JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



[ July 17, 1873. 



Comba, red, 884 



Companionship of varieties affecting 

 offspring, 129 



Composts, preparing, 308 



Coneervatory, arrant'cment, 335 ; 

 border compost, 23a; furnishing, 

 454: path, edpinR, 380; lieatiny a 

 small, 249; plants injured, 143; 

 vinery, Ac, H4 ; gay in winter, 460 



Convolvulua mauritanicus propagat- 

 ing, 518 



Coops, 292 



Copings, of glasB, 95 ; glazed, 143 



Cordon training, 188 



Cork and South of Ireland Poultry 

 Show, 45 



Cornwall Poultry Show, 443 



Coronilla glanca culture, 107 



Corynocarpus Ifevigata, 41G 



Corynostylis Hybantbua albiflora, 

 507 



Cotton an ornamental plant, 100 



Cotyledon mamilluris, 2C3 



Couch-grass, destroying, 105 



Covent Garden Market, 24. 48, 70, 92, 

 110, 132, 154, 176. 196, 216, 236, 254, 274, 

 292, 312, 330, 848, 866, 384, 404, 424, 440, 

 462. 480. 498, 522 



Cow tree, 822 



Creosoting woodwork, 262 



Crocus, culture, 420; Sieberi, 393 



Crooked breasts, fowl's, 498 



Cropping, 268 



Crowfoofr, extirpating, 149 



Croydon and Oxford catalogue mis- 

 takes, 18 



Crystal Palace, Bird Show, 174 ; 

 Flower Show, 408 



Cucumbers, bottom heat for, 440; re- 

 moving blossoms, 441 ; ants iu 

 frames, 442; culture, 400, 493; dis- 

 eased, 460; failures, 385; in green- 

 house, 188; house, 210; insects in 

 house, 248; leaves spotted, 476; in 

 pots, 127; over hot water, 127; roots, 

 insect about, 289 ; seeds, 307 ; 

 thrips on, 344 



Cultural notes, 165 



Culverkeys, 248, 270, 286, 350 ; identified, 

 319 



Cups, for points, 212; at poultry, 

 shows, 85 



Curculigos, variegated, 36 ; recurvata 

 variegata, 37 



Currants, cuttings, 105 ; shoots 

 withering, 518 ; syringing, 84 



Cuttings, cocoa-nut fibre for, 476; 

 in greenhouse, 169 



Cyclamens, after flowering, 518, 450; 

 culture, 71, 170, 209, 210; fertilising. 

 217; flowerg, 217; Mr. Little's, 263; 

 persicum failing, 149 ; specimens, 

 ■^18; white, 189 



Cydoniajaponica fruit, 188 



Cvpripedium insignc and venustum, 

 264 



Daffodil, the, 304 

 Dahlias, for beds. 288 ; culture, 170 

 Daisies, double. 460; on lawn, 249 

 Dandelion, instead of Hops, 86ti, 423; 



for salads, SZ7 

 Dangstein, 33 

 Daphnes for greenhouse, 419; injured, 



420 

 Datura Tatula and ferox culture, 17 

 Deaf-ears, 384 



Defoliation phenomena. 920 

 Dendrobiums, 322 ; chrysocrepis, 7 ; 



Hookerianura, 99; old growth, 308; 



nobile, 264 

 Deutzia gracilis, and culture, 372, 379 ; 



sowing, 270 

 Devizes Poultry and Pigeon Show, 129 

 Dibblea, 314 



Dielytra spectabilis,440; culture, 336 

 Dionica muscipula culture, 400 

 DiospyroB, 207 

 Dipton Poultry Show, S47 

 Distresa. a case of. 486 

 Dogs, home for lost, &i\, 491 

 Dorking Poultry Show, 107 

 Dorkings— cock's comb, 70, wounded, 



251; diseased, 498; their excellence, 



382 ; pullets drooping, 522 ; pullets 



dving, 176; unhealthy, 24; filver 



Grey. 421 ; judging Silver-Grey, 18, 



ISO; White, for 8buwiug,329 

 Dover Poultry Show, 290 

 Downie &. Co.'s show of plants, 260 

 Dracienas, australis, 163 ; indivisa and 



lineata.8; red-spidered, 44i 

 Dragon Flies, 4U 

 Drainage of land, 51 ; depth of drains, 



63 

 Draining boggy soils, 98, 166 

 Drake, diseabcd, 196; feeding, 92; 



