January 18, 1877. ] 



JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



INDEX. 



Acacia, longieolia, 846; Eiceana, 

 386, 452 



Achiraenes pottitipr, 475 



Adiantum, amabile culture, 309; far- 

 leyense, 265, 372 ; temperature f«r, 

 872 ' 



Adornments, home, 302 



Advertisements, notes on, 174 



Agave Botterii, 128 



Agaves, Mr. J. T. Peacock's-. 144 



Ageratum Countess of Stair, 161,351; 

 at Castle Kennedy, 164 



Agricultural Hall Poultry Show, 874 ; 

 397 



Alder, 462 



Alexandra Palace, Poultry Show aban- 

 doned, 24G; Bee Show, 1:72; Kose 

 Show, 25 



Alfreton Hall, 463 



All-flower, 151 



Almonds, 462 



Aloes unhealthy, 220 



AlBtrumeria planting, 434 



Alterations, 459 



Alternanthera8,352; for bedding, 152 



Alyssums and culture, 14 



Amaryllids, culture of Cape, 233 



Amaryllises, early, 311 



American blight, 353; and petroleum, 

 255 



Amsterdam International Horticul- 

 tural Show, 96 



Anchusa eapensis,426 



Anemone fulgens, 538; japonica alba, 

 831 



Anerley Nursery, 431 



Animals, our duty to, SIS, 373 



Annuals, for spring bedding, 39 ; 

 hardv, 430; for spring flowering, 

 401,4*42: notes on, 408 



Anthurium Bakeri, 430 



Ants, destroying, 269 



Aphelandra Roe2li, 473 



Aphelexis dying, 104 



Apple, oldest variety, 292 



Apples— Pauley's Pippin, 39; Wor- 

 cester Pearmain,58; insects on. 61, 

 220; Peasgood's Nonesuch, 128; 

 weights of in Nova Scotia. 173; 

 early varieties of, 184; useful kinds, 

 206, '210: earlv, 229, 307, 326,366,378, 

 4^3; Irish Peach, 245; select, 257. 263, 

 334; gathering. 268; Greasv Coat, 

 298, 812, 830, 344; list of in Hants, 

 301; at Bonnytown, 3"7; Domino, 

 331; Redleaf Russet, 351; storing, 

 371 ; Cherrv, 391 ; caterpillar in 

 branch, 393; useful, 401,425; old, 

 429; kitchen, 476; election of, 4S3, 

 510, 533; Eramley Seedling, 494; 

 nnrays cankered, 520; Russian 

 Transparent, 527 



Aquarium, Westminster, 258; Kose 

 Show, 7; plants for, 475 



Aralias, 510 



Archer's Court, 235 



Arctic, cold, 390 ; hot-water apparatus, 

 447 ; temperature effects, 516 



Arrangement of flowers, &c, for de- 

 coration, 147 



Artichokes, Globe, 494; planting, 335 



Arundo donax, 127 



Asaroms and culture, 46 



Ash, 461 ; trees, large, 171 



Aspects of Na'ure— June, 29; July, 

 120 ; August, 1SS 



ABparasus, bed-making, 520; culture, 

 350,391; forcing, 55S; planting, 395; 

 manuring. 335 

 Asphalt for Vine border, 372 

 Association of plants, birds, and in- 

 sects, 255 

 . Asters, culture of, 340 ; perennial, 245 ; 



stopping, 372 

 Astrantia major and culture, 24 

 Auricula, Show, National, 509, 517; 

 Society, 441,445 

 ^Auricula Society, National. 444, 446 

 v^uncnla, leaves decaying, 99 

 OT6- nr iculas, and their seedling, 2 ; from 

 *—— seed, 21; wintering, 400 



Ad turns, growths, rapid, 265; i 



1*2 

 Avenues, 441 



Aylesbury Poultry Show, 294 

 Azaleas, repotting, 152 



Bamboo unhealthy, 17 



Banks, Sir Joseph, 308 



Bantam's legs swollen, 338 



Bantams, Sebright, 250 



Barrow, improved water, 240 



Basket plants unhealthy, 496 



Bath and West of England Society, 

 406 



Battersea Park, 4rs 



Bawtry Poultry Show, 200 



Ray, the Sweet, 558 



Bean, Canadian Wonder, 235 



Bedale Poultry Show. 560 



Bedding plants, autumn propagation 

 of, 89; propagating, 150. 291; new 

 varieties of, 161 ; preserving, 219 ; 

 wintering, 245, S7J, 892 



Bcdding-out plants, 253; to be given, 

 Sio 



Bedding, winter, 424 



Beds, mixed, SO 



Bedeguars,269 



Beech, 461 



Bee-keepers' Association Show, 295 



Bees — systems of management, 19; 

 extra room, swarming irregularly, 

 nadiring, artificial pollen, driving, 

 excess of swarms, 20; Lincoln 

 honey Beason, 11; adding to swarms, 

 weak hiveB, croBB sticks, artificial 

 swarming, feeding, weight of stock, 

 42 ; species, systems of manage- 

 ment. 63; searching for queens, ex- 

 hibiting honey, taking supers, 64; 



