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INDEX. 
Aeaca, 55 
Acclimatising plants, 75, 127 
Achillea culture, 257 
Achimenes culture, 10" 
Acre, its extent, 112 
Acrostichum aureum, 358 
Aconitum culture, 257 
Adenandra umbellata, 179 
Adenophora culture, 257 
Aerides Wightianum, 354 
.Eschynanthus cordifolius, 291 
jEsculus Indica, 94 
jEthionema coridifolium, 1C6 
..Ethionemas and culture, 334 
African Christian settlement, 374 
Agapanthus culture, 232 
j Agathyrsus culture, 257 
Agave maculosa, 170 
Agrostemma culture, 257 
Air, keeping moist, 55 ; moisture 
in glazed structures, 148 
Ajuga culture, 257 
Alburnum, its structure, 3G8 
; Ale, 141 
Aletris, species and culture, 319 
Almond Tumbler deficient in 
j feathers, 174 
Aloe leaf a cure for scalds and 
bums, 128 
| Aloes, destructive of insects, 50 ; 
'] for destroying insects, 64, 120; 
versus Aphis, 180, 242, 2C2; 
versus Green Fly, 136 
Aloysia citriodora, 226 
Alpine husbandry, 231 
Alstromceria culture, 257 
Althtea, species and culture, 319 
Alumina, 93 
Alyssum, saxatile, true andj 
spurious, 166 ; culture, 258 
Amasonia culture, 258 
Amellus, species and culture, 335 
“ American Home Garden,” 55 
American blight, 372 
Ammonia in rain, 54 
: Ammoniacal manures, 261 
Anagallises, propagating, 36G 
Anastatica Hieroehuntica, 274 
Anchusa culture, 258 
Androsace, species and culture, 
319 
Anemone, apennina, white, 196; 
culture, 258 
Anemones failing, 43 
Angle of greenhouse roof, how to 
measure, 343 
j Angraecum sesquipedale, 94 
Annuals, pinching shoots of, 128 
Ancectochiluses, 165; list of, 77 
| Anopterus glandulosus, 46 
Antennaria culture, 258 
Anthemis, species and culture, 319 
Anthericum culture, 258 
Anthyllises and culture, 335 
Antirrhinums, in a wall, 78; and 
their culture, 287 
Antiseptics, 373 
Ants, driving away. 43, 98, 141 ; 
on Peach trees, 186 
Aphides, destroying, 212, 217; 
killed by hot water, 274 
Aphis v. Aloes, 200 
Apiary, how one was established, 
173 
Apiarian Notes for April, 43; for 
1 May, 99 ; for September, 377 
Apios and culture, 352 
Apis ligustica, 234, 298 
Apocynums and culture, 352 
Apple, jelly, to make, 232 ; tree, 
a note - worthy, 261; trees, 
caues of barrenness, 121 
Apples and Pears, notes on, 110, 
135, 199; first introduction of 
improved, 112 
Apricot trees, why barren, 105 ; 
in September, 318 
Aquarium, commonest plants for, 
157 ; water, oxygen in, 233 ; 
plants for a shallow, 338 ; ce¬ 
ment for marine, 391 
Aquariums, plants for, 141 
Aquilegias and their culture, 288 
Arabis, variegata culture, 82 ; 
species and culture, 288 
Araucaria imbricata losing its 
bottom branches, 128 
Areca sapida, 354 
Arenaria montana, 166 
Arenarias and culture, 352 
Aretias and their culture, 367 
Argemones and their culture, 367 
Aristemas and their culture, 367 
Armerias and their culture, 288 
Arnicas and their culture, 367 
Arnopogons and their culture, 367 
Artemisias and their culture, 367 
Arums and their culture, 289 
Arundo donax and its culture, 
368 
Asarums and their culture, 368 
Asclepias and culture, 383 
Asparagus, culture, 30; seed¬ 
lings, 265 
Asperulas and culture, 383 
Asphodeluses and culture, 384 
Asplenium flaecidum, 358 
Aubretia purpurea, propagating, 
3 
Ava, compounding, 56 
Azalea Indieas, management, 9 ; 
pruning, 57 ; management, 61 
Azaleas, list of Chinese, 30 
Balsam, culture, 117; seed, 
sowing, 70 
Bamboos, their immense quan¬ 
tities, 84 
Bantams, prizes for, 295 
Barbarossa Grape, 53, 120 
Baskets, hanging plants for, 113 
Bath & West of England Poultry 
Show, 142, 160 
Beaver and Beaver-stone, 186 
Bedding out, 59; from pots, 67; 
at Kew, 364 
Bedding and bedding plants, 131; 
experience in their culture, 
133 
Bedding arrangements, 268 
Bedding plants, notes on some, 
108, 332; for stock, 301; hints 
on propagating, 333, 350, 366 
Beech tree as non-attractive of 
lightning, 187 
Bee-keeping, in Devon, 72, 297, 
314, 377 ; in Northern Russia 
