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Cocoa-nut fibre, uses of, 250, 309; 
refuse for Ferns, 374 
Coffee as in France, 339 
Coleonema pulcnrum, 197 
Coleopkora gryphipennella, 43 
Columnea scandens, 170 
Comb, single, rose, and Malay 
defined. 28 ; cock -with diseased, 
250 ; straightening a drooping, 
296 
Conservatory management, 70 
Convolvulus, double, 279 
Corbularias, 2 
Coronilla culture, 374 
Cress, Australian salad, 19 
Crewe Poultry Prizes, 44 
Crocuses for geometrical beds, 25 
Crop-bound chickens, 313 
Crystal Palace, Flower Show, 101, 
145, 347 ; Poultry Show, 128, 
313, 343, 394; bedding, 162; 
propagating arrangements, 379 
Cucumber, pickling, preserving, 
salad, sauce, soup, stewed, and 
vineg'ar, 21; leaves turning 
brown, 57 
Cucumbers, club-ended, 68; dis¬ 
eased, 85; beetles destroying, 
107 ; young, dying, 157 ; bit¬ 
terness in, 248 
Cumin culture and cookery, 122 
Currants blighted, 343 
Cuttings in sand and water, 169 ; 
striking, 309 
Cyclamen, vernum, 30 ; seed sow¬ 
ing, 85 
Cyclamens, selection of spring, 
372 
Cymbidium eburneum, 232 
Cyperus esculentus, 120 
Cytisus, racemosus priming, 67 ; 
culture, 76 
Dahlia culture, 18; list of va¬ 
rieties, 19 
Dahlias, best dwarf, 332; new, 
350 
Dasylirion acrotrichum, 128 
Datura, chlorantha ilore pleno, 
232; double-blossomed, 309 
Day’s sport with a scientific 
friend, 12 
Deep cultivation, importance of, 
302 
Delphinium formosum, sowing, 
98 ; as a bedder, 267; culture, 
293 
Dendrobium atro - sanguineum, ! 
291 
Dendromeehon rigidum, 291 
Desfontainesia spincsa culture, SI 
lleutzia gracilis in pots. 186 
Dianthus Heddewigii, 391 
Dibbles, Mendenhall’s, 306 
“ Dictionary of useful informa- I 
tion,” 54 
Dielytra spectabiiis in pots, 1S6 
Digestion, novel mode of, 200 
Digging, facts relative to, 8 
Dill culture and cookery, 122 
Dillwynia floribunda and pedun- 
cularis, 197 
Dioseorea Batatas, 28, 141 
Disbudding, 32 
Dorkings, colour of Grey, 282; 
sixth claw and sprigs on comb, \ 
232; in confined space, 296 ; ! 
plumage of Silver-grey, 313 
Double flowers, making, 15, 190 i 
Drainage, of pots, 64; its in- ; 
fluence over the soil’s tempe¬ 
rature, 53 
Driffield Poultry Show, 280 
Drones, small, 58 ! 
Ducks’ eggs unproductive 71 
Ducks, mortality in, 202 
Dugong- and its oil, 37 
Duke of Devonshire Apple, ISO | 
Dung, state when applied, 227 
Dunghill drainage, analysis of, 
210 
Dungs, analysis of, 195 
Earth-worm, its value, 200 
Earths, weight of, 139; power of 
containing water, 139 
Earwigs, their habits, 173 
Egg-eating hens, to cure, 160 
Eggs, green-yolked, 14; large 
produce of, 375 
Elms and Scolytus destructor, 
255 
1 Endive culture and cookery, 122 
Entomological Society’s Meeting, 
63, 107, 183, 263, 290 
Epacris, obtusifolia, 36; pallu- 
dosa, 109 
Epidermis, its structure and uses, 
j 335 
Epimedium macranthum and pin- 
natum or eolchicum, 2, 6 
Esperione Grape, 25 
| Essex Poultry Exhibition, 173, 
187, 202 
I Eugenia trinervia, 36 
| Events, coming, 58 
Evergreens grafted on deciduous 
stocks, 263 
Fact, what is a ? 55 
I Farfugium grande, propagating, 
338 
“ Farm Insects,” 373 
{ “ Farm profitably, how to,” 11 
j Farmer Garrulous talks, 247 
I Farmyard manure, 128 
I Fattening fowls, 376 
I Feathered, rotten, 174 
Female cultivators of the soil, 140 
Fern, culture, 178 ; raising seed¬ 
lings, 179; pillars, 259 
Ferns, raising from spores, 51; 
sale of, 55 ; in miniature con¬ 
servatories 94; hardy, to mix 
with Geraniums, 248; notes on, 
305, 321, 358; fungi among, 
o4o 
Fig, culture, 245, 254; tree bar¬ 
renness to cure, 371; tree blos¬ 
som, 391 
Figs in a vinery, 9, 113, 157 
Filbert culture and sorts, 21 
Filberts, list of, 151 
Filter, new domestic, 120 
Fir and its bark, analyses of, 336 
Floral WTeath, 136 
Flower-beds, 267 
Flower gardens, taste in arrang¬ 
ing and ornamenting, 80 
Flower Show's and Judges, 179 
Flowers, fragrant, for a boudoir, 
25; old-fashioned, 180; cut, 
301 
Flue, heating by a, 10; of green¬ 
house, 343 
Flues, basined tops for, 309 
Fondante d’automne Fear, 20 
Forest trees, lopping, 313 
Forget-me-not, 96 
Fowls, In Siberia, wild and domes¬ 
tic, 127; classification of, 249 ; 
best breeding age, 250; pure¬ 
bred, 391 
Frames, wood v. iron, 152 
Frasers’ Nursery, 29, 45 
Fremontia Californiea, 55 
Fruit, storing, 23; tree pinching 
and stopping, 32; prospects, 
77; room, 199; crop in America, ! 
