Januiuy IS, 1872, ] 



JOUENAL OF HOETICULTUEE AND COTTAGE GAEDENEE. 



vu 



Liliums, 121; anratuin culture, 1S9, 



166, 36G; tisi'inum, double, 140; exi- 



mium not fl.oweriiig,267 ; giganteum, 



culture, 471 ; sowing, 494 

 Lily of tlio Valley iu pots, 397 

 Linaria vulsaris, 124, 15G 

 Lindley IibratT.l:5 

 Liskeard Poultry Show, 93; judgiog 



at, 135 

 LithoBpei-mum, after flowering, 206; 



Gastoni, 21G 

 Littleborou;^Ii Poultry Show, 132 ; 



Eabbita, 152 

 Lobelias, 109, 18G 

 Leng Sutton Poultry Show, 112, 192, 



290 

 Loquat in Italy, G 



Magnolia, Exmouth variety not 



THRirjNG, 91 



MaidBtone Poultry Show.SlG 



Makeshifts, 33 



Malayi?, enconragiaff,270; legs, 460 



Malvern Poultry Show, 152 



Manchester and Liverpool Poultry 

 Show, 191 208. 



Manchester Botanic Gariien, 439 



Mandevilla suaveolens, winteriog, 208 



Mange. 370 



Mangold for seed. 2SG 



Manure, modes of applying, 74 



Manures, from various foods, 450 ; 

 scarcity of, artificial, 109; vegetable 

 refuse as, 141 



Manuring vacant gi'ound iu winter, 

 40!i 



Marantiis, in winter, 453; Veitchii cul- 

 ture, 307 



Market gardening. 322, 338 



Markets, 20. 40, 60, 80, 98,.116, 13l'., 15 [, 

 172, 192. 212, 232. 252, 272, 292. 310, 332, 

 35% 370,390, 408, 4:^2, 4G0, 480, 5jfi. 5i0; 

 Loudon Fruit, Flower, and Vege- 

 table, 87 



Mealow, man^ire on clay, 261 



Mealy bug, 323; ammonia for, 286 ; 

 destroying. 158; in vinery, 179, 227; 

 ver.^us ammonia, 199 



Megachile ceutnneularis, 357 



Megaclinium purpuratum, 396 



Melons— early and late, 846; houses, 

 tank-heating, [42 ; leaves withering, 

 76; not setting, 35; plants gangren- 

 ing, IS't ; select, 215; watering, 245; 

