January 14, 1875. ) 



JOURNAL OP HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



Mblons— Contioned. 

 tions of ripeness, 238; jndRing, 2, 

 74: plants dying:, 103; secunnR se- 

 cond crop of, US: llieir vaneti'-a. 

 33fi; in vinerv. 217: Little Heath, 

 1C4, 182, 2Sli, 381 ; Victory of Ruth, 

 281 ; Read'slScarlet-fleebed.O ; Queen 

 Anne Pocket, 172 



Melton Mowbray Poultry Show, 1S4 



Mercury, 187; aa a cooked vegetable, 

 50 



Merit, medals for, 313 



Meaembryantheraum cordifoliuui cul- 

 ture, 571 



Middleeborough Bird Show, 301, 113 : 

 Poultry Show. 131 



Middleton Poultrv Show, 244 



Midland Counties Horticultural Show, 

 4,24.227 



Mistletoe on the Mistletoe, 74 



Moles. 81 



Monmouth Poultry Show. 370 



Montrose Poultry Show, 553 



Moor Park trees. 356 



Moss, preventing on greenhouse floor, 

 12H 



Moth. Powder-winged, 276 



Moultinp, 128,194 



Muga, Enaete fruiting, 193 ; snperLa, 

 140 



Mushrooms, beds failing, 217, 571; 

 culture, 62; failinE. 283; for'-inc. 

 475 ; house. 282, management, 21b ; 

 on lawn, 217; spawn not running, 13 



Names of plants—English v. Latin, 



KarcisaoB as a border flower, 34G 

 Nash, Mr. Daniel, 492 

 Natural phenomena recistratioD, 77 

 Neath Poultry Show, 196 

 Nectarines, notes on, 395; for east 



wall,47G 

 Neraophila withstanding the winter, 



151 

 Nephrolepis tuberosa, 409 

 Newcastle-upon-Tyne Show— Pigeons, 



482 

 NewhaU Poultry Show, 86 

 Newport Poultry Show, 264 

 Nice, notes from, 592 

 Niuht soil, deodorising. 104 ; for flower 



garden, S6S 

 Norfolk, 4. 30 

 Normanton Cedar, 11 

 Northallerton Poultry Show, 286 

 Northampton, Horticultural Show. 



271; Ornithological Show, 352; Poul- 

 try Show, 286 

 Northumberland Bird Show, 556 

 Norwich Bird Show, 435,486 

 Nottingham Poultry Show, 829, 3iO; 



Bird Show, 330; Canary Show, 353 

 Nut crop failing, 3S7 

 Nuts, storing, 304, 339 

 Nuttall's memorial, 253 



Oakham Poultry Show, 502 



Oat cakes for greyhounds, 46 



Oats, ground, 22 



Ocbro, 234 



Odontoglossum vexillarium grande, 

 '.1, 10 



Old plants, notes on, 269 



Oncidium leucochilum and culture, 

 5!-9 : zebrinum, 593 



Oranges, for dessert, 429; seedlings 

 grafting, 259 ; tree, grafting, 14 



Orchard-house, routine, 62, 1138, 474; 

 management, 102. 149 



Orchids, in bloom at the Victoria Nur- 

 eeries, 5 ; cool, 303 ; for cool house, 

 889; at Falkirk, 398; culture, 81; 

 propagation of hardy terrestrial. 

 95 ; sale at Meadowbauk, 170 ; seed 

 sowing. 525; suspended, 545 ; under 

 trees, 193 



Ormskirk and Southport Poultry 

 Show. 156 



Osiers, consumption of, 363 



Oundle Poultry Show. 84 



Oxford Poultry Show, 410, 430 ; trim- 

 med Hamburghs, 455, 480 ; Mr. Liny- 

 wood'fi Dorking cockerel, 480 



Packing fruits and vegetables,'33 



Paddock Poultry Show, 174 



Paduaa' or PoUinds' feathers, 478 



Padua-Poland fowls, 455 



Palms, repotting, 408 



Pampas tirasB. 455 



Pansiea, as garden plants, 291;*mil- 

 dewed, 101 : wintering seedling,.;;59 



Paradise stock, French, 444 



Paraflin for heating, 304 



Paranitism, double, 74 



Parsley, curled, culture, 356 



Passiflora, crerulea and culture. 78; 

