July 18, 1871. ] 



JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



INDEX. 



Aberdeen' Poultry Show, 73, 93 

 Abronia umbeUata, 221 

 Abutilou. culture, 90: striatum sow- 

 ing, 168 ; Tenosum culture, 187 

 Accrinfrton Poultiy Sbow, 360 

 Acldmenes culture, 426 

 iEchmea fulgena for table decoration, 



416 

 Agave ixtlioides, 200 

 Almond plantins. 54 

 Alocasin culture, 72.242 

 *' Alpine Plants," 201, 2I58 

 Amaryllis, list and culture, 92; Ray- 



neri, 145, 200 

 Amateur, who is an? 260; defined, i45 

 Amateurs beware, 103 

 America, jottings in, 238 

 American bl'pbt, 446 

 American wild flowers, 402 

 Androsace camea v. eximia, 426 

 Annuals, for border, 108, 1G8 ; for flower 

 beds. 261; for tn-eeuliousG, 204; for 

 early sowinfr, 168 

 Anthurinm Scherzerianuih, 403 

 Ants, 367, 409; banishing, 187; in Cu- 

 cumber bed, 844, in house, 242 ; 

 puzzling, 261 ; on lawn, 327 

 Appleby's fumigater, 279 

 Apples— p res er^ation of, 285 ; stock 

 propagation, 169; trees, rabbits at- 

 tacking, 124, budding, 445, mildewed, 

 373 ; leaves withering, 858 : Croft- 

 en-Reich, Galloway Pippin, 236 

 Apricot, leaves curling, 809 ; trees gum- 

 ming, branches dying off, 873, 374 

 Araucaria imbricata at Bicton, 435 

 Arbor-Vitffi hedge cutting, 260 

 Ai'boricultural Society's TranBactiona, 



387 

 Argemone mexicana, 305 

 Artisan, who is one ? 403 

 Arum maculatiim, 285 

 Anindo donax, 221 

 Aristolochia Duchartrei, 20 

 Ash, grafting weeping, 261 

 Asparagus— beetle, 401; Connover's, 

 408; culiure. 292, 42S ; cutting, 389; 

 forcing, 32, 48 ; weak. 308, 326, 327 

 Aspect for glass structures, 148 

 Asphalte walks, 93, 260 

 Asters, grooving lor exhibition, 374; 



perennial. 279 

 Asystasia violacea, 29, 200 

 Aacubaa, 54, 278 j hemes, 18 ; berried, 

 326 ; from berries, 168 ; for conserva- 

 tory, 326; grafting, 344 ; sowing, 13 

 Auriculas. 286 ; stage, 440 

 Australian seeds, 127 

 Azaleas, after flowering, 341 ; thrips 

 on. 278 ; w^eak, 13 ; white, 147 ; Fanny 

 Tillcry and Acme, 272 



Baildon BiED Show. 189 

 Banks, raised, in kitchen garden, 71 

 Buntanis, 390, 410; cock's weight, 298; 

 feather-legged, 40 ; Black cock's tail, 

 lis ; with Dorkings, 450 ; Game. 40, 

 428; breeding Game, 60; breeding 

 Sebright, 172 

 Baptjsia lencopbcea, 352 

 Barlieria epectabilis culture, 147 

 Barrow PouUry Show, 94 

 Baih and "WeBt of England Poultry 

 <0 Show, 892 



T— • Bedding-out, BS8 



^^ Bedding plants, a few tine, 272; fail- 

 s-^ ing in frame, 205; discordant opin- 

 ions on, 238; house for wintering, 

 ^r3 3 "^3 

 _\ Bedlington Poultry Show, 411 



Bees— apiary, largest Ameiicatt, 248; 

 apiary extensive, 282; Association, 

 Ajnerican, 298 ; cheese boxes for, 

 172 ; in a chimney ; 432 : coal tar for 

 house. 40, 95; emptv white comb, 

 156 ; for cottagers, 329, 345. 431, 467 ; 

 dead in combs, 248, deserting hive, 

 362; dirt from, 362; drones on Lady- 

 day, 266; dying, 60, 396: dysentery, 

 96; eggs, are all of one sex? 468; 

 Egyptian, 329: fighting, 266; foul 

 brood, 19,77, 113 ; gas tar enrooting, 

 95; hei-maphrodite, 247, 314, 861; 

 hives, cleaning. 60; new deprivine, 

 IS^i; hinges of bar-and-frame, 467; 

 without a queen, 878; size of, 297; 

 Stewarton, 265; for super honey, 

 114; ventilation, 265; unicomb.154; 

