July 13, 187i. ] 



JOUBNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



Markets, 20, 40, 69. 78, 96, H4, 132, 156, 

 172, 192, 208, 226, 24S. 26G, 2S2, 298, 811, 

 330, 346, 362, 373, 896, 414, 432, 450, 

 463 ; proposed new, 820 



Marking' fowls, 396 



Massonia odorata, 200 



Master and servant, 141 



Melons— disease, preventing;, 864; for 

 frame, 90; frames, covering, 446; 

 for house, 279; for June, 91; leaves 

 scorched, 327 ; in pots, 858 ; planting, 

 221 ; sulphm-etted, 14 



Meteorology, 60 



Meiropolitan Floral Society, 338 



Mice, kept from bulbs, 46; poisoned, 

 362 



Mignonette, culture, 413 ; tree ma- 

 nagement, for July show, 80S 



Mildew in conservatory, 464 



Millipedes in soil, 810 



Mimetic plants, 333 



Mimulus, cro SB-breeding, 849 



Mint sauce in winter, 414 



Mole Cricket, 233 



Monochsetum ensiferum culture, 2C4 



MooDey. the Lancashire, 123, 243 



Morels, 827 



Mosa, on wood path, 343 ; for Orchids, 

 in shrubbery. 374 



Msund, shrubs for, 148 



Muloerry propagation, 72 



Mulching, 372 



Musa Cavendishii after fruiting, 72 



Mushrooms— bed makiog, 148; beds, 

 temperature, 225, out of doors, 374 ; 

 in a cellar, 54, 109, 339, 427 ; failures, 

 426; growing, 445; house shelves, 

 S3 ; management, 53 ; salt for, 72 ; 

 spawn eccentrie, 64 ; on Vine 

 borders, 40J 



Musk, compost for, 873 



'* Mycologieal Illustrations," 424 



Myosotis dissitiflorn, 308, 833 



Nantwich Poulte? Show, 111 



Narcissus not flowering, 221 



Native plants, ornamental varieties, 



28 

 Naturalising plants, 853 

 Nematus Ribesii, 863 

 Nemesia sowing, 408 

 Nemophilas in pots, 167 

 Nenthead Poultry Show, 56 

 Neiine pudica, 352 

 Nests for egg-hatching, 231 

 New England poultry doings, SGI 

 New Year's hopes, 1 

 New York Poultry Show, 57 

 New Zealand, feathered emigi'ants, 



430 ; plants for, 205 

 Night soil utilising, 4Gt 

 Nitrate of soda as a manure. 445 

 Northampton Poultry Show, 77, 205; 



dyed Bantams at, 2^3 

 Nothoscordum aureum. 272 

 Nurserymen's prices, 90 

 Nut trees, pruning, 309 



Oakwood House, 334 



Oats, ground, for poultry, 153, 172. 192 



Oleander stem bare, 92 



Oncidium tigi'inum, v. splendidum. 

 29 



Onion culture, 92, 407 



Oranges, leaves and flowers falling, 

 168 ; scale on, 261 ; trees, mealy hiv 

 on, 375 



Orchard, house cleaning, 163; fruit 

 trees, 72, 91, 463, scale, on, 390; ma- 

 nagement, 115, 220. a77 ; pots frozen, 

 14; prospects and Communists, 879 



Orchard trees, pruning newly-planted. 

 279 



Orchids for a conservatory, 5, 91 



Onnson's mode of ventilating, 253 



Osier bed, forming, 109 



Otaheite Orange culture, 243 



Outrages on prize poultry, 73, 149, 187, 

 285, ■.;22,245 



Oyster shells for Vine border, 358 



P.EQNIA. "WlTTMANNIANi, 369 



Page, Mr. W. B., 305 



Pamt, removing old, 342 



Paisley Poultry Show, 33 



Palms, compost for, 374 ; seeds sow- 

 ing, 90 



Pampas Gi-ass protecting, 13 



Pansies, for spring flowering, 374 • 

 propagation, 389 ; sowing, 820 



Parallelogi-am, forming, 54 



Parent, Influence of each, 312 



Paris, inside, 04; Jardin des Plantes, 



Parks, new Superintendents, 133 



Parrots, management, 114; moultin"- 

 156 °' 



