VI 
INDEX 
Cuttings, general directions for, 
35; in sand and water, 39 ; 
striking, 69; pots for, 148 ; 
proper temperature for, 345 
Cyanophyllum magnificum, 141; 
211, 231 
Cyclamen sowing and culture, 16 
Cyclamens, 12; in winter, 113 
Cytisus tomentosus, 317; Adami, 
how produced, 400 
“Dairy Husbandry, Handbook 
of,” 368 
Daisies on a lawn, removing, 157; 
and their culture, 197 
Dandelion, a substitute for Let¬ 
tuces, 381 
Darlington Poultry Show, 169, 
185 
Datura Wightii culture. 59; chlo- 
rantha, 318 
Daviesia umbellata, 318 
Deal timber, trees producing, 27 
Delphinium Chinensis eeeruleum 
and rubrum, 382 
Dendromecon rigidum, 272 
Deutzia gracilis pruning, 221, 261 
Devizes Poultry Show, 152, 246 
Dianthus Heddewigii seedlings, 
315; Verschaffeltii and Veitchii, 
382 
“ Diary of Dairy, &c.,” 248 
Didsbury Lodge, 320 
Didymocarpus primultefolia, 240 
Dieffenbachia maculata, 211 
Dielytra seeds. 356 
Diosma from seed, 314 
Dipteracanthus affine, 141; Herb- 
stii, 166 
Dissotis Irvingif.na, 131 
Dolichos lignosus, 317 
Dorkings dying suddenly, 62 ; as 
table fowls, 217 
Dove, Collared Turtle, 90 . 
Dreg as a manure, 381 
Duchess of Orleans Pear, 8 
Ducklings, rearing, 326 
Ducks, points in Rouen, 62; 
hatching under hens, 280 
Dundee, plants hardy at, 165 
Edging round a carriage- 
drive, 252 
Egg-bound pullets, 405 
Eggs—supply of, 120 ; double, 
152; hens best producers of, 
186; detection of sex in, 218, 
246,264,294,341 ; in winter,232, 
326 ; scarcity of, 246 ; to have 
in winter, 248; making hens 
lay, 264; sending to West 
280; large produce of, 310; 
for sitting, 374; colour of 
Spanish, 387 ; for winter use, 
388 ; box for carrying, 390 ; 
small and yolkless, 405 
Elichrysum speciosissimum. 317 
Embothrium coccineum, 273 
Entomological Society’s Meeting, 
42, 83, 165, 214, 240, 384 
EDacrises dropping their flow ers, 
222 
Erica Wilmoriana culture, 262 
Erythrina cristagalli culluie, 66 
Esculent, anew, 213 
Eucharis Amazonica culture, 355 
Eugenia Ugni, derivation of 
names, 323 
Everlasting layers, 387, 3S8 
Evelyna caravata, 7 2 
Evergreens, removing large, 66 ; 
bed of flowering, 98 
Exhibiting birds not the ex¬ 
hibitor’s own, 243, 359 
Eyles, Mr. G., dinner to, 181 
FAGR^KA MORINDI.5EFOLIA AND 
PEKEGBINA, 141 
Farfugium grande, 108,109 
Farming in England, first trea¬ 
tise on, 52 
Fattening poultry, 119 
Feeding poultry, 280 
Fence, management of, 260 
Ferns, notes on, 243, 287 
Fig tree, pruning, 25; culture, 
140 
Flower-bed arrangement, 380 
Flowering, plants not, 66 ; shrubs 
for a small garden, 88 
Flower-pots, size of, 323 ; paint- I 
ing, 372 
Flowers, old-fashioned, 287 
Flue heating defectively, 317 
Foot-rot in fowls, 13 
Fountain, drinking, for pleasure- 
grounds, 288 
Fourcroya flavo-viridis, 334 
Fowl, treatment of a declining, 
373 
Fowls in confined space, 294 
Flames protecting with leaves, 
177 
Fremontia Californica, 273 
Frosted Grapes and plants, 63, 
73 
Frosts at Bromley, 333 
Fruit—culture in India, 166; 
trees for chalky soil and for 
shaded border, 166 ; trees, sea¬ 
son for planting, 191; trees, 
treatment of, in February, 303 ; 
trees for Lancashire, 372 ; 
trees in pots, 379 ; trees for 
cottagers, 381 
Fiuit-room at Bowood, 399 
Fruit-rooms, 333 
“ Fruit Garden, The Miniature,” 
403 
Fuchsia simplicicaulis, 318 
Fuchsias, at St. Leonard’s Hill, 1 
127 ; collection of, 140 
Game Fowls— pullets ear-lobes, 
14; saddle of, 28; Duckwing, 
29, 74; colour of, 29, 201; cock, j 
plumage of Duckwinged, 60, 
62; purity of colour in, 60; 
Duckwinged, 74, 105; Indian, 
89; Black-breasted Red, 168; 
cockerel, overfeeding a, 170 ; 
weakly, 170 ; for show, 264 
Gapes, 152, 185 
Gardener, what can be done by a ? 
