July 15, 1875. ] 



JOUBNAL OF HOUTICULTUBE AND COTTAGE GAKDENEB. 



INDEX. 



Aberdeen Poultry Show, H 

 Aoaoia afflnia hardy, 53 

 Acacias ia conservatory, 21C 

 Acanthus culture, 3 

 Aoarus gallinre, Bu4 

 Acerington Poultry Show, 333 

 Acbiiieaes, select. I'^iS 

 Aconite, culture of Winter, 93 

 Acres of orchards, &c., 158 

 Adelaid'3 Botanic Garden. !47 

 Adeuaudri uuiflora and culture, 387 

 Adiantums, Farloyenae not thriving, 



243 ; potting, 81 

 Adonis-flowers, our border, 52 

 .^thi'ineaia ooridifolium, 431 

 Aeeratums, sowinfr. Ill 

 Ajuijas. reptaua, US; hardy, and cul- 

 ture, 121 

 Albert, Prince Consort, a cardener.Sll 

 Alexandra Park Horticultural Show, 



Alisma plaotago and culture, 452 



Alloa Poultry Show, «8 



Aloe perfo'iata. 2 7 



AUophila Leicbardtiana, 495 



Alternanthera culture, 81 



American, blight, 170. dressing, 171; 



Aloe, flowering, 478, rapid growth, 



390 

 Amsterdam International Show, 221 

 Anderson testimonial, 198 

 Andrusace imbricata, S6S 

 Andryala lanata culture. 354 

 Anemones and culture, 291 

 Annuals, culture of half-hardy. 3(9; 



lor 3'TioVv ga'-dens, 1.17; hardy for 



any garden, 211 

 Antbunum Scherzerianum culture, 4ta 

 Antwerp Great Horticultural Show, 



23 271 293 

 Antsrin' hotbeds, 357 ; and green flies. 



Apiarv. sheltering. 59 



Applea-cankered, 80; late cooking, 

 81 ; from cuttings. 127 ; diseases. 127 ; 

 keeping late, 14S; late, 461 ; sweat- 

 ing, 81 ; trpes. culture of old, 175, 

 heading maiden, 13, for light soil, 

 59. pruning nUl, 60; American, 73; 

 Aahmead's Kernel. 181; Blenheim 

 Pipp'n. 318; Lady Henniker. 236; 

 Golden Knob, 121; Frenen Paradi-'e, 

 891; Quarreiideti, 102; Reinette du 

 Canada and Northern Spy, 499 



Apricot, pruning, 60 ; sucker, gra'ting, 

 185 



Aquarium and flower-stand, 273 



Atiuile2ia glandnlosa. 328 



Arbor day in Nebi'aaka. 210 



Arbor- Vitje, from outtingj, 127 ; dying, 

 170 



Archerfield, 8, 29 



ArecaP.i!m,fil 



Artichokes, 95 



Ash, a celebrated, 139 ; tree, weepmg, 

 476 ,. .^ 



Asparagua, 05: forcing, 53; liquid ma- 

 nure for, 357; culture, 413; trans- 

 planting old. 170 



Aspatria Poultry Show, 87 



Asp''n. 351 



Asphult, drive, 396; walk, tar needed, 

 128 



AsDlenium fronds injured, 318 



Aste'fl, for July, 143; sowing. 334 



Astrantia'^.'ilS 



Asw.irby Park flowi^r garden. 310 



Aucuf^a. berries. 283 ; monfficious, 863; 

 sowing. 318 



AuricuHa — abnormal, 201 ; the late 

 Mr. Downing's, 166: long-ateramed, 

 240; with north aspect, 24:!; and 

 culture, 291; growinir tall, 957; 



*" Alpine, 315; at Ma-^ohester. 34C ; at 



'Royal Botanic, 347; at Turner's 



' Nursery. 319; showing, 364, 875. 487. 

