LNDEX. 
Orange trees, shedding their 
leaves, 204 ; soil for, 252 
Orchard-house, its merits, 23 ; ; 
retarding Peaches in, 23; con- i 
stiuction of, 79 ; trees for, 204 ; I 
uses of, 252 
Orchard-houses, 130 
Orchids flowering in winter, 343 
Ord Apple, 225 
Osbeckia aspera, 193 
Oswego prepared corn, 92 
Ouvirandra Bernieriana, 27 
Oxygen required for germination, i 
314 ; beneficially applied to the | 
roots of plants," 383; absorbed \ 
by moist soil, 383 
r.r.ONV, TREE, CULTURE, 252 
Palm seeds, 350 
Palms at the Crystal Palace, 243 
Pampas Grass in pots, 125 
Pandanus Javanicus variegates, 
324 
Pansies, list of, and culture, 84 
Pansy-bed, preserving from ver¬ 
min, 26 
Paris Horticultural Exhibition, 39 
Paris, notes from, 133 
Partridge shooting, 14, 28, 7G 
Passerina seeds, sowing, 83 
Passiflora ligulata, pruning, 64 ; 
seeds, sowing, 83 ; princeps, 372 
Passion-Flower, propagating the, | 
I 89, 124; cutting down, 373 
Pasturage, forming permanent, 
369 
Pea, stems turning yellow, 301; 
culture and mildew, 307; hur¬ 
dles, 316 
Teach, culture, 193; forcing, 194; 
tree shoots, mildewed, 265 ; 
houses, failures in, 377 
Peaches retarding in orchard- 
houses, 23; giving salt to, 28 ; 
under Vines, 58 
Pear trees, unfruitful, 171; prun¬ 
ing young dwarf, 269 
Pear,' L’Inconnue, 340 ; Berga- 
inotte d’Esperen, 366; Beurrd 
Clairgeau, 380 
Pears, storing, 61; how to keep, 
146; gathering, 171; late, 370 
Pearson’s Plate, 260 
Peas, raising early, 84 
Pelargonium culture and list of 
varieties, 337 
Pelargoniums to bloom in July, 
278 
Pentstemon cordifolius, 8 
Periodical budding and leafing of 
trees, 3S6 
Perspective, 286 
Petunia, double, as a tedder, 23 
Petunias, double, 129 
Pheasants, keeping, 302 
j Philoperisteron Meeting, 256 
] Phygelius capensis, 55 
Phyllocactus anguliger, 353 
Phyllotaxy, or arrangement of 
leaves, 42 
Picea nobilis shoots turning 
brown, 344 
Pigeons, Tumblers, Turbits, para¬ 
sites on, 16; management, 16 ; 
Red-winged bar, 46 ; in a con¬ 
fined space, 78; Tumbler, 78; 
turned crown in, 206; points in 
the varieties, 283 ; ear, dis¬ 
charge in, 332 ; White Trum¬ 
peters, 346 ; House and Ground 
Tumblers, 373; points in, 374; 
Skinnum, 391 ; points ill the 
varieties, 392 ; Powters mating, 
406 
Pimelea seeds, sowing, 83 
Pine Apples, deformities in, 123 
Pine culture, on planting - out 
system, 366 
Pipes required for heating a given 
spaee with hot water, 385 
Pit, for forcing and stove plants, 
98; list of plants for, and their 
culture, 99; for forcing, 301; 
for Melons and Cucumbers, 
361 
Pitcher plants, 35 
Pitmaston Russet Nonpareil, 260 
Plantation of evergreen trees, 369 
Platycodon grandiflorum, 8 
Plectocomia Assamica, 370 
Pleroma elegans, culture, 262, 
323 
Plocostenuna lasianthus, 130; i 
lasianthum, 140 
Plum tree exuding gum, 344 
Podalyria seeds, solving, 83 
Poland fowls, 1S9 
Pollen, as food for adult bees, 138 ; 
preserving, 402 
Polygala Dalmatinna, 372 
Pomegranate blossom, 285 
Pomological Society (British), 5, 
72, 103, ISO, 186, 256, 262, 275, 
301, 325, 339, 356 ; (American), 
41 
Pompone, derivation of, 36 
Pompones, list of, 96, 161 
Pond, leaky, 14 
Portugal Laurel, pruning, 58; 
transplanting, 217 
Potato forcing, 178 
Potatoes, retarded versus young, 
120; forcing, for early use, 
133; Prolific First Fruit, Scotch 
Hon, Chesterman’s Seedling, 
Dr. Nelson’s Favourite, Chap¬ 
man’s Kidney, Martin’s Globe, 
Daw’s Matchless, Early Sur¬ 
prise, Cornish Kidney, Mutche’s 
Early, Rilott’s Flourball, 151 ; 
