INDEX. 
Abies versus Pinvs, 2S3 
Acacia, seeds, sowing, S2; from 
Australia, 187 ; culture, 373 ; 
prominens, 366 ; spectabilis, 380 
Achimenes, in winter, 237 ; seed, 
sowing, 335 
Adamia versicolor, 151 
Adenandra speciosa culture, 262 
Adenocarpus intermedius, 55 
Adiuutum pubescens, 35 
iEsculus Californica, 27 
Agapanthus umbellatus, culture, 
124 
Agave Jacquiniana, 353 
Air pipes for liot-water beating, 
278 
Allamanda Schottii shedding its 
buds, 125 : to bloom in August, 
337 
American blight, 41 
Amherstia nobilis from cuttings, 
161 
Ampton Park, 85 
Andalusian fowls, 240 
Androsace lanuginosa, 8 
Annuals, for the greenhouse, 293; 
description of some, 398 
Anccctochilus, the genus, cultiva¬ 
tion, 401 
Anomatheca cruenta, sowing and 
culture, 82 
Ants on Peach trees, 236 
Aphelandra cristata and Leopoldii 
culture, 260 
Aphis, notes on the, 59 
Aponogeton distachyon, 8 
Apple trees, pruning young 
dwarf, 269 
Apples suited to Great Britain, 
described, 9, 23, 38, 55, 71, 87, 
102, 119; adapted for different 
localities and modes of growth, 
135 ; list of market, 171 ; cause 
of spots in, 326 
Apricot culture, 4; Kaisha, 14 ; 
Gros Rouge, 229; bloom falling, 
404 
Apricots, descriptive list of, 167 ; 
for various localities, 183 
Apteranthes Gussoniana, 198 
Aquarium, pitching it inside, 60; 
waterproof cement for, 102 
Araucaria with broken leader, 35 
Arbour walks, 70 
Architecture, rural domestic, de- 
; sign for a clergyman’s house, 
296 ; for a country house, 352 
Ardisia crenulata seed, sowing, 
355 
Arrangement of hardy shrubs, 
248, 276 
Ashton-under-Line, notes from, 
I 155 
Asparagus, manures for, 155 ; 
culture, 179; first up, 372 
Aspergillus glaucus, 326 
Australian seeds, 369 
Azalea Glandstanesii to make 
shoots from, 337 
Babiana seed, sowixo, 82 
Banksia seeds, sowing, 83 
Bantams, exhibiting Game, 78 ; 
Black, points in, 190; Game, 
their characteristics, 345 
Barometer, a cheap, 37 
Baronne de Mello Pear, 85 
Bean, the New Zealand Runner, 
277 
Bed, a showy, 58 
Bedding plants, 11; house for, 
28; wintering young, 57 
Bedding-out at Kew, 2 
Bee-bread, its uses, 92 
Bee-keeping in Devon, 8, 52, 69, 
106, 152, 184; diminution in 
winter, results of feeding, 251 
Bees, confining through the win¬ 
ter, 53 ; form of their cells, and 
eating pollen, 53, 54; flowers 1 
for, 60; always injured by fu¬ 
migating, 69; driving, 91; se¬ 
creting wax, 108, 135, 202, 235, 
327, 343, 371 ; artificial combs, 
135; and wasps’ combs, 153; 
and wasps’ cells, 202; repairing 
combs in winter, 300 ; humble 
bees not robbers, 343; Daphnes 
as flowers for, 372 
Beet, culture and merits, 81 
Beetroot, cooking, 154 
Begonia rex, 324, 353 ; xanthina, 
var. pictifolia, 370 
Begonias, raised from leaf-cut¬ 
tings, 129 ; list of, 381 
Belladonna Lily culture, 219 
Belle d’Orleans Cherry, 229 
Berberis Darwinii, 252 
Berberries, kinds of, 183 
Beurre Superfin Pear, 54 
Beware! 46 
, Bicton Gardens, 49,65 
Bilbergia Liboniana, 198 
Birmingham Poultry Show, 156, 
171, 240 ; statistics, 188 
Biscuits, damaged, as poultry 
food, 346 
Blackberry, the Lawton, 372 
Bolton and Lancashire Central 
Poultry Exhibition, 358, 345 
Borage for bees, 28, 60 
Botany, its influence on charac¬ 
ter, 214 
Bouquets, making, 140 
Bouvardia longiflora vera, 58 
Brahma controversy, 272, 287, 
304, 374, 406 
Brahma l’ootras, 190, 221, 239, 
332, 357 
Bulb forcing, 292 
Bulbs, planting, 107; watering 
forced, 259; removing after 
! flowering, 403 
i Bunodes coronata, a new Actinia, 
! 37 
' Burnley Poultry Show, 220 
Cai.atiiea zee rina, 373 
Calceolaria, culture, 213, 310, 327, 
310, 350 ; failure of, 252, 284 
Calceolarias failing, 4; failure 
of, 151, 197; successfully cul¬ 
tivated, 185; and their culture, 
