
Strawberry culture, 56, 96 , 128, 137; tree, 89 ; 
badly forced, 128; tiles for, 164; unfruit¬ 
ful, 148 ; worms in, 168 ; runners, prepar¬ 
ing, 174 , 214 ; alpine, 174 ; worms, 191; 
not setting, 204; list of late, 236, 271 ; 
Black Prince, 292 ; planting, 239 ; forcing, 
259, 267; bed making, 271 ; list of, 240, 
271; dressing beds, 292; British Queen, 
260 ; Green Alpine, 271 ; on border, 304; 
culture, 343 
Studs for training, 221, 271 
Suckers, removing, 309 
Sugar louse, 191 
Sulphate of ammonia, 62 
Sumach, 271 
Sunflower, its uses, 301 
Surface-stirring, fork for, 342 
Surface grubs, 6 l 
Sutherlandia frutescens, 272 
Swallow, arrival of, 21, 60, 73, 83 
Sweetbrier suckers, 316 
Sweet peas, training, 142 
Swift, 225 
Swithin (St.), 181 
Tamarisk shrub, 221 
Tank for manure, 64: making, 170 
Tendrils, 29 
Tenthredo grossulariae, 31, 317 : sethiops, 222 
Tettigonia spumaria, 249 
Thinning kitchen vegetables, 158 
Thrips on cucumbers, 260 
Thunbergia culture, 299 : list of species, 300 
Tinea, clerckella, 53 : pomonella, 63 : rosana, 
86 : porrectella, 21 
Tipulae, 61 
Tobacco ashes, 92 : drying, 272 : culture, 316 : 
water, 345 
Tomato culture, 145 
Torenia asiatica, 280 
Tortrix angustiorana, 56: pomonana, 63 
Town gardens, 20 : flowers for, 92 
Tradescantia discolor, 180 
Trailer for a shaded window, 348 
Training, summer, 96 : fruit trees, 127: hori¬ 
zontal, 148 : young trees, 151: systems of, 
347 
Transplanting, ruling principle of, 315 
Tree carnation, 147 : potato, 16 
Trees, plants under, 19, 218: staking, 24: 
watering, 24 
Trenching, 340 
Triphaena pronuba, 317 
Triticum repens, 167 , 138 
Trochilium tipuliforme, 115 
Tropceolum canariense, 30, 38: tricolorum, 
50, 147,323 : lobbianum, 50 : pentaphyllum, 
291 : aphis on, 191 
Tuberoses, planting, 10 : in borders, 48: in 
water, 51 : not flowering, 316 
Tulips culture, 119 : list of, 133 : taking up, 
142 : bed, making, 297, 310 : forcing, 312 
Turf-laying, 45, 114, 277: on chalky soil, 315 
Turnip, Swedish, 39, 41, 71, 103, 258 : sowing, 
88 , 102, 215: flea beetle, 93, 102, 189: 
running to seed, 138 , hoeing, 325 : storing, 
82, 339 
Tvveedia cserulea, 272 
Urate, 62 
Urine as a fertilizer, 220 : to deodorize, 315 
Vapourer Moth, caterpillar of, 316 
Vases, rustic, 97 
Vegetable marrow culture, 92; training, 169 
Venus’s fly trap, 20 
Verbena cuttings, 36, 242, 327; mildewed, 51; 
to winter, 108, 347 ; not flowering, 124 ; 
training, 142 
Veronica, diseased, 304 
Vinca, stove kinds, 213 
Vine, on pillars, 19 ; pruning, 29 ; mildew, 
33, 53, 137; in greenhouse, 33; blooming, 
75; moving, 112 ; swelling of the berry, 75; 
syringing, 76 ; fumigating, 76 ; in pots, 
moving, 91; bleeding, 92 ; disbudding, 65 ; 
on walls, 117 ; disbudding, thinning, and 
stopping, 117 , 124 ; leaves dying, 124 ; 
thinning, 153; in pots, 148; under glass, 
152; grapes forming and swelling, 152; 
temperature, 153; cure for bleeding, 162, 
166 ; in Demerara, 192; out of doors, prun¬ 
ing, 195 ; thinning the berry, 196 ; root cul¬ 
ture, 196 : in hothouse, 256: leaf blotched, 
260 , 272 : leaves thinning, 272 : in late 
house, 324 ; in pots, 324 : out of doors, 308 
Vinegar making, 40 
Vinegar plant, 61 , 74, 166 , 328: its nature, 
94 : recipe for, 1 66 
Vinery, 263 : creeper for, 271 : heating, 52 : 
angle of roof, 257 
