ABDOMEN, HEN WITH ENLARGED,
110

Abies, Douglasi at Kew, 140; of the
Romans, 473

Abrus precatorius, 105
Abutilon insigne, 363

Acacias, stinking and sweet, 129
Acclimatation, the Society of Paris,
150

Achimenes, pans for, 15; culture,
164; after flowering, 486
Africa, productions of Eastern, 190,
210

Agathæa cœlestis variegata, 358
Ageratums, wintering old, 505
Ailanthus silkworm, 472
Air admitting, 124

Alyssum variegated, 386, 486
America, natural phenomena in, 499
American blight, 144, 360, 380, 406;
not removed by frost, 320
Amomum Clusii, 215
Anemones done growing, 427
Anigozanthus Manglesi, 476
Annuals, hardy and half-hardy,
sowing, 15; hardy, for exhibition,
30; half-hardy in Waltonian-case,
30; hardy, sowing, 48; for bed-
ding, 172; to stand the winter,

368

BALANINUS BRASSICE, 140
Balanus balanoides and cambricum,
482

Bantam, laying two eggs, 270;
characteristics of a Sebright, 328
Bantams, hatching Game, 18; with
egg-system inflamed, 31; dying
suddenly, 110; Black, points in,
110; unable to crow, 150; with
wry tails, 388

Bark, medicinal, which Cinchona
produces the best? 21
Barkeria melanocaulon, 100
Barnacles, 482

Basella cordifolia, 86
Basil, forcing, 62

Basket, wrong, returned from poul-
try shows, 245

Bath and West of England Poultry
Show, 207

Beans, dwarf kidney and scarlet,
224

Bedding plants, planting out, 134;
for spring, 173, 183

Bedding-out arrangements, 162
Bedding system v. mixed herbaceous
borders, 377

Beds under trees, 493; best of the
season, 497
Bee-hives and their appurtenances,
dome-shaped straw, 52; flat-
topped straw, 53; early harvest-
ing of pollen, 53; duration of
queen's life, 53; dimensions of
bar-hives, 53; robbers, 53; the
leaf-cutter, 82; food, 269, 289;
hive, Phelps' patent, 269; the
honey, 289; hives, protection and
upward ventilation of, 289; over-
stocking and wintering, 290;
management in Ayrshire, 310;
parasite, 350; swarms, artificial,
371; swarming, in North Lanca-
shire, 389; swarming extraordi-
nary, 370

Bee-keeper-a singular blind one,
18; Oxfordshire, how I became
an, 72, 186, 411, 431
Bee-keeping, in Devon, 33; begin-
ning, 390

Bees and bee-hives, exhibition of,
391

Bee-stings, 370

Bees-not

working, plundering
hives, &c., 17; deserting hives,
18; drone-breeding queen, rob-
bers, exchange of queens, trans-
ferring, 33; hives and appurte-
nances, 34, 88; age of stocks, 34;
wooden-topped straw Lives,
sloped-topped, depriving, Stew-
arton octagon, square wooden,
72; Ligurians in Scotland, 88, 248,
288, 431; stocking an observa-
tory-hive, 92; dying, in barn,
hives, 108; feeders, 109; store
honey in hot countries, 109; hive-
boards, shades, pedestals, 128;
water-troughs, 129; wintering
in Canada, 129; bottle feeding,
129; in the Himalayas, 148; bar-
hive and Woodbury comb-bar,
148; Ligurian queen's adventure,
148, 186; uniting Ligurian queen
to, 167, 410, 452; hives and appur-
tenances, entrances, covers, comb-
supports, houses, 168; exposure,
169; early swarm, right to follow
them, 170; comb-bar hives, 185;
substituting queens, 186; hive-
entrance, 187; does the queen
govern? 209; cheap hives for;
by post, 210; robbers to defeat,
229; Ligurian, 230, 371; cheap
hives, not swarming, 230; cause
of a queen's death, 246; first
swarms, 247; management in
America, 247; drones before
swarming, 250; time queen takes
coming to maturity, 289; cause of
the death of a queen, 290; su-
periority of Ligurians, 290; and
those who have written about
them, 309; removing from
old hive, 310; sky 310, 371, 389;
parasite on, 323; swarming of
1861, uniting swarms, feeding,
Woodbury-hive, 331; death of
queen in a duel, 332; to pacify,
350; and the season of 1861, 351;
superiority of, 372; mentioned by
Virgil, 372; in conservatory, 372;
transferring swarms of, 372; in
sugar refineries, 389; mortality
among, 389; artificial swarms,
389, 390, 410; Woodbury bar-
hives, uniting swarms, 410; bottle
feeder, 411; taking honey from
stupified; production of drone
eggs; apiary of "B. & W." in
1861, 451, 509; young, expelled;
in sugar refineries; in France,
471; in observatory-hives; early
feeding needed; straining honey,
472; watering, smoking, Ligurian,
does a virgin queen breed drones?