 edulis culture. 348 ; manicata, 450 



Pea haulm stacking, 172 



Pea rmt, American, 442 



Peaches, crop in the United States, 29 ; 

 trees, glaes coping over, cutting 

 Iciives, 14 ; Barrington, 76 ; in house, 

 81; weight of, 63; estimate of, 183 ; 

 copings for, 188; Early Beatrice, 

 164 ; crop in America, 211 ; select 

 house arrangement, 288; stones 

 split, 283; trees, winter-dressing, 

 S04; house trellis, 349; tree roots 



Peaches- Continued, 

 in hwuHC, SIW; failures. 897: trees 

 unhealthy, 44(1; for east wall, 476; 

 Hgainat boards, 545 

 Peach house, insects in, B46 

 Pears, in New Zealand, 36; leaves, fun- 

 gus on, 3G8, grubs on, 218. 239, larv.T 

 on, 103, 8CalB on, 868 : gathering, 170. 

 283: earliest, gatherint;. 12(5; Hovey 

 and Co. 'a collection, 189; heading 

 grafts, 217 ; time of ripening. 218; 

 dropping, 349; espaliers cankered. 

 S88; Eeurrr Diel on espaliers. 406; 

 large, 428 ; for aontb-west wall, 430 ; 

 for wall, 455 ; on Mountain Ash, 471 ; 

 select, 601 : drunping prematurely, 

 526; regrafting, heading-down, 546; 

 trees, manuring, 571 ; the Lucy 

 Grieve. 587 ; on wall, 595 



Peas, ciiterpillars destroying. 239 ; 

 culture, 342 ; late. 322, 341 ; retard- 

 ing, S2; Standibh's Criterion, 78; 

 for succession, 2S0 



Peat soil, forming garden on, 121 



Pegs, making, C69 



Pelargonium Society, 266, 317, 422. 469 



Pelargoniums, and Geraniums, ■)24 ; 

 fringed, 4CG; greenhouse culture, 

 80; propagating. 192 ; stopping 

 seedlinga, 238; Zonal and Nosegay 

 defined. 2H3 



Penistone Poultry Show, 221 



Pentstemon, humilis, 3403; select, 307; 

 Wrjghtii and eultuve, 56 



Pepper, 42^ 



Perennials, planting seedling. 284 



Perfume of flowers, preserving, 76 



Perry, making, 334 



Petersburg, St., new garden. 362 



Pheasant and fowl hybrid, 82 



Pheasant fowls, 46 



Pheasants, ailing, management, 158; 

 sheltermg, 512 



Phloxes, select, 867 



Phutographiog plants, 3S5 



Phylloxera, 363; prize for its destruc- 

 tion. 211 ; vastatrix, avoiding, 387, 

 preventing. 61 



Pigeons, ntimenclature, "Wood and 

 Dovecote pairing, '^0. 44 ; warmth for 

 young, 41 ; at Bristol, vagrant, Dra- 

 goon standard, 44 : English Owls, 

 settling Pi'uter dispute. 65; split 

 peas for, 68 ; the Fantail, 88 ; Car- 

 riers extraordinary, 133; the Car- 

 rier, 152; neglecting their young. 

 178; Pouters other coloured, 2 0; 

 Mottlea, 200 ; judging by points, 201 ; 

 legs paralysed, 224; Pouters. Any 

 other Colour, &c., 265; Big-eye 

 Tumblers, 287 ; canher in. 288 : High- 

 flying Tumblers, 483 ; messenger, 

 4^i4; branding homing, 312: at Bir- 

 mingham, 330: Priests, 831; Snells 

 or Helmets, .372; of former days, 

 374; Pouters any other colour, &c., 

 390; "common" class at shows, 

 512; Dragoon, 528 ; Turbit, 412, 532 ; 

 spouts in eyes, 634; Northern Colum- 

 barian Society. Dragoons v. Horse- 

 men, 578; Mealy Pouter, 578; Dra- 

 goon, 60). Russian Trumpeters, 600 



Pigs, Berkshire, 2i!4 



Pine Apples, culture, 1C2, 149, 237 ; not 

 fruiting, 172 



Pine house management, B44 



Pmks and Picotces detiued, 63 



Pinks, Pirotees, and Carnations, 500 



Pipes, paint for hot-water, 571 



Piping, for greenhouse heating, 4C9; 

