I 
Acacia eriocarpa, 318 
Achimenes, culture, 104; gigan- 
tea and ignea longiflora pleno, 
240 
Adhatado cydonicefolia, 140 
JEsculus Indica, 272 
African snakes, 103 
Agapanthus, treatment in -winter, 
182; umbellatus culture, 34G 
Agapetes buxifolia, 318 
Allamanda, violacea, 140; Fara- 
guayensis and Neriifolia. cul¬ 
ture, 232; cathartica culture, 
324 
! Almeidia rubra and culture, 83 
: Alps, traveller’s fare in Pied¬ 
montese, 131 
Alyssum, variegated, 291 
Amaranthus variegata splendens, 
240 
Amrgdalus Tersica flore pleno, 
272 
Anacharis alsinastrum, motion of 
sap in, 380 
Anacctochflus Veitchii, 211 
Ananassa sativa variegata, 211 
Andalusian fowls, 119, 218 
Andalusians, manufacturing, 264 
Anemone culture, 223 
Anemones 100 years since, 147 ; 
blooming in June, 148 
Annual for a dry shaded bed, 397 
Annuals, for greenhouse, list of, 
315 ; for bedding-out, 339 ; new 
or rare hardy and half-hardy, 
367 ; early blooming, 386 
Anomatheca cruenta, hardy, 157 
Apiarian Notes — honey harvest, 
adjuster hive, 61; artificial 
swarms, removing to heaths, 
autumn management, 62; Li¬ 
gurian bees, 373 ; longevity of 
bees, 373; endurance of intense 
cold, 374 ; management for 
March, 374 
Apple orchards in the olden time, 
2s9 
Apples, of Sodom, 216; for cot¬ 
tagers, 382 
Apricot, culture, 350 ; a few words 
for the, 403 ; buds dead, 404 
Aquaria leaking, 275, 300 
Aquilegia formosa albo violacea, 
and tricolor, 382 
Aralia papyrifera and culture, 259 
Araucaria, leaves spotted, 12; 
sheltering a newly - removed, 
182 
Arctic Ocean, 103 
Arduina grandiflora, 140 
Algol, 147 
Arundel Poultry Show, 168 
Asparagus on clay soil, 103 
Asphalt, 200 
Asplenium hemionitis and cul¬ 
ture, 287 
Asterocephaluses and culture, 6 
Asters, list of 20 ; their culture, 
41; Chinese or German, 299 
Astragaluses and culture, 51 
Astrantias and culture, 95 
Atmospheric moisture in houses, 
224 
Aubrietia grandiflora, 382 
Aubrietias and culture, 96 
Aucuba Himalaica, 272 
Australian Poultry Show, 233 
Aylesbury Ducks, rules for judg¬ 
ing, 170 ; as table birds, 217 
I Azotised bodies, 261 
Bambusa gracilis, 59 
Bantams, dubbing Game, 46; 
INDEX. 
