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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
Cypripedium Boxallii, 145 
Cypripediums, and culture, 184 
DH, CULTURE, 467; CUTTINGS, 
Dairy, management, 308, 326, 382; in 
America, 329; for butter, 289 
Daisy, 116; propagation, 436 
Dale testimonial, 107 
Damping-off, 237 
Daphne, eneorumj unhealthy, 115; 
indica rubra, 166 
Darlington Bird Show, 79 
December flowers, 31 
Delphiniuns, exhibiting, 381 
Dendrobium Freemanii, 145 
Dendroseris macrophylla, 334 
Deutzia gracilis, cultuxe, 251, 8253 
pruning, 307 
Dew, 43, 62, 107 
Diary, 17 
Dicentras in California, 484 
Dictamnus rubra, 264 
Digging, 275, 322 
Dipladenia culture, 122 
Dorchester Poultry Show, 77 
Dorsetshire Bee-keepers’ Association, 
3, 
Dormouse, 348 
Dracxnas, Bausei, 283; terminalis a 
room plant, 166; from seed, 149 
Draining, 76 
Drip, 55 
Ducks, rearing, 273; v. slugs, 425 
Dundee Horticultural Society, 107 
Duneevan, Vines at, 429 
Dungs for manure, 239 
Durham florists, 461 
Dwham and Northwnberland flori- 
culture, 186 
Durham and Northumberland Hor. 
ticultural Society, 278 
EARLY WOOD POULTRY-YARD, 492 
Easter decorations, 324 
Eccremocarpus from seed, 115 
Echeveria retusa, and culture, 188 
Echeyerias, seedling, 116 
Edinburgh Flower Show, 321 
Egg production, 79 
Egg- producers, profitable, 80 
Eggs, in winter, 21; weight of, 59 ; 
ried, 99; ill-flayoured, 120; for 
Setting, 1389 ; imported, 140; scarcity 
of, 2 differing in colour, 216; size 
of, 235; large, 312; preserving, 422 
Entomological exhibition, 246 
Epacrises tor early flowers, 242 
Ergot causing disease in cows, 308 
Erica, candidissima as a decorative 
plant, 447; vagans culture, 153 
Ericas, 150, 876; propagating, 435 
pecallonia macrantha, 249; culture, 
297 
SEES Horticultural Society’s Show, 
Eucalyptus globulus, 242, 470 
Eucharis amazonica, culture of, 2045 
tine, 149, 166; repotting, 136; weak, 
74 
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Euphorbia splendens, culture, 470 
Evergreens, pruning, 325 
Ewes and lambs, management of 
down, 116, 137 
FARM-HOUSE MANAGEMENT, 56 
Farm—work on the home, 57, 76, 96, 
117, 138, 155, 175, 194, 214, 232, 252, 271, 
290, 309, 327, 345, 364, 383, 400, 420, 437, 
456, 472, 491; work, seasonable, 117; 
Jerge American, 158; schools, Ger- 
man, 176 
Fasciation, 17 
‘attening animals, 158 
Feather cloth, 176 
fern, culture, 173; crested, 174; hy- 
brid, 108; Royal, 307; sowing, 93 
Perneries, hardy, 313 
Pernery, 191 
Serns, British,318 ; for glass case, 3813 
repotting, 55; shading, 343, 8773 
stove, 342; Tree, 374; withering, 1935 
‘evillea Moorei, 33: 
and its blossom, 89; culture, 
250), 287, 805, 825. 861, 434; forcing. 
365 in pots, 94, 153, 1925 soil for, 136 5 
as standards, 184; tree unproduc- 
tive, 231 
‘ir, large Silver, 430. 
re-lighting, 198 
Naxworts, 109 
‘leas in fowl house, 386 fe 
‘lora of a former age, 245 
‘lower Mission, Bible, 483; Ame- 
rican, 483 
‘lower, beds arrangement, 231, 269, 
288, planting circular, 326, manure 
for, 382; garden, 210, management 
of, 210; shows and judging, 81; 
pots, seli-registering, 481 
‘lower show, a people’s, 337 
‘lowers, economic uses of, 9,112; pre- 
serving cut, 149; hardy in January, 
205; planting out, 398 
Sood, Warm, 5) 
‘orestry in April, 304 
‘ountaine, Rey. J., 62 
‘owls, in France, 20; water for, 415 
food required by, 80; crossing, 80; 
FowWLs—Continued. 
