VI 
INDEX. 
Clay-Cross Tillage Garden Exhi¬ 
bition Rules, 161 
Clematis Grahami, 30; tubulosa, 
197; lanuginosa pallida, 371 
Clerodendrum squamatum cul¬ 
ture, 229 
Climbers for small greenhouse,313 
Coast, planting for shelter on 
north, 382 
Cochin-China fowls, for laying, 
30; white, colour of legs, 
92 ; cockerel, weight of, 156 ; 
mealy, breeding from, 272 
Cocks for liot-water pipes, 299 
Cocoa-nut fibre, for encouraging 
rooting, 105 ; mulching, 135; 
refuse, 344 
Codonopsis rotundifolia, var. 
grancliftora, 120 
Coclia macrostachya, 149 
Coclogyne plantaginea, 175 
Coffee, mildew on, 312 
Colewort culture, 204 
Coleworts, protecting, 113 
Colletia cruciata, 313 
Collodion for plant wounds, 301 
Colours, complementary, 106 ; 
juxtaposition of, 183 ; the laws 
of, 204 
Columbarian Club, 13, 108 ; Show, 
288 
Competition, preparing for, 107 
Compost for greenhouse plants, 
28 ; old and new, 48 
Concreting a Vine border, 73 
Conifers, baskets for forwarding, 
81 ; for the seaside, 89 ; remov¬ 
ing, 192; cuttings of, 206 ; list 
of new, 285 ; list of hardy, 302 
Coix lachryma, 371 
Cordia Ipomoceeflora, 280 
Coriander culture and cordial, 204 
Cork tree, 120 
Corn salad culture, 204 
Cosmanthus grandiflorus, 280 
Cotoneaster, scale on, 169 
Cottage Garden Show Rules, 161 
Couve tronchuda culture, 204 
Covent Garden, cut flowers at, 
289 
Cowhouse drainage, 252 
Crewe Poultry Show, 169 
Crocuses, removing, 28 
Crops near Worcester, 201 
Cryptomeria Japonica, removing, 
91 
Crystal Palace, Poultry Show, 
223, 237, 252; awards at, 271; 
in Eebruary, 333, 365 
Cucumber frame, canvas, 301 
Cupressus Goveniana, 23; ma- 
crocarpa, and funebris, 251 
Currant, Elack, pruning, 276, 279 
Cuttings, air to, 123; rooting in 
winter, 147; propagating by, 
306 ; new mode of striking, 320 ; 
Kidd’s mode, 344 ; striking in 
sand and water, 369, 384, 385, 
394, 395 ; in spring, 375 
Cyclamen Atkinsii, 290 
Cyclamens, not blooming, 285 ; 
as bedders, 393 
Cyclobotlira monophylla, 217 
Cypripeaium Fairicanum, 199 
Cytisuses in winter, 143 
Dahlia, new white, for bedding, 
57; pruning, 357 
Dahlias, in October and No¬ 
vember, 20; in December, 178; 
lists of, 394 
Dalvey, near Forres, 181 
Dasylirium aero trichum, 313 
December, Notes for, 118 
Delphinium Hendersoni, 12; Chi- 
nense as a bedder, 16 
Dendrobium crepidatum, nar . la- 
bello glabro, 26; moniliforme, 
why so called, 290 
Devonshire, Duke of, 265 
“ Diary of the Dairy, &c.,” 342 
Differences in practice, 218 
Dillenia speciosa, 120 
Dioscorea Dattatas, 103 ; in Ame¬ 
rica, 104 
Dipladenia Harrisii, 88 
Direction labels, delay in, 12 
Doctor, notes about the, 135 
Dorchester Poultry Show, 75 
Dorkings, ear-lobe of, 30; colour 
and weight of, 190 ; Silver 
Grey, 388 ; Cuckoo, 388 ; cha¬ 
racteristics of Silver, 402; 
claims for prizes, 402 
Drones, small and late, 342 
Dubbing a Game cock, 108 
Ducks, weight of Rouen, 172; 
with projecting feather*, 190 ; 
Elack East Indian, 345; Rouen, 
good laying, 373 
Durham and Yorkshire Poultry 
Show, 188 
Eciieveria uuitensis, 164 
Egg producers in winter, 156; 
registry, 288 
Eggs, in winter, 172; winter 
layers, 189; for sitting, 272 ; 
buying, 360 ; results of, 387 
Eichornia tricolor, 199 
Elms, attacked by Scolytus, 353 
Endive, protecting, 113 
Entomological Society’s Meeting, 
6, 69, 133, 198, 353 
Entry charges and sale prices, 45 
Epacrises, wintering, 113 
Epidendrum coriifolium, 132 
Epigynium acuminatum, 26 
Epipfiyllum truncatum viola- 
ceum, 185 ; grafting, 186 
Erica hyemalis culture, 328 
Erysimum Perofskianum as a 
bedder, 27 
Esperione Grape, very like the 
Elack Hamburgh, 32 ; its his¬ 
tory, 78 ; w'here is the true ? 159 
Eugenia Ugni, pruning, 44 ; fruit, 
119; treatment after fruiting, 
137 ; its culture and value, 297 
