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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER 
v 
ABUTILON THOMSONI FL-PL., 
107 
Acacia long!folia, 95 
Achimenes, culture of, 340 
Actiniopteris radiata, 62 
Adiantum Collisii, 289 ; A. eu- 
neatnm as a wall plant, 196; 
A. neo-caledoni®, 499 
A£ranthus leonis, remarkable 
spur of, 532 
Aerides, 240 ; culture of 59 
Agath®a coslestis, 324 
Aieyrodes vaporariorum, 276 
Allamanda.prize paper on the, 
109; A. grandiflora, 295 ; cul¬ 
ture of, 491 
Alliums Ostrowskianum and 
neapolitanum, 524 
Alocasias, 220 
Alpine Auriculas. 416 
Alpine plants,“D.’s, Deal,” lec¬ 
ture on, 497 
Amaryllis Comte de Germiny 
certificated, 53: new variety at 
Chelsea, 247; Paragon, Niobe, 
The Queen. 255 : at Upper 
Holloway, 291; Lady Howard 
de Walden, 315 
Amasonia punicea, 435 
Amateur and cottager, 162 
American exhibition, 4»1 
American Florists, Society of, 
111 
Anagallis, culture of, 190 
Andromeda japonica, 376 
Anemones, culture of, 285; A. 
lhalictroides, 207 ; Empress 
Poppy, 460; variation of A. 
fnlgens and A, sylvestris, A. 
pulsatilla, 523 
Anguloa Ruckeri, 532 
Annuals—for border, 61,362; for 
stove and greenhouse, 173,190, 
232 ; hardy, for baskets, 203 ; 
for a garden near the sea, 329 
late, 509 
Anthericum Liliastrum, 476 
Anthuriums, 22 I 
Antirrhinums, 13 
Antweno. exhibition at, 192, 403, 
413; Exhibition Congress, 498 
Aphides—destroying, 384 ; on 
strongly scented plants, 480 
Apples—storing, 106,206: D’Arey 
Spice, 126; origin of, Keswick 
Codlin, 243 ; Old Nonpareil, 
299; the Sauce, 315; culture, 
457 ; double-blossomed, 528; 
insects infesting, 538 
Apple tree, grafted, 100 
Apricot culture in pots, 56; prize 
essay on the, 81 
Aquatics, select hardy Apono- 
getons, 520 
Araucaria, a large, 48; A.imbri- 
cata at Dupplin Castle, 50 
Arboricultural Society, the 
English, 155 
Asparagus, sowing and plant¬ 
ing, 245 ; failing, 451; A. plu- 
mosus for bouquets, 170; A. 
plumosus, 320 ; cutting, 535 
Asphalt walks, 79 
Asplenium fontanum, 62 
Aubrietias, 46, 476 
Auriculas—3,31,49,306 ; Alpine, 
56,86 ; not thriving, 163; notes 
on, 237 ; increasing, 280 ; Mrs. 
Moore, 315 ; in the ascendant, 
323; at Great Gearies, 332; 
Mabel. 333; W. Brockbank, 
336; Mr. Honeyman’s, 351; at 
South Kensington, 356 ; cul¬ 
tural notes on, 507 
Auricula Society, National, 7, 
312; and Mr. Dodwell, 36, 573 ; 
meeting of Southern Sec¬ 
tion, 53,110; Southern Show, 
335 
Australian Fern Paradise, 111 
Azaleas, 117; from Sheffield,212 ; 
Illuminator, 255 ; not flower¬ 
ing, 281; Elise Lieber, 315 ; 
culture in Belgium, 414; new 
varieties,415; mollis varieties, 
415 
Azara Gilliesi, 351 
INDEX. 
