jQly 16, 1874. ] 



JOURNAL OP HORTICDLTUPiE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



Melons, 450 ; Tvitli Cucumbera, 482: 

 culuire, 263; in RreeDhouse, 226: 

 set'ioc, 451; Read's Scarlel-fleahed, 



Mentonp, 16:>, 1S4, 24D; Dr. Bcnnefs 



gardon at.'Z4l 

 Mercury, for cookir(»,258; of Lin coin- 



Bhiro, 441 

 MeHtmbryanthenium. cordifolium cul- 



lure, 129, howjur 107; out of doora, 



i'i'J ; truncatelluin, 7H 

 Meleoroloffv cf IHVa. 31 

 Mcth"(l, Its importance, 418 

 Mt'trL'politan Floral Society, 443 

 Mice. Jind rat3 deHtroying, 245; field. 



on lawn. 4S2 ; poisoning, 190; red 



lead to thwari. 'J.i^ 

 MichiillH' sale of plants, 8G5 

 MicruHpt-ruia barlonloidea and cul- 

 ture, aei 

 Midland Conuties Horticultural Ex- 



hii)Uion. iti, 506 

 Midland Farinera' Club. 295 

 Mimusa pudica and culture, 489 

 Minorcaa, 458 

 Mistletoe propagation, 105 

 Mitraria coccinea, 145 

 M'>rcl8.3d6 

 Mtrtar for fowls. 304 

 Moseefl. native, 511 

 M.uldy Boil, 801 

 Mouse-trap. Bimple, 510 

 MulchinR, 472 

 Mushrooms, bede, 16; culture, 288; 



in December, 11; eaten, 432; bouse, 



189. management, 75 

 Musk leaves yellow, 301 

 MyrBipbyllum asparagoides. 203 

 Myrtle, not floweiing, 496 ; insects on, 



S70 



Nailiso, 171 



Names, new, for old friends, 55 



Nantwich Poultry yhow, 194 



Narcissus poeticua culture, 363 



Nasb Court, 147 



NecrophoruB germanicas, 186 



Nectarines, thinning, 336 



Nenthead Poultry Show, 69 



Nepenthes seed, X63 



Nertera depressa sowing, 208 



NcBta for sitting, 114 



New Forest, a bit of the, 256 



Newmarket Poultry Show, 499 



Normanton Park, 511 



Northampton Poultry Show, 228; 



habbit schedule, 70 

 Northern plants, 236 

 Notes by the way, 74, 168, 184, 240 

 Nunneznaria geouoma^formia, 222 



Oak or Allonville, the Chapel, 349 

 OatB, crushed, 214; ground, 304, SrJ 



<Euothera riparia, 400 



Odi.ntoglossums, 165 ; culture, 517 ; 

 roseum. 148; hoezlii, 22i 



OpBton Hall- '-i04 



Oil burning in greenhouae. 129 



Onipbalodea veruu, 446 ; culture, 397 



Onctdiums, 122 



Oiii n plant. 105 



Onions, clubbing, 475; diseased, 516; 

 tes'ed at --eabaui, 2 3 



Oraug 8. cul I lire. 162, fe90; for rtesmert, 

 1:07 ; name of ,474 ; from St. Michael's, 

 48; tjeea. ^calttl i>,iit£ 



Orchard-h'iuMe. management, 2f)3, 299, 

 HH5; hivero'y, '.lofi; r.-u ine, 61, 128, 

 172, 1S9, 2'J6, 262. 370, 4u9. 45U, 495 



Orchard moHsy, 262 



"Orchids and How to Grow Them in 

 India," 4c., 236 



Orchids— for amateura, 76, 101, 122, 

 165; Canadian, 100; in Cucumber- 

 house, 173 ; culture, 282; lor garden 

 frame, 245; list of, 431; m vinery, 

 105; lor winter, 153 



Orchis mascula as a pot plant, 444 



Osteuepermtun monjlifenun culture, 

 346 



Oxford Poultry Show, 452 



Picking and transit of plants, 379 



Paml, a da-able green. 278 



Paisley Ornithok'gicftl Show, 44 



Pampas UraHs, cultare, 129; planting, 

 41 



Panax sambucifoliua, 298 



Pansies, select, 3 U 



Paradise stock, propagating, 17 



Parrots, educating, 157 ; self-plucked, 

 114 



Partridge and Hamburgh hen laying 

 together, 391 



Partridges, food for yonng. 286 



Pasdifloras and culture, 493 



Peaches— dropping, 300; culture, 190; 