an

491; young expelled from hives,
508; superiority of Ligurian, 508;
exhibition in France, 509
Begonia, Rex in borders, 126; phyl-
lomaniaca, 215; glandulosa, 279
Begonias in summer, 183
Beloperone violacea, 140
Belt before a house, 125
Beurré de Mortefontaine Pear, 13
Beverley Poultry Show, 165
Bilbergia bivittata, 501
Bird, teaching tunes to, 36
"Birds' eggs and nests," 147
Birds, scaring, 105; arrival of, 170;
damage done by; Cullingford's
trap for, 511

Birmingham poultry prize list, 227
Birmingham Cattle and Poultry
Show, 268

Black beetles, to kill, 246
Blackcap, 331

Blackpool Poultry Show, 287
Blacks in fowls, 18
Blechnum spicant, new and rare
varieties of, 359, 423; imbricatum,
381; crassicaule, 381; projectum,
381; ramo-depauperatum, 381;
caudatum, 381; heterophyllum,
381; tridactylon, 381; sinuatum,

381

Blight, American, 274

Bloomsbury Flower Show, 105, 259
Bogbean, 330

Boiler, size required, 426
Borage, 98

Border, open, heated, 277; plants
for north, 446
Botany, book on, 307
Bougainvillea speciosa, 79
Bouquet critised, 483
"Bouquet, The Illustrated," 115,
138, 401

Bouquets, arranging, 131, 151, 191,
240, 299, 313, 333; for May, 132;
shapes, 172; of Roses, 173; mount-
ing and mending flowers for,
211; Passion - Flower and Rose
design, 212

Bouquets and vases, arranging flow-
ers for, 251, 271, 355, 375
Box-edging, moving, 105
Brains as a manure, 241
Bramble Finch, 127
Braula cœca, 350
Bretton-West, Poultry Show, 489
British plants, ornamental, 380
Broccoli, winter standing, 23; pro-
tecting in winter, 24; wintering,

436

CABBAGE, MANURE FOR, 401; CUL-
TURE, 437

Cactus, fruit of, 308
Cadluck, 244, 327

Caladium bicolor, 279; var. Ver-
schaffelti, 381
Caladiums, wintering, 459
Calceolaria, seedlings, planting out
herbaceous, 206; seed, sowing
herbaceous, 505

Calceolarias for bedding, manage-
ment, 237

Californian orcharding, 47

Calla ethiopica, to flower at Christ-
mas, 214

Calne Poultry Show, 347
Camellia, culture, 86; leaves blotch-
ed, 163; leaves decayed, 264;
house, 364

Campanula fragilis culture, 487
Campanumca campanulatá, 476

Canaries' feet diseased, 17, 54
Canaries, breeding, 70, 74; with
diseased feet, 70; wild, 412; red
mite in, 432; stock of and food for
young, 511

Canary and British Finches, 34, 91,
127, 209, 228, 288, 330, 391, 412,
429

Canary, breeding, 127; continually
moulting, 170; time of incubation,
170; not rearing her young, 332
Capsicums, forcing, 62
Carnations, list of and spring cul-
ture, 8; at Christmas, 257; de-
stroyed by worms, 386; list of and
autumn culture, 456

Carrot, storing, 163; maggot, 285
Carrots, sowing, 9; forcing, 62;
blighted, 308

Casks, tainted, 54

Caterpillars, destroying, 182; with
white hellebore, 258
Cattleya elegans, 100

Cauliflower plants, management of,

117

Celery, forcing, 62; plants, manage-
ment of, 117; planting, 436; earth-
ing, 447; watering, 485
Centaurea candidissima, propagat-
ing, 433

Cerastium tomentosum as an edging,
505

Cerinthe retorta, 381

Chaffinch, 71, 91

Charcoal stove in greenhouse, 31

Charring, how to do well, 117
Cherry water, 336

Cherry, Belle d'Orleans, 483
Cherries, Duke, 302
Chester Poultry Show, 467
Chesterfield Poultry Show, 166
Chicken shows, 244

Chickens, early, for London market,
68; dying in the shell, 110; age
for fatting, 110; management
of early, 164; age of for ex-
hibition, 266; sale for, 308; how
to mark, 328; plucking each other,
432

Chicory, forcing, 62
Chrysanthemum blooming early,
364

Chrysanthemums, growing for cut
flowers, 276; early-flowering, 378
Chysis aurea Lemminghei, 381
Cinchona plants, recent searches
after, 20; large number of seed-
lings at Kew, 21
Cineraria maritima, cuttings and
seedlings, 67, 162; sowing, 125,
505; propagating, 505

Cissus discolor, 342; in festoons,

415; requires stove heat,457
Cistus vaginatus, 40

Clay soil, improving, 205
Clematis not blooming, 365
Clianthus, Dampieri, 160; magni-
ficus, 346, 387

