Onions, storing, 7“ ; stuffed, 176 ; 
sowing, 305, 362 
Ophioglossum vulgatum, 87; Lusi- 
tanicum, 88, 119 
Orange-trees, wintering, 119 ; pot¬ 
ting, 280 
Orchard - house trees in pots, 
plunging, 61 
Orchard-houses, fruit-trees in. 81 
Orchard fruits, this year’s failure, 
115 
Orchard on gravelly subsoil, 296 
Orchid-house, winter and spring 
temperatures of cool, 228 
Orchids, Notes on, 109 , 233 ; in 
November, 143; in a small 
stove, 152; blooming in January, 
304 
Orobus Fischeri, 64 
Osmunda regalis, 123 
Oval bed, to form, 84 
Pachyphytuxi bbacteosum, 
132 
Paeonieee, their properties, 19 
Painters’ oil refuse as a manure,402 
Pampas Grass and culture, 421 
Paralysis in fowls, 3S8 
Paris, Notes from, 11, 117, 224, 
416, 447; trees near, 12 
Parrot biting off its feathers, 406 
Parsley, preserving in winter, 76 
Parsnip sowing, 305 
Passion-Flower, not flowering, 30 ; 
pruning a young, 401 
Paths of coal tar, 312 
Paulovvnia imperialis not bloom¬ 
ing, 153 
Peach forcing, preparing for, 4 ; 
culture at Montreuil, 44 ; di¬ 
rections for rearing, 167 ; trees 
producing suckers, 261; tree 
shoots, shortening, 327; house, 
constructing a, 343 ; trees, their 
duration, 344; tree pruning, 400; 
house arrangements, 429 ; trees 
in pots, 448 
Peaches in pots, forcing, 64; 
and Vines in a corridor, 430 
Pear cuttings, to strike, 59 ; pro¬ 
pagation and management, 203 ; 
blossoms, effects of spring frosts 
on, 227 ; tree over vigorous, 296 
Pears in March, 393 ; double- 
worked on Quince stocks, 143; 
worked on Quince stocks, their 
state, 188; grafted on Mountain 
Ash, 275 ; pruning standard, 280 
Peas, successions of, 260 , 3/0 
Peat as a drainage, 47 
Pelargonium peltatum variegatum, 
119; Endlicherianum, 132 
Pelargoniums, wintering, 48; in 
winter, 221 
Pentas carnea culture, 274 
Perilla Nankinensis culture, 93 
Persia, its plants and gardening, 
94 
Perth Ornithological Society’s 
Show, 247 
Peruvian bark in India, 355 
Petunia Imperial, 10 
Petunias, double, 215 
Philoperisteron Society, 103, 202; 
Show, 300 
Phloxes, new, 73 
Photography for Gardeners, 414, 
448 
Phytolacca icosandra, 342 
Picea nobilis cones, 20S 
' Pig-trough, Norfolk double, 150 
Pigs, fattening on linseed, 48 ; on 
j Carrots, &c., 209 
Pigeons’ wings, soaping, 70 
| Pigeon entries, mistakes in, 248 
Pigeon and poultry fanciers, 
caution to, 371 
Pigeons, the Wattled, 33; the 
Persian, 33 ; the Barb, 70 ; the 
Carrier, 139; the Mahomet, 
172; the Dragoon, 193; the 
Horseman, 193 ; class for cock, 
210; the Continental Powter, 
246; the Dutch Powter, 257 ; 
the English Powter, 297 ; rot¬ 
ten feathers in, 372 ; the Com¬ 
mon Tumblers, 451; the Blue 
Fantails, 452 
Pincinectitia tuberculata, 162 
Pine Apple, culture at Meudon, 
275; branching, 391 
Pinery heating, 278 
Pinus Grenvillese, 10 ; Gordo- 
niana, 11 ; Benthamiana, 114; 
radiata, 115 ; excelsa, moving a 
large, 1)9; Pallasiana and ra¬ 
diata, 209 ; Montezumse, 240 ; 
Orizaba;, 36l 
Pipe, length required for hot- 
water heating, 400 
Pipes versus flues, 111; versus 
tanks, 112; of iron as a flue, 
112; substitutes for bends in, 
368, 429 
Pit, cost of constructing and 
managing a small, 169 ; for 
wintering plants, cost of, 216 
Plants in winter near to glass, 352 
Planting, ornamental, 6 ; trees 
