January 17, 1878. ] 



JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



INDEX. 



Abney Hall, 272 



Abutilons, 213 



Acacia lophantha wintering, 388 



Accrington Poultry Show, 22 



Adiantum, farleyense, 849, 390 ; Lud- 



demannianum, 475 

 Adulteration of seed, 425 

 Mehmea- Veitchii, 401 

 Ageratnms, hardy, 478 

 Agricultural Hall, Floral decorationB 

 at 183; plants, 213; Poultry Show, 

 295; Show, 461 



Air-giving, 81 



Air-temperatures at different ele- 

 vations, 460 

 Alexandra Palace, International Fruit 

 Show, 115, 231; Poultry Show, 314; 

 Rose Show, 4 



Allamanda Wardleana, 497 



Allium uni folium, 290 



Alloplectua peltatus, 478 



Aloe chinensis, 100 



Aloe tricolor, 807 



AlternantheraB, wintering, 257 



Altrinchani Poultry Show, 221 



Amaryllids,382; after flowering, 390 



Amaryllis, in pots, 428; loDgifolia not 

 flowering, Si03 



AmeBbury Free Grammer School, 

 436 



Amateur's garden and greenhouse, 

 471 



Amies' manure, 497 



Ammonia v. slugs, 352 



Anemone japonica alba, 252 



Anerley Nursery, 201 



Animals, our duty to, 279 



Annuals, 487 ; for spring bedding 112 



Anthropodium neo-caledonicum, 307 



Antirrhinum, seedlings, 277 ; orna- 

 tum, 438 



Ants, banishing, 42 ; excluding, 21i; 

 exterminating, 257 



Aphelexes, potting, 443 



Aphides and tobacco powder, 8 



Apple, bark cankered, 428; crop, 54; 

 culture, 98; election, 233, S44, 357, 

 450; gathering, 240 



Apples, for cider, 131; Fox-whelp, 132, 

 160; Striped Quarrenden, 136; suc- 

 cession of dessert, 165; for north of 

 England, 181 ; a new summer va- 

 riety, 191; Hereford cider, 217; 

 hardy, 266: imported, 293; late-keep- 

 ing, 332; jottings about, 337; Lod- 

 dingten Seedling, 361; Worcester 

 Pearmain.398; for market, 496; fer- 

 menting, 497 



Aquarium, Alexandra, and Agricultu- 

 ral Hall poultry schedules, 242 



Aquarium Carnation and Rose Show, 

 52,53 



Aquilegias, 75, 103; culture, 12 ; new, 

 142 



Aralia fllicifolia, 421 



Araucaria Beedless, 242 



Arbor-Vit£e,40S 



Arbutus, 489 



Ardisia crenulata, 460 



Areea purpurea, 489 



Arnott's portable etoves, 428 



Ashante hammock for gardens, 109 



Ashes as manure, 352 



Ash, variegated, 278 



Asparagus, culture, 295; forcing, 400, 

 349; grubs on, 61; neglected, 481; 

 v. rheumatism, 72 



Aspasia variegata, 29 



Asphalt walks and roads, 203 



Asters, exhibiting, 103 



Auricula, aphis, 90, 113 ; culture, 10, 

 105; notes, 190, 398, 408; Yellow 

 Alpine, 251 



Auriculas, 352 



Australian gardening, 134 



Autumn, flower Bhows, 216; Roseless, 

 f*^ 349; shrubbery perennials, 388 

 /~ Azalea leaves injured, 220 

 Iir Azaleas, Ghent. 292; hardy, 449,491; 

 ^ J * watering, 468 



Babham Coubt, S44 



Barnstaple Poultry Show, 43 



Basil, Holy, 154 



Bassia latifolia, 135 



Bastard Balm, 121 



Bath Poultry Show, 221 



Battersea Park, 199 



Bean sowing, 888 



Beans, Dwarf Kidney and Runners, 

 134; for seed, 166 



Bedding-plant bouse, 366 



Bedding plants, 184 ; cuttings, 164 ; 

 rain-proof, 433; sheltering, 266; re- 

 moving in winter, 278 



Bedding-out at Mr. Ralli's, 54 



Bedford Poultry Show, 84 



Beech, crop, 269 ; dying, 142 ; nuts, 

 242 



Bees— apiarian notes, 53 ; utilising 

 condemned stocks, management, 

 driving, clustering, straw hives, 24 ; 