262; trees, effect of drought 
on, 287 ; in September, 318 ; 
trees manuring, 381 
Fruits, colouring, 247; for South 
of England, 391 
“Fruits, Flowers,and Farming,” 
262 
Fuchsias for pillars, 47 
Fumigator, Carley’s Self-acting, 
49 ; a simple, 137 
Fungus on flow r er-pots, 73 
Galvanised - iron wire for 
training purposes, 69 
Game, Duekwinged, characteris¬ 
tics, 330, 375; cock, white 
feathers in wing, 114; blue- 
red, 376 
Gapes in chickens, 250, 346 
Garden management, order in, 
216 
Gardener’s Koyal Benevolent In¬ 
stitution, 109, 154 
Gardeners’ position and prospects, 
191 
Gardening (in-door) for the week, 
1, 15, 29,45, 59, 73, 87, 101, 115, 
131, 145, 101, 175, 189, 204, 221, 
235, 251, 267, 283, 299, 315, 331, 
347, 363, 379; Science of, 8, 23, 
53, 64, 93, 107, 110, 119, 1J9, 
149, 166, 178, 195, 209, 226, 240, 
261, 272, 293, 305, 323, 335, 353, 
368, 384; disappointments, 200 
Gas, mode of heating by, 34, 65 j 
injurious to plants, 43 
Gazania splendens as a bedder, 
316 
Gentiana ciliata and culture, 307 
“ Geology in the Garden,” 372 
Geranium, cuttings, 333; the 
home of the, 361 
Geraniums, from cuttings, 45; 
variegated and scarlet, 46 ; the 
Nosegay, 115; in rooms, 131 ; 
promoting growth in varie- 
! gated, 132; rules for crossing, 
| 163; variegated in London, 172; 
summer propagation and Stan- 
I dard,- 235; seedling scarlet, 
327 ; scarlet, growing over- 
luxuriantly, 371; coloured 
leaves, 374; at the Crystal 
I Palace, 380 
| Gesnera purpurea, 94; zebrina 
culture, 117 
Gishurst compound, 212, 245, 336 
Gladioluses, Ust of, 332 
Glasgow Poultry Show, 158 
Glass of water, what will it hold ? 