selecting stock, 100, 1403 
feathers, 160; trespassing, 178; not 
laying, ;_ Management and feed- 
ing of, 216; for profit, 348 
Fraxinella cwtwre, 343 
Fries, Professor, 149 
Frost and snow, powtry in, 96 
Fruit, trees, pruning, 35, 111, 121, 223, 
816; trees, for small garden, 55, 
making pyramids, 56, for shady 
place, 56, south wall, 56; tree 
protection, 67; trees, grafting old, 
1625 trees, ornamental, 167; blos- 
som, protecting, 203; garden, ma- 
nagement of, 210; houses, manage- 
a 
ment, rospects, 88, 242, 
287, 302, 350, 357, 871, 430, 478 IPSs 
American, 300; tree, transplanting 
summer, 2703; trees, training 
pyramidal, 333, thinning, 361; da- 
mage to tr in Kent, 856; tree 
training, 417; disappearing, 428, 452, 
465, in Wilts, 448, in Gloucester, 
449; and corn prospects, 466, 4755 
trees, dest ing insects on, 454 
Fuchsias, racemosa, 108; serratifolia 
culture, 307; insects on, 863; in 
pots, 340; select, 471 
Fungus, fossil, 84 
in 
GAPES, 366; IN DUCES, 98; PREVENT- 
_ ING, 494 
Garden notes in 1877, 127, 284 
Gardenias, culture, 470; cut flowers, 
281; buds dropping, 307; manage- 
ment, 306, 212 
“ Gardener’s Assistant,” 9 
Gardeners’. Royal Benevolent anni- 
versary, 87 
Gardeners, prizes for under, 378 
Gas, in conservatory, 153; lime ma- 
nuwre, 173 
Genista racemosa culture, 301 
Gentiana acaulis, culture, 4333 soil, 
471 
Geraniums—diseased, 436; in turves, 
zig 3 Vesuyius, 379 ; White Vesuvius, 
6 
German paste, 476 
Geum coccineum flore-pleno, 389 
Ghent International Exhibition, 248, 
2057, 279 
Gladioli, 186; failures, 300 
Gladiolus, corms, lifting, 17; culture 
of and disease, 201 
Gladioluses, 286 
Glamorganshire plants, 393 
Glasnevin notes, 189 
Glastonbury Thorn, 338 
Glauciwn lutewn, 163 
Glazed structures the 
house, 95 
Glazing, without laps or putty, 48; 
without putty, 251, 308 
Globeflowers, 146 
Gloxinia, potting, 36 
Gloxinias, 376, 388, 465; propagation 
of, 455; seed saving, 436; select, 174 
Golden Feather, 116 
Gooseberry, trees, moving large, 75; 
pruning, 93 
Goslings, sex of, 42 
Grafting, 268, 436 
Grain, sport of, 41 
Grapes, Mrs. Pince’s Black Muscat, 43 
serviceable, 7; keeping, 34, 43, 62, 83, 
107, 128, 186, 210; Gros Colman, 375; 
Duke of Buccleuch, 81, 103, 129, 142, 
162, 181, 220, 429; heaviest bunch, 
251; diseased, 455; forcing, 1525 
in unheated house, 441; growing, 
profitable, 483; ripening, 230, 417; 
Setting, 114; spotted, 490; stoning, 
363 
adjoining 
Grass of Parnassus, 337 
Grasses, ornamental, 249; useful eul- 
ture, 251 
Grave, plants for, 212 
Green tly, destroying, 288 
Greenhouse, bed, heating, 174; heat- 
ing, 281; heating small, 753; pit 
heating, 95; management, 288; 
plant priz shelving, 418 
Griffinia z 
Grub-picker, 171 
Grubs, 231; destroying, 427 ; in soil, 95 
Guano, water for yinery, 115; Peru- 
vian, 176 
Gun for flowers, 136 
HACKNEY CHRYSANTHEMUM SHOW, 
210 
Hamanthus albo-macwlatus, 145 
Hampton Cowrt, Limes at, 338 
Hand labowr, 155, 321 
Hardening off, 831 : 
Hare and Rabbit hybrid, 98 
Hay, making, 471, 475, 40; prices, 273 
Heaths, Cape, 25, 150, 226, 502, 376, 466 
Hedges, farm, 437; insect injwing, 
4863 Management of, 76 
Henning, death of Mr, 21 
Hens diseased, 404 
Herbaceous plants, 418 ; list of, 212 
Herbarium specimens, preserving co- 
