JOURNAL OF HGRTICULTUEE AND COTTAGE GAEDENEE. 



[ Jaiinai-y 18, 1S73. 



Cncnmbers— disease, 8, 13S ; earJy and. 



late, 346: muter c\iltm-e, 395; for 



■winter, 423; failures, U, S4, 119; 



heating span-roofed house for, 129 ; 



forpicklmfr, 147 ; frame, 494; house 



constrnctin^, 2GS ; culture, 325 ; 



tank-heating houses for, 42; not 



swelling:, 55 

 Cncumis Angiiria, 246 

 Cupressus prumn{r,474 

 Currant, Red, La Versaillaise, 174, 217 

 Currants, transplanting, 149 

 Curtis'a nursery, 62 

 Cuttings, 245 ; flower garden, 205 ; 



of flowers, 306 

 Cyanophyllum magnificum in winter, 



S46 

 Cycas reToluta, repotting, 1S5 

 Cyclamens — culture, 346; seedling, 



267; select, 49t 

 Cydonia japonica fruit, 14 

 Cy^ripedium. insigne culture, 450; 



niveum. 215 

 Cytisus, hai'diness of, 307 



D,VFFODID, AnTCMN-BLOOHIfJG, 503 



Dahlias— crdiibiti on stands for, 65 ; 



glabra, 296 : tubers, preserving, 



149; storing, 402; Easing Sun, 313 

 Dandelion, Broad-leaved, as a winter 



salad, 119 

 Darlington Ornithological Society's 



Show. 3S7 

 Darlintjtonia californica, 215 

 Datura cuUure. 286 

 Dealers exhibiting, 455 

 Death's-head moth, 413 

 December flowers, 440 

 Decomposition r. combustion, 141 

 Dendi'obium— barbatulum, 215; chry- 



santhum, merits and culture, 118 ; 



chrysotis, 50; formosum culture, 



383 ; heterocarpum, 414 

 " De omnibus rebus,-' 110, InO, 167, 187 

 Derby Canary Show, 348. 367 

 Devizes Poultry Show, 473, 495 

 Devon, South, a bit of, 62, 83, 101, 125, 



139 

 Diarrhcea in fowls, 460 

 Diascia Barbers, 396 

 Dicksonia antarctica browned, 226 

 Dielytra culiure, 286 

 Dinner-table plants with fine foliage, 



514 

 Dipladeuia amabilis cuUure, 15 

 Disa grandifl-ora, in the open aii", 215 ; 



superba culture, IIS 

 Dix, Rev. J., 220 

 Dodder, destroying, 424 

 Dorking Poultry Show, 475 

 Dorki:i>g3, 369 ; cock, 232 ; crossing, 80 ; 



exhibiting. 459; hen broody, 172; 



pullets' grievance, 270 ; plumage of 



Grey, 272; cockerel's weight, 310; 



cockerel weak-legged 330 

 Dracocephalum canariense, culture 



of seedUngs, 129 

 Driffield Poultry Show, 93 

 Driffhlington Poultry Show, 190 

 Dubbing Game cocks, 292 

 Dublin Poultry Show, 111, 479 

 Ducks— bills yellow. 60; eggs, 77; 



hatching under difficulties. 77 ; legs 



paralysed, 370 ; plumage, 460 ; prizes 



for, 151; subscription plate, 8SS ; 



weights of prize, 427; Aylesbury, 



810; Black East Indian, 151, 383; 



Kouen, 460 

 Dumfriesshire, fruit for. 403 

 Durham Poultry Show, 518 

 Dutch barns, 33 



Earwigs. 181 



Ecoleshill Poultry Show, 57 



Echeveria metallica, 403; cuttings, 

 279; glauca culture, 2P6; hardiness 

 of, 245 ; secunda glauca, propagat- 

 ing, 77 ; soil, 186 



Echidnopsis cereifoi-m'S, 838 



Eden, garden of, 383 



Edinburgh Poultry Show, 475, 517 



Edgings and walks, 377 



Edibles, new. 200 



Eggs — enormous, 432; hatching, 93; 

 production, distinguishing sex in. 