Climbers, for a N.E. trellis, 76; for
conservatory arches, 86; in con-
servatory, 368; for cold green-
house, 387; for conservatory,

417

Craspedia Richeæ, 501

Crassulas gangrened, 308
Creasote, 170

Crinoline, and its consequences, 509
Crocus bulbs decaying and their
culture, 42

Crocuses, arrangement, 9; removing
in spring, 133

Crooked breasts in fowls, 412
Crops swollen in fowls, 110
Crops, the, 342

Cross-breeding, flowers, laws of, 56;
rule in, 91; of plants, phenomena
and laws of, 112; in plants, 151;
Sweet Peas, 160; among birds
voluntary, 432

Crucifer, have they a central ter-

minal flower? 418
Crustacea, 437

Crystal Palace, School of Art, &c.,
99; Flower Show, 137, 153; florists'
flowers at, 155: Rose Show, 221,
278, 297; bedding out at, 252,
275, 480; Poultry Show, 347, 427,
448, 469; autumn show of flowers,
&c., 453; notes at the, 476
Cuckoos' arrival, 147
Cucumaria fusiformis, hyalina and
fucicola, 281
Cucumber, plants not perfecting
fruit, 47; house, moisture in air
of, 49; forcing and culture, 96;
culture, 14; houses, 177, 439;
disease, 284; gangrene, 307; for
exhibition, 308; plants for early
forcing, 465; forcing, 485
Cucumbers, managing, 14; diseased,
126; hot-water tanks for, 253;
shedding fruit, 264; in pots at
Chiswick, 379; in January, to ob-
tain, 406

Cultivation as a fertilising agent,
421

Dorkings, too large to exhibit, 32;
characteristics of, 87; rules for
selecting, 206; swollen-footed,
210; with yellow legs, 409
Doronicum austriacum, 115
Dottrell, the, 127, 170
Double flowers, producing, 210;
seeds from, 406

Doves, food for Barbary, 18
Dracaena bicolor, 140
Draught, what causes a, 161
Driffield Poultry Show. 51
Drill for small seeds, 215
Drone eggs laid by a young queen,
350

Drones' eggs, production of, 389
Drones, difference between Ligurian
and common, 350
Drosera spathulata, 40
Duck, death of a Muscovy, 310;
eggs with thin shells, 92
Ducks, characteristic of Aylesbury,
36; Call, time of incubation, 36;
black East Indian, feeding, 409
Ducklings, food for, 507
Duranta Ellisii, 307

Dust, showers of at sea, 249

Fern case, plants for, 105; house,
316

Fernery, forming out of an aqua-
rium, 206

Ferns for small case, 126; at Men-
tone, 84; under glass, 260; list of,
318; observations on, 292; for
table decoration, 427
Ficus repens, 7

Fig culture, acridity of its juices,
243; trees killed by trost, 466
Filters, Dalkhe's, 229; Lavater's
portable, and China, 230

Fish, gold and silver, diseased, 50,
90; film on eyes of, 147, 150
Flora of Roman Classics, 473
"Floral Magazine," 116, 482
Floriculture, a refined taste in, 93
"Florist, The," 503
Florists' flowers, what they are, 38:
cross-breeding, 56; more select
new varieties desirable, 111
Flower garden, centre bed, 9; geo-
metric, 40; diamond geometric
beds, 41

Flower-gatherers, 362
Flower market, new, 157

Flower shows in towns for the
working classes, 75
Flowers, Japanese mode of reviving,
54; arranging in vases, &c., 131;
how to arrange, 151; to transmit
by post, 346

Flue of pit, management of, 440;
heating changing to hot-water
heating, 459

Flues heating by, 159

Food, curiosities in its supply, 327
Forcing, 61, 96, 177
Forking borders, 15
Foreign climates and plants, 203
Fowls for table use, 50; and their
breeds, 265; lameness in, 369;
flesh tasting offensively, 507;
cross-breds for table, 512
Frames, enemies to our, 298
"Fruit Garden, The Miniature," 156
Fruit tree cuttings, 104; gathering,

244; gatherers, 362; room, con-
structing, 322; trees, diseased, 386

Fruits, forcing in the olden time,
28; action of frost on, 28
Fuchsia sport, 323; with yellow
leaves, 486; new, 86; with single
stem, 183; synonymous, 336, 360;
choice, 361; new select, 406;
cuttings of, 406; wintering in a
window, 503

Fumigating with tobacco adjoining
a dwelling, 47

GAME FOWL, COLOUR OF, 328
Game fowls, tasselled, 18; plumage
of, 18; a plea for, 489; Capt.
Hornby's, 505; dubbing, 507, 512
Gamekeeper, reminiscences of, 368,
387, 407, 428, 469, 490
Gapes in chickens, 130
Gardeners, education of young, 55
Gardeners' annual festival at Paris,
460