Euphorbia, punicea culture, 229 ; 
Jacquinifiora pruning, 385 
Eurybia Gunniana and ilicifolia, 
211 
Evergreens, list of, 211 
Example, an, 175 
Exhibitors, punishment of frau¬ 
dulent, 387* 
Experimental Garden, 174 
Extracts from my Pocket Book, 
131 
Failure of certain flowering 
plants, 40, 49 
Farfugium grande, 393 
Feathers, pencilled, laced, and 
spangled, 74 
February, Notes for, 261; memo¬ 
randa for, 308 ; hardy flowers 
blooming in, 383 
Fern culture, 284 
Fernery, 363; making outdoor, 
91; case to make, 370 
Ferns, hardy, 44 
“Fern’s Handbook of British,” 
57 
Fig trees on open walls, 228; 
training, 238 ; unfruitful, 230; 
and their suckers, 266 
Figs ripening a second crop, 82 
Filbert pruning, 278 
Filberts unfruitful, 206 
Fixby Hall, 213 
Flonsts’ flowers, in October and 
November, 20; dressing, 71 
Flower-border management, 147 
Flower-forcing, 274, 363 ; at the 
Crystal Palace, 333 
Flowers in garden which have 
done well, 65 ; supporting, 121 
Foliage beds, 217 
Food, moistening, for chicks, 402 
Forcing vegetables, 15 
Fortune, Mr. It., 192 
Fowls, cooking old, 345 
| Fruit keeping badly, 87 
Fruit trees, lor wails, 12 ; plant¬ 
ing and pruning, 115 ; in pots, 
121; for north of Scotland, 123 ; 
on clay subsoil, 206 ; culture in 
February, 275 ; planting, 276 
Fruits, how do they keep ! 158; 
list of hardy for Yorkshire, 
J 302, 316 
Fuchsia, venusta, 22; corymbi- 
flora, fruit of, 119; cuttings, 
I 147; dominiana, 185; Riccar- 
tonii, 264 
Fuchsias, for bedding, 10; winter- 
flowering, 268 ; list of cheap, 
344 ; drawn, treatment of, 384 j 
Fumigators, 238 
Galphimia splendens, 15; 
glauca, 69 
Game fowls, cock trimmed not 
disqualified, 14; dubbing, 30, 
156, 360; white ear-lobe in, 140 ; 
hen’s spurs, 190; character- j 
istics of Duckwing, 190; legs of 
white, 318 ; at Liverpool Show, 
372 ; Mr. Moss’s, 372; Mr. W. 
C. Worrall’s, 372 
Gardener, notes from a small, 163 
Gardeners and their employers, 
349 
Gas, light in greenhouse, 151; 
fumes injurious to plants, 291, 
301; stove, Thomson’s, 291; 
heating apparatus by hot air or 
water, 340, 357 ; heating by, 386 
Gastronema clavatum, 106, 186 
Gaultheria discolor, 313 
Geranium, pyramid, 231; Lee’s 
Attraction/as a bedder, 396 
Geraniums, for bedding, 10, 136, 
211, 300 ; changing colour, 12 ; 
wintering, 41, 73; failing, 50 ; 
which have bloomed w r ell, 66 ; 
unhealthy, 71; liquid manure 
for, 72 ; wintering Brilliant and 
Golden Chain, 114; culture of 
old, 183; Variegated Tom 
Thumb, 199; White with va¬ 
riegated leaf, 206; old to be 
preferred, 223 
Gesnera zebrina in winter, 143 
Gladiolus propagating, 122 
Gladioluses, potting, 251 
Glass structures, cheap, 397 
Gloriosa superba culture, 296 
Gloucestershire Agricultural So¬ 
ciety’s Poultry Show', 138 
Goldfinch Mules, 156 
Gooseberries, late kinds, 123 
Gooseberry training, 316 
Gourd, the Artichoke, 368 
Grafting too early, 367 
Grammatocarpus volubilis, 280 
Grape, Black Tripoli, 123 
Grapes, grown under peculiar 
circumstances, 4 ; shrivelled, 
44; in greenhouse withered, 57 ; 
in a cool greenhouse, 104; Mus¬ 
cat dying suddenly, 106; late, 
for a vinery, 168; out-of-doors, 
174 
Grass, ornamental, 225; for edg¬ 
ing, 329 
Grasses for sea-shore sand, 251 
Greenhouse, temperature with 
Vines, 121; heating a small, 
136, 137, 401 ; moving plants 
from, to a stove, 151 ; span- 
roofed, 186 ; climber with stem 
outside, 301 ; aspect for, 301 
Greenhouses, uses of, 169 
Green slime on pots, 137 
Grevillea alpestris, 197 
Grove, The, 351 
Guano for Gooseberries, 252 
Hamburgh fowl classes, unit¬ 
ing, 59 
Hamburgh fowls, characteristics 
of, 189, 223, 271 ; pencilled v . 
spangled, 190; Gohlen-spanglcd 
with grizzled feathers, 272 ; re¬ 
quire a large run, 318; Mr. 
