INDEX. 
Mealybug and thrips,to destroy, 
1Q1 
Medicago scutellata, 287 
Medinilla speciosa, 299 
i Melons, growing them in pits, 
205 ; culture of, 248; new, 307 ; 
leaves of, destroyed, 320 
Melrose Poultry Show, 46 
Merthyr-Tydfil Poultry Show, 338, 
354, 416 
Meyenia erecta, 131 ; culture, 
255 ; shifting, 350 
Mezereon as a bedder, 48 
Mice, how to destroy, 27, 30, 59 ; 
poisoning, 71; the Shrew and 
the Short-tailed, 74 
Microsperma Bartonioides seed¬ 
lings, 122 
Mignonette for winter and spring, 
326 
Mildew on Vines, 264 ; and its 
effects, 313 
Mimulus culture, 122 
Moss on trees, how to kill, 3 4, 27 
Mowing machines versus the 
scythe, 216 ; use and abuse of, 
366 
Muscovy ducks, 62 
Mushrooms deficient in flavour, 
103; on Cucumber beds, 104; 
growing them “ large, thick, 
and fat,” 200 ; in Australia, 221 
Mussaenda macrophylla, 219 
Myrtles in windows, 326 
Nasturtium pickle, 397 
Necklace seeds, 255 
Nectarine, Stanwick, seedlings 
from, 307 
Nectarines, laterals on, 223 
Neighbour’s bee-hives, 204 
Nepenthes Rafflesiana without 
pitchers, 21 
Nerium oleander splendens, 325 
Nests agitated, effect of, 96 
New or rare greenhouse plants, 151 
New plants, why not exhibited, 
240 
Nitrate of silver stains, removing, 
86 
North Pole gardening, 89 
Nosegays, 213 
Notes from the Continent, 39 , 74, 
133; Moabit, 217 ; Berlin, 250, 
282, 317 ; Potsdam, 344, 413; 
Wildpark, 380 
Oak, tiie common, 364 
October, Notes for, 411 
Oncidium luridum, atratum, 408 
Onions, pickling large, 55 
Opossum nuisance, 222 
Orange trees, re-invigorating old, 
10 
Orchard-house management, 276 
Orchard planting, 122 
Orchid training, 17 
Orchids exhibited, 146, 147, l- r >7 
Ornamental Grass, 63 
“Out of sight, out of mind,” 
beware of, 212 
Ouvirandra fenestralis, 131 
Pampas soil and climate, 36 ; 
Grass, large specimen of, 415 
Pansies in pots, their culture and 
list for, 205 
Pansy seed, sowing, 287; its in¬ 
troducer, 291 
Park Place, Frodsham, 211 
■ Parrots, fits in, 30 ; biting off their 
feathers, remedy for, 62 , 110 
! Parsnip wine, to make, 336 
Partridge killing young pheasants, 
208 
Passiflora Buonapartea not flower¬ 
ing, 204 
Passion-flowers, best scarlet, 41 
Pea mildew, 313 
Peach trees in pots with bloom- 
buds only, 10 ; house, construct¬ 
ing, 20 , 73 ; trees, disbudding, 
65; their buds described, 71 ; 
planting, 88 ; training and nail¬ 
ing, 117 ; shedding their bloom, 
159; distance from glass, 1 91 ; 
affected by scale, 383 ; wearing 
out, 390 
Peaches, the Stirling Castle, 300 ; 
excellence of the Early York, 
348 ; not maturing, 350 ; Craw¬ 
ford’s Early, Abec, Early Grosse 
Mignonne, Pucelle de Malines, 
andCooledge’s Favourite, 360 
Pear tree, pruning a wall, 187 ; 
leaves grub-eaten, 256; leaves 
diseased, 287 ; blossoms, effects 
of spring frosts on, 334 ; pips, 
sowing, 335 
Pears, pruning old standard, 51 ; 
stocks for, 228; preserving, 
382 ; how to keep, 398 
Peas, list of early, 230 ; preserving 
green, 271 
Pegs for flowers, 403 
Pelargoniums, lists of, 91* 102; 
exhibited, 145; three select, 
168 ; culture of (Turner’s), 191 ; 
in July, 215; list of superior, 
254; grown in windows, 341 
Pentstemon cordifolius, 282 
Petunias, seedling, 173 ; green- 
edged, 301 
Phalaris Canariensis, 79 
“ Pheasants and Pheasantries,” 36 
Pheasants’, Golden, eggs chilled, 
110 
Philoperisteron Society, 193 ; and 
National Columbarian Club, 210 
Phlox subulata, 301 
Phloxes planted among Roses, 
329 
Photographing, 20 ; plants, 86 ; 
portable dark chamber for, 1 69 
Photography for gardeners, 8, 54, 
108, 317; developing collodion 
pictures negatively, 285 
Pickling, 397 
Picotees, potting, 19 ; list of, 35 
Pigeon Clubs of London, 125, 126 ; 
matches, 401 
Pigeons, High-bred Fancy Short- 
faced Tumbler, 13; Smiter, 
Turner, and Finnikin, 95 ; pro¬ 
lapse of ovary, 96 ; Laughing, 
126 ; Short-faced, food for, 126 ; 
Antwerp Carriers, points in, 
126 ; the Trumpeter, 160; dis¬ 
eased, 194; the Fantail, 209; 
Swallow - tailed, 226 ; Mottled 
Tumbler, 244; Skinnum, 273 ; 
Jacobin, 274; the Turbit, 302, 
337 ; cankered, 306 ; dung of, 
as a liquid manure, 329 ; Frilled, 
337; Barbs, Swiss, and Mooned, 
338 ; the Frillback, 353; the 
Friesland Runt, 353; the Lace, 
353 ; Silky, 353 ; Powter, cha-. 
