INDEX 
Manetti, a ■word for the, 313; 
stocks, 352 
Manettia cordifolia and culture, 
244 
Mangold Wurtzel for fowls, 387 
Manures, comparative cost of, 
141; in a small compass, 177 ; 
for window-gardening, 332 
Maranta Torteana and regalis, 
211; fasciata, Porteana, and. 
pulchella, 241 
Marigold, dwarf, as a substitute 
for the Calceolaria, 39G; French 
as a bedder, 398 
Marigolds, French, 319 
Mauve-coloured flowers, 324 
Measures of land, ancient, 53 
Melbourne, Botanical Gardens 
at, 261 
Meyenia erecta alba, 354 
Millet culture, 279 
Mimulus, culture, 256 ; soil for 
the, 316 
Minorca fowls, 374 
Mistletoe propagating, 340 
Moisture, atmospheric, in glass¬ 
houses, 192 
Momordica mixta, 72 
Monochaetum ensiferum culture, 
300 
Moss, ou young trees, 217 ; on 
fruit trees, 292 
Moths, date of capture, 95; to 
kill for specimens, 386 
Moulting, tardy, 75 
Mowing machine, repairing, 339 
Musa Cavendisliii culture, 225, 
335 
Mushroom, culture, 37, 364, 396; 
monstrous, 227 ; bed making, 
i 339 
Mushrooms and railway travel¬ 
ling, 25 
Musk plant in pots, 396 
Mutisia ilicifolia and culture, 369 
Myosotidium nobile, 354 
Myrtles, out of doors in Scotland, 
242 ; broad-leaved, not flower¬ 
ing, 346 
Nantwich Poultry Show, 294, 
309 
Narthex assafeetida, 384 
Nectarine culture in pots, 213 
Nectarines shrivelling, 323 
Nemophila insignis for edging, 
372 
N eottopteris Australasica an d cul - 
ture, 287 
Nests, moveable, 280; influence 
of warm, 326 
Nicaragua, notes on, 351 
Nierembergia, fi licaulis remo vin g, 
26 ; gracilis, 148 
Night exposure, importance of, 
219 
Northamptonshire Poultry Show, 
12 
Nouveau Poiteau Pear, 39 
Nuttall, death of Dr., 7 ; Mr. T., 
memoir of, 349 
Oat, History of the, 215 
j Oats, ground, for fowls, 248 
October in the country, 42 
CEnothera macrocarpa culture, 9 
Oil cake for fowls, 406 
Olden time, some events in the, 27 7 
Olea ilicifolia, 273 
Oleander culture, 73 
Onion culture, 34 
Onions, large, 140 
Onoclea sensibilis, 217 
Orange trees in Ayrshire, 54 
Orchard-house, evergreens for 5 ; 
of an amateur, 159 ; trees, 277 
“Orchard-house, The,” 97, 403 
Orchard - houses, their proper 
construction and value, 189, 
192, 208, 226 
Orchard, unhealthy, 148 
Orchids, resting, 112 
Osage Orange hedge, 194 
Oughtibridge Poultry Show, 45 
“ Our Farm Crops,” 96 
Oxalis Bowiei, as a bedder, 82 ; 
time of blooming, 111 
Oxlip, 300 
PEONIES, HERBACEOUS, PLANTING 
and list of, 11 
Pampas Grass, seeds of, 11 ; cul¬ 
ture, 83, 87, 99, 143; gigantic, 
254 
i Pandanus Javanicus variegata, 
211 
Pansy, yellow for bedding, 348 
Paralysed legs in fowls, 76 
Parsnip culture, 34 
Passiflora princeps, pruning, 6; 
ccerulea culture, 66, 132 ; Buo- 
napartea culture, 182 
Passion-flower for conservatory, 
38 
Patchouli, 291 
Paxton’s (Sir J.), glass-houses, 
371 
Pea culture, 18 ; Knight’s Per¬ 
fection, 339 
Peach,trees protecting with glass, 
25; planting for forcing, 88; 
culture in pots, 213 ; trees fail¬ 
ing for want of drainage, 179; 
budding, 404 
“ Peach and Nectarine, the cul¬ 
ture of;” 58 
Peaches and Nectarines, pruning 
recently planted, 148; influence 
of aspect on in North of Ire¬ 
land, 275, 317 
Pear, Flemish Beauty, 353 
Pears adapted to Great Britain, 
9, 24, 39, 55, 71, 86, 116, 129, 
145, 163, 179, 196, 211, 227; for 
a clay soil, 40 ; selections of, 
228; standard, for exposed 
situations, 340; for cottagers, 
382 ; for the north, 386 
Peaty soil to improve, 217 
Pelargonium cuttings in March, 
404 
Pelargoniums, in autumn, 5; list 
