Jannai7 22, 1871. 1 



JOURNAL OP HORTICULTUKB AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



INDEX. 



Acacia aramata, 203; whtte scale 

 os,2u3: cTandi8 caitare, 3t>S 



Acinetas, i6i 



Acomd in water, 426 



Adiantams, Capiliua-Vencria culture, 

 14; Farleyeiise, 240, bron-n. 471, 

 culture, 411. 5*}5, soil, 319; culture 

 ami Rnvuping. 272; not thriTiiig,471 



At-rides culture, 312 



Agave, hybrid, 369 



Ageratuin propasration, 161 



Au-drit! PuuUry Show. 456 



Alriborouffh and Borooghbridge Peul- 

 try Show. 1m4, 205 



Alford Poultry Show. 2C5 



Aloe dcltuidea, SIO 



Alpine plants, 114 



Alpines, place tor, 389 



Alton Towers Flower Show, 190 



AJy»sum variegatam, propagatinfr,16l 



Amateur gardeners' social gathering, 



American, blight, S58; famiB, poultry 

 on, IHl 



Anemones, replanting, 449 



Anglebca, 60 



Annua 8. anlnmn-sown, IfiO ; for flow- 

 erinif in house. IS); hardy, 259; 

 fur spring bedding, 162; for spring 

 flowering. 259 



Anthocera Filipendulse, cocoon, 103 



Ants in greenhouse, 278 



Aphelanilra Leopold! culture, 471 



Aphides. 30; in 1»73, 313; in conser- 

 vatory. 13 



Apples— earlv, 124 ; Ratlierintr, 222 : 

 .1 select few, 143 ; on Paradise stock, 

 240: for Buccession, 204; propa 

 gating by cultingB, 259; superior, 

 27S ; relaitve haroiness of blossom 

 4:io: mussel scale, 447 ; storinp, 380 

 cutting down trees, 401, scale on, 

 420. disease among in Niagara dis- 

 trict, Ul.nnfruitful, 840; tree cater 

 pillar, 162; and Pears early. 160; 

 Duck's bill. 3-^1 



Apricot. Bhida. 271; trees shedding 

 leaves, 125. under u'lass, 331 



Aqaatirs, tank for, 224 



Aquilegia Icptoccras var. chrysantha, 

 610 



Araliaspinosa- 151 



AraacariMS from English 9(-ed,2y9 



Ari It lo lochia, omithoccphala in win- 

 ter. 3h1 ; iriciiudiita, S'J7 



Arbor-Vitfes propaKating, 140 



Archwork, plants lor, 2i» 



Arctic plants, -^96 



Ardiaias, 479 _ 



Arrow-pf>ison of British Gmana, 62 



Artichoke bottoms, to keep, 92 



Anindo conspicaa, 176 



Ashford Poultry Show, i^i 



Asparagus— bed ^. salting, 426 ; grub, 

 87; sowing r. planting. 14 ; growing 

 fine, 911; forcing in \-iner>-. 26i ; bed. 

 Bindweed in, VA<J ; transplanting, 106 



"Asparagus. How to grow," 310 



Aobrifctia purjmrea variegata, 484 



AncabaH,40 ; propagating.. 402. 449 



Auricula, culture, 247 ; 0. J. Perrj-,293 



Avenues, 187 



ATicttbory Poultry Show. 241 



Ayr Ornithological Society's Show, 

 455 



Azaleas, 49; culture, 33; for Binall 

 greenhoase. 240 ; leaves falling, 840 ; 

 select, its, 240 ; training, 471 



BACKHons* ft SoN'fl Nursery, 116, 200 

 Banana fruit damping, 69 

 BanUmti, at the Bristol Show, 866; 

 breeding Cochin, 130; cleaning 

 \\'hite, 5C2; cook broody. 225. 261; 

 wattrry-cyed, 209; Silver-laced plu- 

 mag'-. :'•*'> 

 Barillet-DLHchamp9.2S5 

 -a Baron HiU, 137; principal flower 

 ^ ffH'den. 17« 

 1^ Pi\rn-»taple Poultry Show. U 

 2 Barrhead Poultry show. 428 



Ba'h and West of England Society. 



