July 17, 1873. ] 



JOURNAL OF HORTICULTUBE AND COTTAGE GAEDENEK. 



1 ]N D E X, 



Aberdeen Poultry Show, B6 

 Acacias an<l their culture, 206 

 Acanthus arachnitis, 393 

 AGcrington Poultry Show, 421 

 ArleUiide Botanic tiarclen, report on, 



35G 

 Ailiantum. farleyenee, repottins, 140 ; 



forraosum, 186 

 Atiricaltural returns, 243 

 Air-ailmittinjr, 125 

 Akebia quinata propagation, 817 

 Alexandra Palace, 413 ; Flower Show, 



43S 

 AlUimanda. flowers defective, 303 ; 



training, 189 

 A'<n:acias Insins leaves, 210 

 Aloes in a cellar, 169 

 Alsnmitra sarcophylla, 2[3 

 Aletrumeria seedlings, 4U 

 AlysBum saxatile compactum not 



flowering, 441 

 Amaranthus salicifolias, 897 ; culture, 



441 

 Amaryllis fonnosissima, planting, 17 

 American bliu^ht bird, 121 

 American trees and shinibs, neglected, 

 341 ; and Japanese plants similar, 

 55,72 

 Ancylogyne grandiflora flowerless, 808 

 Andryala mogadorensis, 99 

 Anjrtiloa Clowesii and uniflora bu- 



pi^rba,145 

 Aninuil food fnr fowls, 216 

 Annuals, for bonier, 494; late-Hower- 

 ing, in?; sowing half-hardy, 247; 

 )or Rose circle?, 249; half-hardy, 

 from seed, 293 

 iVntennaria tomenlnsa propagation, 



493 

 Ant^. 458 ; trappiiig. 343 ; on wall, 399 

 Aphides, destroying, 40 

 Aphis, black, 517 



Apples, dwarf bushes, 4G3: espa- 

 hors, 127 ; pruning, 127 ; gi-afted with 

 Pears, 28; lists of, 40 ; pruning py- 

 ramid, 211: scale on. 461 : summer 

 culture. 380; indications, 438; Tower 

 of Glamis, 50 

 Apricot, branches dying, 344 ; sheds, 



206 

 Aquatics, heat of water for stove, C3 

 Aralia japonica culture, 230 

 Araucaria Bidmlli, 242 

 iVibour, climbers for, 361 ; evergi-een, 



210 

 Ai-eea pumila, 227 

 Arisarum vulgare, 227 

 Arnott's stove, 127 ; versus hot water, 



79 

 Arpophynum,''cardinale, 166 ; gigan- 



teum, 166 ; epicatum, 227 

 Aj'ticliokes, planting, 75 : culture of 



(ilobe, 75, 228 ; Jerusalem, 75, 229 

 Astiaragus, 399; yalt for, 460; making 

 beds, 476 ; renewing bods, 494: im- 

 pro^'ing beds, 518; culture, 379,410, 

 517: cutting, 361; dyjng-oul, 441; 

 hastening, 476: planting. a49; shoots 

 grub-eaten, 494 ; all white shoots, 

 461; Connovcrs, 127 

 Asplialt walks. 419 

 Asnlenium myriophynum,435 

 Asters, culture, 249; sowing out of 



doors, 380 

 Anouba, flowers, feitilising, 308; 

 leaves bl'owned, 361; male, 230; 

 seeds not growing, 84 

 u"'i.-,t-Jli>wering jilants. 210 

 Auricuhiy, 12i'.. 350 ; l)loom in 1872, 141 ; 

 culture, S67; to the front, 241: mil- 

 dewed, 279; at South Kensington. 

 9K7: in Lancashii'e, 413; selection, 

 2aS, 440 

 AviLiry. birds losing feathers, 274; 

 portable, 40 



Azaleas, culture, 247, 3>7 ; after flower- 

 ing, 476; leaves browned, 270 ; pro- 

 pagating, 149 ; removing leaves, 441 ; 

 repotting, 441 : soil for, 127, 166, 170 



Azores, fowls in, 363 



Baildon Ornithological Society's 



Show, 46, 67 

 Balcony decorations, 9 

 Balsam culture, 375 

 Bantams, cock, 236 ; trait of cock, 130 ; 

 Cochin. 132 ; eggs not forthcoming, 

 4r3; points in Game, 70: in gar- 

 dens, 110; Japanese, 309; Pekin and 

 China. 444 

 Bardney Manor. 76 

 Bark for bottom heat, 476 

 Barkeria, Skinneri, 144; spectahilis, 



and elegans, 159 

 Barrow Poultry Show, 1P8 

 Barton Poultry Show, 22 

 Biitemania Burtii, 7 

 Bath and "West of England Associa- 

 tion, 295 ; Poultry Show, 461, 477 

 Bed(Ung-out season, 39G 

 Bedding plants, blue, 879: culture, 

 343 ; hardening. 268 ; potting, 24R ; 

 seed Bowing, 380; planting, 428; 

 wateiing, 476 

 Bedlington Poultry Show, 20,478 

 Bees— ants in hive, 480; apiarian ap- 

 pliances, 496; apiarian memoranda, 

 422; books on, 273; bottle-feeding, 

 23 ; building in glasses, 463 ; combs, 

 crooked, 522; combs fixing, 423 ; 

 deserting hives, 312: domiciles and 

 manaKemeut, 58, 109, 194. 215, 253; 

 driving, 423 ; drones slaughtered in 

 June. 522; dwindling, 404: dysen- 

 tery in Ligurians. 462 ; ekes remov- 

 ing, 498; felon. 365: hives, 216, 423; 

 another, 383; the best, 47, 109, 195. 

