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INDEX. 
Variegated hardy plants, list of, 5 
Variegated leaved greenhouse 
plants, 21 
Variegated plants, list of, 76, 
77 
Variegation in leaves, 279 
Vegetable culture and cookery, 21 
j Veitch and Son’s nursery, 77 
Ventilation, 148; at the back, 85 
Ventilator, self-acting, 214 
Ventilators, 323 
Verbena cuttings, 322 
Verbenas, raising seedling, 128; 
selection of, 279; propagating, 
j 350 
i Victoria, gardening in, 290 
Vine, border, concreting a, 10 ; 
t leaves diseased, 12; grafting 
and inarching a, 214; in pot, 
I transplanting, 217; borders, 
making, covering, and uncover¬ 
ing, 302, 327 ; grafting, 370 ; 
j pruning in autumn, 372; leaves’ 
stalks gangrened, 361 
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Vinegar plant, to kill, 177 
Vinegar making, 328 
Vinery, managing a late, 3 ; con¬ 
structing, 312, 337 
Vines, in pots not fruiting well, 
41; from ej'es, 34; young in a 
vinery, 42; in pinery, 48; going 
blind, 82 ; shoots dying, 85 ; 
and Vine-borders, 134; in pots, j 
shifting and stopping, 229; lift- j 
ing, 248 : heated water for, 
292; against a terrace, 309 
Violets, propagating, 57 
Virgilia Capensis and culture, 
306 
Vriesia psittacina, tar. rubro- 
bracteata, 27 
Walks, slime on, 95 ; rules for 
making, 166, 169 
Wall, glazing a, 214; trees, train¬ 
ing young, 370 
Waltonian Case, heating, and 
; seedlings in, 42; seedlings in, 
66; candles for, 92 
I Waltonian Cases, 128 
| Wardian Case, Ferns for, 81 
. Water, anticipated deficiency, 17 ; 
' not the only root - food of 
plants, 53; contents of drain¬ 
age, 53; pui-ifying by plants, 
200; pot, its use and abuse, 
269 
Watering, 190; when and why 
needed, 64; by filtration, 230; 
j fruit tree, 287 
I Waterings, heated manure, 202 
■ Wax secreted by bees, 159 
: Weeds, extirpating, 253 
Weeping Ash, transplanting, 279 
Weigela rosea pruning, 57 
Wellingtonia gigantea, spray dy¬ 
ing, 328 
Wells, Mr. .T., notice of, 213 
Whitby Poultry Exhibition, 328 
Whitewash, improved, 5 
“Wild Flowers of England,” 96 
Window-sashes, employing old, 
182 
Wine in France, 339 
Winter Moth destroying, 78 
Wintering plants in a cellar, 169 
Wireworms, 43 
Wood, its structure, 361; growth 
of, 369; analyses of, 368 ; ob¬ 
taining ripe to induce fruit¬ 
fulness, 270 
Woodlice, destroying, 113 
Worcester Poultry Show, 394 
Worsley Hall, 285, 301 
Yam, Chinesb, mode of cooking, 
62 
Yew, management of a trans¬ 
planted, 137 
Yew-covered pedestal, 269 
Zinc tlates foe Vine borders, 
25 
Zinnias sporting, 318 
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WOODCUTS. 
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Triumph tie Jordoign Pear .... 
Fondante d’Automne Pear ... 
Gas-heating Apparatus. 
Case for Fern Seedlings. 
Leon le Clerc de Laval Pear... 
Winter Moth. 
Drag Hoe . 
Miniature Fernery. 
Adjuster Hive . 
Beurrg Sterckmans Pear . 
Indicator Bee-stand . 
Floral-wreath Stand . 
Chemical Balance. 
Duke of Devonshire Apple ... 
Lodgemore Nonpareil Apple 
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. 20 
. . 34 
. 51 
. 65 
. 78 
. 79 
. 94 
. 99 
. 108 
. 130 
. 136 
. 167 
. 180 
. 181 
Beurre Bretonneau Pear . 
Garden Seat . 
Rosery. 
Fern Pillar. 
Rose of Jericho . 
Lycopodium lepidophyllum.... 
Worsley Hall, ground section 
Bouquet Holder . 
New Dibble .... 
Ventilator . . 
Stem Moistener. 
Garden Chair. 
Cherry Bouquet . 
The Hyde Flower Garden. 
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. 228 
. 243 
.... 259 
. 274 
274, 275 
. 285 
. 290 
.... 306 
. 323 
.... 338 
. 338 
. 339 
. 387 
