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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. v 
ABERDEEN, BON-ACCORD _ BIRD 
SHOW; 40; Horticultural Society, 
Aberdeenshire, weather in, 284 
Abutilons, ornamental, 108 
Acokanthera spectabills, 375 
Aconitum, 93 
AGGNUD Botanic Garden Catalogue, 
Adiantum palmatum, 31 
Adulterations, detection of, 201 
AES descriptions of, 450; various, 
#schynanthus, in pots, 269; splen- 
dkins, 48 
Agricultural Show, proposed inter- 
national in London. 215, 291 
Alexandra Palace, Bird Show, 118, 
1/8; Rose Show, 222, 481, 488 
Allan, Mr. J. P., 13 
Almond trees, 222 
Alstrémeria chilensis, 413 
Alternantheras green, 116 
URES Wierzbickii, and culture, 
Amaryllses, culture, 189, 477; a plea 
for, 374; repotting, 418; seedling, 
4133; watering, 3% 
American blight, 63 
American, harvest prespects, 459; 
geen crop, 475; exports to England, 
Amaryllea, prizes for, 209 
Amateur, 136, 288; defined, 281 
Ampelopsis hederacea, 72 
Annual flower management, 361 
Annuals, sowing hardy and _hali- 
hardy, 267, 287; and their culture, 
319; distasteful to slugs, 343; at 
Regent's Park, 461 
Anthurium, Andreanum, 37, 86; tri- 
fidum, 71 
Antirrhinums, preservation of, 455 
Ants, 2473; v. aphides, 181, 1/2, 823; 
banishing, 281, 343; in greenhouse, 
55; preserving aphides, 219 
Aphis, destroying, 397, on Teach 
trees, 382 
a yonogeton distachyon from secd, 
Apple, notes on, 84; tree ornamental, 
65; grafting old, 75; bloon ing 
season, 5; trees in pleasure ground, 
6; trees cankering, 186; tree giub, 
3899; cordon uniruitiul, 399 i 
Apples, winter, 17; for orchards, 27; 
or market, 29; market, Barton 
Free-Bearer, 45; and Apple trees, 50 ; 
protecting, 218; Northern Spy, 286 
Aquatic plants, 325 : 
Arancaria Cookii, 209 
Araucarias, large, 
Arbutus, fruiting, 95 ; 
shire, 27 
Arrangement of flower beds, 25 
Artichoke culture, 249 
Arum crinitum insectivorous, 483 
Asparagus, beetle, 108; culture, 217, 
240, 261, 283, 294, 433; cutting, 340, 
349, 363; forcing, 74; planting, 470; 
prizes for, 300, 429 
Aucuba pollen, 270 
Auwricwa Society, National, 163, 300 
Auriculas, 263, 818; hardy, 75; wooll 
aphis, 88, 1825 culture, 945 at Sloug 
and Loxford, 316; culture, 304, 307, 
3821; showing, 383, 357, 873; forced, 
388; Crystal Palace, 340; Manches- 
ter Show, 386, 860; propagation, 343 5 
repotting, 362; PUyanE 363; So- 
eiety’s Show, 371; at Failsworth, 
431; stmped, 470 
etales Souvenir du Prince Albert, 
Azaleas, culture, 343, 435; in Decem- 
ber, 3; after flowering, 362; at Ful- 
ham, 393; Ghent Excellente, 114; 
Jiquid manure for, 55; mollis, 212 ; 
propagating, 212; white for forcing, 
2125 unhealthy, 288 
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BALSAM CULTURE, 295, 490 
Bamboo, in Annam, “Commercial 
Pants,” 223; not growing, 343 
Bantams, $47, 383; varieties of, 420 
Bark of tree, removing, 288 
Barley cultivation, 174, 
Bast, 471 
Bath and West of England Powtry 
Show, 196, 329, 384, 457; Flower 
Show, 452, 467 
Bause, Mr. F., 18 
Beans, Broad, 111; dwarf for small 
garden, 116; experiments with 
Scarlet Runners 
Bedding-out, 324,361; stock for, 239 
Bedding plant arrangement, 399 
Bedding plants, preparing, 2¢2 
Lee-keepers’ Association Show, 492 
Bees—keeping, past, present, and 
future, 28; keeping in Kansas, re- 
moving hives, 42; warmth and 
ventilation, 60; size of bar-framed 
