VI 
INDEX. 
Erythrina cristagalli in the open 
air, 75 
Eschscholtzia, yellow, as an edg¬ 
ing, 447 
Essex Poultry Show, 247, 263 
Eucalyptus pulverulenta, 307 
Eucharis Amazonica, 161 ; gran- 
diflora, 416 
Eugenia Ugni, fruit of, 143; how’ 
to prune, 320 ; propagating, 403 
Eutassa excelsa, 379 
Evergreen underwood for planta¬ 
tions, 136, 208 
Evergreens, pruning, 441 
Exhibition tricks, 34 ; fowls, pity 
the sorrows of, 210 ; rules should 
be strictly adhered to, 229 
Eyes of fowls, swellings round, 3 16 
Fair Maids of France, 446 
Fareham Poultry Show, 331 
“ Feathers and foolery,” 420 
Feather Grass, 437 
February, notes for, 289 
Feeding poultry. 434 , 452 
Fern, gathering seed of, 317 5 
raised from old spores, 400 
Fernery, a cheap, 132; aquarium, 
205 ; constructing a, 324, 384 
Ferns, in a Cucumber house, 13 ; 
and Lycopods in a glass case, 
46 , 309 ; from seed, 108; list of 
rare, 109 ; treatment of newly - 
imported, 197 ; notes on stove, 
232; Smith’s classification, 233 
Fig trees, removing embryo fruit 
from, 37 ; general culture, 38 
Filbert pruning, 185 
Filberts, soil for, and planting, 
147 
Filtering rain water, 418 
I Firs, the, near Sheffield, 304 
i Fixby Hall climbers, 448 
Flies, getting rid of, 238 
Floor of poultry passage, 420 
Florists’ flowers, naming, 26,61, 
149, 201 ; raising varieties of, 
237 
Flower of the Day Pelargonium, 54 
Flue, small, under floor, 112 ; 
heating, 383 
Flying, preventing fowls, 229 
Fontainebleau, 362 
Forcing, the approaching season 
for, 3 ; in a new house, 31 ; house, 
notes on a span-roofed, 244; 
fruits early, 272 
Fortune, Mr., 286 
Fountains at Sydenham and Ver¬ 
sailles, 447 
Fowls’ dung, 68 
Fowls, for various localities, 404 ; 
for confined space, 436 
Frame too damp, 280 
French village gardens, 224 
Fruit trees, in pots, preparing for 
forcing, 4; at the Crystal Palace, 
9; growing for sale, 14; plung¬ 
ing, 97: painting, 151; tree 
pruning, 314 
Fruits in November, 142; com¬ 
bining their culture under glass, 
287 
Frozen plants, how to treat, 338 
Fuchsia serratifolia, to bloom, 12 ; 
reflexed, 12 ; spectabilis, large, 
19; treatment in autumn, 31; 
when introduced, 226 ; for a 
small bed, 432; pruning, 433 
Fuchsias, list of good, 55; the 
best for candle-light, 55 
Fumigator, self-acting, 63 
Furze seed sowing, 448 
Galipea macrophylla, 132 
Game fowls, points of excellence 
in, 315 ; their characteristics, 
370, 372. 405,419 ; breeding, 450 
Garden Labourers, in what class to 
exhibit, 67 
Garden to a low-sunlc house, 368 
Gardener, Notes from a small, 
426 
Gardening Notes from the Con¬ 
tinent—Hamburgh, 442 
Gardeners’ Benevolent Institution, 
23; Eb ction. 26 s ; Associations 
for relic!, &c. 307 
Gardeners, advice to under, 200 ; 
advice to young, 327 
Gardenia culture, 327 
Gas, heating by, 31, 183, 228; 
stove, new, 77 ; heating ap¬ 
paratus, a cheap, 96 
Geese, buff-coloured, 69 ; classi¬ 
fying, 69 ; rearing, 388 
Gentiana ciliata, 383 
Geometrical beds, early flowers 
for, 98 
Geranium diadematum, 77. 136; 
who has it ? 92 ; Reidii, for a 
small greenhouse, 426 
Geraniums, hybrid perpetual, 14; 
bedding, 29, 30; planted out, 
wintering, 47 ; wintering potted, 
47; propagating by their leaves, 
67, 438; at Clapton Nursery, 
73 ; under a greenhouse stage, 
90 ; cuttings of, 90 ; turning 
yellow, 190 ; growing large 
scarlet, 239 ; Nosegay and other, 
279 ; scarlet, management for 
winter blooming, 292 ; varie¬ 
gated, for bedding, 383 ; scarlet, 
for a small bed and pillar, 401 ; 
for bedding, 432 ; from roots,438 
Gesnera zebrina culture, 328 
Ginger beer, 230 
Gladioli for borders, 66 
Glass, for a stove, 151; merits and 
demerits of various, 241 ; for 
