JOUBNAii OF HORTICULTUEE AND COTTAGE GAEDENEE. 



[ July 13, 1871. 



Crooked-breasted fowls, 13-2 



Cross-breed in;? fowls for table, 114 



Crystal Palace. S69 ; Bird Show. 129, 

 152 ; Cutbush's flowers at, 211 : Rose 

 Show, 459 ; Show, 866 ; a florist's 

 notes at, 36G 



Cuckoo-spit insect, 404 



Cucumbers— so winp; for August, 221 ; 

 in bed, 426; beds. 202; covering-, 

 446; culture. 257: dampin(?-off, 409; 

 deformed, 109; disease, 271, 303,349, 

 898, 435 ; preventing, 364 ; in green- 

 house, 34, 294, 326 ; bouse for, 55, 91, 

 204 ; bouse failures, 148 ; for house, 

 278 ; in an unheated house. 374 ; in a 

 lean-to, 427; impregnating, 309; 

 leaves scalded, 279, blistered, 344; 

 spotted, 446; planting hardy, 445; 

 pit lor, 205 ; shrivelling, 389 ; sum- 

 mer-growing. 209 ; not swelling, 359 ; 

 tbrips on, S59 ; training, 146; Blue 

 Gown, 72 



Cup poultry prizes, 244 



Curcuma albiflora, 423 



Currant, aphides on, 374; Black, 890; 

 Clea^^ving moth, 256; cuttings, lOS; 

 trees, blighted. 358, caterpillars on, 

 39 I, mildewed, 373 



Custard for chickens, 330 



Cuttings, bark bed for, 109; making 

 and forwax'ding, 203; lipe and un- 

 ripe, 240 



Cyclamens, culture. 24, 127; flower- 

 less, 204; hederjefolium culture, 261; 

 seedlings early-flowering, 6; sow- 

 ing, 91 



Cydonia japonica, pruning, 260 ; sow- 

 ing, 168 

 Cynodon Dactylon, 321 

 Cypripedium, Dominianum, 182; ni- 



veum, 338, 350 

 Cyrtanthera chryso Stephana, 145 



Damson, 865, 381; the Crittenden, 

 300. 349 



Dandelion salading, 446 



Daphne indica treatment, 308 ; stop- 

 pinir, 310 



Dargle, the, 322 



Darlingtonia californica, 9, 450 



December, flowering plants in, 4S 



Desfontainea spinosa, propagating, 

 205 



Deutzia culture, 147 



Dianthus Heddewigi seedlings, S74 



Diarrhcea in fowls, 346, 432 



Dielytva cucullaria, 301 



Digitalis genus improving, 98 



Dinner-table decoration, 103, 181,200, 

 251 



Disa grandiflora, 92 



Doab grass, 321 



Dorkings — and Brahma cross. 78; 

 chickens dying, 191, 282 ; early 

 chickens. 243 ; chicken's toes dis- 

 torted, 156; combs. 114; cross-bred, 

 414 ; diseased, l;i5 ; Duck-footed, 

 2C6; egg-bound. 113; fattening, 191; 

 tongue diseased, 226 ; legs paralysed, 

 114; difference between Grev and 

 Silver-Grey, 20; Silver-Grey, 450; 

 White. 96 



Dorstenia Mannii, 423 



Dracama leaves brown, 55 



Drake-Duck, 310 



Drills, garden, 232 



Drive, cost of making, 108 



Drymoda picta, 423 



Dublin Poultry Show, 296, 314 



Ducklings' ace, knowing. 413 



Ducks — and fowls for eggs, 264; eggs 

 discoloured, 156 : eggs not hatching, 

 346, 378; eggs' yolk dark, 293 ; food 

 for, 191 ; imported, 432; Kouena with 

 East Indian. 266 



Dumfries Poultry Show, 75 



Dung, heat from, 33 



Eaething-up, 433 



Earwigs, 390 



Easter, white flowers for, 13 



Edging, for a border, 310 ; for kitchen 

 garden, 149 



Edinburgh Columbarian Association, 

 39,75 



Edwardsia microphylla. 3G9 



Egg-bound hen, 208; eating hens, 208, 

 244, 36i 



Egpa — ascertaining fertility, 362 ; 

