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PUBLISHED BY WM. S. ORR AND CO., 147, STRAND.

MDCCCXLIX

TO OUR READERS.

HAVING Concluded our second volume, and with it the first year of our periodical existence, we turn, like the Pilgrim, to look back over the path we have traversed. Like him we are grateful for the past and hopeful of the future: grateful because we have won our way most successfully, and because we know we have achieved a measure of good by improving the gardening, and by sprinkling pleasure and comfort round many British homes. We are hopeful because our sphere of usefulness widens as we go, and because the materials and the aid for effecting our purposes increase around us as we advance. The cultivation of the soil is ever improving, to keep pace with the increased wants and numbers of mankind; and, like the Giant of old, our contributors, each time they touch the soil, seem to gather fresh strength for successful efforts. We can assure our readers that the difficulty with us all is not to find information, but to select that which best suits their present need; and to do this will obtain, as it has obtained, our untiring exertions. There is a rich harvest to be gathered in during the year before us, and at its close may we again be able to say, with that Pilgrim of other times to whom we have alluded, "We gather strength from the things which are passed."

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Amherstia nobilis, 259

Ammonia, sulphate of, 138; sulphate and
carbonate of, 169; fixing, 204

Anemone roots, storing, 186; culture, 36, 45,
86; sowing, 87

Aneroid barometer, 328

Angelica culture, 70

Annuals, sowing, 129, 303; culture, 278

Anthomyia ceparum, 149

Antipathies of plants, 91

Antirrhinum culture, 137

Ants, destruction of, 30, 51, 114, 167
Aphelexis humilis, 192

Aphides, to destroy, 20, 47, 77, 110, 128, 138,

231; list of, 149

Aphis ribis, 82; fabæ, 88; cerasi, 85; lani-
gera, 273

Aphrophora spumaria, 249

Apples, storing, 295; pips, sowing, 203; da-

maged bark, 271; caterpillars on, 180;
cankered, 168

Apricot, Haisha, 234; dropping, 180, 235;
culture, 174, 251; stopping, 128; thinning,
56; caterpillar, 56

April showers, 21

Aquarium, formation of, 184

Aquatic plants injured by insects, 348; list
of hardy, 185

Aquilegia glandulosa culture, 138

Arbutus, 89

Argynius euphrosyne, 293

Argyrotoza bergmanniana, 86

Aristolochia sipho, 62

Artichoke culture, 70, 121, 232
Arum culture, 51, 180
Arundo donax, 204

Asparagus culture, 70, 121, 132, 232, 281;
stripping berries from, 288; soil, 248;
seedlings, 272; beds making, 148, 290;
badly made, 124, 168; salting, 92, 138;
beetle, 125; liquid manure for, 101; va-
rieties, 30

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Beans failing, 72

Bedding-out, plants for, 35, 78, 90; potting,
327; white flowers for, 123
Bedding, roses for, 25, 35

Bee, sting of, 42; Nutt's discovery, 42;
Roberts' treatment, 43; feeding-trough,
20; swarming, 20, 42, 43; appearance of
drones, 21; dead larva, 51; moving swarms,
104; putting glasses on, 104; joining
swarms, 104; second swarms, 104; taking
honey, 105; stupifying, 113; hive ventilat-
ing, 112; failures in keeping, 111; flying

distance, 161; ventilation, 161; Taylor's
hive, 161; glasses, 161; shading, 161; love
of, 162; second swarm, 169; mismanaged.
169; returning swarms, 180, 216; that will
swarm, 192; housing in winter, 204; nar-
rowing entrance, 216; additional room for,
216; removing glasses, 216; knife for
combs, 217; stings, cure for, 222; to pre-
vent swarming, 223; Cotton's hives for,
223; not using upper hives, 192; under
hiving, 236, 272; Taylor's amateur's hive,
292; applying side hives, 236; fumigating,
271; drone killing, prognosticators of wea-
ther, union of stocks, 284; hives, 272;
draining combs, preparing wax, 285; de-
priving, 284, 281; moving small hives, 304;
puff balls for fumigating, 304; treatises on,
316; hives, size of, 327; autumnal unions,
340; stocks, 341; Taylor's hive, 340; co-
verings to hives, 341; enemies, 341; pedes-
tals, 341; Huish's hive, 347; fumigation
of, 345
Bee-keepers' calendar, May, 41; June, 104;
July, 161; August, 216; September, 284;
October, 340

Beet, red, 7; removing leaves, 271
Begonia culture, 191; fucioides, 62; winter-
ing, 348

