January 16, 1873. ] 



JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 



INDEX. 



in 



Abies obovata, pruning, 499 

 Abntilon Thompson!, cutting down, 



275 

 Acanthada, winter-blooining, 468 

 Achimenes, culture, 67 ; insectrinfest- 



ed, 47 : shoots browned, 101 

 Adare Manor, 211.131, 249 

 Adiantums, watering, 432 

 .Echmea culture, 238 

 Agave, americana, 191, 272 ; untbriv- 



ing, 40 

 Ageratums. potting, 256 

 Agricultural (Royal) Society of Ire- 

 land's Poultry Show, 139 

 Air, giving, 498 ; at night, 370 

 Air-roots on Heaths, &c, 498 

 Airdrie Poultry Show, 479 

 Airedale Poultry Show. 200 

 Alcohol, its effects on fowls, 51 

 Aldborough Poultry Show. 158 

 Alder's influence on soil. 513 

 Alexandra Park, horticultural school 



at, 832; shows, 349 

 Allerton Poultry Show, 189 

 Aloes, American, blooming, 82 

 Allotment gardens, 156 

 AlpineB. 12 



Alternantheras, 256; magnifiea, 216: 

 wintering, 216, 314 ; propagation, 238 

 Alyssum alpestre, 378 

 Amaranthus salicifolius culture, 101, 



197 

 Amaryllis seed sowing, 157 

 American blight, 120, 498, 499, 520; 



preventing, 419 

 Ammoniacal solution for plant-dip- 

 ping. 335 

 Amonum melegueta, 272 

 Amorphophallus Rivieri, 521 

 Ampelopbis Veitcbii culture, 452 

 AndaluB ans, 70 ; plumage, 438 

 Anemone, angulosa, 4 4 ; palmata, 

 404; apennina, 404; baldeirais, 404; 

 ranunculoides, 404; vernalis, 404 

 Annuals, autumn-sown hardy, 223 

 Anthuriuma in flower, 496 

 Ants, 157 : banishing, 21 

 Aphelandra aurantiaca Roezlii, 72 

 Apples— sowing pips, 238 ; for Gallo- 

 way.289 ; pruning, 275, old trees, 476 ; 

 Btoring, 275: tree, home of, 464 ; 

 Btocks, 412, 419, raising quickly, 419 ; 

 crop, American, 521 : for South 

 Wales, 431 ; weights of, 412 ; Gallo- 

 way Pippin, 272 ; Red Hawthornden, 

 269 ; Peasgood'a Nonesuch, 310 ; 

 Yorkshire Beauty, 290 

 Apricots after Apricots, 370 ; failures, 



470 , , 



Aquilegia, caerulea, 93; leptoceras, 

 130, 154 ; glandulosa, 109 ; hardiness, 

 36,79; and red spider, 109 

 Aralias,257 



Araucaria.excelea, 495; imbricata, 244 

 Arch, evergreen for, 176 

 Arctia lubricipeda, 234 

 Arecas, 511 

 Artichokes, culture, 118 ; Jerusalem 



and Globe, culture, 284 

 Arum italicum culture, 453 

 Ashes, 522 ; wood, as a manure. 353 

 Asparagus, bed, 368 ; beds weedy, 157 ; 

 culture, 100; dressing, 36S; forcing, 

 439 ; planting, 85, 476 ; shoots, 157 

 Aspidi'um trifoliatum, 207 

 Auricula culture, 66 

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

 63,131 



Badger, Mr., recognition to, 35 

 Balantium Culcita, 207, 208 

 Balcony gardening, 17 

 Bambusa Thouarsii, poisonous hairs, 



496 

 Bank, planting a conical, 452; shrubs 



for, 498 

 Bantams, Black, at Manchester Show, 



460 ; breeding Black Rei Game. 41S ; 



cock undubbed, 374; in confined 



space, 123; producing, 106; prizes 



for, 138; legs of "White, 163; Pile 



Game, 282; not high flyers, 300; 



excrescences on legs, 355; scurfy 



and losing feathers, S8 

 Barlevmeal, allowance for fowls, 299; 



mixing. 800 

 Barrhead Poultry Show, 591, 524 

 Barrow^ new form, 327 

 Basket, plants for hanging. 21 

 Biittersea P<±rk bedding-out, 267 

 Bawtry Poultry Show, 158 

 Beansj preserving Kidney, 142 

 Bedding-out, 5, 38; in the London 



parks, 166. 210 

 Bedding plants, to 



propagating. 205; 



wintering, 275,340 



be given, 292; 

 peat for, 2.7; 