Sebright, 88; cross with Phea¬ 
sant, 89 
Baptisias and culture, 96 
Barclaya syringieflora, 318 
Bast, its origin, &c., 385 
Batatas paniculata and culture, 
83 
Batschias and their culture, 197 
Bean culture, 34, 124 
Bed, a centre oval, 324 
Bedding, at the Crystal Palace, 1; 
spring and summer, 296 
Bedding-out in small gardens, 
242, 285, 336 
Bedding plants, merits of, 99; 
wintering, 157 ; notes on, 319 ; 
arrangement of, 337 ; potting 
in spring, 361; list of, 386 
Bee-keeping, in Italy, 46; in 
Devon, 75, 90, 134 
! Beehives in the time of Charles i 
II., 342 
Bees—artificial swarms, 14, 218 ; 
purchasing, 46, 170; Ligurian, 
30, 75, 76, 90, 106, 134, 202, 310, 
342, 373, 374; in Nutt’s hive, 
90; drone, 170; my roof, 234; 
in California, 248; dying in 
stored hive, 310 ; Ligurian, and 
their merits, 860 ; feeding, 360 ; 
longevity of, 373; endurance of 
cold, management in March, 
374; water for, 374; uniting 
swarms, 374; endurance of 
hunger, 374; taking a queen, 
374; those who have written 
about them, 388 ; pillaging 
their neighbours, 389; Ligu¬ 
rian queens uniting to stocks, 
390 ; bars for their hives, pro¬ 
duce, &c., 390 ; replacing a 
queen, 405; introducing Ligu¬ 
rian queens, 406; queen laying 
eggs and larvae spinning co¬ 
coons, 406; diarrhoea, 406; 
prolific, 401 
Beeswax, 120, 186 
Begonia argentea and Marshallii, 
211; frigida, amabilis, argen¬ 
tea, and blanda, 240; Charles 
Wagner, Gem, Leopoldii, Mar¬ 
shallii, Queen Victoria and xan- 
i thina lazuli, 241 
Bejaria mstuans, and coarctata, 
318 
Bellidiastrum and its culture, 197 
Beilis, and its culture, 197 
Belliums and their culture, 198 
Berberis Hookeri & B. Jamesonii, 
272 
Berteroas and culture, 223 
Bevan, Dr., death of, 294, 388 
Bidens and culture, 223 
Bignonia ltollisonii, 141 
Birmingham Poultry Prize List, 
29 
Birmingham Poultry Show, 75, 
104, 118, 132, 148, 167 ; Pigeon 
prizes at, 169 
Biscutellas and culture, 224 
Blanching, chemistry of, 81 
Blandfordia nobilis culture, 66 
Blechnum lanceola and culture, 
142 ; gracile and culture, 243 | 
Blephilias and culture, 224 
Boltonias and culture, 284 
Bomareas and culture, 284 
Bones as a manure, 178 
Boragos and culture, 285 
Bottom heat 224 
Boundary borders, planting, 245 
“ Bouquet, The Illustrated,” 199 
Box-edging, tenant-nurseryman’s 
right to, 37 
: Bradford Poultry Show, 74, 264 
i Brainea insignis and culture, 287 
Breeding stock, slight defects in, 
280 
Breeds, manufactured, 88 
1 Bridgnorth Poultry Show, 13 
Broccoli culture, 18 
Bromyard Poultry Show, 134 
Brugmansias dying in the spring, 
98 
Bryophyllum proliferum, 131 
Budding, directions for, 370 
: Buds, production of, 370; adven- 
| titious, 371; rooting, 400 
! Bulbs, time for buying, 12 ; roots 
and tubers, 15; planting spring¬ 
flowering, 25 ; in a greenhouse- 
border, 56; various, 59; re¬ 
moving hardy, 115; growing 
early-flowering, 229 
Bullfinch, 273 
Bullfinches, losing wing-feathers, 
248 
Bupleurums and culture, 338 
Butterflv, the Swallow - tailed, 
200, 229 
Butterflies, date of capture, 95 ; 
to kill for specimens, 386 
Cabbage, culture, 18; plants, 
raising, 122 ; caterpillars, 199 
Cacti and their culture, 336 
Cactuses,wild, 351; columnar, 352 
Calabash tree, 351 
Caladium culture, 231; Chantinii 
and argyrites, 211; argyrites, 
Chantinii, Veitchii, and Ver- 
schaffeltii, 241 
Calceolaria flexuosa, 166; sub¬ 
stitute for the yellow wanted, 