of old, 59; stopping and re¬ 
potting, 222 ; a few select, 307 
Pencil for labelling indelibly, 381 
Pentstemon centranthifolius, 72 ; 
Jaffrayanus, 382 
Perilla Nankinensis culture, 166 
sowing, 344 
Petunias, list of double, 231 
Phalsenopsis amabilis culture,115 
Pheasant crossed with Bantam, 
89, 170 
Pheasants confined, 390 
Philoperisteron Society, 248 
Phlomis leonurus, 318* 
Physicking fowls, 28 
Picturesque arrangement of 
plantations, 239 
Pigeon, Bald-headed Tumbler, 
points in, 374 
Pigeons, straying, 76; charac¬ 
teristics of beards and bald- 
heads, 264; what is meant by 
a pair of, 342 
Pimelea elegans, 354 
Pine growing, 227 
Pines in a small house, 395 
Pit, heating a very small, 55 ; 
heating from a greenhouse fire, 
366; heating by dung, 367 ; 
forcing in a vinery, 398 
Plantation management, 125 
Planting arrangements for, 265 ; 
and transplanting trees, &c., 
267 
Pleasure-grounds, how to pro¬ 
ceed in arranging, 249 
Plocostemma lasianthum, 141 
Plumbago capensis and rosea 
culture, 66 
Plums adapted to Great Britain, 
243, 275,305, 322, 337, 385, 402; 
synopsis of, 243 ; for cottagers, 
382 
Podalyria sericea, 318 
Pogonia discolor, 241 
Pogostemon patchouli, 291 
Poinciana pulcherrima, 352 
Poinsettia pulcherrima, dwarf, 
155 
Points in fowls, to obtain, 104, 
105 
Polands, plumage of Spangled, 
89; plumage of Silver-spangled, 
105 ; ginger-spangled, 170 
Pollen, substitute for, 360; flour 
a substitute for, 405 
Polyanthus, Beaton’s “Good 
Gracious,” 300 
Polygala bracteata, 317 
' Pomological Society’s Meeting, 
26,69,117, 291 
Pompions, &c., their use, 112 
Porifera, 70 
Port Eliot, 208 
Port wine vintage of 1859, 255 
i Potato culture, 215; tubers, 
grafting, 386 
Potatoes, introduction of, 277 
Potherbs, drying, 8 
Pothos argyraea, 141, 211 
Pots, benefit of painting, 132 
Potting, principles of, 312 
Poultry management in autumn, 
12; Show clashes, 44; Shows 
benefits of, 27 ; progress dur¬ 
ing 1859, 201; season of 1859, 
232 ; weeding, 248 ; keeping for 
profit, 292; by railway, 310; 
keeping profitably, 324, 340, 
356, 387; in a confined space, 
326; diet for, 357 ; bestselling, 
360; wild, 351; houses, 406; 
Shows, making remunerative, 
404 
Preston Poultry Show, 232 
Prices in time of Charies II., 277 
Primroses (Chinese Double), and 
Polyanthuses’ culture, 137 
Primroses, double, 291 
Primula sinensis, in autumn, 5 ; 
seedlings diseased, 42 
Prizes and fees, low v. high, 185 
Propagating-house deficient in 
heat, 337 
Propagation in spring by seeds 
and cuttings, 343 , 
Protea speciosa rubra, 318 
Protecting without glass, 148; 
the blossom of wall fruit, 364 
Protection of vegetables from 
frost, 237; to blossom, remov¬ 
ing occasionally, 404 
Pruning season for, 10, 110 
Prunus triloba, 273 
Psoralea pinnata and spicata, 318 
Pteris argy'raea, 141 ; geraniifolii 
anu culture, 243 
Public gardens as teachers, 279 
Pullets, as hens, exhibiting, 136 
Pylogyne suavis, 319 
Pyramidal fruit trees, 387 
Pyrularia oltifera, 159 
Quamoclit coccinea, 314 
Rabbit, keeping, 388 
Rabbits, ulcerated foot in, 76; 
best age and food, 186; keeping 
profitably, 326, 359 
j Rainfall, &c., for five years at 
I.inton Park, 254 ; for twenty- 
five years at Chiswick, 262 
I Ranunculus and Verbena culture 
combined, 97 
Ranunculuses 100 years since, 
147; blooming in June, 148 
; Rape-cake as a manure, 177 
Raspberries, autumn-bearing, 98 
Red lead for protecting seeds, 176 
Rbizopoda, 70 
Rhododendron — Nuttallii, 130 ; 
