Jannary 22, 1874. ] 



JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



Mistletoe, and its habitats, 60 ; pro- 

 pagation of in Wales, 41 



Moles. 419 



MontroBe Ponltrj' Show, 49S 



Monument of trees, 158 



Moulting, late. 3i'4 ; neck hackles, 107 



Moving planta,S6 



Mulberry unfruitful, 163 



Mushrooms, bed, iunsns, 448. respawn- 

 ing, 239: in a frame, 224: grub- 

 eaten, 51; hoaae, vermin in, 840; 

 in vinery. 402 



Myoaotis dissitiflora, dividing, 224 



Myrtles, catting and shifting, SuD 



Naiuno, 514 



Names satirised, 235 



Nant, 176 



Napoleon's tomb in St. Helena, S33 



Narcissi, select, 339 



Nash Court. 273 



Neath Poultry Show. 127 



Nectarines, crop, 163 ; not ripenint?, 278 



Nemophila insignis for spring bloom, 

 449 



Nerium splendens for September, 472 



Net-making machine. 492 



Nettinu. machine, 402: mode of sell- 

 ing. 133, 152. 163 ; f.ir protection. 437 



Newcastle-under-Lyme Poultry Show, 

 241 



Newcastle-npon-Tyne Poultry Show, 

 3d4. 4D9 



Newfoundland puppy distempered, 38 



Northallerton Poultry Show. 243 



Northampton, Bird Show, 341 : Orni- 

 thological Society's rule agaiust co- 

 louring. 284; Show, 362 



North British Columbarian Society's 

 Show, 619 



Northern Columbarian's Secretary, 

 action against, 476 



Northern Counties Columbarian So* 

 oiety. 165, 476 



Norwich Canary Show, 822, 342 



Nottingham Bird Show, 2S2 



Nursery manager not a servant, 143 



Nurserymen v. amateurs, 173 



Oakham Pocltbt Show, 455 



Oat^grlDding atones. 264 



Oatmeal-and-water drink. 245 



Oata, ground. 38 ; for fowls, 24C, 84G 



Ocjrpus olens, 46 



Oleander buds falling, 163 



Ompbalodes Lnciliie, 43 



Onion, curious custom, 173 



Onions, autuniD sowing, 20; maggots 

 in. 14 



Oranges, culture, 318 ; dropping, 143 ; 

 seedling culture, 162 



Orchard-houae, management, 49; 

 rsutine, 142, 161, 223, 25S. 318; trees 

 oabting leaves and fruit, 87, repot- 

 ting. 201, treatment, 448 



Orchida-for amateurs, 11. 312, 422, 462, 

 506; autumn treatment. 203; cul- 

 ture, 379, 492, hardy and half-hardy, 

 101; repotting, 515; sales, 104; Sep- 

 tembcr-dowenne, 215 



Ormskirk and Southport PoultryShow, 

 126 



Orthosiphon stamineus, 47 



Oswestry Poultry Show, 1:43 



Oondle Poultry Show, 53 



Oxalis elegaus, 149 



UxUp.483 



Oxford Poultry Sk»w, 52, 165, 850 



Paddock Poci-TaT Show, 145 



Pansies, for bedding, 433; dividing, 

 279 ; soil for potting, 51 ; wintering 

 show, 359; winter treatment of 

 show. 515 ; Blue King, 504 ; Blue Bell 

 and Ruff'jrd Abbey, 420 



Panay Society, Scottish, 23 



Parents' influence on comb and leg 

 colour, 209 



Paris notes. 853 



Parrot, cradle for, 18 



Pasalflora, inaignia, 510; quadrangu- 

 iBria. 461 



Peaches— blotched, 223 ; border for, 

 881; crop, 168; crops in house fdil- 

 tng, 505; culture in Delaware, 159; 

 trmi on doable, 288 ; kernels poison* 

 ona, &9 ; leaves falliing, 13 ; in or- 

 chard house flowerleas, 51; repot- 

 ting, 51& ; treatment of seedling, 

 168 ; trees, over-luxuriant. 448, 

 ■tandard. 24':> for vinery wall, 472, 

 on wall and hoase, 492, tying and 

 traimog, 481; weight of orchard 

 bouse. M 



Peara— bark crackng, 224 ; cracking, 

 70,&£8,&69; as diagonal cordons for 

 ft wall, 50; diseased, 125 ; early, 34; 

 espalier unfruitful, 13 ; gathering, 

 322, late. 819: leaves blistered, 180; 

 for market, S40; for pyramids, 224; 

 rfpeniog, 186, 835; selection, 426; 

 Bplltting, 244 ; storing. 880 ; thinning. 

