July ‘18, 1878. ] 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
vii 
Paraftin, lamp for heating, 1343 stove 
v. flues, 92, 261; stove for heating, 
203; heating by, 436 
Parakeet’s eyelids ulcerated, 348 
Paris, Universal Exhibition, 196, 329, 
429; Poultry Show, 457, 473; jurors, 
475 
Parrot self-plucked, 120 
Parsley culture, 388 
Parsnip culture, 180 
Pasturage influence, 119 
Pasture and park land management, 
75, 95,194 
Pastures, improving, 403 
Peaches—buds dropping, 56; Condor, 
55; culture, 230; early, 87; forcing, 
74, 114, 153, 268, 341,380, 417 ; and Nec- 
A[tarine forcing, 192; in houses, 488, 
490; for orchard house, 87; leaves 
blistered, 399; stoning, 363; tree 
training, 306; trees, pruning, 135, 
young, 95, 251 
Pea-fowls, 175, 195 
Pear, for west wall, 186; trees, prun- 
ing, 247, 262; tree, root pruning, 
471; growing in Sussex, 432; for 
west wall, 136 [218 
Pears, at Holme Lacy, 88; protecting, 
Peas, 284, 286; for August, 270; cul- 
ture, 44; dying off, 471; early, 64, 
132, 144, 168, 190; in paraffin, 470; 
selection, 191; sowing, 47; for suc- 
cession, 37 
Peat charcoal, 288 
Peat soil sandy, 489 
Pelargoniums, lilac zonal, 87 ; for ex- 
hibition, 95; zonal in winter, 143, 
153; echinatum, 168; Joseph So- 
mers, 223; stopping, 250; Higuid ma- 
nure for, 382 3 trusses divided, 899 5 
for winter, 455 
Pencarrow, 69 
Perennial flowers from seed, 326 
Peristeronic Show, 78; Society, 59; 
President’s address, 157 
Perplexities, 297 
Petroleum antiscorbutic, 329 
Pheasants, and /Crocuses, 281; ma- 
nagement of Silver, 274 
Phippen & Co.’s nursery, 429 
Phloxes, select herbaceous, 95 
Phylloxera vastatrix in Australia, 134 
Picotees, in the north, 384; in pots, 94 
Pigeon laying four eggs, 80,98; prices 
atsale, 98; attaching, 100 
Pigeons—useful, 22; aspect of the 
ancy, 156; diseases, 157; influence 
of shows, 195; hints to amateurs, 
290, 345, 401; Tumblers, 291; Bald- 
heads, 291; for table, 310; food for 
Tumblers, 812; Pouters and Tumb- 
lers, 438 
Pigs, in America, 475; Berkshire, 99; 
charcoal for, 21; fattening, 159; 
feeding, 216; productions, 311 
Pilfering, 384 
Pine Apple,culture, 134, 250, 287, 325, 
362, 398, 434; potting, 172; Black 
Jamaica, 478 
Pines, notes on, 211 
Pinks, select, 249 
Pinus laricio not rabbit-caten, 108 
Pipes, noise in hot water, 74 
Piptanthus nepalensis, 379 
Pitcher-plants, Australian, 128; cul- 
ture of, 212 
Plantain, destroying, 249 
Planting early, 71 
Plants, fora grave, 212; propagation 
and culture of, 211 
Platyceriums, 394; Hillii, 395 
Pleroma Gayanum, 171 
Ploughing, rules for, 176 
Plum for west wall, 136 
Plunging material, 136 
Polyanthus, culture, $15; 
tion, 343; seedlings, 222 
Pond-making, 346 
Ponds, green slime on, 882 
Pontardulais Poultry Show, 118 
Poppyworts, 163 
Potatoes, culture, 8, 29, 291; disease, 
37, 46, 65, 845 estimate of disease, 413 
crop in America, 41; exhibition, 
68; in store, 73; sets needed, 74; 
imported, 88; extracts from soil, 99; 
wood ashes for, 116; from single 
eyes, 124; time maturing, 137; 
Bresee’s, 251; planting, 101, 212, 305; 
field culture, 198; Snowflake, 231; 
imported, 235, 311; produce of dif- 
ferent, 235; estimate of kinds, 284 
