July 17, 1873. ] 



JOURNAL OP HOETICDLTUBE AND COTTAGE GAEDENEE. 



Lontlesboronch's, Lord, garden at 



Ooombe, 11)7 

 Lurantlms eiiropffius at Glasnevin, 118 

 Lowestoft Poultry Show, 107 

 Lucerne sowing. 380 

 Lugga^'e delined, 110 

 Lycaate Skimieri and Harrisonice, 186 



Malays, 151, 172; at Bristol Show, 

 85 



Maldon Poultry Show. 496 



Mauchester Poultry Show, 19 



Mandrake. 2G9 



Manettia bicolor. 73 



Manley Hall plant sale, 223, S56 



Market Rardeiiprs, prizes for. 407 



Market gardens' chargeability to tithe, 

 S9G 



Markets, 24, 48, 70, 92, lin, 132, 154, 176, 

 196, 216, 2Sfi. 254. 274, 292, 312, 830, 348, 

 a66. 884, 404, 424, 440, 462,460, 498, 522 



Masdevfllliaa, 358, 415 



Maxillaria venusta and luteo-alba, 222 



Meadow land overmown, 149 



Medical botany lecturoH, 341 



Mediuilla mannifica culture, 150,285; 

 flowerleBs, 808 



MeluuB— for second crop, 441 ; and Cu- 

 cumber ■ house management, 493; 

 culture. 105 ; diseased, 460 : dying o£f, 

 439 ; flowers, impregnating, 476 ; 

 in greenhouse, 210; lining bed, 149; 

 treatment on ridges, 149 



Merenaera Altchisoni, 99 



Mesembryanthemum cordifolium sow- 

 ing, 127 



Messenger's works burned, 7 



Mice, 314 



Microscopic Society at Horticultural 

 Show, 76 



Mignonette, box, 189 ; culture, 294 ; 

 failing, 519 



Mildness of the season, 28, 88 



Millom and Bronghton Poultry Show, 

 46 



"Miniature Fruit Garden," 878 



Mitchell, of Piltdown Nurseries, 454 



Moisture, condensed in gteenhoases, 

 161 



Moles, in garden, 475; Belgian trap, 

 890 



Monstera deliciosa and culture, 59 



Moss on fruit treea, 289, 803 



Mulberry propagation, 442 



Mushrooms, bed, dung for, 419 ; in Cu- 

 cumber house, 106 ; in greenhouse, 

 127,169; for pickling 110 



Mutisia llicif olia, 99 



Myosotis disBitiflora, culture, 899; at 

 Christmas, 420; for forcing, 301; 

 seeding, 8tj8 



Naues, bome old, 99, 142 

 Nantwich Poultry Show, 154 

 Nectarine blosBoms falling, 308 

 Kenthead Poultry Show, 87 

 Newcastle-on-Tyne Pigeon Show, 67, 



89,92 

 New South Wales Horticultural Show, 



SOI 

 New Zealand forests, 386 

 Nice, flora of, 3 

 Nidularium spectabile, 227 

 Northampton Poultry Show, 129, 281 

 North British Columharian Show, S8 

 Noatrils, fowl's, disordered, 498 

 Nurserymen's greenhouses, rating, 40 



OiZBf British, 144, 283; prdnino 



NEWLY-PLANTED, 16 



Odontoglossums, 447 ; tripudians, 328 ; 



vexillarium. 394.471 

 Onions, weeding bed, 419; best, 84; 



thick-necked. 380 ; tree. 211 

 Oranges, for dessert, 94 ; culture, 94; 



and Lemons imported, 78 ; tree, 380 ; 



tree scale, 439 

 Orchard-house, doings, 398; heating. 