 Woodbury, 226, 414 : hive-breakers, 

 frustrating, 192; honey days, first, 

 361; disqualifiying candied, 378; 

 honey spurious, 18; Irish-keeper's 

 difliculties, 449 ; keeping. &c., 362 ; 

 deadlarvffl ejected, 896 : Ligurians, 

 40; propagation of, S94; manacre- 

 ment, 132; messing a hive,_ 414; 

 manner and customs, 345 : perishing 

 in winter. 377 ; Mr. Pettigrew's ba- 

 lance-sheet, 247 ; price, 192 ; pro- 

 sperity, 156; poison medicinal, 296; 

 queenless hive. 416; queens, death 

 of, 1S2 ; introducing, ^31; piping 

 467; leaving hives, 467: regicide, 

 171: stocks examining, 131 ; super- 

 stitions, 207 ; during snow, 95 ; 

 supers putting on, 330; in winler, 

 396; swarms artificial, 282,36^, 395: 

 escaping, 414; early. 840, 3G1 ; loss of 

 846; transferring. 133; uniting, 414; 

 wintering. 18 : winter ventilation, 

 191, 225, 246, 281 ; near Wolverhamp- 

 ton, 170 ; production of fertile 

 workers, 467 : not working, 362 ; 

 "The Honey Bee," 171 



Beet as a bedder, 339 



Begonias, crinita, 272; decaying, 186; 

 winter-flowex'ing, 41 ; with small 

 flowers, 92 



Beleperone ciliata, SCO 



Berberry ijlanting, 54 



Beta brazDiensis culture, 261 



Bignonia jasminoides not flowering, 

 242 



Birmingham Columbarian Show, 74, 

 189 



Birmingham Rose Show, 285 



Blaclibeny orchard, 28 



Blackcaps, rearing. 482 



Boggy soil, cover plants for, 187 



Boilers, 221; setting a conical, 109 



Bombyx Neustria, 257 



Bones, for chickens, 40 ; dissolving, 

 148; utilising, 358 



Borecoles, 53 



Botanic Gardens, 100 



Botanic (Eoyal) Society's Show, 212, 

 271, 382, 420 



Botany, lectures on, 8S6 



Bottle-brush Plant culture, 294 



Bottom heat on a large scale. 23 



Bouquets, 204; hand. 215; Princess 

 Louise's wedding, £32 



Box, cuttings for edcings. 186; hedge 

 straggling, 93 ; trees, transplanting, 



Brahmas— chickens crooked-breasted, 

 20 ; cup for Light, 34, 72 ; crop dis- 

 eased, 40 ; cockerel vulture-hocked, 

 60 ; prize cup for Light, 93 : laying 

 mtermitted, 114 ; back featherless, 

 Dark or Light, judging, 155; hens 



BRASiuAS—Co7iiinued. 

 featherless, 208; cock, 248; tails, 

 298; and Dor];ings crossed, 282; 

 out of condition, 346 ; breeding, 

 chickens cramped, hen dying sud- 

 denly, 330; not laying, 362; hen, 

 separating from her chicltens, 378 



Bran for poultry. 172, 192. 226 



Brecon Poultrv Show, 57 



Bristol Poultry Show, 16, 34, 78 



Brittany, seaweed and market gar- 

 dening 01353 



Broccoli, lifting in autumn, 287; cul- 

 tiire, 451 ; varieties, 434 ; what is ? 

 415. 484; for winter, 228; Cattell's 

 Eclipse, 398 



Broom culture in Madeira, 305 



Buckwheat culture, 187 



Budding fruit treef, 464 



Bulbs, from the Gape, SS9 ; manage- 

 ment, 126 



Bullfinch cage, 298 



Bustard, 2J6 ; in Wilts. 15S 



Butterflies, Cabbage, 289 



Cabbage Eutteefly, 885 



Cabbages, lorw.arding, 125 : introduc- 

 tion, 66 ; planting, Ibl ; wintering, 106 



Cactacew, 68 



Cactus culture, 90 



Caladiums, culture, 2C4; soil for, 221 



Calceolarias — bed, edging for yellow, 

 261 ; bedding in 1S70, 44 : for bedding, 

 149. 168; culture, 178, 213; culture 

 and failures, 81; compost for, 373; 

 cuttings, 428; failures. 137: flower- 

 ing late, 209; herbaceous, 428; 

 planting, 147; sowing shrubby, 92; 

 weevils on, 400 



Camellias— buds falling. 34, 127; rul- 

 ture, 67, 133. 158; cuttings, 294 ; not 

 flowei'ing, 148; after flowering, 242, 

 341; flowering In cold i^its, 445; 

 leaves blotched. 13; leaves spotted, 

 204; in cold pits, 294: repotting, 

 308: old, 24; sickly. 34; &rot,29S 



Cnmphor for fowls, 226 



Canaries— silver cups for. 77: prize 

 cups for. 93: not singing, 156; ma- 

 nagtnient, 156; scurfy-headed, 156; 