 and Krowiner, 403; seedlings, 395; 

 sticks for, 418 



Austin. W., 279 



Aviary, the, 10 



Ayres,W. P.,76 



Azaleas, culture, 136, 478; linearifoUa, 

 431; management, 356; repotting, 

 357 



Baildon Pigeon and Bibd Show, 66 



Balbisia venicillata, 496 



Bananas, 256 



Bantams, Silver-laced, feathers, 802; 

 size and management, 320; what to 

 keep. 46; for Scotland, 63 



Bark of trees rabbit-eaten, 127 



Barrenworts, 2j4 



Bath and West of England Society's 

 meeting, 263, 359, 393 ; Show, 433. 437 



Bay, outtinga, 319; propagation, 37 



Beak diseased, Idi 



Beans, Broad and Kidney, 95; Mont 

 d'Or Runner, 3 



Bedding, arrangements in small gar- 

 dens, 417; p'ants, propagating, 221, 

 from seed, 103, 111, for spring, 378, 

 white, 170 



Eedlington Poultry Show, 421 



Reech, 219: Burutiam, 2J0 



Bee-keeping in 1874, 45 ; in Russia, 48 



Bees -do they sleep? 23; how to dis- 

 pose of honey, 67 ; economical 

 hiving, removing stocks, 68; in 1875. 

 onwards, metheglin, 89; sale of 

 honey, combs black, 90; depression 

 of frames, the slinger, 1:9; drones, 

 13i; swarmj and bar-frame hives, 

 depression of frames, 133; Petti- 

 grew's hives, moving hives, 134; 

 Lieurian, 153; dving after cold 

 weather, 151; Ligurian, 210, 174 : 

 feeding stocks, 210; Ligurian versus 

 commun, at Hanwell, 227; driving, 

 228; honey candying. 247; Billing 

 on, 213; PettigreWa book, 248; 

 swarm from two hives, S43; look 

 out for, exhibitions; Ligurians 

 versus Black, 267; eanlyine of 

 honey, honey cakes, 268: unfavour- 

 able weather, 286: our native, h3w 

 to make a hive, 287 ; best hive, com- 

 mencing keeping, 238; Ligurian v, 

 common, 304; chilled brood, bar- 

 framed hives, wax from old comb, 

 306; rules for Manchester Show, 

 Liffuriau r. common, 3i3 ; killed by 

 cold, bar-framed hives, in common 

 hivea, 324 ; in Somer3et,338 ; cuttinsr 

 out, 341; Keepers' Association, 842; 

 feeding trough, 361; Ligurians, 861 ; 

 swarming and Ruppring. 361; Cali- 

 fornian honey, artifical sw-tnuing, 

 332; Keepers' Association, 383; win- 

 ter exneriimce amon?, English and 

 Li^unan, feeding, artifloial swarm- 

 ine. 884; early swarms, 397; aale- 

 aole honey, renif-viu'^^ eggs, 400; 

 managing small apiaries, "Manual 

 of Bee-keeping," 401; straw super, 

 403; swarm in May, their profit, 

 cement for guide combs, driving 

 from supers, 423 ; carr-Stewarton 

 hive, postponing hiving, feeble hive. 

 424; weak stooki. Hi; stock of 

 driven. 44?; clustered, 412: chpap 

 hive, 412; feeding, 453: transferring 

 eggs, 463 ; " Book for Keepers," 461 ; 

 driving, 4fit ; swarm. 464, first or 

 second, 464, in a chimney, 483; 

 intrusive letters, 433; swarming, 

 43?: driven, 431; hives, 484; pre- 

 venting swarming, 43t : feeding, 503 ; 

 taking honev, 504: not swarming, 

 504; clusti'ring, 501; claiming a 

 swarm. 5i'4 ; drone traps. 5)1 



Beet, 96; Chilian, for winter deco- 

 ration, 333; woody, 183 



Bell. Mr. J, 124 



Berberidopsis eorallina for wall, 6-3 



Birds, and fruit buds, 47; exported to \ 

 New Zf'aland, 51; protecting buds 

 from, 102. ISO 



Birmingham, Horticultural Exhibi- ' 