 chickens in double, 298; chilled, 

 346; cracked hatching. 378; best 

 hatching time, 378; deficient, 2fi6; 

 destroying ii'itality, 372 ; double- 

 yolked, 96 ; exudation on, S96 ; 

 flavour of, 248; fow}s for, 132, 156; 

 preserving. 264, 266,330; price near 

 London, 172; production, 450; sex 

 of, 362, 410; shell-less, 226; small 

 yoikless, 306; for sitting, 814; sup- 

 ply, 40; unfertile, 59; wetting in- 

 cubating, 830 



Elephantiasis in fowls, 191 



Elm tree, soil against, 342 



English modern gai'dening, who most 

 promoted '? 195 



Entomological Swoiety's Meeting, G7 

 180,2.18,253,804.367,457 



Epimedium, foliage, 3SG ; ercctum, S52 



Epiphyllum flowers drooping, 04 



Epwoith Poultry Show, 844 



Euculypti, uses of, 300 



Eucalyptus globulus warted, 147 

 Eucharis amazonica, culture, 92, 381 ; 



flowering, 261; winter flowering, 



278; four times flowering. 295 

 Evergi-eens, for lawn, for winter beds, 



242 ; pruning. 342 

 Exeter Poultry Show, 46G 

 Exhibition fowls over-fattened, 281, 



328 

 Exhibiting together differently- aged 



fowls, 20 

 Export of fowls to America, 40 



Faeeingdon v. Covent Garden 



Market, 353 

 Feather-eating fowls, 172, 450 

 Feathers, stiff, 4G8 

 Feet of bii-ds ulcerated, 18 

 Fermenting material for pit, 221 

 Ferns, exotic, 79, 427; drying, 427; 



fastening dried, 310; culture, 358; 



re-tubbing tree, 168; under trees, 



295; Haresfoot, 338 

 Fernery construction, 295 

 Feverfew, sowing Golden, 54 

 Ficus elastica propagating, 221; not 



thriving, 222 

 " Field Quarterly," 9 

 Figs, sexes of, 210; Royal Vineyard, 



200 > > J J » 



Filberts unproductive, 389 



Fittonia argyroneura shoots dying, S2 



Fitzroya pataironica, 42 



Floor for shed, 4G4 



Flooring of poultrv run, 156 



Floral Society, Metropolitan, 28 



Florida gardens, 405 



Floiists' notes at South Kensington, 

 211 ; garden, 365 



Flower, garden aiTangements, 42; 

 beds, circular, arrangements, 122 



Flowers, annuals for cut. 221; seed 

 sewing, 147 ; for spring, 464 



Flue, return, 4G4 



Food, fashion in, 4fi8 



" Forester, The," 217 



Form and colour, 335, 315 



Foxmtains, 338 



Fowls— dung, 278; dying suddenly, 

 172; losing feathers, 132; foot 

 swollen, 413; handling, 222 : hardy, 

 78; hunchbacked, 114; over-fat, 450; 

 in rooms, 191 ; shooting straying, 

 132; sick, 20; for small space, 78; 

 for show, preparing, 314 ; most pro- 

 fitable, 314; versus Ducks, 314; 

 throat, ratthng in, 878 ; trespassing, 

 2:i6, 266 ; under trees, 59 



Frames, box, 134: calico for covering, 

 343 



Fraxinclla sowing, 312 



Fi'emoDtia californica, 441 



French fowls, 72, 73 



French gardening and the war, 1G5 ; 

 honiculturists' relief fund, 161. 162, 

 177, 232 



Frosts, effects of winter's, 802; in- 

 juries from, 357; in Norfolk, 29; 

