vi 
Dahlia, Rose-bud, 38 ; coecincdla, 
145 
Damson aphis, 43 
Daphne Indies, culture, 323; pro¬ 
pagating, 390 
Dasylirium Hartwegianum, 353 
Datura Wrightii culture, 22, 27, 
70 
Day’s sport with a scientific 
friend, 405 
Dianthus, a cross between species 
of, 70 
Dioscorea batatas, 25; culture, 
312; an l its cookery, 364 
Diplolsena Dampieri, 283 
Diplomatic correspondence, 390 
Dipteracanthus calvescens, 370 
Dodecatheon grown in boxes, 305 
Dorking cock, comb of, 174 
Dorking pullet, spurs tlo not dis¬ 
qualify, 126 
Dorkiugs, breast of, 316 
Dryas Drummondi culture, 325 
, Dubbing a game cock, 240 
Ducks, East Indian, 142; with 
reversed feathers, 318 
Dumelows’ Seedling, 2G0 
Edging plants, 11 
Edgings to walks, 169 
Egg, harvest, 256 ; system in- 
) flamed, 358 
Eggs, telling the sex in, 332 ; 
preserving for cooking, 358 ; 
addled, 374 ; weight of, 392 
Elvaston Castle, 211 
Entomological Soeiety’sMeetings, 
53, 153; 218, 279, 371, 388 
Epigynium leucobotrys, 370 
Epimedium, hybrid, 402 
Ergot, its probable effect on cows, 
142 
Eriostemon buxifolius, 202 
Erithronium in boxes, 306 
Eucharls Amazoniea, 156; cul¬ 
ture, 204 
Eugenia Ugni culture, 286 
Evergreens, transplanting, 217 
Exhibition fowls, points required 
in, 109 
Exhibition rules, interpretation 
of, 137 
Exhibitors’ disappointments and 
1 Judges’ difficulties, 61 
Exhibitors, hints to, 93 
Excrements of plants, 365, 397 
FARFUGIUH GRANDE PROPAGAT¬ 
ING , 145 
Feeding dogs and poultry, 270 
Ferns, for a glass case, 60; pre¬ 
serving stove, in winter, 124; 
heating a stove for, 373 
Fieldia Australis, 198 
Fig culture, 403 
Fig trees, standard, 117 
Figs, synopsis of, 298; adapted to 
Great Britain, 313, 327 ; select 
list, 328 
| Fire of greenhouse, regulating, 13 
Florida, treatment of seeds and 
plants from, 336 
Florists’ flowers, dressing, 232 
j Flower gardening on a new prin¬ 
ciple, 396 
Flowers, costume, 209 
Flue for a small greenhouse, 184 
Forcing preparations, 101 
Forks, mending Parkes’ digging, 
93 
Fountain, 12 
Fowls, to clean dirty, 158 ; cost of 
feeding, 158 ; to stop vagrant, 
158 
Frames, covering in winter, 284 
Fruit, packing for travelling, 14 ; 
storing, 21; trees, manage¬ 
ment of young, 32; trees, 
moving young, 108; rooms, 
constructing, 145; blossom-pro¬ 
tecting by straw ropes, 401; by 
nets, 404 
“Fruit Garden, The Miniature,” 
386 
Fruits, packing, 33; on what do 
their qualities depend ? 395 
Fuchsia simplicicaulis, 353 
Fuchsias, fitted for standards, 3 ; 
Dominiana and pendulina, 34 ; 
moving, 41; wintering young, 
123; bleeding, 313 
INDEX. 