Beckett Park. 121 



Bedding-out system, 592 



Bedding plants, neglected, 459, 4fti ; 

 potting. 380, 415; propagating. 161. 

 204 ; soil for in pots, 279 ; summer 

 herbaceous, 143 



Bedding, variety in. 272 



Bedford Poultrv Show, 107 



Beech, Purple. 212 



Bees, superstitions, 17 ; wooden Lives, 

 18 ; hatching-time. 37 ; profitable, 

 near Cardiff, clustering-out, hives, 

 Ac, 38; Italian, hive without 

 drones. 55 ; management of, cum- 

 motions.flowers, in adverse weather, 

 72; honey harvesi of 1873, 109; 

 Bwarras and honey harvest of 1873, 

 gossip, 12fl: Dumfriesshire honey 

 harvest. 145: dividing stock, cover- 

 ing hive, yellow-banded, drones, 146 ; 

 honey show, 1873 season, trans- 

 porting, feeding, removing supers, 

 166 : and honey at Manchester Show, 

 uniting, moving stocks, our first 

 Bwarmine, 208; robber, 209; bottle- 

 feeding, 210; experience in keeping, 

 and honey at the Manchester Show, 

 227; on a fir tree, feeding, stocking 

 empty combs, 228; substituting a 

 Ligurian for a common queen, J85; 

 honey season in Gloucestershire, 

 unitingawarme, honey deficient, 186 ; 

 feedintr, 244 ; on a tree, suffering 

 from d-imp, honey harvest in Nor- 

 folk, 245; on a Fir tree, 246; 

 bar-frame hive, honey harvest 

 in East Lothian, 263; weight of 

 stock, combs mouldy, preventing 

 swarming, honey for sale, winter- 

 ing. Salvia nemoralis, 264 ; hnney 

 market, 282; courage under difficui- 

 tiea, 283 ; supers unfilled. 284 : honey 

 season, Crystal Palace hives, moth 

 in hive, 304 ; uniting stocks, what is 

 honey ? 324 ; art of Bupering, autumn 

 swarm, 32r> ; trap hives, weight of 

 stock, super on Sherrington hive, 

 transferring, prize hives, 326: what 

 ia hnney ? art of supering, 345 ; di- 

 mensions of Woodbury hive, trans- 

 ferring. 346; what is honey? feed- 

 ing, 364; stings, cure for; honey 

 season, 365; weight of stock, honey 

 deficient, delicicney of bees. 306; 

 art of supering. 386; hives filling, 

 887; feeding, 3H8; farming in 1873, 

 4fi0: breeding in winter. 410; my, 

 429; tl'ling a Crystal Palace super, 

 430; bar-frame hive, 431; feeding, 

 rc-arranging stands, spring feed- 

 ing, deserting hive, 432 removing, 

 regicide, honeycomb, honey va- 

 varying, 458; drone combs in su- 

 pers, supers at shows, 477; food, 

 breeding season, removing hives, 

 size of straw hives, price, artificial 

 swarms, 47S; Peach house, 500; art 

 of supering, farming, 501 ; wax moth, 

 502; food for, embossed wax ma- 

 chine, 522 



Begonia culture, 2;^9 



Belfast, and British Asaociation. 809 ; 

 Intcmalional Fruit Show, 278 ; Or- 

 nithological Show, 474 



Belgian horticulture, 147, 508 



Bemrose &, Ormc testimonial, 500 



Borberis Darwinii, 271 



Berry-bearing plants. 479 



Berwick Bird Sliow, 428 



Bingli y roultry Slimv, 184 



Birds. let the best win, 299 



Birmingham Poultry Show, 1G8, 882, 

 427.419,472; show catalogues issued 

 wrongfully. 240 ; PhiJoperisteron 

 Society's Show, 518 



Binhop Auckland Poultry Show, 128. 