Fortuni and limbatum, 273 ; 
Blumei, Nuttallii, Princess- 
Royal, Shepperdii, Smithii, tu- 
bie'floruni, Veitchianum, virga- 
tum, and Wilsoni, 354 ; culture, 
soil, and grouping, 379; culture 
and pruning, 3 u 
Pvhubarb wine, 271 
Rhyncosia volubilis, 141 
Ribbon, beds, 3; border, 118, 
262 ; planting, 307, 378 
Richardia albo-maculata, 72 ; and 
oculata, 354 
Ringing fruit trees, 334 
Ring of Pomona, 334 
Rock plants, list of, 232 
Rondeletia anomale culture, 307 
Roosting-places, 89 
Root-pruning, 19 ; Currants and 
Gooseberries, 148 
Root action, 311, 346 
Roots, storing, 80; decay of 
young in fruit trees, 347 ; dying 
annually, 362 
“ Rose Annual,” 145 
Rose, grafting, 165 ; beds, plant¬ 
ing their surface, 402; of 
Jericho, 404 
Roses—list of, 11. 74, 146; cir¬ 
cular bed of, 38; budded in 
winter, 73 ; removing newly- 
budded, 125; from grafts and 
Vll 
from cuttings, 171 ; root-prun¬ 
ing, 172; ribbon - border of, 
173; on their own roots, 231; 
treatment of budded, 257 ; on 
Manetti stocks, 283 ; trans¬ 
planting. 324; wars of the, 352 
Rotations in kitchen garden, 255 
Roup, 76; treatment of, 248; in 
the Turkey, 405 
Sabbatia campestris, 383 
Saffron culture in England, 68 
Sage as a medicine, 277 
Salading, culture of, 206 
Saltram, 87 
Samphire, culture of rock, 55 
Sap, of plants, 111; kinds, 112; 
motion of, to see, 339; its 
ascent and descent, 334; motion 
of, 372 ; motion of visible, 386 
Saucers, 277 
Sawdust for mulching, 73 
Saxifraga purpurescens, 382 
Scmvola microcarpa and culture, 
143 
Scale, to destroy, 88 
Schomburgkia Lyonsi, 384 
Screen, evergreen fence for, 305 
Sea-kale, culture in the open 
ground, 278; seedlings forcing, 
316 ; leaves for forcing, 324 
Seashore, what to look for on, 31, 
70 
Sea-water, preserving, 104 
Seeds, enduring boiling, 8 ; pro¬ 
tecting from birds, 117, 176; 
steeping in hot water, 316 ; 
proper temperature for 344 
Selaginella atro - viridis, Lobbii, 
and rubricaulis, 141 
Serin Finch, 368 
Sewage, house and town, ma¬ 
nagement of, 114, 128; house, 
178 ; house and town, 141, 158; 
analyses of, deodorising, and. 
applying, 158; use of, 307 
“ Sewers, reform of,” 338 
Sexes, poultry, separating, 89 
Shading greenhouses, 399 
Shanking in Grapes, 73 
Shell-Duck, rearing the young 
of, 373 
Shelters, tiffany', for plants and 
blossoms, 401 
Shicams, 213 
Siphocampylos, manettiaeflorus 
and culture, 142 ; amcenus and 
culture, 244 
Skimmia Japonica as a bedder, 
297 
Snowdrop culture, 333 
Soapsuds, 217 
Soil, culture of light, 35; im¬ 
proving a light, 166; lighten¬ 
ing a heavy, 245 
Solanum capjicastrum sowing, 
307,314 
Sorghum saccharatum culture, 
398 
Spanish, fowls, at the Crystal 
Palace Show, 13, 358 ; pro¬ 
moting white face of, 28; 
chickens and their ailments, 
104; cross with Cochin-China, 
105; pullet at the Crystal 
Palace Show, 132, 168; fowls, 
White, 152; feeding, 202 ; 
white face of, 233 
Spergula pilifera, 93, 99, 121, 126, 
156, 157 ; turned brown, 404 
Spirtea, Douglasii, 166 ; Fortunei, 
334 ; Nobleana, 384 
Sponges, 70 
Spongioles dying, 362 
Spraguea umbellata, 72 
Squills, list of, 111 
Stage for span-roofed house, 372 
Statice, Bourgieei, 166; Bondu- 
elli, 240; brassicoefolia, 334 ; 
armeria, pinifolia, and minuta, 
383 
Steel Bank Poultry Show, 152 
Stephanophysum Baikei, 241 
Stephanotis floribunda, seeding, 
27 ; culture, 324; blooming, 
366 
Steps for a garden terrace, 323 
Stercus ? what is, 339 
Stock, its influence in grafting, 
194 
Stockwood Park, 21; Vines at, 
114, 129, 143 