Beech, weeping, 410 

 Bees — new adapters, 163 ; in America, 

 482; apiarian notes, If 5, 141: brood 

 in supers, 62; comb broken. 260; 

 in a dilemma, 123; driving, 52; 

 drone eggs laid by workers, 221 ; 

 number of droneB in a hive, 28; 

 drones late in autumn, 460; farming 

 in 1872, 529; feeding, 183, 282, SCO, 

 483; feeding in autumn, 459; bottle- 

 feeding, 395. 437 ; feeding and ven- 

 tilating united stocks, 506 ; flower, 

 281; foul brood, 69; in collateral 

 hives, 183; in small hives, 106; 

 hives, American. 482, altering, 319, 

 281. bar and bar frames, 201, 242, 80f>, 

 896, altering position of, 184, 528, re- 

 moving into bee house, 438, under 

 roofed Bland, 418, Stewnrton, 506, 

 527, Btraw, 483, upset, 896, Woodbury. 

 159; hives and honey, 242; and 

 honey at shows, 5", 259, 281, 298, 373, 

 417, in America, 528. France, 319; 

 honey candying, 437, 438, with 

 pollen, 124, selling price, 1(6; in 

 super, 222. great take of, 335; honey- 

 comb dark, 460 ; house for, 460 ; stings 

 of humble, 124 ; ligurianising, 27, 163, 

 259, 800 ; management, 27, 69 ; Petti- 

 grew's apiary and svstem, 299,319. 

 338, 374; queens, artificial. 298, ex- 

 pelling from hive, 506, fertile, 300, 

 mates of, 259, two in one hive. 222 ; 

 robber, 183; season of 1872,105.122, 

 182, 221, in Bucks, 201. in Cheshire, 

 459, near Derby, 159, in Herts, 299 

 in Lanarkshire, 409, 483. in Scotland, 

 395; sending to a distance, 1C6; 

 stock hive with comba partially 

 filled, 438 ; supers full of honey, 184 ; 

 for straw hives, 160; not leaving 

 supers, 202 ; not working in supers, 

 123 ; taking honey in supers, 123 ; 

 supering, 141; superfluous swarms, 

 106 ; swarming persistent. 52, 105 ; 

 transferring, 201,222; uniting casts, 

 184 ; ventilation, 337 ; watering, 483 ; 

 wax, preparation of, 282, price of, 

 106 ; wax moth, 53 

 Beet, culture, 303; red, 261; for deco- 

 ration, 264 

 Begonia culture, 157 

 Belgian horticulture, 428 

 Benthamia fragifera, 423 

 Berwick and Border Ornithological 



Show, 502 

 Benlah t advice from, 73 

 Birch, inBects on, 349; purple-leaved, 



252 ; weeping, 410 

 Birkenhead Poultry Show, 179 

 Birmingham, its botany, 11 ; Poultry 

 Show, 413, 453 ; Pigeons at, 481; 

 Summer Poultry Show, 25 

 Blackberry plantation, forming, 452 

 Blackburn Poultry Show, 103 

 Blennocampa Cerasi, 520 

 Blooming plant, what is a? 157 

 Bluebottle, Cora, for bouquets, 101 

 Boiler, far from conservatory, 499 ; 

 heating two houses, 157 ; size of hot- 

 water, 853 

 Boilers at the Birmingham Roval 

 Horticultural Show. 55, 80, 92, 112, 

 135, 148, 167, 194, 217. 246, 288, 359 

 Bones, for manure, 275, 499 

 Borders, ribbon, 352 ; plants for, 352 ; 



evergreens for, 853 

 Boston Poultry Show, 48; Rabbits 



and Cage Birds at. 69 

 Botanic (Royal) Society's Show, 35 

 Bouquet making. 137 

 Bouquets, hand, 73 

 Box trees, trimming, 85 

 Bradford Columbarian Society, 297 

 Brahmas— breeding Light, 295, 374 ; 

 catarrhed, 438; chicken's leg weak, 

 505; cockerel for exhibition, 202; 

 eggs of Light producing Dark chick- 

 ens, 70; exhibition moulting, 70; 

 for exhibition, S9G ; hen with fallen 

 comb, 41R: as layers, 320; in small 

 space, 396; plumage. 4S8; pullet 

 crop-bound. 8*: pul'ets fat, 260; 

 weak-legged. 184 : weight, 356 ; the 

 Dark at Oxford, 392 ; Dark's comb, 

 202; Dark, 282; Light's feathers, 

 yellow, 202; Light, 86, 88, 121, 123, 

 160, at Crystal Palace and Birming- 

 ham. 505 

 Bramley Poultry Show, 104 

 Branches, beDdmgdown,30S; angular 



divergence, 309 

 Brandy from mosses, 235 

 Brewers' grains for fowls, 3381 

 Brighton Horticultural Show, 23' 