. West of England Show, comb 



, foundations, 84; honey prospects, 

 one stock in two hives, honey of 

 second swarms, systems of manage- 

 ment, nadiring and eking. 85; mov- 

 ing to moors, combs melted, Mar- 

 riott's hive, 86 ; heather for, 107 ; 

 season, marketable honey, modifi- 

 cations of management, 1C9 ; white 

 drones, 110 ; separating honey from 

 wax", honey harvest, frame hives 

 and extractor, 133; filling supers, 

 Ac , with comb, packing comb, ma- 

 nagement, hiving a swarm, taking 

 honey, wax moth, 134; artificial 

 honey supers, to fill an apiary, 

 honey recipes. 155 ; uniting swarms, 

 Marriott's hive, moving to moors, 

 combs melted, 156; Stewarton sys- 

 tem and Stewarton hive, 177; honey 

 recipes, dying. 178; filling supers, 

 201 : honey exhibition, destruction 

 of, honey recipes, 2 2; lessens for 

 cottagers, honey at Crystal Palace, 

 224; completion of supers, Stewar- 

 ton system, British "Bee-keepers' 

 Association, management, "Prac- 

 tical Beekeeping," 225 : honey re- 

 cipes, killing drones, 226; feeding- 

 np rescued, completing unfinished 

 supers, honey gathered or made ? 

 Dundee Show, 249; Albino, variety 

 of, depriving, wintering in glass, 

 buying, 250 ; honev and wax, exhi- 

 bition at Crystal Palace, 272 ; Sea 

 Lavender for, 273: and music, #MeIi- 

 Jot for, 274; driving, in Beds, old 

 combs, empty drone combs, 296 ; 

 eggs, time required for hatching, 

 317 : wax from old comb, colour- 

 ing wax, feeding swarms in autumn, 

 swarming without a queen, 31ft; 

 straw v. bar hives, swarming with- 

 out a qupen, colouring comb, 337 ; 

 " B. & W.-'s" apiary, working on a 

 pine, taking honey, smoking, ex- 

 amining hive, 838: do they gather 

 or make honey ? 857 ; how I obtained 

 large returns, 357 ; if broodless, 358 ; 



Bees— Continued, 

 aretrospect, bar r.strawhives,375; 

 caps on cells, the honey season, 

 376; honey - gathcriug, honey in 

 middle ages, 398; moveable v. fixed 

 combs, their stores, 417; barley- 

 Bugar pollen, 418; exchange of 

 queens, large apiary, 438; in au- 

 tumn, 457; wax, foul brood, bar 

 hives, weight of hives, 45R; move- 

 able versus fixed combs, queens, 479 ; 

 Italian v. black, frames v. Bkeps, 

 driving, 480; progress of knowledge, 

 501; during past season, 5-2; dead. 

 502 ; where is the honey found ? 502 ; 

 moveable v. fixed combs, 523; Ren- 

 frewshire Bee-keeper's apiary, 524; 

 Stewarton hive, 524 ; hives, 563 ; 

 introducing queens, 563; two sove- 

 reigns, 563; another year's expe- 

 rience, 564 



Beet, Chilian. 519 



Begonia Davisii,242 



Begcnias. culture. 475; culture of tu- 

 berous-rooted, 96, 301, 334. S72; in 

 greenhouse, 269; repotting, 334 ; 

