INDEX. 
Abies Williamsonii, 52 
Acacia, grondis, propagating, 88; 
Drummondi, 260 
Actinia, coriacea, section of, 135 ; 
dianthuSj calendula, parasi¬ 
tica, bellis, and Tuediffl, 152 
Adiantumreniforme and culture, 
28 
Ajuga reptans alba, 181 
Alaternus, 277 
Alcyonium digitatura, 136 
Alocasia metallica, 260 
Aloe, Great American, in bloom, 
329; filifolia seedlings, 352 
Amaranth, culture of Globe, 38 
American plants, bed for in a 
clay soil, 11 
Amorphophallus dubius, 211 
Anacbaris alsinastrum, 368 
Anemone, pulsatilla, 181, 197; 
vitifolia, 305 
Anemones, sea, 134 
Ancectochilus culture, 201 
Angraecum eburneum var. virens, 
71 
“Animals, Uses of,” 331 
Annuals, for bedding and cut¬ 
tings from them, 17 ; time and j 
mode of sowing, 18; cutting 
down, 98; for sowing in Sep¬ 
tember, 379 
Anomala horticola, 219 
Ants, destroying, 92; driving 
away, 348 
Apiarian Notes, 160, 235, 265,350 
Apple-de6troying insect, 219 
Apples, for dwarfs, 278 ; list of, 
379 
Apricots, insects on, 130 
April, hardy flowers in, 131 
Araucaria imbricata, sowing, 353; 
stunted, 356 
Arbutus culture, 276 
Arnott’s stove, heating by, 314 
Aroma of flowers, 300 
Ash, weeping, treatment of a 
large transplanted, 319 
Asparagus, moving old, 362 
Aspidistra lurida, 77 
Astelia Cunninghamii, 71 
Asters, German and French, 382 
Athyrium filix-foemina, vars. 
multicep3 and plumosum, 273 
Aucuba Japonica culture, 276 
Aurelia aurita, 288 
Auriculas not blooming, 103 
Aviary, climbers for, 109; con¬ 
verting an attic into, 175 
Azalea, dowers, defective, 130; 
Indica, minutim of culture, 200 
Azaleas, 147; greenhouse, list 
of, 30; pruning, 219; hardy 
Ghent, 250 
Azara Gilliesii, 71 
Bacon, curing, CO 
Balsam culture, 202 
Bantam cock, broody, 321 
Bantam cocks, Game, exhibiting?, 
366 
Bantams, White, 236, 294; kindjs* 
236; White, characteristics < J, 
266 ; at Beverley, 294 
Barley-water, clear, 202 
Bath & West of England Poulti y 
Show, 173, 191; ducks at, 126 
Beche-de-mer, 61 
Bed, planting a circular, 22 
Bed-rooms and sick-rooms, plants 
in, 36 
Bedding and breeding plants, 49 
Bedding out at the Crystal Palace 
in 1860, 223 
Bedding plants, 2, 282 ; manage¬ 
ment of, 98; propagating, 237 ; 
under trees, 296 
Bedding with one kind off plant, 
325 
Bedding system under diffi¬ 
culties, 267 
“ Bee, the Italian Alp,” 63 
Bee-houses and bee-boxes, 16, 47 
“ Bee-keeper’s Manual,” 144 
Bees—and those who have written 
about them—Fitzherhert, 15; 
Tusser—Hill, 48 ; Heresbach, 
Googe, 63; larvro spinning 
cocoons, 15 ; increase of Ligu¬ 
rian, 16; Ligurian queens, 
wheaten-flour, boxes, and 
dysentery, 32; results of dif¬ 
ferent aspects, 32; Ligurian, 63, 
78, 144. 366; breeding queens, 
64; guide comb, 78; coatings 
of brood cells, 78 ; ants infest¬ 
ing, 78; Ligurian queens, 94, 
162, 205 ; establishing a Ligu¬ 
rian stock, 94; a variety of, 
110; substitutes for pollen, 110; 
early swarm of, 126; moving 
brood comb, 126; glasses of 
supers, 126; fraternising, 143; 
intercourse with common, 143 ; 
houses and open stands, 160; 
domiciles, 175 ; adding a Ligu¬ 
rian queen, drones preceding 
swarming, 176; workerslaying 