Gardeners' Royal Benevolent Insti-
tution, 258, 342

Gas, heating by, 144

Gazania splendens, propagating, 16;
in pots, 205; cuttings, 426
Gazanias, fertilising, 273; cross-
breeding, 353

Geese, worms in eyes of, 468, 508
Geranium leaves, spotted, 125; va-
riegated, 205; injured, 205
Geranium, Flower of the Day, sport
from, 403; Alma, white sport in,
426; cuttings, 427
Geraniums-Mangles', 105; soil for
bedding, 105; Larkfield Rival and
Virgineum, 215; in masses, 405;
chapter on bedding, 435; sum-
mer propagation of, 436; pink,
466; tricoloured-zoned, 480; tri-
coloured, 494; wintering in cold
conservatory, 499; in window, 503
Ghost of an impression, 92
Gishurst Compound, reducing smell
of, 43
Gladioli, for small garden and pots,
30; seedlings in Canada, 126;
parents of some, 453
Gladioluses after blooming, 486
Glass, for Cucumber-house,

31;

broken by frost, 39; substitute
for, 49; uniting broken, 150;
painting for shade, 163; for horti-
cultural purposes, 171; house for
many purposes, 201; for orchard-
houses, 339

Glebe land culture, 406
Gloxinia leaves, propagating by,

183

Goats, management of, 54; keeping,
90, 92

Goldfinch, 34; mules, 36

Gold fish, 270; cure for film on, 209;
in tank, 432; becoming black, 452
Gomphia olivæ formis, 381
Goole Poultry Show, 409
Gooseberry caterpillars, 391, 378;
killing, 126, 323

Gooseberries, sent out in Lancashire,
99; destroying insects on, 204;
green fly on, 205
Grafting, new mode of, 361; clay
and wax, 399
Grafting-wax, 63
Grape-Prince Albert, 99; Vine,
culture of the, 276; pruning and
training, 277; Mr. Mearns' system
of culture, 277; Buckland Sweet-
water, 302; Muscat Hamburgh,
302; Chasselas Vibert, 361; cul-
ture in pots, 365; Passe Muscat (?),
441; Champion Hamburgh, 501;
St. Laurent Muscat, 501
Grapes, Bowood Muscat, 28; Gros
Maroc, Gros Colman, and Muscat
Trovéren, 47; effects of drainage
on, 47; aiding to set, 104; scalded,
105; thinning, 124; Sweetwater,
Royal Muscadine, and Esperione,
126; shanked and spotted, 144;
shanking, 206; spotted, 241; not
colouring, 285; Champion, Syrian,
New Black, 483
Grass of Parnassus, 380
Gravel, weeds on, 244
Greenhouse, evergreens for back
wali, 67, 116; heating. 144; erect-
ing a small, 144; heating and
arranging a small, 163; building
a lean-to, 206; furnace altered to
the Kiddean system, 264; heating
a small, 459; furnishing a, 483
Greenhouse and forcing-house com-
bined, heating, 500
Grubs in soil, 163
Guava culture, 164

Henderson & Co.'s Nursery, Pine
Apple Place, 5

Hen with straddling gait, 51; dying
whilst laying, 54; broody without
laying, 127; house floor, 130;
laying with difficulty, 308
Hens, laying from perch, 18; not
laying, 18; eating eggs, 33; with
straddling gait, 33; sitting, 87;
with wens, 92; broody, to cure,
250; eggs of moulting, 369
Henslow, death of Professor, 138
"Henwife, The," 16

Herbaceous plants, 173; list of, 274
Hertfordshire Nurseries, 11
Himalayas, and their productions,
121; vegetable products of, 141,
222

Hippeastrum reticulatum, 7
Hippocrepis comosa, 205
Hive, new bar, 147; the Woodbury,

351

Hives and their appurtenances, 17;

supers versus ekes, 18; moveable,
frame, adapter, collateral, 89; ob-
servatory, 90; feeders for, 109;
attaching window to straw, 110;
Langstroth's frame, 349; wooden,
370; dimensions of, 372
Holly killed by frost, 31
Hollyhock, history of, 457
Homes, healthy, for animals, 510
Honeysuckle for house front, 486
Honeysuckles on east and south
walls contrasted, 441
Hop-kilns, 158

Hops, hotbed of spent, 49, 105
Horseradish culture, 42
Horticultural Society, Royal, Floral
and Fruit Committees, 46, 215,395;
Floral Committee, 79, 135, 316, 338,
445; anniversary, 102; Garden
at Kensington, 119, 373, 496;
Fruit Committee, 134, 481; open-
ing of the, 192; Dilke's Prizes,
and Florists' Flowers, at, 197;
opening Show, 212; Ferns at
Show, 232; Fine Arts Committee
of, 241; Rose Show, 293, 317;
subscription to, 368

Hotbeds without manure, 499
Hot-water tanks for Melons and
Cucumbers, 253

Hoya Shepherdi, 501
Humea elegans, culture, 427
Hyacinths, exhibition of unforced,5;
after growing in water, 49