- o - 
B vkf,r, Mr. George, death 
Of, 444 
Balsam, culture of the, 232 
Banksia integrifolia, 189 
Bantam fowls and woodlice,24S 
Baobab tree, the 510 
Barkeria elegans, 53 
Bath Spring Show, 434 
Bath and West of England 
Show, prizes at, 440; horticul¬ 
tural tent, 490; at Brighton, 
495 
Beans—Gi rtf ord Giant. 143; 
Longpod, 207 : French, 289, 
331; Kidney. 264,443 
Bedding plants, 138 ; raising 
and preparing, 415 
Beech trees in Denmark, 250 ; 
heading down trees, 407 
Bees—and flowering plants, 19; 
hive-construction, 19; snnri- 
ous honey, 20 ; in a chimney, 
2); and fruit production, 42; 
honey market, 42 ; farming, 
55 ; seasonable hints on 
management, 77 ; manipula¬ 
tion, 78; British Honey Com¬ 
pany, 20, 118, 139, 160 , 181, 202, 
221, 259, 363—Mr. Peel’s reply, 
202; and Fruit Farming Com¬ 
pany, apiculture and horti¬ 
culture,99 ; qualities of honey, 
98 ; seasonable notes on, 118, 
180, 297, 362 ; notes on. 119; 
artificial swarming, 139; Na¬ 
tional Beekeepers’ Union, 
160, 342, 361. 383; the British 
Bee-keepers’ Association. 161, 
180, straw skeps v. frame 
hives, 181; preparing hives 
for swarming, 201 ; extract¬ 
ing honey, 201; the best hive, 
straw hives, ekes and nadirs, 
221; British Honey Company, 
British Hee-keepers’ Associa¬ 
tion and Mr. Peel, 222; season¬ 
able hints. 241 ; square 
Stewarton hive9, 241 ; early 
experience with.211 ; feeding, 
ventilating, joining, frater¬ 
nising, peameal for, the crisis 
in bee-keeping, 278 ; how 
close is the connection, 279 ; 
killing bees in autumn, 279; 
zinc floor for hives, 298. 383 ; 
the Honey Company, 293,311, 
363, 384 ; frame hives and 
queen-rearing, 319 ; honey- 
production in Canada, 319 ; 
economy in bee-keeping, 340, 
S82; hive without cross-sticks, 
842 ; varieties of honey bees, 
363 ; early spring breeding, 
450 ; preparing for supering, 
427; manipulating by lamp¬ 
light, correct accounts, 449; 
interchanging combs, spread¬ 
ing brood,at the Lincolnshire 
Agricultural Show, 450; the 
season, cleaning floors, 470; 
robbing, loss of queen, early 
swarms, 471; honey sixpence 
a pound, industry of bees,493; 
spreading brood, 492; prevent¬ 
ing swarming, 514; late Mr 
Peel, moving bees, 515 ; 
massacre of, 536; supering, 
537; eastern races, 538 
Beeson’s manure, 458,500 
Begonias—Tuberous, 56, 79,300, 
139, 4.56; starting Tuberous, 
210; propagating Tuberous, 
303 
Bentham, will of Mr. George, 67 
Berberises, 475; Berberis steno- 
phylla, 476 
Bignonia eapreolata atro-san- 
guinea, 451 
Birds, scaring, 350 
Birmingham Botanic Garden 
420 
Birmingham Show. 510 
Boiler, Red Rose, 526 
Bomareas, culture, 21 
Bones, setni-dissolved, as ma¬ 
nure, 21 
B onemeal for plants, 416 , 458; 
use of, 440 
Book—" Rosarian’s Year Book,” 
73; “ Ye Narcissus,” 89; “ Cac¬ 
taceous Plants,” in, 127 ; “Il¬ 
lustrated Dictionary of 
Gardening,” 112 ; “ Revolu¬ 
tion in Farming. Ensilage.” 
164; “Farmers’ Year Book.” 
