INDEX. 
Aberdevine, S27 
Acacias for back wall of a green¬ 
house, 207 
Accelerating, 88 
Acclimatising, rule for promot¬ 
ing, 315 
Achimenes, sowing, 60; winter¬ 
ing, 136 
iEchmea Melinonii, 365 
JSrides culture, 259 
Agapanthus in small pot, 11 
Agathsea coelestis, 364 
Agave yuccsefolia, 177 
Ailanthus silkworm, 323 
Alocasia metallica, 211 
Aloe albo-cincta, 146 
AlonsoaWarczewicziias abedder, 
66 
Alstromerias for bedding, 245 
j America, gardening in Long 
Island, 378 
American blight, 94 
Amphidotus cordatus and roseus, 
37 
Annuals—sowing hardy in cold 
conservatory, 25; sowing 
hardy, 26; showy and sweet- 
scented, 275; list of, 355; near 
drawing-room, 355 
Ancectochilus setaceus v. inorna- 
tus, 146 
Ant-hills as a manure, 149 
Aphelexis, pruning an old, 197 
Apiarian Notes, 139, 327 
Apotheme, analysis of, 385 
Apple orchard, a dwarf, 131 
Apple-tree cuttings, 387 
Apples, keeping, 24; American, 
52 ; list of for standards, 53; 
packing in leaves, 282 
Arabis, lucida variegata as an 
edging, 36; variegated as an 
edging, 102 ; variegated, 131; 
the variegated, 224; albida 
and lucida, 237 ; variegata, 364 
Arnott’s stove, for heating, 39, 
352 
Arum crinitum, 39 
Asparagus, planting, 94; forcing, 
117, 368; cutting forced, 218; 
cutting, 276; beds, salting, 355 
Aspidium spinulosum, 109 
Asplenium, formosum & culture, 
63 ; marinum culture, 339 
Asteria gibbosa, 8 
Asterias aurantiaca, 9 
Auction of bulbs, 11 
Auricula, canker, 287; culture, 
350 
Auriculas, 335; border, 245; 
spring management, 319; list 
of, 319 
Autumn, work for the, S7 
Aviary, climbers for, 339 
Azalea, flower-buds falling, 164; 
amoena, 179; buds dropping, 
362 
Bantam Game Cocks, dubbing, 
328 
Bantam’s legs useless, 126 
Bantams, entrance fees for, 180; 
in a garden, 186; at Birming¬ 
ham, 186; in a garden, 234, 
328 ; merits of. 250 
Baskets for poultry, size and form 
of, 84 
Bath & West of England Poultry 
Show, 95, 152 
Beans, early crops of, 31!; broad, 
369 
Beck, Mr. Edward, 255 
Bedding plants, wintering, 26, 
189; new style of, 155 ; a list 
of, 372 
Beefsteak, how to cook, 215 
Bee-feeding, 185 
Bee-keeping in Devon, 376 
“ Bee-keeping, mysteries of,” 
360 
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Bees—second swarms, 14 ; feed¬ 
ing, honey for, 28 ; feeding and 
boxes, 43 ; dark-coloured Li¬ 
gurian, 70 ; comb broken down, 
feeding, 98 ; feeding by bottle, 
&c., Ill; stingless, 112, 126; 
feeding and its effects, 139 ; 
Italian in America, 201; in 
Scotland, 202; effects of frost 
on hives, 202 ; influence of the 
queen, 216; protecting from 
Tomtits, 248; with fallen 
combs, working in the light, 
264 ; respect for the queen, 264; 
mortality among, 279, 360, 374, 
375; new depriving-hive, 280 ; 
Ligurian, 280 ; stocking a hive, 
280; protecting, 296; dying 
this winter, 312; frost and its 
effects, 327 ; food consumed, 
feeding on tlie top, new depriv- 
ing-hive, 328 ; pollen collecting 
and wintering, 328; autumn 
management of, 343; how it 
fared with “ B. and W’s.” in 
1860, 344; combs mouldy, 344 ; 
flour for pollen, 359 ; collecting 
pollen; hackles objected to, 
359; disappearance of black 
among Ligurian, 360 ; in 
America, 360; hackles, pollen 
gathering, comb brittle, remov¬ 
