COUNTRY GENTLEMAN'S COMPANION.
CONDUCTED BY GEORGE W. JOHNSON, ESQ. "GARDENER'S ALMANACK," ETC.
THE FRUIT AND FORCING-GARDEN, by Mr. R. Erring- ton, Gardener to Sir P. Egerton, Bart., Oulton Park. THE KITCHEN-GARDEN, by Mr. J. Robson, Gardener to the late Earl Cornwallis; and Mr. T. Weaver, Gardener to the Warden of Winchester College.
THE FLOWER-GARDEN, by Mr. D. Beaton, late Gar- dener to Sir W. Middleton, Bart., Shrubland Park. FLORISTS' FLOWERS, by Mr. T. Appleby, Victoria Nursery, Uxbridge.
THE GREENHOUSE AND WINDOW-GARDEN, by Mr. R. Fish, Gardener to Colonel Sowerby, Putteridge Bury, near Luton.
ORCHID CULTURE, by Mr. T. Appleby, Victoria Nursery, Uxbridge.
AGRICULTURE, and the Economy of the Farm-Yard, by Mr. J. Blundell.
MANAGEMENT OF BEES, by J. H. Payne, Esq. POULTRY-KEEPING, by the Rev. W. W. Wingfield, Secretary to the Cornwall Society for Poultry Improvement. DISEASES OF POULTRY, by W. B. Tegetmeier, Esq. ALLOTMENT GARDENING, by Mr. Errington and
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Ar the close of our last Volume we expressed a hope for a blessing on our next six months' exertions, and that hope has been realized. We promised to report the result, and we now fulfil that promise.
Our pages throughout the present Volume are evidences of the unwearied and successful exertions of our contributors, and our list of readers gives the most unmistakeable of testimony that those exertions meet the requirements of the gardening community. Another section of that community is now annually largely increasedthe proprietors of small plots obtained by the agency of Allotment and Freehold Land Societies. To the information needed by the tenants of these plots we shall specially direct a portion of our attention; for although all the contents of our columns are directly, or indirectly, useful to all garden cultivators, yet these tenants often need more elementary information, and it will be our endeavour to impart it. We may often fail to state such particulars as they need, but when we do so fail, it will be received as a favour if fresh questions are asked, and our short-comings are pointed out to us.
This leads us to observe that apologies often accompany the inquiries sent to us. Such apologies are quite misplaced, for we covet such inquiries as the best of guides to the information required from us. It is easy to teach when we know what
is desired to be learned.
Our endeavour to encourage such inquiries has been so successful, that the replies to them have become a prominent and highly useful portion of our labours. So numerous and so various have inquiries become, that we shall endeavour in future to give the answers to them more prominently, and, in some degree, classified.
In conclusion, we tender our hearty thanks to all our friends and allies, who, we rejoice to find, we have in all the countries of Europe except Russia, and by their continued aid we feel pretty sure of making an impression even there. We are not superstitious, but when we observe that whilst our Great Northern Carnation is dead, our Queen Victoria Carnation is more than usually vigorous, we cannot but receive it as a good omen, not only in our own little warfare against ignorance, but in the far mightier one that is now impending.
