JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



[ January 16, 1873. 



Diplopappus chrvsophv'.la, 110 



Dirt, utility of, 4l8 



Disa grandiflora culture, 340 



Disease, can plants communicate ? 

 245 



Dodecatheon Jeffreyi culture, 314 



Dorkings, 438; breast and tail, 366; 

 Cuckoo's plumage, 366 ; exhibiting, 

 484 ; cock wounded, 484; judging 

 Silver-Grey, 524 ; Grey, 202 ; plum- 

 age, 202 ; characteristics of Silver- 

 Grey, 222; mating, 106; Dark Grey 

 becoming lighter, 106 ; Red, 320 ; 

 Dark, exhibiting, 356 ; sneezing, 70 



Drabas, 378 



Dragon Tree, a new, 439 



Drainage, £93; of land, 515 



Drawing fcr g trdeners. 359 



Drawing-room fire, heating from, 120 



Dropmore pinetnm, 205 



Dry rot, 202 



Dubbing, age for, 142 



Dnblin (Royal) Society's Poultry 

 Show, 501 



Ducklings, dying, 106 ; wings twisted, 

 263 



Ducks, East Indian, extra prize for, 

 456; Rouen and Aylesbury crossed, 

 506; legs paralysed, 106; without 

 water, 184; convulsed, 124; young 

 dving, 124; rearing, 417; weight for 

 exhibition, 418; without water, 202; 

 Musk, 222 ; Aylesburv. bills spot- 

 ted, 260; Rouen, 282, 35*, markings, 

 202; washing for exhibition, 88; ap- 

 parently paralvsed, 88 



Dundee Poultry Show, 526 



Durham, crops near, 332; Pigeon 

 Show, 5C3 



Earwigs on Feens, 239 



Ebury Square, 82 



Fcclesfield Poultry Show, 277 



Echeverias, 256 ; glauca, "wintering, 

 176; propagation, 233 



Edging plants, purple, bronze, and 

 golden, 101 



Edinburgh, Cat and Rabbit Show, 48 ; 

 Christmas Club Poultry Show, 503 



Egg-eating pullet, 282 



Egg-layers, experiments with, 47S 



Eggs, hatching in a greenhouse, 484 ; 

 increase of. 19S; keeping, 123; pro- 

 ducers of, 320; in confined space, 

 320; for London, 356; production, 

 398, 277; retention, 299; Bending 

 abroad, 299 ; broken in carriage, 299 ; 

 imported, 336; not hatched, 88 



Elder cuttings and rabbits, 255 



Elm, bleeding, 138 : tree,Washington's, 

 349 



Emigrating gardener, 475 



England, its variable climate, 7S 



Entomological Society's Meeting, 81, 

 408, 471 



Entomology, economic, prizes for, 98 



Episema cseruleocephala, 44 



Eranthemums, 46S 



Erfurt seed-growers, 125, 185 



Eridge Castle, 25 J 



Eiitrichum nanum, 324 



Eucalvptus, globulus, z72 ; seed, sow- 

 ing, 101 



Euonymus europajus culture. 476 



Euphorbia jacquiniseflora culture, 04 



Evergreens, transplanting, 275 ; select 

 for borders, 853 



Everlastings, gathering, 133 



Exhibiting a hen and puilet, 355: 

 white fowls, 356 



Exhibitor questioning julge. 413 



Eyelids of chickens swollen, 184 



Fadyenia pholtfera, 207, 208 

 Fairy rings on lawn, 121 

 Falkirk Poultry Show, 431 

 Fantails' crowns, 484 

 Farm poultry, 257 

 ^nrnworth Poultry Show. 199 

 Feather-eating. 239 ; poultry, 276, 338 

 Fence, painting boarded, 352 

 Fernerv, climber tor, 295 ; construct- 

 ing, 391: Mr. Smee's, 62; site for, 

 120 ; in window, 453 

 Terns, cutting down, 452; charcoal for, 

 432 ■ packing for importation, 137 ; 

