INDEX 
Vll 
Necham, A., 198 
Nectarine culture, 81 
Nemophila maculata, 8 
Newcastle Poultry Show, 34, 50 
Newmiller-dam Poultry Show, 
319 
Nightingales, rearing the, 78, 
124 
Niphcea albo-lineata, var., reti¬ 
culata, 27 
North Rode, visit to, 195 
Nosegays, everlasting, 390 
Notes from the Continent—Char- 
lottenburg, 7; Cologne, 120 ; 
Berlin, 86; Hanover, 101; 
Brussels, 179; Ghent, 210, 238 
Oberonia acaulis, 165 
Olea ilicifolia, 128 
Olla podrida, 123 
Omar Jackson, 210 
Oncidium panchrysum, 24 
Onion maggot, and culture, 325 
Orange trees, shedding leaves, 
32; repotting, 385 
“Orchar'd House, The,” 177 
Orchard house, fruit trees in, 212 
Orchard houses, forcing in, 375 
Orchard trees, protecting, 414 
Orchids, exhibited in May, 127 ; 
in June, 156; in September, 
375; hybrid, 390 
Orchis foliosa, 379 
Ornaments of leaves and flowers, | 
381 
Ortolans, 213 
Oxalis, development of, 329 
Palm house at Edinburgh, 85 
Palms for the greenhouse and 
conservatory, 366 
Pampas Grass culture, 298; 
situation for, 378 
Pancratiums, the hardy, 400 
Pansy management, 315 
Paroquet, breeding Australian, 35 
Partridge shooting, 385, 400 
Passiflora racemosa, 92 ; amabilis 
turning yellow, 299 
Passion Flower pruning, &c., 28 
Peach, growing in Lancashire, 
58 ; trees, saline compost for, 
71; culture, 81; summer prun¬ 
ing, &c., 341 
Peaches mildewed, 75 ; failing in 
America, 368 
Pear, mildew, 225 ; its habits and 
culture, 359; its diseases, 360; 
in Lancashire, 363 
Pears, for a south wall in Tyrone, 
198 ; in summer, 221; in Lan¬ 
cashire, 273 ; at Montmorency, 
278 ; list of, 391; which suc¬ 
ceed in Lancashire, 415 
Peas, to grow early, 188 ; list of 
early, 189 ; soil 'unfavourable 
to, 299; The Five, 351 
Pegging down plants, 203; pins 
for, 224 ; hair-pins for, 242 
Pelargoniums, culture in May 
and June ; list of, 103 ; list of 
exhibited, 128; at Chiswick, 
156; arranging, 157; cuttings, j 
254 ; and Geraniums, their dif- 
ference, 248 
Pens, cheap, for Poultry Shows, ! 
336 
Pentstemon Jaffrayanus, 27 
Perilla Nankinensis, 385 
Petunia cuttings, time for 
making, 234 
Petunias, double and single, lists 
of, 411 
Philodrendron erubescens, 379 
Phlox, Drummondi culture, 43; 
suffruticosa and decussata com¬ 
pared, lists of, 335 
Photography—Carson’s negative 
paper, 46 
Physalis edulis, 251 
Physical Geography, 66 
Picotees, list of, 133 
Pigeon, trap, 50; cock and hen 
to distinguish, 50; house, its 
construction, 110; Clubs of 
London, 319 
Pigeons — The Helmet, 14 ; the 
Shield, 35; Miriotds, and Ice, 
36 ; washing, 36 ; Australian 
Bronze-winged, 50, 320; na¬ 
tural history of, 94; manage¬ 
ment of, 154; net and hopper 
for, 170 ; pairing and breeding, 
200 ; feeding and tending, 215 ; 
Tumblers, 216, 320, 388 ; raising 
a flight of, 250 ; rationale of 
flying them, 231 ; diseases and 
parasites, 267; their merits, 
284, 285; classification of, 285 ; 
model prize list, 286; House 
Tumbler, 320 ; notes on, 338; 
Almond Tumbler, 338 
Pike, its voracity, 296 
Pincushion beds, 244 
Pinetum, The, 210 
Pine-shoot insect, 198 
Pines fruiting prematurely, 263 
Pinus, large specimens of, 246 
Pipes, instead of a brick flue, 58 ; 
plant to hide hot w r ater, 179 
Pitcairn Islanders, progress of 
the, 242 
Pit for Melons and cuttings, 367 
Plum tree shoots, stopping, 122 
Poland fowls, 418 
Polands, Black, 13, 50, 77 
Polygala Hilairiana, 165 
Polygonatum, roseum, 106; punc- 
tatum, 209 
Pomological Committee of the 
Horticultural Society, 218 
Pomological Society, Meeting of, 
