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Abdallah Asimar, the Maro- 
NITF. DOCTOR, 237 
Almtilon striatum, weeping, 411 
Acacia shedding its leaves, 139 
Acacias, list of best, 50 ; green¬ 
house, culture, 101 ; in windows, 
261 
Achimenes, list of best, 49; in 
July, 2 l 6 ; in windows, 26 l ; 
Candida, 331 
Acroclinium roseum, 122 , 351 
Adiantum capillus Veneris, 282 
“Adulteration of our Daily Food,” 
332 
Advice gratis, 17S 
Atirides cylindricum, 103 
Agalmyla staminea, 299 
Agave densiflora, 398 
Agricultural Society’s Show, 2/2 
Air giving 215, 
Aloysia citriodora in wirfdows, 261 
Alyssum, variegated, 59 
Amaranthus oleraceus, 315 
Amaryllids, treatment of, 3Q2 
Ainbury in Cabbages, 36 1 
American blight, 98 ; ground at 
Wrest, 392 
Amphicome Emodi, 259 
Anagallis Phillipsii culture, 101 
Andromeda phillyresefolia, 151 
Anemone Apennina culture, 1 07 ; 
double-blossomed wood, propa¬ 
gating, 139; ranunculoides, 255 
Anemones in windows, 261 
Animals, fondness for, 28 
Annat, fruits raised at, 291 
Annuals, sowing seeds of, 10(5, 114 ; 
hardy, sowing, 287 ; autumn- 
sown, 320 
Anomatheca eruenta seedlings, 
122; in windows, 201 
Anopteris glandulosus, 151 
Antirrhinums in windows, 261 ; 
in autumn, and list of, 294 
Ants, to keep from fruit, 108 
Aphelandra Leopoldii and squar- 
rosa citrina, 130 
Apiarian Society proposed, 16 ; 
Societies, 120 ; dilemma, 414 
Apples, pruning old standard, 51 ; 
stocks for, 228; sowing pips 
of, 335 ; preserving, 381, 382 ; 
how to keep, 398 ; baked, 414 
Apricot, Moorpark, raised from 
seed, 307 
I Apricots, stocks for, 228 
| Aquarium, management of, 174 ; 
“ The Marine,” 174 
Arabia alpina grandiflora as a 
spring bedder, 33 
Aralia lcptophylla, 405 
Arbor-vita;, Chinese, moving, 400 
Arbour of wirework, 346 
Arbutus andrachne, 287 
Arctotis breviscapa, 351 
Aristolochia Thwaitesii, 259 
Arrangement of plants indoors 
and out of doors, 130 
Arum Lily culture, 87 
Arundo donax versicolor, 227 
Asarum Europseum, where found, 
123 
Asparagus culture, 4 ; bed mak¬ 
ing, 43 
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Aubrietia purpurea, 114 
Aucubas, removing, 335 
August, Notes for, 268 
Auriculas, list of, 83 ; in autumn, 
294 
Australia, poultry showing in, 110 ; 
notes from, 221 
Avena flavescens, 97 
Aylesbury Ducks, prolific, 322 
Azalea occidentalis, 397 
Azaleas done flowering, treat¬ 
ment of, 168 ; in July, 215 
Backgrounds to flower gar¬ 
dens, 376 
Back wall of stove, plants for, 400 
Balsams in July, 216 ; in windows, 
261 
Bantams, characteristics of, 13 ; 
crossing black and white, 96 ; 
Duckwing Game, 110 , 161 , 177 ; 
Game, 1 93 
Barnet Nursery, Mr. Cutbush’s, 
154 
Basing Park, 2/5, 356 
Bath and West of England 
Poultry Show, 180 
Beans, green, pickling, 397 
Bedding system, the, 199 ; plants, 
278 ; for early autumn, 291 ; 
good, 296 ; white, 297 
Bee-keeping, its benefits, 15; 
feeding, 20; in former times, 
280 ; at Stewarton, 285 
Bees, flowers for, 12 ; food for, 14 ; 
queen, and royal jelly, 39 ; their 
power of producing heat, 69 , 
103; Stewarton system of 
keeping, 70 ; when do queens 
die? 73; depriving, in China, 
80; weak, their treatment, 102 ; 
earliest swarms, 103, 104 ; effects 
of Dahlias on, 119 ; removing, 
123 ; depositing in the cells, 136 ; 
swarms in Nutt’s hive, 139 ; 
treatment in Neighbour’s hive, 
168 ; in Nutt’s hive, 169,320; 
regulating the heat of the hive, 
175; large swarm, 176 ; flying 
to a neighbour’s garden, 191; 
not swarming and droneless, 
222 ; right to strayed, 223 ; and 1 
Dahlias, 240 ; emigrating, 253 ; 
wild, 256; eggs of, 300 ; building 
in the open air, 330; prolific, 
366; Stewarton hives in the 
south, 366; in August and Sep¬ 
tember, 382; placing a swarm in 
the stock’s situation, 414 
j Befaria Mathewsii, 103 
Begonia heracleifolia, var. ni 
gricans, 103; Griflithii, 103 
opuliflora, semperflorens, Saun- I 
dersiana, and splendida, 130; 
Wageneriana, 222 ; Evansiana 
in windows, 262 
Bejaria acstuans, 151 
j Berheris hypoleuca, 105 ; Dar- 
winii seed, sowing, 287 