 hardiness, £85 



Belfast Poultry Show, 501 



Belgium Arboricultural Society, 532 



Belts, 441 



Benzoline for destroying scale, 872 



Bertblonia superbissima culture, 

 ISO 



Bestwood, 327 



Bingley Poultry Show, 221 



Birch, 462 



Bird-cage parasites, 249 



Bird news. 355 



Birds for exhibition, 107 



Birmingham Poultry Show, 437, 476, 

 496,538; Columbarian Show, 561 



Bishopstowe, 98 ; flower garden, 115 



Blackberries, American, 429, 520; cul- 

 ture. 82, 463 



Blackburn Poultry Show, 107 



Bletia Tankervillijc. 412 



Bones, rendering soluble, 78 



Bongardia Rauwolfii, 128 



Borax an insect-destroyer, 195 



Border flowers, 99, 121, 14S, 195, 239, 

 410, 447, 470, 511; of perenniala, 

 440 



Borders, mixed, S24 



Botanical names, 258 



"Botanical Reminisceneesiin British 

 Guiana,'' 165 



Bouquets, 352 



Boussingaultia baselloides culture, 

 292 



Bouvardias, 473 



Box-edging, 352 



Brackley Poultry Show, 271 



Brahmas, 544 ; feeding, 358 



Bramley Poultry Show, S3, 106 



Brazilian flowerB, 264 



Briar, mossy balls on, 269 



Briars, seedling, 420, 546; working 

 seedling, 812 



Brighton Horticultural Show, 51 



Brisbane Botanic Garden. 447 



Bristol, Canary Show, 316; Poultry 

 Show, 374, 496 



Brixton Chrvs anthem urn Show, 444, 

 446 



Brockham Rose Show, 7 



Bromley Common Gardeners' Society, 

 352 



Broom, cutting down, 269 



Brunsvigia Josephinre culture, 269 



Brussels Sprouts, 474 



Buckingham Palace Gardens, 533 



Bulb cnlture, i97 



Bulbs for next year, 60 



Bullfinch, feeding, 86 ; food, 156 



BuDieurum fruticosum and culture, 

 529 



Burlingtonia fragrans, 431 

 Burton-on-Trent, Flower Show, 194 ; 



Horticultural Show, 12 

 Bntom'is umb llatus, 549 

 Butterflies! 438 



Cabbage— ccltdre and supply, as, 

 102; Palm, 334; planting, 332; seed 

 drilling, 14 



Cactus, wintering, 475 



Cage birds, insects in seed for, 201 



Cages, insects in, 418 



Calandrinia umbellata, 115 



Calanthes, 811 



Calceolaria, culture, 291; cuttings, 

 370; damping-off. 292 



Calceolarias, wintering, 245 



Californian trees, 266 



Calla culture, 104 



Calliphruria Hartwegiana, S51 



Caltha palustris, 229 



Camellias, blooms, wiring, 476; forc- 

 ing, 537 ; insect on, 17 ; leaves foul, 

 434 ; propagation and repotting, 

 520; repotting, 152: scale on. 354 



Campanula calycanthema hardy, 293 



Campanulas, 143 



Canaries, not breeding, 20; manage- 

 ment in olden times, 84, 2ii3 



Canary, diseased, 524 ; eye affected, 

 544: head featherless, 110; sore on, 

 274 ; treatment, 523 



Cannas, wintering, 293 



Canouba tree, 432 



Canterbury Bells, 475 



Canterbury Poultry Show. 437. 521 



Cape Town International Show. 235 



Carbolic, dressing for Peas, 475; acid 

 for weed-killing, 532, 538 



Cardoon earthing, 244 



Carica papaya, 433 



Carlisle International Exhibition, 310 



Carmarthen Poultry Show, 543 



Carnation and Picotee culture, S7 ; se- 

 lection, 88; showing, 104 



Carnation and Picotee Society, 141 



Carnations, culture, 412; from seed, 

 412; management of seedlings, 197; 

 propagating Tree, 334; winter- 

 flowering, 372 



Carpet bedding, at Cleveland House, 

 265; hardy plants for, 380; plants, 

 519 



Carpet green plants, 341 



Carrot, culture, 529 ; worm, 406 



Carter's root show, 451 



Castle Coch vineyard, 28 



Castle Donington Poultry Show, 83 



Castle Eden Poultry Show, 154 



Castle Kennedy, 163, 322 



Caterpillars, destruction of, 197 



Cauliflower plants, 150 



Cauliflowers, keeping, 532 ; retarding, 

 412 



Caution. 532 



Cedars poultry-yard, 270 



Ceorus deodara cones, 354, 406 



Celery, fly prevention, 212 ; imper- 

 fect, 418: leaves grub-eaten, 17 

 medicinal, 518 



Cestrum aurantiacum flowering, 416 



Chamrepuce diacantha, hardiness of, 

 194 



CbambeTS,SirW..S86 



Charcoal for flower beds, 475 



Cherries not setting, 434 



Cherry. 462 ; for wall, 354 



Cheshnnt, afternoon at, 91 



Chesterfield Poultry Show, 294 



Chester, in and about, 69 



Chestnut, HorBe, 461 ; Sweet, 462 



Chickens, management, 17 ; dying 

 suddenly, 20 



Children's Flower Show, 87 



Chilies. culture of, 105 



Chilwell Nurseries, 28 



Chippenham Poultry Show, 478 



Christmas Rose, 494 



Chrysanthemums, buds setting, I9G ; 

 eulture, 490 ; in the greenhouse, 371 

 plea for Japanese, 550; specimen 

 Pompon, 511; propagation, 538; 

 standard, 520; stopping. 219; the 

 Temple, 384 ; at Crystal Palace, 431 



Church decoration, 



Cider, ISO 



Cirencester Poultr how, 386, 4S5 



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