INDEX. 
Mildew on Vines, 51: in Onions, 
231 
Miltonia Karwinskii, 217 
Monochaetum ensiferum, 290, 393 
Moonics, Golden, 386 
Morello Cherries in February, 275 
Mossy fields, treatment of, 316 
Mouldiness in greenhouse, to 
prevent, 169 
Mucor subtilissimus, 233 
Mucuna prurita, 88 
Mulching fruit trees, 335 
Mushroom forcing, 15 
“ Mushroom, the cultivation of 
the,” 184 
Myrica Californica, 200 
Myrtle berries, 238 
Native plants, 120; list of 
double, 231; flowers, double, 
250 
Nectarine, trees in February, 275 ; 
culture in spring, 391 
Nemophila insignis failing, 49 
Nerine pulchella culture, 343 
Nests and food for fowls, 239 
Node, The, 194 
North side of house, plants for, 
12 
Notes from the Continent—Pots¬ 
dam, 38 ; Dresden, 100 ; Saxon 
Switzerland, 119 ; Pilnitz, 149 ; 
Moabit, 200 ; foliage beds, 217 ; 
Berlin, 234 ; Fern culture, 284; 
bulb culture, 324 
Notes on new and rare plants, 
88 
Nottingham Central Exhibition, 
91, 255, 270, 286; Central and 
Liverpool Poultry Shows, 108 
Nottinghamshire Poultry Show, 
208 
November, Notes for, 50 
Nuttullia cerasiformis, 183 
CEnothera prostrata, propa¬ 
gating, 399 
Officials, of a Poultry Show ex¬ 
hibiting at it, 401 
Oil seeds of India, 58 
Oncidium tenue, 165, 281; plani- 
labre, 297 
Onion mildew, 231 
Onions, keeping, 144 
Orange-tree, cleaning, 44 
Orange trees, treatment of un¬ 
healthy, 244 
Orange marmalade, 203; wine, 
313 
Orchard unfruitful on sandy sub¬ 
soil, 238 
Orchids, time of their blooming, 
185 ; frozen, yet uninjured, 
279 ; blooming in March, 363 
Oundle Poultry Show, 13 
Oxalis Bowiei, in pots, 227 ; as a 
bedder, 281; cernua, 343 
Painted ears and legs, 271 
Pancratium maritimum culture, 
300 
Pandanus cadelabrum, 120 
Pansies in December, 178 
Paper, photographic, preparing, 
109 
Paralysed Spanish chicken, 388 
Paroquet (Australian) breeding in 
England, 373 
Paulownia imperialis for forcing, 
274 
Pea culture, 395 
Peach, crop in America, 53; 
double - fruited, 264; trees in 
February, 275 ; blossoms shri¬ 
velling under glass, 379; cul¬ 
ture in spring, 391 
Peaches, dropping and decaying 
unripe, 27; ripened on stand¬ 
ards, 68 
Pear trees in February, 275 
Pears, list of, 62 ; modes of keep¬ 
ing, 132, 265 ; gigantic,. 181 ; 
gathering, 198; ripening and 
quality of, 219 ; for north-west 
wall, 223 ; how to keep, 397 
Pegging down plants, 52 
Pegs for flowers, 23, 28 
Pelargoniums, in October and 
November, 21; wintering, 41; 
turning yellow, 114; training 
for exhibition, 212; list of 
cheap, 344 
Perches, 303, 345; form and 
height, 330 
Petunias, for bedding, 10 ; list of, 
38G 
Philoperisteron annual show, 256 
Phlox, its culture, 161; cuttings 
and divisions of, 195 
Phloxes, hardy, 122; summer 
and winter management, 228; 
list of in colours, 229; list of, 
282 ; with Boses, 344 
Photography for the Many, 93, 
109, 125, 157, 173, 191, 209, 273 ; 
negative, 94; cameras and 
stands, 158 ; lens, 166 ; prepa¬ 
ration of paper, 173; collodion 
process, positive and negative 
pictures, and stereoscopies 
with one camera, 191 ; dark 
chamber and albumen process, 
209; dry paper process, 241 ; 
and gardening, 283; green and 
blue processes in, 316; queries, 
371; apparatus, cost of, 301 
Piekles, yellow, 361 
Picotees for borders, 12 
Pigeon Show, Birmingham, 29 
Pigeons, Antwerp Short - faced, 
14 ; Skinnum, 14; Toy—Sua- 
bian Spangled, 30 ; Hyacinth 
and Porcelain, 45 ; sale of, 46; 
Starling - breasted and Swiss, 
60 ; Suabian, 60 ; Archangels 
and Stomacher, 92; Nun, 124; 
diseased, 140; the Priest, 172; 
diseased wings in, 172; roupy, 