 212 



Blackberry plantation, ISO 



Blackburn Poultry Show, 89 



Blinds tn increase warmth, 466 



Bloe flowers, (4 



Blue 8t>-mH, 115 



Bocconia Japonira. ft07 



Bone dust for fowls, 18 



Book auctions in 1791, 873 



Border, flowers, 42, 79, 105, 116, 149, 109, 

 271, 308, 354. 415. 46S; manuring. 

 819: herbaceous flowers, 340 ; hardy 

 plants for, 224 



Borders, flowers for, 235 



Eoronia megastigma, 43 



Boston Poultry Show, 16, 35 



Botanical drawing, 180 



Botanic (Royal) Society's Show, 25 



Bouquets, arranging, 483 



Box, edgings, cutting, 204 ; relaying, 

 425 



Brahmas— breeding, 130; broody, 146; 

 chickens, 38; combs, 144; deficient 

 in fluff. 5112 ; a distinctive feature of, 

 126; dving suddenly. 18; feathers 

 of Dar'k. ISO : not feeding freely, 

 laO: with distended crops, 92; with 

 Dorkings, 246 ; Light, 346, 493, 502 ; 

 unable to stand, 304. 522; roosting. 

 fr)2 ; with swollen feet, 209; vulture- 

 hocked, 502; varieties of, 410; weak- 

 legge',210 



Bramley Poultry Show, 71. 91 



Brick-kiln stnoke injurious, 143 



Britrg Poultry Show, 3il 



Brisbnne Botanic Garden, 217 



Bristol Show. Bantams at. 382 



British Museum, department of bo- 

 tany, 48 



Broccoli culture, 73 



BruHBols Sprouts culture, 78 



Buckwheat for fowls, 166, 225, 261, 821 



Bugs, harvest, HO 



Bulb-bed management, 13 



Bulbs, acres of. 437; planting out of 

 doors, 260 ; for a vase, 319 



Bullfinch, and Canary crossing, 458; 

 mules, 5G 



Bunvard and Son's NurserieB, 442 



Burnet. 204 



Burslem Poultry Show, 497 



Burton-on-Trent Poultry Show, 517 



Bury Poultry Show, 183 



Bush fruit trees, 288 



Butterflies in gardens, 336 



Butter, how to keep cool, 110 ; simple 

 mode of keeping, 72 



Cactus speciosissimds pruning, J3 



Calanthe, culture, 318; Veitchii cul- 

 ture. 515 



Calceolaria, culture, 290 ; disease. 168 ; 

 to avoid disease, 280; dying-off, 51; 

 fa.lures preventing, 173 ; in pots, 

 Si.; propagation, 70 



Caledonian (Koyal) Horticultural So- 

 ciety's Show, 23 



Callicarpas, 479 



Calomel for fowls, 346 



CamberwcU Beauty, 202 



Cambridge Poultry Show, i% 



Camellias— culture, 33 ; cuttings find 

 grafts, 14; not flowering, 44!); for 

 greenhouae wall. 381 ; for small 

 greenhouse, 240; not growing, 472; 

 leaves brewned, 859; repotting, 85, 

 224 ; select, 223 



Canada, fowls for, 431 



Canaries— artificially coloured. 862 : 

 how obtained, 477: crested, 804; 

 feathers yellow, 246; thirteen tail 

 feathers. 304 ; first feather, 109 ; 

 young losing feathers, 56 ; Goldfinch 

 Mule with. 432; high coloured, 844, 

 380, 419, 470, 521, 522; homed, 17; 

 losing voice, 846; leg- weakness, 56 ; 

 Mules, 56; packing for travelling, 

 802 ; in a room, 432 ; points of show, 

 180 ; shows, 109 ; at Crystal Palaca 

 Show, 2C3. 282; at Nottingham fchow, 

 802 



Canterbury Poultry Show, 495 



Caragitatu Zahnii, 292 



Carbolic acid for destroying parasitcB 

 on fowls, 91 



Carnations, and their culture, 195; 

