I 
j 
Abies Cephalonica with 
cones, 143 
Abietime, list of hardy, 327 
Acacias, greenhouse, their treat¬ 
ment, 327 
Adhatoda cydoniaefolia, 256 
Advertising, when advantageous, 
181 
TEcidium violas, 309 
TEgilops squarrosa, 407 
Agave striata, 132 
Ageratum conyzoides not flower¬ 
ing, 134 
Agricultural Society’s Show,imple¬ 
ments at, 150 
Air, giving in winter, 352 ; mis¬ 
takes in excluding, 395 
Allamanda violacea, 74 
Aloes, wintering, 134 
Aloysia citriodora out of doors, 
7= 
Alyssum, variegated, propagating, 
447 
American Apples, 111 
American garden, edging for, 226 
Anemonese, their properties, 18 
Anerley Show Prizes, 70 ; not paid, 
103, 122, 139, 194, 212 
Angelonia augustifolia, 399 
Annuals, for ribbon planting, 100 ; 
for beds, 182 ; hotbed for, 295 ; 
for massing, 418; for a veran¬ 
dah, 448 ; list of, for borders, 
448 
Ansellia Africana, 342 
Ants, driving from lawns, 369 
Apis—a Tragedy, 243 
Apple, cuttings, to strike, 59 ; 
Barchard’s Seedling, 106; pro¬ 
pagation, stocks, &c., 251 
April, Notes for, 441 
Aquarium making, 31 
Aquariums, 226 
Araucaria, Braziliensis, wintering, 
48 ; moving a large, 119, 260 
Argyreia hirsuta, 64 
! Asclepias tuberosa culture, 295 
Asparagus, seedling, 67 ; planting, 
362 
Astilbe rubra, 256 
Auriculas, wintering, 221 
Australia, what seeds and plants 
to send to, 306 
Aylesbury Ducks, early, 266 
Azaleas, diseased, 370 ; frame for 
training, 426 
Back walls of houses, ma¬ 
king useful, 111 
Balsam seed, 99 
Bantams, points in black, 104; 
origin of Sebright, 121, 157; 
a plea for, 403 ; cross breed of, 
436; to raise Black-breasted 
Red, 452 
Bark bed, consolidating, 396 
Barleys, weight of different, 178 
Baron Hugel Geranium, crosses 
from, 55 
Barrow, liquid-manure, 62 
Bartonia aurea culture, 182 
Basket, Sussex truck, 62 
Bay trees in-doors, 160 
Beak broken will grow again, 420 
Beaumontia grandiflora, 396 
Bedding plants, propagating in 
autumn, 30 
Bees, uniting, 31 ; in Scotland this 
year, 46, 200 ; putting glasses on 
hives, 47 ; swarming without a 
queen, 80 ; feeding, 81; uniting 
swarms, 84; stupefying with 
chloroform, 95 ; Taylor’s hive, 
96 ; dying, leaving honey, 99 , 
359; cause of swarming, 221; 
fed on treacly sugar, 277 ; dan¬ 
ger of driving in summer, 278; 
fumigating, 311 ; transferring, 
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311; when are they hatched? 1 
383; dysentery in, 399; collect¬ 
ing pollen, 417; burying in 
winter, 434 
Beet sowing, 305, 441 
Begonia microptera, 417 
Belladonna Lily, planting late, 312 
Belle Agathe Cherry, 3 
Berberis parviflora, 277 ; Asiatica 
as a hedge plant, 294 , 369 
Berries not poisonous, 119 
Birds’ eggs, inquiry for a book on, 
300 
Birmingham Poultry Show Prize 
List, 50; Show, 86, 103, 192; 
hints to its Council, 155; re¬ 
port of the, 173 ; statistics of, 
194 
Biscuits, recipes for making, 104 
Blackbirds, rearing young, 436 
Blue flowers for bedding, 432, 446 j 
Boiler, Thompson’s corrugated, 36 
Boiler and piping for a small 
house, 66 
Boilers, cost of, 120 
Bonne de Malines Pear, 318 
Border, plants for narrow, 64 
Brahma Pootras, 32, 34 ; as 
layers, 387 ; plumage of, 452 
Brakes, their uses, 318 
Bravoa geminiflora sowing, 67 
