INDEX. 
Melon, culture of, 227 
Melons, water, 124; good va¬ 
rieties, 347 
Menyanthes trifoliata, 159 
Merthyr Tydvil Poultry Show, 
202, 278 
Mild season’s influence on fowls, 
159 
Mildew, in a greenhouse, 130; 
on Grapes, 319 ; on Pears, 332 
Milk, skimming for churning, 76 
Mimuluses, list of, 179 
Moi phology, 25 
Monochsetum ensiferum, 391 
Moon’s influence on the weather, 
116, 216 
Mulberry wine, 278 
Muscat Grape berries, spots on, 
262 ’ 
Mushroom proliferous, 196 
Myoporum parvifolium culture, 
347 
Myosotidium nobile culture, 50, 
104 
Nasturtium, Tom Thumb, 61 
Naturalising animals, 140 
Nectarine-Plum, 304 
Nectarines shedding their leaves, 
209; declining, 210 
Nepenthes, list and culture of, 101 
Nephrolepis davallioides and cul¬ 
ture, 28 
Nests, sitting, 46, 173 ; situation 
of sitting, 252 
Newmillerdam Poultry Show, 306 
New Zealand, vegetable products 
of, 215 
Nice, gardening near, 216 
Northamptonshire Poultry Show, 
391 
Northern Counties Fat Stock and 
Poultry Show, 93 
Northumberland, weather in, 255 
Norway, Notes on, 29 
Nostrils, discharge from hen’s, 94 
Notes from Notts, 290 
Nursery-gardening far North in 
the United States, 120 
Oaks, evergreen, moving in 
Mat, 83 
Oatcake, 29 
Odours of flowers, 300 ; can be 
intensified, 301; relation to 
colours, 301 
CEnothera biennis hirsutissima, 
20 ’ 
Oil as a destroyer of insects, 164, 
246 ' ’ 
Olive culture near Nice, 216 
| Oncidium longipes, 260 
Ophiocoma. neglecta and rosula, 
375 
Ophiura alb ida and texturata, 375 
Orach, variegated, as a bedder, 
324; Purple, at Trentham, 356, 
360; sowing purple, 379 
Orange gin, 319; and brandy, 347 
Orchard-house plans, 260 
Orchard-houses, 23, 292, 339 
Orchideous plants, hardy, 342 ; 
soil for, 343 
Orchids, 146 ; greenhouse, 283 ; 
house for, soil, and potting, 284; 
greenhouse, on blocks, in 
baskets, watering, 297 ; green¬ 
house, 317; summer treatment, 
airing, watering, and winter 
treatment, 318; lists of, 318; 
greenhouse, 329; insects on, 
and propagation, 330 ; hardy, 
in pots, borders, propagating, 
359 ; hardy, summer and winter 
culture, 370; distinguishing 
when not in flower, 384; hardy, 
propagation of, diseases and 
list of, 387 
Orphan chickens, hen a dap ting, 
Ortolans, 160 
Owl, beware of the brown-horned, 
1 QQ T 
P-KONT, ELtZAflETH, 39 
Pampas Grass., seed, 130 J plant¬ 
ing, 379 
Pansies, fancy., 237 
rartridgcs, Ite d-legged, 102, 204, 
Paxton’s, Sir J., garden in 1860, 
337 
Pea, everlasting, 361 
Peach-tree culture, 5 
Peach trees, blighted, 107 ; shed¬ 
ding their leaves, 209; declin¬ 
ing, 210; unfruitful, 219; trees, 
planting, 229; failure of, 229 
Peaches, failing, 62; insects on, 
130; mildewing, 250; and Nec¬ 
tarines leafless, 293 
Pear trees blighted, 107 
Pear leaves diseased, 171 
Pears—that do not succeed on the 
Quince, 81; on Quince stocks, 
121; insects on, 130; to ripen 
in succession, 250; for dwarfs, 
278; list of summer, 378 
Peas—growing early, 99; large 
sugar, 288; Sweet, sowing, 319 
Pegging down flowers, 299 
Pelargoniums, 148; treatment 
after blooming, 210; in pots, 
274; soil, training, arrange¬ 
ment in house, pruning, &e., 
275 ; in pots, draining, winter 
management, potting, &c., 285 
Pelliea flexuosa, 317 
Pencil for labelling indelibly, 76 
Pentapterygium rugosum, 301 J 
PentstemonMurrayanum culture, 
319 
Perilla Nankinensis, culture, 40 ; 
keeping through the winter, 
166; cuttings, 370 
Phloxes, list of, 382 
Periwinkle, early notice of, 289 
Petunias, double, 292 
Phalsenopsis grandiflora, 211 
Pheasant Malay Fowls, 93 
Pheasants, red-worm in, 321 
Phillyrea, 277 
Phlox Drummondi culture, 202 
Pig—profitable kinds, 35 ; size of 
stye, 35; buying and feeding, 
36 
Pigeon-cote infested by bugs, 
322 
Pigeon-house of iron, 64 
Pigeons—and Owls, 78; crushing 
their young, 110; and their 
nests, 126; for table use, 162; 
White Trumpeters, 174; dis¬ 
eased, 176; disease of, 322; 