Potting, 489 
Poultry Club, 119, 156, 196, 401, 491, 492 
Poultry, feeding, 21, 60 ; for profit, 23 ; 
in 1877, 38; keeping in 1877,57; lice 
on, 59; houses, size of, 100; show- 
ing prospects, 117, 138; account 
book, 119; trespassing 154; spring 
’ 
propaga- 
management of, 214; keeping, profi 
272; im towns, 310; origins, 346; 
prize, 365; feeding, 367; house, 
cleaning, 439; rearing, this spring, 
456, 492 
Poultry shows, forthcoming, 290 
Preston Poultry Show, 89 
Primrose, Scarlet Chinese, 69 
Primula leaves decayed, 17 
Primulas, amcena, 128; culture of 
double, 870; after flowering, 363; 
scarlet, 95; sowing, 363; varieties, 
149; Princess Louise, 209 
Protecting wall trees, 114 
Pteris, serrulata cristata major, 69; 
tricolor culture, 471 
Pterostylis Baptistii, 225 
Ptychosperma rupicola, 145 
Putty, to soften, 281 
Pyrethrum aurewn laciniatum, 343 
QUAILS, 494 
Quarter evil, 418 : 
Quercus austriaca sempervirens 53 
RABBITS — BREEDING, 21, FOR 
COLOUR, 119; cross-breeding, 366, 
584; selecting breed, 402; crosses, 
810; Himalayan, 312; improvement 
of, 234; with litters, 474; manage- 
ment, 195; versus mutton, 20; 
trespassing, 174 
Radishes, early, 134 
Rainfall, 108, 112, 209; at Morpeth, 71; 
in 1877, 92 
Raisins, Sultana, 17 
Ramble, a winter's, 205 
Ranunculs, culture, 136, 362; green, 
399 
Raphiolepis ovata, 288 
Raspberries, 146; culture, 104, 168, 321, 
889; longevity, 184; planting, 116; 
pruning, 436; removing, 219, 2953 
transplanting, 212 
Reading Horticultural Show, 413 
Reading Pigeon and Bird Show, 118 
Red paint, 399 
Red spider, destroying, 288 
Reigate Castle, 48 
Reigate Rose Show, 429 
Retrospect of horticultural year, 26 
Rhodanthe maculata, 320 
Rhododendrons, at Duneevan, 410; 
list of hardy, 192; flowering, 184; 
Early Gem, 209; pracox, 222 
Rhubarb forcing, 93,186; for forcing, 
308 
Ribbon border, 269; plants, 75 
Richardia «thiopica, 108, 416; after 
flowering, 362 
Richmond Horticultural Society, 15, 
184 
Road levelling, 235 
Reckwork, 379; plants for, 380 
patent odorata var. breviflora, 
4 
Roofs, glazing and slating, 455 
Rooks, frustrating, 253, 403 
Root-crop culture, 385 
Root crops, thinning, 341 
Bee Society, National, 184; Mecting, 
Rose of Sharon, 363 
Rosella, 242 
Roses—jottings about, 4; arrange- 
ment and culture, 6; economic 
uses of, 9; Devoniensis, 13; graft- 
ing, for exposed place, planting, 
17; notes on, 28; mildew on, 30; 
lime rubbish for, 3 ; Showing, 47; 
Cornelia Cook, ; tor south and 
west walls, 5: udging and classes, 
64, 67; showing, 663 ‘National So- 
ciety, 68; ne labels for, 69; 
sheltering, 73; 
3 
3 select, 74; Maréchal 
Niel planting, 75; Hybrid Perpe- 
tuals for wall,75; notes in 1877, 81; 
judging, 86; Cheshunt Hybrid, 
95; judging, 103, 123, 144, 165 \ ex- 
tent of culture, 108 ; tor walls, N3; 
pruning, for screen, 116; Socie 
184; for smoky place, propagatin 
Manetti stocks, aspect for Marécha 
Niel, 136; showing, 151; for smoky 
district, 149; pruning, 162; plant- 
ing, 172; Ma ame Charles Wood, 
from cuttings, grafting, 174; Tea- 
Scented, 179; judging, 182, 227, 238, 
239, 243 5 judging, and qualities of, 
200 ;7management, 190; derivation 
of names, 192; in shade, 193; prun- 