 early-ripened, 364; forcing, 116,217; 

 house, arrangement, 474, a lean-to, 

 B71, management, 281; in March, 

 400; from Nertarine, 451; not set- 

 •ii-g, 516; stoning. 190; treea, aphides 

 on, 481, casting buds, 41, forcing. 161, 

 in greenhouse, 516. management. 

 2.',n, 475, pruning. 172, seedhng, 62 ; 

 Early Beatrice, 330: Rivera'a t-arly 

 Louise, ".as 



Pears— bitter, 105, 130 ; cracking, 497 ; 

 insect-eaten, 431; not keeping. !i!52; 

 Paradise stncK, 443; not setting, 

 471; various old. 216; bush. 41; 

 trees, witli hardy blossoms. S48, 

 thinriin',' blonni8,2'ti4. grubs on, 3)7, 

 grtibt-ateu, 172, on heavy soil, 336, 

 for far north, 85, planting, 1' 5, 

 pruning pyramidal, Ifi, on wa'l 

 pruning, 410. for pvramiria, 337, 

 summer trentment, 354, thinning, 

 474, surface roots, 282, unfruitful, 

 fii, 245. for wall. 496. for Yorknbire, 

 41; Achan, 52, 95; Catherine. 163, 

 261; Passe Colmar not ripening, 17 



Peas— fur August, 353; beetle on. 353; 

 early, 15; protecting, 409 ; row from 

 Quart, 17. 246; siicki' g. 261 ; for euc- 

 cession. 450 ; supporting Sweet, 2fis ; 

 and titmice, 179; James's Prolific, 

 4:1 



Pelargoniums, culture, 188. 189, 335; 

 leaves injured, 245. yelluw. Si8 ; pot- 

 ting, 370; over-vigoroas, 336; Zonal. 

 CuUure, 107 ; propagating Zonal, 246 



Perennials, list of hardy, 3ul 



Perfumery flowers, 245 



Peribteronjc Society's Show, 80 



Persimmon, 264 



Pesta of the garden, 354 



Pet-loviog epidemic, 264 



"Pheasants," 22 



Pheasants, Gold and Silver, chicks, 

 438 ; rearing Golden, 458 



Phloxes, propagatintr. IH9 ; select, 336 ; 

 sowing. 129; Miss Robertson, 85 



Pholidota insignis, 2C3 



Picotees. select, 105 



Piecework. 431 



'■ Piseon Book, The Illustrated," 303 



Pigeons — American pigeonry, 434 ; 

 Antwerp Carriers, 434 ; beak broken, 

 114; box, 455; building a loft, 479 ; 

 in Canada, 232 ; points in Carriers, 

 136: any other class or marking, 

 4R; cor;il-eyed. 111; Dragoon for 

 showing, 114; dying young. 453; 

 fertility of eges, 524 ; soft eggs, 480 ; 

 tar on Fantails. 4a8; feeding. 340; 

 low-habited, 283 ; Jacobins, 92, 

 breeding Blacks, 2ij8, crossing, 

 Jacobins, 130, mating Jacobin or 

 Turbit, 114; for a loft, 301; the 

 Magi'ie, 373; management in, 158; 

 the Melbourne Mart. 358; uomen- 

 clature, 21, 70. 133, 265, 283 ; pans 

 for, 391; polygamy in, 156, 247; 

 Pouters, 21, classes, 88 ; other-colour 

 classes. 455. 499 : Pigmy and Isabels, 

 480 ; salt cat, 438 ; of San Marco, 522 ; 

 separating after breeding, 230 ; 

 shooting a prize, 192; Toy, 358; 