 38, 80, 93 ; for tablo, 116 ; fowls laying 

 soft, 135 : mending cracked, 136 ; 

 musty, 369 ; Negro dispute about, 

 19 ; unproductive, blue in aviary, 20 ; 

 double, 80; producing, 455 ; scarcity, 

 459 ; gi'ey in dead hen, 460 



EUesmere Poultry Show, 239 



Ely Poultry Show, 17 



Entomological Society's Meetings, 46, 

 417, 441, 504 



Entrance fees, 357, 333 



Epacris propagation, 236 



Epidendrum pseudcpidendrum, 338 



Epiphylhims for grafting on Pereskia 

 stocks, 514 



Episcia chontalensis, 216 



Epitaph, 325 



Eranthemum cinnabarinum v. ocel- 

 latum, 215 



Eria exiinctoria, 50 



Erythrina Crista-galli cuUure, 138 



Eston and Normanby Cage Bird 

 Pigeon, and Rabbit Show, 94 



Eucalyptus, wintering, 206 



Eucharis amazonica culture, 220 



Evaporating pans for hot-water pipes, 



S26 

 Evergreen cuttings, 450 

 Evergreens, propagatius', 280; select, 



383 

 Everlasting Flowers, bleaching white, 



206; preserving. 1(.;6 

 Exhibition grievances, 347, 359 

 Exhibitor winning all the prizes, 23 



Faggot-heap soil, 453 



Fakenham Poulti'y Show, 210 



Farms, profitable small, 391, 409, 4G1, 

 501 



Farnworth Poultry Show, 290 



Feather, broken sickle, 39) 



Feathers, 30S 



Feather Grass dyeing, 154 



Fern, what are hardv ? 199 



Fernery, painting, 227 



Ferns— culture of Parsley. 14; for 

 conservatory, 346 ; for cold fernery, 

 402; fronds losing colour, 129; not 

 growing, . 473 ; pillar, for window 

 fernery, 494 ; select stove and green- 

 house, 514; importing from Deme- 

 rara, 515; in a vinery, 1S5 ; treat- 

 ment of imported. 92; Filmy, 320; 

 Gold and Silver, 462, 484 ; the Lamb, 

 353 



Fertilisers of flowers connected with 

 ilieir colour and odour, 343 



Ficus elastica, propagating, 14; root 

 grubs. 327 



Figs— falling, 175 ; in open-air at Bic- 

 ton, ISO ; rubbing off. 227 



Filberts, storing, 266, 268; v. squkrels, 

 226 



Filters, 15 



Finderne flowers, S8 t 



Firs, caterpillars on, 213; seed sow- 

 ing. 14 



Floors Caslle, 465 



Floral Society, Show of Metropolitan, 

 70 



Flowers— avrongement of cut, 102; a 

 neglected pi-etty, 124; crystallised, 

 253 ; supply of, 285 ; cut, for table de- 

 coration, 433 ; cut, in water, 469 ; how 

 not to have nice, 419; drying, 417; 

 show of for children at Victoria 

 Docks, 25 ; spring, 46 



Flues, draught excessive, 443,467^506 



Flying, preventing, 350 



Forcing, houses a small, 268; vege- 

 tables, 311; vegetable?, 353,413 



Forest Irees on coast, 402 



Fountain, portable and self-acting, 467 



Fowls— becoming blind, 310: broodi- 

 ness, 80; black and dying, 31i; 

 cleaning for show, 329: food, 459; 

 cross-breeding, 500 ; to supply chick- 

 ens and eggs, 80; Quantity of food 

 for, 60; dying, 500; fraudulently 

 changing those claimed at exhibi- 

 tions, 515; out of health, 135 ; laying 

 soft eggs, 135 ; keeping, cost o.f, 212; 

 in a hoise, 500; for laying, 330; 

 management in moultinfr season, 

 810; treatment of moulting, 135; 

 perches. 98; making a sneezing 



, noise, 135, 350; roupy, 135; season- 

 ing, 459 ; injured at shows, 432 ; 

 preventing sitting, SO ; trespassing, 

 369 



Frame, covering, 286; for bedding 

 plant??. 307 ; ventilating. 424 



French horticulturists' relief fund, 505, 

 511 



Frogs in a feniery,lS5 



Frost, at midsummer, 6 ; protecting 

 fruit trees from, 28; securing from, 

 401 



Fruit and Vegetable Markets, Metro- 

 politan, 87 



" Fruit, the New Method of Growing," 

