INDEX 
VII 
Manchester Field Naturalists’ 
Society, 123 
Manure, productions of from the 
air, 177 ; tank, 178 
Market-garden crops, cost and 
profit on each, 254 
Market-gardener, The little, 254, 
285, 303, 351 
Martynia fragrans culture, 275 
Maurandya Barclayana for a bal¬ 
loon trellis, 317 
May, forced flowers in, 178 
Medinilla magnifica culture, 275 
Melon culture, 355 
Melons, 206; cracking, 20; for 
exhibition, 94 ; planting, 378 ; 
in pots, 387 
Meteorology of 1859 and 1860 at, 
Bury St. Edmunds, 212 
Meteorological notes on 1860, 
221; effects in garden, 229; 
notes at Darlington, 258 
Methonica grandiflora, 177 
Middleton Poultry Show, 41 
Mignonette culture in pots, 380 
Mildew, in vinery, 38; on Vines 
and Peaches, 75; on Grapes, 
135, 162; on greenhouse plants, 
340 
Milk-pan and straw hackle, 296 
Mint, Variegated, howto manage, 
2 
Monochastum ensiferum, pro¬ 
pagating, 245 
Moor-hens, 202 
Moulting, fowls in winter, 250 
Mulberry tree against a wall, 362 
Musa, Cavendishii culture, 65 ; 
ensete, 269 
Mushroom, beds, 52; culture, 
190; bed management, 252, 
266 ; heat in declined, 306 
Mushrooms in shallow beds, 
207 
Mutisias, culture of 11 
I Myrtle frosted, 355 
Nantw'ICH Poultry Show, 293, 
312 
Nectarine trees, cause of failing, 
144 
Newport Poultry Show, 110 
Nice, its climate and plants, 302, 
365 
Northampton Poultry and Canary 
Show, 138 
Nottingham Exhibition of Singing 
Birds, 246 
Nymphma ccerulea and rubra 
culture, 192 
Oncidium phymatochilum, 177 
Onions, sowing and manuring, 
323 
Cnoclea sensibilis and culture, 
63 
Opium-growing in England, 125 
Orach, purple, sowing, 17 
Orange gin, 11 
Orange trees, old and weak, 121 
“Orchard-House, The,” 7, 380 
Orchard-house, construction and 
management of, 76; portable, 
118 ; Pears in. 124 ; a new, 257 : 
a lean-to, 292 ; management, 
354 
Orchard-houses, 104,334; slight 
heat for, 87 ; construction of, 
88, 159, 191; potted fruit trees 
in, 159; ventilating, 164 
Orchids stove, house for-, 4 ; heat¬ 
ing, 5 ; stove, shading, airing, 
arranging, 25 ; stove, cisterns, 
baskets, and pots for, 34 ; stove, 
on blocks, watering, syringing, 
61; stove, syringe, watering- 
pots, soils, potting 91; potting 
and basketing, 143; summer 
treatment, 174 ; winter culture 
196; stove, winter culture, 
209; insects and diseases, 210 ; 
stove, 220 ; list of stove, 238; 
stove, 259 ; treatment of newly- 
imported, 260 
Otaheite Orange, 133 
Oxalis Bowiei culture, 39 
“ Packet op Seeds saved by an 
Old Gardener.” 255 
Poeonies, forcing tree, 164 
Palmipes memhranaceus, 8 
Pampas Grass, 29; not flower¬ 
ing, 124; culture, 191 
Pandanus javanicus culture, 
387 
Paphinia cristata culture, 220 
Paroquets, Rosella, 43 
Parrot, management of Grey, 
279 
Parrots, Grey, breeding, 250 
Parsley canker, 287 
Passifloras Billotii, palmata, and 
racemosa neglected, 324 
Peach, a large, 5 ; tree pruning, 
Du Breuil’s mode, 77 ; trees, 
cause of failing, 144 ; border, 
watering, 17 3; tree training 
and pruning, 214; house, colour 
for inside, 233; tiees in pots, 
pruning, 245; placing out of 
doors, 245; w'all, heating, 323 ; 
trees under glass, 324, 372; 
trees, salt for, 333 
Peaches and Grapes growing in 
the same house, 270 
Pea-fowl, management of, 12, 27, 
360 
Pear trees, wall, unfruitful, 47 ; 
on quince, 52; old, trans¬ 
planted, 94; leaves, excre¬ 
scences under, 190; over¬ 
pruned, 164 
Pears, keeping, 24; lists of stand¬ 
ards, 53; times of gathering 
and ripening, 67; decaying, 
109; cracking, 178 
Peas, growing late, by Yorkshire 
weavers, 81; growing early, 
125 ; report on those grown at 
Chiswick in 1860, 231, 291 ; 