 Blue Turbit, 374; vagrant, 522; at 

 Venice, 2; Wood and Dovecote 

 paired.453, 479, 497. 521 



Pine-Apple Nursery Co.*a decorations, 

 382 



Pine Applet— black-centred, 475; cul- 

 ture, 104, 153, 809 ; Hamilton's 

 pyatem, 154; nluntring pots, 225; 

 suckers, removing, 390 



pinks tranf planting, 283 



Pinus, magnifica, 85 ; shouts, grubs 

 on, 516 



Pip, remedv for. 322 



Pping needed for h-^t-water heaUng, 

 181 ; f'-r Hpau-roofed house. ;--90 



Pit. and greenhouse, 3i8; fur propa- 

 gating, 496 



Plane tr. es fai'ing. 472 



Plant dryiog for herbarium, 514 



Plants, naming, 189 



Pleiones, 165 



Polands combless. 502 



Plumbago on trellis, pruning. 246 



Plums, dropping, 4lu; fur east aspect, 

 432; shoots, scale on, 153; trees on 

 wall, 33^ ; varieties at Chiawick, 312 



Plunging material. 351 



Poinciana regia culture, 1(7, 148. 191 



Poiiiscttias, culture, 129; propagating, 

 432 



Pond cleaning, 129 



Portsmouth i-oultry Show, 64 



Potato bag, American, 861 



" Potato Diseaae and its Prevention, 

 183 



Potatoes— Mr. Badger's essay, 295; 

 Colorado beetle. 236, 314; cultuiv. 

 It 7, 221. lazy-bed, 255, of early. 331; 

 drg-up before ripe, 180, 199 ; dieease, 

 73, 118. prizes for disease proof, 170, 

 loss from, 4i5, Lord Cathcart's 

 prize, 6 ; a new enemy to, 201 ; avoid- 

 ing failures, 105; forcing. 39, 105; 

 imported, 244, 312; names and esti- 

 mate, 79 : new named, 55; p'aniing, 

 128, 161, 173, 208 ; p' oduce in Ireland,, 

 425; protecting, 293 ; for light soils 

 40; for stiff soil, 190; varieties, 124' 

 145 



Pot drainage and watering, 270 



Potting, 2iFj 



" Poultry, Illustrated Book of," 211 



Poultry — condition, its importance, 

 191 ; dung, 85, 153, as a manure, 274 ; 

 exhibited, 154 ; feeder the Spencer, 

 302: food for, 376; forcing, 354; 

 harem, 114 ; house, 24, floor, 340, 

 heating, 2^6, management, ISO ; 

 houses and accummodation. 175; 

 keeping, 34''. extensively, 196, 375, 

 prohtable, 41 ; keeper, the, 372, 3Ul, 



PovLTRt—Contnined 

 411, 485. 454, 476, 497, 517; manage- 

 ment, 249; manure p'ice, 322; mu- 

 tilBted. 15* : marker, lo7 ; improving 

 farm, 371 ; show neglects, 1 1 ; show- 

 ing r. breeding, 183 ; travelling, 5'^2; 

 treatment at shtwa, 519; yard, 

 fence, 178, notes. 1.''.4. 475 ; yards, 214, 

 231, over-stocked. 502 



Preston Poultry Show, 65 



Primrose vagaries, 35H 



Primronea. Chioeae, 162 



Primula Auricula, origin. G2 



Primulas —culture. 308: imperialis, 

 429 : japonica seeds, 449; nivea, 293; 