 Brodisa, coccinea, 324; multjflora, 



272 

 Brussels Sprouts, 92 ; culture, 431 



Buckinghamshire Poultry Show, 



258 

 " Buda and Blossoms," 467 

 Bnff Ermine moth, 234 

 Bulbs, in pois, 523; spring-blooming, 



157; planting, 293; treatment, 275 

 Bullfinch, to teach to pipe. 469 

 Bullfinches and insects, 45 

 Bull's nursery, 326 

 Burton-on-Trent Poultry Show, 514 

 Butterfly, rare, 211 



Cabbages, 255; for an early crop, 

 21 ; leaves twisted, 157 



Ca'adium esculentum, nymphscfo- 

 lium, 79 



Caladiums, wintering. 176 



Calceolarias, cuttings, 369, 475; fail- 

 ures, 323; potting,256: propagation, 

 487 ; seed, sowing, 226 : sowing for 

 Christmas-flowering, 22; mulching, 

 40; treatment of herbaceous after 

 flowering, 41 



Caledonian Horticultural Society's 

 Show, 489 



Camberwell Beauty moth. 235 



Cambridge Poultry Show, 24, 52, 456, 

 5C6; corrections, Ac, 483 



Camellias — for autumn, 514; border, 

 294; disbudding. 432; culture, 834; 

 for trellis, 475, 499 ; propapating, 452 ; 

 notes on, 857; out of doors, 121; 

 scale on, 262; thinning buds, 275; 

 unhealthy, 352 



Campanulas, hardv, 302; pyramidalia, 

 196 ; Vidalii, 98 



Camphor for fowls, 801 



Canaries, ailments, 241, £81, 337, 372; 

 breeding high-coloured and dark- 

 crested, 460; diseases, 159 ; ceaeing 

 losing, 460; indigestion, 241 



Cannas, flowering out of doors, 275; 

 in winter. 499 ; wintering, 852 



Capara, Mr.. 497 



Capsicum, Prince of Wales, 86 



Carbolic acid as a paint for fruit treeB, 

 412 



Carnations, not thriving, 391; points 

 in 1756. 292; seedlings flowering, 

 177; unhealthy, 197 ; wintering tree, 

 121 ; Souvenir de Malmaison cul- 

 ture, 176 



Carron, Stenhousemuir. and Larbert 

 Poultry and Canary Show, 435 



Castanea chrysophylla. 253 



Catalogue mistakeB at Oxford and 

 Croydon, 477 



Cats, pnzzing, 28 



Cattleya Harrisonis culture, 391 



Cauliflowers, 254 ; abortive, 83 ; de- 

 stroying caterpillars on, 22. 276; 

 plants. 293: seedlings, 522: winter- 

 ing. 293 ; Veitch's Autumn Giant, 431 



Cedar-pencil wood, 499 



Celery, blanching, 274: culture, 236, 

 474; diseased, 239; earthing-up, 254 

 overgrown, 391 



Centaureas, fpropagating, 177, 294; 

 wintering, 390 



Centropogon Lucvanus culture, 163 



Cerastium tomeniosum, 237 



Cereus, grandiflorus not flowering, 

 217 ; McDonaldi flowerless, -j94 



Chamonix to Paris, 264 



Charade, a gardener's, 471 ; poultry- 

 woman's, 142 



Charcoal stove, 335 



Charenton River, view on, 78 



Charring, 522 



Cheltenham Canary Show, 505 



Chepstow Poultry Show, 179 



Cherry, buds dried, 256; leaves, grnb 

 on, 120 ; tree unfruitful,67 ; Schmidt's 

 Bigarreau, 169 



Cheshire Poultry Show, 277 



Chestnuts, mysteriously gone, 359 ; 

 as food, 410 



Chickens, of different breeds in one 

 house, 484; food for, 28; marking, 

 70 

 : Children, teach to know plants, 466 



Chlidanthus fragrans, to flower, 177 

 , Chribtmas Rose culture, 421 

 , Chrysanthemum Mawii, 470 



Chrysanthemums, culture, 351, 498, 

 I 507: in the Temple Gardens, 367; 

 St^ke Newington Show, 388. 3S9; 