 raising from spores, 68 ; notes upon, 

 205; fructification of, 206; select 

 exotic,256; Silver, 197 

 TVs culture, 71; m pots, 29; mildew- 

 wg 101 ; trees, Sussex standard, 

 36y, tree pruning, 291, trees casting, 

 fruit, 352 

 Filberts, planting, iSS 

 Filbert catkins, 476 , 

 Florists' flowers, treatises on,36< 

 Flower gardening. 143 

 Flowers-beds, 119, Slo, reg^ating, 

 " 119 beds, shrubs for centres, 31»; 

 pots, washing. 333; cut. 47, 498; 

 hardy plants, sc, for furnishing. 47 ; 

 light-emitting, 425; on New York 

 stock Exchange, 91; supporting in 

 open beds. 187 ; French love of, 249 

 Forcing, house, covering, 314; pit 



uses, 294 

 Forsyth's Nursn-y, 388 

 Fowls— destroying lice on, 222 ; fight- 

 in g, marking, feeding 484; stock of, 

 r ,06* for profit and as a means of 

 subsistence, 22; purple lumps on, 



Fowls— Continued. 

 28; dying, 70; for confined space, 

 70, 88, 320, 33S; and rats, 88: which 

 breed is best? 47, 86; effect of 

 alcoholic liquors on, 51; tares as 

 food for, 355; white for exhibition. 

 356; food for. 356; poisoned by 

 Lavender, 101 ; March pullets laying, 

 106 ; exhibiting hen in two classes, 

 If 6; feather-eating, 106; expense 

 and produce of, 138 ; removing gas 

 tar from plumage, 418; feeding, 418 ; 

 water for, 418 ; for profit, 438 ; dying, 

 ■538; liver disease, 438; crooked- 

 breasted, 438 



Frames, protectors of cold, 385, 444 



France, notes made in, 331 



Freezing, water prevent ng. 359 



Frost, Mr. P., 205 ; testimonial to, 332, 

 490 



Frosts, early, 301 



Fruit— crops. 153, 227; not grown by 

 exhibitor, 443; room, 370; Show, 

 Great International, 210; weighing, 

 334; crops, 12; garden, value of an 

 acre, 40; preserving, 319; trees, 

 cropping between, 120, for west wall, 

 255, depres-ing branches, 308, plant- 

 ing, 313, pruning and mulching, 314, 

 pruning, 331, cause of canker, 12, 

 house for growing along with plants, 

 17, management of orchard house, 

 53, happiness. 53, out-door culture, 

 66, lichen on, 452, paint for, 412 



Fruiterers' Company, 95 



Fuchsias, culture, 39 ; flower, large, 

 328; pruning, 334; thrips on, 238; 

 Sunray, 426 



Fuel consumption, 453 



Funkias and'culture, 358 



Furze, cutting down, 432 



Gainsborough Poultry Show, 103 



Galeopsis Tetrahit, 138 



Galvanised wire lor fruit trees, 519; 

 for training, 370. 468 



Game, and Malay, crossing, 5 r 6; 

 showing, 48i ; Bantams' spurs, 70; 

 fowls for table, 124, chickens over- 

 stimulated, 142, promoting con- 

 dition, 320; Dnckwinged, 338; breed- 

 ing Black Red. c56 ; rearing, 260 



"Garden, My," its plan, &c, 40, 62, 82, 

 92 



Gardener, Royal, at Frogmore. 135 



Gardeners' Royal Benevolent Institu- 

 tion anniversary, 3 



Gardeners, and their apprentices, 405 ; 

