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INDEX 
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Spergula, as an edging, 10 : plant¬ 
ing, 11 : pilifera culture, 23, 
124: saginoides, 149: pilifera, 
210 : pilifera in America, 379 
Speigulas for various soils, 354 
Spiraea callosa culture, 53 
Star Fish, 8 
Stauntonia latifolia hardy, 315 
Stephanophysum Baikiei, 211 
Steyning Poultry Show, 167 
Stonework, green stains on, 117, 
133 
Stove, for a conservatory, 188: 
plants, culture of some of the 
most usual, 242 
Strawberry, bed over-crowderl, 
management of, 107 : forcing 
without preparation, 62: forc¬ 
ing, 236, 329 
Strawberries, cover for soil under, 
372; after forcing, 378 
Sulphur and lime fumigation, 
danger of, 19 
Summer-house, climbers for a, 
74 
Swans’ eggs, hatching, 374 
TABERNiEMONTANA GRANDJFLORA, 
269 
Tacsonia manicata shedding its 
buds, 245 
Taesonias, management of, 31 
Tail-feather, loss of a, 126 
Tan for a hotbed. 339 
Tank heating. 122, 233, 286, 308 : 
by pines, 164 
Tate, Mr., of Driffield, 14 
Taunton and Somerset Poultry 
Show, 340 
Temperature of the season, 188, 
192 
Tenant’s right to greenhouses, 
Ac., 179 
Thrips, &c., preventing, 179 
Throats of fowls ulcerated, '325 
Thunbergia Harrisii shedding its 
buds, 245 
Tiffany, covering plant-houses 
with. 116 
Tigridia pavonia, wintering, 1S6 
Tillandsia pulchella, 323 
Tobacco, fumigating, 292: fumi¬ 
gation for bedded-out plants, 
366 
Tomatoes, on a south border, 
125 : not ripening, 177 : from 
cuttings, 348 
Toothache tree, 324 
Tredegar Poultry Show, 180, 199 
Tredescant, John, the younger, 
304, 335 
Tree, the oldest, 316 
Trellis screen, evergreens for, 324 
Trenching, how to do, 351 
Tritoma, uvaria, culture, 30; j 
propagating, 60: for centre of 
bed, 179 
Tritonia aurea culture, 37 
Tropoeolum, elegans and Stam- j 
fordianum as bedders, 7, 58 : | 
Lobbianum, blooming, 46: j 
Brilliant, Shaw’s, 92 ; azureum, 1 
308: elegans, wintering cut¬ 
tings of, 346 
Tropatolnms, for blooming in j 
autumn and winter, 16: Stam- 
fordiannm, covering a trellis 
with, 24 : new, 59: for bedding, 
315 ; sowing Tom Thumb for a 
ribbon-bordet, 316 ; from seed, 
324 
Tropical plants in open air, 379 
Turf sods, &c., under cover, 324 
Turkey’s eggs under a hen, 328 
Turkeys, fattening, 293 
Twite, the, 216 
Two acre farming, 147 
Ulceus in plants, 274 
Ulverston Poultry Show, 109, 277 
Vaccinating the Vine, 90 
Vanda teres culture, 220 
Vandas, culture of, 259 
Vanilla plamifolia culture, 259 
Variegated plants for exhibition, 
387 
Vegetable planting in a wet 
autumn, 5 
Vegetables, winter supply of, 
117 
Ventilation, 320; of greenhouse, 
387 
Ventilator, self-regulating, 285 
Verbena, Lucy Tait, 155: cut¬ 
tings, potting, 314 
Verbenas, planting a circular bed 
with, 26 : wintering, 43 : cover¬ 
ing a wall, 44: during the past 
summer, 104: notes on effect 
of the season, 130 
“ Vine, Treatise on the,” 51 
Vine-borders, covering, 80, 117, 
318 : outside, use of covering, 
107 : watering, 173 : making, 
178; raised outside, 215 
Vine, culture, 197 : roots, bring¬ 
ing nearer the sutface, 269 ; 
mildew, 339; leaves falling 
prematurely, 350 
Vinery, the Curate’s, improved, 
92: and Peach-house adjoining, 
131: planting,136: mismanaged, 
136: the Curate’s, woodwork 
for, 158; and forcing-pit 
united, 193: what may be 
grown in, 276; and Cucumber- 
pit heated by one flue, 307 ; 