Alma for crossing, 155 ; Alma, 
198 ; Fox’s Seedling, Early Ra¬ 
dical, La Rohanaise, Early Ox¬ 
ford, Tussey’s Seedling, Chal- 
more Kidney, Conqueror, Mid¬ 
summer Kidney, Early Prolific, 
Manchester Blue, Boston Kid¬ 
ney, Lancashire White, Protes¬ 
tants, 215 ; autumn - planting, 
2G3; on ground unmanured, 
and boiling, 284 ; testing, 310 ; 
on gr ound not freshly manured, 
312; Walnut-leaved, and Ash¬ 
leaved, 385 
Potting and repotting, 365 
Potting-beneh, size of a, 60 
Poultry in a confined spaee, 61,94, 
346 ; sales, 62; feeding, 239, 
316 
“ Poultry Diary,” and “Direc¬ 
tory,” 222 
Preston Hall, 381 
Preston Poultry Show, 303, 317 
Pricking out, its use, 350 
Primula Stuarti, 85 
Propagating-house, construction 
of, 344 
Protea seeds, sowing, 83 
Protecting bloom, 344 
Pruning fruit trees in winter, 
principles of, 162 
Pullets, when heaviest, 46 
Pultenaea seeds, sowing, 83 
Putteridge Bury, preparation of 
flower-beds at, 26 
Pyramidal pear trees on the pear 
stock, 386 
Quills, ducks with erect, 174 
Rabbit, tumour in, 30 
Raspberry, peculiarities of its 
culture, 19 
Raspberries on a clayey soil, 403 
Rating nurserymen’s green¬ 
houses, 299 
Rat-trap, a cheap and effectual, 
i 160, 204 
[ Rats, sagacity of, 318 
| Redbreast, tameness of, 43, 91 ; 
i jealousy of, 218 
; Rhododendron virgatum, 145 
Rhododendrons for pot-culture, 
37G 
Retort hoiler, not a new in¬ 
vention, 80 
| Ribbon bed, 36; planting, 301 
Ribbon-beds, arrangement of, 14, 
, 25 ; plants for, 102 
Ribbon-planted borders, 329 
! Ribston Pippin, 225 
j Rice, analysis of, 247 
! Ringing vines, 390 
: Rocket, dwarf, 285 
| Rollison and Sons’ Nursery, 381 
' Room used for plants, 286 
1 Root of plants, 342 
j Roots, their extension and its 
consequences, 351 ; reciprocity 
of action with the branches, 
351; require air, 397 
Rose, Lamarque, luxuriant, how 
to prune, 25 ; bed for a pillar, 
58 ; bed, arrangement of a, 192; 
stocks, wild, pruning, 270 ; of 
Jericho, 300 
“ Rose Annual,” 268 
Roses, autumn-blooming, 90, 134 ; 
pruning Pillar, 107; blooming 
late, 117 ; soil and pruning for, 
121 ; list of good, 122; pruning 
climbing, 123; for a south-east 
wall, 171; pruning, when plant¬ 
ed, 200; manuring and prun¬ 
ing, 216; on own roots, 219; 
propagating Moss, 301 ; layer¬ 
ing, 333; Ranksian, in a con¬ 
servatory, 373 
Rouen Ducks for exhibition, 62 
Roup, cure for, 272 
Rubus nutans, 283 
Rules, interpretation of Exhibi¬ 
tion, 107 
Ruscus androgynus, 371 
Rustic work, 101 
Saiad, an excellent, 154 
Saline manures, mixing, 93 
Salvias in winter, 132 
Samolus litoralis, 371 
Sand for potting, 00 
Sanseviera cylindrica, 299 
Scab in the Potato, 298 
Sehubertia groveolens, 150 
Scouring in poultry, 94 
Sea-kale forcing, 154 
Seashore, plants for, 148 
Season, mildness of, 351 ; earli¬ 
ness of, 372; phenomena of the, 
389 ; phenomena of, 403 
Seeds, treatment of some exotic, 
82 ; time they retain vitality, 
247 ; heat and'cold they require 
and can endure, 248 ; hardi¬ 
ness of, 267 ; notes upon, 350 
September, hardy plants bloom¬ 
ing in, 24; flowers for exhi¬ 
bition in, 301 
Sewage, value of London, 27 ; 
profitable employment of Lon¬ 
don, 140 
Shelter for wall trees, 356 
Slug-killing mineral, 344 
Snails, mineral destroyer of, 76 
Social and solitary plants, 382 
Soil, temperature of, 267 ; its 
necessary temperature, 276 ; 
temperature of, 309 
Soils which are benefited by ridg¬ 
ing, 383 
Sonerila maigoritacea, 370 
Sorghum saccharatum, culture 
and use, 373 
