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
PUBLISHED BY WM. S. ORR AND CO., AMEN CORNER.
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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