 tions, 4: ("olumbarian Show, 20; ; 

 forthcoming Show, 469 I 



Blackberries, cultivated, 123 



Blackthorn spring, 379 



Blumenbachiachuquitensia, 52 



Boiler, 219 ; heating houses from one, 

 36 



Bone dust for chickens, 263, meal, 484 



Borage decorative, 293 



Borde-- flowers, h, 6, 98, 160, 199,215, 

 233. 2i4, 274, 333. 354, 36?, 410, 452. 471 ; 

 our, li 



Border plants, 487 



Borecole, 96 



Boston Poultry Show. 503 



Botanic (Royal) Society's Show, 253, 

 828. 407, 469 



Bouquet, how made, 275; making, 294 



Bouvardia culture, 186 



Boxwood, 123 



Rra^'g. Mr. T., 118 



Brahmas— charaoteri3tic8.22; for egg- 

 producing, 62; as egg-produoers, 

 129; pullet, crippled, 306, moping, 

 151; feet swollen, 464 



Bravoa geminiflora and culture, 309 



Briar, shoots, heading-down, 81 ; 

 stocks, seedling. 244 



Brick-kilns versu>i plants, 163 



Bristol Poultry Show, 39 



Broccoli^, ilj; Cooling's 4^0; the L^a- 

 miugton, 310; insects on root, 337; 

 varieties and sowms. 243; select, 

 263; Snow's Winter White, 120, 142 ; 

 sorts and succession, 139 



Brownea grandiceps, 368 



Brussels Centenarv Show, 277 



Brussels Sprouts, 95 ; sowing, 156 



Budding, 53, 73; treatment of ahield, 

 UL 



Bads, destroyed by birds, 333; maggot- 

 eaten, 420 



Bulb-forcinL', 58; in greenhouse. 60 



Bulbocodium vernum culture. 183 



Bullfinches, mana'^iug piping, ?10; 

 rearing neithng, 412; seed for, 421 



Button-hole flowers, 'iSh 



Cabbages, 96; CLUBBisa, 396; Keh- 



QUELEN, 276 

 Cages, Crystal Palace prize, 247, 305; 



and red mite. 191 

 Caladiums, culture, 81, 251 : select, 128 

 Calanthes at Dmmlanrig, 213 

 Calceolarias, forbedding, 293 ; culture, 

 281; dving, 357; failures, 375; sud- 

 denly failing, 59 ; sowing, 458 

 Caiifornian tries. 241 

 Calochortus albua and culture, 98 

 Camellias, 215; culture, 186;! not 

 flowering, 318; to obtain early, 80; 

 leavea browned, 102. variegated, 186 

 Camphor, effijcts on plants and seeds, 



■^77 

 Canaries, 359; breeding, 402; breed- 

 ing cages, ',i66: breeding manage- 

 mf<nt, 2ri8; selectiuEC for breeding, 

 322 ; case for moulting. 399 ; colour, 

 134; and cayenne, simulating food 

 for, 228; hardiness of, 45; over door, 

 63: management. 342; quarrelling, 

 342; seed for. 110. 40i; eoed, sub- 

 stitute for. 3i4 : wheezin?. 288 ; 

 Belgian, 481: Goldfinch Mules, 110 ; 

 and Goldfinch, 19i; London Fancy, 

 28% 323, 399; Crested Norwich, 8G0, 

 831, 411. 484 ; the Yorkshire, 441 

 Cankered fruit treef^, '62 

 Canterbury Poultry Show. 82 

 Carnation, cuttings, 169; and Pink 



cu ture, 181 

 Carnousiie Poultry Show. 87 

 Carpet-bedding plants, 127 

 Carrot growing maggot-free, 159 

 Carrots, 96 



Carter's prize cup. 472 

 Castor-oil Plant. '-f73 

 Catasetum raaculatum and cnlture, 

 Cattleya citrina culture. 206 [372 



Caulitlo vers, p'anlingout, 336; se- 

 lect, 26i ; sowing, 96, 101, early, 15i ; 