 88; trees, unfruitful, 224, 615; wart- 

 ed, 143 : in >>'cw Zealand, 293 ; Ked 

 Doyenne for aouth wall, 449 ; Lucy 

 Orieve, 833 



Peas— culture and selection, 204 ; for 

 daily aupply, 239; diseased, 83; 

 dying, 70; early, 463; late, 208; new, 

 115, li4; preserring green, 180; 



Pzks—Ciintinit^d. 

 trenchintr ground for, 447; Blue 

 Peter, 115, 150; Litile Gem, 150; 

 .James's Prolific, 115; G.F.Wilson, 

 59. 115 

 Peat for plants, 239 

 Pelargoniums— cuttings of, 142; fail- 

 ing, 163; first-class certificated, 214; 

 potting, 143. 239: Tricolor, culture 

 of. 83, leaves not colouring, 106; 

 Zonal. 248. double, 203 

 Pelecyphortt aseUiformia v. concolor, 



293 

 Penmon Priory dovecote, 78 

 Pentstemon Palraeri,397 

 Pens, exhibition, 38 

 People's Garden, HO 

 Perennials, tall yellow and white, 



flowering, 106 

 Peristerouic (National) Society, SS6 

 Periateronio Society's Meeting, 429 

 PhajuH grandifolius. 485 

 Plial^nopsis grandiflora and amabilis, 



471 

 Pheasants, rearing, 92 

 Phloxes, culture, 68, 111 ; planting, 335 

 Phylloxera vastittrix, 248, 817, 370 

 Pigeons— buckwheat f er, 56 ; at Cam- 

 bridge Show, SG4 ; canker in, 3S; 

 classification, 362; cruelty to. 199; 

 diseased, 304; dropping its wing. 

 366; fleas in loft, 38; going light, 

 210; at Hitch in and Exeter Shows, 

 165, 185; home attachment, 263; 

 homing, 17; house for, 410; in- 

 genuity, 207: maggoty, 2-46; point 

 cups, 91 ; polygamy in, 145,185,226, 

 263; prize m'lstakes, 263 ; proposed 

 Show, 71,91; rouped, 326; scouring, 

 804 ; " Somersetshire Squire " and 

 his Tumblers, ti63 ; at Southampton, 

 17; thief punished, 926; washing, 

 210 : which to keep, 366. 411 ; wing 

 disease, 284; Beards, Balds, and 

 Mottled Tumblers, 863, 429 ; Cumu- 

 lets, 210; Dragoon, breeding, 410; 

 points, 241. rump, 'J84; English and 

 Forei(»n Owls; Mottle, Bald, and 

 Beard, 408; pomts of Jacobins, 458; 

 Tuniblera, classification, 326, com- 

 mon Flying, 322, Short-faced, 362; 

 Turbits' crowns, 210 ; keeping Wood 

 in confinement, 186 

 Pine Apple Nursery, 159 

 Pine Apples, culture, 105,258, 297,839, 

 379,425; not fruiting, 515; manage- 

 ment of fruiting, in pots, 124 ; ma- 

 nipulation, 104 : tor market, 403; in 

 New Zealand, 232 

 Pine wood forming, 163 

 Pines, 49 

 Pjnus austriaca, pruning, 239 ; in* 



eignis at seaside, 178 

 Pinuses per acre, 225 

 Piracies, literarv, 70 

 Pit, heating. 299, SSI, small, 224; in 

 stove, heating, 319; heating propa- 

 gating, 381 

 Plane-tree timber, 279 

 Plant-house arrangement, 51 

 Planting, ornamental, 19. 98, 111,187, 



247,412,464.504 

 Plants, as doctors, 173; culture of 



fine-foliagpd. 63 

 PlasNewydd, 219,236 

 Plumbago Larpentie and culture, 466 

 Plums, American wild, 25; branches 

 dying, 125; espaliers unfruitful, 13; 