eggs, 176; Ligurian, hybri¬ 
dising, 192; commencing keep¬ 
ing, 192; workers laying eggs, 
192 ; Ligurian and other, 206 ; 
and thistles in Tasmania, 221; 
capturing queen at swarm¬ 
ing, 222 ; taking honey from 
swarmed hives, 222 ; expelling 
drones early, 222 ; driving, 2£2 ; 
present honey season, 235; fer¬ 
tile workers, 236 ; age of queen, 
swarms returning, migration 
of a stock, 252; taking con¬ 
demned stocks, 264 ; the season 
and its prospects, 265 ; cap¬ 
turing queens, 266 ; unable to 
flv, 266 ; decoy combs, absence 
of drones in first swarms, 280 ; 
early notice of in England, 
289; Ligurian combs, size of 
cells, 294 ; the season, desert¬ 
ing hives, 294; feeding, 322, 
336,350; drones visiting various 
hives, 322 ; in Scotland, 336 ; 
keeping out wasps, 350; second 
swarms, 366, 394 
Beet-root for poultry, 31 
Begonia Bowringian'a, 123 
Begonias, new, 147 ^for bedding, 
193; propagating from leaves, 
242; bedding out, 255 
Bcrberis, asiatica, 61 ; evergreen 
' species, 276 ; japonica under 
i trees, 369 
Beurre Gifford Pear, 361 
Beverley Poultry Show, 141 
Biennials, new hardy, 20 
Bignonia, Chamberlaynii, 39; 
Tweediana, 272 
Birds, naturalising, 126; scaring, 
250; acclimating, 252 
Biscuits, 277 
Bishop Auckland Flower Show, 
346, 379 
Bistort, 190 
Blackbird with tumour, 126 
Blight on Cabbages, destroying, 
342 1.114 
Blossom falling in orchard-house, 
Boiler, heating surface needed, 
355; fire surface required, 391 
Boiling-point, 249 
Boilers, incrustation of, 292 
“Bouquet, The Illustrated,” 39 
Bouvardia culture, 14, 196 
Box, 277 
Brahma Pootras, 16; a cross 
breed, 108; do they breed true ? 
143; chickens, detecting sex 
in, 336 
Bretagne cows and sheep, 9 
Bretton Poultry Show, 394 
Broccoli, protecting in winter, 
123, 155 
Brugmansia, Knightii and lutea, 
propagating, 88; arborea not 
blooming, 319 
Buffalo refuse, uses of, 331 
Bugs, colour obtained from, 331 
Bulbs from the Cape, treatment 
of, 70,179 
Bullfinches, rearing young, 307 
Bunodes crassicornis, 135 
Bupthalmums and culture, 23 
Burton-on-Trent Poultry Show, 
393 
Butterfly, duration of chrysalis, 
75; the Swallow-tailed, 292 
“Butterflies, British,” 71 
Cacat.ias and culture, 23 
Caladium, Chanotii, 231; bicolor, 
var. Neumannii, 301 
Caladiums, 194 
Calaminthas and culture, 23 
Calceolarias, pruning back, 43; 
species and culture, 123 
Callixene polyphylla, 260 
Calendrinias and culture, 90 
Calf management, 4 
Calliandra hmmatocepbala, 123 
California, Notes on South, 13 
Camellia culture in pots, 182 
Camellias, list of twelve, 333 ; 
liquid manure for, 340 
Campanula pyramidalis culture, 
150 
Campanulas, new, 20 
Canaries, wild, 32 ; Norwich, 122; 
treatment of, 280; rules of a 
Society for showing, 279; by 
rail, 394 
Canary, and British Finches, 25, 
43, 88, 122, 172, 233, 335, 364; 
of Madeira, 43; to make it 
sing, 64; the common, 73; 
varieties of, 88; Lizard va¬ 
riety, 172; London Fancy, 233 ; 
rules of Society, 233; pulling 
out its own feathers, 252 ; the 
Crested, 307 ; with wounded 
foot, 322; Continental or Ite- 
gular Pied, 335; Erect Belgian, 
364 
Candytuft, evergreen, 262 