 skin irritated, 15fi, 192 ; conserva- 

 tory for. 156; silver cups at the 

 Crystal Palace, 113; Mules at the 

 CrVstal Palace, 190; room, notes 

 from my, 207, 225, 2^5, 265, 313, 393 ; 

 spring moulting, 226; judging at 

 Woodbridge, 264, 281; pip in, 298; 

 eggs unfertile, 314; avoiding para- 

 sites, 346; mice in cage, SC2;two 

 hens to one cock, picking them- 

 selves, 432; at Stroud, 412. 448; be- 

 come blind. 896; Bullfinch Mule, 192 



Canary-fancier's wife's remonstrance, 

 246 



Canna culture, 108 



Cannell's boiler, 274 



Carbolste of lime, 846 



Carbolic acid v. vermin, 15 



Carnations, in a bed, 205 ; culture. 363; 

 sowing, 326; Pei-petual or Tree. 363 



Carter's prizes, 85, 87; Root Show, 

 402 



Cauliflowers, 324; buttoning, 464 



Caution, 346 



Ceanotlius azureus as a climber, 100 



Cedar, a large, 288: transplanting, 221 



Celery culture, 91, 219. 227 



Centaurea candidissima, propagation, 

 1C7; sowing, 54 



CereuB giganteus, 68 



Chaffinches in garden. 342 

 ChamaBrops Fortimei in a Wardian 



case, 409 

 Cheilanthes elegans cuHui'e, 343 

 Cheimatobia bruraata. 50 

 Cherries, summer-pruning, 403 

 Chichester, Mrs., 411 

 Chickens, dead m the shell, 192, 208, 

 396 ; distinguishing, 203 : dying, 450 : 

 two sorts in one e^g, 281." 362; par- 

 tially hatched, 361 : marking, 346 ; 

 reanng. 344. 328, J!59, 875, 410; vora- 

 cious and giddy, 378 

 Chiswiek Garden, ie2 ; of Royal Hor- 

 ticultural Society, 386 

 Chitteprats, 248 

 Chlorocodon Whiteii, 272 

 Chrysanthemums, culture, 7, 45; cut- 

 tings, 221, 427 ; plunging potted, 176 ; 

 stopping, 308, 409 

 Cinders and fowls' feet, 226 

 Cineraria culture, 284 

 Cirsium Grahami, 145 

 Citrus japonica culture, 242 

 Clematises, new cross-bred, 337 

 Clianthus Dampieri culture, 390 

 Clifton College Botanic Garden. 353 

 Climbers— for conservatory, 148; for 

 greenhouse, 90; for a porch, 149; 

 for south-east wall, 445 ; for south 

 wall, 108, 342 ; under trees, 342 

 Cobcea scandens. cultm-e, 242; seed- 

 lings, variegated, dying, 374 

 Cochins— not broody, 330; character- 

 istics, 96; comb black, 78; comb 

 drooping, 247 ; comb iiurple, 40 : 

 comb tips white, 156; dying sud- 

 denly. 266; early laying, 414; eggs 

 hatching, 298: leg scurfy, 156; 

 mating, 156; pullet paralysed, 172; 

 pullet prolific, 361; Lemon Bufi', 156 

 Cock and hen, prizes for, 410 

 Cockerel's weight, 464 

 Cock's comb purple, 40 

 Cock one-eyed, 468 

 Cockroach, 233 

 Colchester Poultry Show, 34, ISS; 



Rabbit prizes, 95 

 Cold, intense, 6 

 Coleus propagation, 310 

 Columnea Schiediana flowers falling. 



326 

 Comb of cock sore, 248 

 Compass Plant, 303 

 Compost for plants, 326 

 Condiments for fowls, 40 

 Coniferre from seed, 178 

 Conifers, near the sea, 221 ; from seed, 



241 ; seeds, 260 

 Conservatory, climber for east wall, 



445 ; plants for, 278, 342 

 Convolvulus, eradicating wild, 409 

 Coprinus comatus, 309 

 Cordyline heliconifolia, 308 

 Coriaria thvmifolia, 288 

 Cork Poultry Show, 56 

 Cornwall market gardening, 402 

 Cossus ligniperda, 82 

 Costus Maloi-tieanus, 272 

 Cottager, Who is one ? 358 

 Cottagers, gardens for, 437 

 Covcnt Garden Market. 20,40.60,78 

 i:6. 114. 132, 156, 172. 192, 208. 22fi, 24R 

 266, 282, 298, 314, 330, 846, 362, 378, 396, 

 414,432,450,468 

 Cow dung, insects in, 242 

 Creals, white-neclied, 20S 

 Creve-Cceur's claws, 172; ear-lobes 

 191 ' 



Cripps, W. T., 442 

 Criticiem, anonymous, 45, 85 



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