 for succession. 204 ; tree not bearing 

 69 ; for wall, 298 ; St. Aubert, 355 

 Poinsettias, pulcherrima culture, 818 ; 



potting, 70 

 Poland hon sitting, 92 

 Polemonium caruleum variegatum, 



484 

 Piillen, protection of, loS 

 Polyanthuses, 465, 481 moving, 402 ; 



thrum-eyed. 419 

 Polypodium italicum culture, 162 

 Potatoes— aa they are. 150. 171. 215; 

 best early and late, 492; blight and 

 creosote, 492: creosoling, 4iG; dis- 

 ease, 8, 115, 251. 326. 511, alleged new, 

 96, another, 371, during winter, 14, 

 avoided, 4S5. in orchard house. 74, 

 in 1^73, Sin, 333. in Sussex. 31, Lord 

 Cathcart's prize, 416, 511 ; for fowls, 

 326; early ripening, 471; experi- 

 ments in cultivation, 175; extraor- 

 dinary, 169; imported, 8, 159; lights 

 for pits, 87 : prospects, 40 ; selecting 

 seed, 204: stem tubers, 161; storing 

 seed. 106: taking up early, 271; 

 tuberlesa, 269.28^; with much haulm, 

 169 ; early Kidney. 119 ; Ilagae'a 

 Seedling, 232; Lee's Haiiiraen<mith 

 Kidnev, 1C9; Red-akinned Flourball, 

 Sandnnham Early Kidney, 119; 

 426 

 Potentilla Monzicsii, 12 

 Pot-pourri, 56 

 Potting, soil for, 417 ; using atones in, 



175, 202 

 Pots, mode of moving large, 232 

 Poultry — commencing, 72 ; commen- 

 dations, 493; cottagers', 35, 70; ex- 

 hibited when injured, 882; feeding, 

 146; food, 55; haunts, 359; houso- 

 floors, 87; iiouao and yard, 432; 

 keeping, 85, 70, for pmllt, 92, with 

 profit, 522, on small farms, 110; 

 mingling, 516 : past and present, 84 ; 

 and Pigeon house, 225, 204 ; show* 



Poultry — Con tinned. 

 ing other peoples. 826; shows, 

 clashing, 382, committees & judges, 

 261. mistakes at, 383; standard cha- 

 racteristics, 320 : varied diet for, 321 



Priiuroaea, Cowslips, Pulvanthuaes, 

 and Oxlips, 367, 397, 443, 5 i4 



Primula, japonica, leaves injured, 204, 

 supporting, 426 ; in winter, 402 ; 

 prnpagiiting, 492 ; japonica short- 

 stemmed. 278; verticiUata i-ar. si- 

 nensis, 42 



Propagating tank, gas-heated, 449 



Protecting plants, 423 



Protection friunes, 132 



Prunella optima, 80 



Pruning, what I know of, 101 



Psvehotria. 480 



Public gardens, plants from, 276 



I*ullets, faces swollen, 457; laying ir- 

 regularly, 458; laying, 410; uot 

 laying, 522 



Pumpkins, use of, 2G4 



Pyramid fruit trees, 288 



Pvrethrum, Golden, 484 



pj-rethrum Golden Feather for bed* 

 ding, 204 



Quinces falling, 881 



r4bdits— breeding. extensive, 284 ; 

 burrowing, 432; fecundity of. 17; for 

 profit, 72,246; imported, 326; keep- 

 ing for exhibition, 458: class for 

 Belgian Hare, 109; South London 

 Show, 128 : scurfy. 130 : Kent and 

 Surrey Show, 207 ; Metropolitan 

 Association. 209 



Rafflesia Arnoldi, 418 



Rainbow, lunar, 123 



Raisin-making in California, 172 



Raspberries, culture, 434, 514; large, 

 204 ; origin of, 236 ; planting, 258 ; 