ABIES bracteata, 273
Abney House, 10
Abronia umbellata, sowing, 499 Acacia Drummondi, 478 Acanthus mollis, 230
Achillea eupatorium, 111; tomen-
tosa culture, 127; rosea, 170; ptarmica, double, 186 Aconitum versicolor culture, 249; variegatum culture, 268; pani. culatum culture, 291; cammarum culture, 325; japonicum, and its culture, 348; anthora culture, 371; ochroleucum, and its cul- ture, 408
Acrostichum, vernum, 25 Adiantums, list of, 25, 45 Echmea fulgens culture, 330 Agave Americana culture, 380 Age of Common Sense, 274 Agricultural
and Horticultural
Society of India, 469 Air as a non-conductor of heat, 108; giving, 141; admitting, 172; admitting in winter, 300 Alamanda culture, 330 Alerce-tree, 480
Aloes of Scripture, 473
Allosorous flexuosus, 493 Allotment culture, 166
Allotment Farming- November, 66; December, 146; January, 245; February, 324; March, 406; April, 505 Almond,
as mentioned in the
Androsace lanuginosa, 451 Angræcum eburneum, 493 Annual flower-seed, sowing, 498 Anoectochilus culture, 345 Antirrhinum, its properties, 402; raising from seed, 424; propa- gating by cuttings, 442; 460; culture in pots, 461; manage- ment in the border, 483; sowing in open ground, 499 Antrophyum lanceolatum, 46 Ants, to destroy, 128 Aphelandra culture, 76 Aphelexis culture, 179
Apple trees planted shallow, 16; list of, 32
Apples for Yorkshire, 312
Apples and Pears newly planted,
Australia, value of land there, 472 Australian Emigrant's progress,
270; Horticultural Society, 489 Azalea crispiflora, 133; ovata and amæna, 400
Azalea ramentacea, 479 Azaleas, list of, 132; squamata and obtusa, 439
BABIANA culture, 330 Badorgan, 320 Bahia latifolia, 133 Bamborough Castle, 11 Bank of Faith, 165
Barbarea vulgaris and præcox, 1, 17 Barkeria spectabilis culture, 338; elegans, 438
Bean (Kidney) forcing, 132 Bedding plants, 6, 39 Bedding-out plants in frames, 112 Beekeeping for Cottagers-swarms, casts, colts, and preventing swarming, 15; chloroform for stupifying, 31; queen dead, 32; food for, 32; leaving hive, 52; robbers and queen producing only drones, 52; November Calendar, 66; preserving, feeding, and uniting, 67; Calendars for March and April, 446,506; for May and June, 490; for July, August, and September, 509; uniting swarms, &c., 509
Beer, its spirit and acidity, 450 Bees eaten by toads, 74; December Calendar, 147; food and venti- lation, 147; uniting and feeding, 170; hives of gutta percha, 172; loss of queen, 191; feeding, 191; feeding, 231; Calendar for Jan- uary; Floor-boards, food, &c., 245; position of hives, stocking a bee-garden, age of hives, de- priving, cleanliness, enemies, stings, 248; hives, top hives," glasses, floor-boards and pedes- tals, 271; Chinese mode of taking honey, 294; coverings, adapting- boards, water-pans, weighing, and feeders, 311; floor-boards, feeding, hives of comb, 325; feeding, 330; condensers, fumi- gators, bee-dress, knives, &c., 388; feeding, 391; March Calen- dar, pollen gathering, forsaking hives, wasps, 407; rejecting food, 410; mortality among, 471 Beet-root cooking, 352 Begonia biserrata, 373 Berberis Asiatica, 431 Berberris concinna, 313 Berberics, list of evergreen, 357 Billbergia thyrsoidea, 413 Blechnums, 63; list of, 81 Boiler, heating two structures from one, 250
Bonnemaisonia, species of, 287 Border plants, hardy, 186, 230, 249, 268, 291, 325, 348, 371, 408, 445, 489 Bottom-heat from flues, 91; 232 Bouquets, 118
Bravoa geminiflora, 373, 491 Bread, recipes for, 331, 470 Bread punishment for short- weighted, 353; to make cheaply, 351; 396; 409; profit of stale, 354
Brewing, Cottage, 86, 107, 189 Brillantaisia Owariensis, 33 Brocoli-culture, to secure a suc- cession, 187; growing to keep up a succession, 116; its varieties, 117; protecting, 376; (Autumn) sowing, 451; Snow's, 469 Broom corn, 471
