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INDEX 
Cypripedium calceolus, soil for 
63 v 
Cypripediums, hardr, 31 
Cyrtanthus sanguineus, 226 
l Cyrtoceras reflexa shedding its 
buds, 353 
Dahlia boots, wintering, 73 
Dahlias, liliputian, 67, 308; pot 
roots of, 324 ; double becoming 
single, 308 
Daisy, blue African, 364 
Daisies on a lawn, 164 
Dandelion as a medicine, 149 
Darlington Poultry Show, 109, 
181 
Death of plants, 367 ; what pro¬ 
motes, 384 
Decoration of rooms with ever¬ 
greens, 243 
Desmodium gyrans, sowing, 354 
1 Desserts, arranging, 171 
Devizes Poultry Show, 84, 95, 110 
Dianthus Heddewigii, wintering, 
53; Seguieri, var. caucasicus, 
177 
“ Diary for the Dairy, &c.,” 97 
Digging, when to be (lone, 345 
Diseases of plants, 172 
Dorking cock broody, 14; chickens, 
mortality among, 355 
Dorkings, comparative hardiness 
of, 84; preventing swelled feet 
in, 201; Silver Grey, their 
characteristics, 340; comb of 
White, 344, 376; Silver Grey, 
374; too large to exhibit, 387 
Double flowers, forming, 72 
Down ton Pear, 37 
Dracaena ferrea and terminalis 
culture, 132 ; indivisa, 211 
Drainage, wire cap for, 171 
| Ducks, Black East Indian, 138; 
Call, 392 
Dumont’s insect powder, 270, 322, 
367 
Dung of poultry, &c., 339 
Earth-heat culture, 380 
Earthenware pipes,for hot-water, 
heating, 88, 122 ; for flues, 162 I 
Echinarachnius placenta, 37 
Echinocyamus pusillus. 37 
Echinus splioera and miliaris, 22; 
Flemingii, lividus & neglectus, 
23 
Egg-harvest of 1860, 325, 356 
Eggs in winter, 153, 201 
Eggs, importation of, 340 
Elms, flowers near, 67 
Endive, storing, 87 
Entomological Society’s Meeting, 
26, 136, 196, 290, 339 
Epacrises unhealthy, 339 
Epidendrum bicornutum and 
rhizophorum culture, 220 
Epizootic aphthous disease in 
fowls, 325 
Ergot in grasses, diseases caused 
by, 34J. 
Erodium pelargoniifolium, 146 
Errington, widow of Mr., 230 
Essex Poultry Association, 180 
Ether residuum, 125 
Eugenia Ugni culture, 2C6 
Evergreens, in pots front of a 
house, 17 ; mismanaged, 215 ; 
decorating with, 243 
Exhibition, what disqualifies a 
bird for, 12 
Farfugium grande culture, 387 
“ Farming, scientific made easy,” 
6 
Feeding, excessive, fatal effects 
of on poultry, 355 
Fermenting materials for hot¬ 
beds, management of, 106 
Ferns, hardy, for fernery, 11 ; 
culture in baskets, 24; list of 
ornamental, 26; for a Ward’s 
case, 39; in baskets, 46; in a 
room, 94 ; why grown under 
glass, 133; in greenhouse, 136 
Figs,ripening two e’-ops annually, 
Filberts, pruning, 164 [82 
“ Floral Magazine,” 229, 348 
Flower-garden plan, 160 ; pots, 
strengthening large, 147 ; 
borders, dressing for, 197 
Flowers, to preserve cut, 4, 39; 
to prolong in bloom, 17 
Flue, cleaning a greenhouse, 136 ; 
heating by a, 239; in Cucumber- 
pit, 245 
Flues, heating by, 160; explosions 
in. 275 
Forcing, 105, 160, 221, 270, 286, 
319, 368; in general, 88; with 
fermenting materials in houses, 
119; fire heat, 119; steam in 
chambers, 120; iron stoves, 
120 ; brick stoves 121; fruits 
and Cucumbers together, 122 ; 
pit, making a small, 241 ; soils, 
watering, &c., 321; houses, 
construction of, 319 
Fowls for table, 140 
Frame, heating a three-light, 
308 
Frampton Park Nursery, 127 
Freezing soil, benefit of, 300 
I Frome Poultry Show, 69 
Frost, effects of, 334, 344; what 
I aids it to be injurious, 383 
! “ Fruit Manual,” 38 
Fruit-room, ventilating, 26 ; 
borders, decayed leaves for, 94; 
trees, for north borders, 125; 
tree cuttings, 169 ; crop of the 