 Picotces, and Pinks, to distinguish, 

 M; pcedlingH dying-off, 51 ; in pots, 

 278; Tree. 258 



Carpet beds at Ptoke Eochford, 440 



Carriers' lialiUity for poultry, 71 



Carrnn Poultry Show, 475 



Carrots destroyed by wireworms, 86 



Castle Eden District Poultry Show, 



Cattleya Triann^, Mossife, Aclandire. 

 maxima, labiata, Warnerii, and 

 exoniensis culture, 422 



Cauliflwwers, button-heading, 223 ; ca- 

 terpillars on, ISO; grub-eaten, 13; 

 planting, 401 ; sowing, 203 



CeanothuB, africanus culture, 819; 

 dcntatus, 116 



Cedrus Deodara. transplanting, 162 



Celery, 471; culture, 180; hard, 278; 

 inferior, 403; protecting, 514; rot- 

 ting, 12; two-year seedlings, 359; 

 transplanting, 426 



Celsia b e tonic te folia, 397 



Centaurca, propagating, 253; ragusina 

 propagation, 289 



Centroselina bullata culture, 471 



Cephalotus follicularia, 161 



Characteristics of poiUtry, standard, 



Charlcote, 855 



Chatteris Poultry Show, 15 



Cheltenham gardening, 219 



Cherries, Morello, falling, 83 ; spu- 

 rious May Duke, 63; on the Ma- 

 haleb, 299; Morello not thriving, 

 299 ; spurious, 155 



Cherry blight, 448 



Chickens, failing in autumn, 20f , 210 ; 

 not feathering, 209 : feeding, 522 ; 

 food fur, 264 ; ill and dying, 18; not 

 eating and ailing, 55; rearing arti- 

 ficiaUy, 87 



Chicory forcing, 515 



Chorley Poultry Show, 164 



Christmas Rose, 488 ; slugs on, 472 



Chrysanthemums, 298, 40 ',401 ; bushy, 

 381; culture. 33, 389; cuttings, 471; 

 garden and greenhouse. 426 ; pro- 

 pagation, 492; showing. 425; South 

 Essex. 417 : in the Temple, 335 ; 

 training, 278; tying and training, 

 179 



Chui-ehyard 8,416 



Cbysis bractescens, 507 



Cicindela cainpestns, 46 



Cinchona ..Calisaya r. Josephiana, 

 187 



Cinerarias, and Calceolaria propaga- 

 tion, 492 ; dying-off, 61, 449 ; in pots. 

 38 



Cinqiiefoil, Menzies', 42 



Cirencester Poultry Show, 182 



Clay burning, 1G2 



Clayey soil, improving. 402 



Cleckheaton Poultry Show. 70 



Clematises, and culture, 480 ; for south 

 verandah, 493; Jaekinauni in beds, 

 403, flowerlesb, 162 ; Standishii train- 

 ing, 13 



Clithra arbnrea culture, 162 



Cleveland Poultry Show, 456,473 



Climate, change of Scottish. 48!) 



Climbers, for umbrella trellises, for 

 greenhouse walls, 448; for verandah 

 and wall. 493 



Coleus wintering, 143 



Club-root, 380 472 



Cochins, lighter-coloured, 88; Par- 

 tridge, plumage, 866 ; points in 

 White. 478 



Cockerels and chickens failing, 210 



Cnck-Hghting, 282 



Coincideuees, curious, 50 



Colax jugosus, and culture, 76 



Cold pit, constructing, 51 



Coleus losing leaves, 448 



Colour, arrangement, 376; of plants 

 afl^ected by the soil, 296 



Colunibarian Societies, proposed 

 united show, 71; challenge to, 91 



Combo Abbey, 420 



Combretum grandiflorum not flower- 

 ing, 493 



Conservatory baskets, plants for, 471 



Coop for DnrkJnps. WH 



Copings. 33] ; for kitchen garden wall, 

 163; fr>r vr»ll«,l;68 



Corsican Pine at seaside, 178 



Cotoncaster Sixnonsii, 160 