ing, 218; select, 222; grafting, 230; 
white forcing, 242; show boxes, 244; 
exhibition points, 246; pruning, 250, 
251; past and present, 255 3 judging, 
261, 277, 296, 300; “Roses and their 
Culture,” 260 ; in pots, shoots frosted, 
Duchess of Edinburgh, 269; prun- 
ing, 270; origin of green, 280, 300; 
pruning Tea, 281; Gloire de Dijon, 
im pots, 288; extraordinary, 2983 
Maréchal Niel, 301; box for, 307; 
mildew, 307, 326; injured by frost, 
814; Maréchal Niel, $26; petals pre- 
Serving, 526 5 Maréchal Niel, 332; 
not expanding, 342; leaves dis- 
eased, culture, insect on, 343; cha- 
racters of some, 363; greenhouse, 
858; experiments with, 371; Gloire 
de Dijon, 3875, 379, 3993; Society's 
Show, 378 ; West of England Show, 
878; stocks for, 879; Dunwich, 379; 
Tea, 887; prospects, 406; in_ pots, 
416; aphis, 436; leaves spotted, 436; 
rules for judging, 442; pruning, 
449; showing, 461; show prospects, 
467; buds detormed, for wall, 470; 
fungus on, packing for export, 
Maréchal Niel not thriving, leaves 
shrivelled, 471; notes on, 478; In- 
ternational Show at Antwerp, 483; 
at Horticultural Society’s Show, 
486; largest, &c., transplanting, 490 
Rotation of crops, 88 
Rudgea macrophylla, 300 
Rueworts, 264 R 
Rust, preventing, 403; removing, 53 
SAFFRON, CONSUMPTION OF, 9 
Salads, culture of, 220 
Salix babylonica, 173 
Salsafy culture, 289, 352 
San Francisco horticulture, 280 
Saponaria ocymoides failing, 381 
S: enia purpurea culture, 471 
Savin aged, 381 
Savoy culture, 122 
Sawdust manure, 436 
Saxifraga Hirculus, 393 
Scale, destroy 1 
chizost Z| a culture, 149, 325 
Sciadocaly3 gitaliflora, 299 
Scottish Horticultural Association, 
52, 184, 203, 286, 374, 442 
Sereen plants, 72; in cold district, 75 
Screen, trees fo 36 
Scurfy face in Spanish fowls, 42 
Seythe, 186 
Seakale, culture, 2815 
markets, 337 
Season, the present, 66, 88; prospects, 
B+ 
ed sow good, 111; retaining vita- 
ity, 
Seeder Act against adulterating, 291 
Seedlings, certificating, 208 
Selaginella denticulata culture, 363 
Sewage, for growing crops, 231; ma- 
nagementy, ¢ used profitably, 439 
Shaded borders, use of, 95 
Shading, 343; shrubs, 65 
Sheep, management of long-woolled, 
363 
for London 
Shorthorns, 120 
Silene pendula, 468 
Silkies, Japanese, 473 
Skylark, keeping and management of, 
216 
Slate shelves, 381 
5; destroying, 75, 427; and 
Sowing tender plants too early, 242 
Spanish red-faced tow], 272 
Sparmannia africana, 91, 182, 166,181; 
culture, 436 
Spathoglottis Petri, 334 
Spheria Robertsii, 183 
Spinach culture, 332 
Spirea, Japonica, home-grown, 46; 
Thunbergii, 68, 130 
Spratt’s food, 384 
Spring flower bed, early, 222 
Spring flowers, 324, 441 
Starch in plants, 324 
Stings, remedy, 198 
Stock, breeding, 139; mode of feeding, 
19, 400 
Stopping fruit-tree shoots, 488 
Storm, effects of, 280 
Stove, plant culture, 115; heating 
small; 153; Management, 342; plants 
‘Or, 37 
Strawberries, culture, 47; forcing, 36, 
172, 211; in pots, 94, 250, 287, 4145 
manwring in pots, 212; plants atter 
forcing, 3861; preparing for planting, 
405; systems of culttre, 443; selec- 
tion of varieties of, 453; unfruitful, 
471; on house roof, 483; large form 
of, 483. 