Rouen's bill, 92 

 Dublin Poultry Show, 346, 4O0 

 Ducklings, fattening, 424; hen with, 



236 

 Ducks, eggs, fertility, 254, 402 ; keeping, 



480 

 Dumpies, 330 

 Dundee Poultry Show, 18 



Earth's temperature, 396 

 Ecbeverias, metaltica leggy, 288; pro- 

 pagating, 494 ; soil, 440 

 Edgings, hardy plants for, 331, 351 

 Edinbui'gh Botanical Gardens, 5 



Egg-plant fi-uit, 189 



Egg-eating fowls, 153, 175, 345. 400; 

 producing fowls. 110, 893 ; 424 ; and 

 their management, 48 



Eggs— consumption and importation 

 of, 87, 829; shell-less. 132, 234, 522, 

 329 : fertilised, 811 ; indications of 

 fortihty, 274; preserving, 24; pre- 

 venting shell-less. 70; imported. 87; 

 preventing hatchinp,92; earthy-fla- 

 voured, 92 ; selling by weight. 864 ; 

 yolkle83,S66; not true, 444; soft, 196; 

 pullet's deformed, 13; unproductive, 

 462; double-chicked, 477,522; hens 

 drnpxiing, 479: addled. 479; more 

 chicks than, 480; testing incubat- 

 ing, 522 



Eglantine, 288 



Egyptian vegetation and gardening, 

 224 



EUeanthus xanthocoraus, 203 



Elm. 3C8 : plant under, 361 ; Wych, 494 



Elshani Poultry Show, 20 



Endive blanching, 247, 287 



Entomological Society's meetings, 102, 

 204,306.410,516 



Epidendrum vitellinum and memo- 

 rale. 264 



Epipbvllum culture, 380 



Epworth Poultry Show, 401 



Eranthemum pulchellum culture, 94 



Erica codonodes for winter flowering, 

 124 ; hyemalis culture, 189 



Eriobotrva japonica culture,150 



Ervthrina Crista-galli, 327 



Fiscalloniamacrantha and culture. 510 



Eucharis amazonica, culture, 64, 337 ; 

 bulbs rotted, 440 



Euphorbia jacquiniEEfolia culture, 

 177 



Evening musings, 163, 183, 266, 385, 445 



EverlastiuK flowers, 396 



Exhibited fowls, claiming, 19S 



Fakesham PouLTRy Show, 151 



Farm, fowls for, 153 



Feathers, promoting growth. 366; re- 

 movine stumps. 292; split, 176 



Ferns, for case. 420; in case- 441; 

 for hanging baskets. 170; compost 

 f©r, 270 ; and Fern culture, 155 ; for 

 the dinner-table, 435: house for 

 heating, 380; shrivelled. 460 



" Ferns and Lveopods," 435 



Fig, blossom, 149; culture, 399; prun- 

 ing. 361 



Filbert, trees, caterpillars on, 170 ; 

 planting and training, 62 



Fittonia culture, 189 



Floral charity, 487 



Flower bods, preparing. 440 



Flowers, and fevers, 339 ; buying to 

 exhibit, 263 ; changing colour of, 511 ; 

 growing for sale, 419 



Flue, changing. 150 ; faulty, 440 ; heat- 

 inc beds. &c., 63 



Food, wholesome, 176 



ForciTiET, by natural heat, 245; pre- 

 cautions, 15 



Fountain Plant, 397 



Fowls— crooked breasted. 111: neG- 

 lected breeds, 345 : for confined 

 apace. 110; liver diseased, 274; for 

 exhibition, 132, 176: feather-eaters 

 and elpphantiased, 336 ; feeding. 182 ; 