Brewing, rules for, 341 
Bridgnorth Poultry Show, 33, 51 
Brigg and Lindsey Poultry Show, 
263 
Broccoli, planting, 25, 77; pre¬ 
serving in winter, 75; Granger’s, 
77 ; sowing, 441 
Broccolis, past and present, 390; 
succession of, 391 ; which have 
endured the winter, 425 
Broditea Californica, 151 
Brompton Stocks, liquid manure 
for, 370 
Brunsvigia Josephinae seeding, 226 
Brussels Sprout seed, English, 320 
Buenos Ayrean Duck’s petition, 
405 
Bulbs to flower at Christmas, 134 
Cabbage, and its culture,7 
Cacti, various, 117; wintering, 134 
Calathea villosa, var. pardina, 417 
Calceolaria, cuttings, 21 ; eri- 
coides, 27 ; amplexicaulis for 
bedding, 432 
Calceolarias, shrubby, at Dalkeith, 
35 ; in winter, 90 ; cuttings of, 
91 
Californian Conifers, 114 
Calves’ head hash, 230 
Camassia esculenta sowing, 67 
Camellia, memorial of an un¬ 
fortunate, 302, 374 ; reticulata, 
the double, 320; forcing, 321; 
not blooming, 344; Saccoi 
Nova,392 ; hexangular-flowered, 
392; imported, its treatment, 
396 , 446 ; soil for, 402 
Camellias, in bloom, treatment of, 
221 ; treatment of diseased and 
scaly, 239, 370 
Canada, emigrating to, 384 
Canaries, Belgian, 406 ; character¬ 
istics of superior, 419; their 
points, 435 
Cannon Hall Muscat Grape, to set 
its fruit, 12 
Capsicum culture, 354 
Carnations, transplanting, 48 ; 
wintering, 221 ; Tree, buds not 
opening, 295; how raised, 321 
Carrot, seed, growing, 208 ; sow¬ 
ing, 305 ; culture and cookery, 
364; stew, soup, pudding, en- 
tremet, fritters, cake, and mar¬ 
malade, 365 
Carrots, wintering, 77 
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Carter’s Catalogue, 256 
Cassia corvmbosa culture, 75 
Castanea chrysophylla, 206 
“ Cat, The,” 342 
Cats, excluding, 295 
Cauliflower culture, 322 
Celery, its culture, 23 ; protecting 
in winter, 76 ; culture in an un¬ 
favourable situation, 219 
Cerastium l'ormosum, 29 ; tomen- 
tosum as an edging, 208; to- 
mentosum forcing, 279 ; its 
merits, 236 
Ceratonia siliqua, 294 
Cesspool contents as a manure, 280 
Charcoal, making in small quan¬ 
tities, 443 
Charring, how to manage, 130, 131 
Chatsworth Gardens, 426 
Cherophyllum bulbosuni as a 
culinary plant, 224 
Cherry-tree fly, to destroy, 434 
Chestnut as a timber tree, 356 
Chicken falling on its side, 52 
Chickens, mortality among, 52; 
March preparations for, 420 
Chinese Primrose, changes in 
double, 240 ; culture, 442; pre¬ 
serving, 446 
Chiswick Gardens, head gardener 
for, 290 ; soil, analysis of, 364 
Chloroform for stupefying Bees, 
255 
Chrysanthemum, stopping,' 13; 
planted out, 13 ; cuttings, 441 
Chrysanthemums, list and culture 
of summer, 43; early Pompone, 
153; dark Pompone, 172; lists 
and merits of, 178; failure in 
Temple Gardens, 256 
Churchyard, trees for a town, 293 
Churn, Anthony’s, 150 
Cinders as drainage, 135 
Cineraria, leaves curling, 100; pro¬ 
pagation, 368 
Citrouille culture, 383 
Clapton Nursery, 4, ~3 
Clematis vitalba and Mauritiana, 
their uses, 2 
Clematises, for an east wall, 119; 
list of, for conservatory, 127 
Clergyman’s right to remove a hot¬ 
house, 327 
Climbers, for cast wall, 99 ; for 
poles, 277 ; evergreen, for a 
wall, 417 
Coccocypselum repens, 393 