constructing a small, 317 
Vines—for early forcing, 26; 
growing in pots, 35: plants 
under, 63 : and Peaches in a 
vinery, 82 : exposing to frost, 
115: shifting potted, 115: with 
leaves on. lis : pruning Black 
and Golden Hamburgh, 119 : 
wintering in a late vinery, 
157: sewage for, 142: potted 
in a cold greenhouse, 149: 
mildewed, 214; neglected, 
232 ; planted outside of vinery, 
232; inarching old, 239 : pot¬ 
ted, in Cucumber-house, 276: 
planted last autumn, 288 : 
young, cropped and now un¬ 
fruitful, 314: in pots, 323 ; 
cutting down newly-planted, 
354; in pots, 355; under glass, 
378 
Violets, forcing Neapolitan, 339 
Walk, turning gravel into a 
Grass, 164 
Walks, keeping in good order, 
361 
Wall four feet high, 136 
Wall-fruit, produce of, 206 
i Wall-trees, pruning. 136 
Waltonian Case, temperature of, 
270 
Warning to nurserymen, &c., 301 
Wasps, 42 
Water, expansion of, 271 
| Water-fowl, tamed, 340 
Water Melon culture, 339 
i Wattle of cock injured, 202 
i Weeds destroyed by ether re¬ 
siduum, 6 
Week, work for the, 1, 15, 29, 43, 
57, 71. 85, 99, 113, 127, 141, 155, 
169, 187, 203, 217, 235, 251, 265, 
281,297, 313,329,345,361,377 ; 
doings of the last, 187, 203, 217, 
235, 251, 265, 281, 297, 313, 
329, 345, 361, 377 
! Weevil in Wheat, 125 
Wigardia caracassana, 114 
Willows, planting, 74 
Wine-making without ferment¬ 
ation, 46 
Wings, cut, do not disqualify, 328 
Wintering plants, in a stable, 74 : 
in cold pits, 204 
Wintering Geraniums, &c., house 
for, 273 
i Winters, cause of severe, 306 
: Wire, simple arrangement for 
tightening, 36 
Wireworms in pots, 322 
Worcester Poultry Show, 39, 54, 
56, 95 
I Worms in a lawn, 275 
Xanthoxyluji aromaucum, 324 
Year, effects in the garden 
of the past, 229 
Yews, classification of, 364 
! York Poultry Show, 109 
Yucca canaliculata, 48 
WOODCUTS. 
PAGE. 
Bird’s-foot Sea Star . 8 
Knotty Cushion Star. 8 
Butthorn . 9 
Lingthorn. 9 
Canary—Hooped Belgian . 12 
Common Sea Urchin. 22 
Purple-tipped Sea Urchin . 22 
Diamond Plum . 23 ; 
Tightening Wire. 36 j 
Purple Heart Urchin . 37 j 
Common Heart Urchin . 37 
Bottle Bee-feeder . 42 
Courteen Hall Flower Garden . 50 
Snail Sea Cucumber . 64 
Musa Cavendishii . 65 
Peach-tree Pruning .78, 79 
Canary—German . 83 
Common Sea Cucumber . 92 
Great Sea Cucumber . 92 
Angular Sea Cucumber . 92 
Curate’s Vinery. 93 
PAGE. 
Hotbeds.'...106, 107 
Forcing-house, Heated by Steam. 120 
Iron Stove .:. 120 
Arnott’s Brick Stove..-.. 121 
Angle of Forcing-house Roof. 121 
Hot-water Apparatus ..124, 125 
Scindapsus pertusus. 146 
Flower-pot, iron-bound . 147 
Linnet’s Head. 154 
Flower-garden Plan. 160 
Heating by Flues . 161 
Fuchsia—Mammoth . 176 
Heating by a Stove . 188 
Vinery and Forcing-pit . 194 
Stead’s Chimney Pots . 195 
Fuchsia—Venusta. 208 
Stevens’s Bread-making Machine. 209 
Heating by Steam. 222 
Boi.ers—various . 223, 224 
Linton Park Flower Garden. 227 
Depriving-hive . 247, 280 
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Orchard-house . 
Peachery and Vinery . 
Heating by Hot Water 
Tank Heating.. 
Redpoll’s Head . 
Tredescant, John, jun. 
Pigeon-house . 
Heating by Hot Air ... 
Straw Panels . 
Rabbit—Lop . 
Pot-Carrier . 
Rabbit—Oar-lop. 
Goldfinch’s Head . 
Sash-bar . 
Rivers’ Flat Boiler. 
Pie-cup. 
Rabbit—Horn-lop. 
Asparagus, Forcing ... 
Rabbit—Half-lop . 
„ Angora. 
Bee-hive Glasses . 
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