 lenctli needed, 595 



Pipped Brahma, 224 



Piicher-plantH. 385 



Pit. constructing forcing, 218; con- 

 structing and heating, 63 



Planetary influence. 408 



Plane tree near town. 36S 



Plantain, (Muaa), 593 ; variegated, 824 



Plants' curious ways. 32 



Plants, distribution of, 322, drying for 

 the herbarium, 99 ; give your spare, 

 383 



Platycerium alcicorne, 113.114; alci- 

 corne majuti, biforme, Stemoiaria, 

 113; granuc, 114, 115; Wallichii, 114 



Pleasley Vale, 144 



Pleroma culture, 283 



Plumage, oil paint on, 2G8 



Plums, drying, 151; Earley's Novem- 

 ber, 476, 49i; grafting, 546: Prince 

 Englebert, 593 ; trees unfruitful, 326 ; 

 in Worcestershire, 270 



Plymouth Poultry Show, 574 



Pocklington Pigeon Show, 199 



Pogonia discolor, 422 



Puiiisettia pulcherrima culture, 22G 



Polands, Silver, at Reading, 39 



Polyanthus, dividing, 216 



Polygonum vulgare v, macranthum, 

 45it 



Polvpodium pustulatumpropagation, 

 127 



Pommier de Paradis. 444 



Pomological Congress, 14S 



Pontefract Poultry Show, ISO 



Populus canadensis, 451 



Portsmouth foultry Show, 518; 



Posts, preserving. 567 



Potatoes, crop, 94, 148, 149, 160, 205 ; 

 making new growth, 128; imported. 

 312; preventing disease, 319; un- 

 diseased on volcanic soil, 363 ; plant- 

 ing, 398; in 1874,445; Suiton's Hun- 



Potatoes— Continued, 

 dredfold Fluke. 454. 475; with Ra. 

 dishes, 455 ; Royal Agricultural So- 

 ciety's Report. 472; at Souih Ken- 

 sington and judging. 229; scabbed. 

 239, ^56; Mr. Fenn'a.'ilS; produce of 

 American, 258; storing, 94, 150, 2o6, 

 259. 304 



Pot plant, what is a V 171 



Pottery Tree, 270 



Potting precautions, 120 



Poultry— Jind birds, 479; house, ar- 

 rangements. 22. perches, 24G; mis- 

 fortunes, 151; French, in England, 

 172; in confined space, protltable, 

 178; mortality, 555; outrages on 

 prize, S05 ; arrangements for keep- 

 ing. 312; feeding, 312 



Poultry-keeper, The. 16. 42, 63. 84,106, 

 130, 174, 196. 218. 240. '261, 285, 30G, 828, 

 349,368,389,4*9,455, 47« 



Pouters, any other colour. &a., 176 



Preston Poultry Show. 155 



Primulas, japonica culture. 490; bi- 

 nensia grub-eaten, 595; in Sussex 

 garden, 358; last year's, aiJri 



Prince's Nursery. 252 



Produce, early, 595 



Protectors, straw, 569 



" Proverbial Folk-lore." 399 



Pruning fiuit trees, 496, in wintei*, 238 



Pttris cretica, Ac, hardiness, 388 



Pterophori, 124 



Puccinia malvacearum, 363 



PuUets laying, 312 



Puss-moth and larva, 820 



Pyracantha propagation. 388 



Pyrarga Jlegrera. 128, '24 



Pyrethrums, Golden Feather, raising 

 from seed, 1(4 ; select double, 14 



Pvrus bapcata. 75; japonica propaga- 

 tion, 38S 



QOEENSLAND, FRCIT SEASON, 116 



Question, two sides to a, 163 

 Quince unfruitful, 326 

 Quisqualis pubeacens, 148 



Babbits — Belgian Habk, 312, 534; 