Parsnips not forked, 103 



Partridges, rearing, 862, 414 



Paseitiora quadrangularis, 193 



Paullinia thalictrifolia, 29 



Peaches-heavy crops, 418; out of 

 doors, 46J ; faUing. 308 ; forcing, 90 ; 

 defective growth, 212; in the north, 

 213 ; white spot in peaehery, 399 ; 

 trees, heading maiden, 143 : cover- 

 ing for, 204 : in orchard house dis- 

 eased, 341 : red spider on. 278 : in- 

 sect on, 279; in pots failing, 294: 

 pruning, 241: sulphate of iron for, 



Peaches— Co Kimited. 

 342: leaves blistered, 343: falling, 

 204 : fruiting shoots, 294 ; Lord fal- 

 merston, 852 



Pears— in April, 275 ; core decayed, 

 90: perverse, 159; not setting, 341; 

 warming ripe, 14; trees, caterpillars 

 on, 390: cutting down young, 3S9: 

 insects on, 127: leaves blackened, 

 342, 389; pinching espalier, 3S9 : 

 planting, 180: scale on, 127, 242: 

 summer pruning, 427 ; Autumn 

 Josi^phine, 29; 13rockworth Park, 

 29; Cassante du Cornice, 39; Doy- 

 enn6 d'Alencon versus Easti-r 

 Beurre, 98 ; Doyenne d'Alencon, 135 : 

 Doyenne d'Hiver Nouveau, 135 ; 

 Enfaut Pi'odigue, 10 ; Fondante du 

 Cornice, lU; Oansel'a Seckle. 80; 

 Maud Hogg, 30; Millot de Nancy, 

 10 ; Olivier de Serres, 275 ; Passe 

 Crasanne, 135 



Peas, in autumn, 462; early, 373; late, 

 9; leaves for soup, 107; mUdewed, 

 295; northward, 9; raising early, 

 157,167.194,211, 235, 240; for show, 

 103; stalks and leaves yellow, 374 



Pea weevil, 290 



Peat, 242 



Pelargoniums — bedding, 82 ; double 

 for bedding, 62 ; double-flowered, 

 177, as bedders, 103 ; variegated for 

 bedding, 148; planting in beds, 34a ; 

 failing, 445; forcing, 157; leaves 

 spotted, 295; losing colour, 221; 

 leggy. 108 ; early- flowering show, 

 299 ; list, 205; pinching, 127 ; select, 

 827; stopping, 241; Tricolor and 

 Bronze, 205; Tricolor cuttings, 423; 

 Madame Vaneher weak, 358 



Penrith Poultry Show, 224 



Pentstemons, select. 13 



Perilla seed faihiig, 221 



Periwinkle, variegated, 409 



Petunias, seed failing, 221; select 



double, 13 

 Phal^enopsis bearing offsets, 91 



Pheasants not poultry, 155 



Philodendron Williamsii, 352 



Phosnix Park, Chief Secretary's, 99 



Picea Pinsapo cones, 343 



Picotce sowing, 260 



Pieris Brassiere, 385 



Pigeons— action for lost, 361; clear 

 eggs, 432, laying soft, 29S; com- 

 mencmg keeping, 468; cramp, 314; 

 fancier's notes between Birming- 

 ham and SmjTna, 76; in a garden, 

 396; head turned, 293; injured, 132; 

 losing feathers, 314; oil gland re- 

 laxed, 293 ; portraits. 29S; race, 466; 

 sick, 40, 362; varieties to keep, 376; 

 vagai'ies, 414; water trough, 20d- 

 from Turkey, 206; unable to stand, 

 22G ; White-eye, 414, 45 > ; wing dia- 

 ease. 396; Archangels, 208; Barbs 

 not breeding. 4G8 ; young Carriers 

 dying. 432 ; Carrier, 55 ; Black Car- 

 rier. 40; prizes for Can-iers, 112,130; 

 exhibiting Carrier, 149 ; Courier, 412 ; 

 BlueDrairoons' rumps, 78 ; Dragoon, 

 40 ; matching Dragoons, 192 ; Fan- 

 tail, 53, 112, 130; the Jacobin, 811 ; 