 signs of ripening, 129; superior. 276 



Melton Mowbray Poultry Show, 112 



Meryta latifolia, 39C 



Metropolitan Florists' Show, 173 

 Middlesbrough Ornithological Show, 



849 

 Middleton Poultry Show, 79; Poultry 



Show, 213 

 Mignonette, pot-cuUure. 174 

 Milla capitata, 50 

 Mills, Mr. G., 823 

 Moor Park, 339 

 Morel, the stinking, 130 

 Moss, destroying, 4aS; dying green, 



Mosses, 172 



Moths, garden, 219 



Moulting, age of, 93 ; treatment dur- 

 ing. 453, 4G0 



Moulton Poultry Show, 56 



Mulchinir. 128 



Mules, Goldfinch and Canary, 136 



Musa Ensete at Kew, 87 



Mushrooms, 225; culture, S25; house 

 under,225; grub-eaten. 18C ; in New 

 Zealand, 200; vermin-eaten, 206- 

 large, 31,50,73,85 



Myi'tle, scale on, 207 



Names op plants, 837 

 Neatness, 2S4 



Nectai'ines, falling, 207 ; leaves dis- 

 coloured, 15 

 Neighbours, good and bad.376, 393 

 Nests for cannibal hens, 330 

 NetUng, fruit tree, 424 

 Nettles, 219 



Newark Poultry Show, 3G 

 Newcastle Pigeon and Bird Show, £68 

 Newton Don. 4G5 

 Night-soil manure. 15 

 Nitro-phosphate, 326 

 Northampton Poultry Show, 209 

 North Ormesby Canary Show, 329 

 Norwich Poultry Show, 516 

 November temperature, 393 



Oak and Ash leafing, 7G 

 Oakham Poultry Show, 430 

 Oaks at Watcombe, 125 

 Oats, ground for fowls, 350 

 Ol]apodrid[i,295 

 Oncidium macranthum, 118 

 Onion, culture. 284; crop destroyed, 

 295; grab, 254, 337; preventing, 1C9, 



^04. 3t)b 



Ophiocaryon paradoxicum, 226 



Orangery, stove for, 473 



Oranges— thinning, 91 ; trees, flower- 

 ing of seedling, 424: trees, under 

 Vines, 435 ; leaves browned, 514 



Orchard-house, constnicting,S26; ma- 

 nagement, 148; notes. 314; paving 

 tiles, 207; planting. 223 ; Plums and 

 Figs, 450; positio'n, heating, 883:" 

 402 ; width of, 240 



Orchids, sale of Mr. Rucker's, 106, 141 

 Orchis, Bee, its fertilisation, 70 

 Orraskii'k and Southport Poultry 



Sha,w. 132 ^ 



Osborn's nursery, alpuie plants at, 6L 

 Oundle Poultry Show, 57 

 Oxalis, culture, 474; edible-rooted, 50 

 Oxford Botanic Garden managing 



committee, 69 



Pa^ONIA MOTJTAN TBANSPLAN'TINC, 484 



Paint on glass, removing, 365 

 Palestine, flora of, 51 

 Pampas Grass soil, 245 

 Pandanus, cult-ire, 3-7: leaves spot- 

 ted, 402; javanicus culture, 22G 

 Pansies, 35 

 ParaSiii as a remedy for American 



hbght,87 

 Paris, horticulture in 1871, 193, 236, 207 

 "Paris, Les Promenades de," 490 

 Parlridge eggs not hatching, 19 

 Pass-flora, cieriilea Btodling, 267; cin- 



uabarina, 50 

 Pasture improvement. 453 

 Peaches— blotched, ICfi; borders, 102. 

 206; casdng fruit, 92: conei-etmg, 

 206 ; for cool house, Si^T ; crop in De- 

 laware, 814 ; ff^r culture under glass, 

 474; heading back, 76; house, plant- 

 ing, 285; house, notes from, 414; 

 trees, .dying off. 108, management, 

 91,protecting,24G,pruning,3e6, scale 

 on, 227, on walls, 54; select, 435; 

 trelhs, 307 ; on gravelly subsoil, 186; 

 stones not vegetating, 76 ; waterinc, 

 Nectarine, and Pinm pruning, 402; 

 "Knight's Markly Admirable, lOij 

 Pears— for cordons, 402; select, 354; 

 keeping, 492; for west of Ireland, 

 493; old with new names. 503; for 

 espaliers, 514; gathering, bush, 285; 

 this year's, 325 ; gathering, 326 ; tree 

 pruning, 186; espalier. pruning, 226; 

 stocks, 357 ; diagonal cordons, 415 ; 

 shrivelling without ripening, 421: 

 pruning wall trees, 149 ; Beurre de 

 rAssomption. 320; Beurre Bolhvil- 

 ler, 26G; Sinclair, 380 

 Peas— cooking, 135 ; edible-podded, 

 424 ; forcing, 503 ; aiTordinu shade, 

 147 ; of moderate height, 511; pro- 

 tecting, 453: staking, 53, 90; trials 

 at Seahani Hall, 234; good varieties, 

 173 ; Australian, 321 ; Laxton's 

 Alpha, 61; Laxton's new, 462; the 

 Glory, 142 

 Pelargoniums— cul'ure, 14; defined, 

 54; repotting. 514; select, 35; select 

 double, 14; select Show and Fancy, 

 514; solution for dipping, 91 ; Lark- 

 fieMKival,487 

 Pencilled feathers, 430 

 Perches for fowls, 98 

 Peristeronic Society, 250 

 Peristeronie (National) Society's meet- 

 ing, 369 

 PeriwinUe, cutting do^m, 246 

 Pelnnias dying off. 149 

 Phalfenopsis grandiflora culture, 206 

 Phallus impudicus, 130; destroyincr, 



320 

 Phoenix dactylifera, 470 

 Phlogoph'ira" meticulosa, 357 

 Phlox and its culture, 193 

 Phloxes, new, 105; from seed, 307 

 Phormium tenax Veitchii, 227 

 Phytosmegma, 8 

 Picea, leader replacing, 14; nobilia 



cones, -174 

 Pigeons— at Birmingham. 453, 427; 

 pi'ize, amalgamation of societies. 