164; Carter’s “ Farmers’ Hand¬ 
book, 184; Sutton’s “Culture 
of Vegetables and Flowers,” 
192 ; " Chrysanthemums and 
Their Culture, 328; “ Roses in 
Pots,” 328; Benton’s “ Bees,” 
538 
Borders, plants for, 120 
Boronia rutosma. 15 
Botanist’s Paradise, a, 338 
Botanic (Royal) Society’s 
Shows, 257,339,425 
Bo tree at Anaradhapura, 4,9 
Rouquets, hand, 378 
Bouvardias, 141 ; propagating 
double,89 ; culture of. 252 
Brantingham Thorpe, 211 
Brisbane Botanic Gardens, 9 
Bristol Spring Show, 250 
Broccoli—good varieties of, 238, 
435 ; for succession, 416, 483 ; 
Late Queen, 439 ; planting, 
519 
Brockham Rose Show, 131 
Browallias, culture of, 191 
Brussels Sprouts, 109 ,112 
Buenos Ayres, International 
Exhibition at. Ill 
Bulbs,forcing,41 ; soring,219 
Bulb land, notes from, 305 
Bulb Show at Haarlem, 458 
Bulbous plants at NewOrlems, 
249 
Butomus umbellatus, 521 
Bntterwort famly, 295 
CABBAGES CLUBBING, 43 
Caladiums wintering, 218 
CalantheVeitchii, 112; varieties 
of, 132 ; vestitaand C.Veitchii, 
212; C. Sauderiana, 255 ; pot¬ 
ting, 514 
Calceolarias at Bedford Hill 
House. 430 
Caledonian (Royal) Horticultu¬ 
ral Socety, 313; fixtures 270 
Calmpthout in Belgium, Van 
Geert’s Nursery, 486 
Calthas,521 
Cambridge Botanic Garden, 
increase of Curator’s salary, 
30 
Camellias—buds falling, 79; 
select, 78, 216; gumming, 141; 
renovating, 162 ; culture of, 
153; at Bedford Hill House, 
170; Donckelaari, 170; gum 
on, 171, 202 ; cause of gum on, 
230 ; gum from Tacsonins, 149 ; 
Coinmendatore Betti,2.55 ; in 
spring, 327; renovation of, 
351 
Campion, the double white, 236 
Candytuft, Empress, 532 
Caunell's, a visit to, 229 
Cantua buxifolia, 5 
Cape Gooseberry, culture. 260 
Cardiff Castle gardens, 337 
Carnations—24; Tree, 141, for 
winter, 182; border. 182-A. H. 
Kennedy and T. W. Girdle- 
stone, 315; and Picotees, plant¬ 
ing, 326; and Picotees. 306,362; 
Pride of Peushurst, 351; for 
beds, 385; propagating from 
cuttings without heat, 465 ; 
Souvenir de la Malmaison, 
538 
Carnation Society and Mr. 
Dodwell, 36 ; Mr. Dodwell’s 
balance sheet, 484, 503; the 
Oxford Union, 192 
Carpet bedding, 243, 305, 327, 
354 
Carrots, sowing for winter, 510 
465 ; plants, 73 
Castle Kennedy, woods of. 131 
Cattleyas—240, 351 ; section of 
flower, 47; house at Messrs. 
J. Veitch’s, 191, 2L5; C. Skin- 
neri at Beckenham, 329; seeds 
and seedlings, 391 ; C. ame- 
thystoglossa, 39> ; honey 
glands in C. Mendelli, 532 
Cauliflowers in pots, 116; insect 
enemies of, 375 ; good varie¬ 
ties, 523 : trial of, 527 
Celery—White Plume, 25; notes 
on, 283 ; Turnip-rooted, 348 ; 
trenches, 403; solid, 455 ; 
planting. 500 
Celosias,culture of,293; C. pyra- 
midalis, 190 
Celsia Arcturus, 230,252; hardi¬ 
ness of, 238 
Centropogon Lucyanus, 53,361 
Cerasus chamaeeerasus, graft¬ 
ing, 299 
Chaguale. 338 
Chalk soil, evergreen flowering 
shrubs for, 100 
Charlton House, 10 
Cheiranthus alpinus and Mar¬ 
shall!, 476 
Cheltenham Spring Show, 425 
Cherries, destroying insects on, 
258 
Cherry house, work in, 340, 470 
Chili, vegetation in, 338 
Chionodoxa Lucili®, 233. 308; 
Chiswick, fruit crops at, 523 
large variety, 270 
Choisya ternata, 533 
Chou de Burghley, 207,412 
Christmas Roses, 10 
Chrysanthemums—notes on, 6, 
304,441 ; successful culture. 12; 
cultureof, 4l. 193: old methods 
of culture,35; obtaining seed, 
35 ; for home use, 49,301; late 
flowering, 51; Society (Na¬ 
tional) 151, 210, 269; rules, 50; 
annual meeting, 64 ; Dolores, 
synonyms, late, 64 ; in 