 215; and the brimstone-pit, 253; 

 , controversy, 131. :235; large, 329; 

 317; irrsus small, 383; lartjcst in 

 the world, 21: overturned, 154; 

 placing, 312; sizes of, 496: Stew- 

 arton, 23. 69 ; straw for, 48 ; Taylor's. 

 424. 444 : Woodbury, 404 ; tea chests 

 for. 444; and honey, 92: honey 

 harvest, 195 ; honey taking in 

 winter, 109; Lignrian. 254; in Lon- 

 don. 444 ; management, 194; moving 

 to a Greenhouse, 154; nadiring, 253, 

 273, 3r.5. 403, 444 : ntites. 480 ; notes 

 for beginners, 273: pasturage, 384; 

 Pettitt's apiary. 461; prizes for, 92; 

 purchasing, .522 ; starving colony, 

 saving, 235 ; Stewarton system, 09 ; 

 spi-ine feeding, 365, 403: stocks, in- 

 creasing, 153 ; large number of, 330 ; 

 moving, 480 ; swarming, 196 ; swarms 

 artificial, 522 ; swarms uniting, 195, 

 215; supering, SIO; taking off glass 

 supers, 480; transferring, 312; trap, 

 423. 444; waspa attacking, 480; wax 

 and honey, 423; winter ventilation, 

 423 

 Beet, for borders, S''8; dark-leaved 

 for winter garden, 186; ornamental, 

 83 

 Beetles, to destroy, 329 

 Begonias, failing, 149; herbacea, 471 ; 



from seed. 188 

 Belfast Poultry Show, 521 

 Beltjian hnrticulture. 122. 303. 357 

 Eelgiiin King at horticultural p'aces, 



395 

 Belladonna Lilies not flowering, 380 

 Bellis. aucubafolia, 308; rotumlifolia 



carulescens. 2^3 

 Bignonia Pandorje not thriving, 460 

 Birch, common, IbC; for mixed border, 

 289 



Birdlime, 19B 



Bird diary. 432 



Birds V. buds, 62, 218, 249; nests, ruids 



on, 473 

 Birmingham Columbarian Society's 



Show, 66, 9D; Philoperisteron Show, 



Black beetles, 24 



Bleclmum corcovadenae two-headed, 



Bhckling Hall, 166 



Blue-flowered plants, 105 



Boiler for several houses, 844 



Bones, dissolving, 17 



Border flowers, 198, 241, 280, 336. 354, 



372.427,451,470,488 

 Borrowed birds, exhibiting, 233 

 Botanical Locality Record Club, 359 

 Botanic (Royal) Society's Shows, 259, 



333, 399, 467 

 " Botany, General System of," 341, 451 

 Bottle-brneh plant cultui-e, 400 

 Bougainvillcea, glabra culture, 150; 



spectabilis culture, 442 

 Bouvardia, cuttings, 379 ; Vreelandii, 



7 

 Bowenia spectabilin ftem., 7 

 Bowling and croquet green, 442 

 Brace for fowls, 24 

 Brachyotum confertmn. 203 

 Bradford Ornithological show, 109 

 Bradford Pigeon Show. 129. 192. 213 

 Brahmas, 70, 273, 329, 345. 362, 382, 420 ; 

 cock dying, 154 ; characteristics, 191 ; 

 Dark, 477 ; Light, at Crystal Palace, 

 18: pullets ill. 24; in pens. 40; for 

 conhned space, 110; mouth ulce- 

 rated, 216; cock's spurs. 236; Dark 

 and Liglit hen tumouved, 254; their 

 merits, 309 ; sneezing, 312 ; eggs, 

 414; colour of eggs, 318, 403; two- 

 vears-old, 366; nests, 384; meiits, 

 400. 401; ulcer in. 403; Liffht, plu- 

 mage, 424: cockerel unhealthy. 44 1 

 Bramble, double rose-leaved. 411 

 Breeders' names, deceptive use of, 109 

 Breeds of fowls neglected, 363 

 Bristol Poultry Sho w, 42 

 Broccoli. Cooling's, 308; from Corn- 

 wall, 102; dying. 518 

 Bromeliaceie at Liege. 224 

 Brosimum galactodendron, 322 

 Bruifmansia compost, 231 

 Brussels Sprouts. 231 

 Buckwheat for fowls, 312 

 Buffalo Berry, 278, 334, 429; sowiQg. 