 Blue Jacobins, 314; Glasgow 

 Pouters, 396 ; the Owl, 429 ; Runts, 

 414 ; Egyptian Runts, 156 ; Tumblers, 

 414 ; Birmingham Tumblers, 57 • 

 Flying Tumblers, 16, 156,183; muffed 

 Tumblers, 76 ; Turbits, 208, 263 



Pine Apples, large-crowned, 91 : seed- 

 ling, 140 



Pinuses sowing, 446 



Pipes choked, 127 



Piping for hot water needed, 83 



Pit, construction, 374 : converting to a 

 house, 300, 427 ; flue-heating, 261 ; 

 for Cucumbers and Melons, 186; 

 maldng a cold, 242 



Plantago lanceoiata variegated, 135 



Planting, 167 ; and potting deep, 24) 



Plants, anomalous, 67 : not flowerin"- 

 858 



Pleroma culture, 881 



Plums, summer-pruning, 408; on leaf- 

 less shoots, 464; trees, heading 

 down, 168 : roots diseased, 34 



Plymouth Poultry Show, 114 



Pogogyne Douglasii, 145 



Points, breeding for, 243 



Pointer diseased, 20 



Poinsettias, culture, 80 ; growing 

 dwarf, 23 ; pulcherrima dwarf, 3 



Polands' claws, 293; crests dirty. 93 



Polemonium cEeruleum culture. 343 



Polyanthus, Giant, 320 



Pond, clearing water, aquatics for, 

 gold fish in. 374 ; plant near, 309 



Poor-man's Pipe, 273 



Poppy, the Prickly, 305 



Portable house, heating, S3 



Portable structm-es, 18 



Portsmouth Poultry Show, 128 



Postage stamps, payment with, 288 



Post, seed packages by, 165 



Potatoes — American, US, 137; con- 

 demned by the Horticultural So- 

 ciety's Committee, 69 ; disease, 80 ; 

 top-dressing, 127 ; early, 371 ; earth- 

 ing-up, 399, 407, 417, 433. 462; esti- 

 mate of some, 173; forcing, 89; 

 frosted, 55; growing early, 2S; for 

 light and heavy soils, 64; merits, 

 80 ; plant, uses of, 303 ; planting, 8, 



VoTA.TOES— Continued. 

 83, 149 : produce in 1869-70, 1G3 ; red 

 and white exhibition, 25 ; for show, 

 103 ; for next spring, 3S9 : Flounder, 

 26); Ked-skinned Floui-ball, Presi- 

 dent Lincoln, 261 ; Webb's Imperial, 

 213 



Pot-pourri, 468 



Pot saucers, 143 



Potting and repotting, 126 



Poultry— breeding on farms, 150,170; 

 in confined space, 40, 248,264; cost 

 of show, 248 ; as an employment, 

 131; experiment, 262 ; farm, South 

 American, 423 ; handling, 137 ; 

 house, floor cleansing, 4ii3, heating, 

 20; keeping balance, 262; keeping 

 under difficulties, 44G; killed by a 

 dog, 188; lore of 1870,14; marking, 

 114 ; outrages on prize, 109 ; pro- 

 tecting exhibited, 24i ; results, 93, 

 109, 128, 169; show officials, are they 

 liable for the debts? 187; shows, 

 not advertised, 20, management, 

 264, uses of, 262; trespassing, 208; 

 what to keep, 390 



Powerscourt, 236, 321 



Primulas, after flowering, 127 ; cor- 

 tusoides amosna, 803, 332 ; and its 

 culture, 303, 364 ; cnltm'e of Chinese, 

 230; japonica,423 



Propagating house, heating, 55 



Propagation, various, 168 



Pi'Otecting garden crops, 195 



Protection, 12 ; glazed, 14 



Pruning frait trees, 89 



Pullets, feather-eating, 96; not seeing 

 food, 814 



Pyrethrum, Golden, 316 ; culture, 268 ; 

 planting Golden-feathered, 16iS 



Pyrus japonica on north wall, 409 



QOINCE STOCK PROPAGATION, 169 



Rabbits— AND Apple trees, 124 ; 