Fuel expenditure, 28 
Fumigating blooming trees, 372 
Fylde Poultry Show, 345 
Gaillardia sowing, 398 
Game, mottle-breasted red, 16 ; 
fowls with top-knots, 78 ; wings 
of Brown-breasted Red, 110 ; 
cock without sickle feathers, 
256; fowl’s legs, 346 
Gapes in chickens, 15 ; in fowls, 
358 
Gardenia florida culture, 323 
Garden planning, 368 
Gardening for the Week, 1, 17, 
31, 47, 63, 79, 95, 111, 118, 128, 
143, 160, 175, 191, 223, 241, 257, 
273, 289, 305, 319, 333, 347, 339, 
375, 393; Science of, 246, 266, 
270, 298, 314, 329, 342, 351, 365, 
382, 397 
Gardens, treatment of soil in old, 
33 
Geese for exhibition, 62 
GdnSral Jacqueminot Rose, 167 ; 
as a bedder, 278 
Geranium, sport from Rigby’s 
Queen, 187 ; tricolor, manage¬ 
ment, 331 
Geraniums, when to he housed, 
28; moving, 44; to keep in 
winter, 47, 56, 57; old plants of 
scarlet, 132 
Germination, water for, 298 ; in¬ 
fluence of light on, 329 
Gesnera seed, sowing, 355 
Giddiness in fowls, 358 
Gilbert’s, ‘Florists’ VadeMecum,’ 
334 
Ginger culture, 336 
Gladioluses, crosses of, 156 
Glass for a stove, 270 
Glass-houses, bow to construct so 
as to be r emoved by the tenant, 
79; not fixed to the land, 118; 
fixed to the freehold, 165; 
moveable, 194; sunk, 209; por¬ 
table, 242 
Glory Fea, 369 
Glout Morceau Pear, facts con¬ 
cerning, 245 
Gloxinia seed, sowing, 355 
Gonoealyx pulchra culture, 260 
Gooseberries, synopsis of, 328 ; 
descriptive list of, 341, 353, 
367 
Gordonia Javanica culture, 260 
Gout in poultry, 100 
Grape, growing, 11; jelly, 1C7 
Grapes, saving, 28 ; growing out 
of doors, 144 ; adapted to Great 
Britain, classified, 383, 401 
Grass, universality of, 00 
Greenhouse, heating a small lean- 
to, 25,28 ; admitting air to, 40 ; 
gay in winter, 93 ; shaded, and 
facing the west, 250 ; seed sow¬ 
ing, 293 
Grevillea seeds, sowing, 83 
Grimston Park, 7 
Guano, to use in kitchen garden, 
108 
Guernsey, notes from, 371 
Guinea fowls dying, 16 
Gunnera scabra, 3 
Gynerium argenteum, 24, 102; 
removing, 76 
Hakea acictlaius, sowing, 83 
Halifax Pigeon Show, 174, 205 
Hamburghs, requisites in Silver- 
pencilled, 94 ; Spangled, notes 
about, 222 ; Black, 318 
i Hampton Court Gardens, 17 
Hardenbergia Comptoniuna, 380 ; 
seeds, sowing, 83 
Hartley’s plate glass, 128 
Hatching seasons, variance in, 
40 ; by hot water, 78 
Headington Hill, 100 
Heat from a shaft, a fallacy, 210 
Heaths just housed, 132 
Heating a row of nine houses, 40; 
a pit, 44; a propagating box, 
58 ; by hot water, 252 ; by gas, 
Hedge, cover for a plashed, 344 
Hedychium coronarium and Gard- 
ncrianum culture, 335 
i'Height of trees, to ascertain, 351, 
| 364 
Helianthus, gleanings from the 
genus, 122 I 
Hen with affection of the head, 
288 
Hepatica propagating, 348 
Heraldry applied to flower group- ! 
iug, 90 
Heterocentrum roseum, 113, 129 
Hexacentris Mysorensis culture, 
262 
Hibhertia Cunninghamii, 380 
Hibiscus Manihot seed, sowing, 
355 ; radiatus, var. flore pleno, 
353 
Hicks’ Fancy, 225 
Hive, permanent observatory, \ 
201 ; Tasmanian, 264, 313, 341 ; ! 
Podolian, 330 
Hives, desirable size for bar, 24 ; j 
size of seven and eight-barred, 
59; covering for, 60 
Holly, its culture and kinds, 36; 
removing, 155 ; cuttings, 237 
Horticultural Society, London, 
111, 241, 324; House, sale of, 
404 
Hotbed, heating by linings, 68; 
frames of iron, 270 
Hothouses, portable, 207, 279; 
model, 252 
Hot-water pipes, arrangement of, 
170; in brick troughs, 200; 
trough, 204 
Hot water in pipes, beating by, 
233 
Hovea seeds, sowing, S3 
Hoya carnosa, culture, 70, 252 ; 
seed, 107 
Hyacinth, offsets, 171; culture, 1 
235; forcing, 289, 292; Lord , 
Byron, 360 
Hyacinths, in beds, 28, 88 ; Tye’s 
glasses for, 87 ; offsets on, 137 ; 
Cutbush’s, 393 ; list of, 394 
Ice-houses, 171 
Impatiens Jerdoni® culture, 261 
India rubber plant, shoots decay- ! 