 home-keeping, 154 ; keeping for table, 

 480; moulting, 132: parentace. 132; 

 past and present, 327.381; egg-pro- 

 duction, 110 : tarred plaster floor for, 

 4'<; unwell, 311 



Francisoea propagation, 210 



Frevcinetia Banksii, 323 



Frost, rnvering from, 147 ; sevei'e, 410, 

 415.436 



" Fruit culture under glass," 243 



Fruit— dressing borders, 248; crops 

 of 1872, 27. 76; culture. 425: packing, 

 339; room arrangement, 270; trees, 

 barren. 281, blossoming, 379, culture 

 of bush and pvrainidal, 275, on 

 heavy soil, 317. for light soil, 476. 

 in pots. 249, potted, 268, pruning 

 time. 211. pyramidal. 447, pyramid 

 and bush, 817, fruiting of seedUng, 

 selection, 170 



Fuchsias, culture. 248; for market, 

 476; for September, 419; variegated. 

 380 : turning green, 380 ; Lu&tre for 

 pillars, 299 



Fuel. 237; cheap, 227. 279; economy, 

 1G4: wood for. 279,288 



Fumigating, 418 ; a greenhouse aviary, 

 399 



Funeral flowers in New York, 371 



Fungi, parasitic, 457 



Game cocks, codraqe, 235; defiance, 

 231; diseased, 175; dubbing, 196; of 

 the fighting and showing periods, 

 271 



Gander, distinguishing. 348 



Gapes, 360, 404; cause, &c., 495; in 

 chickens, 330 



Garden arrangements, 63 



Gardener, regular and professed, 39? 



Gardeners' Benevolent Institution 

 anniversary, 378 



Ga'dening for ladies, 395 



Gardening in the West, 471. 483, 613 



Gas, boiler for conaer\-atory, 102; 

 tar on trees, 518 



Geese, for profit, 70 ; Embden or Bre- 

 men, 329 



Gentiana verna culture, 440 



Geraniums—for bedding, HI: scarlet 

 for bedding. 126; leaves spotted, 150; 

 cuttines, 169; potting, 169 ; hybridis- 

 ing, 170; leaves browned, 230; for 

 pots, 211; new. 300; notes on, 465; 

 losing leaves, 476; propagating, 494; 

 several on one stem, 63 ; wintering 

 and managing bedding. Sit shoots 

 drawn, 380; Mrs. Pollock, 494 ; Jean 

 Sisley, 288 



German paste, 154 



Gennantown Horticultural Society, 

 President's address, 376 



Ghent, International Horticultural 

 Show at, 281. 378 



Gilliflowers, 169; Mrs. Ives' book on, 

 142 



Ginger flowering, 2C9 



Gipsy motli, 457 



Gladiolus, 279 ; culture and showing, 

 508 ; in pots, 170 ; pronunciation, 241, 

 260 ; and wii'eworms, 465 



" Gladiolus, the." 221 



Glass, case, 120; coloured, influence 

 of, 457 : houses, plants for back and 

 roof, 255 : roofs, 202; weight of, 149 



Glaseow Poultry Show, 443 



Glastonbury Thorn, 40 



Glazed house, uses of, 189 



Glazing, double, 211 



Gleichenia speluncfe culture, 270 



Glendinning fund, 518 



Gloriosas and their culture, 489 



Gnats, 318 



Godwin's Peach house and vineries, 

 452 



Gooseberry, caterpillars, 477 : cuttings, 

 105; shoots shortening, 518; trees, 

 syringing, 84 



Goose s'itting twice, 424 



Gordius aquations. 519 



Grammanthes gentianoidea and cul- 

 ture, 488 



Grapes— Black not colouring, 127 ; 

 diseased, 476; keeping, 849; late, 

 893; preserving, 420; rusted, 399; 

 shanked, 410; spotted, 343, 441; 

 higher temperature for late, 120; 

 thinning, 518; Golden Champion, 467, 

 515; Gros Cohnan, 97, 211; Lady 

 Downe's not ripening, 303; wasps 

 and the Madrestield. 473; Muscats 

 in late house, 380 ; Mrs. Pince v. 