170; management, 418, 439, 475; 



notes on, i!38. 247, 250; plan, 63; 



routine, 493, 517 ; trees, painting, 



834,353; and vinery. 170 

 Orchids, for amateurs, 116, 143, 166, 



186. 222, 264, 322, 358, 415, 419, 447, 699 ; 



at Ferniehurst, 28 ; house lor, 270 ; 



sales, 187, 207, 223, 359. 487 ; winter 



blooming. 82 

 Ormskirk Show, 88 

 Otley Poultry Show, 402 

 Oxalis, crenata, 105; cernua culture, 



198; sweetmeat, 70 

 Ox-eye Daisy in meadows, 460 

 Oxygen from rootlets, 392 

 Oyster shells for fowls 128 



Faosino plants for export, 491 



Pffionies. herbaceous and culture, 18S ; 

 protecting Tree, 106 



Paint, white, 366 



Painting trees, 322 



Paisley Ornithological Society's Show, 

 44 



Palings, varnishing, 248 



Pampas Grass, culture, 289; from 

 seed, 84 



Pancratium maritimum planting, 17 



Fanaies, fertilisation, 512 ; lists of, 

 432; new, 96; soil for, 19i winter- 

 ing, 494 



Parraquets, egg-eating. 92; manage- 

 montof Austi'alian, 422; sex detect- 

 ing, 812 



Parrot, cntarrhed, 132 ; disordered, 

 884: feeding, 424; Helf-plucking, 92 



Passiflora, for greenhouwe, 288; prin- 

 cepa, 72 



Passion-flower, cuttingdown, 230 ; pot- 

 ting, 308 



Paul's, Mr. W., Roses, 341 



Peaches— aphis, 210, 361; blossoms 

 falling, 308; double-blossomed, 308; 

 blossoms, setting. 169; thinning 

 blossoms, 211; border concreting, 

 17; border making, 441; early, 379; 

 house and vinery, 440; leaves blis- 

 tered, 42t; leaves dropping, 899 ; not 

 setting, 229. 230 ; trees apparently 

 diseased. 84. scale on, 105, pruning 

 in cool house. 149; in pots. 270; 

 weevils on, 401; Early Ascot, 99; 

 Princess of Wales. 471 



Peafowl's eggs, hatching, 176 



p. ars-cankered, 189; not setting, 

 844; shrivelling, 16; pruning py- 

 ramid, 106; repotting, 17; summer 

 culture, 380 ; training, 17 ; unfruitful, 

 84, 361 ; Duchease d'AngouU-me, 26; 

 Red Doyenne on wall, 380 



Peas— for August, 269 ; eaten by slugs 

 and sparrow3.361 ; liquidmanure for, 

 861; range of rows, 519; selection of, 

 217; sticking. 418. early, 860; for 

 succession, 475. 492; varieties of, 

 269; Emerald Gem, 96; Japan, 102 ; 

 Magnum Bonum, 84 



Peat fuel, 262, 270 



Pelargoniums— Bicolor and Tricolor 

 for bedding, 249 ; not flowering, 440 ; 

 and Geranium diPtinction, 127 ; and 

 Geraniums, 518 ; June-flowering, 189 ; 

 leaves, diseased, 380, spotted, 476; 

 for miirket, 476 ; pruning. 519 ; select, 

 343, show. 519; for September, 419; 

 for showing and decoration, 426; 

 white-leaved. 440; White Clipper, 

 397; Zonal, 519 



Pentstemon speciosum and culture, 

 451 



Perennials, hardy, 490; from seed, 

 293 



Perilla nanklnensia. dwarfing, 288 



Peristeronic (National) Society's 

 Show, 90,110, 153 



Perry, ISIr. C. J., 837 



Persimmon, 207 



Pewits in a garden, 248 



Pbajus Blumei, var. Beraaysii, 393 



Pheasants.with Bantams and Pigeons, 

 176 ; and Game fowl crosses, 884 ; 

 food for young, 444 



Pbilodendron rubens,227 



Phlox Drummondi, raising, 83 ; sow- 

 ing, 231 



Phylloxera vastatrix, 31,207 



Picea Nordmanniana unhealthy, 460 



Pjcotees, Mrs. Hornby and Mrs. Ford- 

 ham, 227 ; new, 371 ; select, 126 



Pigeons- Antwerps, homing, 70, Long- 

 faced. 236. points, 292; Barb's eye- 

 cere red, 182: Birmingham Society, 

 284; old books on, 424; breeds to 

 keep, 916: having, 216; canker in 

 Mottled Tumblers. 330; Carriers, 

 236, in Belgium, lf8, eyes watering, 

 48, and Short-faced tournament, \9'i ; 

 challenge, 291 ; diseased, 236 ; brown- 

 barred Dragoons. 498; at Dublin 

 Show. 272. 289. 864, 365; in Egypt, 

 234 ; intruding, 810 ; Jacobins, sex of, 

 49S, swollen, 254; Judges, 479; King 

 of Oude'a flying, 213; Kite Tumbler, 

 176; marking young, 424; mating 

 for colour, 312 ; neglect of high- 

 class. 89; nesting not laying, 404; 