ICELAND, PLANTS CULTIVATED IN,
310

Ice-house ventilation, 7
Inclined plane, the, 378
Incubators, 392

Indianrubber hose, mending, 125
Ingram's new Grape, 13
Insects, destroying, 212
Ipomea hederæ folia, 6

Ivy, bushes, dwarf, 15; pruning,
68; cutting, 126; leaves become
brown, 440

Loosestrife, purple, 380
Lycium afrum, 322
Lyda inanita, 83

Lythrum salicaria, 380

MAGACHILE CENTUNCULARIS, 82
Magnolia grandiflora, 308, 346
Magnolias injured by frost, 320
Magpie's nightly visits, 248
Male, enduring influence of, 87
Malortica simplex, 140
Malt wine, 92

Manchester and Liverpool Poultry
Show, 245, 488

Mandevilla suaveolens cuttings, 486
Mangold Wurtzel culture, 117
Manure, preparing, 117; for a flower
garden, 125; liquid, 284
Manures, portable, 346; chemical,

505

March Trefoil, 380

Market-Gardener, The Little, 8, 117,
436, 457

Martynia fragrans seedlings, 68
Mauve and magenta, how obtained, 3
Mealy bug, destroying, 314
Mechanics and mathematics applied
to gardening, 291, 336, 361, 378,

403

Medicago intertexta, 486
Meligethes æneus, 141
Melon growing, hints on, 80; train-
ing, 104; growing with Cucum-
bers, 104; culture, 124; plants,
damping, 143; Moscatello, 279;
leaves turning yellow, 281; cul-
ture, epitome of, 426; house, 439
Melons, in pots, culture of, 179; de-
caying at the collar, 183; young,
turning yellow, 206; hot water
tanks for, 253; training, 273; out
of doors, 273
Menyanthes trifoliata, 380
Meteorological apparatus, 220
Microsetia centifoliella, 83
Mildew on the Vine, 338

Mimulus, Musk, culture, 30
Mirabelle Plum, early, 13
Mistletoe, hardy on oak, 109; Ameri-
can, 225

Mitraria coccinea, 260
Morphology, 311; in White Clover,

406

Moth, The clothes, 36
Mowing machine, Green's, 301, 341,
368, 379; how to sharpen, 200;
sharpening, 279

Musa Cavendishii culture, 164
Mushroom-bed for produce in
summer, 86; making spawn for,
306

Mushroom-beds, 124, 447; in sum-
mer, 224

Mutisia family, culture, 394

Mya margaritifera, 382

Myada, 382

Myrtle, repotting an old, 86; as an

edging, 203

133; management, 202; trees,
pyramids, and bushes, 217; erect-
ing an, 338; ventilating, 395;
heating, ventilating, and stocking,
439; roof ventilation, and red
spider, 461; fruits, 498; culture,
500

Orchard-houses, self-ventilating, 38;
of hen-shed, 49

"Orchard-houses, a few hints on,"

460

Orchard, planting first, 63
Orchids, sale of, 156; hardy, 259;
native, 339

Osage Orange, 496
Osprey, 146

Ouvirandra fenestralis culture, 503
Oyster cultivation on the French
coast, 81

PAMPAS GRASS, 322

Pansies, keeping slugs from, 105;
list of superior, 234; variegated,
241
Pansy-the magpie, 173
Parasol Fir, 10
Paritium elatum, 140
Parnassia palustris, 380
Parrot, fond of bathing, 108; tribe,
water for, 146; eating its feathers,
150

Parrots, water for, 36; deprived of

water, 70; management of, 128,
185, 208; sickness in, 130
Parsley, dying, 426; in winter, 466
Parsnips, sowing, 9

Pasture, converting into a garden,427
Patterns, transferring, 54

Pavement, preventing grass on, 417
Peach-blossoms, colour and size,
19; trees under Vines, 61; blos-
soms unfertile, 67; fumigating, in
blossom, 67; blossom falling in
orchard-house, 105; on walls, 108;
culture, soil, 119; leaves and
fruit diseased, 144; leaves blis-
tered, 163; tree shoots gangren-
ing, 183; trees too luxuriant,
265; wall, glazing a, 417; trees,
removing large, 441; from
Nectarine, 501; in houses, 504
Peaches, on a wall at Christmas, 13;
diseased, 226; in orchard-house,
379;

a

Pear-leaves partially decayed, 67;
tree shoots, pinching, 98; leaves
destroyed by a weevil, 104; train-
ing 105; tree, unfruitful, 125;
fly, 281; trees, pinching shoots of
dwarf, 498

Pearl Mussel, 382
Pears not keeping, 30
Peas-sowing late, 9; planted out,
48; report on, grown at Chiswick,
28, 62, 116, 138, 219, 236, 282;
destroyed by insects, 86
Peat, soil, plants for wet, 163; as a
fuel, 408