year, 175 ; trees on their own 
roots, 193; trees for Whitby, 
292 ; removing, 292 ; in the far 
West, 303 
Fruits, rules for cross-breeding, 
6 ; cross-breeding, 169 
Fuchsia Mammoth, 176; venusta, 
208 
Fuchsias, not flowering, 38 ; 
thrips on, 52; cutting back, 
53 ; out-of-doors, 60 ; for ex¬ 
hibition, 276 ; for conservatory 
rafters, 348 
Game, Duckwinged, 97 ; fowls, 
exhibitors of at Birmingham, 
108 ; points in cock, 168; plu¬ 
mage of Duckwing, 168; 
season, last, 292 
Garden, exhausted, 94 ; flooded, 
176 ; a model suburban, 205 
Gardeners, hints to, 240, 256, 288 ; 
their employments, 256 
“ Gardeners’ and Farmers’ Vade 
Mecum,” 292 
Gardenia radicans weakly, 355 
Gardening, science of, 6, 172,226, 
274, 287, 367, 383 
Gas, heating a boiler by, 81 ; 
heating a small greenhouse, 
134; lime as a manure, 215; 
tar, fumes of, 339 
Gazania, splendens, as a bedder, 
17; mistaken for rigens, 46; 
rigens and splendens, 71, 75; 
rigens, 115 ; splendens, sowing, 
118; splendens v. rigens, 135; 
splendens culture, 335 
Gazania, 104, 123; rigens and 
splendens, notes on, 66; for 
bedding, 156 
Geese, cross-breeding, 111; prize 
at Birmingham, 186; eggs 
under a hen, 328 
Genistaracemosa, sowing, 81 
Geothermal, cultivation, 330 ; 
heating, 347 ; culture, 380 
Geranium, cuttings, 39; Crystal 
Palace Scarlet, its history, 57 ; 
Gauntlet shedding its leaves, 
125 
Geraniums—bedding, and their 
treatment long ago, 11 ; varie¬ 
gated, keeping in winter, 17 ; 
planting abed of Tom Thumbs, 
24; wintering, 26; wintering 
on Aunt Harriet’s and Harry 
Moore’s plans, 53; Scarlet, 
leaves spotted, 104; cuttings 
of bedding, 266 ; potting varie¬ 
gated. 313; new bedding, 316; 
peculiar disease in, 370; in a 
pit, 372 
German Ivy, 379 
Gishurst Compound, applying to 
mildew, 75, 132, 171, 172, 194; 
for orchard-house trees, 104, 
123 
Gladioli, lists of, 3 
Gladiolus, culture, 130; bulbs, 
planting, 314 
Gladioluses in pots, 387 
Gloxinia sowing, 61 
Gloxinias, wintering young, 115; | 
young, showing bloom, 372 
Gnaphalium margaritaceum as a | 
bedder, 2 
Gold and silver fish, 339 
Goldfinch Mule with wing injured, J 
296 
Goldfinch, the, 342, 391 
Goldfinches, 98 
Goniaster Templetoni and eques- 
tris, 8 
Gooseberry,growingby Yorkshire 
weavers, 81; trees now bloom¬ 
ing, 124 
Gooseberries for sale, 286 
Grafting postpones death, 385 
Grapes—not setting, 26; shank- I 
ing, 51; Black Tripoli and 
Frankenthal, 64; withering, I 
67; shanking, 76, 87, 94; j 
shanking in a greenhouse, 145 ; i 
shanking and spot in, 288 ; 
crop to be proportioned to size 
of stem, 367 
Grass, laid down last year, 292; 
for pasture, mowing, 323 
Greenhouse and workshop 
heated from the kitchen fire, 
20; flowers for spring bloom¬ 
ing in, 22; stove for 39; heat¬ 
ing cheaply, 47 ; uses of, 53 ; 
heated by a kitchen fire, 87, 
123; boarded sides of, 109; 
heating by a retort, 125; heat 
for a very small, 125 ; climbers ] 
for a, 149 ; tenant’s power of 
removing, 164 ; plants for back 
wall, 164 ; heating a small, 179 ; 
vinery converting to a stove, 
241; roof, glass for, 354 
Green on stonework, 81, 145 
Griselinia littoralis, 164 
Guinea corn, 245 
Guinea Pigs, 264, 250 
Guzmannia tricolor, 226 
Gymnogramma, peruviana, 3; 
Wetenhalliana, 53 
Halifax Poultry Show, 110; 
Pigeon Show, 199 
Hamburgh fowls, Spangled, laced 
wings of, 68 ; Silver-pencilled 
cock’s comb, 97 ; fowls, how to 
select, 110; hens, combs of 
Silver-spangled, 325 
Hamburghs with laced wings, 55 ; 
breast of gold-spangled cock, 
