January 20, 187G. ] 



JOUENAIi OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENEB. 



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NeclariDcs, crafkinp, 107; for mid- 

 Yorbbbiro, HI : LorJ Nnpicr, 110; 

 renovatinR, 4Si; selection, r.O:! ; for 

 ■west wall, 3i?S; trees, Btflndanl and 

 bueb, iiS 



Nelumlium luleuni,379 



JJeuttopteris nidus, 15 



Nertora culturt', 18'j 



Newbury Poultry Sbow. 17, 193 



NewcaaUt-upon-Tyne Show. 435 



Newhall PouUry Show, 16 



Newton-Stewart RoBe Show, 90 



New Year's Krectiufr. 573 



New Zealand, 551; sftrdeuinc 57S 



Night soil, 32C 



NoiTis Green, 511 



Northallerton Poultry Show. 282 



Northampton Poultry Show, 37 ;J 



Northern Poultry Show, JUl 



Norwich and Norfolk Bird Sbow, S0!>, 

 390 



Norwich Canary Sbow, 412 



Not"8 by the way, 267, 313, 5 3 



Notice to leavp, 451) 



NoUinfihiim Poultry Show, 328 



Nurserymen, a hint to, 8 



Nutmeg, 491 



0DOHT0OL0S8DU HABTATUM AND CUL- 

 TURE, 384 



CEnotheras, 28 



Oldham Bird Show, 478, Poultry Show, 



170 

 Oldlanda Hall. 246 

 Olea fragrans. 487 

 Oleander, and culture, 359; propa- 



Rating 14'2 

 011a podrida, a continental tour, 110, 



175. 220. 248. SS9,S;i8, 4C5 

 Onion, grub, 100 ; maggot, 33 ; prevent- 

 ing, U 

 Onions, buUing, 210; report on Chis- 



wick-grown, 526 ; storing, 208 ; versus 



Carrot grub, 878 

 Operations, times for, 2EG 

 Ophioglossums, 555 

 Orange-tree culture, 78, 257 

 Orchard house, against east wall, 5G5 ; 



management of, 347; selection of 



Peaches and Nectarines (or, U47 ; 



routine, 'G5, 209, 255; trees, potting 



and top dressing, 298; rating, 14; 



Peaches, 99; trees, 45J 

 Orchard-planting, 471 

 Orchids, autumn treatment of, 299 ; 



culture, 7S. 515 ; in Cucumber house, 



451; in winter, 5i7; sale of Mr. 



Russell's, 346; autumn treatment 



of, 347 

 Ormskirk PouUry Show, 16 

 Omithogalums and culture, 488 

 OBmaston Manor, 40a; Vines, 42G, 



428 

 Oswestry Poultry Show, 304 

 Onndle PouUry Show, 81, 103 

 Oval bed, 450 ; forming, 40C 

 Oxalis, arenaria. 480; culture, 5:5 

 Oxtord Botanic Garden, If-S 

 Oxford Poultry Show 893, 409 ; entrica, 



309; schedules. 301 

 Oione, plants forming, 412 

 Oybter shells, preparing, 5:G 



Packing out flowers and fruit, 



Pftlm seed sowing, 278 



Pancratium, selection and culture, 85ij 



Pansy cnttinga, 232 



Parchment, vegetable, 414 



Parnassia palu3tria,311 



Parsnips cnnkered, 471 



Parrots, afBicted, i!S4 ; falling, 240; 

 nostril diseased, 894 



Paths in kitchen garden, 406 



Peach, blister, 31 ; stones sphtting, 141 



Peachea— spotted, 56 ; Early Beatrice. 

 109, 223 : Early York and Alfred, 150 ; 

 early, 177 ; Dr. Hogg, 182 ; travelling, 

 188; shoots injured, 189 ; tree, train- 

 ing, 197 ; how to train, 243; bushes, 

 248; blotched, 232; Havourless, 233; 

 large, 276; for south wall, 279, 825; 

 bees eating, 288; shouts, thinning, 

 299 ; ripening on standard, 338, 3l9 ; 

 for west wall, 38:); trees, standard 

 and bush, 423 j blight on, 432; cul- 

 ture, 440; estimate of sorts, 440; 

 Diamond, 484; forcing, 509; uneat- 

 able, in pots, 515; selection, 515; 