190; the Spot, 240; Stork, 
Black-backed Gull, 224; Tern, 
or Sea-Swallow, 272 ; Lahore, 
or Martin, and Magpie, 374 
Pilumna fragrans, 313 
Pinks in December, 178 
Pinus Fremontiana, 23 
Pinuses, a few notes on, 212 
Planting, 192 
Plants lor furnishing, 81 
Plum trees in February, 275 
Poeonies, moving whilst growing, 
146 
Poland fowl classes, uniting, 59 ; 
change of colour in legs, 60 
Polands, Black, 46; without 
muffs, 124; crest of golden, 156 
Poles, The, 128, 143 
Polyanthuses in October and No¬ 
vember, 20 
Polygonum vacciniifolium, 197 
Pomegranate not flowering, 57 
Pomoiogical Society’s Meeting, 
10, 141, 167, 294, 355 
Pompone Chrysanthemum, list 
of, 123 
Pond, plants round, 59 
Ponds, green scum on, 169 
Pontederia tricolor, 199 
Portulacca culture 3 
“Potato disease, treatise on,” 
184 
Potatoes—their uses, 37 ; raised 
from seed, 39; over-ripe, 44; 
crop in Kent, 130; planting, 
169, 206, 265, 311, 356; the 
Fluke, 238, 284, 341 ; cultivation 
of early, 247, 262 ; qualities of 
a good, 312 ; disease in frames, 
322; offspring of Pink - eye, 
335; merits of some, 348; 
storing in sand, 357 ; Fluke and 
Alston Kidney, 382 ; described, 
398 
Pots, new sort of, 291 ; cleaning, 
328 
Poultry—sellers, warning to, 44; 
sale, 46; Shows, hints about, 
91; sale, 124; doings in the 
past year, 207 ; overstock of, 
302 ; house and yard for, 304; 
Shows, benefits of, 288 ; prizes 
and prices, 329 selling, 345 ; 
profitable, 371; Factorv at New 
York, 373 
Preservatory, Schooley’s Patent, 
396 
Press, photographic, 109 
Preston Poultry Show,91, 303, 317 
Preston, Golden Moonies, at, 
330; deception at, 332 
Primula mollis, 15 
Primulas in December, 177 
Prince’s-Feather, its uses, 339 
Printing, Nature, 383 
Prizes, protest against large, 
108 ; poultry, 373 
Propagating, boxes for, 81; pit, 
a good, 393 
Pruning fruit trees, 3 
Pruning peculiarities, 278 
Psidium cattleianum, 185 
I’teris aqdilina culture, 73 
Pumpkins, mammoth, and their 
uses, 100, 101 
Quick returns, 371 
Babbit, The China, 249 
Babbits, food for young, 14; 
weight of, 140; the Angola and 
Prussian, 369 
Bailway delays with poultry, 59 
Bailway Companies, warning to, 
402 
Bansome’s patent siliceous stone, 
8 
Banunculuses, protecting, 186; 
turning yellow, 400 
Baspberry, Prince of Wales, 211 
ltedcaps, what are ? 189 
Bed Spider, 321; on Violets, 91; 
preventing, 121 
Bhododendron Windsorii, 26 
Bhodoleia Championi, 348 
Bhubarb, preserved, 203 
Bibbon borders, 22 ; beds, 306 
Bockery, garden, 298 ; plants for, 
299 
Bollisson’s Geranium Unique 
failing, 49 
Bookery soil for American plants, 
282 
Boosting place, why separate 
from nest house, 332 
Boot pruning, 12 
Boots, forming in winter, 147 
“Bose Amateur’s Guide,” 167 
“ Bose, cultural directions for 
the,” 184 
Bose, trees, moving old, 91 ; cul¬ 
ture in October and November, 
70, 102, 115 ; list of, 102; plant¬ 
ing dwarf, 105; forcing not 
profitable, 289; management 
in winter, 385; Isabella Grey, 
budding, 393 
Boses, for standards, 7 ; pruning 
climbing, 43; raising seedling, 
44 ; new varieties, 115 ; and 
their stocks, 193 ; on their own 
roots, 210 ; propagating, 251 ; 
leaves mildewed, 252; in pots 
for forcing and exhibition, 277 ; 
in damp gardens, 285 ; in pots, 
culture and lists of, 310 
Bouen Ducks as layers, 360 
Boupy pullet, how to treat, 76 
Boyle, Dr. J. F., 249, 225 
Bubus nutans, 199 
Sabbatia campestris, 120, 151, 
182 
Salvia nemorosa, 89, 301 ; cande¬ 
labrum, 120; splcndens culture, 
186 
Salvias, failing, 49; in winter, 
142 
Sandbach Poultry Show, 224 
Scliizanthus culture, 3 