56; spangled wings of, 110; 
hackle of Silver-spangled, 168 
Hampshire Show of cage birds, 
84 
Hands, chapped, 275 
Hares, to keep from trees, 125 
Heat, natural bottom, 330 ; en¬ 
dured by plants, 383; generated 
by plants, 384 
Heaths, winter, not flowering, 
159 
Heating, plant-houses, a new sys¬ 
tem, 218; by steam, 222 ; by 
hot air, 236, 319; by hot 
water, plans for, 272 
Hedge, cutting down a thorn, 
179 
Hedysarum gyrans, sowing, 354 
Hen, crowing, 43 ; house, right 
to remove, 312, 328; moved, 
inducing to sit, 328 
Hens, old, what to do with, 14; 
dying suddenly, 206; inducing 
to sit, 250 ; losing their throat- 
feathers, 280 ; eating their eggs, 
344; laying away, 344 
Heron, habits of the, 70 
Hippeastrums, list of, 11 
Hive, new depriving, 247 
Hives, sticks in, 28; removing 
dampness from, 111; coverings 
for, earwigs in, 112; Stewarton, 
234 ; covers for, 358, 359; mois¬ 
ture in, 360 
Holly destroyed by caterpillars, 
143 
Hollyhock culture, 52 
“ Homes, Healthy Moral,” 177 
Honey, price of, 280 
Hop poles, 39 
Horticultural Society’s Floral 
Committee, 10, 90, 307, 371 ; 
Fruit Committee, 36, 108, 163, 
306,371 ; Meetings, 1861, 163 
Horticultural Society, Royal, 189, 
209 
Horticultural (Royal) Society’s 
rules as affecting florists, 268; 
tenders for heating conserva¬ 
tory, 269; Gardens at Ken¬ 
sington, 299; Meeting, 386 
Hotbed, of horse-dung, leaves, 
and tan, 89; flax-refuse, &c., 
for, 105 ; how to make, 106 
Hotbed of dung and leaves, 330 
Hothouses, employing for profit, 
171 
Hot-water apparatus, a cheap, 
134 
House slops as manure, 275 
Hoya imperialis shedding its 
buds, 270 
Humus, analysis of, 385 
Hyacinths for water and pot cul¬ 
ture, 25 ; Cutbush’s exhibition 
of forced, 381 ; show of, 371 
Hydrangea, variegated, un¬ 
pruned, 319 
Hydrangeas, cutting back, 53 
Hymenocallis amoena, 94; littora¬ 
lis, 195 
ICE-HOUSE MANAGEMENT, 372 
Impatiens Walkeri, 365 
Ipomma hedertefolia as a sub¬ 
stitute for Ivy, 379 
Ireland, South of, Poultry Show, 
233 
Irish Flora, additions to the, 
230 
Ismene calathinum, 195 
Ivy cuttings, 353, 387 
Ixora jucunda, 211 
JASMINUM GRANDIFLORUM CUL¬ 
TURE, 164 
Jerusalem Artichokes, storing, 87 
Joints, making, 271 
Kendal Poultry Show, 110, 
200 
Kiddean mode of heating, air- 
admitting, 285 ; altering to 
the, 321, 337; heating, 330, 
372 ; successful, 349 
Kidd’s new system of heating, 
252 ; mode of heating by hot 
air, 266, 305 
Kidney, Beans, forcing, 298 ; for 
early crop, 362 
Labels for fruit trees, 197 
Lselia superbiens culture, 220 
Lamp, heating a boiler by, 157 
Lardizabala biternata, 292 
Lathoni House, 289, 333 
Laurel leaves turning yellow, 102 
Laurustinus branches killed by 
the frost, 261 
Leather, how to oil, 62 
Leaves falling off greenhouse 
plants, 176 
Lentil culture, 339 
Leschenaultia triloba culture, 
275 
Lettuces for sale, 303 
Life, vegetable, 367 
Lilies in pots for a conservatory, 
348 
Liliums, culture of, 133 
Lily of the Valley, planting, 109; 
tree, 133 ; growing and forcing, 
383 
Linnet, the, 154 
Linnets, 98 
Linton Park, summer flower 
gardening and winter decora¬ 
tion at, 227 
Liquid manure, which is the 
best? 323 
Liverpool Poultry Show, S3, 308 
Loam, definition of, 53 
Loams defined, 230 
Lobelias, wintering, 73; for bed¬ 
ding, 315 
London Pride, 143 
Luidia fragilissima, 9 iJw 
Lupins for bedding, 315 
Lycopodiums in a room, 94 
Magnolia fuscata, 347 ; for 
greenhouse wall, 335 
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