383 
“ Gardener’s Vade Mecum,” 299 
Gardenia, culture, 117, 145; ci- 
triodora and Plantii, \41; 
| Thunbergii, 317 
Gardening (in-door), for the 
week, 1, 15, 31. 47, 63, 77, 91, | 
107, 121, 137, 153, 171, 187, 203, ! 
219, 235, 249, 265, 281, 295, 311, | 
327, 343, 361, 375, 39l ; at the j 
North Pole, 225 ; Science of, 7, 
40, 81, 111, 194, 226, 252, 301, i 
334, 370, 400 
Gas—heated boiler, 118 ; heating 
a greenhouse by, 182; heating 
a small boiler by, 210; lighted 
room, plants in, 404 ; tar inside 
a pit, 355 
Gastrolobium Drummondi.Leeki- 1 
anum, and spectabile, 353 
Gazania splendens. 353 
Geese, feeding for exhibition, 
202 
Gentianella, soil for, 157 
Gentianellas not blooming, 111 
Geranium cuttings, 267 
Geraniums—scarlet, for winter ! 
blooming, 5 ; for bedding, 33; , 
vary in hardiness, 47 ; classifi¬ 
cation of, 48 ; wintering, 49 ; 
grafting, 78; frosted, 78, 88 ; j 
proliferous, 97 ; variegated for j 
bedding, 104; cutting down } 
drawn, 111 ; lifted Scarlets, i 
113; at St. Leonard’s Hill, 127 ; ! 
frozen in October, 128 ; Scarlet, j 
forcing,222; grafting, 281 ; pot- j 
ting in spring, 363; Harry 
Moore’s mode of growing, 366 ; I 
for early forcing, 377 ; where 
hybridised, 404 
Germination, heat for, 399 
Gesnera elongata culture, 316 
Gesneras, list of, 355 
Gladioli, bedding, 203 
Gladioluses, classification and cul¬ 
ture, 235 
Glasgow Pigeon & Canary Show, 
88, 133 
Glasgow Poultry Show, 185 
Glass for greenhouse, &c., 182 
Glazing, objections to close, 270 
Gloxinia — Kercii, 141; ccerulea 
variegata, Madonna,scholastics, 
Sebastiano, Spagnoletti, and 
striata maculata, 241 
Gloxinias, in a greenhouse, 163 ; 
list of, 355 
Gomphocarpus fruticosus culture, 
307 
Goniophlebium undulatum, 141 
Gonotanthus cupreus, 241 
Gooseberries, Champagne, 27 
Gourds for ornament and use, 
253 
Grafting, phenomena, 226 ; fruit 
trees, 302 ; late in spring, 349 
Grammatophyllumspecio-um,240 
Grape-bunches becoming ten¬ 
drils, 404 
Grapes, out-door, 32; without 
bloom, 73; Lady Bowne’s and 
Foster’s White, 94; Lady 
Downe’s and Foster’s Seedling, 
145 
Grass-like plants, bed of, 54 
Greathead, Bishop, 52 
Greenfinch, 258 
Greenhouse — back wall, plants 
for, 25; heating, &c., a small, 
91 ; and its amateur manager, 
139; keeping it gay early in the 
year, 182; a miniature, 183; 
turning a washhouse into one, 
257 ; converting part into a 
stove, 238; stocking, 238 ; 
heating by hot air. 301; heat¬ 
ing- a very small, 256, 284, 304 ; 
plants, new, 318 ; small, heat¬ 
ing by a stove, 320; between 
wings of a house, 371 ; building 
a small, 346; keeping warm, 
348; ventilating, 348 ; shading, 
353 ; plants, new or rare, 353; 
stove in a, 386 
Greenhouses, during misty wea¬ 
ther, 113; tenant’s right to 
remove, 323 
Grevillea Drummondi and ele- 
gans, 353, 354 
Growth of plants, daily periods 
of, 302 
Grubs, underground, 27 ; attack¬ 
ing greenhouse roots, 387 
Guinea fowls, 264, 390 
Gutien ezia gymnospermo’des, 
166 
Gymnopteris quercifolia, 142 
Horticultural exhibitions, use of, 
126 
Horticultural Society of London, 
153; fruit committee, 257 ; 
election of Royal family, 285 ; 
new arrangements, 295 
Hotbed, floating light in, 59 
Hotbeds for seedlings, 330 
Hothouses for the million, 305 
Hot water, downward circulation 
of, 270 
Ilovea Celsii culture, 268 
Hoy a Cuiningiana, 131; grandi- 