Pelargoniums, growing specimen, 2;
soil and potting, 3; flowering
prematurely, 16; for bedding,
report on, 21; growing specimens
of, training, pruning, &c., 22;
young, after
flowering, 183;
regular flowers in, 253; in green-
houses, 314

Peloric flowers, 211

Pentstemon spectabilis, 381

Perilla nankinensis, two kinds of,494
Petunia cuttings, 427

Petunias, 285

Pha'nopsis amabilis, 343

Pheasants, silver, laying, 31
Philesia buxifolia culture, 15
Phloxes, cuttings of, 406; propa-
gating, 461
Pholas, 382
Picea Veitchi, 82

Picotees, list of and spring manage-
ment, 8; from cuttings, 49; list
of, and autumn culture, 456
Pig, how to cut up, 149; antiquity
of the, 392

Pigs, management of, 188
Pigeon, judging, 52; judging at
Sunderland, 107; rotten-feathered,
146; with two heads, 147; house,
352

Pigeon's nest of iron nails, 90
Pigeon's nests, 161
Pigeons, cod-liver oil for, 69; lump
in throat of young, 74; Turn-
crowned, 107; Turbits crested,
130; laying, but not sitting, 270;
Barbs with turned crowns, 329;

Any other Variety" and

Tumbler classes, 507
Pinguicula vulgaris, 380
Pine Apple culture, 118
Pipe, size of supply, 486
Pipes, rise in hot water, 15; stop-
ping leaks in hot-water, 401; for
hot water, size of connections, 416
Pit-converting into a greenhouse,
16; for propagating, 206; altering
a flued to the Kiddean system,
346; for general purposes, 356;
construction of, 386; heating, 387;
changing a lean-to into a span-
roofed, 419; for general purposes,
419; heating a small, 448; for
propagating, 448; for propagating
failing, 477

Plants, names of, 270; in-door, 279;
which have stood last winter in
Gloucestershire, 282

Plum, trees, training on wall, 61;
grafting and budding, 163; suckers
of greengage, 264; for south wall,

448

Plums, dropping, 98; Rivers' early,
484

Poisoned fowls, 208

Pollen, effects of different kinds of,
280; divers results from, 311, 312,
318; action of, 360
Pollens, which prevails, 232
Polmaise system of heating, 200
Polyanthus, crossing, 94; white,
139; blue, 285

Pomological gleanings, 47, 63, 180,
361

Ponthieva maculata, 180
Post, sending cuttings by, 283
Potash, restoring to soil, 31
Potato-planting, 8; early, 9; cul-
ture, 21; stems frosted, 131;
stems frosted, effects of, 178; cul-
ture in Yorkshire, frosted stems,
and murrain, 231; disease, 302,
342, 379, 437; Ash-leaved Kidney,
hardiness of, 357; disease, avoid-
ing the, 397; new species, 401
Potatoes, earthing-up, 206; when

ripe, 387; early, in Cornwall, 457
Pot herbs, storing, 447
Potted plants, roots escaping, do
they disqualify? 480
Potting, how to manage, 144
Poultry prospects, 31; keeping
profitably, 51, 70, 87, 166, 146,
265, 286, 347, 408; for confined
space, 69; dying suddenly, 74;
prices in London, 87, 105, 185;
let them rise when they please,
126; colds in, 130; sending to
London, 145; naming breeders of
at shows, 146; thinning out, 184;
sickness among, 288; medicine,
329; effects of seasons on, 346;
houses, floors of, 347, 472; for
profit, 352

Poultry fanciers, grumblings of,

285

Poultry shows, mortality at, 505
Prescot Poultry Show, 328
Priapulus caudatus, 422
Pulley, the, 361

QUAILS, CALIFORNIAN, LAYING, 31

RABBIT-SILVER GREY, RICHE, OR
Chinchilla, 35; the Chinese,
Polish, Russian, Himalayan, 69;
Andalusian, Ram, or Bulldog,
108; enclosure, 130; the Dutch,
169; do ci ossbreds revert to grey?
170; hutches, 430, 472

Rabbits, feeding young, 110; Chin-
chilla, 110; fur of Angora, 190;
cross with hare, 230; house for,
329; pot herbs for, 330; fighting,
352; Chinchilla, 412; floor of
hutch, 412; courts, 489; losing
their fur, 492

Raisins, English, 13, 28
Rape seedlings for Canaries, &c., 210
Raspberry-jam tree, 129
Raspberries, training, 346
Razor Shell, 382

Redleaf and its gardening, 4, 26, 64
Red spider, 420; preventing, 461;
destroying, 464, 499
Reed Bunting, 412
Restrepia Lansbergii, 279
Rhododendron Falconeri, 98: soil
for bed, 105

Rhododendrons javanicum and jas-
miniflorum culture, 49; Sikkim,
how to cultivate, 77; soil for, 320
Rhubarb syrup, 109; transplanting,
316; wine, 269, 332, 392, 512
Ribbon-border for the many, 56; of
Geraniums, 95; arrangement, 144
Richardia ethiopica to flower at
Christmas, 214