Canna coccinea from English 
seed, 255 
Carnation and Pink, cross be¬ 
tween, 312 
Carnations in soils too light, 202 
Carriage-drives forming, 119 
Caryophyllea Smithii, 184 
Ceanothus, oreganus, 71; ame- 
ricanus, 352, 368 
Cedrus deodara, shoots dying, 
201; for the west coast of Ire¬ 
land, 318 
Celery, manuring, 332 
Cephalotus follicularis culture, 
166 
Cerastium tomentosum as an 
edging, managing, 186 
Cereus, night-blooming, not flow¬ 
ering, 318 
Chelone barbata, 297 
Cherries insects on, 130 
Chickens, paying cottagers for 
rearing, 16 ; rearing, 32 ; spring 
management of, 46; sell your 
spare, 125; removing from 
their mother, 159; detecting 
sex, 162; lice on, 280 
China Asters, stopping, 103 
Chinese vegetable seeds, sale of, 
70 
Christmas, flowers for, and their 
culture, 326 
Chrysanthemum, regalium as a 
bedder, 125 ; time of blooming, 
231 
Chrysanthemums, a list of Pom- 
pone, 46; twelve, 77; in pots, 
125 
Chysis bractescens, 211 
Cibotium Schiedei and culture, 
121 
Cinerarias, not thriving, 148; un¬ 
healthy, 171 
Citril Finch, 25 
Citrus genus in Greece, 158 
Clubbing in Cabbageworts, 378 
Club-root and its cure, 328 
Coalbrookdale Poultry Show, 204 
Coals, comparative value of, 354 
Cochin-China hens as mothers, 
125 
Cochin-Chinas, points in Buff, 16 
Cocoa-nut fibre, its uses, 179 
Cocos, coronata flowering at 
Kew, 7 ; plumosa, 123 
Coletia Bictoniensis, 59, 353 
ColeusBlumei pectinatus culture, 
319 
Colocasia metallica, 147, 194 
Collinson, P., reliques of, 288 
Colour, of plants, cause of, 25; 
relation of to heat, 342; and 
odour in flowers, their relation, 
301 
Colours, arranging, 95 
Comatula rosacea, 374 
Comb, sprig on a cock’s, 192 
Conifers, sowing seeds of rare. 7 ; 
tenderness and hardiness, 100 
Conservatory, raised beds in a, 
14 ; heating, 42, 231 ; at the end 
of a house, 149; floor, 171 
“ Cook’s own Book,” 150 
Corallines, 184 
Corn, treading out, 124 
Cornus Suecica, 298 
Corynactis viridis, 151 
Cottager, what constitutes a ? 87 
Cow, feeding, 4; Bretagne, 9 
Cows, Bretagne, 77, 139 
Cramlington Poultry Show, 109 
Cribella oculata and rosea, 389 
Crickets, destroying, 347 
Crinoidea, 374 
Crinoline pots, 246, 278 
Crops, review of, 371 
Cross-breediDg, 62; its effects and 
how to practise, 271 
Cross Fishes, 388 
Crossing flowers, 253 
Crystal Palace—Poultry Show and 
Mr. Horry, 14; Flower Shows 
at, 58; Horticultural Show, 
137, 145; Show of cut flowers, 
316; Poultry Show, 333, 348, j 
365; and its catalogue, 320 ; 
Gardens in 1860, 323; Babbits 
at, 364; Fruit and Flower 
Show, 381 
Cucumber, large, 167 ; new, 261; 
culture, 319 
Cucumbers, successful culture 
of, 100; good varieties, 347 
Cupressus macrocarpa and Lam- 
bertiana from same seed, 352 ; 
Goveniana, 352; glauca, 353 
Cutting-house, a miniature, 196 
Cuttings, science and modes or 
making, 197; various kinds of, 
214 
Cyansea capillata, 247 
Cyclamen, culture, 29; Africa- 
num, 77; culture, 84; tubers, 
347 
Cyclamens, at rest, management 
of, 225; vegetating prema¬ 
turely, 248 
Cypripedium spectabile, 347 
Cyrtodeira cupreata, var. viridi- 
folia, 301 
Cytisus propagation, 250 
