VI 
INDEX. 
Cruciferse, 175, 184, 239, 319 
Cryptomeria Japonica, 377 
Crystal Palace Poultry Show, 45, 
223, 242, 243, 288, 289, 304, 
321 ; Flower Show, 143, 340, 
372; prize-list, 162; a visit to 
the, 284 ; gardens, 309 
Cucumbers in a late vinery, 10 ; 
fertilising, 296 ; diseased, 301; 
preserving large and small, 381 
Cupressus Lawsoniana, 230 
Cups for collections of poultry 
not to be commended, 177 
Cuttings, propagation by, 83; 
their summer treatment, 245 
Cyclamen Atkinsii, 151 
Cyclamens in borders, 255; for 
windows, 293 
Cynosurus cristatus, 111 
Cypress Vine, 59 
Cypripedium hirsutissimum, 222 
Dahlia shoots, 139 ; stand, 207 
Dahlias in August, 316; list of, 
373 
Damsons, preserving, 381 
Daphne cneorum culture, 106 
Daviesia Frazeri and Hookeri, 151 
Delphinium formosum failures, 
21; sowing, 271, 351; cardi- 
nale, 323; formosum blooming 
twice, 351, 398 
Dendrobium fimbriatum at Chats- 
worth, 90; crepidatum, 251 ; 
nobile, var. pallidiflorum, 397 
Derbyshire gardening, 374 
Desfontania spinosa, 151 
Dewsbury Poultry Show, 385 
Dielytra spectabilis seedling pro¬ 
lific, 242 ; culture, 293, 301, 335 
Digitaria sanguinalis, 63 
Dilleniacese, 90 
Dillwynia scabra, 151 
Dioscorea Battatas culture, 271 
Disbudding trained fruit trees, 
65; the Pear, Plum, and Apricot, 
SO 
Diversity in style, 275 
; Dog’s-tooth Violet as a bedder, 
48; yellow, 121 
| Dolichos lignosus culture, 100 
Doodia aspera raised from old 
spores, 69 ' 
Dorking’s, Mrs., reply, 12 
! Dorkings laying twice a day, 46 ; 
colour immaterial, 140; White, 
257 ; a plea for White, 370 
; Doronicum Austriacum as a spring 
bedder, 33 ; Bourgtei, 251 
Double flowers, how to cause, 56 
Drill, one-row garden, 37 
Drone bees and drone eggs, 220 
Drones, small, 185, 279, 348 
Drosera ericoides, &c., for win¬ 
dows, 293 
Ducklings, Rouen, merits of, 244 
Ducks, Black East Indian, 44 ; do 
they require their own eggs ? 46; j 
characteristics of, 354 
; Dyrham Park, Herts, 232 
Dytisus in an aquarium, 59 
! 
Echeveria canalicuLATA, 222 
Edging of bulbs, 73; of slate, 
391 
Egg-eating hens, to cure, 30 
| Eggs, large, 14; unprolific, 110 ; 
medicine to cause laying, .124; 
trying in hot water, 126 ; not 
hatching, cause of, 142; pack¬ 
ing, 290 : 
Elm, the, 396 
Engine for watering and rolling. 
Dove’s, 189 
Entomological Society’s Meetings, 
1, 79, 165, 204, 270, 330 
Erythrina Caffra culture, 101 ; 
crista-galli, &c«, for windows, 
, , 2 9 4 
Erythrochiton Braziliense, 405 
Eschscholtzias, 114 
Espalier hurdle of iron, 104 
Eucharis grandiflora, 131 
Evergreen shrubberies as screens, 
262; gardens, 275 , 357 
Evergreens, to render compact, 2/5 
Exeter Poultry Show, 225 
Experimental Garden, 150 
Fairchild, T., 195 ; his Whit- 
Tuesday Lecture, 196 
i Ealcon - hocked Cochin - China 
fowls, 302 
Farfugium grande, 144, 153 
Ferns for a Wardian case, 205 ; 
for a rockery, 331 ; under glass, 
393 
“ Ferns, Cultivated,” 393 ; Sim’s 
“ Catalogue,” 393 
Festuca duriuscula, 127; ovina 
tenuifolia, 143 
Fig trees shedding their fruit, 
107 ; in pots, 256 
Fish, stocking rivers with, 40 
Fleur’s Castle, 251 
Florists’ flowers in August and 
September, 294 , 316 
Flower-garden plan, 23; unity in 
arranging, 392 
Flowers blooming out of doors 
this summer, 407 
Flue heating, 400 
Food for fowls, how much re¬ 
quired, 46 
Forsythia viridissima as a bedder, 
48; suspensa, 251 
Fowls’ dung as a liquid manure, 
329 
Frame, uses of a three-light, 76 ; 
heating a large, 400 
Front light, its importance, 39 1 
Fruit crops, prospect of, 68 ; old 
varieties wearing out, 92 ; tree 
insects, 98 ; stains, to remove, 
36l 
Fruits, hardy state of, at Mid¬ 