Rimmel's perfume vaporiser, 130
Ring Doves, food for, $92
Rio de Janeiro, neighbourhood of,

324

Root-pruning, when to do, 205
Rose, insect ravagers of the, 82, 140;
cuttings of monthly, 86; leaves
mildewed, 285; cuttings, 307; best
for pillars, 427; garden, design
for a, 461; leaves blotched, 466
Roses, effect of the winter on, 12;
Manetti stock for, 12; pruning
standards, 15; and the winter, 28;
for south wall, 30; a raid among
new, 95; treatment of frosted,
105; boxes for exhibiting cut, 205;
tea-scented Aurora, 206; in green-
houses, 314; cuttings of, 327;
mildew on, 327, 379; preserving
petals of, 327; umbrella training,
406; which is the queen of? 416;
cutting off decayed, 441; sweet-
scented for pots, 466; in festoons,
&c., killed by frost, 478; budding,

Seashore, what to look for on, 281,
382, 421, 437, 481, 502
Season, phenomena of, 118
Seedlings, keeping birds from, 49
Seeds, shading after sowing, 86;
of last season, 325
Sewing machines, 74
Sewage as a manure, 316
Shades on rollers, 426

Shading a conservatory or green-
house, 380

Shanking in the Grape, 337

Sheffield Poultry Show, 369, 388;

mortality of poultry at, 406, 428,

450, 467, 487, 505

Shelters for fruit blossom, 68
Shelves, breadth of, 437
Shrimp, 502

Shrivelling in the Grape, 338

Silkworm, the new Ailanthus, 429,
512

Singapore Agri-Horticultural So-
ciety, 503
Skeletonising, 503

Sky bees, 351, 352

Slugs and grubs, destroying, 124
Snow Bunting, 429

Soils, our cultivated, 139; red loam,

black sand, gravelly, and light-
coloured sand, 218

Solanum, capsicastrum variegated,
377; Fendleri, 401
Soldiers, gardens for our, 322
Solen ensis, 382

Sorghum, culture of, 223, 238
Spanish fowls, black rot in, 32; hens
dying, 110; management, 190;
cock broody, 308
Sparkenhoe Poultry Show, 506
Sparrow, albino, 166; the Mountain,
209; common house, 228
Sparrows, 391; damage they do to
corn crops, 248; (hedge), habits
described, 248; a plea for, 431;
and other animal friends of gar-
deners, 470

Spergula pilifera, 206; on a bank,
427

Spigelia splendens, 501
Spirea decumbens, 180
Spironema fragrans, 308
Spot in the Grape, 338
Stable fittings, 510
Stag beetle, C8

Starlings, scarcity of, 54: scarcity
and abundance of, 91; decrease
of, 127

48;

Statice imbricata, cuttings of, 100
Stenogaster concinna, 215
Stephanophysum Baikiei, 78
Steward versus gardener, 253
Stings of bees and wasps, 892
"St. James's Magazine," 3
Stocks for various fruits, 505
Stokesia cyanea, 133
Stone, uniting broken, 150
Strawberry, plants for early forcing,
25; plants after forcing,
forcing old plants, 49; Frogmore
late Pine, 63; Culverwell's Sans-
pareil, 63; after forcing, 66; lime
water for, 67; bloome blind, 81;
keeping slugs from, 85; estimate
of sorts for forcing, 85; blind
blooms in, 116; plants, manage-
ment of, 162; Oscar, 344, 361;
culture in pots, 404; plants for
forcing, 465

Strawberries, for forcing 105; in

pots not blooming, 144; early in
France, 180; forced, watering,
204; under glass, 242; large, 264;
mowing the leaves off, 368
Streptocarpus Saundersii, 215
Sunbeam, The grave of the, 36
Sunderland Poultry Show, 32
Sunflowers, 485

Swallows' arrival, 147

Swarm, following, 351
Swarming season of 1861, 350;
caution, 351

Swarms artificial, 347; uniting, 350
Sweet Williams not blooming, 359,

406

Syrinx nudus, papillosus, and Bern-
hardus, 422

TABLE DECORATION, MR. MARCH'S
DESIGN FOR, 445
Tallow, vegetable, 190

Tank, heating by hot water, 464
Taunton Poultry Show, 51, 209, 267
Tea tree, 322

Thermometer, new ground, 118
Thermometrical observations, 219
Thorne Poultry Show, 267
Thuiopsis dolabrata, 280
Thymus serpyllum hirsutum for a
rockery, 115

Thyone papillosa, 421

Tillandsia recurvifolia, 140
Timber for garden structures, 460,
484, 498

Toes, contracted, in fowls, 92
Tomatoes, queries about, 505
Tomtits, catching, 54
Torry Hill, 178