Benevolent Institution, 22

Berberis dulcis, 315

Biennials, sowing, 129; transplanting, 196;
culture of, 277

Bindweed, to extirpate, 224, 303

Birds, to destroy, 23; to scare, 110; conse-
quences of destroying, 168

Bishop, David, 306

Black arch moth, 237

Blackberry jam, 346

Blackthorn winter, 18

Blossoms falling, cause of, 71
Boat fly, 201

Bog earth, 71

Boiler, open, 113

Bombyx lubricipeda, 205; Æsculi, 225; mo-
nacha, 237

Bones, dissolved, 29, 51; for manure, 327;
bone-dust charred, 61

Borders, for fruit, 39, 257; cropping, 204; in
conservatory, 61; formation of, 312; plants
for south east, 348; plants, wintering, 328
Boronia serrulata, 91
Boscobel oak, 166

Bouquets, to arrange, 193, 261,

Bouvardia triphylla, 169

Box-tree pruning, 10, 191

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330

Brocoli culture, 28, 80; planting, 148; but-
toning, 248; Wilcove, 347

Broom, 178

Brown beurre, 62

Broxbournebury, Mrs. Bosanquet's, 264
Brugmansia culture, 124; arborea, 30; cul-
ture, 347

Brunsvigia Josephinæ, hybridizing, 242
Brussels sprouts, when to cut, 337
Budding fruit trees, 260

Buds, to distinguish, 248

Buff tip moth, 260; caterpillars, 317
Building, best time for, 229

Bulb moving, 61, 62

Bulbs, leaves of, preserve, 67; forcing, 311,
334; autumn flowering, greenhouse, 316;
Dutch, 332, 331; planting, 332
Bunium bulbocastanum, 316

CABBAGE culture, 38, 200; sowing, 214; not
hearting, 303; planting, 313, 337, 339;
moth, 33

Cactaceæ in rooms, 44

Cactus culture, 10, 44, 72; seed sowing, 147;
done flowering, 236; turned brown, 248;
cuttings, 316

Cælestina ageratoides, 91, 223
Calampelis scabra, 124

Calandrina umbellata, propagating, 303
Calceolaria sowing, 51, 210; list of, 133
Calendar for May, 52; June, 114; July, 170;
August, 224; September, 292; October, 348
Calyx, its uses, 115

Camellias, best kinds, 58; potting, 59; cul-
ture, 30, 60, 68, 89; soil, 62; in peat, 137;
cuttings, 235, 266; in open air, 272

Campanula pyramidalis, culture, 50, 297;
varieties and hybridizing, 298; carpatica,
167

Canary nasturtium, 30, 38; creeper, 81
Canterbury bell seedlings, 259
Cape gooseberry, 71
Cape jasmine, 147
Capsus damicus, 292
Cardamine pratensis, 167
Cardoons, 38; culture, 132

Carnation culture, 25, 50, 62, 130, 197, 278;
layering, 155; carding, 186; potting, 321;
soil for, 138; list of, 234; tree, 260
Carpathian bell-flower, 167
Carpocapsa pomonella, 63

Carrot culture, 40, 103; storing, 52; after
potatoes, 168; to save from wire-worms,
224; taking up, 339

Caterpillars, hand-picking, 96; on standards,
124; their phenomena, 317; to destroy,
346

Catharanthus, species of, 213

Cauliflower culture, 28, 38, 80; kinds of, 61;
failing, 113; heads spreading, 124; to stand
the winter, 236; sheltering, 245; sowing,
269; early, 338

Cedar and Deodara alike, 32

Celery culture, 7, 80, 132, 232, 300, 343; ma-
nure, 113; planting, 189; earthing, 325
Centipedes, their use, 11

Cerostema porrectella, 21
Chamomile in turf, 137, 166

Charcoal as drainage, 236

Charred refuse, 340

Chaumontel pear, 112

Cherries falling, 180

Cherry, aphis, 85; tree barren, 303

Chicory in England, 50; sowing, 191

China Aster, sowing, 28, 315

Chinese manuring, 64

Chiswick garden, 140
Chou de Milan, 48

Christmas rose culture, 180

Chrysanthemum moving, 81; culture of, 106;
cuttings, 88, 314; list of, 107, 147; train-
ing, 148; bedding, 196; propagating, 230;
layers, 288; liquid-manure for, 304
Chrysomela asparagi, 125

Cicada, 83

Cider grounds as a manure, 10

Cinerarias, done blooming, 62, 99; seedlings,
88; list of 133; sowing, 191, 210; insects
on roots, 327

Citrus vulgaris myrtifolia, 72

Clayey soil, to drain, 112; culture, 123, 138,
147, 169

Clianthus puniceus, 17, 272

Climbers, pruning hardy, 14; for greenhouses,
15, 36, 51; list of, 259; in balcony, 62; for
S.E. walls, 233; for trellis, 316; dressing
hardy, 277

Clove and carnation, 291
Clove carnation culture, 321

Clubbing in cabbages, 20, 126

Coal ashes, 204

Coboa scandens, 123

Coccus hesperidum, 92; testudo, 92
Coccus Nerii, 10

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