Janosry ii, 187B. ] 



JODBNAL OF HOBTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GABDENEB. 



INDEX. 



Aaron's Beard, 171 



Abelia uniflora, and culture, 27fi 



AbelDi09fhu9 esoulentua, 234 



Alieryetwith, in and out of, 93, IIG, 141, 

 161 



Achillea, aperatifolia, 819 ; Millefo- 

 lium CD lawn. 104 



Aohimenes, culture, 87; insects on, 

 284 



Adelaide Botanic Garden, 254 



Adiantuiii farleyense, 495; withering, 

 571 



Agave americana. 97 



Agricultural Society's (Royal Ireland) 

 JPoultry Show, 175 



Agriculture, examinations of etudents, 

 190 



Ajuga reptana purpurea propagation, 

 826 



Aldborough Poultry Show, 175 



Alevrndea proletella. 276 



Alford Poultry Show, 109; Pigeons 

 and Rabbits at, 132 



Alpine, flowers. 117; perennials for 

 border. SrtiS; summer ncene, 162 



Alpines for rockery, 455 



Altem.intheras, propagation, 408 ; 

 wintering, 28« 



Altrincham Poultry Show, 306.827 



Alyssum saxatile for spring. 63 



Amaranthus, Hendersonii, 304; Hen- 

 deri, 387 



Amaryllia longlflora alba and rosea 

 culture, 150 



Amateur, what is an ? 100 



American blight, 3f^P, 517 ; curing, 40G : 

 on Apple trees, lu3 



Among the North-folk, 4 



Ana?ctoehilus potting. 216 



Anemones, our, 561.583 



Annuals, culture, 3u2 ; for spring bed- 

 ding, 104; for spring-flowering in 

 greenhouse, 348 



Anthurium, regale, 151 ; Scherzei ia- 

 num culture, 1 



Antirrhinum colours, 217 



Ants excluded by chalk, E85 



Antwerp zoological sale, 205 



Aphides, 37 ; and ants magnified, 54 



Appleby, Mr. T.. 58, 126 



Apples— cankering, 570: dessert keep- 

 ing, 570 : late dessert, 476; gather- 

 ing, 126, 170; and soils, 80: trees, 

 alkali for old, 881, liable and not 

 liable to canker, 5ul, root pruning, 

 526, on espaliers, 595. espaliers 

 cankered, 388, stock, Scott's, 445, 

 shoots d>ing. 476; Ashmead's Ker- 

 nel, 254 : Burr Knot, 476 ; What is a 

 Burr Knot; 418; Golden ;Pippin, 

 143 ; grafting Northern Spy, 171 ; 

 The Lady, 188 



Apricots, ill-fruiting, 259 ; under glass, 

 217. 496; Moorpark, slitting stem of, 

 826; MuBchMusch, 218 



Aquilegia granduioea, raising from 

 seed, 1(J4 



Arabis, propagating variegated, 171 



Araucaria imbricata fruiting, 5 



Arbor-Vitre. cutting, 388 



Armley Poultry Show, 265, 284 



Arnebia echioidee, 301 



Artemisia judaica, 191 



Artichoke culture, 250 



Arum triphyllum, 526 



Arundo conspicua, 78 



Ashford Poultry show,'549 



Ash tree, large, 515 * 



Asparagus, culture, 61; [forcing, 472, 

 525; on light soil, 366 



Ateuchus aacer, 591 

 Aubrietias, and their culture, 203 ; 

 propagating, 216; grjeca, raising 

 from seed, 1C4 

 Auri.'iilaj, 417, 443, 515, 586; estimate 

 of varieties, 465; growths north, 355 

 Aviarv, iron perches in. 390 

 Aylesbury Poultry Show, 309, 327 

 Ayrbhire notes, 251 

 Azaleas, after buds are set, 127; cul- 

 ture, 5i)5; after flowering, 149; 

 leaves falling, 81; repotting, 217; 

 select, 455 



Balsams, double, 128 



Bantams— Black, 64 ; chicks chilled, 



90; of former 'lays, 374 ; past and 



present. 595; puinta of Game. 416; 