 Veitch's Giant, 318 



Celeriac cnlture, 223 



Celery, 96; earthy-flavoured, 148 ; 

 Bowin g, 156, early, 156 ; and earwigs, 

 497; 436 



Celosia pyramidalis culture, 891 



Cerambyx heros, liOi 



Cerastium propagation, 170 



Ceylon, land demand in, 831; vege- 

 table products, 5 



Chelone3,233 



Cherry trees unfruitful, pruning, 60 



Chervil aud Cress, 96 



Chestnut, Sweet, 121; of a Hundred 

 Horses, 122 



Chicago, cold at, 221 



Chickens, cramped, 283; from 120C- 

 year-oM eggs, 3^7 ; dead in exg, 324, 

 402; from double-shelled egg, 421; 

 "mana;_'ement, 499; scarce, 285; 

 weak, 223 



Chicory, 96 



Chiruonanthus fragrans, culture, 216; 

 435 



Chinese plants coloured artificially, 

 331 



Christmas Rose. 138 



Chrysanthemums, 37; catananche, 

 431; culture, 81, 184 



Churchyard grass, London, 128 



Cinerarias, cullure, 444; mildewed, 

 148; sowing, 458; suddenly failing, 

 59 



Classes at poultry shows, 300 



Clematises, propagation, 499 ; spring- 

 flowering. 260; Jackman's, 346 



Climbers, for ereenhouse, 857; frir 

 wire arches, 396; under glass, 498; 

 for a north wall. &o., 170 



Cockatoo management, 110 



CocltBcombs au't culture, 274 



t'celosyne cristata. 199 



Colcbicum luteum. 236 



Cold, plants' power to resist, 257 



Coleworts, culture, 417 



Colletia homda, 4 



Cologne International Show, 167, 853, 

 366,451,472 



Colouring birds artificially, 322 



Colours, arrangement of flower, 454, 

 483 



Columbines and culture, 833 



Conifers in expodcd places. 363. 411, 

 413 ; planting, 37 ; seed sowing, 81 



Conservatory construction, 13 



Contractor's rights, 185 



Convolvulus major and culture, 329 



Coop, 103; exhibition. 106; for hen, 

 134,154 



Coprosma Baueriana variegata, pro- 

 pagating, 37, 886 



Cordylines, hardy, 120 ; indiviBa 

 hardy, 72, 93 



Cornaower, Blue, 123 



Cottagers' Shows, 396 



Couleur de rose, 358 



Covent Garden Market, 22, 46, 6«, 90, 

 110,134. 154, 174, 19', 210,228, 248, 268, 

 283, 306. 321, 342, 362, 381, 402, 424, 442, 

 464,484, 501 



Cowslips for meadow, 170 



Crocuse.", bulbs eaten, 206; byzan- 

 tinus.Sl; chrysamhus, 367; forced, 

 183; failing, IHO; Crew-'i,496 



Crop, hard in fowls, 8 ;. 103 



Crops, sowing main, 168 



Crowle Poultry Show. 463 



Crown Imperials in greenhouse. GO 



CrvptonamJc society, Scottish, 833 



Crystal Palace, Bird Show. 152, 190, 

 226: Poultry Show, 63, 68; action 

 against Secretaries, 83 ; Canary and 

 Bird Show, 9J ; Horticultural Show, 

 428 



Cuckoo, a caterpillar destroyer, 453; 

 poultry feathers. 172 



Cucumbers— amburv. &c , 53 ; lining 

 bed, 186: bitter, 88; Dickson's Fa- 

 vourite, 73 ; failures, 139; for frames, 

 128; in frames, 800; in greenhouse, 

 1S5; two good, 409; in house, 80, 

 283; in small house. 818; leaver in- 