Subtropical gardening, 415 
Suburban gardening, 35, 72, 113, 151, 
190, 229, 267, 305, 340, 377, 416, 468 
Sulphiw, use of, 465 
Sunflower seeds for fowls, 439 
Sutton & Sons’, Calceolaria at, 410 
Sutton & Sons at the Paris Exhibi- 
tion, 329 
Swans’ fertility, 474 
Swedish Turnip, culture of, 455 
Sweet Williams, culture of, 455 
Symphytum asperrimum culture, 309 
Syzigium Moorei, 190 
wees DECORATION PLANTS, 139, 
397 
Tehidy, 109 
‘Tenant out-going, 269 
‘Texas, seed tor, 173 
Thermometer, correcting, 192 
Thrips, 415 ; to destroy, 436 
Thrush caged, 404 
Thuja Lobbi, cutting, 343 
Tomato culture, 135, 229, 384, 169, 471 
‘Tomatoes, early, 37 
Tonbridge Poultry Show, 78 
‘Top-dressing, 309 
Torbay Horticwtural Show, flowers 
in bloom, 280 5 
Touting judges, 384 
Tree-felling machine, 52 
Tree stuunps, blasting of, 212 
Trees, plants under, 343 
Trenching, cost of, 95 ; 
Tropxolum, Ball of Fire, 372; albi- 
fortum and Moritzianum, 483 
Tropical garden, 337 
Tuberose culture, 362 
Tuberoses, culture, 94; home-grown, 
34, 89 
Tulip culture 136 
Tulip Society’s Show, 837 
Tulips, at_Paris Exposition, 222; at 
Messrs. Carter’s, 324; at Sydenham , 
307 
Turner, Mr. C,, 280 
Turner’s Nurseries, 324 
‘Turnip, culture, 277 ; culture of Swede, 
436 
Tydxa Madame_Heine, 145 
Tydxasy 68 
UPPINGHAM FLOWER SHOW, 429 
VARIEGATED LEAVES, 53 
Varnish, good and cheap, 347 
Vegetable culture, 7, 44, 47, 61, 85, 102, 
122, 143, 163, 180, 217, 238, 256, 277, 315, 
832, 357, 370, 388; seed selection, 132; 
seed sowing, 152 
VUES Marrow 
370 
Vegetables, early, 442 
Veitch & Sons’ prizes, 34 
Veitch memorial prizes, 381, 392 
Ventilator, electric automatic, 206, 207 
Verandah, creeper for, 269 
Verbena culture, 186 
Victoria Park in May, 378 
Villa gardening, 35, 72, 113,151, 190, 229, 
267, 3805, 468 
Villa gardens, 281, 338, 340,377, 416, 442 
Vine—borders, 8, 109, 145, compost for, 
25, fermenting dung for, 171, 231, 
inside, 149, renewing, 17; culture, 
187, 251, 306, 417; forcing, 191; white 
grains on, 3826; importation pro- 
hibited, 324; insects on, 414; leaves 
unhealthy, 436; removing shoots, 
418 
Vinery, constructing, 471; elevation, 
; plants for back, 75; insects in, 
1; wall, plant for, 251; utilising, 
‘4 u 
Sy 286; culture, 361, 
Vines—Tokay and others failing, 555 
for early and late houses, 55 ; fore- 
ing, 74, 268, 340, 341, 880; not starting 
freely, 74; watering inside border, 
74; borders,, 87, asphalting, 95; fail- 
ing, 9. usplanting, 95; steaming 
and syringing, 142; steaming, 142; 
high temperature, 170; planting, 
soil for, 212; air roots, planting, 
270; shoots decayed, 343 5 wnfruitiul, 
3633 syringing, 3870; cuttings, 381; 
mildew on, 381; not productive, 381; 
management of, 453, 488, 490; ven- 
tilation of house, 455; for Texas, 455, 
484; at Chiswick, 478; unhealthy 
71 
47 
Violet, Belle de Chateney, 280 
Violets, 269 
Viticultural Society, 242 
Vitis macropus, 29 
Vriesia speciosa, 111 
WALLFOWER CULTURE, 225 : 
Wallflowers, double, 424, and semi- 
double, 3 
Wall protection, 52 
Wall tree, training, 190, 193 
Watercress, bed mossy, 
frames, 47 
“Watercress Home Culture,” 425 
Water, hot for plants, 323 
Watsonia culture, 231 
Weather, 222 ; results, 338 
Weeding, 365 
Week, work for, 15, 35, 54, 73, 98, 114 
184, 152, 152, 172, 190, 210, 229, 249, 268 
286, 305, 324, 340, 361, 379, 397, 417, 483 
453, 469, 488 
Weevil, 192 
Wellingtonia gigantea, 338 
Wet place, plant for, 56 
Wharfedate Poultry Show, 866 
Wheat, American produce, 
ancient culture of, 41 
White flowers for bedding, 231 
Wilkinsonia filaminata, 243 
Wills’s, Mr., nurseries, 266 
Wimbledon House, 243 
Winter-flowering, greenhouse plants, 
807; plants for cool greenhouse, 363 
Winter flowers, 187 
Wireworm extirpating, 251 
Wireworms, 404 
Wistaria sinensis, 114 
Witloof, 284 
Wolt’s-bane, 93 zt 
Wolverhampton Poultry Show, 97 
Woodlarks, keeping, 274 
Woodlice in Peach wall, 17 
Wood Pigeons destructive, 235 
Worcester orchards, 423, 460 [465 
Worms, in lawn 231, 288; to destroy, 
Wormesley Grange, 358 
881; in 
109; 
XIPHION PLANIFOLIUM, 225 
YEAR’S EXPECTATIONS AND COUN- 
SELS, 1; RESOLUTIONS, 3 
Yeovil Powltry Show, 97 
Yew leaves, herd killed by, 285 
Yews, Irish, 168; seedling Irish, 187 
from séed, 174 
York Floral Péte, 479 
ZINC LABELS, 8, 29, 47, 55 