 piping, 45; turning out, honey in 

 cells, artificial swarming, 46; ex- 

 perience in 1877, 63; casting out 

 drones, 64 ; drumming, artificial 

 comb foundations, 85; feeding, 

 comb-building, keeping, driving and 

 treatment, 86 ; present season in 

 Stafford, 106; in large hives, driv- 

 ing, 125 ; removing to the moors, 

 swarming without drones, 126 ; 1877 

 experiences, 145, 205, 206 : pleasures 

 and profits of, 145 ; foul brood, driv- 

 ing, feeding, chloroforming, supers 

 not filled, 146 ; preparing stocks 

 for winter, 167 ; feeding, taking 

 honey, pasturage, 168 ; feed, Italian 

 v. British, under floor, driving, unit- 

 ing, 188; at flower shows, uniting 

 stocks, 28.' ; season in Herts, 297; 

 in Northumberland, 298; perforated 

 zinc for supers, 317; in 1877, 317; 

 gossip, 318; Ligurians, 335; and 

 pollen, 336 ; artificial foundations, 

 335; food, empty comb on supers, 

 224 ; gossip, 243 ; under a floor, 

 honey; fermenting, 244; united 

 swarms, 261 ; wasps in hive, weak 

 hive, 262; Pettigrew's keeping, 355; 

 gossip, bar-framed hives, 356; 

 Stewart on-hive system, 375; comb 

 foundations, keeping experience, 

 376; chloroforming, 394: killed by 

 Tritoma. 407; Norfolk honey bar- 

 vest, size and Bhape of hives, ma- 

 nagement, 411; management of bar- 

 framed hives, 430 ; three honey 

 harvests, 447; large hives, 448; 

 large v. small hives, 465 ; enlarge- 

 ment of hives, take of honey, 466 ; 

 hive trials, 483 ; in towns, 484 ; bar- 

 framed hives and their manage- 

 ment, 501 ; in London, 502 



Beet, Silver, 349 



Begonias, tuber aus-rooted, 203; win- 

 tering tuberous-rooted, 500 



Berkeley, Rev. M. J., photo of, 8 



Berkhampstead Cottage Garden So- 

 ciety's Show, 255 



Berkshire Root Show, 418 



Birds friends of the garden, 307 



Birmingham Poultry Show, 21, 334, 

 429,443; Columbarian, 430 



Blue in gardens, 103 



Bocconia japonica, 363 



Bollea Lalindei, 401 



Bone, dust for flowers, 814; manure, 

 83 



Border flowers, 95, 121, 136, 200, 292, 

 311, 324, 371, 382, 421, 438, 495 ; herba- 

 ceous, 169, 202 



Boronia elatior, 275 



Boston Poultry Show, 104 



Botanic (Royal) Society's aquatic 

 house, plants in, 72 



Bougainvillea spectabilis not flower- 

 ing, 314 



Bougainvilleas, 185 



Bourg-la-Reine Rosery, 193 



Bouquet, 325 



Bonvardia culture, 463 



Box edging, 407 



Bradford Poultry Show, 104 



Brahma vulture-hocked, 244 



Brahmas, management of, 262 



Brassicas bolting, 82 



Briar Stocks, 82 



Briars, culture of seedling. 373 ; seed- 

 lings, 257, 403 



Brighton Horticultural Show, 240 



Brisbane Botanic Garden, 325 



" British Industries — Horticulture," 