 from seed, 3 1; Parryi.899: sinen- 

 sis, sowing. 371 ; vi^cosa, 336 



Prince's Feather transp anting, 410 



Fringlea antiscorbniica, 472 



Prop (gating case. 336 



Protecting, blossoms, 301; of what 

 use, 364.468 



Pteris tricolor culture, 30 



Poccinia nialvacearum, 350, 426 



Pullet, precocious. 872 



Pullets, egg-bound, 286 ; eggs for 

 hatching, 322 



Pyreihrum, Golden-feather culture, 

 263; raising from seed, 41 



Pyrus japonica root cuttings, 107 



RARniTfl~or 1873, 230: abscebb in, 

 286; Belgian Hare, 358; excluding, 

 41 ; feeding, 156; fever, 195; house, 

 healing, 3 4; hutch, 415; keeping, 

 284; liver diseased, 268; prizes at 

 Norlhampton, 19 ; for table pur- 

 poses. 840 ; scurfy, 48 i ; shows, 

 coming, 112, 321; trees injured by, 

 85 



Raidisaeur, 221 : Marmora, 204 



Railway Company'^ liability for exhi- 

 bition poultry, 355 



Rainfall, Northamptonshire, 147 



Fampg, raised beds, 818 



Ranunculus planting, 171 



Rapniolepis ovata, 318 



Rayson, Mr. C, 249 



Reading Poultry Show, 519 



Red-leading Peas, 336; seeda. 344, 400 



Red spider. 451 ; prevention, 341 



Regelia ciliata, 385 



Repose, what is. 397. 440 



Rhipsalis Houlletii, 222 



Rhododendrons, cutting-in.390; graft- 

 ing, 301; loaves eaten. 245: winter- 

 blooming. 76; NuttalUi,3S2,419 



Rhopala Pohlii,298 



liibston Pippin, 62 



Rockeries. 59 



Rockwork. fungus on, 336: and ruin, 

 496 ; plants for shaded, 246 



Rocky ground, plants for, 190 



Room, gardening 288; plants, 82, 101, 

 management. 37 



Rosemary overgrown, 353 



'* Rose-book, The Amateur's." 4'31. 4fi6 



Roses. 3u6; Banksiiin n'^t flowering, 

 475; box for bhowing, 282; a mam- 

 mnih bu!?h, 2! 3; brown-blotched, 

 41I; budding, 102; budding hiuding, 

 496; Br ar stockH, 85; buds frxnt d, 

 451; for couhtrvatory wall, 336; in 

 Dorset, 234: election. 5, 62, 290.311, 

 505 ; eiiinidtion of. -.i?! ; trainiug for 

 exhibition, 45i ; failing, 3ul, 45i; 

 fiiiweis in winter. 55; for ing. 40; 

 under g ass, '299. 45'i ; ureen ily on 

 wall, '271; bow U gr w, lOi ; grut', 

 182; harvtiBt, 11; history of, 217, i78, 

 315; Hvbnd Perpetual for A'gunt, 

 353; injiiredbyinsects 4il; judging. 

 27, 50, 57 ; leaves mildewed, 2-27 ; 

 leggv. 390: Lyons CongrerS, 494; 

 Manetti stocks, 263; manure for, 

 293; manuring. 431; mulching, 351: 

 new, 501; Mr. Paul's. 293, 423, 446, 

 Show, 401; petals, 202; in pots. 410; 

 planting, 85; for exposed place, 6! : 

 pruning, 173; select Red. &c , 264; 

 this season, 504 : seedlings damping, 

 475; holes in stems, 451 ; war of the 

 stocks, 8; sulphate of iron to. 432; 

 Teas and climbers for conservatory, 

 871; Peach Blossom, S-^j; Chtth of 

 Gold, 401. 482: Fehcite Perpetue as 

 a stock, 32; disbudding Marechal 

 Niel. 54; General Von Moltke. 360 ; 