 Lady Downe's, 410. See Vines. 



Greenhouse, altering, 170; and hall 

 heating, 16 ; converting to vinery, 

 16 ; omamental-foliaged plants, 63, 

 327 ; pipinc for, 63 ; plants for, 83. 249, 

 308,374,476: and vinery, 83 ; heating 

 small, 81; heating, 344, 494; remov- 

 ing, 419; beating rcmoveable, 444; 

 spring-flowering plants, 440; shad- 

 ing for, 308; temperatures, 230; ven- 

 tilation, 494 



Greyia Sutherlandi, 471 



Guinea-fowls laying away, 312 



Guinea pigs, 252; for food, 865 



Habrothamnus, culture, 189;fa3- 

 cicolatds culture. 28) 



Hamale's, M. F. de Cannart d', man- 

 sion, 873 



Hamburgh, cock's legs weak, 24 ; fowls 

 for layiutr, 444 ; in limited space, 254; 

 points of Spangled, 132 ; Golden- 

 pencilled, 196 



Hampers, reform of. 400 



Hampton Court Gardens, Superin- 

 tendent, 20T 



" Handbook of Hardy Trees," &c., 204 



Hanging baskets, plants for, 170 



Hanley Poultry Show, 174, 191, 212, 

 251, 271 ; third prize for fancy Ducks, 

 231 



Hants and Berks Poultry Show, 251, 

 519 



Hardy flowers, notes on, 377 



Hatching, artificially. 273, 480; fail- 

 ures, 366 ; irregular, 309, 829, 348 



Hawk moihs, 261 



Heating, 148, 237: by hot water, 103, 

 249 : from scullery boiler, 63 



Heaths, scented, 344 



Hebrides, seeds for, 841 



Heckmondwike Poultry Show, 20 



Hedges, cutting-down, 210 



Hemp V. moths, 473 



Hens— for one cock, 312 ; distinguish- 

 ing from pullets, 254: egg-eaiing 

 preventing, 365 ; indefatigable, 864; 

 intestines protruding, 176; laying 

 uniiiatcd, 424: not laying. 196; 

 layinc away, 312; movmg sitting, 

 3S4; old and j'oung,236; not sitting, 

 424; trtspaasing, 4u3 



Herbaceous plants, summer-flower- 

 ing, 106 



Herbury, Ihe, 276 



Huxhani Poultry Show, 45, 64 



Hippeastrum raaculatum culture, 1S9 



Hoes and boemg, 368 



Hollingworth Lake Poultry Show. 478 



Hollyhocks, quick-blooming, 230 ; 

 select, 83 



Hollv lea ves variegated, 248 



Honeysuckle, fruiting Japanese, 26 



Hooker. Dr.. to be P.R.S., 187 



Horse Chestnut seedline, 361 



Horseradish planting, 75 



Horses, protecting trees from, 295 



Horticultural (Roval) Society— Annual 

 General Meeting, 102, 184, 156 ; Bath 

 Show, 835, 410, 428, 467,471,473,483, 

 500; plan, &c., of ground and tent. 

 387; Committee Meetings and 

 Shows, 3, 52, 140, 201. 239, 278, 316, 

 370, 409, 486, 449 ; cultural notes on 

 plants exhibited at, 217; Council, 

 113,161,200, 242, 334; crisis, 2(J0; in- 

 capability of, 277; examination of 

 gardeners, 78; Horal Committee 

 trials, 395 : future of, 181 ; Report of 

 Council, 134, of Chiswick Board of 

 Direction. 138; Special Meetings, 

 256,279,295; statement of accounts, 

 139 



Hotbed making and managing, 78 



Hothouse shelving, 800 



Houdans' combs and plumage, 24; 