 830 



British plants for gardens, 454 



Broccoli, Veitch's New Autumn, 353 



Buckwheat, 183; culture, 852 



Budding, 81 



Buddlea asiatioa, 307 ; globosa, 813 



Bulbs, planting, 383 ; in water, 814 



Bugworts, 438 



Burnell's poultry, 409 



Butterfly, Coliaa edusa, 288 



Cabbage Sowing, 141 



Cabbagewort culture, 102, 1C3 



Cairnsmore, S26 



Calanthes, 332 



Calceolaria, cuttings, 293 ; lobata, 

 401; sowing, 186 



Calceolarias, culture of herbaceous, 

 390 



CalJa rethiopiea seed, 887 



Camellias, buds falling, 441; culture, 

 886, 413 : fimbriata. 452 ; scale on, 

 295 ; thrips on, 428 ; under Vines, 

 352; white, 481; wintering, 185 



Campanula, culture, 138 ; Medium 

 calycanthema, 183 ; rotundifolia, 202 



Canaries, breeding, 125; high colour- 

 ed, 466; moulting, 224; notes on, 

 429; teaching to sing, 63; traffic in, 

 85; unhealthy, 126 



Canary asthmaed, 853 ; longevity, 

 355; treatment, 316 



Candytufts, 452 



Cannas, 201 



Canterbury Poultry Show, 464 



Cape Jasmines, 44t 



Cape plants, 351 



Caper Plant, 54 



Carbolic acid v. mice, 19 



Cardiff Castle, 252 



Cardoons, earthing, 219 



CariBsa grandiflora, 275 



Carlisle, lys ; Bee Show, 224 ; Inter- 

 national Horticultural Show, 71,184, 

 177, 194,209,230 



Carmarthen Poultry Show, 482 



Carnation and Picotee Show, 32, 41, 52, 

 99, 159 



Carnation and Picotees— at Slough 

 and Clapbam, 114; National Show 

 of, 113 ; for forcing, 122 



Carnation, culture, 220, 379 ; layering, 

 352 



Carnations, 49 ; in beds, 419; winter- 

 flowering, 267 



Carpet bedding, 307 



Carter's Root Show, 844, 388, 406 



Castle Coch Vineyard, 95 



Cat Show, Aquarium, 22 



Cauliflower, Autumn Giant, 425; aEd 

 Broccoli defined, 497 ; Veitch's Au- 

 tumn, 269 



Cauliflowers, protecting, 831 



Ceanothus azureus, 213, 292 



Cedronellas, 292 



Celery, 443; earthing, 219,872; winter- 

 ing, 332; worm-eaten, short-stalked, 

 42 



Ceiosia culture, 60 



Cement walks and edgings, 271 



Ceropegia Barkleyi, 275 



Ceteracb officinarum culture, 428 



Chalcidida ignita, 166 



Charcoal for flowers, 314 



Checking growth, 426 



Chelmsford Poultry Show, 43 



Cherries, protecting, 451 



Cherry, trees unfruitful, 165. 277 ; 

 espaliers, 395; Schmidt's Bigarreau, 

 402 



Cbeshunt, a morning at, 36 



Chicken feeding, 297 



Chickens, cramped, 183; maggots in 

 crop, 146; paralysed, 106 



Chicory culture, 372 



Christmas decorations, 468, 471, 479 



Christmas Ro3es, 897 



Chili Pine, 232 



Chrysanthemum culture, 812. 313, 390 ; 

 management, 219; potting, 41 ; 

 shows, 344, 405, 461 



Chrysanthemums, for exhibition, 823 ; 

 in London, 364; at Crystal Palace, 

 388; at Slough, 404; select, 428, 443, 

 462; earl v-flo we ring, 479; Betting, 

 203; White, 407 



Cider fruits of Hereford, 15 J 



Cineraria, culture, 103 ; leaf diseased, 

 242 



Cinerarias not expanding, 431 



CirenceBter Poultry Show, 39S 



Citron leaves blotched, 220 



Clarkias, double, 94 



Claycross Flower Show, 158 



Claytonia virginica, 116 



Cleckheaton foultry Show, 84 



" Clematis as a Garden Flower," 274 



Clematis propagation, 220 



Clematises, 434 



Clerodendron, 480; Bal'ouri culture, 

 374; fallax, 201 



Cleveland House, 292 ; carpet bedding, 

 182 ; sale of plants at, 344 



Clifton Rose Show, 59 



Climber, evergreen for unheated con- 

 servatory, 203 ; for Bouth aspect 

 890; stove, 102 ; sweet-scented, 66 



Climbing plants, management of, 

 256 



Coal ashes as manure, 374 



Cockerel's tail, 394 



Coleus, not coloured, 42 ; culture, 184 



Colletia horrida, 344 



Colorado beetle, 32, 54, 94, 199; de- 

 stroyed by Paris green, 9 ; model, 

 134 



" Colorado Potato Beetle," 184 



Committeemen exhibiting, 221 



Conifers at Mells Park, 458 



Conifers, pruning and renovating, 

 361; transplanting, 255 



Conservatory, heating, 295 ; venti- 

 lation, 277 



Coombe Cottage, 84 ; garden, 426 



Corchorus japonica variegated, 278 



Cornish gardens, 177, 217, 288, 346, 419, 

 476 



Coronilla Emerus, 426 



CotoneaBter buxifolia, 286 



CottagerB' Show, 181 



Cottingham Poultry Show, 205 



Covent Garden Market, 24, 46, 64, 86, 

 106, 126, 146, 163, 188, 206, 224, 244, 262, 

 280, 298, 318, 336, 856, 876, 394, 412, 430, 

 448, 466, 471,484, 502 



Coventry Show, Pigeons, &c, 855 



Creeping Jenny, 72 



Creosote for garden nets, 123 



Crinum capense planting, 352 



Crowfoots. 371 



Croydon Horticultural Show, 423 



Cryptogamic Society of Scotland, 



Crystal Palace, 213 ; arrangement, 227 ; 

 Horticultural Show, 248 ; Show, 134 ; 

 Poultry Show, 391, 4C9 ; poultry sche- 

 dule, 333 



Cucumber, culture, 60, 164, 887, 427 

 management, 241 



Cucumbers, 313, 480; culinary, 108; 

 disease of, 116; for winter forcing, 

 142; SoolyQua, 103; Belect,283; im- 

 pregnating, 42; roots diseased, 

 diseased, 463 ; at Eastnor, 389; bot- 

 tom heat, 373; raising plants, 481; 

 winter culture, 190; withering, 82 



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