lour, 53 
Herefordshire orchards, 423, 460 
Hollies, conseryatory at the, 429 
Hollies at Coombe Bank, 210 
losing 
Holly, blossom, 593; hedges, 2803; 
leayes injured, 288; yellow-berried, 
71 
Holme Lacy, 10, 50 
Home Farm, 17 
Hoodia Bainii, 224 
Hoof-parings for Vines, 192 
Hops in Kent, 19 
Horse, labowr, 155, 327; and hand 
labour, 117; flesh for food, 235; 
hoeing, 38: 
Horses, management of farm, 
work for, 76 
Horticultural Club, 34, 68, 280, 878 
Horticultural (Royal) Society, 13, 390 ; 
Committees, 49, 146, 221, 260, 298, 390, 
428, 464; General Meeting, 68; p 
offered, 87; Chiswick Garden, 87; 
trials at, 88; Annual General Meet- 
125; Preston Show, 183, 301, 337, 447 ; 
Mr. Jenning’s lecture, 147; Meeting 
183, 354; election of Fellows, 209, 410, 
431; Journal of, 210, 280; Kensing- 
ton Garden, 324; rules, 3425 prizes, 
378; Great Show, 407; Summer 
Show, 392, 429, 480; Peoples’ Flower 
Show, 446; Rose and Pelargonium 
Show, 462 
Horticultural Society of Ireland, 337 
Hortus siccus, 490 
Hotbed, making, 35; a miniature, 361 
Hot-water heating, 326 
Houdans, feeding, 100 
House sewage for manure, 354 
373 
Hoya imperialis buds falling, 37 
Hyacinths, after flowering, 2125 at 
Mes: Veitch’s, 246 
Hymenanthera crassifolia, 13 
IBERIS, CILIATA, 2443 NANA, 64 
Import of cattle, 347 
Inports, 59, 176 
Inarching, 55 
Incubation, artificial, 233, 252, 328 
Incubators, 492 
Indian fruit-cwture, 53 
Indiarubber plant, 68 
Insects, destroying, 56; in gardens, 
396 ; on fruit trees, 459; user, 166 
Ione paleacea, 171 
Ionopsidium acaule culture, 343 
Tresine Lindeni, wintering, 37 
Tris crete: y 171 
Ironwork bronzing, 326 
Ischarum angustatum, 334 
Isolepis, gracilis, 250 
Ivy, 72; edging, 173 
JAPANESE, GARDEN, 369; PLANTS, 53 
Jardin @’Acclimatation, 76 
Jarratt, Mr., 280 
Jasmine buds falling, 55 p 
Jasminum, didymum, 224; grandi- 
florum, 68 
Jatropha podagrica, 220 
Jennings, Mr. §. appointment 
Royal Horticultural Society, 52 
Johnson, Mr. C. W,, death of, 219, 234 
at 
KALE CULTURE, 122 
Kalosanthes culture, 489 
Kent Powltry Show, 97 
Kew Gardens, 167, 264, 267, 8233 
velties in, 145, 220, 299; time of open- 
ing, 202; admission of students and 
gardeners, 209, 226 
Keynes, Mr. J., 149 
Kidney Beans, 286, 3405 culture, 3575 
forcing, 135, 152, 249 ; roots knobbed, 
381; sowing, 358 
Kidney Vetch, 205 
G Betwerieem Garden, The Amatew’s,” 
OG 
Kitchen garden, cropping, 141; ma- 
nhagement of, 210 
Koellesteinia graminea, 71 
LABELS FOR ROSES, 116 
Lachenalias, 184 
Lelia furfiwacea, 32 
Labs, management of, 116 
Lancaster Powltry Show, 19 
Landscape gardening, 5; hints on, 199, 
244, 281, 338, 425 
Langshan fowls, 156 
Lapuageria, rosea, 
sickly, 231 
Lark injured, 830 
arking’s, J. W., villa garden, 245 
Lawustinuses, uncertain flowering, 
at) 
Lawn, dressing, 152; grass coarse, 
418; improying, 6S; making, 151; 
management, 341 
Lead pans, 476 
Leases of farms, 79 
Leek culture, 238 
Legg, appointment of Ma., 379 
Leicestershire Flora, 34 
Lemon trees, value of, 418 
Leyelling, 251 
Lice on poultry, 79 
Lilies from seed, 165 7 
Lilitun, auratiun culture, 56; cordifo- 
lin, 71; Thompsoni, 135 
Liliums, 464; in pots, 266 
Lily of the Nile, culture, 436; 
winter, 17 
242, wild, 154; 
in 
[ July 18, 1878. 