horticultural purposes, 342; 
breaking by freezing, 343 
Glastonbury Thorn, 238 
Gloucester Poultry Show, 156 
Glycerin soap, Price’s, 194 
Gold Fish, injured by insects, 48 ; 
their habits and ailments, 97, 
207 ; their management, 207 1 
globe, plants for, 172 
Gold and Silver-pencilled fowls, 
102 
Golden Polands, 372 
Gooseberry culture, 57, 91 ; prun¬ 
ing, 72 , 191 ; lists of, 92 , 99 
Gourd, gigantic, 39 ; soup, pud¬ 
ding, and entremet, 118; seeds 
roasted, 169 
Grapes, new, 2; two new, 26 ; 
Lady Down’s Seedling, 27 , 92 , 
113; Bovvood Muscat, Conichon 
Blanc, and Champion Hambro’, 
105; culture out of doors, 148, 
170 ; in February, 319; left on 
Vines, effect of, 426 
Grasses, ornamental, 343, 407, 
421 ; seeds for meadow, 344 
Grave, spring flowers for, 98 ; 
shrubs for, 99 
Greenhouse plants in January, 
221 ; stages, rising and falling, 
413 ; building, 430 
Greenhouses, management of their 
air in winter, 294; space under 
shelves, 295 ; economically kept 
in winter, 337 
Grouping trees and shrubs, 82 
Growth of plants in pure earths, 
380 
Gunnersbury Park, 425 
Gynerium argenteum and culture, 
421 
Habrotiiamnus elegans, 162 
Hamburgh cock. feathers of 
Spangled, 52 ; breast of Golden- 
spangled, 300, 348 
Hamburghs, points in Golden- 
pencilled, 15 ; in cock, 16 ; Lan¬ 
cashire Shows of, 103, 121 ; 
Golden-pencilled. 138; Golden- 
spangled for exhibition, 140; 
Spangled. 209 ; their merits, 
245. 330 ; Black, their merits, 
345 ; versus Cochins, 346 ; anti¬ 
quity of name, 420; their egg 
produce, 450 
Hants (South) Poultry Show, 314 
Heaths, culture of, 22 ; exotic, 
potting, 128; watering, 146; 
insects and diseases of, 164; 
propagation bv seeds and cut¬ 
tings, 165 ; summer manage¬ 
ment, 183; winter management, 
184; time for moving hardy, 
208; classifi d list of exotic, 
288; pruning, 293 
Hedge, an impenetrable live, 166 
Hellebon te, their properties, 18 
Hen, cackle of an old, 246 
Hen-, to induce sitting, 452 ; egg- 
eating, to cure 452 
Herncl uin giga iteum sowing, 280 
Hewitt. Mr., and hi«calumniators, 
3/0,384 4 18 452 
Hives, straw versus wooden, 119 ; 
Taylor’s, 132; protecting in 
winter, 133 ; bees dying in well- 
stored, 133; protecting, 206; 
collateral, 382; cutting en¬ 
trances into, objectionable, 415; 
one-comb observatory, 431 
Hoare’s system of Vine pruning, 
448 
Hoes, 63' 
Hogg’s edging tiles, 433 
Hollies, hastening their growth, 
237 
Holly hedge, managing a young, 
447 
Holy Thorn, 238 
Horse - flesh recommended in 
France, 416 
Horse-radish planting, 220 
Horticultural (London) Society’s 
plants, sale of, 10 ; Meeting, 141, 
319, 391 ; head gardener, 321 
Hotbed, exhausted, its uses, 401 
Hotbeds, temporary, 13 
Hothouses, when removable by a 
rector or his executors, 350 
Hot-water pip.es, new mode of 
fixing, 77 ; heating,and moisture 
giving, 90 ; apparatus for green¬ 
house, 444 
How Towdies, 86 ; definition of, 
140 
Hoya bella, grafting, 12; impe- 
rialis, 78; culture, 202; Pax- 
touii, 3(>7 ; grafted, 399 ; coro- 
naria, 4 16 
Humea elegans culture, 244 
Hurdle for folding, 62 
Hyacinth Show at Edinburgh, 428 
Hyacinths, list of early, 321 ; too 
short stemmed, 343 ; list of, 392, 
428 ; treatment after blooming 
in water, 402 
Hydrangea, leaves of, curling, 65 ; 
variegated, culture, 402 
Hygrometer, Simmons’s, 360 
Hypericum oblongifoiium, 26, 132 
Impatiens Jekdoni/e culture, 
403 
Imperial, to make, 176 
Implements at the Agricultural 
Society’s Show, 62 
Incumbent’s power to remove hot¬ 
houses he has erected, 350 
Inventions, new, 382 
Indian Corn, fattening quality of, 
52 ; as poultry food, 140 
Insects, female self-fertile, 214 
Ireland, itsWheatand Potatoes,25 
