vi 
Dahlia lilacina varieqata, 50 
Dahlias, list of, 382 
Dairy management, 19 
Dandelion, wholesome, 138; note3 
on the, 362 
Daphne, pontica, 276; not bloom¬ 
ing, 319 
Davallia pentaphylla and culture, 
122 
Death, animals counterfeiting, 
160 
Death’s doings, 131 
Delphinium formosum, cutting 
down, 286 
Desfontainea spinosa, 390 
Devizes Poultry Show, 392 
Dewsbury Poultry Show, 349 
Dianthus, Heddewigii and laci- 
niatus, 20; Verschaffeltii and 
laciniatus, S9 ; Heddewigii in 
succession, 43; Heddewigii cul¬ 
ture, 202 
Dianthuses, 283 
Diarrhoea in hens, 125 
Dibble for pot-plunging, 170 
Dig deep; or profit not, 117 
Digitalis gloxinioides, 20 
Dorking, fowls, 16 ; pullet, pre¬ 
cocious, 263, 294 ; hens, combs 
of, 350 ; cock’s spurs, 380 
Doryopteris sagittifolia, 317 
Dottrell, 175 
Double flowers, producing, 286 
Doves, food for, 366 
Doyennd d’Ete Pear, 330 
Drake persecuting hens, 78 
Driffield Poultry Show, 232 
Drilling crops, advantage of, ISO 
Dryas Drummondi, 305 
Duchesse d’Angouleme Pear, 332 
Duckling lamed, 350 
Ducklings and ducks, food for, 
176 
Ducks, exhibiting in two classes, 
126 ; eggs, to prevent addling, 
167 
Dungs, comparative analyses, 136 
Echinodermata, 328 ; anatomy 
of, 356 
Egg trade, the, 203, 219; value 
of eggs, 251 
Eggs, preventing fowls eating, 
14; colour dependent on the 
hen, 16; boiling, 30 ; preserv¬ 
ing, 32 ; unproductive, 62, 108 ; 
detecting unfertile, 93; for 
one sitting, 93; results from 
selling, 107; numbers for a 
sitting, 108 ; hens eating, 174; 
use of unfertile, 159; bought 
and unproductive, 220, 320; 
use of addled, 321 
Elderberry catsup, 328 
Elm, large, in America, 342; 
grafting the, 369 
Entomological Society’s Meeting, 
25, 76, 154, 212, 260, 343 
Epacris culture, 256 
Epimedium colchicum culture, 50 
Eranthis hyemalis, 246 
Erica mediterranea, pruning, 347 
Errington, Mr. R., death of, 361 
Essex Agricultural Society’s 
Poultry Show, 191 
Eugenia Ugni, fruiting, 90 
Euonymus japonica, 276 
Exhibition at the Floral Hall, 188 
Exhibitions, utility of, 171; pre¬ 
cautions at, 319 ; sale of fowls 
at, 320; prices at, 320 ; Crystal 
Palace Catalogue, 320 
Farm, villa and miniature, 9 
Feeding poultry highly, its con¬ 
sequences, 190 
Fern-house, building a small, 116 
Ferns, notes on, 28, 317 ; list of 
new, 273; in baskets, 384 
Fescue, Sheeps’, 171 
Fig trees under Vines, 346 
“ Floral Magazine,” 89 
“ Florist’s Guide, The Amateur,” 
71 
Florists’ flowers, list of a few 
good, 231 
Flower-beds, training symmetri¬ 
cally, 299 
Flower-gardening in the fifteenth 
j and sixteenth centuries, 302 
INDEX. 
