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INDEX. 
Stomates, 7 
“ Strawberry, culture of,” 338 
Strawberries, exhibiting forced, 
98 
Styphelia tubiflora and culture, 
370 
Superphosphate of lime, 178 
Surface stirring, its importance,G7 
Sutherlandia 1 'rutescens, 318 
Swindlers, poultry, 340 
Sydney Poultry Club, 280 
Tasmanian Poultry Show, 234 
Tecoma velutina culture, 402 
Temperature, high, endured by 
plants, 8 ; sudden change of, 
214 
Temperatures, day and night, for 
plants, 252; variation of day 
and night, 301 
Thalictrum anemonoides flore- 
pleno, 383 
Thrips, to destroy, 88 
Thunbergia Harrisii culture, 2G8 
Tomtits, destroying bees, 326; 
to keep from hives, 342 
Torenia hirsuta, 334 
Transpiration of plants, 7 
“Tratyse of Husbandry,” 52 
Tredegar Poultry Show, 183 
Trees, ornamental, 279 
Trichiocarpa Moorii and culture, 
243 
Trichomanes radicans culture, 
198 
Tritoma uvaria culture, 73, 107 ; 
seed, 165; from seed, 187 ; 
sowing, 245, 267 ; varieties, 383 
Tritoniaaurea culture, 73, 93,109 
Tropseolum, Jarrattii, T. tricolor 
grandifiorum, 104 ; elegans, 355 
, Tropical-looking garden, 347 
| Tulips, early, 377 
Tumbler Pigeons, points in, 233 
Turkeys, food for, 186 
Two acres, how to farm and make 
the most of, 3, 18, 34, 50, 79, 
119, 123, 155, 251, 354, 378, 394 
Tydma elegantissima, ignescens, 
Lady Digby, and Lady C. Iver- 
rison, 241 
Ulverston Poultry Show, 357 
Van Mons Leon Le Clerc Pear, 
9 
Variegated-leaved plants, list of 
twelve, 211 
Varieties of fowls, mixing, 105 
Vases for window gardening, 
386 
Vauxhall Nursery, 391 
Ventilating, 64 
Ventilation, top, 302 
Verbena, mauve - coloured, 54 ; 
mildew, 98 
Verbenas, list of, 73 ; wintering, 
118; crimson, 291 ; red spider 
i on, 324 ; habit of some, 324 
Verm’ned garden, 132 
Vetch, white, 175 
Vine beetle, 339 
Vine—protecting with glass, G5 ; 
planting for forcing, 88 ; border, 
heating, 98; borders, putting 
fermenting materials on, 175; 
pruning, 182; culture in pots, 
191; borders, soil for, 339 
Vinery-border, planting, 386 
Vines, and bedding plants, 97; 
unproductive in a greenhouse, 
treatment, 124; with stove 
plants, 127; small boxes for, 
148; planting in a conserva¬ 
tory, 216 ; applying cow-house 
drainage to, 245; from unripe 
eyes, 254; thinning the 
bunches, 279 ; inarching, 348; 
potted, in frames, 395 ; root 
grafting, 399 
Violets, Neapolitan, frosted 113 
Walks, destroying weeds on, 
87 
Wall, 8 ix-feet high for an orchard- 
house, 182 ; trees for Durham, 
44 
Walnut, budding the, 370 
Waltonian Case, and propagation, 
327 ; heating, 368, 383, 403 
Warnings, 265 
Waterproofing calico for lights, 
245 
Water-Melon, hard-fleshed, 173 
Water impregnated with iron, i 
356 
Weather, severe, in Suffolk, 270 ; j 
at Frome, 279 
Weed, seed and ant-killer for 
gravel walks, 242 
Wellingtonia gigantca, rapid 
growth of, 194 
Weston - super - Mare Poultry I 
Show, 27, 45 
Wheat in England, 96 
Wines of Woodstock, 230, 271 
Winter Nelis Pear, 318 
Wintering bedding plants, 47, ! 
77 
Wiring fruit-tree walls, 43 
Wood Leopold Moth, 289 
Wood, preserving, 286 ; ripening, 
its importance, 301 
Woodlice, destroying, 404 
Woods, management of, 125 
Woodstock Poultry Show, 29 
Worcester Poultry Show, 44, 59 
Xanthosma violacea, 319 
Year, The Old and New', 200 
Y r ork Poultry Show, 184 
“ Young Lady’s Book,” 97 
Yuccas, w r ild,'351 
Zeuzera .esculi, 289 
Zinc pipes, 304 
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WOODCUTS 
Pear—Duchess of Oilcans .. 
Page. 
Pear—Van Mons Leon Le Clerc 
Stoekwood Park Garden.... 
Pear—Nouveau Poiteau . 
22 23 
Sponges . 
Lamport Hall, Section . 
The Crossbill. 
Sewage Filters . 
Linton Park Garden, Section 
j. .i ,, Plans . 
The Hawfinch . 
Peach-root, diseased. 
Orchard-house Rafters 
Grafts and Stocks. ios 
Gas-heated Boiler . 
Grafting, unions of woods in 
Page.. 
Mushroom, monstrous . 227 
Fire-destroyer of Weeds . 242 
Circular Rose-bed .243. 
The Bullfinch...I!!."!!!”"”"!""!!!”!”!" 273 
Drinking Fountain . [\ . . . 289 
Wood Leopard Moth and Larva. 289 
Ventilators................ 302, 303 
Pear—Winter Nelis . 313 
Didsbury Lodge, Section and Garden .’ . . 321 
Vine Ringing ...334 
Pear—Flemish Beauty . 353 
Budding. ...-’""’"I"!!!”!!!!!!!"""” 371 
Flower-bed, wheel form. 330 
Holeus Saccliuratus. ' 398 
Vine Grafting . 399. i 
Tiffany Shelters .—".’ 401 I 