 52 



Fruit— blossoms, protecting, 332 ; bor- 

 der, planting on, 207; for wet soil, 

 473 ; growing commercially, S ; 

 shelters for, 12; scarcity, 436, and 

 its remedy, 436; Show Great Inter- 

 national, 180 ; trees, border planting, 

 167. 352, pruning, 473, list of, 267, 

 pnining newly-planted, 307, mulch- 

 ing newly-planted, 514, manuring, 

 417, on mounds, 340, pruning pyra- 

 midal, 383, protection from frost, 

 85, removing, 237. selection, 135, 207, 

 transplanting, 246 ; culture, 352 ; 

 stocks. Ac, 305; for south wallr365 

 select, 366; and vegetables wanted; 

 246 



Fuchsias — culture, 5 5; pvi'amidal, 

 403; seedhng, 359; select, 495 



Fungi, remedies for poisonoxis, 85 



Funguses, scaixh after, 319 



Game — breeding Duckwing, 350 ; 

 cock's SDurs, 869 ; fowls' legs scurvy, 

 390; chickens, dubbing,' 80; cock 

 undubbed, 460 ; exhibiting, manage- 

 ment, 500 ; points of Duckwing, 98; 

 Brown Red, Light or Dark, 330' 



Garden, levclhng and plotting, 71, S3, 

 123, 145. 182, 821. 442 ; under glass, 265 



Gardenei-'s cottage, 35 ; holiday, 274, 

 361, 465; paying for moving, 207; 

 right to plants, 103 ; who is a practi- 

 cal ? 2G0 



Gardening and natural history, their 



■importance to the young, 06 



Gas-heating, 56.263 



Geese, breeding, 20; crossing Tou- 

 louse, 29; weights of Birmingham 

 prize, 427; Chinese, 253, 292; "White 

 Chinese, 212; Mandarin, 292 



Geothermal heating, 187 



Geraniums- bedding, 193; rise and 

 progress of bidding, 481 ; culture in 

 Ijots out of doors, 149: defined, 54; 

 selectfor exhibition, 55; leaves, red, 

 35, browned, 514, spotted, 160; list 

 of. 267 ; packing, 267 ; prizes for, 143 ; 

 203; storing, 364; stopping, 2 6; 

 room wintering, 453 ; wintering in a 

 cellar. 346: winterincr. 307. 365, 483; 

 Mrs. Pollock. 514; potting Zonal, 185 



Giant of the forest. 39 



Gladioluses— in 1871, 351 ; culiure, 373 ; 

 select. 4G3: failures, 485, 518 



Glass— breaking, 1;9; cleaning, 472; 

 cutting and boi'ing. 205; for vinery 

 and orchard house, 150; rolled plate 

 for plant houaea, 109; preferable 

 kinds, 206; panes in 100 feet, S5 ; 

 writing and engraving on, 333 



Glastonbury Thorn, 226 



Glazed cases unheated, 12 



Glazing— in grooves, 56; without top 

 putty, 103 ; without outside putty, 

 149 



Gloxinias, failing, 207; soil, 135 



Goldfinch mules, 136 



Gold fish. 136; manag<^ment. 4 8 



Gooseberry and Currant caterpillars, 

 16 



Gooseberry — bushes neglected. 207 ; 

 disease, 471 ; pruning. 306: r'aven- 

 ham, 121; Show, Kational, 103; 

