VIII 
INDEX. 
Tussilago, a new hardy, 143 
Uredo candidus and Ama- 
RANTHI, 308 
TJploper Pigeon, 257 
Varieties, raising, 221 
Vase for wet bog-plants, 101 
Veitch’s Chelsea Nursery, 125, 
140. 196, 232, 286, 325 
Ventilating, its use, 410 
Verbena cuttings, 27 ; saving old, 
27; damping off, 344 
Verbenas, white, blue, and scarlet, 
99 ; turning brown, 190; seed¬ 
ing, 432 , 
Vine forcing, preparing for, 4 ; 
pruning, 239; buds, planting, 
293; forcing, 344; culture at 
Thomery, 303 ; in a pot in a 
greenhouse, 396 ; beetle on 
buds, 402 ; covering border, and 
not prospering, 402 
Vinery and Peachery, 67 ; scale in, 
118; management, 191 ; arrange¬ 
ment, 207 ; insects in, 280 
Vines, pruning and transplanting 
in summer, 36 ; in pots, forcing, 
64; for small house, 65; over¬ 
pruning, 184 ; planting at end 
of Vinery, 185 ; disbudded, 191 ; 
for large Vinery, 194 
Violet mildew, 309 
Wall, fruit for a north, 
119 ; forming border for in 
heavy soil, 220 ; for various 
aspects, 228 
Walnut culture for its fruit and 
timber, 356 
Waltonian case, management, 417, 
432 
Wardian Cases, how furnished, 
197 ; their construction, 209; 
plants for, and management, 
235 ; potted plants in, 307 ; con¬ 
structing, and Ferns for, 325 
Warning to poultry sellers, 102, 
158 
Warwick Castle, 222 
Washing plants, 409 
Water, does it expand with cold ? 
152 
Watering, in winter, 353 ; mis¬ 
takes in, 396 ; when to be done, 
439 
Waterproofing a coat, 9 
Waterford Poultry Show, 32 
Way of transgression, 92 
Weeds on carriage - drive, to 
destroy, 228 
Weeks and Co.’s one-boiler sys¬ 
tem, 113 ; Chelsea Nursery, 365, 
376 ; system of heating, 397 ; 
size of conservatory, 398 
Weight of manure, 100 
What does it mean ? 245 
Wheat, Flour, and Bread, their 
composition, 379 
Wheats, weight of different, 1 78 
White feathers, cleaning, 86 
Wilkins’s system of cultivation, 
295 
Window plants, 65 ; in winter, 337 
Window gardening in winter, 198, 
217, 234, 244, 252; plants for. 
252 ; for spring, 387, 393, 409, 
439 ... 
Windows, easing their sliding, 
429 , . 
Winter flower gardening out of 
doors, 313 
Winter and spring gardening out 
of doors, 401, 413 
Wistaria Sinensis mismanaged, 
152; pruning, 238 
Wood-lice, to destroy, 118, 295 
Woodsia hyperborea, 373 ; Ilven- 
sis, 389 
Woodstock in Kilkenny, 291 
Worcestershire Poultry • Show, 
34 
Worms on lawn, killing, 400 
Wrington Poultry Show, 104 
Yeast, making German, 104 
Yorkshire and Durham Poultry 
Show, 211 
Zetout d’Algerie, 117 
WOODCUTS. 
Page. 
Clematis angustifolia. 1 
Ranunculus acris. 2 
Aquilegia Canadensis. 2 
Cone of Pinus Grenvillese. 10 
„ Gordoniana. 11 
Lastrsea spinulosa .... . 17 
Hypericum oblongifolium. 26 
Calceolaria ericoides. 27 
Persian Pigeon. 33 
Montreuil Peach pruning. 44 
Scandaroon Pigeon. 50 
Lastrsea thelypteris. 53 
Gidney’s Garden Tools. 62 
Barb Pigeon . 70 
Hoya imperials . 78 
Fruit trellis . 79 
Grouping trees. 82 
Ophioglossum vulgatum. S7 
,, Lusitanicum. 88 
Gas-heating Apparatus. 96 
Pleurothallis Smithiana. 97 
Cone of Pinus Benthamiana. 114 
„ radiata. 115 
Osmunda regalia. ]23 
Fernery . 132 
Stone-fruit training. 138 
Carrier Pigeon .. 139 
Burgess and Key’s Garden Tools. 150 
Page. 
Broditea Californica. 151 
Polypodium alpestre . 159 
Peach training. .... 167 
Cypripedium Lowei. 169 
Polypodium calcareum . 177 
Filbert pruning. 186 
Polypodium dryopteris . 195 
Pear training. 20 
Fernery Aquarium .-. 205 
Polypodium phegopteris. 213 
Rabbit hutch. 222 
Polypodium vulgare. 231 
Cone of Pinus Montezumte . 240 
Melon pit . 241 
Continental Powter Pigeon . 246 
Polystichum aculeatum. 249 
Apple training. 251 
Polmaise heating. 258 
Polystichum angulare.»... 267 
Meudon Pine pits . 276 
Berberis parvifiora . 277 
Polystichum lobatum. 285 
Raspberry training. 292 
Powter Pigeon. 297 
Polystichum lonchitis. 301 
White rust on Cabbages . 308 
Terrace-walk border . 310 
Pteris aquilina. 317 
Page. 
Platycodon grandiflorus. 324 
Wardian Case. 325 
Scolopendrium vulgare. 333 
Asparagus forcing . 338 
Miller’s Tree Transplanter. 340 
Sericograpbis Ghiesbreghtiana. 341 
Tumbler Pigeon . 347 
Trichomanes brevisetum . 349 
Silene Schafta . 36o 
Simmons’s Hygrometer. 360 
Cone of Pinus Orizaba. 36l 
Thomery Vine training. 303 
Lop-eared Rabbit. 371 
Woodsia hyperborea . 873- 
Plants in pure earths. 330 
Limnanthes rosea. 381 
Woodsia Ilvensis. 389- 
Weeks’ Winter Garden. 398 
Angelonia angustifolia . 399 
Feather-footed Tumbler. 406 
TEgilops squarrosa . 407 
Photographic Apparatus. 414 
Iris reticulata . 415 
Gynerium argenteum. 421 
Rhamnus croceus. 428 
Stipa pennata. 437 
Stove and Hot-water Apparatus. 444 