 assistant, notice to, 453 ; emigrating, 

 499; hours of labour, 84; self-im- 

 provement. 512 ; who have children, 

 a plea for, 214, 244, 285, 302 ; improve- 

 ment of young, 239 



Gardening, this year's. 321, 344, S83, 

 405, 421 ; jottings of 1872, 488 



Gardens, open, 82 



Garston Vineyard, 13t 



Gas, lime, applying, 294 ; stovp, 493 



Gaultheria fragrantissima, 168 



Geese, distinguishing sex, 438 



Gems, hardy, 302. 323, 377,4^4 



Geraniums — bedding, 205 ; forming 

 large. 313 ; succession of, 323 : water- 

 ing, ;334 ; notes oo, 339; standard, 

 341 ; winter-flowering, 461; potting, 

 369 ; old v. young plants for cut 

 blooms, 412; insects, 413; leaves 

 caterpillar-eaten, 217, spots on, 421; 

 forming standard, 432; select, 191; 

 prizes for, 205 ; several in one 

 pot, 217; sowing, 21; variegated, 73, 

 110: at Chilwell Nurseries. 152; 

 What is a Bicolor? 255; Tricolor and 

 Bicolor,277 



Gesneras not flowering, 353 



Ghent International Horticultural 

 Show, 272 



Gladiolus, culture, 243, 301, 324, 444, 

 450; conn on bulbs, 493; disease, 

 399,440; at Kensington, 149; plant- 

 ing, 356; and Potato disease, 422; 

 lists, 324; John Standtr-h. 169 



Glasgow International sdiow, 194 



Glasgow Horticultural Society's 

 Show, 229 



Glasnevin Botanic Garden, plants in 

 flower in June, 76 



Gazed garden structures, 465 



Glazing, double, 283, 327 



Gloriosa suDerba, sowing, 352 



Gloxinias, 359; culture, 272; after 

 flowering, 177 



Godwinia gigas, 465 



Gold fish, 16U 



Goniopteris crenata, 206 



Goose eggs, hatching, 260 



Gooseberries, hush pruning, £58, 432, 

 498; caterpillar, 67; select, 177 ; 

 sparrows and buds, 432 ; transplant- 

 ing, 334 



Grafting, cutting and root, 285; fork 

 and splice. 226; notch, 95; single 

 and double cleft, 34 



Grapes— abortive, 176 ; not colonirng, 

 275; at Diumlanrig, 281; late-keep- 

 ing, 291; late-hanging. 838; shri- 

 velled, 120, 352 ; rusted, 193 ; in green- 

 bouse vineries, 21G; packing, 121; 

 withering, 216; Irown spotted, 256; 

 scalded, 67. 157; changing colour, 

 67, 157; shanking, 85; Black with 

 Muscats, 498; Golden Champion 



Grapes— Continued 

 Bpotted, 275 ; Duke of Buccleuch 

 keeping. 450 : Waltham Cross, 304, 

 470 ; White Frontignan cracking, 

 120. See Vises, 



Grass in poultry run, 432 



Grasses, ornamental, 29, 128, 256; 

 growing and gathering, 29; gather- 

 ing, 138 



Grave, shrubs for, 452 



Gravel, weight of yard, 432 



Greenhouse, arrangements ; aspect, 

 67; flowers for August, 196; heating 

 small, 214; plants, culture of, 37; 

 removing, 334; use of sma'l, 469; 

 stove for, 412; temperature, 432; 

 ventilation, 335 



Grubs, and slugs, destroying, £76; 

 in garden, 475 



Guinea fowls' cry, 506 



Guinea pigs v. rats, 27 



Gvuinogramma chrvsophylla culture, 

 294 



Habrothamnus elegans fruiting- 

 131 



Halifax Poultry Show, 398 



Haltica nemorum, 164 



Hamburghs, Golden-spangled, points 

 of, 418; Black, flesh of, 433; points 

 of Silver-spangled, 506 



Hand-lights, Gilbert's, 73 



Hants and Berks Agricultural So- 

 ciety's Poultry Show, 23; Suttons' 

 stand, 35 



Hardy gems, 71, 93 



Hares barking trees, 453 



Harlow's boiler and pipe junctions, 

 1S8 



Hartlepool Poultry Show, 458, 473 



Haslingden Poultry Show, 66 



Hay manure, 391 



Heather, transplanting, 498 



Heating, conservatory, &c, 197; by 

 hot air, 75, 271 ; two houses indepen- 

 dently, 353; bv water and air, 110, 

 167, 214, 243 ; by steam, 47 ; by stoves, 

 214; a chambered border, 217; 