 pruning, 379 



Rata, its habit, 66, 118 



Rats, driving away, 839; in poultry 

 house, 410 



Red flowers for spring, 224 



Red spider, destroying, 493 



Reigate Poultry Show, 497 



Repotting large plants, 426 



Rhododendrons, cuttings, 402; graft- 

 ing, 69; malayanum, 43; manuring, 

 493 ; transplanting, 163 ; Nuttallii not 

 flowering, 449 



Rib3ton Pippin, 266, 286 



Rivinas, 479 



Roadside screens. 111 



Rochdale Rabbit Show, 164 



Rocliea falcata culture, 132 



Rocket, old double white, 25 



Root-pruning, 259. fruit trees, 240 



Roots, adventitious. 337 



Rosarians, associations of, 414 



Rose-water distilling, 18 



Roses— autumnal, 266, 281, 411; bank 

 of, 492; Bath Show, 5; budding, 14, 

 70 ; buds dropping, 86 ; leaf-eutter 

 bee, 86: at Che&hunt,22; coddling, 

 413; classifying, 70; climbing, 232, 

 for greenhouse, 381; collection of, 

 143: cured of mildew, 104; Crystal 

 Palace, 7. fasting at, 420; cuttings, 

 preparing, 50, striking, 51, 86 ; elec- 

 lion, 270, 310, 334, 348, 371, 698 : errors 

 in culture, 375: West of England 

 Show, 73; exhibiting, 482; for ex- 

 hibition, 417 ; in exposed places, 467 ; 

 forcing, 41, 402, and selection for, 

 449: black fungus on, 38); a Ger- 

 man's complaint, 159; green, 99; 

 green-centred, 83; not grown by 

 exhibitor, 370 : a grumble about, 

 120 ; Herefordshire Show, 11 ; issuing 

 from a Rose, 195; judging, 459, 505 ; 

 at Kensington, 8 ; mildew, 142 ; more 

 about, 327 ; mossy growth on, 204 ; 

 new, 58; nomenclature. 417; peg- 

 ging down, 14 ; pinching dwarfs, 204 ; 

 planting, 88 ', Manetti-stocked, 408 ; 

 newly-planted. 380; in pots, 492; 

 potted, 402; pnming. 26u, 319; re- 

 planting. 449; on own roots, 449 ; 

 Shnw at Brie-Comte Robert, 84, 

 22:', 233, 256 ; select, 402, 448 ; se- 

 lection, 375 ; at a show, 39 ; soil for, 

 319; stocks, 463, 472, from cuttings, 

 329; transplanting, 161, 402 ; on 

 trellis, 402; Baronne de Maynard, 

 22: Briar stocks, 370; Frani.-uia 

 Lacliamio, 343; Manetti stock tor, 

 125, 229. 336, 333, 434. 433 ; on Manetti 

 stock, 232; Martchal Niel, 69, 819; 

 Thomas Mcthven, Ac, 3i9; Mdlle. 

 Cecile Berthod, 43 ; Safrano too 

 large, 340 ; President Thiers, 890 



RoHH poultry Show, 322 



Rubus dcUciosus, 293 



Rust, preventing, 360 



Kyhopo Poultry Show, 225 



Salad Plants. 143 



St. Paul's Cathedral, gardening in, 



33 

 Salvia, bicolor, &c., culture, 415 ; 



splendens, 434 

 Sttxifraga Kotschyi, 897 

 Scale on Pt-aeli tr«>uH. 14 

 Scientific lurtustry Society, 270 

 Scutellurias and their culture, CI 



Sea-kale, culture, 379; forcing, 425 



heeilliugs. 591 

 Sedgcfield Poultry oliow, 108 126, 130 

 Seed-hopper fur aviary, 458 

 Selkirk Poultry Sliow. 516 

 Senecio Haworthii. 396 



Sewage, as a fertiliser, 894 ; house, a 

 safe and most valuable fertiliser, 

 167, 211 ; profitably employed, 103 



Shade for flowers, 45 



Shades and shelters, 4, 26, 75, 115 



Sheep, trees not eaten by, 403 



Shcpherdia argtntea, 420 



Shoots browned, 289 



Shrubs, for another season, for screen, 

 493 ; quick-growing near tho sea 

 106 ; with turf over roots, 86 



Siiriu* Hn.ikori. 137 



Siik, rcelinij and silkworms, 55; from 

 silkwnrnia.HS 



Silkwurni-culturo in England, 109 



Single birds, exhibiting, 34 



Skins, softening, 478 



Slugs, 99 



Snowdrops, Crimean, 436 



Soil, improving, 33 



Soils, their variety and uses in cul* 

 tivation, 65. 99 



Sohinum Capsicastrum berries, 403 ; 

