Till 
INDEX. 
Temperance as a guardian of 
health, 1S6 
Thicket, planting a, 139 
Thorne Poultry Show, 203 
Tlirips on Melons, 158 
Thuiaria thuia, 185 
Tiffany-houses, 113; for bedding 
out plants, 333 
Tiffany, houses covered with, its 
uses, 30; as a shelter from 
birds, 357 
Timber, durability of, 248 
Timbers, test of strength of, 277 
Toads, as bee-eaters, 206 
Tobacco, in Hungary, 45 ; paper 
keeping green fly from Melons, 
&c., 228 
Tokay wine, 45 
Towcester Horticultural FOte, 376 
Town gardens, flowers for, 85 
Tradescantia Warczewicziana, 211 
Transylvania, climate and wines, 
124 
Tredescant, John, sen., memoir 
of, 344 
Trepang, 61 
Trichomanes radieans culture, 11 
Tritoma—Roperii culture, 13; 
uvaria in a pot, 84; uvaria 
offsets, 376 
Trollius europocus, 181 
Tropmolum — elegans planting, 
61; Stamfordianum, 361; ele¬ 
gans, 332 
Trap fool urns, 283; bedding, ma¬ 
nagement, 97 
'Vu'.ip bulb never dormant, 71 
Tulips, descriptive list of, 112; 
crossing, 201 
Turkeys — American, manage¬ 
ment of, 5; with gummy eyes, 
222 
Two Acres, how to farm and 
make the most of, 4, 19, 35, 60, 
67 
UuASTER GLACIALIS & RUBENS, 
388; hispida, 389 
Vanda, suayis, 71; gigantea, 
211 
Variegated hardy shrubs, 157 
Variegated plants, 50 
Variegated trees, list of hardy, 
240 
Vegetables for hot weather and 
dry soils, 69 
Verbenas—list of bedding, 33 ; 
geometrically arranged, 66; 
arranging, 104; for bedding, 
281; list of, 382 
Veronica tenella, 245 
Vine — training and pruning, 
114; covering, cropping, and 
watering borders, 115 ; leaves 
and shoots, to manage, 171 ; 
borders, heating, 357 
Vines — treatment of neglected, 
91; mildewed, 83; from eyes, 
88 ; on rod system, 89; bunches 
to be left upon, 90; forced, 
frost-bitten, 91; syringing, 
103 ; at Chippenham, mildewed, 
134; unproductive, 148; water¬ 
ing, temperature, air-moisture, 
156; raising and replanting, 
156 ; not vigorous, 219 ; cutting 
back unproductive shoots, 219; 
in pots, planting out, 250; 
training down a wall, 239 ; re¬ 
marks on in-door, 269; of the 
French vineyards, 305; in a 
Peach-house, 319; in pots, cul¬ 
ture, 385 
Vintage in Transylvania, 123 
Virginian Nigtingale and Quail, 
192 
Virginian Nightingales, tame, 141, 
221 
Walks, a help to keep in 
order, 43; of badly-binding 
gravel, 97; forming, 119 
Wall, infested by vermin, 391; 
trees, neglected, 391 
Wallflowers, double, 20 
Walnuts adapted to GreatBritain, 
187 
WaltonianCase, heating, 82, 92 
Wall trees diseased and declining, 
210 
Wardian Case management, 190 
Waste, none in nature, 331 
Water Cress culture, 340 
Water, heating, 319 
Wax tree, 249 
Weather in June at Frome, 261 
Weeds, Our, 184 ; destroying, 359 
Week, work for the, 1, 17, 33, 49, 
65, 79, 95, 111, 127, 145, 163, 
177, 193, 207, 223, 237, 253, 267, 
281,295, 309, 323, 337, 351, 367, 
381 
Wellingtonia gigantea, its hard!- 
ness, 42 
Wellington Road Nursery, 111, 
127 
Window greenhouse, plants for, 
197 
Winter, effects of the late, 41,42, 
74, 120, 229; on Calceolarias 
and Bay trees, 157 
Wire-worms, to trap, 139 
Wistaria sinensis propagating, 
Woodlice, destroying, 347 
Worms, in pots of Ferns, 190; 
excluding from pots, 262 
Year, prospects or the, 82 
Yew in the shrubbery, 259 
Yorkshire Agricultural Society’s 
Poultry Show, 293 
Yucca filamentosa suckers, 390 
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Flower-garden Plan . 8 
Flower-stand and Fountain . 27 
Canary—Wild of Madeira. 43 
Abies Williamsonii. 52 
,, cones of.. 53 
Pruning—where to out. 56 
Canary—Common . 73 
Eggs—detecting unfertile. 93 
Horticultural Society’s Garden at South Kensington. 102 
Gravel Walks—Formation . 119 
Sea Anemone—Bunodes crassicornis. 135 
Radiation of heat from glass . 137 
Mansionette—Ground Plan of. 150 
Actinia parasitica and Hermit Crab . 152 
Plant Collector’s Apparatus. 153 
Bee-house . 161 
Inarching.168, 169 
Dibble for Plunging Pots. 170 
Canary—the Lizard . 172 
Corallines—Sertularia argentea and Thuiaiia thuia . 185 
Cuttings—Pot for . 198 
,, seven kinds of ... 199 
Cuttings of Shoots and Leaves 
Canary—London Fancy. 
Jelly Fish—Cyansea capillata . 
Orchard-houses .. 
Jelly Fish—Medusa aurita. 
Garden of 14th Century. 
„ of 15th Century. 
Canary—Crested. 
Pear—Doyenne d’Ete. 
Canary—Pied . 
JohD Tredescant, sen. 
Pear—Beurrd Giffard. 
Canary—Erect Belgian. 
Roof of Stove—Angle for. 
Star Fish—Comatula rosacea .. 
,, Ophiura albida 
,, Ophiocoma rosula .. 
Cross Fish—Uraster rubens. 
Star Fish—Cribella rosea. 
,, Solaster eudeca 
„ „ papposa ... 
. 214 
.... 233 
.... 247 
.260, 261 
.... 288 
.... 289 
.... 302 
.... 307 
.... 330 
.. . 335 
.... 344 
.... 361 
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