57 
Glass, for shading, 78; distance 
of plants from, 153 
Glazed house, heating and using 
a small, 244 
Goat moth caterpillars, 293 
Golden Pippin, the old, 98 
Gold fish, Portland cement for 
their tank, 94, 93 ; colour of 
young, 358 
Gold and silver fish management, 
120 
Goldfussia Thomsoni, 170 
Goodia latifolia, 36 
Gorse, cuttings of double, 128 
Grafting, veneer, on the old bark, 
172 
Grape, Golden Hamburgh, 228 ; 
culture, 245 
Grapes, adapted to Great Britain, 
7, 39, 52, 65, 79, 95, 109; dark 
coloured, 69; bunches to be 
borne, 85 ; lists of, 110; shank¬ 
ed, 112; fungused, 112; spotted 
i by Gishurst Compound, 312 ; 
not colouring, 338 ; for open 
air, 391 
Grass lawns, laying down, 320 
Grasses for bouquets, 27 
Green fly, its destruction, 38 
Greenhouse, climbers, 9 ; hotbed 
in, 51; heating from a kitchen 
fire, 152; plants, retaining 
moisture to, 210; formed of 
frame-sashes, 232; for plants 
and Vines, 308 ; lining, 312 ; 
variety in a small, 389 
Groundsel, double, propagating, 
306 
Guano, analysis of, 210 
Gymnogramma trifoliata, 306 
Haeeothamnus elegans, 316 
Halifax Poultry Show, 344 
Hamburgh fowls, Black, 85 ; 
characteristics of, 158 ; Silver- 
pencilled chickens, 250; Gold¬ 
en - pencilled, characteristics, 
378 ; hackle of Silver-spangled, 
394 
Hamburgh Muscat Grape, house 
for, 372 
Hare, a tame, 28 
Harmogia virgata and culture, 
306 
Harris, fruiterer to Henry VIII., 
112 
Harrow Horticultural Society, 211 
Hatching season, this year’s, 296 
Heath, Night-scented, 81 
Heaths, finished blooming, 113 
Heating by hot water in pipes, 
126 
Henderson and Son’s Nursery,, 
315, 331 
Hendersons’ Nursery, Pine-Apple 
Place, 76 
Henfrey, Professor, death of, 385 
Henna, 342 
Hens, picking off feathers, 14; 
sitting, 57; eating their eggs, 
188 
Herbaceous plants, their neglect, 
26; plants, hardy, and their 
culture, 257, 287, 319, 334, 352, 
367, 383 
Herbarv, the, — herbs for season¬ 
ing and garnishing, 118, 175, 
225, 246 
Hewitt, Mr., 14 
Hive, adjuster, 99 
Hoe, the Drag, 79 
Hoeing, 9 
Holeus saccharatus, 243,290; cul¬ 
ture, 389 
Hops, and their enemies, 38 ; 
among the, 340 
Hornet, a pet, 171 
Horticultural Society of London, 
25 ; Anniversary,’ 82 ; Show, 
90; and the Kensington Gore 
Garden, 203, 204, 237 
Horticultural Shows, remini¬ 
scences of, 177 
i Horticultural Societies, pro- 
] vincial, 223 
] Hose for liquid manure, 128 
Hotbed, Dr. Uhler’s mode of re- 
l viving, 157 
Hotbeds, renewing heat in, 325 
Hoteia japonica, 197 
Hot-water, preventing its circu¬ 
lation, 182 
! Howardia Caracasensis, 27 
Hull Poultry Show, 202 
“ Husbandman’s Fruitfull Or¬ 
chard.” 112 
Hyacinths in beds, 3 
Ilyde, the, 386 
Hydrangea cuttings, management 
of, 292 ; growing large in small 
. pots, 241; growing over-lux- 
uriantly, 371 
! Ice, importance of a good 
supply,355 
i Indian gardening, 157 
Iponioea seedlings, 113 
1 Iris pumila as a bedder, 161 
Ivy, management, 199 
jACOBiEAS, CULTURE OF PURPLE, 
391 
Japan as recently seen, 84 
Japan Pinks, 333 
Japanese paper, 172 
Jasminum revolutum pruning, 57 
Journal, keeping a garden, 61 
. Judges at Poultry Shows, 265 
I Keighley Poultry Show, 376 
Kew Gardens, 289; in August, 
363 
Kiddle Nets, 139, 170 
Kino, 57 
Kirkstall Horticultural Show, 223 
Labels, 112 
Lamb Plant, 97 
Landor, W. S., 326 
Lantanas, management of, 316 • 
Lapageria rosea’and culture, 230, 
! 390 
Lastrosa filix-mas, large, 360 
Laurel leaves, producing honey 
or propolis, 160; spots on, 173 
I Lavatera unguiculata, 280 
j Lavender culture, 226 
Layering, 215 
I Lead pencils, 295 
Leaves, uses of colouring, &c., 
384 ; transporation of, 385 
Leg-weakness in chickens, 362 
j Lemonia spectabiiis and its cul¬ 
ture, 273 
Ldon le Clerc de Laval Pear, 65 
Leucoeoryne alliacea, 67 
Lice in chickens, 376 
Lime, 93; water, 200; magnesian, 
injurious, 324 
Limestones differ in quality, 150 
Linum pubescens, war. Sibthorp- 
ianum, 27 
Liquid manure, its use, 60 ; and 
making, 68 
J Lithospermum officinale seed, 
analysis of, 240 
Lobelia speciosa from seed, 131 
Lobelias, propagating, 366 , use 
of, 391 
Lodgemore Nonpareil Apple, 181 
J Looking around us, 61 
j Lucern culture, 172 
l Lupine tree, Californian, 214 
Lychnises, propagating double, 
j 200 
1 Lyeopodium lepidophyllum, 274 
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