 V. vegetation, 162 



Erniterers' Company, 239 



Fi"uit— cullm-e aided by bees, 405; 

 dropping prematurely, 463; growing 

 commercially. 420, 433 ; growers, 

 hints to, 251 ; prospects. 316. 332, 339 ; 

 room construction. 186; stone, far 

 north, 162 ; walls, glass against, 342 ; 

 trees, for the north, 5 : barked by 

 hares, 13: laid in, 54: for Email 

 gardens, 84,242: unproductive, 327 : 

 stopning, 358 : newly planted, 166 : 

 not thinning. 409 



Fuchsias, leaves spotted. 373; select 

 smgle, 13 ; sessilifolia, 423 ; Father 

 Ignatius. 34 



Fuel economv and slow combustion, 

 8, 26, CG, 67, 1G3 



Fumigatmg Peaches in flower, IGS 



Funci, 827 ; coats, 409 



Funkia gi-andiflora flowerlesg, 445 



Fungoid parasite, fatal, 235 



Fungus, edible. 309 



Game, cocks at Exhibitions, 16: 

 head oiling, 830: moping, 830: wry- 

 tailed. 132; at Nantwich, 205; blue 

 cocks, 208: varieties together, 243; 

 exhibiting, 414 ; Blue Dun, 222 



Gander and Goose, detecting, 461 



Gardenia culture, 260 



Garden, for profit, 293 : plotting and 

 levelling, 7, 27, S3, 160, 214, 269, 354, 

 886, 423 



Gardeners— and gardening, 21 ; cares. 

 3"6; Company, 238; examinations, 

 32 ; exchanging phmts, 285, 317 ; gun 

 license, 90 ; Improvement Societies, 

 217 ; Royal Benevolent Institution, 

 234, 437 ; tax on, 33 ; in wet weather, 

 824 ; working hours, 409 



Gas, extinguished by a down-draught, 

 S3; light's eftect on plants, 13G 



GecsCt Toulouse. 861 



Geraniums— bedding, 22, 163 ; compost 

 for, 261, 873 : cuttmga not roofing, 

 809; edging for some beds, 859; in a 

 frame, 408; frosted, 32; leaves spot- 

 ted, 167, 242, 873 : variegated, 873 : 

 fading, 54, 82G, 327 ; in the open air, 

 487 ; seedling, 437 ; turaing out, 201 ; 

 crosH-brcediuK Tricolor, 220 ; Tri- 

 color flowering, 809 ; wild, 251, 801 



Gesnera culture, 72, 325 



Gibraltar garden plants, 451 



Gilia liniflora, 272 



Gillyflower. 3G8 



Gladioli, 271 ; culture, 84 ; draeocepha- 

 lus, 145; planting spawn, 149; of 

 the past season. 5 



Gladioluses in pots. 327 



Glass, clouding, 149; plant culture 

 under, 97 



Glasgow International Show, 305 



Glazing, 138; laps in, 210; wall, 46; 

 without laps, 327 



Goat moth, 32 



Gooseben-y, cuttings, 108 ; trees, 

 worsted on, 241 



Goose eggs not hatching, 282 



Gough, Mr., dinner to, 820 



Gourd planting, 445 



Grafting, new mode, 305 



Grape house, a large, 273 



Grapes— amatem-'s success, 138; dis- 

 eased, 326, 40S: exudation in. 343; 

 growing in Scotland, 26; inarching, 

 278; keeping cut. 13; new, 885; re- 

 cently introduced, 43; selections of, 

 4,65; Betting, 63. 97, and crossing, 

 84; syringing, 232, 250; tbloDing, 

 301,357; vai'ieties. 92; on Vine first 

 year, 353 ; undeveloped, 295 ; Golden 

 Champion, 195, 250, and Black 

 Muscat of Alexandria, 228; Gros 

 Colman, 250 ; Queen Victoria, 278. 

 See also Vines. 