report on garden, 260 ; early, 
for sale, 303; early crops of, 
314 ; for early produce, 362 
“ Peat’s Farmer’s Diary,” 97 
Pelargoniums, spot iri, 288 
Pentagonia Wendlandi, 323 
Perilla nankinensis as a window 
plant, 58 
Petrified tree, a monster, 125 
Petunias, 45 
Phakenopsis rosea, 177 
Pheasants, red worm in, 55: 
rearing Gold and Silver, 234: 
domesticated, 324: in a garden, 
360 : enclosures for, 372 
Philoperisteron Society’s Show, 
247 
Pie-juice, preventing its escape, 
357 
Pigeon, diseases, 41: trade at 
Michigan, 42: house, design 
for, 311 
Pigeons, in a confined space, 68 : 
size of nest for, 111: white 
spot on tongue of, 112: Blue 
ltock, 153: influenza in, 153: 
for table, 140: mixing in cote, 
140 : disease in, 202 : in same 
loft, 328 : characteristics, 311 
Pine Apple leaves disfigured, 239, 
255 
Pine-Apples, 308 
Pinks, forcing, 322 
Pipes, for hot water, calculating 
the length needed, 82 : iron and 
earthenware, 146 : expansion 
of, 271: materials for, 271; 
direction of, 271: quantity 
needed, 274; vulcanised Indian 
rubber rings for, 292: hot 
water, forms of, 351; earthen¬ 
ware, for hot water, 372 
Pit, my cold, 236 : a cold, 276 
Pits, building three-light, 26 
Plants and animals compared, 
173, 226 
Plants, usually hardier than ex¬ 
pected, 368 
Platyceriums and their culture, 
107 
Plum, the Diamond, 23; trees on 
their own roots, 170 
Plums, merits of new, 52 
Plymouth Poultry Show, 246, 
373, 388 
Polands, Black-crested White, 
27 : plumage of Golden, 216 
Polmaise-heatir.g, 258: improved, 
218 
Polygonum chinense foliis pictis, 
365 
Pomegranate, pruning, 164 
Pontefract Poultry Show, 110 
Potato, the Fluke, 107 : its 
merits, 48: forcing, 266: in 
Australia,275 : manure for, 276 : 
disease, preventing, 317, 333 : 
sets for an acre, 372 ; digging 
for planting, 372 
Potatoes, experiments on their 
culture, 32; culture of Fluke 
and others, 90: forcing, 118, 
233, 298, 314 : planting, 174 : 
effects of soil on, 230: for ex¬ 
hibition, 292; succession of, 
303 : for seed slightly frosted, 
355 : early in open ground, 
377 
Pot carrier, Shepherd’s, 337 
Poulton-le-Fylde Poultry Show, 
245 
Poultry, management in autumn, 
27 : dung as a manure, 39: 
Shows, hint to their Secre¬ 
taries, 41: purity of races, 53 : 
Show-s, notes on, 83 : manage¬ 
ment of, 95, 109 : how t o send 
to an Exhibition, 94 : pre¬ 
paring for market, 184 : feeding 
confined, 186: profitable, 186 : 
management in severe weather, 
215, 216, 233: for profit, 216 : 
and the change of weather, 
261 : show prize lists, 215: 
house, moisture inside of, 264 : 
for use, management of, 277 : 
sales, 295 : Shows approaching, 
356 : and Pigeon sales, 388 
Preston Poultry Show, 95, 356 
Propagating, house, heating, 
192 : arrangements for, 172 : 
case too hot, 178 : house, 275 ; 
house and Cucumber-pit, 276 
Protecting forcing-houses, 320 
Psammisia penduliflora, 48 
Psolus phantapus, 64 
Pullet paralysed, 296 
Pullets, time of laying, 140; 
April-hatelied not laying, 186 
Pumpkins, king of the, 73 
Putrefaction, what promotes, 384 
Putteridge Bury, its gardening, 
59, 74, 102, 212: its kitchen 
garden and farm, 385 
Puya, Warczew-iczii, 269 : gran¬ 
diflora, 365 
Pyramidal trees, pruning, 136 
Pyrethvums as late autumn 
flowers, 123 
Rabbit-keeping—Himalayas — 
Antwerps, 185 
Rabbit, enclosure, 234; feeding 
young, 234; history, varieties, 
and management, 248 ; Dutch, 
profitable, 250 ; its culture for 
sale, 294; Angora, 312; the 
Double or Full-lop, 326; the 
Oar-lop, 342; Half-lop, 375, 
392; the Horn-lop, 358 ; An¬ 
gora, 388; a vicious, 392 
Rabbits, management of, 14, 42 : 