 Pari'ot-beaked, 366 ; point cups, 402 ; 

 Pouters, 291. at Bradford and North- 

 ampton, 252 ; Tumblers, highest- 

 flying. 292, Mottled, 210,234,252,272, 

 291 ; at shows, limiting value of, 

 234, 272, 289, 479, 480 ; sore-footed, 

 498 



Pine Apples— culture, 13, 459 ; history 

 and culture in England, 56 ; imports, 

 153; prematurely flowering. 33; re- 

 potting. 898; suckers, potting, 477; 

 Black Prince. 315 ; Prince Albert, 162, 

 850; Prince Albert or Alfred, 218; 

 Black Prince and King Alfred, 451 ; 

 Green-fleshed. 288 



Pinks, charcoal for, 230 



Pipes, expansion, running over, 63 ; 

 paint for hot-water, 16. 83 : hot-water, 

 211; packing hot-water, 249 



Piping for hot water required, 127 



Pit, forcing, 270 



Planks for gardens, 97 



Plant protfictors, 515 



Planting, 62, 313; oniamental, 405, 433, 

 464, 499 



Platycerium grande from spores, 210 



Plumbago, capensls, dying, 880, stop- 

 ping, 327 ; coccinea superba culture. 



Plums, falling, 441 ; pruning, 40; scale 



on, 461 

 Poinaettias, after flowering, 230 ; pul- 



oherrima cuttings, 327 

 Pollen, protecting, 473 ; effect of 



strange on fruit, 510 

 Polyanthus culture, 202 

 "Pomona," 485 



Poplar Heeding, 269 



Portsmouth Poultry Show, 173 ; Orni- 

 thological Show. 193 



Potash in plants, 415 



Potatoes— disease, pamphlets on, 855 ; 

 diseased, 16, 60. 825, 506, 519 ; another 

 disease. 313, 331; earthing-up, 460; 

 in frames, 512 ; new foreign, 305; 

 imported, 78, 187 ; keeping, 16 ; plant- 

 ing, 284, ©n meadow land, 64; prize 

 essays on, 106 ; for succession, 492 ; 

 philosophy of culture, 819, 331 ; 

 wintered in the soil, 284 ; Paterson's 

 Victoria, 99,113 



Pots, soil shrinking. 288 



Potting soil, grubs in, 518 



Poultry — instructive classes, 400; 

 cruelty punished. 251 ; standard 

 characteristics. 191; crooked-breast- 

 ed. 110; exhibiting single birds, 421 ; 

 exhibition, 171 ; exhibitors at shows, 

 362; feeding. 216, 271; in field, 70; 

 fleas in house, 462; food, 403; do 

 they hurt grass, 444 ; portable house, 

 40; imports, 365; judges. 172, judges 

 and reports, 250 ; keeping. 154, ex- 

 tensively, 403, in small space, 70; 

 management, 176; package reform, 

 461; past and present, 442; in 1872, 

 17, 85, 128. 171 ; plucking, 40, 158 ; 

 profits, 19>, 233; rearing, 274; run, 

 254, 312 ; show reforms, 271, 809, 328, 

 361, 382, 420; shows and showing, 

 344 



Primrose, Abyssinian, 822; German 

 name, 808 ; Violet Gem, 893, 399 



Primulas, culture, 441 ; denticulata 

 and erosa Fortunei, 269 ; after flower- 

 ing, 230 ; japonica, 894 ; propagation, 

 440; seed germination, 894; japo- 

 nica seedlings, 289; Sieboldi var, 

 lilacina, 456 



Propagating cases, 269 



Protecting, 300; pits and frames, 

 188 



Pruning, 61 ; Plums, &c., 16 



Pullets disordered, 154 



Rabbits— BARKING trees, 170 ; doe 

 cannibal, 70 ; dung-eating, 404 ; 