 South Essex Show, 402 ; liquid ma- 

 nure for, 256 ; manuring, 276 ; new 

 miniature, 292 ; stakes, 335 ; select, 

 547; protecting, 238 



Cienkowskia Kirkii, 473 



Cinchona culture in India, 135 



Cinerarias, maritima, cutting down, 

 352 ; sowing for Christmas-flower- 

 ing, 22 



Clarke's tubular boiler, 189 



Clcckhcaton Poultry Show, 105 "y 

 *' Clematis as a garden flower," 828 

 Clematis, and its culture, 275, 423; for 

 exhibition, 382 : Jackmanni. 452 ; 

 diseased, 120 ; planting, 452, 475 

 Cleveland Poultry Show, 158 

 Clia nthus Dampieri sickly, 217 

 Climatic changes, recent,*93 

 Climbers for house walls, 255 

 Clovenfords Vineyard, 145 

 Club-root. 475; in Cabbages, 238 

 Coccus Vitis, 74 



Cochins, cock declining, 506, cock 

 dying suddenly, SCO, cock lociug 

 feathers, 70; mating Buff, S20; dis- 

 eased, 52; weight. 52; legs scaly, 

 418; pointB of Buff, 418; satire on, 

 142 ; tumours, 160 

 Cock-crow in Australia, 139 

 Cock's influence, 52, 160; continuance 

 of, 160 ; on progeny, 52 ; inatten- 

 tive, 88 

 Cockerels for stock, 856 

 Coleus Verechaffelti, propagating, 177 

 Colletia bictonensis, 406 

 Colletias and other autumn-flowereis, 



448 

 Colocasia eacnlenta, nymphaefolia, 79 

 Columbarian (City) Society, 181 

 Columbarian (East London) Societ'* 



2(0 

 Concrete, wallB, 473 ; work perma- 

 nency, 426 

 Conifers, dimensions of, at Diopmore, 

 205 ; at Linton Park, 247, 287 ; for 

 damp soil, 391 

 Conservatory, climbers, 289; plants 

 for back wall, 217; management, 

 292; beating from parlour fire, 314 ; 

 roof, leaky, 353 

 Cooling's, Mr., bouquets at Derbv, 513 

 Copings for walls, 109, 375 

 (.'nrtlyline Gculdiana, 440 

 Cottage flower gardens, 145 

 tovent Garden Market, 28, 52, 70,88, 

 106. 124, 142, 160, 184, 2(2, 222, 242, 

 260, 282, SCO, S20, 838, 356, 874, E96, 

 418, 438, 460, 484, 5(6. 528; hietorv, 

 426,444; new flower market, 252 

 Cow .Parsnip, 61 



Cows, Ayrshire and Shetland, 124 

 Cranston's greenhouses, 146 

 Creve-Cceurs. face swollen, 282; pi ice 



of, 124 

 Crocuses, flowers after, 120 

 Crops for compensation, 263 

 Cross-breeding consequences, 142. 

 Croydon Poultry Show, 296,316, 354 

 Crystal Palace, exhibition of game 

 and sporting apparatus, 51 ; Rose 

 Show, 57; Horticultural Show, 189; 

 Poultry Show, 257, 276, 295, 414, 4S2, 

 484; £5 selling classes, 505; Pigeons 

 at, 423, 438, 459 ; Babbit Show, 855, 

 459 

 Cucumbers— failing, 482; for honee, 

 197: plant spaces, 452; plants from 

 cuttingB, 623 ; seed saving. 47 ; Beeds, 

 perfecting, 47 ; in winter, 834 ; winter 

 culture, 897; Long Gun, 170; Mar- 

 quis of Lorne, 39, 75 

 Cumberland Poultry Show, 527 

 Cups for points, 818 

 Currants, Lee's Prolific Black, 377 ; 

 tree Bhoots pithless, 431 ; Sphinx, 

 431 ; pruning, 432 ; transplanting, 324 

 Cutbush's Nursery, 366 

 Cuttings, late, 293 ; wintering, 195, 367, 



in boxes, 176 

 Cyathea elegans, 207. 208 

 Cyperns alternifoliuB vaiiegatus, pro- 

 pagating, 491 

 Cypress, historical, near Mc xico, 292 ; 

 wood gates of Const antinople, 332 



Dahlias, select, 275; storing. 2C6; 



Colibi for bedding,358 ; Dodd's Mary, 



343 

 Dalecbampia Roezlianarosea cultuie, 



164 

 Dangstein, 515 

 Darlington Canary Show, 416; Poultry 



Show, 24 

 Dealers and shows, 371, 392, 413 

 Delphiniums, 302 



Dendrobium. notes on. 403, 463, 514 

 Derby Ornithological Society's Show, 



437 

 Desfontainea spinoaa, 432 

 Devizes Pigeon Cup, 318 

 Dew of our gardens, 170 

 Dianthus alpinus. neglectus, 71 

 Dick Radclyffe & Co's seed ground, 



287 

 Dieffenbaehia Bausei, description and 



culture, 97 

 Digging and trenching, cost of, 370 



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