 Lop-ear sliehtly wounded,JS12 ; eyes 

 closed, 354 ; ears, training, '.iOl ; feed- 

 ing for show, 440: keeping, .532, 560, 

 600; weaning hutches, 5S6: feeding, 

 600; management, 112; thows. ap- 

 proaching, 176: skins, dressing, 394 



Kabbitry, a cheap. C5 



Rainfall, deficient of present and past 

 years. 121 



Raspberries, 80; planting. 4.54 ; train- 

 ing, 424; transplanting. 239 



Reading Poultry Show, 15 



Refuse heap, forming, 282 



Rent, high, 304 



Rheum officinale, 592 



Rhododendrons, twice blooming, 253 ; 

 cutting-back, 259 : campylocarpum 

 flowerinu, HO; Duchess of Edin- 

 burgh, 75 ; not Alpine Roses, 7 i 



Rhubarb forcing, 472 



Rice culture. 423 



Richmondshire Poultry Show, 263 



Eipon Poultrv Show, 41 



Rochdale Poultry Show, 197 



Romanzoffia silchensis, 75 



Rooks, enticing. 283 



Room plants. 257 



Root Shows, Messrs. Suttons' and 

 Carter's, 469 



Roots, storing, 454 



Rose-cutter Bee, h2 



Rose garden, a model, 92, 514 



Rose water, distilling, 90 



Rosea. Claude Levet, 9 ; Mar6chal Nicl 

 infested with scale, Celine Fores- 

 tier, 13 ; destroying insects. 14 ; di- 

 morphism in, 32; stocks, 38; show 

 at Lyons. 58; love among Wisbeach 

 and "Spalding Shows, 49; Devon and 

 Exeter, 60 ; W. Paul's, 61 ; love 

 among, 70; Alpine not Rhodo- 

 dendrons, 76 : budding. 80, 1(2 ; 

 leaves blotched, 82; shows, Devon 

 and Exeter, 70; hedges in the south 

 of France, 95; wilderness, 96; Le 

 Havre. 99: at Hereford. 101; now, 

 101; showing, li7; atFrome, 118; 

 for winter flowering, 127; buds 

 scorched, 127; old and new, 14 j ; 

 at Cheahunt, 142; new, 142; shows, 

 148; orange fungus on. 150 ; Climb- 

 ing Devoniensis and Marechal Niel 

 not flowering, 150; sulphate of am- 

 monia for, 150 ; Reine du Portugal 

 not opening, 150 ; growing on shal- 

 low soil, 150; select Tea and Noi- 

 sette. 151 ; disbudding, IGO; atWor- 

 cester, 167. 171 ; Madame Lacharme, 

 168; Marechal Niel. 171; Gloirc dc 

 Dijon in etove, 171: hardiness of. 

 179; notes on. 205; growing and 

 showing. 211, 228; for greenhouse, 

 217 ; Banksian pruning. 238; yellow 

 Tea, 259; from cuttings. 259; esti- 

 mate of, 270 ; eltction of. 182,271,293, 

 815; preferred for south and north, 

 294 ; seedling Briar stocks, 1,38, 167, 

 171. 205. 206, 297, 323, 339, 419; dis- 

 puted decision, 301; boxes for ex, 

 bibiting, 326 ; planting on own roots- 

 326; wintering cuttings, 343; trans- 

 planting Tea, SG7; protecting cut- 



KosES- Continued, 

 tings. 388 ; Manctti stocks strong, 

 408; salt applying. 409 ; traUHplan'- 

 ing, 409: inildi'wed. iii; exhibiting 

 stands, 417; Pcrpetunl. 489; Mari'-- 

 ohal Niel, 5ril ; pruning, 501 ; budded, 

 deep planting, 5ill ; selection. 5 15, 

 5';3; for under glass, 571; solving, 

 571 ; select-on o', 583; " InPot8,"58B 



Ryhope Poultry Sbow, 198 



Saffron, 501 



Sago Palm, 2^4 



Sagus Rumphii, 234 



St. Neot's Poultry Show, 262 



Salading, 594 



Salisburia adiautifolia, 36 



SalpigloBsis, culture, 81 ; sinuata coc- 



ciliea and culture, 471 

 Salt as a manure, 7t 

 Sandringham, House, 109; rockwork, 

 122 



Sareodes sanguinea. 472 



Saahbars of iron, 382 



Sawflies on fruit trees, 442 



Scarborough Lily. 283 



Scawby Hall, visit to, 93 



Scorpion Flies, 3'>4 



Scorzonera undulata, 422 



Sca-coas', shrubs lor, 455 



Seacox Heath, 299 



Sea-kale, culture, 402, !j39 : forcing, 

 388, 472, 475 ; tan-lbrced. 2.iS 



Season, things out of, 27.^ 



Sea-water inundation, Gc! 