productive, 172, Gdi; pullet ailing, 



334 ; what is a White ? 16 



Barkeha spectabilij culture, ICS 



Barnes, Mr. W., 881 

 Barrhead Poultry Show, 480 

 Bath Poultry Show. 241. 260 

 Battersea Park, 274. 296 

 Bean, Mont d'Or Runner, 561, 502 

 Beddinf:. carpet and tapestry. 247- 

 enamel, 429; plants, desirable. 189, 

 propaRating, 191. 570. sowing for 

 summer. 545. wintering. 388 

 Bedford Hill plant sale, 114 

 Bees, re-awallowing honey. 20; July 

 calendar, 21 ; queen breeding in 

 supers, uniting by smohing, driving, 

 swarm desfrting hive, 22 : old 

 queens, artilicial swarming, 44; in 

 building, development, 45; drawing 

 honey, swarm leaving hive, melted 

 combs, shading swarms, cane for 

 hives, dress, 40; re swallowing 

 honey, old queens, apiarian notes, 

 66; phenomenon, raising queens, 

 honey prospects, wax. 67; driving, 

 adding eke, not swarming, sticks 

 in hive, driving out of tiuper, honey 

 from comb, 68; honey this year. 

 taking honey, losing swarms, breed- 

 ing season, hives deserted, honey 

 candying, dying, in bar hive. 90; 

 nadiriug. honey harvest, pheno- 

 nomenon. Is this a honey year ? Ill ; 

 honeydew, how to make a hive, re- 

 moving to the heather, clustering 

 i outside hives, not liiling large hives, 

 112 ; honey prospects, a Rodborout;h 

 Vale apiarv, Ausuat calendar, 184; 

 dnving, turning out grubs, large late 

 swarm, 136; plurality of queens, 

 honey gathering, 158; driving and 

 uniting, honey season. 177, 178 ; 

 white clover for, emptv hivea in 

 garden, following a swarm, 178; 

 small black, preventing swarming, 

 Ligurians, saving, nadiring, 202; 

 keepintr in 1574. 201 ; uniting swarms, 

 phenomenon, plurality of queens. 

 223, 224 ; hive upon hive, brood 

 combs. &c., minted sjrup. 224; Sep- 

 tember calendar, 244; nadiring, 245; 

 Crystal Palace Show, 245; Crystal 

 Palace Show, hives. &c . 266: Sep- 

 tember calendar, uniting, taking 

 honey, 268 ; queen, British Bee- 

 keeper's Association, 268; in Hants, 

 driving at Crystal Palace. 289 ; Petti- 

 grew's theory, 29('; gossip, 811 ; Oc- 

 tober, November, and December 

 calendar, feeding', refuse in deserted 

 hives, 312; honey harvest, 332; 

 lifteen-year-old swarm. 833; Crvstal 

 Palace Show, 332 ; at Crystal Palace, 

 3,54, 374; price of honey, 354; profit- 

 able keeping, hybrid ii, mongrel, 

 373; honey market, barley sugar 

 for. 374; hives, 1VJ2. 394; Ligurians, 

 893; honey harvest in Scotland, 

 chronology, honey-extractor. 394; 

 Bee-keeners' Association. 414 ; Ivy 

 honey, hives. Pettigrew's. the ad- 

 justing. 415 ; Woodbury's, old combs, 

 bees deserting. 416; hives, wood v. 

 straw. 489; Stafford honey harvest, 

 crude Ivy honey, food f. r, 440; hy- 

 Gong keeping, 486; hives, cruae 

 honey, 487 ; floor-board cleaning, 

 hive-entrances, 488; uniting. 511; 

 hives, 512 ; hive controversy, 533, 

 558 : honey slinger. 533. 601 ; keeping, 

 557, 579 ; their senses, 579 ; in winter, 

 580; effect of cold and damp, 601 ; 

 depression of hive frames, 601 

 Beet culture for spring gardening, 



104 

 Beetle, the Sacred, 491 

 Begonias in winter, 430 

 Belfast, International Show, 183 : 



Poultry Show, 553 

 Belgian Farm Gardens, 28 

 Betteridge, Mr., 36'^, 401 

 Bingley Poultry Show. 218 

 Birch, transplanting large, 888 

 Birds for show, washing, 373 

 Birkenhead Poultry Show, 239 

 Biiminffham Horticultural Show, 4, 24 

 Birmingham, Bird Show. 176 ; Poultry 

 Show. 260. 478, 503, 527; money re- 

 sults. 597; Summer Poultrv Show, 

 806 ; Pigeons at, 33) ; PhUoperiateron 

 Show, 391 

 Bishop Auckland Poultry Show, 157, 



175 

 Blackburn Poultry Show, 107 



Blackpool Poultry Show, 172 

 Blairgowrie Poultry Show. 435 

 Bluraenbachla contorta,450 

 Boilers, Dennis's, 59; inside house, 



127 : casi 2', wruught iron, 127 

 Bolhophyllum Dayanum, SiO 

 Bomarea acutifolia culture, 191 

 Bone meal for fowls, 40 

 Border, flowers GG, 212. 276. 801, 842, 



34ti. 425,471,522; plants for autumn 



and winter, 12S ; flowera, list of, 381. 