Iris juncea, a new vegetable, 117; 
reticulata, 415 
Island in a pond, planting, 311 
Ivy for edging, 366 
January, general notes for, 
220 
Jasmine, luxuriant, not blooming, 
433 
Jasminum grandiflorum grafting, 
5 ; nudiflorum culture, 322 
Judges of Poultry, 120 
Judgments on poultry, 49, 157 
Kale, hardiest sort, 425 
Keele Hall, 106 , 190 
Kendal Poultry Show, 347 
Kidney Bean cutter, 63 
Kinghorn’s Pelargoniums, 54 
Kingston Nursery, 8 S, 108 
Kitchen boiler, heating by, 183 
Kitchen-garden seeds for given 
spaces, 369 
Labels of glass, 207 
Lachenalia tricolor, 432 
Lamana crocea superba culture, 
166 
Lapageria rosea culture, 126, 226 
Lastrtea cristata in Norfolk, 15; 
spinulosa, 17 ; thelypteris, 53 
Laurels, hastening their growth, 
237 
Lawn, improving turf of, 203; 
forming a small, 280; reno¬ 
vating, 369 
Lawson’s Gardener’s Kalendar, 
339 
Leaves for leaf mould. 135 
Leg weakness in a cockerel, 158 
Lemons, pickled 140 
Leperiza latifolia. 206 
Lettuces, preserving in winter, 76 
I 
Lilium giganteum seeding, 88; 
lancifolium, management of 
small, 209 ; giganteum, time of 
flowering, 226 ; its culture, 226 ;. 
Wallichianuru culture, 227 ; lan¬ 
cifolium seed sowing, 446 
Lime to drive worms out of pots, 
135 
Lime trees not hurtful, 418 
Limnanthes rosea, 381 
Linum grandiflorum, cuttings of, 
55 ; characteristics of, 206 ; pro¬ 
pagating, 215 
Liparis longipes, 143 
Liquid-manure, how to apply, 30 ; 
applied under ground, 295 
Liver and Bacon, 257 
Liverpool Poultry Show, 140, 31(>, 
328 
Lobelia erinus compacta seed, 
209 ; Texensis, 342 
Lobelias, wintering, 75; new dwarf 
speciosa, 75 
Locusts of Palestine, 294 j 
London squares, flowers in, 359 
Lucerne sowing, 260 
Luculia gratissima culture, 20; 
cuttings, 65 
Lupines grown in pure earths, 
381 
Lysimachia nutans, 64 
Magnolia fuscata pruning, 
127 ; grandiflora and conspicua 
not blooming, 153 
Malays, their present state, 153 
Manchester Botanical and Horti¬ 
cultural Society, 423 
Manetti Stocks, raising, 65 
Manure, easily portable, 209 
March, Notes for, 361 
Markets, London, 16 , 34, 52, 70. 
86, 104, 122, 140, 158, 1/6, 266, 
284, 348, 406, 420, 452 
Martin (House), notes on, 86, 416 
Martin v. Roe, 350 
Marvels offered for sale, 319 
Mealy Bug, to kill on Pine-Apples, 
134 ; on Cacti, to destroy, 239 
Meeting to protest against the 
waste of plant food, 202, 225 
Melastoma denticulatum, 206 
Melon, new, 117; culture, 344 
Melons in pots, 84 ; treatment of 
unripe, 132 ; notes on their cul¬ 
ture, 240, 244 
Mesembryanthemums, list and cul¬ 
ture, 402 
Meudor., Royal Gardens at, 275 
Michaelmas Goose, 15 
Microsperma Bartonioides culture, 
182, 219 
Mignonette (Tree), to raise, 322 
Mill, domestic flour, 150 
Mince-meat, 140 
Mint, forcing variegated, 279; 
variegated, as an edging to 
scarlet Geraniums, 432 
Monochtetum ensiferum, 392 
Dloricandia Ramburii, 132 
Mortar made from sea-sand, 384 
Moulting, protracted, 212 
Mowing machine. 150 
Mucuna prurita, 64 
Mulberry tree, lopping an old, 310 
Muriate of potash as a manure, 
370 
Mushrooms, forced, 393 
Myrtle pruning, 433 
Nectarine, directions for 
rearing, 167 ; shoots, promot¬ 
ing, 339; Due de Telliers, 260 
Nests for poultry, 348 
Netting for wall trees, 448 
No-matters, to make, 9 
Norfolk Island, to obtain cuttings 
of the Pine of, 74 ; botany of,. 
379 ; Pine, account of, 3811 
Northamptonshire Poultry Show, 
16 
Norwood Hall, 304 
Nottinghamshire Poultry Exhibi¬ 
tion, 212, 229, 264, 282. 313; 
Pigeons and Rabbits at, 298 
Nutt’s collateral hive, 2/8 
November, Notes for. 58; plants 
to bloom in, 321 
Oats, weight of different, 
178 
October, plants blooming in, under 
glass, 163 