 transplanting, 149 



Goo?e eggs, the spoiling, 328 



Gorhamhin-y, 397, 419 



Gorse, pegging down. 473 



Gourd. Citron, for preserving, 196 



Gracillarias, 124 



Grape, jam, 250; ^vine, 870 



Grapes— abortive, 366; all possiMe, 

 358; caterpillars on, 207; crackine:, 

 149, 2 6, 306; not colouring, 126, 246 ; 

 diseased, 34, 54; English, 195; in 

 ground vinery, 54; keeping on 

 Vines. 340 ; mildewed, 245 ; ripening 

 in ground vineries, 355: ripe and 

 ripening, 108; scalded, 129; not set- 

 ting, 166 ; shanlcing, 109; shrivelling, 

 245 ; Black Tripoli, 77 ; Golden 

 Champion, 129, 211. 385, 375; Gros 

 Colman cracking, 109 ; to prevent 

 Chasselas Musqufe cracking, 122; 

 Madresfleld Court, 437, 504; Mrs. 

 Pince's Black Muscat. 507; Lady 

 Downe's mildewed, 7' : Golden 

 Hamburgh, 4!4. See also Vines. 



Grasses for poultry run, 480 



Gravel walks, 179 ; adhesive^ 494 



Great Horton Poultry Show, 111 



Greenhouse — back-wall plants, ir,7, 

 227; and vinery heating, 268; stove, 

 286 ; bulbous and tuberous plants, 

 294; shelves, 32G : double-spanned, 

 246; flue-heating a small, 92; ar- 

 rangement of small, 109, 366; ar- 

 rangements. 149; heating and erect- 

 ing. 100, 360; colouring inside, 166; 

 utilising a large, 366; plants, 374; 

 plants for small, 494; plants for 

 pillar and trellis archways, 65; 

 on sloping surface. 379; lofty, &c., 

 453; staging. 54; reducing light, 55 



Greetland and West Vale Poultry 

 Show, 132 



Grevillea, intricata, 215; macrostylis, 

 50 



Guano, applying to Roses, 149 



Guernsey Poultry Show, 516 



Gymnogramma culture, 494 



Halifax Poultry Show, S6 



Hamburgh — catarrhed, in confined 

 space, SO : incubating, ISO, ICO; pro- 

 ductive, 289 ; Bantams, 172 ; Goldeu- 

 pencilled and spangled,460 ; feathers 

 of Golden-spangled, 39 J ; Golden, 

 130; Silver-pencilled, 212 : Spangled, 

 172; Inveding Black, 252; Silver- 

 spnngled cock,369; Silver-pencilled 

 cock's tail, 459 



Handicapping poultry exhibitors, 133, 

 229 288 



" Hardy Flowers." 213 



Hartlepool Canary Show, 271 



Haitweff. Mr. T , 214 



Hasliugden Poultry Sbow, 93 



Hatching under difficulties, 77 



Hatfield House, 299 



Hatfield 'Show, 406 



Heads, 223 



Heather transplanting, 129 



Heath, and Fera, 200: propagation, 

 236; Mediterranean. 888 



Heaths, hardy, 463 : select. 514 



Heating— and protecting, 416 ; a pit, 

 423 ; small Iiouse, 425 ; a range of 

 houses, 187 ; difficulties. 150 ; small 

 houses, 33, 268 ; various houses, 307, 

 453 ; by a stove, by hot water, by a 

 flue, 516 



Hedaroma tuHpiferum, 450 



Hedce for flower garden, 246 



Heliotrope propagating, 200 



HendcrsydeParb, 275 

 Henhouse, worm in, 390 

 Hens, paralysed, 20; inducing to re- 

 commence lajing, SO; with a broken 

 toe, 93 ; Poland and Hamburgh sit- 

 ting, 98 

 Herbaceous plants, select, 55 



Hindostan forest trees. 159, 276 



" Hoe your own row," 52 



Holiday, a gardener's, 412 



Holly berried, 435; propagating varie- 

 gated, 514 



Hollyhock cultui'e, 155 



Honeysuckle, Japanese, 54 



Hop cultivation lor ornament and use, 

 43, 121 ; poles for, 121 ; modes of 

 training, 122 ; insects, 273 



Horse Chestnut, diseased, 473 ; at 

 Paris, 296 



Horticultui-alandCottagers'Societies, 

 504 



Horticultui-al societies, village, 47 ; 

 rules, &c., for, 43 



Horticultui'al (Royal) Society's Show 

 and Committee Meetings, 44. 86, 120, 

 177,216,258,336, 437; Rose Show, 5; 