482 

 Bulbs, notes on some, 83 

 Bull's prizes offered for new plants, 38 

 Bumble feet, 384 

 Burton-on-Trent Poultry Show, 5il 



Cabbages, cultdre, 246 : liouid 

 manure fob, 460 ; small. 248 



Calceolarias, bedding, 35 ; culture, 

 179; herbaceous, 179; leaves injured, 

 491 ; plants, rearing. 372. 379 



Caledonian (Royal) Horticultural So- 

 ciety's Show, 305 



CalochortuB venustus culture, 4''.7 



Camberwell Beauty butterfly, 466 



Cambridge Poultry Show, 24, 48 



Camnlha tub, fungus on, 4 i 



Camellias, culture, 217; after flower- 

 jnfr,476; buds falling, 150; gi-afling, 

 149 : repotting. 127; seedlings flower- 

 ing, 269 ; for vinery wulls. 269 ; under 

 Vines, 40, 380; out of doors in New 

 Zealand, 59; from cuttings, 105; 

 Princess Mary, 471 



Canaries, colour influenced by food, 

 291, 310 ; wasting nest, pairing, 312 ; 

 at the Crystal Palace, 214; painted. 

 231; insects on, 274; dressing for 



CASAniRs— Continued. 

 exhibition, 132, 175 ; Goldfinch 

 mules, 154; nux-vomica for, 154; 

 feeding hen, 176; food for young. 

 404; with Bullfinch, 404; restless 

 hena, 404 ; pairing, 404 ; young in 

 aviary, 443 

 Canker, 42ft 

 Canna culture, 2S8 

 Cannes, gardening at, 97 

 Caracas chair of Botany, 223 

 Carica aurantiaca, 488 

 Carnations, culture, 517; culture of 

 Tree, 494; grub-eaten, 493; select, 

 126 

 Cari)et flower-bed planting, 379 

 Carpocapsa pomonana, 32 

 Carriage rotads and drives, 218, 324 

 Cats, teachableness, 310 ; trespassing, 



476 ; Cyprus and Tabby, 48 

 Cauliflowers, dying, 518; forcing, 267 

 Cedar transplanted. 106 

 Celei-y, culture, 208, 268; decaying, 



127 ; pricking-out, 149 ; sowing, 307 

 Cements, useful, 292, 311, 347 

 Centaurea, candidissima sowing, 127; 



ragusina from seed^ 248 

 Cepnalotus folliculans culture, 4'0 

 Chalk fur fowls, 153 

 Chama;dorea Tepejilote, 323 

 Chamrerops, Fortunei, 81, 184, 202 ; 



humilis, 81 ; Martiana, 101 

 Charcoal fumes, 40 

 Chater. Mr. J. J.,262 

 Cheltenham Canary Show, 23, 46, 91, 



92 

 Cherry, its derivation, 412; tree gum- 

 med, 380; black fly on, 440; trees, 

 pruning, 40 ; repotting, 17 

 Chickens, adopted, 36a, 3S3 ; birth, 

 aiding, 382, 420 ; Black. 381, 384, 4^0 ; 

 dwindling, 424 ; dying, 479, in hatch- 

 ing, 366; failures, 274; leg-weak, 

 274; detecting sex, 366; treatment, 

 811 

 Christmas, decorations, 9; eve tem- 

 peratures, 62 

 Chrysanthemums, buds not opening, 

 127 ; after flowering, 105 ; culture, 4C', 

 459 

 Cinchonas, variations, 415 

 Cinerarias, after blooraioff, 491; cul- 

 ture, 248; at Royal Horticultural 

 Society's Show, 803 

 CisBus discolor leaves spotted, f99 

 Clay soil, improving. 494 

 Clematises, out of doors, 420; in pots 

 out of doors, 441; in greenhouse, 

 808 : Jackmanni propagation. 344 

 Clerodendrons, 481; BaUourii leafless, 



10 

 Climate's influence over stature, 425 

 Climbers, for greenhouse, 248; stove 



and greenhouse, 481 

 Coal flora, 38 



Cochins, breast, 444; for confined 

 space, 110; (jrceting, 211; hen's vent 

 swollen, 498; twisted flight, 274; 

 Black. 82S, 362, 461, 477; Buff, 176; 

 Partridge, 414 ; White, 110 

 Cock hen-pecked, 176,286,274; ailing, 



274; comb injured, 236 

 Cockatoo craving for meat, 235 

 Cockerel dying on rail, 92 

 Cockscombs, retarding, 493 

 Cocon-nut fibre for propagating, 79 

 Cndlin ninth. 33 



Cii'Ioy^yne cristata and corrngata. 264 

 Colchester and Bradford Pigeon 



Shows, 212 

 Colchester Poultry Sho-s-, 191 

 Coleua wintering, 476 

 Colours, effect of on plants, 415 

 Columbarian Society, New York, 

 382 