Cochin China, chickens of present 
and former years, 69 ; cock, 
marks on, 194; cock (Partridge), 
characteristics, 346, 434; cock, 
class at Liverpool, 403 
Cochin-Chinas, their present state, 
158 
Cock, improved, 63 
Cock’s comb turning purple, 248 
Codonopsis rotundifolia, 64 
Coke fumes injurious to plants, 
448 
Coleus Blumei decaying, 227 
Collinsia bicolor alba, 189 
Concrete walks, 433 
Conifer, moving a large, 403 
Conifers, various, 320 
Conservatory border, hardy her¬ 
baceous plants and climbers for, 
190 ; winter management of a 
small, 270 ; heating from a 
kitchen boiler, 276 
Cordyline indivisa, 162 
Cow-keeping, amateur, 98, 151 
Cowslip vinegar, 444 
Cranberries, American, how to 
exhibit, 142 
Crested fowls, skulls of, 253 
Cr&ve Cceur fowls, 176 , 388 
Crewe Poultry Show, 331, 344 
Crocuses, soil overgrown with, 327 
Crystal Palace, Gardens criticised, 
21, 42; Poultry Show, 137, 140, 
246, 265, 268 , 280, 283, 296 ; 
state of its plants after frost, 
269 
Cuckoo Fowls, 266 
Cucumber house, 67 
Cucumbers, their failures and 
diseases, 144; failures in a 
house, 153; culture in winter, 
273; in pots, 280 ; under 
canvass or oiled paper, 367 ; 
forcing, mistakes in, 395 
Currant-tree pruning, 124 
Custard making, 230 
Cuttings V. Grafts, 29 
Cuttings, of Verbenas, &c., 244 ; 
in spring, 335 ; mistakes in 
striking, 395 
Cyclamens, 392 
Cydonia Japonicanot blooming, 30 
Cypripedium Lowei, 169 
Cystopus candidus, 308 
Cytisus Attleana culture, 321 
Dahlia,roots of, to preserve, 
221 ; white Zelinda, for bedding, 
353 ; its culture, 411, 424; list 
of varieties, 440 ; propagating, 
441; distinguishing their roots, 
447 
Dahlias, bedding, 29 ; for borders 
and beds, 55 ; to have early, 56 ; 
dwarf, 56; Crystal Palace, 56, 64 
Dalkeith Palace Gardens, 35 • 
Dammara Brownii, 162 
Damping off, to prevent, 439 
Daphnes, moving, 120 
December, notes for, 130 
Delphinium formosum, 29 , 84 ; 
Heridersonii as a bedder, 29 ; 
formosum for bedding, 432 
Dendrobium Falconeri, 64 ; hete- 
rocarpum, var, Henshallii, 416 
Dennis’s Alma Geranium as a 
bedder, 21 
Deserving man who needs help, 28 
Dew, causes of, 260 
Diary of the Dairy, Piggery, and 
Poultry-yard, 104, 230 ; keeping 
a garden, 206 
Dielytra spectabilis cuttings, 311 
Dioscorea batatas grown success¬ 
fully, 143 
Dodecatheon media seedlings, 67 
Dog Rose as a stock, 279 
Dorkings, delicacy of, 52; their 
merits, 68 ; markings of Grey, 
122; antiquity of name, 420 
Draining, 130 
■ Drainage from stable as a liquid 
manure, 280 
Dry-rot in buildings, 411 
Dublin Poultry Society Report, 
450 
Ducklings, rearing early, 388 
Ducks, productive eggs when se¬ 
parated from the Drake, 52 ; is 
water essential for? 212 ; best 
for laying, 388 ; Black East 
Indian, 449 ; paralysed, 452 
Echeveria ketusa culture, 
434 
Egg, harvest, 298 ; deformed, 316 j 
Eggs, in winter, 121 ; age of, for 
sitting, 137; preserving, 173; 
packing, 348; fowls dropping 
their, 348 ; weight of large, 452 
Elm bark beetle, its grubs, 228 
Encholirium Jonghi, 160 
Endive, preserving in winter, 76 
Entomological Society’s Meeting, 
71, 141, 214, 286, 351, 373 
Epacris coccinea management, 
191 
Eranthemum leuconervum, 304 
Erica gracilis management, 191 