 glazed verandah, 217; warning in,465 



Heliotrope cuttings, compost, 197 



Helleborus niger culture. 421 



Hens, dying, 142; with enlarged crop, 

 7); spurred, 356 



Herbaceous plants" raised from seed, 

 412; twenty hardy, 256 



Herts (West) Poultry Show, £04 



Hetton Poultry Show, 158 



Highland Society's Show, 132 



Hindlip Hall, 447 



Holland House, 350 



Holly hedges, cutting. 177 



Hollyhocks, select, 314 



Honey, taking, 382 



Honeysuckle, Japan, fruiting, 50S; 

 pruning. 370 



Hooker, Dr., and Mr. Ayrton, 30, 55, 

 63; conciliation, 235 



Horticultural auction and subscrip- 

 tion rooms, 35 



Horticultural houses, use of. 334 



Horticultural (Royal! Society— Bir- 

 mingham Show, 8, boilers at, 55, 80, 

 92,112,135,143, 187, 194, 217,246,288, 

 359, congress at, 11, 31, 59, 77, garden 

 structures and implements at, 42, 80, 

 145, dinner at, 14 ; recognition to Mr. 

 Badger, 35; results of, 407. 442; 

 country Show at Bath, 312, 367, 407; 

 Committee Meetings and Shows, 2, 

 8, 10, 56, 111, 149, 191, 227, 266. 362, 3P3, 

 442 ; in 1873, 349 ; entomological col- 

 lections, prizes for, 98; Fruit Com- 

 mittee decisions, 513 



Horticulture popularised, 225 



Hothfield Place, 467 



Hot-water, cistern, 523, overflowing, 

 370; pipes injuring plants, 157: for 

 early forcing, 177; pipes, painting, 

 352. level of flow and return, 412 



Houdans, 438; for laving, 124; lame, 

 124 : lege, 202 



Hyacinths, bulbs displaced. 452; cul- 

 ture, 89; in glasses, roots destroyed, 

 412; late flowering, in glasses, 314; 

 manure for, 499: seed mowing. 21; 

 select varieties, 90, 197, 233; for pots, 

 239 



Hyde Poultry Show, 501, 525 



Hydrangea exposed, J32 



Hymenodium erinilum, 2*6 



Iberis, girraltarica, 93; jucuxm, 



323 

 Ice-house, roof, 294 ; first in England, 



330 

 Ice Plant, 422 ; culture, 101 ; seedlings, 



466 

 Indian rubber plant, 523 

 Insect destroyer, Clarke's. S77 

 Insects, predatorv of gardens, 43, 74, 



92, 164, i34, 264, 350. 519 : useful and 



noxious, 812: exhibition of, 812; 



shaped for flowers, 312 

 lonopsidium acaule culture, 466 

 Ipswich Poultry Show, 18\3S6 

 Ireland, notes in season. '2'.i0 

 Iresine Lindeni, propagating, 177 

 Iiis iberica, 93 

 Irises for public parks, 292 

 Ismene calatbinum, culture, 227; not 



flowering, 217 



I very. Mr. J„ 110 



Ivv, borders, 34, 101 ; for church wal's, 



276; cutting. 22, 217; on fruit trees, 



431; striking, 22 

 Ixoras, Prince of Orange, Williamsii, 



213; culture, 213 



Japanese Ambassadors at Messrs. 