Grass, under Beech, 309; mats, 321; 

 seeds, sowing, 186 



Grasses, ornamental varieties of na- 

 tive, 116 



Great Harwood Show, 313 ; 828, 360, 

 375 



Green fly, preventing, 342 



Greenhouse- back wall. 168 ; cheap, 

 220; chmber border, 295; climbers, 

 332; cistern in, 65; construction, 

 842 ; glazing, 148 ; plants for. 72. 168, 

 267, 290. 330 : blighted, 84 : not thriv- 

 ing, 127 : for north wall, 390 ; and 

 stove, 339 ; tank, 204 ; and vinery 

 communicatinti, 358 



Grubs in soU, 310 

 Guano liquid raaniu'e, 445 



Guinea Fowls. 314, 450; laying, 378; 



sitting time, 899 

 Gymnogramma, scale on, 461 



H-liMANTHUS COCCINEUS FOB AUGUST. 



309; defoi-mis, 352; tenuiflorus, ^'. 

 coccineus,29 



Hamburghs— cock, 346; cock's comb 

 purple, 432; combs, 132: feathers, 

 172 : hackle off, 33(J ; bnrdiness, 132 ; 

 breeding Black, 96, 132. 156; cross 

 with Black Game, 156 ; crossing 

 with Game, 22G; Goldeu-spangled, 

 20, colour of, 346 ; breeding Golden- 

 pencilled, 59 ; Silver-pencilled, 132, 

 172, 248: Silver-spangled, 132, and 

 Black, 222 



Handling fowls, 243 



Hants and Berks Poultry Show, 465 



"Hardy Herbaceous and Alpine 

 Flowers," 257 



Hares, barking trees, 92 ; and Rabbits 

 versKS trees, 304 



Hartweg. Mr. T., 199 



Hatching disasters, 859, 302 



Heaths. i\'inter-blooming. 278 



Heat, obtjiining moist, 66 



Heating, by hot water, 212. 374; by 

 stove with a chamber, 409; vinery 

 and conservatory, 464; Riddell's ap- 

 paratus 374 



Hcdaroma tulipifemm, 303 



Hedge, evergreen. 92 



Hcdychium cultm'e, 212 



Eelianthemum vulgare variegatum, 

 212 



Hen-cock, 248 



Hens— dropping eggs, 132; fattening, 

 248; fighting, 266; house aspect, 

 226 ; in conlmed space, 362 ; legs 

 coarse, 191; nesting but notlaj-ing, 

 191 



Herbaceous plants from seed, 93 



Himmelstern, 428 



Hoar frost. 49 



Hollies, heading down, 810 



Holly hedcre neglected, 92 



Hollvhocks, notes on, 235; planting, 

 127 ; select, 167 



Honeysuckle, Japanese, 899; flower- 

 ing. 415 



Hooker, Dr., in Morocco, 273 



Hops, culture, G2, 231, 270 : for orna- 

 ment and use, 186; for an arbom-, 

 309 



Horse Chestnut bleeding, 146 



Horseradish inferior. 168 



Horticultural (Royal) Society's Com- 

 mittees, Shows, &c., 47, 121, 161. 198. 

 252, 23G, 818, 851, 400, 436. 456 ; Annual 

 General Meeting, 116 ; balance 

 sheet, &c., 120 : Congi*ess proposed, 

 427; Council, 48; Report of. lis ; en- 

 tomological prizes, 283, 853 ; Horti- 

 cultural Directors' Report, 120; Mr. 

 Marshnll's exhibition scheme, 162 ; 

 prizes, 235, for Primroses and Hy- 

 acinths, 122 ; fichedulc, 82 : Supc'r- 

 iutendent at Kensington and Chis- 

 wick, 87 



Hotbeds, 259 ' 