near houses, 60 
Plate Prizes at Poultry Shows, 85, 
122 
Platycodon grandiflorus, semi¬ 
double, 324 
Pleroma elegans culture, 442 
Pleurothallis Smithiana, 97 
Plum-tree pruning, 120 
Plums, new, 3 
“Points” in awarding Cups for 
collections, 313 
Poinsettia pulcherrima culture, 74 
Polish fowls, their traducers, 154 ; 
w'hy snubbed? 245; Spangled, 
at the Crystal Palace, 330; their 
characteristics, 345; antiquity 
of their name, 420; an injured 
race, 435; separate classes for 
bearded and unbearded, 436 ; | 
comb of, 450 
Polmaise method of heating, 257, 
306 
Polypodium alpestre, 159; cal- 
careum, 177; dryopteris, 195; 
phegopteris, 213 ; vulgare, 231; 
Cambricum, sinuatum, serra- 
tum, acutum, Hibernicum, bi- 
fidura, and proliferum, 232; 
aculeatum, 249 
Polystichum angulare, 267 ; loba- 
tum, 285 ; lonchitis, 301 
Pomological Society’s Meeting, 2, 
88, 105, 160, 318 
Pompones, lists and merits of, 179 ; 
list of early, 189; dark-coloured, 
for pots, 256 
Ponds, ornamenting, 29 
Potato, disease and planting, 8 ; 
disease, annals of, 60 ; murrain, 
the time when it occurs, 131 ; 
culture and disease in 1856, 1S7; , 
crop, the healthiest varieties, [ 
255 ; culture in Norfolk, 305 ; 
in single rows, 306 
Potatoes, earthing up, 66 ; for i 
planting, 100; raising early, 
199, 312; varieties in south of 
Ireland, 228; early, 320, 327; 
list of good kinds, and their his¬ 
tory, 353; forcing under canvass 
or oiled paper, 367 
Potted fruit trees, plunging, 135 
Potting greenhouse plants, 290 
Potting practice, a good, 382; 
mistakes in, 396 
Poultry Exhibitions, the coming, 
137; facts which injure, 137; 
Birmingham, 138; extra classes 
at, 262 
Poultry Show, getting up a, 32 
Poultry and Pigeon sale, 33, 263 
Poultry-house, brick floor of, 52 
Poultry Shows, past and present, 
85 
Poultry, judgments on, 68; to 
secure colour and vigour, 100; 
experience, 101, 153; influenc¬ 
ing their colour, 137 ; for ex¬ 
hibition, how to manage, 192 ; 
results of 1856 and hopes of 
1857, 26 l ; prizes for general 
collections — birds dying at 
shows, 329; Show Committees 
and Judges, critiques on, 386; 
run, flooring for, 388 
Powter Pigeons, judging, 387 
Preserving preserve, 230 
Preston Poultry Show, 299 , 312 
Primroses, Chinese, to grow dark, 
310; double white, 392; damp¬ 
ing off, 396 
Propagating house, 74 
Propagation in spring, 335, 422, 
438 
Protection for plants from frost 
and game, 270 
Pruning fruit trees, 59 
Pteris aquilina, 317; its uses and 
components, 318 ; tremula for a 
window, 383 
Pumpkin culture, 383 
Pyrus Japonica as a hedge plant, 
294 
Babbits, points in fancy, 
194 ; house and hutches for, 
222, 284, 449 ; at the Crystal 
Palace, 300 ; breeding manage¬ 
ment, 300, 331 ; feeding and 
treatment, 330; the lop-eared, 
371 ; fancy, 405 ; white with 
black points, 406 
Ranunculaceae, natural history of, 
1, 18 ; their properties, 18 
Ranunculus aconitifolius, 446 
Ranunculuses eaten by slugs, 
447 
Raspberry crossed with the Black¬ 
berry, 3 ; the Black, 239 
Raspberries, autumn, 106 ; mode 
of training at Haarlem, 292 
Regent pudding, 140 
Removing shrubs from a garden 
not legal, 68 
Rendle’s Price Current, 256 
Retarding and protecting fruit 
blossoms, 334 
Rhamnus croceus, 428 
Rhododendron campylocarpum, 
342 ; album, 41? 