and Central Africa, 112 
Bee - stand, the Indicator, 130 ; 
hives in Portugal, 186 ; season, 
144; Rose-leaf-cutter, 297 
Bees, secreting wax, 11, 37, 44 ; 
aspect for, 44 ; food consumed 
in winter, 43; April manage¬ 
ment, 44; feeding, warning 
about, 86; ravaged by wax- 
moth grubs, 86; collecting 
pollen without honey, 114; 
weight of, 160; production of 
-wax by, 160; using old wax, 
188, 266 ; uniting swarms, 220, 
394; shifting, with combs, 220 ; 
exotic honey, 234, 250; bees¬ 
wax, honey, and pollen, 234; 
swarming ' on a man, 250 ; 
working under the floor-board; 
making combs without cluster¬ 
ing, 266; diminishing labour of, 
282 ; exotic, 207, 314 ; enmity 
of queen, 330 ; Ligurian, 346”; 
fumigating, 316 ; early decrease 
of their store, 3G2; removing, 
378 
Beeswax, honey, and pollen, 143 
Begonia, xanthina, far. lazuli, 
27 ; Rex in a greenhouse, 113; 
MarshalUi, 350 
Begonias, list of, 146, 147; a 
gossip about the, 241 
Belle Vue Gardens, Manchester, 
303, 320 
Bermondsey Roller Pigeon, 174, 
220 
Bermuda, its vegetable produce, 
294 
Beurre Sterckman’s Pear, 108 
BcurrC Bretonneau Pear, 211 
Beverlev Poultry Show, 71, 129, 
143 
Bilbergia macroealyx, 94 
Birmingham Rabbit Show, 99 
Elaberopus veneatus and its cul¬ 
ture, 273 
Blindness in a cock from fight¬ 
ing, 72 
Bloom upon fruit, 276 
Blossoming principle, 356 
Boiler, for a small house, 85; 
heated by kitchen fire, 141 
Bokhara fruits imported into 
Russia. 69 
Bonapartea juncea, 317 
Bone manure, 240 
Boronia Drummondi, and Poly- 
galcefolia, 179 
Bossisca linophylla, 179 
Botanists, meeting of northern, 
245 
“Bouquet, The Illustrated,” 213 
Bouquet, holder, 290, 307 ; of 
Cherries, 339 
Bouvardia longiflora culture, 36 
Bouvardias, management of, 316 
Braehychiton Bidwilli, 291 
Bradford Poultry Show, 330 
Brahma Pootras, 28, 233,281, 329, 
362, 398 
Bretton, West, Poultry Show, 
376 
Bridgnorth, spring water, 244; 
Poultry Show, 392 
“ British Butterflies and Moths,” 
293 
Broccoli growing and list, 62 
Brugmansia, Knightii, buds drop¬ 
ping, 85; arborea pruning, 343 
Bulb offsets, promoting, 216 
Bulbs, seeds of, 11; in pots, 57 ; 
spring- flowering, 67 ; notes on 
some, 127 ; and bedding plants, 
299; spring-flowering, for a 
Rhodendron bed, 339; growing 
for sale, 359 ; sending to Aus¬ 
tralia, 370 ; treatment of Cape 
of Good Hope, 372; for beds, 
389 
Burntwood Grange, 307 
Cactus management. 76 
Calceolaria, culture, 19 ; failures, 
293 
Calceolarias, management of 
herbaceous, 62; shrubby, 75; 
propagating, 351 
Calyptraria htemsntha, CG 
Calystegia pubeseens, 279 
Cam-wood, 187 
Camellias, after blooming, 61; in 
summer, 112 
Campanula azurea and culture, 
307 
Candle, blowing out a, 186 
Carbonic acid, supplied by ma¬ 
nures, 305; applied to roots, 
324 
Carnation seed sowing, 70 
Carr Head, 359 
Carrots raised from the wild 
species, 275 
Catarrh, or cold, in fowls, 43 
“ Cattle are in the field,” 263 
Cauliflower culture, 176 
Ccanothus, Veitchianus, 232 ; 
azureus layers. 343 
Celery culture, a fact worth know¬ 
ing in, 163 
“Celestial objects,” 336 
Cellular integument, 353 
Ceratodactylis osmudioides, 358 
Ceylon, plants, 264; forests, 311 
“ Chambers’ Encyclopaedia,” 55 
Charcoal, promoting colour in 
flowers, 273; as a manure, 305 
Cheirostemon platanoides, 354 
Chickens, management of early, 
43, 44 ; selecting for Shows, 
70; fattening, 99; influence of 
soil over, 113; dying prema¬ 
turely, 114; run" for, 128; 
summer-hatched, 142: paraly¬ 
sis in, 248; mortality among, 
344 
Chicory culture, 187 
Chloris radiata in a bouquet, 283, 
316 
Chrysanthemums, stopping and 
cuttings. 18C 
Chufus, 120 
Chusan Palm, 85 
Cibotium Barometz, 97 
Cinerarias after blooming, 76 
Cinnamon trees, 278 
Clary culture, 98 
Classification of fowls, 265, 2S2 
Clerodendron Bungei manage¬ 
ment, 316 
Clerodendrum splendens and its 
culture, 273 
Clianthus punicens, 245 
Climate classification, 78 
Climbers, 316 
Cockscomb culture, 117 