 egffs' colour, 236 



Houses, wood ]'. iron, 248 



Hoya camosa, repotting, 250 



Hnmeas dying, 327 



Hyacinths— in border. 419; for exhi- 

 bition, 3 Jl ; failing, 127 ; after flower- 

 ing, 149, in glasses, 827; forced 

 blooming again, 808; flowers the 

 second season, 240; roots decayed, 

 16; at South Kensington, 263; sup- 

 ports, 277 



Hybridity, imperfect, 185 



Hypoxis longifolia, 393 



IBERISES, QIBRALTARICA, 393, 407 J 

 HARDY. 483 



Indian timber and fancy woods, 5ll 

 Indigenous plants soil-inaicators, 



437 

 Insects, beautiful and useful, 205,261, 

 317, 411, 4G6; destruction of, 457; 

 some predatory, 31. 115 

 Iporoiea HorsfalliK, 73 

 Iresine Herbstii flowering, 827 

 Iris fffitidissima varienata, 432 ; ibericft 

 Perryana. 203 ; reticulata culture, 

 440 ; suBiana and reticulata not flow- 

 ering, 289 

 Irritabihty of plants, 513 

 Italian Rye-grass, sowing, 380 

 Ivv, planting, 494; variegated, culture, 



210 

 Ixia culture, 189 



Japan, letters from, 469. 485. 509 

 Jersey Agricultural and Horticultural 



Snow, 606 

 Judas tree, 476 

 Judges of poultry shows, 127 



Kales at Cuiswick, report on, 73 



Kalosanthes browned, 17 



Karaka tree and nuts, 416 



Kendal Poultry Show. 64 



Kent Poultry show, 65 



Kew, Gardens, Dr. Hooker's Report, 

 46S. 487: Museum, 124 



Kidney Beans, failing, 494; forcing, 

 40 



Kioto (Japan) Exhibition, 469 



Kirkcaldy Pnultry Show, 65 



Kirkcudbrightahire Poultry Show. 21 



Kitchen— boiler, 105, heating from, 

 105, 169; garden, cropping, 25, ex- 

 tent needed, 267, management, 71, 

 sowinffs, 307; vegetables, eleciion, 

 95, forcing, 168, supply, 209 



Labels, and tallies, 184 ; exui- 



BITION, 231 



Laburnum flowers two colours, 460 



Lady-birda, 319 



Liehas, 323; Jonghiana,471 



Lagerstrcemias and theii culture, 920 



Lamps, heating by, 211 



LapaKcria, failing, 476; propagation, 

 61, 506 



LarLX Krempferi, 285 



Laurustinus, transplanting, 301 



Lawn, Clover for, 283; coarse grass 

 on, 440; dressing, S27 ; improving, 

 269 ; improving croquet, 64 ; seeUH 

 for, 289 



Lnwson Seed Cempany, 88 



Laying, promoting, 176 



Leaves, skeletonihintr, 110, 518 



Leeds Horticultural Show, 483 



Legs, weakness of in fowls, 479 ; fowls 

 pecking, 48i) 



Leicester Poultry Show, 23 



Leucadendron areenteura, 183 



Lewes Poultry Show, 22, 40, 69 ; judg- 

 ing. 86 



Liebig, Baron J. Von, 310, 393 



Lilies, Japan, culture, 308 



Lilium, auratum i\ flies, 841 ; concidor, 

 7 ; lancifolium planting, 17 ; parthe- 

 neion, 277 ; trigiinum Lishmanni, 

 92 



Lime-kiln, heating by. 376 



Limewash. stone-coloured, 63 



Linaria heterophylla, 471 



Linden's Ghent Nursery, 122, 357 



Liparis dispar, 457 



Lisbon Botanical Garden, 115 



Liviatonas, 85: chinensis. 36 



Lobelia, belhdifoUa sowing, 270; pu- 

 mila grandiflorp, 113, 202; speciosa 

 culture, 248 



