lalj 18, 1871 ] 



JOURNAL OF HOETICULTUKE AND COTTAGE GABDENER. 



INDEX. 



ABnTILOS TEXILLAXIL'U ilARMOBA- 

 TUM GBAFTINO.aiO 



Acacias, new, 249 



Accrintfton Poultry Show, 433 



Acor Necrmido propagation. 220 



Achimencs, and their culture, i08 ; 

 potting. 177 



Acrozamia sclerocarpa, 286 



Adiantum farleyense and culture, 508 



.T^schjTianthus. 227 



Agalmyla staminea. 327 



Agave Bessenana, 62 



Af;ri<-"iil'ural returns, 202 



Air-gifinK and tirintf, 277 



Alocasias, select, 389 



Aloe suckers, 430 



'■Alpine Plants," 203 



Aniaranthus salicifolias seed germi- 

 uatiDf?, 316 



Amaryllis, bulbs plantinir. 155 ; cul- 

 ture, 95; Belladonna culture, 300 



Ammonia, appljing sulphate, 448 ; 

 liquid manure, 2i0; r. red spider, 



Ammoniacal liquor for grass, 315 



Andalusians. 492 ; -with iSrabmas, 320 ; 

 chickens, 532 



, with bedding plants, 261 ; 

 .425 



Annuals, hardy, 155; for clumps. 156; 

 for early flowerins?, 156: select half- 

 hardy. 109 ; for exhibition, 301 ; for 

 late flowering. 90 



Anthomyia Lactucre. 121 



Anthnrium Scherzerianum culture, 

 seeding, 523 



Ants, exterminating, 372 



Aphides, 385; and ihe-r enemies, 445; 

 destroying. 177. 419; in conserva- 

 tory, 352 ; on fruit trees, 31S, 468 



Apples— Belgian. 316 ; for espaliers, 

 261 ; leaves blotched, 412 ; spurs, 

 384; pruning, 384; shoots pinching, 

 S53, 430; fboot'* mildewed, 46S ; se- 

 lection, 316; tree diseased, 110 ; 

 Beauty of Hants, 198; Graveontein 

 and Duchess of OldenbttTgh, 460 



Apprentice, 893 



Apricots, scale on. 431 ; training, 449, 

 468 



Aquile^ia glandulosa, 498; culture, 

 483 ; hardy, 525 



Arabis not thriving, 261 



Araucaria imbricata.TO 



Arbor-Vitw, Chinese, dying, hedge 

 treament, 261 



Arbutus, removing old, 530 



Areca, for greenhouse, 198 ; rubra, 78 



ArisEEma speciosum,383 



sal em, 448 

 Artillery plant, 4P7 

 vVrums, 48G 



Ashes, trees on subsoil of, 64; on- 

 leached, 177 

 Asparagus, Amcricm. 431; planting, 

 431 ; slugs on, Sd:i : as a decorative 

 plant, 439; bed-making, 41; forcing 

 out of doors, 109; salt for, 177; 

 Eale. 430; liquid manure for. 468; 

 our first dish, 346 ; cutting small, 

 352 

 Asterostigma Luscbnathianum, 480 

 Astrocaryum mexicanum culture, 171 

 Aubrietia deltoidea cuttings, 317 

 Aucubas, licrried, 261; pollen, 220, 

 372, presor\-io'r. 316; frame. 373; 

 seeds. 337. nut germinating, 353 

 ^^ Auricula gossip. 118 

 ^—^ Auriculas, Alpme,322: spring culture, 

 ^Zr 208,269; shadmg. 392 

 22 Australia, February-blooming plants 



I South, 828; advice for South, 347 ; 



vO 



BeedB from, 179 ; adventure i 



.193 



405 



Aviary, birds dying, 378, 416; tempe- 

 rature of, 116 



Azaleas, after flowering, 109 ; flowers 

 small, 64; propagation, 852; repot- 

 ting, 316; sporting. 358 



J35; Black, 262.301; pullets roupy, 

 304 ; Brown Red Game, 318 ; classes, 

 320; breeding Wheaten, 116: eega 

 for sitting, 22f) ; breeding Duckwing 

 Game, 226 ; Blacks' legs. 226 ; Game, 

 266:pri7es for. 374; Game cock's 

 hackle. 396 ; prize for Black, 513 



Barley after Potatoes, 300 



Barometrical fall. 106 



Barrow Poultry Show. 113 



Basket, making, 290; plants for stove, 

 227,327.365,399,465 



Baskets for poultry, 4S 



Bath and West of England Poultry 

 Show, 305, 470 ; in rain and sun- 

 shine. 488, 511 



Bathgate Ornithological Show, 91 



Bats, 472 



Battle Abbey, 193 



Beaucamea recurvata culture, 213 



Beaudesert, 387 



Keddinfr-plant house, 16 



Bedding plants for autumn exhibition, 



Bedlington Poultry Show, 434, 450, 469, 

 489 



Beech, 139 



Bees—ants robbers, 4*32; apiary in 

 1871, 69 ; at Camberwell. 140 ; Con- 

 vention of German keepers, 181 ; 