Suttons', 450 

 Jasmines, pruning, 370, 476 

 Jerusalem Artichoke flowers, 432 

 Johnstone Poultry Show, 416 

 Joints of hot-water pipes, 157 

 Judge's mistake. correcting, 484 

 Judging judges, 124 

 June-flowering plants at Glasnevin, 73 

 Jungle Fowl, 160 



KiLMIA CULTURE, 476 



Kalosanthes after flowering, 176 



Keighley Poultry Show, 199 



Kew, Royal Botanic Gardens, 55, 63 



stove plants flowering, 408 

 Kidney Bean flowers falling, 157; on 



Christmas-day, 157 

 Kilmarnock Poultry Show, 436, 478 

 Kitchen boiler, heating from, 37 J 

 KohlRnbi,92 



Lachenalia tricolor, 272 



Laird, Mr. W.P, 194 



Lanarkshire, season in, 409 



Lapageria, culture in pots, 308; in 

 cold conservatory, 335; rosea in 

 Scotland, 262 ; planting, 275 ; and 

 splendens culture, 340; rosea pot- 

 ting, 475, soil, 391 



Lark declining, 460 



Lasiandra macrantha, 120 ; culture, 

 498 



Laurel, bank, 256 ; cutting striking, 

 101; hedges, cutting, 177; leaves 

 fumigation, 3?5; prumng,256 



Lavender poisonous to fowls, 101 



Lawn, grass failing, 314; manage- 

 ment, 137; parching, 256; plantain 

 on, 314; sand, 39. 176; v. kitchen 

 garden, 66; weedy, 176 



Leaves, skeletonising, 268, 374 



Leeds Park, 272 



Leeds Poultry Show, 500 



Leeks, 82 



Leghorns, Brown, 316 



Leueostegia immersa, 206 



Lewes Poultry Show, 526 



Libonia floribunda, 452 



Lice, destroying, 28; on fowl3, 222, 

 281 



Lightning, precautions against, 100 



Lilies, greenhouse, 67 ; Guernsey and 

 Belladonna after flowering, 334, 353 

 Japan, 176 



Lilium, aura turn in August, 452 

 croceum culture, 453 ; lancifolium 

 bulbs, planting, 499; auratum, 181; 

 compost for, 412; culture, 127, 145, 

 148; soil for, 101; not healthy, 137, 

 after flowering, 138; speciosum after 

 flowering, 177, not flowe ing, 216: 

 auratum, seed sowing, 413; gigan- 

 tcum culture, 391; VVashingtonia. 

 426 



Lily of the Valley, forcing, 352 



Limestone walls fruit trees, 84 



Liming heavy soil, lol 



Linaria maroccana, 168 



Linnaeus' centenary, 312 



Liparis, auriflua, 44; chrvsorrhcei, 

 92 



Lisianthus princeps and culture, 107 



Liskeard Poultry Show, 104 



Litanthus pusillus, 470 



Lihospermum Gastoni. 323 



Liver disease in fowls, 240 



Liverpool flora, 235 



Livistonia altissima, 523 



Loam, storing turfy, 408 



Lobelias, wintering, 334; not flower- 

 ing, 335 



Locusts for curry, 470 



London, laying-fowls for, 356 



Long Sutton Poultry Show, 220, S17 



Luton Hoo.310 



Luton Poultry Show, 121 



Lychnis Lagasc«,32S 



L>tham Hall, 383, 406 



Mackenzie, Mr. J„ iOd 

 Madnip. 61 



Magnolia grandiflora priming. 311 

 Maidstone Poultry Show, 433 

 Ma«ze culture, 334 

 Malaya for exhibition, 356 

 Malmesbury Show. 218, 250 

 Mamestra persicaria. 1 . brassier, Ac . 



265 

 Manchester International Flower, 



Ac, Snow, 312 

 Mandevilia, in co'd conservatory, 335 



in winter, 239 

 Manure, insects in, 391 

 Manx men, among. 5& 95, 1£3 

 Maranta Seemanui, i91 

 Market gardening, 176, 177 

 Market Harborotigb Poultry Show, 300 

 Markets. 28, 52, 70, 88. 106, 124, 142. 160. 



1*4. 2'i2. 2 J 2. '.Mi. -1 0, -■-:, ;: i i, .j ,, . : , 



356, 374. 395, 41s. 43m, t6C, 481, 5C6, 523 

 Masdevallia Lindeni, 27i 