keeping—Chinchilla, 28 : dung 
as a manure, 39: profitable, 56: 
fattening, 56: varieties of, 84 : 
for profit, 84: size of enclosure 
for, 84: will pay for keeping, 
97 ; profit from, 12S : in hard 
soil, 126 : Himalayan, 126: 
in miniature warren, 139: 
keeping, 139: value of Chin¬ 
chillas, &c., keep of, 168 : 
young unhealthy, 168 : Ant¬ 
werp, 216 : varieties of, 263 : 
wild, &c., 280 : colour of 
Silver Grey, 280 
Radishes for sale, 303 
Rafters to carry off water, 352 
Railway neglect and charges, 
200 
Rain at Darlington in 1859—1860, 
90 
Raspberries for sale, 286 
Recapitulation, 1 
Redpoll, the, 295 
Red spider, plague of, 115 
Renanthera coccinea culture, 220 
Rhododendron, Falconerii bloom¬ 
ing, 25 : planting, 53 
Rhododendrons, soil for, 387 
Rhubarb, forcing, 118: drying, 
131: varieties of scarlet, 197 : 
for sale, 286 
Ribbon-border, 323 : bed-plant¬ 
ing, 323 
Rice as a poultry food, 126 : as a 
food for poultry and pigs, 153 : 
root-pruning, 207 : under flag¬ 
stones, 243 
Root-grafting, 339 
Roots descending into drain-pipes 
318: of fruit trees, 370 : ma¬ 
nagement of, 353 
“ Rose Annual, The,” 193 
“ Rose Amateur’s Guide,” 301 
Rosery, 355 
Roses, for a smoky locality, 10 : 
for standards, 53,125: for a south 
wall, 149: autumn treatment 
of, 283: new, 302: frosted, 
308 : from cuttings, 316 : pre¬ 
sent and future prospects, 338 : 
hardy for standards, 339: Briar 
stocks for, 353 : Tea-scented 
mildewed, 349: stocks for, j 
striking cuttings, 3S7 : shoots 
of Hybrid Perpetual, 372 
Saccolabium culture, 259 
Salter’s Nursery, 113 
Salvia, scabiosse folia, 146 : patens 
for bedding, 292 
Sand for potting, 324 
Sanvitalia procumbens to match 
Saponaria calabrica rosea, 261 
Saponaria calabrica rosea, annual 
to match, 261 
Sarcantlius Parishii, 226 
Sawbridgeworth, gleanings from, 1 
333, 352 
Saxifraga oppositifolia for vases, 
363 
Saxifrages for borders, 143 
Scale, mineral oil for, 144: on 
Pear trees, 149 
Sciences, connection of the, 306 
Scindapsus pertusus, 146 
Screens of straw, making, 321 
Scutic'aria Steelii culture, 220 
Sea Cucumbers, 64 
Sea-kale forcing, 118, 369 
Sea slugs as a manure, 302 
Seashore, What to look for on, 8, 
22. 37, 64, 92; trees, &c., for, 
257 
Season—its effects in South 
Durham, 4: its effects on 
fowls, 27: effects of near 
Reading, 35: effects of at Clay 
Cross, 46: at Frome, 48: mis¬ 
taken deductions from, 85: 
effecis at Ashton-under-Lyne, 1 
130 : effects of last in Stafford¬ 
shire, 144 : severity of the, 204, 
207 : and its effects at Dar¬ 
lington, 258 ; in Yotkshire, 259 
Seed, ripening phenomena, G 
Seedling flowers, blooming late, 
45 
Seedlings, potting, 348; of an¬ 
nuals, raising, 387 
Seeds, sown, preserving from 
birds, 268, 299: cheap, 337 : 
retaining vitality, 346 
Sewage, to render portable, 27 : 
house, how to use, 349 
Shading, 321 
Sheffield Poultry Show, 83, 95 
Shoddy as a manure, 244 
Silenes, planting out, 372 
Siskin, 327 
Sittings at this season, 277 
Skimmia japonica seeds, sowing, j 
324 
Slugs, destroying, 292 : protecting 
from, 346 
Smoke, gardening among, 18 
Soda in house-sewage, 372 
Soils for various plants, 339 
Solanum capsicastrum, culture, i 
37, 63 : pruning, 78 : runci- , 
natum, 226 : capsicastrum 
after flowering, 349 
Sonclius, radicatus, 146: gum- ! 
mifer, 226 
Southsea Poultry Show. 54 
Sow eating her young, 31.0 
Spangled fowls, laced wing- j 
coverts in, 84 
Spanish cock, adventures of a 1 
young, 181, 199: cock para- I 
lysed, 325 
Spanish fowls and their merits, 
261; effects of feeding on cock’s 
comb, 261 ; black rot in, 264 
Spatangus purpureus, 37 