 455 ; catching wild, 459 ; weight of 

 Runts at Bii-mingham. 478; wash- 

 ing for exhibition, 4SU valuable 

 stolen from exbibiiions, 97; cure of 

 lice in, 98 : ronpy, 116 ; won on neck, 

 stolen at Suaith, works on fancy, 

 136; distances flown, 153; at /Ule'r- 

 ton, 154; ti-immiug at AUerton, 17], 

 188, 211, 231 ; what to keep, 172 ; wing 

 disease, 172; weak-eyed, 330 ; stolen 

 from shows, 17, 35, 77 : cankered, 20 ; 

 and Cherry trees, 20; with shafts 

 bare, 30; portraits of. 60; writing 

 on, 212; young dying, of Egypt, 231; 

 crossing with Wood, 253;. warm- 

 ing loft, 350; aiding moulting, 370; 

 427; caution to fanciers, 431; Ant- 

 werps dying suddenly, 432; Ant- 

 werp's beak, 212 ; Antwerps, 56, 79, 

 8% 390; Antwerp Carrier, 56, 79,80; 

 the BaWhead and Beard, 113; Cu- 

 mulet, 153; Dragoons' bars, 493; 

 Fantails not rearing theii' young, 

 SO; German Hermit, 408; German 

 Ice, 172; German Toy. 390; 

 matching Jacobin-s, 520; the Owl, 

 17, 95 ; Pouters in 1871. 270 ; Runts at 

 the Cry-tal Palac?, 330; the Sati- 

 netfe, 250; Volant, 56, 79, 80, 1.13: 

 While-eye, 5f>. 79. 80. 153; "The 

 Homing or Cai-rier," 153 

 Pince, Mr. R. T., 293 

 Pine, Austrian ■i\ sheep, 381 

 Pine Apples, culture and judging. 99; 

 ■weight of at Nottingham Show, 54, 

 96 

 Pinus austriaca seedlings damping-off 



14 

 Pipes, painting hot-water, £83 

 Pit, heating, 423 



Pits and flues, 473 

 Plagianthus Lvalli, S93 

 Plant protectors, s>96, 304 

 Plants -giving awav, 279; in bed- 

 rooms, 423 ; local names of British, 

 124; What are ornamental? 55 

 Plumbago capensis culture, 195, 239 

 Plums, cracking. 54 ; stocks for pyra- 

 mid, 474; Duke of Edinburgh, 210; 

 Green Gage dying, 246 ; The Sultan 

 243 ; Late Rivers, 485 

 Plusia Gamma, 219 

 Pocklington Poultry Show 210 

 Pomsettia, propagating, 207 ; pulcher- 



rima imperfect, 473 

 Polands, 252; crop waterv, 272; hen 

 hatching a brood, 60; Golden- 

 spangled plumage, 460 

 Poppies as ajirofitable crop, 143 

 Poppy cultivation in China, 69 

 Porch, plants for north, 365 

 Portsmouth Poultry Show, 493 

 Portulaea, wintering, 2C6 

 Possingworth, 318 

 Potato, the, 196 



Potatoes —best second early, 129- 

 crops and the disease, 84 ; storing 

 tliseased, 92: disease. 26, 118; earth- 

 ing-up, 23; for eeed, storing, 267: 

 carthmg versus non-earthing, 276 

 317; estimate of varieties, 276; 

 estimate of merits, 299: forcing 

 311; large produce, 174; topping, 

 2:b. 207; influenced by noighbour- 

 Bhip, 226 ; at Kensington, 240 ; trial 

 of. 435; planting, 491; succession of, 

 337; storing, 845; in Liucolnshii'e, 

 355; Carter and Co.'s, 359; select, 

 376; lai-ge produce, 400; American, 

 1 56 ; Early Rose, 67, 235, 274, 285, 286 ; 

