Vlll 
INDEX. 
Tulipa sylvestris, 281; its pecu¬ 
liar habit, 170 
Tulip soil, 207 ; beds for early 
blooming, 396 
Tulips, wild, where found, 85 
Tumblers, GermanFeather-footcd, 
46 
Turnip mildew, 312 
i Twite, 416 
Tydsea amabilis, 314 
| Variegated plants exhi¬ 
bited, 146, 147, 155, 158; 
hardy, 167 ; list of, 373 
Vases, plants suitable for, 249; 
for edges of, 255 
Vegetable culture and cookery, 75, 
136 
“ Vegetable Kingdom, the Na¬ 
tural History of,” 69 , 90 
Vegetable hlarrow, 55; the best, 
406 
Verbena culture, 51; cuttings, 
351 
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Verbenas, lists of, 67 , 325; raising 
from seed, 297 
Veronica Hendersonii and coc- 
cinea culture, 105 
Vine pruning at Fontainebleau, 
40 ; shoots, stopping, 182 ; mil¬ 
dew, 346; alleged cure for, 349 
Vineries, late, used as forcing 
houses, 277 
Vinery, fruit trees in, 399 
Vines, lifting their roots, 57; fail¬ 
ing, cause of, 139; a few re¬ 
marks on their culture, 197; in 
pots, 205; stopping, 296 ; fail¬ 
ures, borders, and replanting, 
311; replanting, 391; experi¬ 
mental pruning, 392; pruning, 
406 ; near water, 406 
Vintage fete of Irrawang, 345 
Viola pyrolsefolia culture, 242; 
pedunculata, 397 
Violets, sowing, 207; Neapolitan, 
in July, 216 
Virginian Stock in spring, 33 
Warder’s method of bee¬ 
keeping, 412 
Warner’s garden engines, &c., 252 
Water, using hard, to plants, 59 ; 
hard, softening with ammonia, 
93 
Watering, excessive, 18; how to 
manage, 18; in summer, 215; 
hotbed seedlings, 399 
Waterproofing a sod roof, 271 
Weed, what is a? 255 
Weeds, how to destroy, 340 
Weeks and Co.’s New Winter 
Garden, 152 
Wheelbarrows, common and 
Ferassier’s, 38 
White bedding plants, 253 ; 
flowers, colour for behind, 414 
“ Why, The Reason,” 137 
Window gardening for spring, 18, 
33, 48, 65, 83, 130, 380; soil and 
manures for, 34 ; plants suitable 
for, 66; boxes, plants suitable 
for, 100, 249 ; for summer, 115 ; 
gardening, cultural notes for, 
261, 292, 325, 341 ; for autumn, 
345 
Wine, fining, 320; its adultera¬ 
tions, 332 
Winter - flowering greenhouse 
plants, list of, 50 
Winter Lettuce, 287 
Wintering bedding plants, 399 
Wireworms, to destroy, 93 
“ Words to Labourers,” 349 
Wrest Park, 390 
Wrotham Park, Herts, 231 
Xanthosoma sagittifolium, 
222 
Yew, the common, 3G5 
Yorkshire Agricultural Society’s 
Poultry Show, 322 
Zausciineria Californica, 55 
Zinc labels, ink for, 43 ; pipes for 
water, 1 90 
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Chrysurus cynosuroides . 1 
Photographic Camera. 8 
Short-faced Tumbler Pigeon. 14 
Lonicera Tatarica, var. punicea. 22 
Flower-garden Plan . 23 
Briza maxima. 31 
Garden Drill. 37 
Mangle and Wringing Machine. 38 
Wheelbarrows. 38 
Oar-lop Rabbit. 45 
Lagurus ovatus. 47 
Photographic Camera-stand . 54 
Zauschneria Californica . 55 
Digitaria sanguinalis. 63 
Calceolaria hyssopifolia.. ... . . 70 
Peach-tree Buds. 71 
Phalaris Canariensis. 79 
] Peach-tree pruning . 88 
j Goldfussia isophylla. 89 
Moss Scraper. 90 
Hibbertia grossulariijefolia. 90 
Smiter Pigeon. 95 
Avena llavescens. 97 
Footpath Gate . 1U4 
Espalier Hurdle. 104 
Tree Guard.”** 194 
Berberis hypoleuca .”” 105 
; Cynosurus cristatus. 1 H 
Peach-tree training . 118 
Saxifraga mutata . **”"’*. 119 
WOODCUTS. 
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Fcstuca duriuscula . 127 
Spores of Bunt. 135 
Festuca ovina tenuifolia. 143 
Melon Pit . 149 
Weeks & Co.’s Winter Garden. 152 
Trumpeter Pigeon. 160 
Lolium perenne tenue. 165 
Photographic Portable Chamber . 169 
Rhododendron Brookeanum . 172 
,, verticillatum . 173 
Poa nemoralis angustifolia. 181 
Boilers... 188 
,, Monro’s Cannon. 189 
Hot-w:}ter Apparatus . 189 
Watering and Rolling Engine . 189 
Horn-lop Rabbit . 202 
Fantail Pigeon . 209 
Park Place Conservatory. 211 
Rhododendron longiflorum . 218 
Musstenda macrophylla . 219 
Phalaris arundinacea, var. picta (erro¬ 
neously put as Arundo donax) . 227 
Weeks’ Tubular Boiler. 236 
Messenger’s Tubular Boiler . 236 
Henderson’s Broomheads . 237 
Warner’s Pump .. .. 252 
Garden Engines. 252 
,, Syringe .. 253 
Pinus Royleana or inops. 253 
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Vine Mildew . 266 
Pinus tuberculata. 267 
Jacobin Pigeon . 274 
Pentstemon cordifolius. 282 
Tropaeolum Smithii. 282 
Half-lop Rabbit. 283 
Mowing and Rolling Machine . 298 
Thomson’s Retort Boiler. 298 
Agalmyla staminea . 298 
Medinilla speciosa. 298 
Turbit Pigeon... 302 
Garden Engine . 314 
„ Scraper. 314 
,, Rake . 314 
Amaranthus oleraceus. 315 
Clematis tubulosa. 330 
Aehimenes Candida . 331 
Garden Arbour . 346 
Vine Mildew . 347 
Quercus agrifolia. 362 
Celery blanching. 363, 364 
Carmelite Pigeon . 370 
Cryptomeria Japonica. 378 
Indian Corn. 379 
Pinus Wincesteriana. 394 
White Rust of Cabbage. 395 
Oncidium luridum . 408 
Garden Pegs . 409 
Antwerp Carrier Pigeon . 416 
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