Violets, 8 : for winter, 98 : list of, 221 
Virginnian creeper, 71 
Walks, cleaning, 277 
AVall-flower cuttings, 67 , 170 
Wall, flued, 247 
Walker’s stove, 162 
Walnut-leaf mould, 20 
Wall-tree, training with studs, 221 
Warner’s (C.) gardens, 240 
Warrington gooseberry, 240 
Wasps, 252; to destroy, 327; queen, to de¬ 
stroy, 137 ; nests, to destroy, 216 
Water-cress culture, 272, 313 
Watering, 6 , 158, 178 ; leaves of trees, 19 ; 
pot (overhead), 71 ; pot (Thompson’s), 191 
Water, to make soft, 62 ; glasses, flowers for, 
112; to improve hard, 148 
Weather indications, 93 
Weeding, its importance, 214 
Weeds, destroying, 72 
Weedy soil, to cure, 124 
Weekly calendar, 1 , 11 , 21 , 31, 53, 63, 73, 83, 
93, 115, 125, 139, 149, 171, 181, 193, 205, 
225, 237, 249, 26l, 273, 293, 305, 317, 329 
Weeping trees, 153 
Weigela rosea, 50 
Wet-day gardening, 289 
White flowers for bedding, 123 
Whitlow grass, 167 ; twisted podded, 16 / 
Window, boxes, 30 ; duty on greenhouse, 61 , 
82 
Winter greens, 159 ; aconite, propagation, 
169 ; violet, propagation, 169 
Wintering verbenas, &c., 291 
Wireworms, to kill, 62 , 73, 303, 327; to ban¬ 
ish, 224 ; destroyer, of worms, 93 
Wistaria sinensis, pruning, 14 
Wood, its ripening, 95 
Wood Leopard moth, 225 
Wood-lice, to destroy, 124 
Worms, to destroy, 82; thread-like, 147 
Yeast, its nature, 95 
Yellow-under-wing moth, 317 
Yew-trees moving, 236 
Yponomeuta padella, 73 
Ypsolophus vittatus, 21 
Yucca gloriosa, not flowering, 316 
Zauchsneria Californica, 187; culture, 
304, 315; cuttings, 82; broken, 291 
Zeuzera iEsculi, 225 
WOODCUTS. 
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Humming-bird moth . . 1 
Flower shelter . . 6 
Brimstone moth . . 11 
Bean germinating . . 21 
Rocket Tinea moth . . 21 
Gooseberry Saw fly . 31 
Cacti in window . . 44 
Pear-tree Blister moth. . 53 
Peach training . . 55, 56 
Codling moth . . 63 
Small Ermine moth . . 73 
Cabbage moth . . 83 
Turnip flea . . . 93 
Vinegar plant . . 94 
Fungi of fermentation . . 95 
Plan of garden . . 108 
Pea supporters . , 110 
Currant Sphinx . . 115 
Digging implement 
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122 
Asparagus beetle 
125 
Snake Millipede 
139 
Stamens . . 
139 
Onion fly . 
149 
Hive ventilator 
161 
Strawberry tile 
164 
Shelter for flowers 
166 
Garden beetle 
171 
Pistil and seed vessel . 
171 
Mullein moth 
181 
Root training 
Thompson’s watering-pot 
183 
191 
Magpie moth 
193 
Table for flowers 
194 
Spotted Buff moth 
205 
Knife for comb-cutting 
217 
Shade for flowers 
220 
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Wood Leopard moth . . 225 
Black-arch moth . . 237 
Froth insect . . . 249 
Angle of vinery roof . . 257 
Nut Weevil . . , 261 
American Blight . , 273 
Ladder for fruit-gathering . 275 
Orchardist’s crook . . 275 
Shade for plants . . 289 
Fruiterer’s coat of arms , 291 
Pearl-bordered Fritillary moth . 293 
Quadrant for angle-taking . 304 
Death’s-head moth . . 305 
Great Yellow Under-wing moth . 317 
Scotch-pine-bark beetle . 329 
Plan of hot and greenhouse . 337 
Surface scarifier . , 342 
In Supplement. —Horticultural Society’s Conservatory .. .. .. .. i 
Collection of Azaleas .. .. .. .. .. .. iff 
Orchids .. .. .. .. .. .. ., .. v i 
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