 Lapstone, 445; Red-skinned Lap- 

 stone, 415; Sweet, 51; Yorkshire 

 Hero, 335 

 Pottery, 126 



Poultry and Pigeon club, F48 

 "Poultry, Profitable and Orna- 

 mental," 457 

 Poultry— feeding and run, 293 ; feed- 

 ing, 310: experience purchased, 837; 

 food, 350; feeding, 369; entrance 

 fees, 338; sneezing, S90 ; show mis- 

 takes an^aceidents, 405; yards, 407; 

 for use, indications of age, 5 0; 

 keeping under difficulties, 16, 130, 

 167, 229 ; vermin in house. 20 ; feed- 

 inET and management, 150,151; ex- 

 hibitions for the working classes, ' 

 insuring exhibited, 151; reared by 

 working classes, prizes for, experi- 

 ence purchased, 163, 228; prizes, 

 workng class, 2 7 ; in 1341, 211 ; runs 

 for, 212; run, grasses for, 480; 

 show reports, 520 

 Prepayment, consequences of non, 



252 

 Preston Hall,26) 

 Primulas, Chinese, flo arer stems 



short, 474; japonica, 215 

 Privet, best for hedges, 149 

 Propagating house, 246 

 Protecting, 448 ; and heating, 416 

 Protection, 401, 472 

 Protections of glass, 234 

 Produce, large, 46 

 Pronus cerasifera, 39G 

 Psoralea esculenta, 50 

 Pullet, what is ? 390 

 Pullets for winter laying, 460 

 Pytchlcy Horticultui-al Society's rules, 



48 

 Pyrus.Malus floribunda, 397 



Quince, Portugal, 84 

 Quinces, preserving, 292 

 Quick, i-aising from seed, 424 



Rabdits— partly blitsD, 252 ; at 

 Stroud, 19 ; cross-breeding, 20 ; 

 warts on eyelid, 30 ; keeping in arti- 

 ficial warrens, 116; plants attacked 

 by, 121 ; at Littleborough Show, 152 ; 

 prizes at York, 388 ; single-produc- 

 ing doe, 292; Himalayan, SO ; skins 

 of Himalayan, turning out Hare- 

 Rabbits, 232 



Railway, screen from, 92; transport 

 of fowls, 232 



Raspberries, failing, 165 ; Victoria, 

 358 



Rats, harking trees, 307; water, E46 



Red spider, destroying, 150 ; versus 

 ammonia, 199, 206 



Rendle's plant protectors, 243, 254, 318 



Rhododendron losing its leaves, 65 



Rhubarb for early spring use, 54 



Rhynchosia chrysocias, 51 



Richard'a, harJiness of, 366 



Roses— best, 464, 469, 473, in the room, 

 274; budding, 33, 326; climbing for 

 arch, 424; pot culture, 514; at the 

 Crystal Palace, 69, 105; atCnrtis's 

 Nurseiw, 63; destroying aphides, 

 77; difficulties, 325; election of, 433, 

 455. 486; exhibition stands, 55: for 

 exhibition. 142, 484 ; French descrip- 

 tion of, 469, 483; and Geraniums, 

 375 ; gossip about, 233, 275, 293, 379, 

 394 ; house for, 246 ; iron stakes for, 

 514; in Ireland, 469; among Ivy, 166; 

 with Ivy, 278 ; and Ivy, 293 ; some in- 



B.031ZS— Continued. 

 quu-ed about, 505, 508; leaves dis- 

 eased, 76, eaten, 64, injurcl, 263 ; ma- 

 nuring, 424; mildewed, 76 forn?ar 

 the sea, 166; new of 1870, 83; new 

 ^?°^' ^^,'.°^^^ ^'''' 1S72. 332 : opinion 

 about, 812; propa-ating, 424; notes 

 on at Hereford, &c., 24 ; over-luxu- 

 riant shoots, 64; at Jersey Exhi- 

 bition, 44, 62 ; removing, 149 '207- on 

 own roots. 473; Mr. Raclclylfe's, 

 3y; this season, 253; seedlinc. 14- 

 seeds dormant, 160; select, 275 372' 