 503; Sleeper's Dwart, 554 ; double 

 fruiting, 574 ; forcing, 575, 5&5 ; 

 Rivers'3 in Texas, 578 



Pear-tree slug, 443 



Pears— information wanted about, 21, 

 7j; diseased, 79; pruning,l:0; Win- 

 ter NeUs, 35; notes on, 85, 108, 129; 

 early, 118; bow to ripen, 130; stor- 

 ing, 257; Cbaumontel not ripening, 

 257; for S. wall, 257; rusted, 2if9 : 

 cracking, 299, 378; gathenng, 8G8; 

 grafted m spring, 368 ; early, 387 ; 

 (jlapp's Favourite, 397; leaves 

 browned, 4U0 ; storing, 407; Doy- 

 encf du Cornice, 420 ; lur north wall, 

 431; large. 415; unfruitful, wall- 

 training, 150; on Quince stock, 451 ; 

 Jules d'Airoiles, 469; estimate, 483; 

 Best Vaftt, 5 6 ; not ripening, 538 ; 

 effect of season on. 55i; Louise 

 Bonne d'Avriinches Panachi-e, &G;l; 

 for Durham, 587 



Peas, remarkfl on late, 59; oualityof 

 49; Dr. Maclean, &c, C8; late, 7i.) ; 

 (ailing, 141: wires for, 157; estimate 

 i>t sorts, 384 ; sowing early crop, 317 ; 

 for exhibition, 848; for smnll gar- 

 den, 471; raiding early, 583; lor 

 succession, 58" 



Poat. for healing, 43a;lhcating with, 

 488 



Pelargonium Society, 118 



Pelargoniums, 54 ; for beds, 232; los- 

 ing colour. 432; cuttings, 142; after 

 flowering, 99 ; goUleu-lenvod list, 

 167; origin of our, 9; soil for, 55; 

 Turner's. 09; variegated, 233; win- 

 tering, IGC 



Pennibtone PouUry Show, 212 



Penshurst, BtO 



PentBtcmon8,'culture,',199,'384 ; propa- 

 gating, 35 



Perennials, list of hardy, 79 



Pcrnettya Pentlandii, S-ll 



Petrea volnbills culture. 1^3 



Petunias, Hcnder'a seedling, 217 



Phalamopsis culture, 420 



Phlox culture, 199 



Phloxes, 533 



Phylloxera in Spain, 533 



Picotees, propagation of, 287; select, 

 15.471 



Pieris vcraua Microgaster, 878 



Pigeons — nests, 18: selection, 18; 

 tace wounded, 20; laving soft eggs, 

 20,218; Capt. Hill's, 125, 172; selec- 

 tion in breeding, 126; Jacobin, 20, 

 (;o, 104. 194, 238.260, 282. 37, 330, ^73, 

 411. 435. 520.592; Carrier caught at 

 sea, 217, 262; Pouters laying soft 

 eggs, 218; keeping, 310; sick, 332; 

 buckwheat for, 874 ; at Galston, 522; 

 Barbs, 546 



Piltdown, 130 



Pinching and pruning, summer, 558 



Pine Apples, auctions of, 187; culture, 

 493; toreign, 81!; suckers, planting, 

 77 ; in winter, 595 



Pines, fruiting first year, 299 



Pinks, planting, 318; propagation of, 

 287 



Pinguicula grandiflora. 811 



Pip<*s, ill-varnished, 493 



Piping, for heating pit, 256; for con- 

 servatory, 515; required for stove, 

 588 



Pits, constraoting forcing, 120; and 

 frames, 200; heating from kitchen 

 boiler, 35 : management of cold, 49i 



Plant, Dr. W, 401,426 



Plant stand, 11 



Plants for cut flowers and spraya, 317, 

 345, 356, 876, 488, 5C4 ; sensitive, 

 204 



Planting, when to do, 63 



Platyloma cordifolia, thrips on, 120 



i'lumierias, 432 



Plums, the Sultan, 113 ; early, 177, 319 ; 

 defective, i.78; standard culinary, 

 233; Pond's Seedling, 292, 839; 

 weight of, f39; Bonnet d'Eveque, 

 846; at Stamford Show, 368; for 

 north wall, 431 ; Prince of Wales. 