ing, 170 ; culture, 279 
Indigofera decora, 151 
Influence of male bird, 287 
Inga macrophylla, 27 
IpomccaLearii culture, 64; coeru- 
lea, 101 
Isabella Grey Rose, 56 
Ivy, cuttings of variegated, 344 
Ixia seeds, sowing, 82 
January, meteorology of,404 
Jasminum nudiflorum for nose¬ 
gays, 258 
Joanetting, red, culture, 259 
Johnson, James, 174 
Joints of hot-water pipes to stop, 
76 
Juanulloa exirnia, 299 
Judges, abuse the, 373 ; proceed¬ 
ings at Bingley Hall, 125 
Judging poultry, rules for, 357 
Juniperus recurvus, transplant¬ 
ing, 93 
Kadeura Japonica, 316; cul¬ 
ture, 252 
Kale, the Cottager’s, 117 
Kennedya seeds, sowing, 83 
Kerry Pippin, culture, 259 
Kew Gardens, 1 ; Orchids at, 159 
Kiddean system of striking cut¬ 
tings, 331 
Kidney Bean, analysis of, 247 
King of Pippins, 225 
Kingston Nursery, 289 
Kirkcaldy Poultry Show, 255 
Labels, Hodson’s indelible, 199 
Labourers, treatment of, 148 
j Lachenalia quadricolor, 371 
Lady gardener, a model, 231 
Lamb Abbey Pearmain, 225 
J Lashmar’s seedling Grape, 6 
: Latticework, evergreens for, 156 
Laurel-destroying grubs, 285 
j Laurels, transplanting, 217 
Lawn exhausted, to renovate, 60 
“ Lawson’s Gardener’sKalendar,” 
237 
i Leaves, how to use fallen, 218 
Leptodactilon Califomicum, 395 
Leschenaultia formosa shoots 
dying, 337 
Lettuces, Snow’s, 4 
Leucania vitcllina, 37 
Leucopogons, 58 
Libocedrus Chilensis, its har¬ 
diness, 89, 117, 125 
Light absorbed by soils, 330 
Ligustrum ovalifolium, 377 
LiUum lancifolium in pots, 12 ; 
Japonicum green in winter, 278 
Liquid manure, 285, 3)1 ; in 
winter, 171 ; tank, 285 
Little things, 104 
Liverpool Poultry Show, 187, 271, 
286, 304 
Loasa Pentlandii, 85 
Lobelia erinus magnifica, pro¬ 
pagating, 93; trigonieaulis, 129, 
198 ; ramosoides seeding, 356 ’ j 
Lungs of fowls diseased, 206 
Lysimachia nutans, 283 
Magnolia grandiflora, pur¬ 
purea AND CONSP1CUA, 253 
Male bird, influence of, 78, 126, 
205 
Mamhead, 115 
Mandevillea suaveolens, aphides 
oil, 237 
Manettia bicolor, potting, 337 
Manure, exposure of, 201 
Maranta regalis, 324; Warsce- 
wiezii, 324 
Marble statues, exposing to 
winter, 108 
Marchioness of Hastings Grape, 5 
Margil, 225 
Martin’s attachment to its young, 
288 
May, forced flowers in, 179 
Mealy hug, to destroy, 28 
Medinilla magnifica, culture, 88 ; 
seedlings, 336 
Melianthus major, seeds, sowing, 
83 
Melon, culture, 28 ; Excelsior, 7G ; 
forcing, 178 
Melons, good kinds, 237 
Meteorology of 1858 at Linton 
Park,311 
Mildew, in Grapes, to cure, 60; 
in Vines, prevention and cure 
of, 124; on Vines, preventing, 
in a cool greenhouse, 153; gene¬ 
rally, 150; sulphuring, 197,202; 
cure and prevention of, 300 ; on 
Apple trees, 301 ; in Apples, 
320 
Mind your pockets, 16 
Mint, "variegated, as an edging, 
156 
Mistletoe, sowing, 28 ; growth of, ' 
150 
Momordica Charantia, 3 
Monro’s cannon boiler, 171, 128 
Monotoca elliptica, 380 
Monstera Adansonii, 198 
Mother Apple, American, 38 
Moulting of chickens, 62 
Mount Edgecombe, 147 
Muscat Hamburgh Grape, 75 
Mushrooms in a Cucumber-house, 
355 
Myrtles, transplanting large, 156 
Nxgelia kultiflora, 140 
National Columbarian Club, 94 
Nectarine culture, 193 
Nelumbium seeds, 350 
Nepenthes villose, 140 
Niger Expedition, letter from 
the, 91 
Nonpareil, Old, culture, 259; 
Braddick’s and Ross’, culture, 
259 
Nosegays, winter, 257 
Notes, by a small gardener, 86; 
from Bishop’s Waltham, 92 
Nurserymen’s catalogues, 14, 27 
Nycerinia selaginoides culture, 
102 I 
October, hardy plants bloom¬ 
ing in, 106 
CEnothers bistorta, 27 
Onion sowing, 297 
Ophioglossuin lusitanicum, 371 