Scolytus destructor, destroying, 
353 
Scotch Firs, failure of young, 6 
Sea-flowers, 354 
Sea-kale forcing, 16; causes of 
failure, 328 
Sea sand for bulbs, 12 
Sea-side planting for shelter, 356 
Season, results of the past in Suf¬ 
folk, 131; successes and failures 
of, 134 
Sedum culture, 3 
Seeds, hardiness of, 306 
Senecio petasites, 352 
Sensitive plant culture, 4 
Sesamum orientale, 40 
Setaria macrochaeta, 47 
Shrubland Park, 17, 32, 80, 97 
Shrubs, list of hardy, 302 
Silene Schafta, 371 
Soil for seedling flowers, 376 
Soldat d’Esperance Pear, 104 
Solomon’s Gardens at Jerusalem, 
342 
Sonerila speciosa, 280 
South-East Hants Poultry Show, 
330 
Sowing flowers in spring, 319 
Sowing seeds, 364 ; in spring, 375 
Spanish, hen’s comb, 14; cock¬ 
erel’s toe nail, 14; cock’s face, 
108; with twisted bill, 108; 
fowls, wffiite feathers in, 140 ; 
cockerels’ combs, 172; white 
face in, 240 ; fowl with wrink¬ 
led face, 288 
Spinach, perpetual, 163 
Spiraea in pots, 106 ; callosa, 343 
Sprengelia incarnata culture, 4 
Spur, broken, not a disqualifica¬ 
tion, 76 
Squash, The American, 199 
Standard flowering shrubs, 257 
Stem, covering an old, 285 
Stephanotis floribunda, fruit of, 
252 
Stewarton Hive, 5, 88, 120, 167, 
181 
Stocks, Intermediate, mode of 
culture, 323 
Stoke Newington Chrysanthe¬ 
mum, 110 
Stokesia cyanea, 178 
Stonecrop, Golden, 123, 329 
Stove, winter temperature of, 104 
Strawberry forcing, 97, 361 ; beds 
fruit late, 122; in March, 376 
Strawberries in greenhouse, 238 
Stud House, Flampton Court, 68 
Suckers, how to prevent, 258 
Sultan fowls, 304 
Supporting flowers, 57 
Surface-dressing fruit trees, 335 
Tank-heating, causes of fail¬ 
ure in, 337 
Tank, lining for hot water, 250 
Tecoma velutina culture, 186 
Tein-cliing, 117 
Tliistle, the Scotch, 235 
Til, 58 
Timber trees, collecting seeds of, 6 
Tomato culture, 185 
Town garden, flowers for con¬ 
fined, 58 
Transplanting, fruit - trees, 2; 
large trees and shrubs, causes 
of success and failure, 25 
Tree decayed, plaster for, 123 
Trees, their associations and be¬ 
nefits, 35 
Trenching, directions for, 28 
Tritoma uvaria, 384 
Tritonia aurea culture, 222 
Tropaeolum at the Crystal Palace, 
316 
Tropseolum elegans, 365 
Tropceolums in pots, 4 
Tuberoses in borders, 391 
Tulips for forcing, 334 
Turf, over salted, 151 
Turfy loam, substitute for, 385 
Turtle Doves, management, 156 
Ulverstone Poultry Show, 331 
Unfortunate, Story of an, 344 
Uroskinnera spectabilis, 26 
Vanda cierulea, 296 ; Lowm, 348 
Vase, garden, 329 
Vegetable culture and cookery, 
58, 203 
Vegetable culture, high, 259 
Vegetable Marrow at the Horti¬ 
cultural Society’s Gardens, 27 
Vegetables, protecting tender, 
112; preserving in mild win¬ 
ters, 145 
Ventilation, rule for, 334 
Verbena cuttings in December, 
178 
Verbenas, for bedding, 10; in 
windows, 24; wintering, 41, 
72 ; which have bloomed well, 
66 ; propagating in pots, 235 
Victoria regia, its history and cul¬ 
ture, 82 ; in the open air, 123 ; 
at Dalvey, 180 
Vinca minor as an edging, 104 
Vine borders, 218; covering with 
grass, 221; forcing, early, 226; 
culture, 233 ; past and present, 
307 ; management in a green¬ 
house, 315 
Vine, experiment, 31; border 
making, 41; inside a green¬ 
house, 42; pruning, 31, 77, 163; 
border, slating a, 121 
Vinery, what can be grown in, 
105; construction of, 134; con¬ 
structing, 252; glass for late, 
268 
Vineries, cheap, 329 
Vines—poisoned by mix vomica, 
73; pruning, 94, 105; borders 
for, 95 ; summary of culture, 
96; in pots, 98 ; treatment of 
old, 98: in a pit, 219; cutting 