Rhododendrons, compost for, 99 ; 
blooming Tree, 162 ; green¬ 
house, their management, 441 
Rhodolina Championi, to bloom, 
163 
Richmond Nursery, 54 
Rockery plants, 362 
Rockets, culture of, 433 
Room plant culture, 191 
I Rosary soil, renovating, 446 
Rose cuttings in autumn, 31; in 
winter, 293; planting, 362 
Roses, propagating Tea-scented, 
172; pruning climbing, 238; 
hybrid perpetual, list of, and 
management, 279 ; how to mul¬ 
tiply, 340 ; for pillars, growing, 
400 
Rouen drake, head of, 16; neck 
of, 266 
Rubbish-heap, its uses, 128 
Rustic-work, varnish for, 400, 428, 
434 
Rust, white, on Cabbages, 308 
Sales, rules for, at Poultry 
Shows, 296 
Salvia Voltaire, 344 
Sanvitalia procumbens culture, 31, 
182 
Saponaria Calabrica culture, 182 
Scale on fruit trees, 344 
Scandaroon Pigeon, 50 
Scarlet flowers for a conservatory, 
402 
Shallot, its history and culture, 41 
Scheeria lanata, 256 
Scilla Sibirica as a spring flower, 
172 
Scolopendrium vulgare, 333 
Scotch Pine Beetle, 100 
Screen, evergreen, 402 
Sea-kale forcing and blanching, 
338 
Sea-shore, planting near, 120 
Seaforthia elegans, 256 
Seed, preparing soil for, 305; 
sowing in a cool greenhouse, 402 
September, plants to bloom under j 
glass in, 127 
Sericographis Ghiesbreghtiana, 
341 
Sewage as a manure, 135 
Shading, 411 
Shrubland Park, glazed structures 
’ at, 39 
Shrewsbury Poultry Show Com¬ 
mittee, 158 
Shrewsbury and Anerley Prizes, 
300 
Sick Fund for Gardeners, Pine- 
Apple Place, 250 
Silene Schafta, 360 
Sir Harry Strawberry in October, 
3 
Sisyrinchium grandiflorum culture, 
84 
Smithfield Club Show, 173 
Snow as a protector, 352 
Soaping Pigeons’ wings, 34 
INDEX. 
vii 
Soft-wooded plants, cuttings of, 
110 
Solanum pseudo-capsicum, 162 
Sonerila margaritacca as a pot- 
plant, 143 
Sorrel in a lawn, killing, 14 
Southwell Poultry Show, 156 
Sowing flower-seeds, 182 
Sowing seeds of tender plants, 
353 
Spanish fowls, their merits, 68 , 69 ; 
swellings near their eyes, 70 ; 
chickens, which to select, 122 ; 
hackle of, 348 
Specimen plants, house for winter¬ 
ing, 40 
Sphenogyne speciosa culture, 182 
Spiraea (Van Houtte’s), culture of, 
65 
Spring, early sowings and cuttings 
in, 336 
Steaming apparatus, heating from, 
135 
Stenocarpus Cunninghamii flower¬ 
ing, 226 ; culture, 275 
Stephanotisfloribunda culture, 201 
Stipa pennata, 437 
Stockport Prize Fair, 264 
Stokesia cyanea, 342 
Stone fruit, early management of, 
133 
Stove for a plant - room, 31 ; 
climbers in a conservatory, to 
manage, 40 ; plants, six winter¬ 
blooming, 84; plants for a 
small, 322; and hot-water ap¬ 
paratus, 444 
Strawberries, preparing for forc¬ 
ing, 4; in four-inch pots, 79 ; 
time and mode of forcing 
second crop, 238 
Stud House, Hampton Court, 19 
Sun heating plant houses in win¬ 
ter, 422 
Super-phosphate of lime as a ma¬ 
nure, 84 
Sutton’s Spring Catalogue, 256 
Swedes, Improved White, 178 
Sydney, difficulties of its garden¬ 
ing, 2/9 
Syrian Vine, 344 
Tacsonia mollissima as a 
Stock for Passifloras, 39; 
not blooming, 118; planted 
against a column, 162 
Tank versus Pipes, 112,402; heat¬ 
ing by hot water, 245 
Tecoma jasminoides, pruning, 127 
Terrace-border planting, 66 
Terrace walk, flower border for, 
310 
Thomery, 362 ; analysis of its 
Vine soil, 363 
Thrips, to destroy, 85 
Thunbergia culture, 368 
Tobacco, drying, 49 ; Algerian, 
166 
Tomato culture in open borders,20 
Tomatoes, treatment of unripe, 
132 
Torenia Asiatics culture, 397 
Torreya Humboldtii, 161 
Transgression, the way of, 93, 218 
Transplanting Machine, 
M'Glashen’s, 227 
Transplanter for trees, 383 ; Mil- t 
ler’s, 340 
Trees, moving large, 408 
Trellis for protecting tender fruit, 
78 ; hardy plants for, 328 
Trenching for farming purposes, 
358 
Tricyrtis pilosa, 206 
Trifles in gardening, their im¬ 
portance, 395 
Trichomanes brevisetum, 349 
Tritoma uvaria culture, 84 
Tritomas, list of, and description, 
185 
Tritonia aurea culture, 14, 151, 
254 
Tropseolum tricolor management, 
271 
Tuberose culture, 383 
Tumbler Pigeon (Common), 347 ; 
German Feather-footed and Old 
English, 406 
Turkeys of Honduras, 68 
Turkish Pigeon, 33 
Turnips, protecting, 76 ; compa¬ 
rative produce and weight of, 
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