for north. 470; shrubs for shaded, 



570; spring-flowering. 251 

 Boston Poultry Show, 2.', 42; 

 Bottle-brush plant, 171 

 Boucerosia maruccana. 893 

 Boug.^invillea, culture, 888; "glabra, 



120 ..6 - 



Bowiea volubilis, 140 



Box for hedge. 81 



>*oyle"8 heat regulator, 436 



Brachysema uudulatuni,318 



Bradford Pigeon Show, 870 



Brahmas, 89. 3S9. 558; age of laying, 

 13G ; feathers, 186 ; listless and ailing, 

 15s: Dark, broody, 178; breediiia 

 Dark, 224 ; Dark, white-feathered. 

 246; Light cock, characteristics of 

 Dark, 354 ; plumage of Dark, 462 



Brake aa cover. 151 



Bramley Poultry Show, 87, 1C9 



Breda fowl. 196; hen, 218 



Briar, cuttings, 526: stocks, newly- 

 budded, moving. 888, seedling, 387 



Bndcend Poultry Show. 154 



Brighton Poultry Show, 369, 389,394; 

 Bird Show. 392 ; Canary Show, 372 



Brisbane Botanic Garden, 341 



Bristol Poultry Show, 478; proposed 

 continuation of, 152 



British Bee-keeper's Association. 266 



Broccoli, piotecting, 427; Veitch's 

 Self-protecting, 470; Walcheren but- 

 toning, 172 



Brodiiea voluhilia, 840 



Broughty Ferry Poultry Show, 599 



Brownea coccinea culture, 428 



Bruf^es fowl, 240 



Bru^mansia alb.i not flowering, 63 



Brust-ela Sprouts, &.c . clubbing. 388 



Buckingham Poultry Show, 129 



Budding knife, new, 472 



Bulbs, in border. 406 ; Californian, 77 ; 

 plantintr, 50; preserving. 01 ; treat- 

 mint of Cape, 194; with Stocks, 259 



Buralem Pouitry;Show.552, 577 



Burton-on-Trent Poultry and Bird 

 Show,480 



CABBiGEs, Red, culture, 3661; club- 

 bing, 167 



Cactus Opuntia, 844 



Cage birds, washing, 486 



Calceolarias, aphis on. 407 ; and Cine- 

 rarias in frames, 386; culture, 215; 

 seedlintr culture, 525; seeds germi- 

 nating, 284; wintering, 408 



Californian, fruit. 209 ; vintage, 321 



Cambridge Working Men's Poultry 

 Show. 573 



Camellias, buds in clusters, thinning. 

 325, falling, 501; culture, 569; not 

 opening, 326 ; leaves blackened, 408 ; 

 leaves brown, 217; repotting, 217; 

 T. Moore, 841 



Campsidium chilenee, 75 



Canada, notes, 343; winter and fruit 

 crops, 125 



Canaries, asthmatic, 158; care of, 66 ; 

 nearly bald, 580; feeding, 512; dis- 

 tinguishing sexes. 512 ; to keep. 

 602; obtLiining high-coloured. 136; 

 ruptured, 168; red mites on, 178; 

 seed for, 602 ; aire of singing, 612 



Canary Shows, 392 ; York and Dar- 

 lington, 484; Sneinton,465 



Candle Plant, 11 



Canker, 472; appearing, [525; T trees, 

 186 



CanncU's nurseries, half an hour at, 

 139 



Canterbury Poultry Show, 550, 677 



Carclew, 383, 403 



Carmarthen Poultry Show, 547 



Carnation defined, 63 



Carnations, not flowering, 217 ; win- 

 tering, 217; perpetual-flowering, 09 ; 