America, 70; large blooms, at 
New York, 88; naturally 
grown plants, 88, 112; early- 
flowering, 103, 207 ; for begin¬ 
ners.125; gossipfrom France, 
134; Mrs. Mahood, 152; French 
election of, 168; propagating, 
179; at Powderham Castle, 
255 ; Mrs. C. Carey, in April, 
272 ; dwarf, 299 ; precocity of 
Mr. J. Laing, 307 ; for exhibi¬ 
tion, 321, 359 ; soil for, 342,385; 
for decoration, Mr. Iggulden’s 
treatise on, size of blooms, 359; 
Astarte, 350; dissolved bones 
for, 451; history of, 501. 522 ; 
Coquette de Castile in June, 
509 ; flowering in June, 528 
Cinerarias—at Christmas, 148; 
Snowflake, 307 ; propagating, 
342; at Farnham Royal,350 
Cistuses, 336 
Clematises, pruning, 140 ; cul¬ 
ture and varieties, 484 
Clerodendrons, culture of, 160 ; 
C. Baifourianum, 492 
Clianthus Dampieri, 14 
Climbing plants—for a conser¬ 
vatory, 2l; pruning, 240; for 
an east wall, 345 
Clover, white, 494 
Coehicum montanum, 309 
Cocoa-nut fibre refuse. 280 
Cjelogyne eristat.a alba, high 
price of, 192 ; U. Lemoniana 
flowering twice a year, 372 
Coleuses, good, 334 
Composts, preparing, 94 
Conservatory, damp, 223 
Cooling, Mr., death of, 417 
Corbularia monophylla, 173 
Coronilla Emerus, 475; glanca, 
482 
Covent Garden Flower Market, 
158 
Crab, the Siberian, 478 
Crassuta pyramidalis,270 
Cricket field. 182 
Crinum*, culture, 43 
Crocuses—destroyed by rats, 8 7 
C. speciosus, rapid growth of, 
53 ; for conservatories, 192 7 
King of the Blues, 217; the 
Chilian, 369 
Crops, rotation of, 87 
Cropp ng, 186; systems of, 228 7 
the kitchen garden, 286 
Crotons, culture of, 340 
Crystal Palace Show, 268, 443 
Cucumbers—forcing, 76, 339 
cultureof the, 124,170; notes 
on, 200 , 240; unhealthy, 364 7 
root disease, 472 ; and lime 
cure, 527 ; insect enemies of 
503 
Currant bushes, pruning, 223 
Current topics, thoughts on,114 
183, 233, 286, 324, 371, 457 
Cutler, testimonial to Mr., 403 
Cyanophyllum magnificum,220‘ 
Cyclamens—Albert Victor, 53 7 
not growing, 495; culture of 
514 
Cyclobothra alba, 115 
Cycnoches Warscewiczi, 411 
Cymbidium ParNhi, 532 
Cypripediums—240, 337 ; C- 
Sedeni, 28; C.Leeanum snper- 
bnm,83; insigne, 150, 197 ; C- 
Sedeni candidibulum, 217; 
spioate inflorescence of C. 
insigne. 379 ; seeds and seed¬ 
lings, 389; C. Lawrenceanunr, 
399 
Cytisus, culture of, 297, 320; C- 
al bus, 475 
Daddy longlegs, destruc- 
tinn of the, 359 
Daffodils, 308; conference, 315 7 
Sir Watkin, 331 
Dahlias—243; propagating, 150 7 
dividing, 223 ; amongst the, 
312 
Daphne runestris, 14 ; Gwenka, 
2 i 7 ; D. Fiomaua, 475 ; D. ru- 
pestris, 476 ; D. Mezereors 
variegata, 527 
Darwin, statue of, 460 
D tvallias. 419 ; D. paryula and 
a'pina, 62 
Dendrobiums—D. nobilissi- 
mum, 216; endocharis, 217'; 
culture of D. nobile, 281; D. 
macrophyllum Burkei, 315 7 
D. nobile nobilins, 343 ; seeds- 
and seedlings, 399; D. chry- 
sotis,39S: pruning D. nobile 
410: cutting down and ex¬ 
hibiting, 524 
Deutzia gracilis in small pots- 
178 
Didiscus coeru'eus, 191 
Dinner table, decorating, 516 
Dioscorea cul ture. 2 10 
Downing, death of Mr. Charles, 
149 
Downside, Orchids at, 348 
Drac.una culture, 340 
Drewett, Mr, James, death of 
439 
Drimys antarctica, 460 
Droseras, 295 
Dupplin Castle, 5) 
Dynamite for destroying tree- 
stumps, 57 
ealtns Horticultural, 
Society, 328 
Easton Lodge, Dunmow, 16 
Kcheveria retusa, 137 
Edelweiss, laws against gather¬ 
ing, 505 
Edinburgh Botanical Society, 8 ; 
Spring Show. 313 
Elais guineensis, 365 
Elder, the Golden, 23 