 French and Flemish, 348; fur com- 

 ing off, 424 ; sale of, 479; at North- 

 ampton, 252 ; Ostend and Patago- 

 nian, 273; South London Show, 163 



Railway charges, 129 



" Rain. Distribution of," 473 



Rainfall, 31, 33, 35, 79 ; in 1872, 55, 56, 

 12S 



Ramie Grass, 119 



Ranunculus culture, 189 



Raspberries, autumn, not fruiting, 

 24*) ; insect in canes, 381 ; suckers, 

 379 ; training, 61 



Rating nurserymen's glazed stmo- 

 tures, 183 



Eats, catching, 848; in fowl house, 

 254; securing bulbs from. 270 



Rattling in cock's threat. 329 



Rhamnus Frangula. 149. 179 



Rhododendrons, after flowering, 327 ; 

 choice greenhouse, 180, 199, 220; 

 greenhouse, 419; hardy, list and ar- 

 rangement, 95 ; leaves browned. 361 ; 

 pi-uning, 494 ; soil for, 170 ; Waterer's 

 and Lane's, 468; wmter-flowering, 

 77 



Rhubarb, culture, 229 ; planting, 75 



Rhynchanthera graudiflora, 99 



Ribes albidum. 354 



Ring Doves, 196 



Rock plants from seed, 476 



Rood Ashton, 513 



Rooks, scaring, 441 



Roosting, age of, 462 



Root house, 39 



Roses— bark-eaten, 519 : box for show- 

 ing, 288 : budding on Cabbage Rose, 

 494 ; buds failing, 440 ; at Calcot, 427 ; 

 climbing dwarf, 518; in cold frame, 

 460 ; culture, 425 ; dark, 16 ; diseased, 

 7; edges, 53; election, 8, 28, 34, 52, 

 162; forcing, 218; fungi, orange and 

 black, 269 ; grafting, 149 ; insects on, 

 442; layering, 27o ; raising from 

 layers, 114 ; leaves brown-spotted, 

 475; Manetti stocks for, 230; manu- 

 ring, 442 ; mildewed, 327 : sulphate 

 of iron for, 343 ; new, 315 ; at South 

 Kensington. 387, 350; in the north, 

 142; old and new, 375; out of doors, 

 399 ; W. Paul's Show, 371 : for pillars. 

 127; planting rosery, 169; pot cul- 

 ture, 405, 476; propagating, 518; 

 pruning, 63, 84; pyramid, 230; red 

 climbing. 210; at Royal Horticul- 

 tural Society's Show, 300; selection, 

 112,202,442,482; for September, 419; 

 shoots fasciated, 441; soil for, 84; 

 bad soil for. 465; at South Kensing- 

 ton, 876, 390; spots on leaves, 170; 

 syringing, 420; Tea, 189; Tea and 

 Hybrid Perpctuals competing, 288 ; 

 not thriving, 361 ; for towns, 219, 209 ; 

 Bessie Johnson, 887 ; Ctline Fores- 

 tier, 74 ; Charles Lawson, 8; Gloire 

 de Dijon, 26, .'^3, 73, 74; La France, 

 7, 78, 198, 200; Marcchal Niel, 26, 

 508, culture, 315, in greenhouse, 420 ; 

 Marit' Baumann, 165, 183 ; Mrs. 

 Rivers, 227; Oriflamme,83 



Roup, camphor for, 444 



Roupy fowls, 176 



Rye-grass, sowing, 477 



St. Helena aEEDLiNoa, 399 



Salading, ^vinter, 287 



Salt for kitchen garden, 188 



Salvia diehroa, 7 



Sand, bro\vn v. white, 105 



Scarifier, garden, 338 



Sciadopitys verticillata, 285 



Scurf on combs. 498 



Seacoast, trees for, 40 



Sea-kale, blanching. 188 ; decayed, 63 ; 

 culture. 229; planting, 75 



Sea sand for fowls, 236 



Seaton Burn Poultry Show, 251 



Scdum dasyphyllum vnr. glanduli- 

 ferum, 323 



Seedlings, raising tender, 209 



Seed-sowing in greenhouse, 169 



Seeds, preserving from mice, &c., 407 ; 