summer,21 3; why not improved, 
228; forced early, resting, 277 
Fuchsias wintered in the dark, 
spring treatment of, 84 ; pillar, 
144 ; for windows, 294 ; in Au¬ 
gust, 316; list of, 373; Tom 
Thumb, 383 
Fumeworts, properties of, 138 
Game fowls, colour of legs, 
&c., 30, 60, 61 ; cocks, when to 
dub, 46; chickens, 46; their 
characteristics and varieties, 
125, 179 , 207 , 210, 257; pullet’s 
eggs, l 6 l ; black producing 
white - feathered chicks, 210 ; 
white, with straw - coloured 
hackle, 290 ; at Burlington 
Show, 416 
Gapes, cure for, 46, 142, 210 ; is 
the disease infectious ? 194 
Garden engines, 252 
Gardenia florida not blooming, 
84; citriodora, 222; malleil'era, 
355 
Gardeners’ Royal Benevolent In¬ 
stitution Anniversary, 190 
Gastrolobium Drummondii, 151 ; [ 
Leekianum, 151 ; spectabile, 151 
Gastronema clavatum, 415 
Gate and curve of iron, 104 
Geese, their duration, 46; Tou¬ 
louse, number of their eggs, 
142; Barnacle, food for, 161 ; 
their breeding age, 226 
Genetyllis tulipifera, 151 
Geranium, Blanchefleur, 82 
Geraniums, grafting, 2 ; cuttings 
of, 12 ; for winter blooming, 12 ; 
from leaves, 28; lists of, 102 ; 
lor borders, 182; the Nosegay 
section, 186,199; notes on, 259 ; 
for bedding, 279 , 324; for 
masses, 292 ; double white, 320; 
grown in windows, 341; cuttings 
of bedding, 351 ; list of scarlet, 
374 ; storing scarlet, 400 
Gesnera zebrina, 325 
Gidney and Son’s garden imple¬ 
ments, 314 
Ginger-bread, soft, 361 
Ginger cookies, 414 
Gladioli, list of, 372 
Glasgow Poultry Show, 337 
Glechoma hederacea variegata, 114 
Gloucester Poultry Show, 123, 383 
Gloxinias, list of best, 49 
Gnats, to drive away, 80 
Goethea strictiflora, 405 
Goldfinch mules, breeding, 61 
Goldfinches, rearing, 264 
Goldfussia isophylla, 89 
Gompholobium Lindleyanum, 151; 
venustum, 151 
Gonocalyx pulcher, 131 
Gooseberry caterpillars, prevent¬ 
ing, 21,390 
Gome, Mr. A., 291 , 333 
Goslings, food for, 76 ; fetching a 
high price, 244 
Grape bunches becoming tendrils, 
58 ; Gros de Maroc, 307 
Grapes, new, 277 ; setting badly, 
350 ; for greenhouse, 352 ; 
shanked, 352; prizes for seed¬ 
ling, 371 ; new Hamburgh 
Muscat, 391 ; improving by 
grafting, 391; grown under pe¬ 
culiar circumstances, 406 
Grass, removing coarse, 59 
“ Grasses, British,” 27 
Grasses for lawns, 97; useful 
garden, 143, 165, 181 
Gravel, washing, 3/6 
Gravelling for effect, 292 
Grease spots, to remove from 
clothes and floors, 361 
Green fly, destroying, 43 
Greengages, preserving, 381 
Greenhouse plants in early vinery, 
11; shading, 20 ; heating, 27 ; 
angle of roof, 87; plants for a 
cool, 100 ; making a small, 108 ; 
hanging evergreens for, 297 ; 
flowers for, 320 
Greenhouses, cost of, and form, 155 
Grevillea alpestris, 398 
Guano for lawns, 107; as a liquid 
manure, 329 
Guinea chicks dying, 180; fowls 
do not pair, 180 ; fowls’ eggs, 
time for hatching, 274 
Gypsum as a manure, 320 
Hzemanthus puniceus, 230 
Hail-storms, 203 
Ham, receipt for pickling, 68 
Hamburgh gardening, 26 ; Ceme¬ 
tery, 39 ; cock, tail of spangled, 
386 
Hamburghs, cross between Golden- 
spangled and pencilled, 43; a 
plea for, 94 ; spangled cock, 96 ; 
Silver - pencilled, early layers, 
142 ; in very small pens, 226 ; 
Golden, white feathers in, 290 
Hampton Court gardens, 323; 
Stud House, 355 
Hanging baskets, plants for, 99 
Hatching, artificial, 110; tempe¬ 
rature, 180 
Hawthorns, time for clipping 
scarlet, 207 
Heaths, treatment after flowering, 
84 ; in July, 216 
Heating and ventilating, 131 
Heating pits, cause of insufficient, 
149; a propagating house, 1 91 
Heavy soil, gardening on, 327 
Hedaroma tulipifera, 17 