Secretary's duty, 501 



Seeds not germinating. 151 



Selaginella lepidophylln culture, 408 



Selby Poultry Show, 106 



Selkirkshire Poultry Show, 598 



Scmpervivum tabuljetorme propaga- 

 tion. 283 



Sensitive Plant in sitting-room win- 

 dow. 326 



Sewage, 327; for market gardening. 

 190 



Shade, plants 1o grow in, 77 



Shallots, planting, 326 



Shanking. 47i 



Sheep bark'ng trees. 172 



Sheerness Fancy Kabhit ShoT, 107 



Sheffield Poultrv Show, 85 



Shows, more. 15 



Shrub planting and thinning, 94 



Silica in barks, 276 



Silk, 593 



Skeletonising leaves, &c., 4G4 



Skimmia japonica, 98 



Slugs, 525 



Smith, Mr. James, 321 



Snails and slugs, destroying, 172 



Snowberries, 589 



Snowdrops frnm seed, 38 



Snow Plant. 472 



Soil, improving, 2.'>8; improving shal- 

 low ffjrruginoua, 151 ; nut lertile, 193 



Soils and subsoilc , 503 



Solanum. Capsicastrum, 409; leaves 

 black, 455 



Soldiers' gardening in ludia, 472 



South Moulton Poultry Show. ICG 



South Stockton Canary bhow, 392 



Spalding Poultry tihow, 4 J 



Spanish, cockerel's face, 90. white 

 feathers. 246: fowl's characteristics 

 130,136; hen's characteristics, 171 



Sphierobolus stell.ttiis, 92 



Sphinx Atropos. food plants, 163 



Spir;ra japonica aftf-r flowering, SI 



Spring gardening. 4C6 



Spurt, avoid a. 377 



Squirrels, training, 601 



Stage, distance from glass, EOl 



Stalvbridge Poultrv Show. 161 



Stamford Poultry Show, 19 



Standard for pri^e poultry. 15 



Stellaria gramiuea aurea, 74 



Stephanetus rtoribunda.liquid manure 

 watering, 104 



Stinging Tree. 492 



Stock's influence, 283 



Stocks, planting out, 216 



Stokestown Foultry Show. 198 



Stove, heating. 4 9 ; pipiug to heat, 

 327 : plant, arrangmg, 150 



Strati'oid Horticultural Show, 7 



Strawberries, 80; beds. 429, annual 

 beds, 269; culture. 255. 293. Sal, 3S5, 

 340, 378, 381, 402, 408. 427 ; lor forcing, 

 88. 3('3, 54G. for market, 476; Gari- 

 baldi, 357. 419, 471; i" pots. 386; 

 choice of varieties, 126: for light 

 soils, 382; for market, 388, 476; in 

 November, 4lt7 ; leaves spo '■ted, 408 ; 

 neglected. 525; late, 217; ERon,217; 

 early, late, and preserving, 55, 229. 

 252; planting 237; estimate of, 250; 

 jottings on, 255; select. 276; ulce- 

 rated, .S9; layering, 38; runnera. 56; 

 for light soil. 63 ; for clay soil, 82 



Suburban gardening, 11. b7. 61, 80. 102, 

 191, 214, 236. 256, 281. 302, 324. 347, 365, 

 886. 406, 427, 452, 472, 496, 524. 541, 563, 

 594 



Succossea and failures, 159, should be 

 chronicled, 126 ; notes on, 141 ; late, 

 143 ; in pots, 172 ; earlv and late, 186, 

 188; planting Alpine. 193 



Succulents, taste for, 296 [23t 



Sugar, Cane. 277; culture in Europe, 



Summer house, rustic, 78, at South 

 Kensington, 146 