 Nottingham Exhibition, 7. 9, 10 ; 

 plants for trial at Chiswick. 178; 

 ■ extra privileges, 362 ; Provincial 

 Show, 400; examination of garden- 

 ers, 440; report on International 

 competition, 1871, &c., 467; Biiming- 

 ham Show, 511 



Hotbed materials storing, 453 



Hotbedg, temporary, 363 



Hot water, not circulating, 287 ; heat- 

 ing. 366 



Houdans, hoarse, 232; hen sitting, 

 272 : points, 330 ; moulting slowly, 

 460' 



House for plants, 326 



House's north wall covei'ing, 129 



Hoya carnosa, wintering,206 



Huntingdonshire Poultry Show, 271 



Hyacinths, for March show, 365 ; in 

 pots and glasses, 174 



Hvde Park, 237 



Hyde Poultry Show, 475 



ICK— HOUSES, 4 ; PLANT OUT OP DOORS, 



227; preserving, 316; storing, 469 



Idle Poultry Show, 131 



Implements at Nottineham Show, 24 



Insects, some predatory, in, og, 70, 89, 

 121, 113, 180, 213, 241, 278, 356, 418, 444, 

 606 



International Exhibition of 1871, horti- 

 cultural competition, 467 



International fruit Show. 258, 2S6 >■: 



Ipswich Poultiy Show, 343 



Iresine Lindeni, from seed, 268; pro- 

 pagation, 285, -wintering, 453 



Irish Royal Agricultural Society's 

 Poultry Show, 111 



Iris, hispanica culture, 403 ; English, 

 planting, 424 



Ivy, for covering a house and border, 

 149 ; not thriving, 166 ; with Roses. 

 217 ; for a wall, 286 



Ixora japonica culture, 15 



Jasmine not flowebing, 55, 424 

 Jasminum nudiflorum, 423 

 Jersey Exhibition, Roses at, 44 

 Johiistone Poultry Show, 406 

 Joints of hot-water piping, 246 

 Judges, overworking, 403, 452, 49G 



Kalf. Asparagus, 74; Cottagers', 

 74 : Scotch, 74 



Kei Apple, 157 



Keighley Poultry Show. 151 



Kcw Gardens. report ontheirprogrcss 

 and condition, 68; vacant appoint- 

 ments, 512 



Kidney Bean forcing, 853 ; forwarding, 

 365 



Kilmarnock Ornithological Show, 431 ; 

 Poultry Show, 457 



Kitchen fire, heating from, 20G 



Kitchen garden, forming, 1 



Labelling fruit trees, 414 

 Labels, for'fruit, 316 ; marking, 492 

 Lane, Mr. H., 252 

 Lapageria, alba, 485; rosea decaying. 



245 ; unprotected, 9 ; propagating, 14 

 Larch, raising from seed, 424 

 Lasiandra macrantha culture, 15, 34G 

 Lastrea opaca frond shrivelled, 91 

 Latania borbonica, 446 

 Lawn, bone dust for, 403 ; levelling, 



494, and turling, 143; management, 



225 

 Leaves, collecting, 806, and storing, 



513; yellow. 14; mottled, 15 

 Leeds Poultry Show, 496 

 Leeks, cutting off leaves after trans- 



planling, 109 

 Legs, 287 



Leicester Poultry Show, 133 

 Leicrh Poultry Show, 2 9 

 Lettuces— on banks, 305 ; and Endive, 



844 ; Lettuce, large, 46 

 Lilies, a few words about, 440 ; notes 



on, 502 