racteristics of, 354 ; the Carme¬ 
lite, 370 ; the Crested, 402; the 
Antwerp Carrier, 416 
Pilea allitrichoides, 1/1 ; muscosa, 
255 
Pincushion beds, 206 
Pine Apple Place Nursery, 49, 99 
1 Pine Apples, growing without 
| tan for bottom heat, 1 C 9 
j Pinus Royleana, inops, interme- 
| dia, and Virginiana, 253 ; tuber- 
culata, 267 ; Wincesteriana, 394 
J Pipes, elbows for, 25; bends for 
j hot-water, 36 
Pistol plant, 171 
Pit, heating, 87; for many pur¬ 
poses, 256 ; for propagation, 301 
Poa nemoralis angustifolia, 181 
Poland fowls, notes on, 12 , 30, 
141, 410; unbearded, 12; re¬ 
quire a good range, 14; hen’s 
reply to the Dorking, 44 ; and 
Bantams, 46 ; cocks and their 
combs, 6 l, 62 ; characteristics 
of spangled, 94 ; combs of, 96 ; 
should have combs, 178 ; and 
Haraburghs, 209 ; with combs, 
I 256 ; without combs, 257 
j Pomological Society’s Meetings, 
I 263, 300, 307, 348, 371 
■ Port wine, artificial, 332 
! Portulaccas, 376 
Potato seed, sowing, 27 ; disease, 
fungus of, 133 ; Haigh’s Kid¬ 
ney, 137; disease, and its pre¬ 
vention, 387 ; its culture, va- 
I rieties, and diseases, 403 ; fail- 
j ure, 414 
J Potatoes, origin of Haigh’s Seed¬ 
ling and Lapstone, 55 ; surface 
dressing for, 108; their disease 
and present position, 308; tu¬ 
bers of, vegetating, 335 
Pot pourri, to make, 301 
Pots, preparation of, 33 
Potting, 65 ; processes, past and 
present, 112 
Poultry trespassing, 46; Shows, 
approaching, 76 ; all their rules 
should be strictly enforced, 77 ; 
food for, 124 ; Judge, reminis¬ 
cences of, 191 ; keeping, profit¬ 
able, 210 , 321; Judges, one or 
more? 224j stock, selling sur¬ 
plus, 400 ; Shows, delay of 
labels for, 401 ; effect of season 
on, 402 
Prescot Poultrv Show, 110 , 243, 
273 
Preserving without sugar, 318 
Prince of Wales Strawberry 
(Ingram’s), 264 
Propolis, 414 
Protests at Poultry Exhibitions, 
93 
Pruning old trees, 89 
Pullet, prolific, 78 
Pumphin batter, 414 
Puya virescens, 251 
Queen bee and royal jelly, 
75 
Quercus agrifolia, 362 
Rabbit hutches, 95 
Rabbits, the Oar-lop, 45 ; fancy, 
62 ; cause of young ones dying, 
78 ; white with black points, 
141 ; the Horn-lop, 202; French 
or Angola, 210 ; the Half-lop, 
283 ; food for, 295 ; the common, 
393 
Radish pod pickle, 397 
Raisins, Australian, 222 
Rampions, their culture, 43 
Ranunculus amplexicaulis, 48 
Raphanese, 320 
Red bar moth, 98 
Red spider, 98 
liedpole, 415 
Rhododendrons from Borneo, 171 ; 
Brookeanum, gracile, and ver- 
ticillatum, 172 ; longifolium, 
218 ; Veitchianum, 251 ; Thom- 
soni, 314; calophyllum, 397 
Rhubarb for exhibition, growing, 
177 
Ribbon beds, 254 
Rice pudding, plain, 361 
Richardia TEthiopica culture, 87 
Ricinus coinmunis culture, 287 
Ringwood Hall, near Chesterfield, 
358 
Rockery at Luton Hoo, 376 
Rocky soil, garden on, 368 
Rondeletia anomala, 131 
Rosa ochroleuca, 17 
Rose, a new yellow (Isabella Grey), 
17 ; cuttings, 27 , 287; growing, 
213 ; a green, 242; with green 
centre, 242; culture and cut¬ 
tings, 245 ; on a south wall, 255 ; 
leaves blighted, 271 ; leaves 
grub eaten, 287 ; pillars, 398 
Roses, treatment of newly-bud¬ 
ded, 41 ; to prevent blotched 
leaves on, 123; exhibited, 145; 
list of, 373 ; for a calcareous 
soil, 382; standard and on Ma- 
netti stocks, 383 ; climbing, how 
to prune, 398 
Rudgea leucocephala, 17 
Rust on fruit trees, 99 ; white, on 
Cabbages, 394 
Rustic furniture, 185 
Rye-drop cakes, 414 
Sal ammoniac as a manure, 
242 
Sans Souci, 413 
Salvias for bedding, 56 
Saxifraga mutata, 119 
Saxifrage, white, 121 
Schizanthus culture, 122 
Schizopetalon Walkeri, 122 
Scillas as garden flowers, 48 
Scypanthus seedlings, 122 
Sedum acreaureum, 73 ; acre, var. 