hive, feeding, dysentery, fallen 
comb, uniting swarms, 80; morta- 
lity, 98; feeding, wintering, 99; 
Scotch Society, 119; bar-iramed 
hives, 120; wintering, bar-frame 
hive, 140; chloroforming, wintering, 
ventilating, introduction of Ligu- 
rian, 159; “The Apiary,” weak hives, 
deserted hive, stings, 160; winter- 
ing, 176; Ligurian history, 177; 
sting remedy, apiary work, 178; 
wintering, 186; feeding, _bar- 
framed hives, 197; mice in_ hive, 
Boiler, Richardson’s, 297 
Bone manure, 75 
Zones, dissolving, 193; for manure, 
BO4 
5, 174 
ciety (Royal), 685 Show, 
y HT 
Botanical Exchange Society, 281 
Bouvardia culture, 277, 322 
30x hedg 
Briars for stoc 
Bridge Hall, 
Bristol] Horticultural Show, 248 
Bristol Poultry Show, 196 
Broceolis, for success 
82; transplantin 
249, 324 5 Suttons 
ure, 341; K 
> abundant, 393 
f jas, 45; and culture, 10 
Brussels Sprouts, 102 
Budding, quill, 459 
Bulbs, remoying, 36 
Burnham Beeches, 270 
3utter, from Holland, 2153 or 
S47 
Butterflies, 300; early, &8 
3 culture, 
53 sowing, 
CABBAGE CULTURE, 122 
Cabbages for London, 393 
215 wintering, 216; Italian 2. | Calceolarias, herbaceous, 3:6 
British, 235; spring overhaul, | Caledonian (Royal) Horticultural So- 
ciety, 803 
California, seeds from, 465 
Calves, rearing of, 382, 599 
Camellias, shedding buds, 37; in De- 
cember, 3; not flowering, 753; pot- 
ting, 94; culture, 1685 shading, 1673 
leaves sticky, 1 at Waltham 
crooked combs, 2863 in Cakfoinia, 
258; Ligurian, swaiming v. non- 
swarming, 254; bar-frained hive 
mnapagement, 278; swarming vw. 
non-swalming, feeding, 274; Ligu- 
rian v. black, 201; notes on ancient 
writers, 292; in America, husbandry 
of, 311; natural death of, Cross, 208; cutting down, 231; 
dying, 829; husbandry of, 3305 leaves falling, 281; large, 281; cul- 
ture, 435; Management of, 455 
Canaries, high-coloured, 494; treat- 
ment, 408 
Canary-breeding notes, 272; feather- 
Jess, 274 
Cannizaro House, Wimbledon, gar- 
dening at. 210 
Carbolic acid disinfectant, 254 
Cardamine pratensis, double, 418 
Carnation and Picotee Society, 10, 
£96; Show, 378 
Carnation, layers, 193; La Belle, 369 
Carnations, in pots, 94; in the north, 
8345 select, 249 
Carpet-bedding, 486; plants, 115, 116, 
471 - 
Carrier Pigcon, 22 
Carrots, culture, 1455 early, 184 5 fore- 
ing, 1 field-culture ot, 270 
Carter & Cos T 3, 35 
Cassia corymbosa culture, 362 
Caterpillar, vegetable, 150 
Caterpillars, their colours, 235 
Cattle for protit, 273 
Cauliflower, eture, 61,1045 for suc- 
cession, 37 
Ceanothus rigidus, 300 
Cedars, felling, 470 
Celery culture, 47, 256, 276, 286, 397; 
planting, 324, 3615 sowing, 114 
Cemetery, arrangement, 468; plant- 
ing, 115 
Centenarian’s death, 242 
Cephalotus follicularis, 128 
Chalk, trees and plants on, 137 
Channel Islands, 79 
Charcoal manure, 99 
Chatsworth Gardens, 372 
Cheeses, fancy, 367 
Chelone obliqta, 15 
Cherries, forcing, 135, 525; manage- 
Blinds, outside, 153 ment in house, 211; house, 287; 
Blossom, impregnating, 16 Morello standards, 64; orchards, 
Blue flowers for bedding, 227 824 
this season, for profit, 347, 248; 
transferring, 548; hives, swarming 
v. non-swarming, 367; feeding, 368, 
combs in hives, 868; bar-tramed 
hives, box v. straw hives, ¢ 
ligurianising, 886; dividing, win- 
tering, bar-irame hives, 404; ma- 
nagement of, 421; bar-frame hives, 
eking of, cast-out of hive, comb 