210; bedding, culture, 241 ; 
substitute for the yellow, 257, 
274, 286, 319, 350; cuttings, 261 
Calceolarias in pots in autumn, 5 ; 
wintering, 118 
Calicarpa purpurea, 318 
Calyptraria hoeraantha, 318 
Camellia, leaves blotched, 103; 
sasangua, rar. anemom-flora, 
168 ; buds dropping, 339 
Camellias in Ayrshire,54 ; frosted, 
113; pruning stunted; 260; 
treatment after blooming, 304 ; 
exhibition and list of, 392 
Campanula pyramidalis culture, 
176; fragilis, 372 
Canary and the British Finches, 
90,368 ; selecting, 360 
Canary’s nails, paring, 170 
Cannas, to winter, and to bed 
out, 26 ; wintering, 54; for out- 
doorplanting, 283; for bedding- 
out, 297 
Cape plants, 317 
Carnations, culture of perpetual 
tree, 356 
Carrot culture, 34 
Carrots, culture of white, 156 
“Carter’s Annual,” 145 
Cattleya Schilleriana, var. con- 
color, 131 
Ceanothus Veitchianus,272 ; velu- 
tinus, 334 
Cedrus deodara, removing, 20; 
avenue, 93 
Celery culture, 19, 205 
Centradenia rosea culture, 316 
Centrostemma multiflorum, 384 
Cerastium tomentosum, 148, 291 ; 
trimming and culture, 182 
Cereus gigunteus, 352 
Ceropegia Thwaitesii and culture, 
259 
I Cesspool management, 259 
j Ceylon, a nice place for nervous 
people, 355 
; Chamaebatia foliolosa, 272, 384 
Chesterfield Prize List, 186 ; 
Poultry Show, 293 
Chicken, opening the crop of, 373 
Chickens, weakened by warmth, 
13; rearing, 28; early, 246 
Chinese Primula culture, 222 
Chironia grandiflora, 317 
Chrysanthemum Show at Crystal 
Palace, 101; culture, 395 
Chrysanthemums, growing fer 
exhibition, characteristics, cul¬ 
ture, &C., 56; definition of 
classes, 182 ; standard, 229 
Church-fittings, wood for, 367 
Churning, 369 
Cider in the olden time, 289 
Cineraria maritima culture, 182 ; 
from seed, 320 
Cinerarias in autumn, 5; frosted, 
113 
Circular-bed planting, 296, 297, 
355 
Circular beds in groups, 279 
Clay soil, to manage, 4; to barn, 
4'; farming, 50 
Clayey borders, to improve, 182 ' 
Clematis lanuginosa culture, 73; 
viticclla venosa, 272 ; mou- j 
tana, 355 
Clianthus puniceus culture, 66 
Climber for a north-east wall, 355 
Climbers for covering a fence, 
366 ; for a greenhouse, 386 
Coal, consumption of, 355 
Cocks’ eggs, 133, 341 
Collingham Poultry Show, 02 
Colour, pure in poultry, 119, 247 
Columbine culture, 287 
Comb, white, 75 
Commelinaceclestis flowering, 314 
Conifers, six new, 166 
Conservatory, heating a small, 
166; on a north aspect, 291; 
climbers in raised borders, 3oU 
Consumption in fowls. 326 
Contrasts in bedding, 296 
Convolvulus moths, 274 
Cordyline inuivisa, 318 
Cotoneaster buxifolia, 272 
Cottagers, a chapter for, 259, 381 
Covent Garden Market, 155 
Covering as an aid to heating, 
285 
Cow and cow-house, 394 
Cramp in chickens, 405 
Crassula lactea and culture, 309 
Crescentia cujete, 351 
Crossbill, the, 99 
Cross-bneding fowls, 119, 2.7 ; 
laws of, 137 
Cross scents, 361 
Cryptomeria Japonica, removing, 
20 
Crystal Palace in September 1 ; 
Boot Show, 215; Poultry Show, 
45, 75, 232, 292, 307, 325, 3Mi; 
sales, 360 ; mismanagement, | 
857 ; and Mr. Horry, 372; 
Bird Show, 74, 120, 135 
Cubic petre as a manure, 178 
Cucumber leaves turning yellow, 
88 ; Carter’s Champion, 199 
Cucumbers, list of, 166 ; growing 
in a flue-heated house, 174 ; for 
ornament and use, 253; de¬ 
formed, 270 ; in a stove, 339 
Cupressus macrocapa pruning, 
316 
Currant trade, 245 
Curtis, Mr. S., memoir of, 335 