 Club, United Kingdom, 170, 190, 207, 

 245, prizes, 113; at Colchester and 

 Portsmouth Shows, 59, 76; ('.Coni- 

 fers, 333 ; fancier's troubles, 191 ; 

 tancy declining? 131, 153; fleas on, 

 414 ; and hares v. trees, 352 ; in- 

 jured, 114; scab nosed, 432; at 

 tjtroud, 418, 449. 4!>0 ; aud trees, 44 



Railway delay, case of, 245 



Rats, 396 ; and mice. 269 



Red lead, v. mice, 46; lead on seeds, 

 90, 261, 269, 292 



Red spider, avoiding, 109 [869 



Resemblances, vegetable protective, 



Rhipidopteris peltata, 389 



Rhododendrons, fine, 231 ; flower buds 

 injured, 261 ; from seed, 827 ; dwarf- 

 fing, 342; shows, 399; sinense, 423 



Rhubarb forcing, 43 



Ring Doves in a greenhouse, 20 



Rivers, portrait of Mr., 11, 48, 82, 139 



Robson, Mr. J., presentation to, 177 



Rockville, 143 



Romford Poultry Show, 447 



Roost-house floor, 73 



Roots, tap, 268 



Roses— ants on, 464; aphis on, 844; 

 buds yellow, 427 ; caterpillars on, 

 390; cuttings, 221: early blooming, 

 90 ; exhibiting, 427 ; forcing, 54, 342 ; 

 frosted, 241 ; fowls' dung for, 108 ; 

 fimgus on leaves, 373 ; yellow fungus 

 on, 445; gnibs, 308; guano liquid 

 for, 873 ; iu India, 221 ; list, 190, 261 ; 

 liquid manure for, 279; notes, 416; 

 pigmy, 365; in pots, 91; for pots, 

 303 : prospects, 332 ; pruning, 250 ; 

 picking olT dead, 404; old and new, 

 221; on own roots, 327; retrans- 

 planting, 34 ; from seed, 103 ; tops of 

 stocks, covering, 186 ; show, 459 ; for 

 table decoration, 865 ; washing, 221 ; 

 watering, 389; pruning Bunksian, 

 409 ; the two Devoniensis, 409 ; 

 Felix Genero, 250; Manetti stocks, 

 878 ; Marechal Niel, 303, 834, 424 ; 

 Monplaiair, &c., 64 ; Tea, aspect 

 for, 174, culture, 43, shoots blind, 241 



Roup, 191 



Rumex obtusifolia variegated, 153 



Sait for fowls, 468 



Salvia, splendens, repotting, 426; cut- 

 tings, 464 



Sawdust uses, 258 



Saxifraga longifoha, 200 



Scion, bud of to prefer, 327 



Sea Anemones, tenacious of life, S53 



Sea-kale, forcing, 43, 202, 276; un- 

 blanched, 325 



Sea sand and fowls' legs, 468 



Sedum acre aureum. 212 



Seedling trees fmiting, 434 



Seedlings, pricldng-out, 203 



Seeds, red-leading, 125 



Selkirk Poultry Show, 112 



Sesia Tipuliformis, 256 



Sewage, for gardens, 407 ; utilising, 55 



Shaded border, plants for, 54 



Shamrock, 241, 310 



Sheep's paunch for fowls, 450 



Shrubbery borders, 221 



Shrubs, have they flowered? 294] 