[ Hedgehog a foe to 'thickens, 290 , 
401 
Hemiandra pungens, 151 
Hen-house, American, 415 
Hen self-set, 290 
Hens iaying and sitting, 78 ; egg¬ 
eating, to prevent, 78; not 
broody, 258 
Henderson & Co.’s Nursery, Pine 
Apple Place, 181 
Hepaticas, time for dividing, 33 
Heracleum giganteum poisonous, 
316 
Herbaceous perennials, hardy, 
blooming in June, 219 ; in July, 
284 
Hewitt, Mr., and the Poultry 
Judges, 289 
Hibiscus Suratensis, 159 
Hive and its colony, war between, 
187 
Hives, feeding in common, 6; 
Grecian, 20; uniting two, 27; 
Nutt’s collateral, 85; Stew- 
arton, 86; new cottage, 220; 
shading, 240 
Holly stealing at Christmas, 9; 
aiding an old plant, 11 ; hedge, 
how to raise, 57 
Hollyhocks from buds, 271 ; done 
flowering, &c., 301 ; in August, 
316; raising from seed, 324 
Honesty as a bedding plant, 7 
Honey harvest, 407; quality of 
Stewarton, 413 ; cake, 414 
Hop mildew, 312 
Hornby’s, Capt., Dorkings, 290 
Horticultural Society’s Meetings, 
16 , 81, 229 ; Garden, 31; Show 
at Chiswick, 112 , 156; prize- 
list, 164; implements at, 188, 
252 
Hot water circulating below boiler, 
76; cistern, to prevent its over¬ 
flowing, 121 
Hot weather and its consequences, 
352 
“ Household Encyclopaedia,” 269 
Howqua’s garden, 286 
Hoya bella culture, 6 ; grandi¬ 
flora, 131 
Hurdles, right to remove iron, 59 
Hyacinths with several stems, 11 ; 
new, 18; culture in pots, 26 
Illiaria canarinoides, 355 
Implements at the Royal Agricul¬ 
tural Society’s Show, 104, 298 , 
314, 346 
Incarvillea Sinensis culture, 101 
Incubators, 274 
“ Index Filicum,” 27, 393 
Ipomaea quamoclit culture, 59 
Iris Germanica sowing, 207 
Iron cement for piping, 121 
Isatidae, 239 
Ivy, grafting variegated, 59 
Jacaranda velutina, 131 
Jambosa Malaccensis, 323 
Jasminum dianthifolium, 99 
Judge, one or several? 159 
Judges of poultry, qualifications 
for being, 140; of Poultiy 
Shows, 301 
June, Notes for, 116 ; hardy 
flowers blooming in, 175, 240 
July, Notes for, 203; looking 
around us in, 215 ; kitchen gar¬ 
dening in, 233 ; hardy plants 
flowering in, 300 
Kew Gardens, 36, 388 
Kidney Beans, list of early, 230 
Lachenalia tricolor macu- 
LATA, 382 
Lagurus ovatus, 47 
Lamium album, variegated, 187 
Lamourouxia grandiflora, 131 
Lapageria rosea, 151 
Larks, rearing, 315 
Larkspur, Chinese, 339 
Laurestinus, cutting down, 108 
Laurus aromaticus for nosegays, 
50 
Lawns, improving uneven, 59; 
on gravel, how to improve, 177 ; 
mossy, 287; moss and Plantain 
in, 107 ; guano for, 107 ; for¬ 
mation of, 115 
Leamington Poultry Show, 258 
Lepidinete, 239 
Lettuce, Snow’s Matchless, 82 
Lettuces, summer, on dry, light 
soils, 37; under glass in winter, 
69 
Lice in chickens, to prevent, 44 
“ Lilies of the field,” 237 
Lilium giganteum as a bedder, 
41 ; characteristics of, 151 
Lily of the Valley in pots, 168 
Lime water, making, 1 1 
Lincolnshire (North) Poultry 
Show, 304 
Linnet, grey, 416 
Linum grandiflorum, setting the 
bloom, 282 
Liquid manures, 'notes on, 241, 
328 
Lobelia splendens, var. ignea, 355 
Lobelias, tall, as bedders, 41 
Locheria magnifica, 131 
Locust tree for a lawn, 335 
Loliurn perenne tenue, 165 
Lonicera Tatarica, var. punicea, 22 
Lotus corniculatus, 254 
Luton Hoo gardens, 375 
Magnolia injured dy re¬ 
moving, 138 
Magnolias, which are best bloom¬ 
ers? 39 
Maize, wild and cultivated, 378 
Malay fowls, 124 
Manchester Flower Show, 146 
Mandevilla suaveolens, 101 
Mandirola lanata, 131 
Mangle and wringing machine, 38 
Manuring shrubs, 207 
Markets, London, 14,76, 96 , l 6 l, 
180, 194, 210, 244,258, 290,306, 
322, 338, 354, 386, 402 
May, Notes for, 55 
McEwen, Mr. G., 156 
Mead, to make, 368 