Berberry, cuttings of Holly-leaved, 
36l 
: Berlin Horticultural Show, 74, 
I 250; gardens and bouquets, 
i 133 ; markets, 317 
Birds, rearing young, 30 
Birmingham Poultry Exhibition, 
93 
Blood as a liquid manure, 329 
Boilers, Hood’s, 188; Monro’s, 
189; Weeks and Co.’s and 
Messenger’s, 236 
Boite h houppe, 36, 98 
Borouia Drummondii, 151 ; cut¬ 
tings, 242 ; laciniata, 259 
Bottom heat, mode of giving, 99 
Box edging, planting, 21 
Bradford poultry classification, 
338 ; Poultry Exhibition, 3d9 
Brahma Pootras, are they 
Cochins? 77, 124; are Grey 
Shanghaes, 194 
Brassicece, 319 
“ Bread Book, The English,” 1 90 
Bridlington Poultry Show, 289, 
352 
“ British Botanist’s Field-Book,” 
27 
British plants, rare, 295 
Briza maxima, 31 
Broccoli, sowing, /2; Snow’s 
Winter, 39 1 
Broomheads, Henderson’s, 236 
Brugmansia Knightii culture, 410 
Bugainvillsea spectabilis bloom¬ 
ing, 54 
Bulbous plants, sowing seeds of, 
59 
Bulbs, African, treatment, of, 107 ; 
in windows, 26 l 
Bullhnches, rearing, 202 ; inju¬ 
rious to the buds of fruit trees, 
381 
Bumble feet in Dorkings, 226 
Bunt, its propagation, 133 
Burtonia soabra, 314 
Cabbage, the Jaunette, 406 
Cake, delicate, 414 
Calder Vale Poultry Show, 369 ; 
poultry at, 385 
Calceolaria hyssopifolia, 70 
Calceolarias, list of, 145; in July, 
215 ; in windows, 262 ; for pots, 
294 
Caledonian Horticultural Society’s 
Show,251 
Calyptraria hsemantha, 131 
Camellias resting, 58; planting 
out large, 105; shedding their 
buds, 105; in July, 215; in 
windows, 262 ; done flowering, 
296 ; thinning the buds of, 410 ^ 
Campanula pyramidalis as a bed¬ 
ding plant, 41; culture, 85; in 
windows, 262 
Canaries, characteristics of Bel¬ 
gian, 29, 30, 44, 61 , 7*b Ml 
Canary Grass, 79 
Candle, phenomena of its flame, 
137 
Cankered Apple grafts, 27 
Carnations, potting, 19 > list of, 
35 ; and Picoteesin autumn, 294 
Cassia corymbosa culture, 410 
Castor-oil plant, 287 
Cauliflower culture and cookery, 
to boil, stew, fry, with gravy, 
with cream, with tomato sauce, 
with cheese, omelet, 75; pickle, 
397 
Celeriac, 136 
Celery, stewed, fritters, and sauce, 
136 ; culture at Basing Park, 362 
Ceterach offieinarum culture, 296 
Chaetogastra Lindeniana, 131 
Characteristics, chief, in various 
fowls, 179 
Chatsworth Gardens, 5, 25 
Cherries, new kinds, 307 
Chickens, how to mark, 46 ; ex¬ 
hibiting, 142; food for, 180; 
breeding good, 223; vitality of 
unhatched, 322, 354 ; errors 
about, 368 
China Asters, dwarf, 391 
Chinese Primroses in July, 215 
Chironia decussata, cutting down, 
350 
Chrysanthemums on a south wall, 
242; in August, 31 6 
Chrysurus oynosuroides, 1 
Cinerarias, new, 17 ; in July, 215 ; 
wintering, and list of, 238 
Cirrhopetalum Medusae, 23; 
Cumingii, 251 
Cistern, supply, cause of water in, 
running over, 73 
Citrouille, cooking, 351 
Claycross Flower Show, 374 
Clematis montana grandiflora, 
123 ; tubulosa, 330 
Clerodendrum squamatum, 256 ; 
fcetidum, 323 
Clethra arborea seeding, 411 
Cliantlius puniceus culture, 101 
Climbers on an out-of-door trellis, 
9 ; for a bleak house, 72 ; for 
stove, 99 ; for conservatory, 297 ; 
for a west wall, 368; for cool 
greenhouse, 400 
Clintonia pulchella and elegans 
seedlings, 122 ; pulchella for 
vases, 297 
Club-root in Cabbages, 36l, 368 
Cochin-China, five-clawed, 354 ; 
fowls, number exhibited, 370 
Cochin-China's remonstrance, 290 
Cockatoo, food for, 30 ; biting off 
its feathers, remedy for, 62 
Ccelogyne elata, 314 
Coke for heating, 190 
Collections of fowls, premiums for, 
109 ! 
Collinsia bicolor alba, 271 
Colour, its influence on heating, > 
246 
Columbarian Club, National, its 
rules, &c., 142 
Comparettia falcata, 103 
Concealing a kitchen garden, 21 
Concreting surface of border, 246 
Conifers, list of hardy ornamental, 
207 
Conservatory, plants in cold, 400 
Costus Afer, 23 
Cowslip wine, 123 
Crassulas for windows, 293 
Creve Cceurs and their crosses, 336 
Crocuses, removing, 33; removing 
whilst growing, 72 
! Cross-bred fowls, 124 
i Crow'sfoot, double, 114 