 potting, 281 ; and Picoteea in potf, 

 407 ; seedling, 151 



Carpet and tapestry bedding, 279, 298 

 Carron Poultry Show, 677 

 Castle Donington Poultry Show, 129 

 Catocala Fraxini and nupta,, 474 

 Cauhfinwerg, aphiden on, 127; autumn 



and spring sown, 149 

 Cedar uf Lebanon, 522; large, 496; 



at NormantDQ, 11 ; oldest. 471 

 Cedar tree, pround bare beneath, 326 

 Celery, earthing. 286, 454 ; sawdust for 



blanching, 283; running, 283 

 Centaurea argentea, wintering, 887 

 Cercis Siliquastrum, 59. 72 

 Cerinthe gymnandra, 450 

 Ceylon, Botanical Gardens, 378 ; 

 plants, importing, 4P8 ; its vegetablt; 

 pro-lucts, 422, 470, 491, MO, 593 

 Chadderton Poultry Show. 310 

 Chelone barbata antwerpen8i8,96 

 Chepatow Poultry Show, 199 

 Cherries on double-blossomed trees, 



82 

 Cherry tree gumming, 570 

 (.hestnut trees, large, 515; timber, 



539; wood. 846 

 Chestnuts, Horse and Sweet, 425 

 Chickens, cholera cure. 4H6 ; manage- 

 ment, 488; fattening by machinery, 

 40; care of young. 43; thinning-out, 

 284 ; and the weather, 90 

 Chippenham Poultry Show. 508 

 Ohrysantheniums, 538; culture, 215, 

 ihinninc buds and tying, 324; Show; 

 Royal Horticultural Society's, 447; 

 South Essex, 468 ; liquid manure for. 

 476; Temple and Pine Apple Place, 

 406; blooms malformed, 4ii8 ; liquid 

 manure for, 409: at Cheltenham. 

 491 ; Devonporf and Liverpnol. 493 

 propagating, 526 ; Catananche, 75 

 Cinchonas in St. Helena. 362 

 Cinerarias, culture, 215, 595; aeeda 

 germinating. 284 ; leaves, insects 

 on, 14; management, 407; wintering 

 seedling, 825 

 Cinnamodendron corticosum, 349 

 Citron, preserving essence of. 290 

 Citrus Aurantium var. japonica, 422 

 Clark Green Bird Show, 531 

 Clay, burning, 5 ; properties of burnt, 



38 

 Cleckheaton Poultry Show, 87 

 Clematis, baleariea as a greenhouse 

 climber, 148 ; failures, 150 ; Jack- 

 manni, for l)eds, 13, planting, 217; 

 layering, 367 : Stella and Fair Rosa- 

 mond, 340 

 Cleveland Poultry Show, 131 

 Climber, evergreen, for shaded walL 



172; for wall, 526 

 Chtheroe Poultry Show, 199 

 CUves, 593 



Clump of trees, planting, 388 

 Cocoa, 593 



Codiaeums and their culture, 65 

 Cochins, breeding Buff', 224 ; charac- 

 teristics, 262; Buff hen, 285; Black. 

 349,479; White, 349, 488; Cinnamon 

 hen, 306; Partridge hen, 328; Par 

 tridge cock. 349 ; Cuckoo, 868 

 Cockerels before pullets, killing, 488 

 Coeoa-nut, Palm, 217 ; fibre for nlun?- 



ing, 239 

 Coleus, wintering. 408 

 Colletia cruciata, hardy, 562 

 Colour of flowers and ammonia, 863 

 Coltsfoot, destroying, 259 

 Commelina cffilestia culture, 269 

 Conifer, cones, insert on, 218; seeds 



extracting. 541 

 Conservatory, arrangement, 408; 

 heating, 127; plants not flowering. 



Coping, hoards as a protection from 

 hail. 122 ; Elliott's, 581 ; for Peach 

 wall, 367 



Coprosma Baueriana variegata,231 



Cottage garden societies, 292 



Cottingham Poultry Show, 219 ; Cana- 

 ries at, 248 



Cotton, in Ceylon, 470 ; culture, 491 



Covent Garden Market, 22, 46, 68, 90, 

 112, 186, 158. 178, 202, 224. 216, 290, 812, 

 334, 354, 374,394, 416, 440, 468, 512, 534. 

 558, 602 



Crassulas, coccinea, repotting, 476; 

 culture after flowering. 128 



Craven Poultry Show, 220 



Creve-Cceura at Aahford, S71 ; throatfi. 

 580 



Crinam Moorei, 318 