 Pierre de St. Cyr, 85; Tea, 52 



Rothbury, 29 



Roup, 250,415; cau3c of, 396; remedy, 

 2fi6 



Bnbus a'oticus, 40 



Hugby Poultry, 40., Show. 519 



Russfeliajuncea culture, 105 



St. AuSTLLL PotTLTBT Sunw, 478 



Salisburia adiantifolia, 370 



Salt for garden, 172 



Salter, Mr. J., 4G2 



Sand, compost and sea, 245 



Sandersonia aurantiaca culture, 432 



Santolina incana, 62 



Sarracenias, hybrid, 4«8 



Sashburs, size of, 245 



Savoys, planting, 300 



Sawing precautions, 364 



Sawdust manure, 282 



Saxifraga, florulenta, 4s6; peltata, 5« 



Scarecrow, 511 



Scar, its meaning, 522 



Sciadopitys verti<'illata,221 



Scolopendriums from viviparous off- 

 sets, 214 



Scorpion alive in London, 346 



Screen for garden, 516 



Sculpture with plants. 186 



Sciitellitria ni«craiitha,99 



Sea-kale, crowns lowering, 215 ; forc- 

 ing, 173 



Sea sand for Beet-storing, 17 



Season, and its effects, 77,97; Kent* 

 486. 5r5; Lincoln, ai'd Wlltf*. 486 



Seaton Burn Poulti y Show, 2i7, 265 



Seed orders, my, 120. 159 



Seeds, do they live? 431; vitality of, 

 245 



Senecio Anteuphorbium, Doronicum 

 var Hosmariensifl, 385 



Sensitive Plant and culture, 4^9 



Sermon 1 in stom h, 408 



Sesia apiforniis, '2'jl 



Sexes of fowls at will, 499 



Shettieid Poultry Show, 522 



Shrubs for itiibl climate, 263 



Silkies, Black, 92 



Silkworms, 457; a Japanese, 11 



Skimmia see-is vegetating. 245 



Slugs, destroying, 17, 282, 432 



Smoked gardens, 146 



Smoke from burning weedB, 318 



Snails and slugs, 3(;8, 393 



Sneezing poultry, 340 



Snowdrop and its uses, 179 



Soil, culture, 99 ; preparing, 298 ; spoil- 

 ing, 95 



Sophora, Weeping of Japan. 446 



Spalding Columbarian Society, 45, 

 104 ' 



Spanish, cock's face, 214 ; hens dying, 

 438, 458; laying irregularly, 268; 

 out of condition, 268 



Spergula pilifera, 515 



Spice bird, 286 



Stapelia Corderoyi, J48 



Stephanotis, in conservatory, 837 

 flcribuoda and culture, 493 



Steudnera colocasijefolia, 78 



Stock's influence on scion, 84 



Stocks, Brompton. 409; spring and 

 summer, 43y, 459, 481; Ten-week, 

 culture, 318 



Stoke Rochford, 406 



Stove, climi'era, 343; culture, 441; 

 heating, 431; plants, 4y3, for late 

 summer, 173 



Strawberriea— planted late in autumn, 

 510; forcing, 3, 189, 281; after forc- 

 ing, 390 ; grubs about, 3H7 : for 

 orchard house, 353; failing in pota, 

 432; removing runners, 432; tor 

 light soil, 411; supporling, 511; 

 winter, 28, 39; The Amateur, 148; 

 early American, 256 ; Comte de 

 Zans, 11 



Suburban gardening, 14, 37, fi9, 82, 101, 

 in. 151,171, 188, 216,224, U42, 261.280, 

 298, 3 6, 334, 351, 868, StS, 408. 4-29, 446, 

 494, 513 



Sugar Cane in New Caledonia. 510 

 Sulphur, burning in vinery, 43i 

 Sundew, sensitivenetia of. J99 

 Superstition, a gardener's, 5,i 

 Sv allows ai rived, 3i2 

 SwHn's sex detecting. 322 

 Sycami'ic Dagger Moth, 110 

 Sydnope HalJ, aa2, 239 

 Syringe, 431 



Tan not hpativg. 193 



Tenant's trees, tool-house. &c., 41 



Thermometers, alarum, 145 



Th'Tne Pouliry Show. 517 



Thorn tree grafting, 107 



Thrips, paraffin for. 63 ; on Azalea, 105 



Tiffany for protection, 220 



Tohacco, home-grown lor fumigating, 



836 

 Todea, 451; superba culture, 2:0 

 Tomatoes, in Cucuml er house, 190; 



with Cucumbers, 3j0; culture, 411; 



in pits, 85 

 Towns, t^ardening in, 168, 811 

 Trail, Mr., HI 



Trellises, 256 : plants for, 282. -13 t 

 Trees, encroaching, 16; oversbadow* 



ing, 173 ; planta under, 17 ; as 



screens, 85 

 Trenching. 171,2^6 

 Trichomanes, case for, 17 

 Tnchopilia ciispa, 165 

 Tritebia after floweiing, 801 

 Tiitonia aurea culture, 200 

 Truepennv, an old, 54 

 Tsuga Ttuja, 160 

 luberoso culture, 245 

 Tubs for stove climbers, 105 

 Tulips after forcing, 182 

 Turf, forming, 280 

 Turkeys, 250; on hen's epgs, 232; oa 



many eggs, 304: legs diseased, 502; 



law-suit about, 356; market for, ?1: 



Nettles for, 88 

 Tusser, Thomaa, 330, 384, 425, 467 

 TussUago fragrans, li7 



Ulcebs, intprnal, 93 

 Umbrella Pine, 221 