fancy, which to keep, 394 
Pinching back fruit-tree shoots, 
154 
Pine Apples decayed in centre, 
201 
Pines, growing with Vines and 
other fruit trees, 313 
Pink pipings, 319 
Pinus insignis, dying, 250; and 
radiata synonymous (?) 353 
Pipes for steam and hot water, 
quantity needed, 355 
Piping (hot water) required for a 
small house, 90 
Pipings, 199 
Pips of Golden Pippin, 107 
Piptanthus Nepalensis seedlings, 
61 
Plane tree for parks, 369 
Plantations — evergreen under I 
shrubs for, 104, 155; pictorial 
management of, 132 
Plants, changed by circumstances, 
24; collecting and preserving, 
152 
Platanus acerifolia, 369 
Platyloma rotundifolia, 122 
Plum-Nectarine, 304 
Plums—suitable to Great Britain, 
10, 26, 44, 57 ; select list of, 58 ; 
insects on, 130 
Pocklington Poultry Show, 364 
Polands, black-crested white, 349 
Pollen, substitute for, 48; its 
composition, age, &c., 245 
Polyanthus, for bedding, 133, 150 
Polyanthuses, crossing, 210 
Polystichum, angulare vara, de- 
currens, Kitsoni®, and plu- 
mosum, 273; anomalum, 317 
Pomological Society’s Meeting, 
231, 291, 318 
Pomological Societv, Our Family, 
179 
Pond, (miniature) in a drawing¬ 
room, plants for, 104; trees for 
a filled-up, 390 
Poor, houses of the, 29 
Pork, to cure, 67 
Portsea Island poultry prize- 
list, 306; Show, 392 
Portugal Laurel in the shrubbery, 
259 
Portugal Laurels, moving in 
May, 83 
Potato, culture 30; Lemon 
Kidney, 304 
Potatoes—new, 4 ; cutting for 
planting, 40; raisingearly, 272; 
raising seedlings, 290 
Pots, to conceal in a conserva¬ 
tory, 14 ; crinoline, 165; plung¬ 
ing, 170 
Poultry — exhibiting profitably, 
31; fattening, 31; profitable, 
46, 62, 77 ; shooting, 77 ; supply 
of London, 92; exhibiting, 
profits of, 107 ; for small space, 
110; rearing, 307; precautions 
in exhibiting, 319; showing), 
333 ; breeding pure, 379 
Prescot Poultry Show, 263 
Preserving Peas, &c., green, 231 
Primula, Chinese, culture, 53 
Primulas, origin of, 197 
Privet, Chinese, 276 
Propagation, autumn v. spring, 9 
Protecting pyramidal fruit trees, 
180 
Protection, science of, 341 
Pruning, 213; its objects, 55; 
how to be done, 56 
Prunus sinensis, culture, 14; flore 
pleno not flowering, 139 
Pteris, quadriaurita, 123; cretica, 
260; argyrea, 273 
Pyrethrum roseum vai'ieties, 39 
Pyrus japonica unhealthy, 219 
Rabbit-hutches, painting, 380 
Rabbits, at the Crystal Palace, 
363 ; length of ears, 394 ; keep¬ 
ing profitably, 394 
Raby Castle, flower garden at, 7, 
56 
Races of vegetables, 290 
Rags, ashes of, 250 
Railway carriage charges for 
poultry, 191 
Rain and temperature in summers 
of last six years, 304 
Ranunculuses, removing, 45; 
native, 119 
Raspberries adapted to Great 
Britain, 91,105, 121 
Red lead keeping birds from 
seeds, 227 
Red-leg Weed,'190 
Red spider on Vines, 76 
Review, a, 360, 371 
Rhododendron, propagation, 11; 
Crocketti, alias leucanthum, 
4l; ciliatum 
Rhododendrons — characteristics 
and list of, 28; decayed tan for, 
42; pruning, 219; grafting, 
&c., 282; at Kew, 369 
Rhubarb wine, making, 202 
Richardia hastata, 71 
Rock gardens, 51 
Rockery, dwarf plants for, 202 
Rokeby, 385 
Roof of stove, proper angle for, 
373 
Root-pruning, 180 
Rosa sericea, 301 
Rose—culture out of doors; cha¬ 
racteristics, soil, and arrange¬ 
ment, 98; out of doors, sum¬ 
mer and winter culture, 133 ; 
pruning summer and autumn, 
134; out of doors, cuttings, 
and layers, 154; grafting and 
budding, 155, 249; suckers, 155 ; 
diseases, &c., 170 ; list of select, 
189; Show at the Crystal 
Palace, 241: can it be altered by 
its stock ? 243 ; culture in pots, 
cuttings, 248 ; a perpetual 
climbing, 326 ; tree roots under 
pavement, 343 
Rosendale Poultry Show, 321 
Roses—growing near London, 
39; in "pots, soil, potting, and 
protecting, 195; in pots, sum¬ 
mer, autumn, and spring prun¬ 
ing, 211; training, 212 ; petals 
stunted, 218; buddings and 
cuttings of, 219; for a N.E. 