 disturbed. 532; driving. 378: drones, 

 number, 532 ; rearing, 435 ; slaughter, 

 532; what do they do? 265: dying 

 140; dysentery, 138; fighting, 340; 

 fragments from hive, 304; adaptin'? 

 frames to box, 320 : Hives, 471 ; de- 

 serted. 378; large versus small, 163, 

 205, 377, 454 ; moving, 140. 320 ; queen- 

 less, 340 : Sherrington bar, 47, 93 ; 

 simplest, 266 ; straw, painting, 203 ; 

 three-box collateral, 472 ; Woodbury, 

 206; wooden, 266; ventilation, 224: 

 commencing keeping, 2'i6; Ligu- 



for, 374; management, 184; Meli- 

 lotus for, 94 ; Mexican, 319 ; net for 

 feeder. 454; notes on, 183; perish- 

 ing, 184 ; pollen, earl^ gathering. 

 138: Queens, Are artificial inferior? 

 25 ; dead, 184 ; lenving, 115 ; Ligu- 

 rian, adriing, 378 ; sellmg produce, 

 532; shading. 25,415; starting Ligu- 

 rians, 206; starving, 378; stocks, 

 removing, 378; sugar, brown, bad 

 for, 245 : supers, adding, 266 ; leav- 

 ing super, 532 ; swarms in chimney, 

 532 ; early, 357 ; strong, 4i5 ; third, 

 472; unitmg, 139; swarming threat- 

 ened, 492 : unhealthy, 94 : unions, 

 autumnal, 377; uniting stocks, 284; 

 wintering, 24, 245; not working, 

 436; Woodbury, Mr., 138 



Beet, Chilian, 220; for ribbon-borders, 

 90; in flower gardens, 269, 323; 

 planting Red, 316 



Begnnias, gossip, 296; damping, 156; 

 after flowermg. 353 



Berries. sowingVarious, 90 ' 



Pertholletia excelsa, 345 



" Bible, Natural History of," 236 



Bidens atropurpurea, 40 



Birds, attacking buds". 19 ; frightening, 

 411; varying their notes, 489 



Birmingham Columbarian Society's 

 Show, 23 ; Philoperistcron Show, 

 223 ; Poultry Show, 163 ; Summer 

 Poultry Show, 414. 531 



Black beetles, destroying, 454 



Blackburn Horticultural Show, 461 



Blandfordias and culture, 403 



BliEht in the air, 373 



Boilpra, in9, 199, 200, 509; elevated, 

 4S7 : setting, 89, 300 



Boiade Boulogne, 37 



Bolbophyllum lemniscatum, 328 



Bones, dissolving. 146, 177 



Border flowers. 199 



"Botany for Beginners," 4"il 



Bottom heat, excessive, 353 ; to out- 

 door plants, 189 ; from pipes, 199 



Bouquets, button-hole, 346 



Bowood, 32 



Box, edging, cutting, 509 ; edging and 

 tree. 169 



Bradford Ornithological Show, 223 



Brahmas, as layers, and Cochins, 226 ; 

 Light, 262; feathers, 266; keeping, 

 280: light cocks' points, 284; hens 

 dying, 377; out of order, pullet lame, 

 378; marks of Light, 396 ; comb of 

 cock, 416; points of Light, 48; 

 pullet dead, 70; plumage of Dark. 

 358 ; Light, good and ill-shaped, 

 133; weight at Birmingham, hens, 

 139 ; roosts for, hen's abdomen 

 swollen, dark and light, stock, 164 ; 

 cock wheezing, 183 ; cock's defects, 

 206; Light, crop-bound, 304: pullet 

 precocious, 514; washing Light, 

 I weight, cross with Dorkings, 492; 