229 ; green fly on, 354 
Calicarpa rosea, 113 
Camellia, leaves diseased, 286; 
Albertus, 360 ; elegans, 361 
Camellias, propagating, 360 ; cul¬ 
ture of, 373 ; descriptive list of, 
376 
Canary, sick, 78; old points in, 
126 
Canaries, Cinnamon cock, 16; ' 
Belgian, 45; show of, at Derby, i 
110; at Crystal Palace Show, 
221; asthma in, 272 ; points in 
Belgian, 288 
Cantua dependens culture, 261 
Cape bulbs, 70 
Cardoons, cooking, 204 
Carnation cuttings in spring, 
335 
Carter’s Floral Illustrations, 356 
Celery, culture, 22 ; retarded by 
hot weather, 51 ; becoming hol¬ 
low, 198; modes of cooking, 
203; stalk-hearted, 252; culture 
at Dartmoor, 298 
Celosia aurea, 336 
Centaurea ragusina, 253 
Cerastium tomentosum cuttings, I 
156 
Chalk soil, hardy fruits for, 108 
Chaptal Grape, 60 
Cheese mould, 326 
Chemistry of gardening, 230 
Chenopodium Bonus Henricus, 
371 
Cherries, synoptical arrangement 
of, 183; suited to Great Britain, 
199, 215, 231, 249, 265; select 
list, 266 
Chesterfield Poultry Show, 272, 
316 
Chestnuts adapted to Great i 
Britain, 282 
Chickens, nursing late, 287 ; rear¬ 
ing, 345 
Children in gardens, 3/2 
1 Chimney funnel, troublesome, 
233 
i China Aster culture, 21 
1 Chippenham Poultry Exhibition, 
174, 190 
Chlorine promotes germination, 
315 
Chrysanthemum, dressing for ex¬ 
hibition, 22, 199; Show at the 
Crystal Palace, 95 ; carinatum, 
var. pictum, 299 ; turning out, 
204; Golden Cdeo Nulli, 351 
Chrysanthemums, arranged list 
of, 96; lists of, 113; flagging, 
132; dressing, 134; growing 
squat, 137 ; descriptive list of, 
, 162; rules relative to their 
pots, 170 
Cinerarias, frosted, 132; mildew 
on, 204; culture and list of, 
295 ; blooming prematurely, 
354 
Clapton Nursery, 128 
Clematis lanuginosa, 37 ; its cul¬ 
ture, 251; azurea grandifloru, 
propagating, 390 
Clerodendrum Bungii, and splen- 
dens culture, 337 
Clianthus Dampierii, 35 
Climbers, cutting down, 63; for 
a south-east wall, 171; for con¬ 
servatory, 315 ; for a verandah, 
331; in pots, 336 
Cloth of Gold Rose, pruning, 219 
Club root, 14, 219 
Cochins, yellow legs of, 46; cross 
with Hamburgh, 46 ; Black, 78 ; 
Partridge, chickens, extra prize 
for, at Birmingham, 126; Par¬ 
tridge and Grouse, 221 
Coelogyne pandurata, 140 
Cold in poultry, 240 
Collomia seeds, 350 
Colours, arrangement in bedding 
flowers, 18 
Columbarian Club Show, 318 
Combs, artificial, 10, 108 
Conifers, removing large, 76; 
grafted, 385 
Conservatory, evergreens for back 
wall, 885 
Conveniences, making the most 
of them, 177 
Coomrah, what is it? 357, 390 
Corrosive sublimate for destroy¬ 
ing worms, 140 
Cotton, the Rev. AV. C., 155 
Court-pendu Plat, 260 
Cox’s Orange Pippin, 134, 214, 234 
Crabs adapted to Great Britain, 
282 
Cranberries adapted to Great 
Britain, 282 
Cress, culture and cookery, 218 
Crewe Poultry Show, 45, 62, 206, 
222, 239; prizes, 406 
Crinum Forbesi, 371 
Crocuses, how to farce, 192 
Cross-breeding, 11 
Croton variegatum, 324 
Crystal Palace, Bird Show, 30, 
140, 189; AVinter Poultry 
Show, 78, 158, 238, 253; plants 
at, 242 
Cuckoo fowl, 332 
Cucumber, Great AVestern, 100 ; 
plants, diseased, 170; forcing, 
177 ; culture, 268 
Cucumbers, Snake, 3; candied, 
to fry, to dress raw, ketchup, 
and mangoes, 387 
Culture, some principles of, 351 
Cuphea purpurea, and silenoides, 
85 
Cupressus macrocarpus, 128 
Currants, flow' to dry, 203 ; 
adapted to Great Britain, 297; 
select, 298 
Cutting pans, 356 
Cuttings, forcing for spring, 89 
Cyanophyllum magnificum, 324 
Cyclamen coum and vernum, 
223; Atkinsii, 263 
Cyclamens, 328 ; vernum, 2S5, 
330; arrangement and kinds, 
305; two centuries ago, 334 
Cyrtoceras reflexum culture, 261 
Cyrtomium falcatum, 360 
Daceidiitm elatvm, 129 