Brugmansias, their culture, 121 Brussels Sprouts, sowing, 500 Buddlea Lindleyana culture, 90 Bulb, a new, 448; planting be- tween, 510; growing, 16, 97, 139, 157; pit for, 263 Bulls, rules for judging, 175
CABBAGE, its culture and history, 93; for winter, 147; transplant- ing, 331
Cabbage Oil Plant, 469 Calceolarias, arrangement in a bed, 10; raising varieties, 31; hys- sopifolia, 77; for late blooming, 145; shrubby in pots, 161; cut- tings of shrubby, 161; amplexi- caulis, 441; list of, 472 Calendar for November, 71; De- cember, 151; January, 251; February, 331; April, 510 Calendrinia speciosa, sowing, 352 Callipteris, list of, 81 Callitris quadrivalvis, 480 Camellia grafting, 90; diseased leaves, 151; course of culture, 436; some good ones, 437; from cuttings, 492; Campanula Vidalii, 373 Campteria biaurita, 81 Canaries' nests, 431 Caper plant culture, 320 Capsicum culture, 319 Cardamine impatiens, 453; belli- difolia, 433; hirsuta, 473 Carnation (Tree) cuttings, 391 Carrot storing, 52, 164; growing early, 324, 331; (Horn) sowing, 406
Carrots and their culture, 462; sowing, 505
Cassibeera, list of, 81; pedata, 122 Castor oil plant culture, 320 Cauliflowers, their winter manage- ment, 296; culture, 500 Cedar pruning, 298; at Stanford Court, 429
Cedrus Deodara and Lebani, 482 Celery, preserving in winter, 38; best varieties, 119; manure for,
Cenia formosa and turbinata, 78 Centaurea cyanea, sowing, 499 Ceratopteris, list of species, 123 Ceropegia Thwaitesii, 413 Cestrum aurantiacum half-hardy? 77; culture, 120 Chatsworth, 423
Cheilanthes, list of species, 123 Cherries, list of, 32
Cherry Orchard, management in Kent, 350 Chicory culture in Guernsey, 168 China Asters, sowing, 499 Cholera, precautions to avoid, 2; Board of Health's Notification, 3; the influence of water, 18; not infectious, 56; and insects, 73; as influenced by cold and damp, 74; in connection with
bad air, 155; influence of decay- ing vegetables, 196; influenced by temperance, 256, 315; Irish College of Physicians on, 354; its preventives, 434; as influ- enced by water, 474; poison, 495 Chondrus, its species, 448 Chrysanthemum flies, 73; list of Pompone, 120; list of, 292 Chrysymenia, species of, 288 Chylocladia, species of, 288 Cibotiums, list of, 144
Cineraria management, 132
Circular surface v its base, 451 Cirropetalum cornutum, 413 Cleanliness as a protection from disease, 114
Clethra arborea culture, 312 Climbers for conservatory, 132, 232; arches, 491
Clotted cream, making, 352 Cocoa-nut, its construction, 292 Cold, its recent intensity, 276 Coleseed culture, 103 Coleus Blumei, 413 Coleworts, culture of, 276; pro- tecting, 376
Collodion for cuttings, 410 Conifers, six graceful, 132 Conoclinium ianthemum and its culture, 479
Conservatory vinery, 31; plants for, 52, 132
Contrast (The), 464 Corallina, species of, 310 Coreopsis coronaria, 78 Cottage garden produce, 63 Cotoneaster microphylla as standard, 459
Covent Garden, 118 Coverings for pits, &c., 43 Cow milking herself, 32; produce of Jersey, 371
Cress (Winter) 1; in winter, 39 Crocus, culture of small, hybri- dizing and forcing, 9; Sir Walter Scott, 439
Crowea saligna culture, 24 Cucumber and Melon house, heat- ing, 390
Cucumbers not ripening, 391; to keep after cutting, 423; pit heated by flues, 501
Cuphea cuttings, 16; strigillosa for late blooming, 145 Currant (Black) culture, culture in Kent, 308 Cuttings, striking, 90; how to make and manage, 377; taken in spring, their management, 418; theory and practice of propa- gating by, 421; treated with collodion, 449 Cyatheas, list of, 144 Cyclamens just imported, 132; planting, 250; summer and winter culture, 382; its propa- gation and culture, 340; soil and potting, 361; new, and their culture, 438 Cyrtogoniums, list of, 144 Cyrtophlebiums, 162 Cytisus ramosus culture, 479
DAHLIAS, to arrange in mass, 7; keeping, propagating, and bed- ding, 480, 491 Dairy, locality for, 191
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