Flower gardens, 'wheel-arranged, 
65; arranging, 121 
Flowering plants, January—May, 
100 
Flower-pots, cast of, 30, 54 
Flower-seeds, sowing in a hotbed, 
6 
Flower-stand and fountain, 27 
Flowers, their uses, 230 ; colour 
and inhaling oxygen, 230 ; 
phenomena of fertilising, 244; 
common, 245; to preserve in 
their natural forms and colours, 
258 ; double, effect of light in 
producing, 300 
Forget-me-not, 49; of the Chat¬ 
ham Islands, 104 
Fowl’s tenacity of life, 349 
“ Fowls, a plain and familiar 
treatise on,” 108 
Fowls, eating feathers, 109, 142, 
234 ; number for a small space, 
140; feeding, 232 ; fed on 
putrid meat, 262; feeding on 
meat, 319; sickness in, 322 
Frames, cover for, 22 
Fruit, early insect depredators 
on, 129; tree laterals, 159; 
various forms of, 315 ; chemi¬ 
cal changes in ripening, 316 ; 
I ripening, phenomena, 340 ; 
trees transplanting, 347; ripen¬ 
ing and storing, 373 
“ Fruits and Vegetables, the cul¬ 
ture of, 38 
Fruits, influencing their flavour 
and texture, 68 ; culture of in¬ 
door, 84 
Fuchsia, culture of, 292; mon¬ 
strous, 354 
Fuchsias, list of light and dark, 
362 
Fuels, comparative value of, 354 
Furze, 276 
Game, Brown-breasted Red, 
points in, 236; fowls diseased, 
251; with paralysed legs, 125 ; 
yellow-legged, 125 
Ganders sold for geese, 107 
Gapes in chickens, 81; remedy 
for, 62 
Gardenia radicans culture, 347 
Gardener, is his occupation 
healthy ? 228 
Gardeners’ Benevolent Society’s 
dinner, 217 
“ Gardeners’ & Farmers’ Reason 
Why,” 60' 
Gardeners’ Fete at Paris, 355 
Gardening, science of, 24. 55, 7l, 
168, 197, 214, 229, 244, 271, 286, 
300, 315, 340, 354, 373 ; its 
healthful influence,181; flower, 
in the 14th century, 289 
Garrya elliptica, 276 
Gas, heating by, 92, 314; smell of 
in a pit, 379 
Gazania splendens, 50, 345 ; ma¬ 
nagement of, 179 
Geese for Michaelmas, 392 
Gemmation, phenomena of, 61 
Gentiana verna, 181 
Gentianella. sowing, 46 
Geraniums-beds, planting, 95 ; 
cuttings, 290; variegated Ivy¬ 
leaved, 89 
Geraniums, Trentham Scarlet, 
&c., as bedders, 2; Tom Thumb, 
leaves turning yellow, 28; 
Purple Nosegay, Fothergillii, 
&e., 30 ; Tom Thumb cuttings, 
43 ; Christine and Sheen Rival, 
50; Trentham Scarlet and Car¬ 
mine Nosegay, 51 ; crossing, 
51; genealogy of Crystal Palace 
ScaTlet and Improved Frog- 
more, 116 ; edging for circular 
bed of, 117 ; bedding, 129 ; Mrs. 
Vernon, 132; Crystal Palace 
Scarlet, Lady Agnes Byng, &c., 
their parentage, 165 ; leaves 
yellow, 171 ; bedding, 207; 
Trentham Scarlet, Shrubland 
Scarlet, Beaton’s No. 50, &c., 
208 ; cutting down, 343 ; varie¬ 
gated, 360 ; bedding, and their 
treatment long ago, 372 
Gilliflower in England, early 
notice of, 289 
Gishurst compound, 24,103 
Gladiolus Colvillii sport, 259 
Gladioluses, new, 381 
Gloxinia culture, 54 
Gloxinias propagating from 
leaves, 242, 347 
Godolo, the dairy at, 44 
Gomphrena globosa culture, 38 
Grafting, 71; different modes, 72; 
clay and wax, 73 
Grammatophyllum Ellisii, 123 
Grape-bunches turning brown, 125 
Grape wine, green, 360 
Grapes shanking, 250 ; Musoat, 
Hamburgh, 251; spotted, 292 ; 
spots in, 332 
Gravelly soil, improving, 332 
Greece, vegetation in, 158 
Green fly on Melons, 158 
Greenhouse, pygmy, 61; shading, 
arranging plants in, 99; hand- 
light, 101; building a small, 
166; plants for back of, 171; 
heating a small, 196, 292. 390 ; 
stage, 209; tenant’s right ,to 
remove, 231; heating a, 250 ’ 
Grievance, what would life be 
without a? 362 
Griselinia littoralis, 276 ; culture, 
250 
Grosbeak, Cardinal, naturalising, 
120 
Ground-floors, solid, 90 
Groundsel as a medical herb, 184 
Grouse, red, 160 
Guano and salt, 13 
“ Guanos, Jiatural,” 136 
Guinea fowls, 02, 308 ; prizes for, 
92 
Gyneriumargenteum culture, 107 
Habenaria Salacenbis, 301 
Hamburgh chickens, age for 
showing, 236 
Hampton Court Gardens, 295 
*■ Handbook of the Mechanical 
Arts,” 90 