84, 205, 228, 262, 290, 333, 344, 
405 
Pompones, why so named, 415 
Pond, surface becoming green, 
93; covered with green scum, 
117 
Potato, murrain, 192 ; crop, pros- 
j pects, 265 
I Potatoes — Fortyfold, British 
Queen, Ash-leaved Kidneys, 
I Early American, Prince of 
| Wales, York Regent, Scotch 
Champion, and Alma, 26; 
Dean’s Seedling, Brockley Kid¬ 
ney, Bread Fruit, 73 ; Webber’s 
Kidney, Fiftyfold, Early Blue, 
Sheward’s Seedling, Alstone 
Kidney, Elmley Ball, Old and 
Orkney Red, 74 ; Early Syden¬ 
ham, 76; the Early Shaw, 92; 
descriptive list of Fluke, Jersey 
Blue and White, Walker’s 
i Large White, Champion Ash- 
leaf, Brighton Kidney, Early 
Manley, Early Gloucester, 
Hodgson’s Seedling, and Yellow 
Top,115 
Pots, effect of painting, 123 
Poultry, feeding, 11; for exhibi¬ 
tion, 12; breathing with diffi¬ 
culty, 14 ; houses, 46 ; brick 
floors to, 47 ; Shows, their offi¬ 
cers exhibiting at, 49, 93; and 
egg sales, 77; fraudulent ap¬ 
plicants for, 77; Shows, ma¬ 
nagement, 76; entry charges 
at Shows, 93; yard, a lay of 
my, 78; thinning out, 168; 
Shows, arrangement for future, 
318; future, 355; garden, 
plants for, 303 ; for profit, 337 ; 
sun required by, 387 ; keepers, 
caution to, 402 
Prepayment, safety in, 124 
Prescot Poultry Show, 249 
Preserving without sugar, 74 
Primula officinalis, 329 
Prolific Sweetwater Grape, 406 
Protecting or not protecting wall 
trees, 97 
Pruning fruit trees, 100 
Prunus sinensis (double) not 
blooming, 33 
Pumpkin culture, 333 
Putteridge Bury, flower-garden¬ 
ing at, 361 ; arrangement of 
borders, 362 
Quails in confinement, 335 
Quickset hedge, planting, 120 
Rabbit, malformation of a, 388 
Radish culture, 236 
Rampion culture, 236 
Raspberries, summer pruning, 
175 ; drying, 212 ; wild, 207 
Rats, to exclude, 165 
Red spider, to destroy, 23 ; on 
wall fruit, 114 ; to subdue, 354 
Reichenheims’ garden, 86 
Rhododendron ponticum hardy, 
33; hirsutum and ferrugineum, 
to distinguish, 33; virgatum,54; 
barbatum, 73 ; Edgworthii in 
Ireland, 151; argenteum, 165 ; 
seedlings, protecting, 241; vir- 
gatum, 209 ; Griffithianum, 
var. Aucklandii, 292 
Rhododendrons, culture of, 76 ; 
253 
Rhubarb, small-stalked, 282 
Ribbon style of bedding, 95 
Richardia iEtliiopica manage¬ 
ment, 121 
Ringing fruit trees, 400 
Ringing the Grape Vine, 163 
Robin, anecdote of the, 393 
Rockery, stone for, 33 
Root-pruning fruit trees, 378 
Rose, culture, 219; cuttings, 
failure, 209; cuttings, 219; j 
buds not opening, 229 ; mount 
at the Crystal Palace, 307 
Rosery, formation of, 221 
Roses in pots, list of, 53, 54; 
Banksian, not blooming, 90; J 
exhibited in pots, 128; Grand 
National Exhibition of, 204 ; for 
standards, 298 ; layering, 353 
Rouen Duck, prolific, 199 
Runt Pigeon tumbling, 372 
Rushock Pearmain, 206 
Saa-gaa-ban, 44 
Saffron Crocus, its diseases, 346 
Sagartia, dianthus, 380; para¬ 
sitica, 397 ; anguicoma, bellis, 
dianthus, and troglodytes, 409 
Salad culture, 235 
Saline air injurious to plants, 33 
Salt for Peach trees and other 
purposes, 190; as a manure for 
the Peach tree, 379 
Salvia gesnereeflora losing its 
leaves, 90 ; patens and Calceola¬ 
ria amplexicaulis in a bed, 150 
Sands, on the, 331, 350 
Savoy sowing, 41 
Saxifraga purpurascens, 292 
Sea-weeds, beauty of the, 177; 
preserving, 226 ; flowers, their 
classification, 379, 396; notes 
on, 395, 409 
Sea worms, 56 
Seeds, hardiness of, 220 ; and 
seedlings, hardiness of, 364 
Sewage sediment, 92 
Slowworm, the, 292 
Shanking in Grapes, 415 
Sheffield prize list, 34 ; Poultry 
Show, 213 