 503; trees as pyramids, self ction, 548 



Pocklington Pigeon Show, 26) 



Poinsettias, culture, 493 ; after flower- 

 ing, 615; a double, 533; leaves fall- 

 ing, 450 



Pohantbes tuberosa and culture, 489 



Poltimore, 199 



Polypody, abnormal, 503 



Polygonum amplexicaule, 382 



Pomtgranato, out of doors, 423 ; cul- 

 ture of. 338 ; not flowering, 14'i 



Poplar MeeiUng, 15 



Poppies, 112; ornamental, 121 



Potato humbug, 550 



Potatoes— Colorado Beetle, 12; at Bir- 

 mingham Show, 536 ; crop in north- 

 west, 73 ; taking up crops, 298 ; cul- 

 ture, 109; the curl, 33, 9J, 298; 

 disease, 43, 52; new disease m, 3-*, 

 C9, new of America, 6, 15, increasing, 

 118, 119, 120 ; saline manures to pre- 

 vent disease, 134 ; applying saline 

 manures, 167, 189; planting on dis- 

 eased, 278; early, 77; good early, 

 493; in North of England, 325; for 

 exhibiting, 537; failmg, &c., 166; 

 Sutton's Ked-skin Flourball, 31; 

 forcing in frames, 538; removing 

 haulm, 279; hybrid, 422; date of 

 introduction, 256; insects on, 121; 

 manuring for, 515; saline manures 

 for,232; medal to Mr. W. G. Smith, 

 76 ; prizes lor, 360 ; seed, savinu', 99, 

 cleaning, 299 ; resting spores of, 70; 

 Show, International, 290; storing, 

 178, 221, 241, 205, 407; removing 

 stems, 209 ; Snowflake and Eureka, 

 252 



Pot-herbs, tray of, 141 



PoihoIm.SGO 



Pots, incrustation of 14; porous gar- 

 den, 41, 74, li3, 135, 181;j,non-porous, 

 183 ; home-made, 88 



Potted plants, watering, 555 



Poultry— mortality, llO; firming, 19\ 

 280, 472 ; keeping, 147 ; selhng, 148 ; 

 re'rospect of. 301; auction sales of, 

 349; sale of Lady Gwydyr's, 352 ; 

 for exhibition, 353; houses, heat- 

 ing, 354; grinding corn for, 57^; 

 house, the Paragon, 592 ; manure, 

 I 587 ; present and future, 587 



Pouters, exhibiting, B52; Pigmy, at 



Crystal Palaco, 5 

 Prices of prize fowls. 283 

 Primulacere, hybrid, E54 

 Primulas, culture, 118 ; ama^na culture, 



141; Parryi, 210; for March, 538 

 Prizes, 538 



Protection, 525; structures. 200. 2CC 

 Protective precautions. 5!3 

 Protector for plants, 58) 

 Proteinophallus Kivieri, 508 

 Prune— why so much V 221 

 Pruning scissors, French, 332 

 Pruning, summer, C5,156 

 Pullets moultin? in December, GM 

 Pultency, Dr., 89 

 Pvretlirums, propagating, 121 ; selGct, 



325 

 PyruB Mauloi jam,^420 



QOESTIONS, A BiTCn OP, 331 



Quince marmalade, 456; compote oi, 

 351 



Rabbit hutches, 194 



Rabbits, catching, 432 ; keeping in Bel- 

 gium, 414; check tumoured, 24); 

 sale of skins, 148 ; Silver-Grey, 20; 

 at Bramley, 1()4 ; Sunflower for, 284 ; 



Rains, injury by. 76; fall of, 78 



Ranunculuses, 817; cultui-e, 515, 550; 

 planting. 432 



Raspberries, culture, 79, 416; early, 

 17G ; pruning autumn-bearing, 450 



Redlees,92 



Red spider, destroying, IS 



Rest. 562 



Rhododendron cuttings, 79 



Rhododendrons, repotting, 450 ; pro- 

 pagating, 471 



Rhubarb's introduction, 388 



Rhubarb forcing, 448, 451 



Richmond Horticultural Society's 

 Show. 46 



Ripon Poultry Show. 57 



Rochdale Poultry Show, 193 



Rockwork. 464 ; sowing for plants, 583 



Rolleston Hall, 533 



Romance in real life, 164 



Root Shows. Cartel's & Sutton'j, 466 



Root, pruning, 279 ; storing, 291 



Rosemary hedge, 3'j7 



Rosery, turtis's,91 



"Rose Garden," 441 



Rose-garden at Bath, 244 ; election, 

 415; hurdle, OHerhead's, 313; of 

 Jericho, 576; John, 114 



Roses, 22; Teas for walla, 1 ; button- 

 hole, 7, 15. 47; not clustered. 11; 