Lily of the Valley, 69; home-grown, 4 
Lime, for garden, 172; application of 
to soil, 212; to use as Manure, 347 
Linums, 109 
Liriodendron twlipifera wood, 367 _ 
Lobelias, from cuttings, 244; raising, 
37 
Lomaria gibba, 115 
London extension, 280 . 
London International Horticultural 
Exhibition, 483 
Love Birds, 403 
Loxford Hall Grapes, 393 
Loxococeus rupicola, 375 
Lucerne sowing, 309 
MADEIRA VINEYARDS, 58 
Magnolia for south wall, 17 
Maidstone Rose Show, 337 
Manchester National Horticultural 
Show, 242, 429, 444 
Maneold; culture, 310, 343; manure 
or, 231 
Manure, changing, 17; exposing, 140 
Manures, liquid and solid, 41 
Manuwing, 275, 321 
Maréchal Niel Rose, 854 
Market gardens and nurseries of 
old London, 147, 486 
Marnock, portrait of My. R., 800 
Mealy bug, destroying, 471 
Meat, trade, American, 98, 253; im- 
ported, 235; production, 475 
Melbourne Botanic Gardens, 394 
Melon houses, 490 
Melons, cultwre, 114, 192, 280, 269, 306, 
308, S41, 362, 434, 469; failing, 471; 
fertilising, 423; soil for, 308; sow- 
ing, 55; temperature, 173 
Memorial trees, 15 
Mentha pulegium culture, 95 
Messenger’s wall protector, 204 
Mice destroying bees, 215 
“Midland Naturalist,” 35 
Mignonette, culture, 180, 267, 484; pot 
culture, 141, 251 
Milk, 59; profit, 79; supply, 98; test- 
ing, 189, 367; increasing, 189 
Mistletoe propagation, 55 
Moffatt, death of Ma, 35 
Moths in gardens, 396 
Mowing machines, 294 
Mulberry propagation, 471 
Mouching, 379 
Muuray, Mr. Andrew, death of, 54 _ 
Mushroom, beds, 417; characteristics, 
308; culture, 74, 161, 286; spawn, 108 
Myrobella, 17 i 
Myrtles, not flowering,55 ; soil for, 343 
NAMES, POPULAR OF PLANTS, 263 
Nare ses, 299 
National P teronic Society, 21, 40 
National Rose Society, meeting of, 85 
Nectarine, early, for orchard house, 
37; tree pruning, 135 
Nectarine, forcing, 268, 341, 417; fall- 
ing, 399; in houses, 488; training, 
806 
Nemophila, discoidalis, 320; sowing, 
116 
Nepenthes culture, 342 
Nertera, 95 ; depressa culture, 436 
Nest egg, to make, 41 
Nests, 366 
Newcastle Show, schedule of, 209 
New Zealand plants from seed, 288 
Night soil, 55 
Nikaw Pahn, 68 
re of soda, applying, 364; use of, 
Northumberland florists, 461 
Nuuseries, old London, 486 
Nursery garden tenant, 326 
Nuts, storing, 192 
OAKS OF BIRNAM, 228 
Oats, cultivation of, 215 
Odds and ends, 263 
Oleander buds falling, 75 
Onion, native, 88 
Onions, culture, 163, 208; for picklin 
3065 sowing, 190, 488; Tree or Mul- 
tiplying, 203 
Orange, culture, 325; trees, value of 
_ 418; tree unhealthy, 115 
Orchard house, 898; management, 55, 
115, 102, 250, 342; routine, 489 
Orchids, culture, 136, 230, 307, $42; not 
flowering, 75; choice garden, 450; 
imported by Mo. Bud, 393, in Janu- 
ary, 31; at Kew, 183; Lord Londes- 
borough’s, 184; at Loxford, 323; ma- 
nagement of, 454; select, 484; at 
Messrs. Veitch’s, 242 
Oreopanax Thibautii, 71 
Orobus vernus, 4 r 
Osborn & Son’s Nurseries, 222 
Oxford, Flower Show at, 452 
PAINT FOR SLOVE LNSLDE, 261 
Paisley Powltry Show, 39 
Palins, 53 ; in pots, 307 
Pampas Grass, aiter flowering, 193 ; 
transplanting, 325 
Pandanus unguifer, 171 
Pansies, dying in winter, 455; early 
planting of, 2105; size of, 470 