Sheltering fences, 240 
Solanum jasminoides, 242 
Sorghum saccharatum, 272 
Spanish chickens, lame, 50; hens 
broody,184 
Sparkenhoe Farmers’ Club Poul¬ 
try Show, 401 
Spinach, to check its going to 
seed, 187 
Spot on Pelargoniums, 93 
Spring flowers, 95 ; list of, 20 
Sprue, 46 
Stocks, Brompton and Queen, 
227, 261 ; cause of double 
flowers, 316 
Strawberry, forcing, 90; British 
Queen, 121; culture, new mode, 
165 ; Oscar, 218 ; culture, 265 
Strawberries in pots, 182; rais¬ 
ing from seed, 248 ; staged 
bank for, 366 
Stylidium armeria, 242 
Super-phosphate of lime as a 
liquid manure, 123 
Sulphur, applying to Vines, 148 
Swainsonia purpurea, blooming, 
75 
Swarming, origin of, 227, 414 
Swarms leaving hives, 244 
Tacon, a disease of the Saffron 
Crocus, 346 
Terrace garden in summer and 
spring, 300 
Thrush, rearing the, 78 
Thyrsacanthus Indieus, 209 
Toads changing colour, 152 
Town, flowers in a smoky, 415 
Tritoma uvaria, its beauty, 358 ; 
Tritonia aurea, with Tritoma 
uvaria, 358 
Tritoma and Tritonia, prices of, 
397 
Tropieolum elegans cuttings, 270 ; 
tricolorum, to pot, 326 
Tubers, development of, 259, 276, 
294, 312, 328 
Tulip, development of 260 
Tulips, early, 102 
Turkey, its introduction, 215 
Turkeys, wild, 199 
Turnips, ancient culture for cattle, 
181; caterpillars on, 229 
Tussilago Japonica the same as 
Farfugium ? 66 
“Two men shall be in the Field,” 
394 
Unity of expression, 237 
Vallota purpurea major, 390 
Van Houtte’s garden at Ghent, 
238 
Vanda gigantea, 54 ; suavis, 72 
Vases, planting small, 196 
Vegetable crops under over¬ 
hanging fruit trees, 310 
Ventilating a greenhouse in win¬ 
ter and spring, 42 
Ventilation of garden structures, 
129 
Verbena cuttings, potting, 32; 
venosa 'cuttings, 62 ; cuttings, 
269 ; culture for exhibition and 
list of, 8 ; pegging down, 192 ; 
too tall, 381; descriptive list of, 
412 
Viburnum plicatum, 128 
Vine laterals, stopping, 29; leaves 
scorching, 122 ; leaves diseased, 
248 ; mildew, 352 ; culture, ex¬ 
tensive, 395 
Vinery, conservatory, and steam¬ 
ing apparatus, in one, 393 
Vineries, arranging and heating 
borders, 136 
Vines, retarding in a cellar, 42; 
in pots, 42, 138 ; stopping and 
syringing, 88 ; which have been 
lifted, 135 ; shortening and re¬ 
moving laterals, 137; early- 
fruiting young, 221; to prevent 
early breaking prematurely, 
236; in pots in a pinery, 264; 
and Pines together, 264; en¬ 
closing partly, 264 ; tuberous 
rooted, 282 
Vineyards established in England, 
182, 197 
i Viola calearata, as edging plant, 
; 270 
Violets, bed for, 9 ; Neapolitan, 
ill-treated, 367 
Virginian Creeper, to train with 
Ivy, 322 
Wall trees, protecting, 97 
Warder’s hives and Richardson’s 
book, 11 
Wasps’ nests underwater, 370 
Water Melon of Africa, 281 
W r ater Lilies, moving, 385 
Water garden, 399 
Watering, a few notes on, 166 
Weekly Calendar, 1, 15 
Wellington Road Nursery, 5, 20 
Wheat, dibbled, 228 
W r ild flowers, how to learn about 
them, 146 
Window greenhouse, 89 
Wistaria consequaria not grow¬ 
ing, 33 
Wood Pigeon, attempts to do¬ 
mesticate, 355 
Woodlice, trapping, 183 ; destroy¬ 
ing, 265 
Worcester Poultry Show, 199, 
231, 355, 372 
Worrall controversy, 12, 47, 64, 
109; doings at Liverpool, 13 
Worms, destroying, 62 
XlPHIDIUM FLORIBUNDUM, 165 
Yates’ Nursery, Manchester, _4 
York, proposed Poultry Exhibi¬ 
tion in, 154; Show, 199, 284 
Yucca gloriosa, blooming, 311 ; 
large, 415 
Zammara, 62 
Zeyria macrophylla, 54 
Zinc labels, ink for, 76 
Zoophytes, 379 
Zygopetalum brachypetalum, 25 