wall, 250; in pots, forcing, 
255; preparing, air-giving, 
vii 
Roses— continued. 
insects, 256; in pots, summer 
and winter treatment, 272; list 
of kinds, 273; training low, 
278 ; in England, early noticed, 
| 289 ; lists of, 382 
Rhus succedaneum, 249 
Roup, treatment of, 236 
Saubomatum febox, 379 
Saxifrages, the wild, 69 
Scabiosas, new, 20 
Scale on Vines, 76 
Scolopendra electrics, 83 
Scotch Kale, culture of varie¬ 
gated, 388 
Screen, plant for a doorway, 9; 
a live, 390 
Scutellaria incarnata,tiar.Trianai, 
211 
Sea—Anemones, 151; kale forcing 
in a cellar, 348 ; Nettle, 247 
Selaginella atro-viridis and Lobbii, 
256 
Seashore, what to look for on, 
134, 151, 184, 246, 287, 328, 356, 
374, 388 
Season—prospects of, 22 ; and its 
consequences, 298, 303 ; effects 
of, 330 ; effects of at Wood- 
stock, 360 
Seasons, vicissitudes of, 59 
Seed, sowing Indian, 292 
Seeds and seedlings too much 
heated, 6 
Sequoia, derivation of, 117 
Sertularia argentea, 185 
Sewage, fixing ammonia in and 
deodorising, 215 
Shading a greenhouse, 99 
Sheffield Poultry Show', 220, 232 
Shelter, planting trees for, 201 
Shelters, science of, 343 
Shooting Bush, 13 
Shrubs, grafting hardy, 345 
Shrubbery, the mixed, and its 
treatment, 258, 276 
“ Siden-tailed” fowls, 394 
Sisyrinchium anceps, 246; cul¬ 
ture, 100 
Skimmia Japonica, sowing, 196 
Slugs, destroying, 167 
Solaster eudeca and papposa, 389 
Sorrel, French, 159 
Spanish, fowls moulting, 93; 
chickens, feeding, 108; fowls 
diseased, 264 
Sparkenhoe Poultry Show, 380 
Species and varieties, 211, 213 
Spergula pilifera—saginoides and 
subulata, 30; footmarks on, 
55 ; as an edging, 61; its value, 
163 ; establishing a lawn with, 
177; where grass would not 
grow, 195; value of, 246; fora 
cricket-ground, 391 
Spergulas as a substitute for grass, 
85 
Spiriea, filipendula plena, 299; 
corymbosaand Nobleanum, 353 
Stachvs lanata, 325 
Star Fish, 329 
Starling teaching to talk, 394 
Steam, escaping from cistern, 
101; heating by, 355 
Stewart’s Desert Pea, 251 
Stock, the Imperial, 20 
Stocks (German), summer, au¬ 
tumn, and winter culture, 40 
Stopping, its results, 55; prin¬ 
ciples of, 84 
Stothard and the butterfly, 122 
Strawberry—Sir Harry, forcing, 
68, 104, 167 ; for early forcing, 
250 ; Sir Harry, 269; largest, 
278 
Strawberries—adapted to Great 
Britain, 151, 168, 169 ; select 
list of, 187 ; manure for, &c., 
293 ; chronology of some, 354 
Sufferer with “ E. C.,” 393 
Superfcetation in flowers, 254 
Superphosphate of lime as a ma¬ 
nure, 62 
Sussex Poultry Show, 264 
Swainsonia Greyana, 251 
Sweet Briar stocks for Roses, 01 
Tacsonia ignea, 272 
Tamarisk, propagating, 319 
Tecoma veiutina, 272 