Hothouee on a slope, 327 



Hot water, increasing heat from 

 f ailm-e, 33 ; circulating downwards, 

 34 



Houdans, 191 ; moulting, 40 



Houses for fmits and plants, arrange- 

 ment of 186 



Hovea culture, 331 



Hugel, Baron, death of, 253 



Hyacinths— in February, 186 ; in 

 glasses, 168; in the open ground, 

 273 ; prizes, 100 ; short^stemmed, 

 147 



Hybrid and cross-bred plants, prizes 

 for, 193 1299 



Hybridising and cross-breeding, rules, 



Ice, house, aee circolating in, 83; 

 converting building, on glass roofs, 

 138 ; versus glass, 49, 63, 178 



Icing fruit trees, 12 



Inarching, embryonic, 352 



India, gardening in, 305 



Indiarubber Plant, 221, 222 



Influence of male bird, 280, 328 



Ink plant. 288 



Inquiry. 16 



Insect- destroying solution, 852 



Insects, some garden predatory, 50, 

 36, 179, 233, 256, 289, 297, 367. 385. 403 



International Exhibition, horticultu- 

 ral part, 401 



Ireland, notes made in. 143. 236, 321 



Iresine. Herbstit sowing, 54; Lindeni 

 propagation, 464 



Irish Royal Horticultural Society's 

 Show, 302 



Iris reticulata not flowering, 295 



Ivied wall, 139 



Ivy. pruning, 148, 221, 261; against 

 netting, 279 



Jacobin, mating a blue, 172 

 Jonquil, culture, 178; not flowering, 



221 

 Judges claiming bii'ds at poultry 



shows, 149, 169 

 Juniper f unguSj 295 



Kale, culture. 5 : vaeiegated, 194 

 Kendal Poultry Show, 73 

 Kent. W., 347 



Kidney Beans, early crops, 372 

 Kiln, fowls near. 172 

 Kii-kcakly Poultry t'how,87 

 Kitchen garden sowing, 166 

 Kohl Rabi culture, 445 



Lackey Moth, 257 



Landscape gardener, our fii'st, 347 



Lautana culture. 90 



Lapageria. alba from seed, 16S; rosea 

 in pot, 91 



Larches djing. 359 



Laikspur, candelabra-flowered, 29 



" Lam-cl Joe,'' 321 



Laurels, pruning, 72 



Lavender disease, 445 



Laivn, Grass and the Daisy, 421 ; fail- 

 ing, 427 ; grass seeds for. 147 ; top- 

 dressing, 108: manuring, 91; worms 

 and moss on,3S4 ; patchy, bare, 201 ; 

 weeds on, 185, 374 



Leaf and root, 425 



Leaves— bhghted, 148: colours in au- 

 tumn, 162; discoloured by syring- 

 ing, 809; mould, 129, 148; propa- 

 gation by, 220 



Leeds Park Show, 189 



Leg-cramp in chickens, 172 



Legs ©then rough, 60 



Leicester Square for a flower market, 

 142 



Lemon trees, mealy bug on, 875 



Lettuces, planting, 146; grubs at 

 roots. 454 



Lice on fowls, 208 



Lichens on Apple trees, 241 



Liliimi tigrinum fiore-pieno, 145 



Lily of the Valley, culture, 844 : flower- 

 less, 294, 389 ; sowing, 408 ; in sum- 

 mer, 464 



Linum trigjniimi cultm-e, 278 



Liquid manure evaporating, 279 



Loams defined, 148 



Locust-bean meal for fowls, 468 



Lomaria gibba, 342 



London. G.,19rf 



Lonicera aureo-rcticulata fruiting, 

 438 



Lowestoft Poultry Show, 94 



Loxford HaU, 419 



MaONOLIAF, CDTTlNGS, 415 ; IN POTS, 



273 

 BInlavs. 214; characteristics. 78 ; fea- 



thor-oatiug, Ac, 282; prizes, 9G, 111 

 IMalvrra Naturalists' Club, 288 

 Manchester and Liverpool Poultry 



S]iuw,391 

 :\TaiuIicater Poultry Show, 16.20 

 Manchester Natm'alists' Society. 273 

 MandcvUla suaveolens cultm'e, 242 

 Mann, death of Mr., 100 

 Manure watering, 135 

 Mfiuures, liquid, 218 

 Manuring, surface, 872 

 March high temp era tares, 182 