aureum and arcticum, 281 
Seedlings, raising flower, 121 ; 
in windows, raising, 380 
Seeds, raising plants from, 48; 
cause of their failure in spring, 
64 ; and their germination, 343 ; 
vitality of, 380 
September, Notes for, 331 
September-sown seeds, 339 
Setting off plants, 279 
Shanks ancl Son’s implements, 
298 
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Sheffield Poultry Show, 287 , 303 
Shifting, how to manage, 35 
Silkworms, cross breeding, 2 
Siphocampylos infundibuliformis, 
131 
Skeleton leaves, 18 
Smoke, how to consume, 108, 138 
Soda ash as a manure, 241, 287 
Sonerila elegans, 23 
Sowerby Bridge Pig and Poultry 
Show, 385 
Sowing under glass, 66 
Spanish fowls, their merits and 
demerits, 77 ; cock, roup in, 
110; in confined space, 124; 
fowl losing its neck feathers, 
142; with scabby face, 161 
Sparmannia Africana culture, 411 
Spireea prunifolia alba plena, pro¬ 
pagating, 287 
Spot on Geraniums, 186 
Spring flower-beds and borders, 
32, 48; evils of a mild, 67 ; 
flowers for beds, 72 , 114 ; early 
flowers for, 106 , 120, 170 ; its 
character and influence, 128; 
flowers andhedders, 129 ; flower¬ 
ing native plants, list of a few, 
158; flowers in Ireland, 186; 
flowering plants at Berlin, 282 
Spur broken off, 226 
Stamford Horticultural Society, 
136; Show, 269 
Starving plants, 56 
Stephanotis floribunda culture, 3 ; 
not flowering, 204 
Stewarton bee boxes, 7; system 
of bee-keeping, 9, 120, 202, 285 ; 
wooden hives, doubts on, 152 
Sting of bees, 413 
Stock, the Emperor, culture of, 
85 
Stockport Poultry Show, 273 
Stocks, culture of intermediate, 
137; preventing their running, 
159 ; should be more attended 
to, 228; sowing, 242; from cut¬ 
tings, 321 
Stonecrop for bedding, 36; Gol¬ 
den, 255, 281 
Stove at Luton Hoo, 375 
Strawberries, forced, failing, 11 ; 
giving moisture to, 108; barren, 
to prevent, 150; succession of, 
350 
Strelitzia reginse culture, 255 
Streptocarpus polyanthus, 323 
Sugar-cane, Chinese, 53 
Sulphate of ammonia as a liquid 
manure, 328 
Surface stirring, its influence over 
temperature, 247 
Swarms of bees, uniting, 207; 
early, 222 
Sydney markets, 221 
Symphoricarpus microphyllus, 23 
Syringing Vines and plants in a, 
vinery, 57 
TACSONIA M0LLIS9IM A CUL¬ 
TURE, 100 
Tainarix Gallica, 336 
Tan for pit-heating, 168 
Tank for hot water, 350 
Tea plant culture, 350 
Tecoma spectabilis, 131 
Teucrium fruticans, 48 
Theophrasta Jussieui, 355 
Thier Garten at Berlin, 283 
Thing (A) that is done, 7 
Thomson’s Retort Boiler, 298 
Thunbergialaurifolia, 103; auran- 
tiaca for bedding, 167 ; Harrisii, 
314 \ 
Thyrsacanthus rutilans, 131 
Tomtits defended, 313; and bull¬ 
finches, 381 
Top dressings, 108 
Town gardens, trees, &c., for, 342 
Towns, trees, &c., to grow near 
large, 327 
Transplanted trees, treatment of 
large, 21 
Trees, protecting stems of, from 
sheep, 93; iron guard for, 104 ; j 
attaining great age or size, 364 
“ Trentham and its Gardens,” 333 1 
Tropseolum pentaphyllum for 
greenhouse back, 40; Smithii, 
282 
Tropseolums for beds, 182; 
crossed, 187 