 China, casting their buds, Mar«'chal 

 Niel and Aimt-c Vibert not flowering, 

 mildew on, 35; concerning, 42 ; wild 

 in Ireland, for wall of vinery, 55; 

 cut-back, 64; on Manetti stock, 

 standard, 79 ; cultural hints, 85 ; 

 notes on, 87. 89 ; far north, 90 ; cater- 

 pillars on, 99; from cuttings, 108; 

 for small collection, 109; buddint', 

 120; varieties of scent, 129; esti- 

 mate of 130, 133; notes from Corn- 

 wall, 13; cuttings, 184; Duchesse dc 

 Cavlus, Banksian not flowering, 

 mildewed, 142, 166, 167; Briar suck, 

 ers for stocks, 1G7; election of 1875, 

 182; improving colour, increasing 

 size, 210 ; planting half-standard, 

 leaves mildewed, liquid manure for, 

 25i3 ; pruning pot, 257 ; on their own 

 roots, 272; Martchal Niel budding, 

 278; a dozen for garden, 'z79 esti- 

 mate of new and recent, 287 ; new, 

 £89; for south wall, for east wall, 

 326; mildew on, house for and se- 

 lection of varieties, 348; Beauty of 

 Glazenwood, 358; Tea for paling, 

 388; of 1875, 396; Marti-chal Niel in 

 greenhouse, 407; for small col- 

 lections, 426; and their stocks, 431; 

 prizes for, transplanting stocks, 

 raising from Eced, dwarf in green- 

 house, 450; votes of electors, 438; 

 potting and pruning, unbinding 

 buds. 451 ; removmg, soil for, prun- 

 ing, 471; estimate of fragrant. 48i; 

 Briar stocks from tuttmgs, 484; re- 

 moving, 493 ; iron pillars for, 494 ; 

 Loil for pot, 515; Cloth of Gold, 506; 