Sowing, garden seeds, 297 ; con¬ 
sequences of deep, 315; sug¬ 
gestions for, 342; rules for, 
349 
Spanish-fowls, management, 62 ; 
diseased, 222 ; cause of bad ap¬ 
pearance, 188 ; blister on ear¬ 
lobe, 190 ; trimming, &c., 288, 
317, 331, 353; hen with some 
white feathers, 374 
Sparaxis seed, sewing, 82 
Sparmannia Africana seeds, sow¬ 
ing, 83 
Spathodea campanulata, 299 
Spring, propagating, 321; flowers, 
347, 388 
Spot on Geraniums, 132 
Stale, 304 
Stanwick Nectarine culture, 117 
Statiee monopetala, 150; Dick- 
insonii, 264; Holufordii cul¬ 
ture, 355 
Stephanotis floribunda, seeding, 
204; culture, 354 
Stockport Poultry Exhibition, 222, 
240 
Stove and greenhouse combined, 
226 
Strawberry forcing, 59, 100, 156 
Strawberries, digging among, 
217; through the year, 233 
Streptocarpus Rexii seeds, 350 
Strobilanthus Sabiniana culture, 
325 
Stuartia pentagynia, 366 
Stud House, Hampton Court, 31 
Sturmer l’ippin, 260, 297 
Sudbrooke Holm, 228 
Sulphur, applying to mildew, 
150 ; flowers of, 270 
Summerfield, 363 
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Synchronisms between nature 
and gardening, 277 
Tachiadenus caiunatus, 299 
Tacsonia mollissima, renewing by 
layers, 331 
Tan as a mulch, 315 
Tank heating, 226 
Thomasia stipulacea, 284 
Thorn, transplanting a large, 205 
Thunbergia coccinea, pruning, 03; 
Natalensis, 140 
Toads, climbing, 42 ; preserving, 
184, 236; and ants, 248 ; living 
without air, 285 
Tobacco drying, CO 
Tomato culture, 32, 379 
Tomatoes ripening out of doors, 
52 1 
Towccster Poultry Show, 29 
Town garden shrubs, 204 
Tradescantia discolor, 27 
Transplanting, its use, 350 
Tredegar Poultry Exhibition, 188, 
205 
Tree, the traveller’s, 389 
Triteleja uniflora, 388 
Tritonin, seeds, sowing, 82 ; 
uvaria, raising from seed, 119; 
aurea culture, 175 
Tropseolum Jarrattii, 252 
Tulips in beds, 28 
Tull’s first farm, 371 
Tumour in a fowl, 332 
Turf, renovating, 330; sowing 
and planting in, 341 
Turkeys, rouped, 30; fattening, 
391; flattening the breast-bone, 
391 
Twcedside fruit-growing, 154 
Tydeas, culture of, 2G1 
Ulceration in a fowl, 316 
Ulverston Poultry Show, 317, 331 
Yallota purpurea, 13 ; culture, 
250 
Yariegated-leavcd plants, 381 
Variegated plants, 290 ; for a 
greenhouse, 405; list of, 343 
Variegated stove plants, 324; list 
of, 265 
Vases in gardens, planting, 321 
Yauxhall Nursery, 359, 375 
Vegetable culture and cookery, 
387 
Veitch and Sons’ Exeter Nursery, 
19, 34 
Ventilating where sashes are 
fixed, 58 
Ventilators, opening, 330 
Verbena, cuttings, 252 ; history 
of the, 399 
Verbenas, descriptive list of se¬ 
lected, 51; wintering, 124, 284 
Yei oniea Syriaca culture, 102 
Versailles ' Nursery, Hammer¬ 
smith, 160 
Vertigo in a fowl, 346 
Viburnum tinus lucidum, 371 
Vine, roots, forced, what cover 
should they have? 153; bud¬ 
ding, 156; borders, utility of 
covering, 201; cuttings and 
eyes, 204 ; for pot culiui e, 204 ; 
and forcing, 204 ; hardy, 204 ; 
borders, how should they be 
covered? 246 ; borders, 273, 278, 
370 ; adjoining drawing-room, 
286; covering, 308 
Vines, in pots, forcing, 60; re¬ 
novating old, 234; in pots, 
250, 252 ; planting, 250 ; reno¬ 
vating, 302; new and moving 
old, 310 
Vinery, heating, 184 
Violets in winter, 114 
Yittadinia triloba, 55 
Wages of Gardenef.9, 196 
Wagtail, Yellow, 42, 76 
Walks, construction of, 149 
Wall border, fruit trees for, 13 
| Wall, ornamental plants for a 
south, 57; clothing a, 89; 
climbers for a shaded north, 
124; trees, growing vegetables 