ing old queens, feeding in 
spring, 374; Ligurian, 376 ; 
pasturage, 376 ; new comb-bar, 
389; honey direct from hive, 
389; new glass supers, 389 ; di¬ 
mensions for comb-bar hives, 
390 ; hackles again ! 391 
“ Bees, Management of,” 202 
Beet-root, storing, 87 
Begonia Rex culture, 387 
Begonias for bedding in winter, 
30; fine-leaved, shifting, 314 
Beloperone violacea, 211 
Berries and no fruit, 144 
Beschorneria yuccoides, 4S 
Beverley Poultry Show, 100 
Bird-stuffing, 264 
Birds, teaching tunes to, 140; 
taming, 263; in rooms, 322 ; in 
greenhouse, 323 
Birmingham Poultry Show, 55, 
137, 149,179 ; its fifteenth rule, 
55, 83, 111; entries for, 111 
Black rot in Spanish fowls, 264 
Blacks, a poultry disease, 360 
Blindness in chickens, 110 
Boiler, heating a small, 157, 163; 
Riddell’s, 171 
Boilers, various forms of, 223; 
surface to be exposed to fire, 
224; moveable, 270 ; form of, 
351, 352 
Botany, Dr. Dresser’s introduc¬ 
tory lecture on, 108 
“ Bouquet, Illustrated,” 34 
Box edging, removing old, 39 
Brahma Pootras, 202, 234 
Brahmas knock-kneed, 293 
Bread making, 66, 208 
Bridgnorth Poultry Show, 13, 
95 
Bromborough Pool Works Horti¬ 
cultural Society, 31, 53 
Building, useful information con¬ 
cerning, 178 
Bulbs done flowering, treatment 
of, 17; for flower-garden deco¬ 
ration, 19 ; in a cold conserva¬ 
tory, 25; pit for tender, 61 ; 
planting, 314 
Bulbous and tuberous plants, 
124 
Bullfinches, 98 
Buphane disticha, 125 
Burdock, Japan, 275 
Burntwood Grange, fruit at, 10, 
65, 206 ; Vines at, 80 
Bushel of roots, weight of, 67 
Butthorn, the, 9 
Cabbage caterpillars to 
banish, 48 ; red, raising, 351 
Cabbages for sale, 303 
Caladium argyrites and Chantinii 
culture, 387 
Calceolaria amplexicaulis, how 
to manage, 2 
Calceolarias, managing young, 
171; transplanting, 362 ; pre¬ 
paring for bedding out, 378 
Californian farming, 115 
Calla sethiopica, 11 
Calopetalon ringens, 323 
Calystegia, 125; sepia single and 
double, 72; pubescens, 157 
Camarotis purpurea culture, 220 
Camellia, pruning, 10; leaves 
diseased, 104; flower-buds 
falling, 144 ; buds dropping, 
362 ; tricolor fragrant, 364; 
leaves discoloured, 387 
Camellias, on back of a vinery, 
39; grafting, 109; cause of 
failing, 117; old and weak, 
121 ; leaves, blackening, 125 ; 
propagating, 232 ; flower-buds 
falling, 232; shifting, 276 ; 
sickly, 339 
Canary, and British Finches, 12, 
69, 154, 216, 327, 391 ; Hooped 
Belgian, 12; distinguishing 
sex of, 14; Scotch Fancy, 69; 
Calais Fancy, 70 ; the German, 
83; costiveness in, and breed¬ 
ing, 126; memorial from a 
wounded, 279 
Canaries, &c., exhibition of at 
Derby, 98 ; breeding, 98 
Canker, in plants, 274; in trees, 
287 
Capsicum culture, 26 
Carlisle Poultry Show, 95 
Carnation, bed. making a, 81; 
grafting the, 269 
Carrots, Cauliflowers, and Ra¬ 
dishes, forcing together, 218 
Catasetum atratum, 48 
Cattleya citrina culture, 220 
Cauliflower culture, 365 
Cauliflowers, raising early, 351 
Ceanothus rigidus, moving a 
large, 164 
Cedars of Lebanon, 145 
Celery, storing, 87; seedlings, 
raising, 351 
Ceratopteris thalictroides and 
culture, 63 
Cetradenia grandi flora, 323 
Chalk for fowls, 310 
Chameerops Fortunei, 226 