 evergreen and variegated, 310 ; re- 

 moving, 163 



Sidney seed-sower, 278 



Silkies not Bantams, 330 



Silphium laeiniatum, 25, 304 



Sitona lineata, 290 



Small-pox, plants for, 253 



Snails, destroying, 403 



Snow V. glass, 49 



Snowdrops after flowering, 54 



Sobralia macrantha var. albida, 370 



Soianum, capsicastrum se«dlinga, 103 

 sowing, 163; ciliatum,lG4 



Soot water for syringing, 342 



Sowing in summer, 407 



Spalding Poultry Show, 465 



Spanish— cock's, comb drooping, GO, 

 face, 114, excess of, 73, scaly, 301, 

 ulcerated, 830, white, 373 ; wounded, 

 22G ; Black, 60 ; fowls for exhibition, 

 78 ; hen's crop, 247 



Sparrows, puzzling the, 215 



Spasms in heus' legs, 96 



Stakes for flowers, &c., 12 



Stangeria paradoxa, 48 



Statice Holfordi not flowering, 127 



Stephanotis floribunda, mealy bug 

 on, 295; seeding, 341 



Stock, change of, 60 



Stocks, sowmg Intermediate, 242 



Stove, slow combustion, 69, 101 ; heat- 

 ing by, 70 



Strawberries — bloomless, 343 ; cul- 

 ture, 850, 3S2, 398, in pots, 203 ; de- 

 ficient in bloom, 293 ; forcing, 176, 

 186, 2S0, 820, 409, 346; layering for 

 forcing. 416; forwarding, 416: in 

 ground vinery, 14 ; in pots, 90, 856, 

 for next season. 427; manure water 

 for, 204; plant insect, 222; plants, 

 packing, 464 ; prospects, 850, 361, 3a9, 

 414; selecting runners, 409; this 

 year, 317; Dr. Hogg, 382, 388; Sii' 

 Harry, 408 



Stroud Canai-y Show, 265 ; Poultry 

 Show, 281, 295, 313, 828, 344, 393; 

 Rabbit Show's schedule, 208 



Subtropical, 341 



" Subtropical garden," 441 



Sulphuring overmuch, 857 



Sundials, 464 



Suttona' annual Root Show, 369 



Swans, food for, 96 



Table decoration plants, 229, 232. 



418 

 TacsonJas, 843; moUissima planting, 



148 ; Vau-Volxemi declining, 163 

 Tandy, Mr., his garden, 865 

 Tank heated, cover for, 55 

 Tanners' pit liquor, 428 

 Tedworth conservatory, 273 

 Temperature of the British Isles, 353 

 Tender plants, prizes for, 6 

 Theophrasta imperialis culture, 92 

 Thinning fruit, 403 

 Thirsk Bird Show, 39, 313 

 Thomson, Mr. W., dinner, &c., to, 402 ; 



testimonial, 258 

 Thome Poultry Show, 448 

 Thrush and Redwing, 60 

 Thyrsacanthus rutilans, culture, 278 



for December, 261 

 Thujas, 408 



Tiger Lily, double, 145 

 Tillandsia ionantha, 200 

 Titmouse ravages, 13 

 Torquay Poultry Show, 150 

 Toxteth Park Gardeners' Association, 



421 

 Tradesmen and servants, S3 

 Trapping, 292 

 Tree-killing solutions, 234 

 Trees, planting under, 72 

 Trenching, penalties of rash. 234 

 Triteleia uniflora culture. 809 

 Tritoma seeds failing, 310 

 Tropreolum Jarrattii and tricolorum 



culture, 54 

 Try-1 will, 420 

 TiUips, bulbs, 294; National Sccitiy, 



52; short-stemmed, 147 

 Tumour in pullet, 191 

 Tm-f bare under trees, 108 

 Turkeys, breeding, 114; cramming, 



346 ; for table, 60 

 Turnip-tops forced, 107 



Variegated native plants, 212 



Variety class at shows, 15 



Vases before house, plants for, 326 



Vegetables, culture on poor soils, 397; 

 substitutes for usual, 135 



Ventilation, 294 



Ventilating glazed wall, 204 



Verbenas, bed, 241; blighted, 279; 

 cuttings, 102, 112, 203, failing, 142, 

 181; disease, 210; shrivelling, 139; 

 spotted, 175 



"Veronica Chamiedrys, 270 



Vineries— gi-ound, 24; and plant 

 house, 326; plants lor back wall, 

 841 ; management of early, 174 - 

 planting, 91, 169, 204: span-roofedi 

 J;S9 ; Vines tor cool, 260; wiring, 147 



Vines— air giving, 326; bearing irre- 

 gularly, 243; in house with bedding 

 plants, 373; borders, 175, 343, un- 

 covering, 303; breaking too early, 

 858, irreguiai-ly, 408; as bushes, 14; 

 canes i^ead, 3aS ; complaints and 

 remedies, 883 ; culture, 83, 221, 249, 

 30s, cutting newly-planted, 204 ; from 