foundations, 422; unfavourable 
seasons, 439; early swarms, 4393 
feeding, 440 ; prospects, 440; tapping 
flowers, 458; seasons of 1877 and 
1878, 458; and beans, 475; comb 
foundations,475 ; hive chlo oformed, 
476; strengthening, 476; royal 
cells, 476; four swarms, 4£3; pas- 
ture for, 495 
Beet, culture, 315; sowing, 305 
Begonias, Frobelli, 15; Moonlight, 
69; Saundersii semperflorens, 1665 
tuberous-rooted, 101, 149, 391; cut- 
tings, 269; cuttings of tuberous- 
rooted, 307 
Belladonna Lily planting, 343 
3erberis Darw 
Besleria Imray, 71 
Biennial defined, 436 
Biennial flowers, sowing, 379 
Bignonia, insects on, 136 
Bilbergia pallescens, 171 
Birch tree, large, 68 
Bird hoarse, 160 
Birds, training, 421 
Birmingham Columbarian Society’s 
Show, 20 
Birmingham 
Show, 275, 328 
Bitter Vetch, 435 
Blackleg in cattle, 418 
Blasting tree stumps, 219 
oe 
Cattle and Poultry 
Cherry house ma 
Chestnut Sunda fi 
Chicken coop, a simple, 59 
Chicken’s crop distended, 386 
Chickens, management 439, of spring, 
s a barometer, 42 
Chionodoxas, 220 
Chorozemas, 166 
Christmas Rose, 187 
Chrysanthemum (Putney) Society, 
134 
Chrysanthemums, early-flowering, 6, 
15; Jate-flowering, 84; notes, 403 
late-blooming, 52; late, 68, 88; in 
pots, 840, 898 ; in winter, 143 
Cineraria flowers discoloured, 863. 
j » Cape, 436; culture, 2245 
3 Withering, 251 
sat shows, 55 
Clematis, sowing, 75; show, 860 
Clematises, light-coloured, 37; for 
wall, 231 
Clerodendron, Balfourianum, 136 ; in 
August, 75; fragrans culture, 
470 
Climbers, summer- flowering, 563 
hardy, 72 
Clover, culture, 2515 and grass cw- 
ture, 282 
Clubbing of Cabbagewcrts, 37 
Cochins, feeding, 100 
Cocoa-nut fibre refuse, 75 
Coffee plantation, 228 
Colour arrangement in beds, 261 
Comfrey, Prickly, 195; culture, 214, 
235, 809, 455 
Composts, root-producing, 109 
Conoclinium ijanthinuim, 205 
Conservatory, Management of, 211; 
heating, 212 
Coop for fowls, 59 
Cooper, Mr. §., 53 
Cordiceps Robertsii, 180 
Corn averages, 273 
Cornish gardens, 109 
Cotton cake for cattle, 139 
Covent Garden Market, 24, 42, 60, 80, 
100, 120, 140, 160, 178, 198, 216, 236, 254, 
274, 292, 312, 330, 348, 268, 386, 404, 422, 
440, 476, 494 
Cow, characteristics of good, 235; and 
Pig, 
Cows, kicking, 20; best for dairy, 413 
food for, 98; management, 99, 308 5 
feeding, 159 ; quick milking, 273 
Crasstwa ewlture, 381 
Cratzgus pyracantha, 72 
Crinum Verscbaffeltianum, 391 
Croeu: es and pheasants, 263 
Crop valuation, 307 
Crops, near London, 242, prospect of, 
403 
Crossandra guincensis, 171 
Crotons not flowering, 343 
Crowfoots, 304 
Cryptomeria japonica, large, 108 
Crystal Palace, 166; Bird Show, 195 ; 
Show, 411 
Cuckoo flower double, 378 
Cucumbers—bed making, 73; cultur 
115, 269, 288, 306, 484; earliest, 22 
for exhibition, 470; failing, 43 
failtes, 167,270; flue-heating house, 
17; forcing, 36, 192, 230, 342, 383; in 
greenhouse, 115; mealy bug on, 
953; liquid manure for, 399; plant- 
ing, 192; in March and April, 399; 
ridged, 361; roots diseased, 17, 955 
for seed, 471; soil for, 308; sowing, 
553; unhealthy, 74; Woolley’s Tele- 
graph, 28+ 
Currant, trees, moving large, Black 
barren, 75; pruning, 93 
Cuttings, 239; propagation by, 179 
Cyathea medullaris, 467 
Cyclamen, lecture on, 134 
Cyclamens, 285; double, 2885 
seed, 184 i 
Cydonia japonica, 399 
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