Transplanting, season for, 320
Trees loose in the ground, 341; in-
jured in an orchard-house, 380
Tritoma uvaria grandiflora, 265
Tropaeolum Deckerianum, 45; cut-
tings, 426

Tropæolums, new mode of training,
78; bed of, 86

Truffles, culture of, 44, 63, 81
Tulips, moving them after blooming,

86

Tumour on fowls' breast, 32; in
hen's crop, 110

Turkey dying rapidly, 170; char-

coal for, 245; food for young, 507
Turnip sowing, 404; spring, 103
Turnips, sowing early, 117

VALLOTA PURPUREA, 307
Variation of flowers, cause of, 211;
in plants, 418

Variegation in the leaves of plants,
304, 334; of plants, 312; in plants,
382

Variegated plants, 196, 203
Vase, a few flowers for, 413
Vases, arranging flowers in, 151, 191,

240, 313, 393; design for, 192, 241
Vegetable, a new, 13

Vegetable Marrow, Custard, 360
Vegetable Marrow and its cookery,
404

Verbena-bed, number of plants re-
quired for, 31; Sweet-scented,
cuttings of, 406; seed, sowing,
486

Verbenas, for bedding, 125; droop-
ing, 244; wintering old, 505
Vermin in gardens, 448
Veronica Andersoni, 387
Victoria regia, 442; culture, 443
Vinca rosea, culture of, 339
Vine culture, soil and borders, 44;
propagation, 60; by eyes, 61; not
fruitful, 67; Canon Hall Muscat in
a greenhouse, 98; why shoots are
stopped, 104; culture, planting,
training on wall, 136; leaves and
bunches decaying, 144; beetles on,
144; culture on walls, 176; shoots,
stopping, 183: bunches ulcerated,
183; grafting, 213; pruning, spur
v. rod, 216; greenhouse culture,
215; stove culture of, 235; late-
rals, treatment of, 265; culture
of the, 296; in pots, culture of,
317; modes of training, 320;
leaves diseased, 327; culture of,
in early vineries, 337; in the
summer vinery, 337; winter treat-
ment of, 337; diseases of, 337;
culture of the, 358; coiling
system of growing the, 358;
transplanting and lifting, 358;
mildew, 368; grafting and in-
arching, 399; raising from seed,
399

Vineries, ground, 180

Vinery and Cucumber-house com-
bined, 78; temperature of, 85
Vinery, evergreens for back wall of,

116; management, 202; and con-
servatory heating, 458
Vines, interfering with windows,
31 training brittle shoots, 42;
leaves warted, 49: Vines failing,
86; refusing to break, 114; fruit-
ful at ends of shoots 126; manu-
ring, 163; leaves and stalks decay-
ing, 163; on walls, neglected,
205; in tan, 206; mildew on, 206;
in pots at Chiswick, 343; diseased,
346; for an early vinery, 381; in
pots, 386; injured by burning sul-
phur, 438; in pots breaking pre-
maturely, 478; unfruitful, 483;
in pots, the prize for, at Worksop,
500; leaves blistered, 504
Vinegar, home-made, 74
Vineyards and Vine disease at the

Cape of Good Hope, 237, 340,
364, 400; mildew there, 401
Violets, Neapolitan, growing for
winter and spring flowering, 23
Vriesia speciosa, 301

WALKS, CONCRETE, 104, 125, 18;
keeping in order, 143
Wall, plants for a low north, 446;
trees for profit, 486
Wallflowers, foreknowing colour of
seedling, 426

Walls, fruit for east and west, 426
Waltonian Case, 67; plants for, 68;
heating, 125

Warts, curing, 190
Wasp, cure for sting, 432
Wasps, 367; plague of, 412; and
hornets serviceable, 492; destroy-
ing, 465, 512; nests, to destroy, 472
Watering, bedding plants, 205;
a garden, 244; and mulching, 447
Water Lilies, 346
Waterproof varnish, 36
Wedge, its uses, 403
Weeds, killing, 182

Week, work for, 14, 29, 47, 66, 84,
103, 123, 142, 161, 181, 203, 225,
241, 262, 283, 305, 325, 344, 366,
384, 403, 424, 446, 464, 484, 504;
doings of the last, 14, 29, 48, 66,
85, 103, 124, 142, 162, 182, 204, 225,
242, 263, 283, 305, 325, 344, 366,
385, 404, 424, 447, 465, 484
Weigelia rosea, cutting back, 15
Wellingtonia gigantea branches de-
caying, 427

Wheat, when is it fertilised, 257;
fertilisation of, 272; time of fer-
tilising, 311, 315

Wheel and axle, 336
Wild flowers, British, 15
"Wild Flowers of Great Britain," 98
Wine, Rhubarb, 372

Winter, its effect on plants at Kew,
37; on plants in England, 58, 80,
99, 123, 135, 156, 235, 243, 256,
298, 339, 458; plants to flower in,