Chenopodium purpurascens, 323 
Cherry trees in pots, pruning, 
245 
Chesterfield Poultry Show, 95, 
126 
Chestnut tree debarked, 81 
Chickens, rearing, 140; lodging 
for early, 328 
Chimney-tops, Stead’s Patent 
Ventilating, 194 
Chippenham Poultry Show, 183 
Chorozema Lawrenciana culture, 
133 
Christmas decoration in churches, 
163 
Chrysanthemum, Show at the 
Crystal Palace, 62; Show, 
Stoke Newington, 158; tricolor 
varieties, 316 
Chrysanthemums, at Mr. Bird’s, 
103; notes on some, 114; 
modes of culture, 128; select 
lists of, 129; dressing, 129; 
stopping 130, 163; wintering, 
and cuttings, 142; cutting's, 
164: list of selected, 173; lists 
of, 255 ; in pots, 372 
Cineraria, maritima, wintering, 
62 ; maritima, culture, 308 ; 
amelloides, 364; maritima, pro¬ 
pagating, 362 
Cissus velutinus, 146 
Clay, soil, gardening os a, 81 ; 
subsoil, to amend, 137 
Clethra arborea, is it hardy? 61 
Clianthus Dampieri, sowing, 225 ; 
culture, 372 
Climbers for a greenhouse, 307, i 
323 
Coalbrookdale Poultry Show, 95 
Cochin-China hen with diseased 
throat, 360 
Cochin-Chinas, Silver-cinnamon, 
280; excessively fat, 344 
Cock with bent knee, 328; comb 
frosted, 328 
Cock’s tail, loss of feathers in, 
202 
Cocoa-nut fibre, for Orchids and 
Ferns, 38; to obtain, 124 
Coffee and chicory, to discrimi¬ 
nate, 18 
Cold, excluding, 225 ; endured by 
plants, 384 
Coleus inflatus, 365 
Columbarian (National) Society’s 
Show, 262 
Columnea erythrophcea, 211 
Comb of cock frost-bitten, 216 
Cones, gathering, 163 
Conservatory, plants for a cold, 
82; climbers for, 178; ever¬ 
greens for, 270; pilasters, 
plants for, 276 ; wintered 
plants, treatment of, 349 
“ Cordon training of fruit trees,” 
148 
Cordyline indivisa, 211 
Cosmos diversifolius var. atro- j 
sanguineus, 269 
Courteen Hall, 49 
Crinum giganteum, 48 
Crocuses, in clayey soil, 53; 
arrangement of, 362 
Croton longifolium, pictum and 
variegatum culture, 133 
Crowea saligna culture, 133 
Crystal Palace—propagating bed- 
ders at, 73 ; Poultry Show, 82, 
138, 164, 183 ; Chrysanthemum 
Show, 99; names mis-spelt at 
Show, 134; Game cock sweep- 
stakes, 184; Canary and Bird 
Show, 262; Exhibition of 
British and Foreign Birds, 278 
Cueumaria frondosa, pentactes, 
and vulgaris, 92 
Cucumber, plants, wintering, 35; 
desiderata in a, 197 ; for com¬ 
petition, 197 ; Melon and pro- 
pagating-house, 232; Eggle¬ 
ston’s Conqueror, 236 ; house, 1 
heating, 197 ; is it a fruit ? 354 
Cucumbers, growing in a green¬ 
house, 18; for exhibition, 94; 
seed from deformed, 215; in a 
house, 292 ; spot in, 292 ; forc¬ 
ing, 298; forced by hot water 
and dung, 378 ; in pots, 387 
Cumberl-md and Westmoreland 
Bird Show, 278 
Cuphea jorullensis, 323 
Cupheas, wintering, 73 
Curate’s vinery, 353 
Currant, the Raby Castle, 64; 
pruning, 232; trees, moving 
old, 324 
Currants, Black, new product 
from, 211 ; for sale, 286; prun¬ 
ing old Black, 308 
Cuttings, striking, 7; in a Wal- 
tonian-case, 109 ; Kidd’s mode 
of striking, 252 ; in winter, 
276; potting, 348 
Cyanophyllum magnificum, 179; 
culture, 372 
Cyanotis repanda, wintering, 346 
Cyclamen seed sowing, 141 
Cyclamens, as edgings, 179; bulbs 
cannot be divided, 245 ; done 
flowering, 372 
Cydaris papillata, 22 