flora,141 
Hyacinth, Prince of Wales, 81 
Hyacinths failing in water glasses, 
287 ; exhibition of, 375; lists 
of, 376 
Hybrid cage birds, 186 
Hydrangea, pruning variegated, 
143 
Hydrangeas, large, in small pots, 
72 ; potting, 356 
Hymenodiuin crinitum and cul¬ 
ture, 142 
ICE-HOU8ES AND ICE-HEAPS, CON- 
structing, 206 
Imatophyllum cyrtantliiflorum, 
354 
India, gardening books for, 43 
Indian-lubber plant, 387 
Infusoria, 70 
Insects, marine, 279 
Ipomoea quamoclit and rubro- 
ccerulea, 314 
Ivy, covering a wall with, 261, 
304 ; as a screen and fence, 305 
Ixora acuminata, affine, andAni- 
uoinensis, 141 
Jacaranda tomentosa and cul¬ 
ture, 369 
Kidney Bean culture, 34 
Killarney Fern culture, 198 
Kitchen garden cropping, 34 
Hamburgh, Silver-spangled 
cock’s tail, 14 ; comb of Golden- 
pencilled, 75; cocks entirely 
spangled, 76; pullets, age of 
laying, 170; cock, points in, 
296 
Hamburglis, hackle of Silver- 
pencilled, 45 ; hackle of Silver- 
spangled, 62 ; breeding Black, 
202; Mr. Archer’s Silver pen¬ 
cilled, 218 
Hardy shrubs, new or rare, 272 
Hares and Rabbits barking trees, 
to prevent, 245 
Harmony in bedding-out, 297 
Hawfinch, 178 
Hawthorn, derivation of, 59; 
berries, sowing, 182 
Heath-bank House, 93 
Heat, too much at top and too 
little below, 339 
Heating by coal, v. gas, 11; a 
combination of houses, 68, 286 ; 
versus covering, 219; a series 
of houses, 298 ; by hot water, 
defects in, 304 ; failure in, 324 
Heliotropes, moving, 44; re¬ 
potting, 356 
Hen, sitting, fasting, 390; eating 
her eggs, 390, 405 
Henbane seed, conjuring with, 
361 
Hepatica culture, 198 
Herbaceous plants, hardy flower¬ 
ing, 6. 20, 41, 51, 95, 118, 197, 
223, 284, 382 
Herbaria, sale of, 82 
Heterocentrum Mexicanum, 334 
Hibiscus mosclientus and culture. 
142 
Hives, bar, 360 ; shelter for 360 
Holcus saccharatus culture, 87, 
215, 398 
Hollyhocks for garden decoration 
130 ; for a bed, 404 
Honey, harvest, the usual, 30; 
store for winter, 30; from Ivy, 
75 ; season at Woodstock, 120; 
pure, in old combs, 280 
Horticultural Society’s Garden at 
Kensington Gore, 115 
Laburnum, purple, how pro¬ 
duced, 400 
Labels for trees, 241 
Lsclia xanthina, 72 
Lamport Hall, 84 
Lapageria rosea culture, 11, 59 
Lawn, tree for middle of, 11; 
making, 59; treatment of 
Daisied, 93 
“ Lawson’sGardeners’Kalendar,” 
261 
Layers, everlasting, 359 
Laying, pullets not, 280 
Leaves, glaze of, 11; absorb mois¬ 
ture, *0; absorb carbonic acid 
and emit oxygen, 41; other 
emissions, 41 ; cause of their 
colours, 81 
Leucodendron argenteum, 317 
Leucospermunt tottum, 317 
Lews, vegetation in the island of, 
43 
Lilium giganteum culture, 210 
Lime water, 372 
Lime (weeping), branches dying, 
356 
Linton Park, 143, 160 
Liquid manures, various, 177 
Liquid-manure barrow, 292 
Liverpool Poultry Show, 118, 262 
Llavea cordifolia, 240 
Loam, sifting fibry, 386 
Lobelia speciosa cuttings, 316, 
324; ramosoides seeds, 356; 
speciosa sowing, 372 ; scarlet, 
in pots, 396 
Lomatia Bidwillii and elegant- 
issiina, 354 
Lucern culture, 155 
Luculia gratisfima culture, 182 
Lychnis Haageana and Sieboldii, 
382 
Lygodium polyetachyon, 141 
Macodes petala, 241 
Maladore Ranunculus, 316 
Malaria of the Indian jungles, 73 
Malva geranioides and culture, 
142 
Mandevilla suaveolens, 76, 314 
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