Hardy plants, early-flowering, 
152 
Health, mode of sustaining, 136 
Heat, waste of in glass houses, 
114,137 ; preventing its escape, 
U41 
Heaths, 148 ; cross-breeding 282 
Heating, comparison of modes, 
355 ; a vinery, peach-house, 
and hot-pit, 385 ; a pit, 388 ; a 
small greenhouse, 390 
Heekmondwike Poultry Show, 365 
Hedaroma tulipifera culture, 248 
Heliotrope culture, 22 
Hen with white scurf, 222 
Hens, egg-eating, 32 ; with dis¬ 
ordered egg-organs, 140, 143 ; 
how to dispose of old, 293; 
with swelling in foot, 294 
Herbaceous plants, hardy flower¬ 
ing, 23,90, 123 
Hesperian fruit, 158 
Hives—form of comb-bars, 110 ; 
thickness of wooden, 126; 
paintingstraw,144; coating with 
cement, 160, 162; Stewarton, 
octagon, and bar, 161; bars and 
guide combs, 162 ; various, 175; 
covering for, 192; Stewarton, 
192; and coverings, 206; covers 
for, 236; moisture in wooden, 
266 ; sticks in, 350, 394 
Holly, variegated, budding, 30; 
in the shrubbery, 259 
Hollyhock, seedlings, hardiness 
of, 57; Show, Crystal Palace, 
346 ; list of, 363 
Horse, value of a dead, 332 
Horticultural Society of London, 
1, 59, 171, 354; Anniversary, 
79 ; plan of Garden, 81; Annual 
Report, 85; Garden at Ken¬ 
sington, plan of, 102 ; Fruit and 
Floral Committees, 105, 187, 
378 ; Fruit Committee, 239,291; 
Floral Committee, 113, 218, 
275, 303, 331 
Hose for garden purposes, 190 
Hotbeds, management of, 5 
Hot water heating with gas for 
fuel, 239 
“ House for the Suburbs,” 149 
Hungary, notes made in, 44 
Hybridising, results of experience 
in, 244 
Hydrangea leaves becoming yel¬ 
low, 201 
Hydrangeas, variegated, failing, 
388 
Hypericum proliferum, 352 
Ice-house, 391 
Inarching, its modes and uses, . 
168 
“ Index Filicum,” 137 
Indian Corn sowing, 61 
Insect, luminous, 83 
Irises, raising German and 8i- I 
berian, 255 
Isleworth, FlowOr Show at, 226 ! 
Ivy, to accelerate, 13; tree, a re- i 
markable, 58, 277 
Ixora jucunda, 301 
Jelly pish, 246, 287 
“ Joe,” a lesson for, 316 
Jonquils not blooming, 103 
Kafir Broom not blooming, 371 
Kalmia latifolia culture, 100 
Keighley Poultry Show, 363 
Kew Gardens in 1860, 309 ; ar¬ 
boretum and pleasure-grounds, 
351, 367 
Kimpton Hoo, gleanings from, 99 
Laburnum, purple, 326 
Lameness,animals counterfeiting, 
160 
Landscape gardener, knowledge 
needed by, 183 
Lantanas and their culture, 21; 
propagating, 237 
Lastrrea podophylla and culture, 
28 ; filix-mas vars. crispa, Bol- 
landiae and paleaceo-crispa, 273 
Lathyrus tuberosus wild in 
England, 391 
Laurel in the shrubbery, 259 
Laurustinus in the shrubbery, 
259 
Lawn, weedy, 125 
Leaves, propagating by, 214, 242 ; 
plants capable of such propa¬ 
gation, 215 ; preserving, 348 
Leeds Horticultural Fete, 109 
Lemon culture near Nice, 216 
Leptospermum baccatum culture, 
347 
Lice in poultry-house, 380 
Lightincreasedby reflectors, 137; 
its influence on fruit-ripening, 
373 
Ligurian queens, 48 
Like producing like, 379 
Lily of the Valley culture, 201 
Lilies, Japan, culture, 326 
Lime water for potted plants, 82 
Liquid manure’s effect on pots, 42 
Liquid manure, guano, 125 
Loam for potting, 332 
Lobelia, erinoides, 14; cardinalis 
management, 42 
London gardens, 346 
Lotus corniculatus plena, 299 
Loxia cardinalis, 192, 221, 252 
Lychnis Haageana, 40 
Lygodium polystachyum, 273 
Magnolia grandiplora in 
Greece, 158 
Malt beer, derivation of, 30 
Malt-dust as poultry food, 172 
Manchester and Liverpool Poultry 
Show, 380 
Mandevilla suaveolens culture, 
340 
Manure heap, 67 
Marigold, dwarf yellow as an 
edging, 7 ; growing the dwarf 
yeilow, 92 
Marigolds, French,from cuttings, 
18 
Market-gardening, 77 
Martens, do they induce bugs ? 
261; bugs on, 322 ; and bugs, 
304, 308 
Marvel of Peru culture, 201 
Massing system and its origin, 312 
Mathiola incanaimperiale, 20 
Mat Prices’s resources, 74 
May, hardy plants flowering in, 
129, 131 
Medusae, 247 
Melilotus leucantha, 332 