 fragrant, 507,5.8; Beauty of Glazen- 

 wood, 587 ; fragrant, 555 ; on rooted 

 Briar, 5B1 ; fungus on, 56i 



PoSB Poultry Show, 411 



R,,ckor. S., 3^2 



R|,t.land PouUry Show, 517 



gyjjOpe Poultry Show, 215 



St Ive^ Poultry Show, 259 

 Saisalv cooking, 387 

 ga^lyia rfesnera;flora, treatment of, 341 

 Sarmienta repens and culture, 69 

 Sawdust fo^ ^00^ production, 507 

 Scarborough warning, 47 

 Schizostylis coccinea culture, 483 

 -Scillasand culture, 504 



Scissors, g^<i^°:„^'^5oR RQO 



Screen, eveTgi-een, 326, 383 



Seacoast, frees, &c., for, 399 



Seakale, forcing. 448; ffrpwmg and 



forcing, 349; pickling, 10, 

 Seashore, trees for, 888; weed on 



walks, 447 



Soa-wced uses. 580 



Seeds— gathering unripe, 191 ; (or 

 quarter of acre, 49 ; eowing of trtc-s 

 imd fchrubs, 494; germinatitg, ttin- 

 pcrature needed, 508 



Shading and tcmperaUirc, 75 



Shakespeare a gardener. 885 



Sheffield Columbarian Societv, 435 



" Shells. R;inibles in Sci.rch of," Itii 



Shifnal Poultry Show, V60 



shifting pots in same-t^ized pots, 131 



Shows, Bonding birds from, 639 



Slirewaburv, Fomologicil Socl ly, 

 4f.K); Poultry Show, 124 



Shrub culture, 257 



Siam, seeds from, 142 



Sibthorpia curopa^a culture, lo9 



Sileue pendula culture, 65 



Silkies, white-skinned, 517 



Sisyrinchiums and culture, 483 



Sit and set, l.:3 



Sitting, preventing, 80 



Skipton Poultry Show, 213 



Slopes, making, 577 



Slugs, gas lime for, 493 



Snaith Poultry Show, 59 



Soap, syringing with soft, 451 



Soil's relation to practice, 855 



Solandra grandiflora, 5J 



Solanums, hybrid, 15 



Soil in relation to practice, 285, S55, 

 41G 



Soldiers' gardens, 879 



Sophora tetraptera miorophylla, 888 



Spalding Flower Show, 46 



Spirffia, forcing, 432; japonica in win- 

 dow. 232 



Stamford Poultry Show, 281 



Standisb, Mr. J.,97, 136 



Stanhopea basket, 339 ; Martiana, 

 culture of, 343 



Stapelias and culture, 443 



Statices and their culture, 415 



Stellaria graminea aurea, 503 



Stepbanotis, turning yellow, 388; win- 

 tering, 232 



Stove, for small greenhouse, 368 

 heating power, 515 



Strawberries, 53, 51; election of, 9; 

 from pots, 14 ; planting, 14 ; Dr. 

 Roden's, 23, 29; treatment of seed- 

 ling, 35 ; culture, 64, 140, 183, 242.275, 

 82^ 437, 467; forcing, 78; British 

 tjueen on light soil, 79 ; wire net for, 

 157; early, 176; mulching, 179; on 

 sandy soil, 189; estimate of, ISi', 220; 

 new early and late, ■.i21, 250; in ijots, 

 256; planting Hautbois, 257; run- 

 ners, 277; growing large, 288; fruit- 

 ing in autumn, 33G, 348; at Notting- 

 ham, 358; Vicomtesac Hericart de 

 Thury, 367: culture and selection, 

 880; in October, 331,383; some va- 

 rieties, 4;2; Due de Malakoff, 437 ; 

 late, 442; worms in pjts, 444; fori;- 

 ing, 561 ; planting, 49d 



Strawberry, heavy, 141 ; 6upporta,53C 



Street gardens, 277 



Strelitzia juncea, culture of, 300 



Suburban gardening, 12, 33. 53, 77, 98, 

 118, HO, 165, 187, 20S, 230, 255, ^77, 29i, 

 824, 346, 367, 383, 405, 430, 448, 469, 470, 

 492, 513, 536, 562, 584 



Sulphate of ammonia for plants, 14 



Sulphur, care in applying, 189 



Summer fruits, 319 



Sunflower culture, 210 



Surface manuring, 395 



Buttons' flower farm, 12 ; Root Show 

 230 



Swansea Poultry Show, 543, 572 



Swans, predatory, 354 



Swindon PouUry Show, 518 



Tablb decorations, 224 



Tac?onia pinnatistipula, 35 



Tallies, indelible writing on, 377 



Tamarind, 190 



TaLk for bottom heat, 80 



Tar (coal) for fences, .587 



Tarragon vinegar, 40 



Taylor, Mr. T., 179 



Teal, moulting partially, 524 ; pinioned 



not die; qualified, 59t 

 Temperatures, trying lower, 493 

 Tenant (juittmg, 538 

 Ten-a-cotta vases, 533 

 Ten-acea, grass, 867 ; making, 577; in- 

 clining, 493 

 Thirsk Poultry Show, 17 

 Thome Poultry Show, 17 

 Thrift and culture, 5Gj 

 Thrips, destroying, 3,0; on Vines and 



Ferns, 189 

 Tobacco, 420 

 Todea superba, culture, 15, 472; heat 



for, 471 

 Todmorden Poultry Show, 237 

 Tomato, Green Gage, 367 

 Tomatoes, Carter's Green Gage, 4'.8 



insects and mildew on, 99 

 Topiary work, 229, 489 

 Town garden, a voice from, 337 

 Toxicophhea spectabiie, propagation 



and culture, 300 

 Training fruit tives, 470 

 Tree and shrub :lowers,92 

 Trees, for blioi.. 318 : oi'), 58); tenant 



removiog, 348; in towns. :.'J7 

 Tritonias, 318 



Tropseolum pronunciation, 450 

 TulJpa, Eichleri, 48d ; Greigi, 113 