 retaining vitality, 210, 396; sowiug 

 small, 228 



Selandria a^tliiops, 484 



Selkirk Poultry Show, 87 



Sempervivums, soil, 44'J 



September-flowering plants, 248 



Sewage, clarified and unclarifled, 224 



Shading, 287 



Shallots decaying, 248 



Shelters for plants, 213 



Shepherdia argentea, 278, 334 ; and 

 Ruscus, why barren, 873 



Shrubs, large, 16; planting, 49 



Silkies' characteristics, 154 



Single birds, exhibiting, 519 



" Six of Spades," 10. 54 



Sleeping rooms, plants in, 509 



Slimy grub or slug-worm, 484 



Slugs, destroying, 170 



Smcirinthus TihiE and Populi, 261 



Smilax in America, 124 



Smith's, Lady, centenary, 398 



Snow, as a protection, 162 ; bulk of 

 water, 396; sheltering, 233 



Snowdrops failing, 270 



Soot as a manure, 242 



Sophronitis grandiflora, 509 



Southampton Poultry Show, 86 



Southernwood, 269 



Sowing, 813 



Spanish, cock's face, 48, dressing, 48 ; 

 excessive, 110, scabbed, 444, swollen, 

 866 ; hen losing feathers, 329 ; partly 

 featherless, 216 ; pullets with Dork- 

 ing cock, 48; and Minorca fowls, 

 408 



Sphinx Convolvuli, 261 



Spring flowerers, sowing, 494 



Spruce Fir and its failui-e, 406 



Staking trees, 83 



Stephanotis floribunda fmit, 62 



Stocks, culture, 249 ; in early summer, 

 189 ; Ten-week, damping-off, 476 



Stokeholes. 104; flooded, 440 



Stone hole ornamenting, 288 



Stone pathways, cleaning, 148 



Stove and greenhouse, 289 



Stoves, Arnott's, 53 ; heating by, 104 ; 

 without chimney, 127 



Strattieldsaye, 225, 244 



Strawberry — blighted, 518; culture, 

 288; forcing, 161, 229. plants for, 95, 

 10^, 140; picking, 487; plants in 

 vinery, 230; sticking, 517; storing, 

 50; a late wanted, 102 ; John Powell, 

 143 



Stygmaphyllon ciliatmn, 481 



Sunflowers for fuel, 162 



Table decorations, 50, 75, 96, 1C5, 113, 



487 

 Table glasses, flowers for, 250 

 Tacsonias, 481 ; Van-Volxemi, 476 

 Tally, Gorrie ground-fast, 140 

 Teachers of culture, 393 

 Temperatures, low night in hothouses, 



223 

 Tenant's claim for improvements, 249 

 Tenthredo adumbrata {.Tthiops), 464 

 Terrace foiTning, 114 

 Thinning border flowers, 474 

 Thome Poultry Show, 52j 

 Th^rngrove, 79 

 Thorns, propagating on, 380 

 ThripB Adonidum, 116 

 Thyrsacanthus rutilans and cultui'e, 



413 

 Tithe rentcharge on market gardens, 



815 

 Todea superba culture, 460 

 Torcnia asiatica and culture, 211 

 Torrey. Dr., 3,3 

 Tortoise's habits, 48 

 Transplanting, 813 ; trees at night, 



396 

 Trees, age of, 486; composition for 



painting, 63 ; overshadowing a 



neighbour's land, 149 ; plants for 



stumps, 64 : protecting from horaes, 



249; removing lar^e, 89,429; shrubs 



under, 17 ; spring flowers under, 361 



wind-bont. 473 

 Trenched ground not fertile, 169 

 Trichopilia suavis, 509 

 Trimming, 291. 810 

 Tropaiolum, tubers shootless, 230; 



speciosum, 470 

 Tropical vegetation, 38 

 Tuberose culture, 270 

 Tulip, sweet-scented, 470 

 Tumours, in fowls, 175; on hens, 286 

 Turfing in winter, 126 

 Turkeys, cocks. 408; feeding young, 



480; laying away, 812 