 411; Et'lection, 63, 103; soot and 

 guano liquid manure, 1J9; under 

 trial, 3; twelveof beat, 316 ; twentv- ' 

 four best dwarf, 514 ; this year "2 ■ 

 for a trellis, 514 ; tree, oldest, 164 • 

 shows of, 417: neglected varieties, 

 138; propagating Banksian, 116- 

 Princess Beatrice, 338; Princess 

 Christian, 34; Gloire de Dijon cut- 

 tings, 286; Bessie Johnson, 307* 

 propagating Manetti stock, 424- 

 Marechal Niel culture, 450, not 

 flowering, 76, in vinery, 206 : Madame 

 Sertot, 450; Tea-scented, 173; Tea, 

 142, 195, 235, in the open air, 439 



Ricinus culture, 90 



Road-making under .difficulties, 137 

 156 



Rochdale Poultry Show, 170 



Koot-pruning, 846 



Roots, edible, 50 



Rose beetle, 124 



Ross Poultry Show, 828 



Rotation of crops, 2S4 



Roup, cure of, 327, 330 



Rubbish heap, 183 



Rubus deliciosus, 179; and culture, 



Rucker, Mr. S., his collection of Or- 

 chids tube sold, 88 



Ruling passion, 31 



Rue loaf descrihed, 238 



Ryhope Horticultural Show 175 • 

 Poultry Show, 169 ' ' 



Salads — culture of winter, 81 • 

 winter, 119 ; Broad-leaved Dandelion 

 for, 119 

 Salt, as a manure, 213; a solvent of 



silica, 179, 254 

 Santolina incana, 372, 4S8; for bed- 

 ding, 318 

 gashes, utilising, 473 

 Savoys, planting, 14; succession of. 

 484 ' 



Scale, destroying, 48^ 

 Scarborough Ornithological Show. 



328 

 Scarlet Runners podless, 246 

 Scolytus Pnmi, 246 

 Scorzonera culture, £05 

 Scotch fowls, 459 

 Scottish Metropolitan Poultry Show. 



517 

 Screen for hotbeds, 450 

 Scurf on fowl's head, 330 

 Seurfy-legfred fowls, 460 

 Seaside planting, 207 

 Seasona'-le hints, 333 

 Sea-weed as manure, 18G 

 Sedum?, Fabariafor bedding, 254, 315 ; 

 Fabaria or spectabile, 352 ; glandu- 

 losum, 215 ; from seed, 345 

 Seed sowing out of doors in dry soil 



and weather, 147 

 Seedlings in frame eaten, 149 

 Seemann, Dr. B., death of, 512 

 Selaginella, exhibiting, 110 

 Sempervi^'um californicum, hai-dinesa 



of, 245 

 Sewage and soda, 286 

 Shading— glass, composition for, 55; 



and protecting, 293 

 Sharp practice, 188 

 Sheppard's Nursery, Bedford, 104 

 Shrub-bedding v. flower-bedding. 141 

 Shrubs— for a lawn, 515 ; not thi-iv-ing. 



345 ; select evergreen, 424 

 Skimmia japonica potting, 267 

 Smoke, exposing plants to, 438 

 Soil— collecting, 184 ; keeping open and 

 compressed, 34; supply of for gar- 

 dens, 140 

 Solanum ciliatum berries falling, 246 

 Soot, applying, 403 ; to Roses, 149 

 Southampton Poultry Show, 287, 292, 



367 

 Sowerhy. Mr. J. de C, 200 

 Spanish— cock's face, 252; ben ioca- 

 bating, 153 ; fowls, preparing for 

 exhibition, 5)0 

 .Spiders, 326; red, destroying, 110 

 Spring— flowering plants, sowing. 

 187; flower gardening, 246; and 

 summer results, 236 

 Stanningley Poultry Show, 169 

 Stavesacre, 92 

 Stephanotis, floribunda fruiiing, 326 ; 



losing its leaves, 149 

 Stock, selecting, 459 

 Stoke Newington Chrysanthemuni 



Show, 379 

 Stove, smokeless, 186 ; plants for, 187; 

 temperature, in greenhousQ, 246 

 heating by iron, 508; plants for 

 cool. 403; select, 495 

 Sti'awhsiTics — autumn, S13 ; culture, 

 82, 225; in ground vineries, 109; 