 cross with Turkey, 531 ; keeping, 532 



Brazil nut, 345 



Breeds, pure versus cross, 511, 512 



Bridges, rustic, 426 



Bristol Poultry Show. 41,66 



Broccoli, Cornish, 72 ; succession of, 

 98; Wall's Excelsior. 381 



Bromeliaceous plants, 71 



Bromelias, 198 



Brompton Stocks spring sown, 430 



Broods, uniting, 340 



Buda Kale. 430 



Bulbine Mackenii, 209 



Bulbs from Italy, 178 



Bullfinch diarrhceaed, 804 



Burghley House, 11 



Cabbages, scccessios of, 223; ta- 

 BIETIES. 117 



Cactus, culture, 509; not flowering, 

 392 ; propagation, 430 ; speciosus not 

 flowering, -^61 



Calceolarias, for bedding, &c., 279 ; 

 culture, 240, 336; cuttings, 336 ; dis- 

 eased, 530 ; seed, 261 



Calico for Cucumber frame covering, 

 317 



Californian fruit ranch, profitable, 

 497 



Callas not flowering, 41 



Camellias — buds falling, 41; buds 

 not opening, 221 ; and culture, 230, 

 285; buds black and falling, 279; 

 propagatine, 109 ; as hardy shrubs, 

 156; select, 193: repotting, 316; 

 leaves spotted, 317 



Canaries— among Clear Jonques, 357. 

 377: throats diseased, 378; and 

 Mules. 395: evenly-marked, 803,318, 

 339, 355, 395, 415, 491, 513; Jonque. 



Canaeibb— Continued, 

 ing and sneezing, 416; one-mandi- 

 bled, 416; and Mules, 318, 339, 355; 

 hen celibate, 320; food for young, 

 353 ; not mating with Goldfinch. 

 532 ; continually moulting, 492 ; 

 mocking, 113: parasites oa, 138; 

 matching, head unfeathered, 140; 

 dead, 140 ; cannibal, 184 ; teaching to 

 pipe, 184 ; classing Mules, 204 ; 

 room for, 225 ; nesting, 225 ; wash- 

 ing, 226; feeding, 226; breeding, 

 326: exhibiting, 244; Show, waiting 

 for the Judge, 263 ; teaching to pipe, 

 69 ; characteristics, 48 ; Mule-breed- 

 ing, 48; Goldfinch Mules, 94; un- 

 well, 94 ; eye-blind, 94 ; husk in, 94 



Canarj-'s song ceasing, 453 



Canker in fowl's mouth. 531 



Cannas, planting, 240, S72 



Cannibalism in fowls. 26 



Capillary attraction of soils, 497 



Capunismg, 116 



Capsicum culture, 249, 293 



Carnation propagation, 352 



Carrot, forcing, 6 ; manures for, 172 ; 

 for showing, 155 



Carter's & Co.'s seed farms, 334, 346 ; 

 prizes, 34; challenge cup, 55 



Carton, 405, 419 



Caryota excelsa culture, 125 



Castle Bromwich, 497 



Caterpillars, destrojing, 262 



Cats, eating chickens, 436; the Popa's, 

 45.1; new use of, 479 



Cauliflowers, 508; forcing, 289; notes 

 on, 33 ; succession of, 97 



Celeriac culture, 321 



Celery, for exhibition, 132 ; lifting, 89 ; 

 for market, 221 ; storing, 99 ; suc- 



of, 248 



Chamrerops excelsa culture, 108 

 Charcoal ashes, 109 

 Cheilanthes fronds browned, 316 

 Cherries, Kentish and MoreUo, 229; 



leaves blistered, 467 ; tree overluxu- 



riant, 4 • 

 Chickens, deformed, 377; cramped, 



young, 320 

 Chinese fowls, 48, 140 

 Christmas Rose after flowering, 336 

 Chrysanthemums, noi fiowerinR, 155 ; 



select, 240 

 Cineraria, culture. 240; seed, 261; 



dying, 261; drooping, 177 

 Classes of poultry, regulating, 135 



bouse, 509 ; for stove, 261 ; for north 

 wall, 193 



Closets, di-y earth, 109 



Coccinellffi, 146 



Coccus Adonidum, 271 



Cochin- Chin as, ceck, 355; bens, 116; 

 legs swollen, 436 ; points ofPifrtridge, 

 454 : weight of White, 358 ; winter- 

 laying, 116 ; puUets ceasing laying, 



• 246 : hen lame, 246; washing Bufi", 

 26 : not laying, 70 ; Black, 90 



Cocks, and hens, proportion of, 94 

 spur nail torn off, 454; breeding 

 from wry-breaated, 454 



Cockscomb culture, 841 



Cocos campestris, 309 



Coelogj-ne leutiginosa, 210 



Colchester Poultry Show. 203. 222 



Cold by radiation, &c., 73 



Colour, ita influence, 529 



Columbarian societies amalgamating, 



Bnff, and Mealy defined, 416 ; wheez- i Comb wounded, 164 