 not poisonous, 419 



S()llya linearis, 235 



Sonerila Bensoni, 137 



Southport winter gardens, 816 



Sowing, 483 



Spain's fruit produce, 27 



Spalding Poultry Show, 16 



Spanish cockerel's faoe red-marked, 

 453 ; cock's face, 110; discoloured, 

 264 ; feather-eaters, 388 ; face, 431 ; 

 fowl catiirrhed, 326; legs. 264 



Spinach. FJamlers, seeds of, 180 



Spirfea japonica, after flowering, 83 

 forcing, 470 ; in frame, 359 



Stamfonl Poultry Show, 54 



Standard characteristics of poultry, 

 279, 341, 427; poultry specimena' 

 museum, 5IG 



Stand for plants, 472 



Statues in gardens, 86 



Stoke Newington Chrysanthemum 

 Show, 873 



Stone fruits and hard soil, 119 



Stove, cleaning iron. 319; plants for 

 winter and spring flowering, lOG 



Strawberries — barren plants. 18; 

 beds, planting, 133 ; culture, 57, 108, 

 117. 158, and merits, 170, 173, pot, 307. 

 813; forcing. 401, 472, best for, 268, 

 for early, 14; fruiting forced in se* 

 cond year, 69 ; planting out forced 

 for a main crop, 48 ; gossin, 57 ; grass 

 in beds, 130; insects. 70; large, 204; 

 late and early, 85; manag*:ment, 

 124; manure lor, 14; mildewed, 13 ; 

 new, 112; notes on. 154; planting, 

 51, 105, 320, replanting, 319; newly- 

 planted fruiting, 239 ; September 

 planted. 426; in pots, 179. 492; old 

 plants '('. runners, 163 ; potting, 142 ; 

 nmners, 85; in a poor soil. 93; for 

 succession, 33; not swelling, 493; 

 varieties, 67; The Countess. 113; 

 Early Crimson Pine, 112; Enchan- 

 tress, 113 ; Excelsior, 114 ; Sir John 

 Falstaff, 113; Gipsy Queen, 113; 

 Fair Lady, 114; Hautboia culture, 

 260; Brown's Wonder, laJ 



Straw mat making, 115 



Sunflower and its uses, 143 



Sutton's Root Show, 440; trial farm, 

 79 



Sycamore and Plane trees, 279 



Syringodea pulcheUa, 510 



Table decorations at the Cuvstal 



Palace, 232 

 Taesonia, insignis, 397; manicata, 64 

 Tan. around Gooseberry trees, 14; 



bed, limgus in, 380 

 Taunton Deane Show, 153 

 Terrace walk and slope, 239 

 TcrritT Bill Johnson, 17 

 Thorn hedge planting, 810 

 Thrips and mealy bug on plants, 200 

 Thunbergia ahita, 79 

 Toads in a garden, 06 

 Tobacco juice, 223 

 Todea superba culture, 143 

 Todmorden Poultry Show, 206 

 Tomatoes, 373; from cuttings, 381; 



for cuttings, 413; a deception, 41; 



a few sorts, 2K6. 328; for June, 299 ; 



not fniiiing, 100; New Strawberry 



Dwarf, 76, 95 

 Tonbridgc Wells Poultry Show, 822 

 Tortworih Court, 155 

 Toxteth Park Gardeners' Association, 



310 

 Tracliolium cfnriilenm,39 

 Tredegar Poultry Show, 500, 508 

 Tree-plantmg, mounds for, 464 ; 



theory and practice, 134 

 Tree's support injured, 13 

 Trenching, 277 

 TriekH uf trade, 154 

 Trolly for tree-moving. 464 

 Tubbinfj largo plants, 895 

 Tuhps, in heavy soil, 819 ; Bclect early, 



14^ 

 Tumblers, Short-faced, 3C2 

 Xumour, in fowl'u breast, 804 ; near 



fowl's vent, 388 