W. C. Worrall’s, 360; Black, 
373 ; Silver-pencilled, 373 ; in a 
confined space, 388 ; points in 
Golden-spangled, 388; at the 
Preston Show, 401 
Hampton Court Vine, 174 
Hamenbergia digitata culture, 
397 
Hardy shrub forcing, 64 
Heaths, wintering, i 13 
Heating a greenhouse from a 
dwelling-house, 136 
Herbaceous plants, list of good, 
300 
Hereford Poultry Show, 346, 359 
Hesperis matronalis, forcing, 342 
Ilexacentris mysorensis dying at 
the points, 186 
Ilexton House, 276, 293 
Hibiscus grandiflorus in open 
border, 26 
Highgate Nurseries, 210 
Hint to poultry-keepers, 28 
Hive, feeding a weak, 186 
Hives, storifying v . collateral, 
151; Warder’s and Collateral, 
234 ’ 
Hollies, removing large, 135; 
cuttings of, 135; cutting down 
a hedge of, 135 ; from cuttings, 
and transplanting, 163 
Holly cuttings, 210 
Hollyhocks, in December, 178; 
twelve good, 252 
Honey, produce of, 383 
Hood’s boiler, heating by, 382 
Hoo-sung, 116 
Horticultural Society’s Exhibition 
of Fruit, 47, 61; Meeting, 148, 
289, 347 ; new President and 
Secretary, 319 
Hothouses, ventilating and cover¬ 
ing, 326 
Hot-water, heating by, 167, 206 ; 
tanks, cement lining, 315; 
versus a stove, 327 
House fire, heating from, 106 
Hoya cinnamomifolia, 352 
Hugelia elongata, 38 
Humea elegans culture, 376 
Hyacinth culture, 21; in pots, 
225 ; forcing, 226 
Hyacinths for early forcing, 290 ; 
mode of forcing, 291 ; forced at 
Edinburgh, 299; growing in 
moss, 326 ; for forcing, 334 
Illairea canarinoides, 199 
Indian Corn for fowls, 240 
Indigo, Chinese, 117 
Inga pulcherrima culture, 380 
Insects in forcing-houses, 320; 
destruction of, 324 
Ipomsea Learii pruning, 206 
Irish Moss Ale, 203 
Irrigation of flower-beds, 130 
Isolepis gracilis as an edging, 175 
January, Notes for, 197 ; hardy 
plants flowering in, 311, 313 
Japan Lilies, how to grow, 212 
J asmine with naked stems, 90 
Jerusalem Artichoke flowering, 
89; blooming, 235 
Job’s Tears, 371 
Kale, Cottager’s, 291 
Kew, bedding plants at, 1 
Kilmarnock Apiarian Society, 353 
Kingsland Road Amateur Chry¬ 
santhemum Show, 118 
Kirkcaldy Poultry and Fancy Bird 
Show, 239 
Labels, delay in sending di¬ 
rection, 46, 124; for a pine- 
turn, 268 
Lachenalia in winter, 80 
Lamarkia aurea, 225 
Laps, puttying between green¬ 
house, 186 
Laterals of the Vine, use of, 242 
Laurel leaves poisonous, 106 
Layers, winter poultry, 256 
Leaves shrivelling imder glass, 
380 
Ledbury Poultry Show, 13 
Leonotis leonurus in a border, 28 
Leptodachylon Californicum, 88, 
212 
Lettuces protecting, 112 
Leviathan Pear, 329 
Lilies in borders, 28 
Lily of the Valley, weedy bed of, 
7; in winter, 80 ; culture, 122 
Liquid manure in China, 368 
Liquid manures for flowers, 72 
Liverpool Poultry Show, 74, 107, 
268, 387, 401 ; and its Secre¬ 
taries, 402 
Liverpool and Nottingham Poul¬ 
try Shows, 138 
Lobelia, speciosa seeding, 182 ; 
disease, 344 
Lobelias in borders, 391 
Lonicera angustifolia, 201 
Love-lies-bleeding, its uses, 339 
Lucknow, leaves smoked at, for I 
Tobacco, 371 
Lupinus Menziesii, 198 
Mandarin Orange, 324 
Manure may be excessive, 269 
March, Notes for, 322 
Markets, London, 30, 60, 190, 272 
Marriage, The Royal, 273 
Martinmas Daisies, 146 
! Melia azadirachta, 371 
Melon, house, constructing a, 267; 
culture, 300 
Melons, estimate of, 327 
Meteorological instruments, 
cheap, 51 
Metrosiderous robusta, 100 
Meyenia erecta, 26 
Middlesex (South West) Poultry 
Show, 46 
