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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
v 
INDEX. 
-o- 
abtjtilon insigne, its 
A cacias, flowers of, in Covent 
Garden, 194; at Kew, 258 
Acer atro-purpnreum, hardi¬ 
ness of, 518 
Acid (sulphuric) for waits, 365 
Acrostichum crmitum, li)8 
Adiantum Victoria, 263 ; A. 
dolabriforme, 430 ; Latliomi, 
447 ; A. Legrandi, 495 
Aerides formosnm, 495 
African forests, 303 
Agave americana variegata, 516 
Allamandas, pruning and pot¬ 
ting, 17 
Almonds, flowering in Febru¬ 
ary, 174 
Alpine and herbaceous plants, 
“ I)., Deal’s ,” 326 
Alsophila Rebeccas, 346 
Amaryllises Autumn Beauty, 8, 
34; at Chelsea, 198; Baron 
Schroder, Duchess of Con¬ 
naught, and Charles Dickens, 
221 ; the Giant and Duke of 
Albany, 262 
Amateur’s holiday, 11, 9S; Len- 
zie and Helensburgh, 3 # 
American blight, 479 
Ammoniacal liquor for gardens, 
478 
Andromeda japonica, 263 
Anemone vitifolia, 13: apen- 
nina, 258; Carter’s Empress, 
383; species of, A. sylvestris, 
487 
Angriecums, management of 
imported, 9 
Annotta, 204 
Anomatheca cruenta, 87, 89 
Anthurium Schertzerianum 
album, 133 ; Woodbridgei, 304 
Ants, extirpating, 290 
Aphelandra Chamissoniana, 527 
Apples, .Northern Spy, 20 ; free- 
bearing, 40; training cordons, 
41; notes on, 48, 66 ; notes on 
dessert, palmette verrier, 91; 
the Loddington, 120; bushes 
and pyramids, notes on varie¬ 
ties, 175; keeping fruit, 178 ; 
election of varieties, tabula¬ 
ted,191 ; notes on election, 220; 
review of election, 229 ; good 
culinary varieties, 277; Eve 
and Hambledon Deux Ans, 
282; scions, 291; in York¬ 
shire, 318 ; Tom Butt, 340,388; 
American trade in, 365; trees, 
stocks for and precocity of, 
380; for ornament, 385 ; old 
varieties of, 400 
Aquilegia chrysantha, 362 
Arabises, lucida variegata and 
albida, 8 
Arbutus Unedo in Killnrney, 
Aristolochia trifida, 13; Goldie- 
ana, 383 
Asparagus beetle, 291 
Asparagus sarmentosus, 234; 
notes on culture, 298 ; plnmo- 
Sus, 341; nanus, 448 ; propaga- 
tion of, 451; Argenteuil, 471 
Astelma eximinm, 80 
Asters, 381 
Astrantia major, 142 
Aubrietia violacea,346 ; raising 
irom seed, 373 
Aucubas, fertilising, 163; pro¬ 
pagation of, 151 
Auriculas, top-dressing, 9 «; 
transplanting, 137 ; fifty years 
ago, 158; “D. Deal’s ,” 269; va¬ 
rieties certificated, 348; notes 
on, new and old varieties, 358; 
Mr. Hibberd’s lecture, 359; 
Alpines from seed, 377; Mr. 
Meiklejohn’s, 399; Mr. Pen- 
son’s, 443,466 ; descriptions ®f 
new, 470 ; Duke of Argylc 
and Lord Lome, 545 
Azaleas, Ghent, propagation 
and culture, 167 ; culture of 
and select varieties, 243 ; 
double white varieties, 246; 
rnbifolia fl.-pl., 389 ; Miss 
Buist, 448 
BABIANAS—cultural notes on, 
128; rubro-eyanea, 129; stricta, 
137 
Barbacenias, 219 
Barkeria Lindlcyaua, 450 
Barometer, high, 53; in York¬ 
shire, 92 
Baskets for posting flowers, 
234 
Battersea Park, the Wilderness, 
425 
Beans, dwarf kidney, notes on 
varieties, 238 
Beau beetle (Bruchus grana- 
rins), 312 
Bedding arrangements, 121 
Bedding plants, preparing, 322 
Beech, white-leaved, 479 
BEES— 
Apiarian progress, 17; nu¬ 
cleus hives, 18: barleysugar 
for, 20; in trouble, keeping for 
profit, 39; queen cages for 
ost, old comb honey candied, 
ees in trouble, 60; sections, 
79; aspect for hives, 80; up¬ 
ward ventilation in hives, in 
Paris, 100; ekes and nadirs, 
119; bee-keeping for begin¬ 
ners, 141; seasonable hints, 
142 ; needful qualities of 
hives, 161 ; British Bee-keep¬ 
ers’ Association’s Meeting, 
Mr. Raynor’s paper on stan¬ 
dard frame, 161; fumigating 
bees, 162 ; fumigating, rules 
for economic apiaries competi¬ 
tion, 182 ; a standard frame, 
202 ; notes for beginners, 203, 
268 ; the season in Scotland, 
winter temperature for, 223, 
245; the standard frame, de¬ 
cision of bee-keepers on, 245; 
feeding, 268; honey v. swarms, 
270 ; Bonner, the Scottish 
bee-keeper, a bee lawsuit, 
Milan Bee Congress, rearing 
queens, 289: drone-breeding 
queen, 292; keeping to advan¬ 
tage, 310; apiarian competi¬ 
tion, rules, 311; hiving bees 
in bar frames, supers spoiled 
by brood, 312; management 
of, Bee-keepers’ Association 
meeting, supering, 331; glass 
super, 332 ; in confinement, 
Irish Bee-keepers’ Meeting, 
bees dwindling, 351; Show in 
Dublin, early swarming, Cork 
Bee-keepers Association,352 ; 
bee houses, swarms and honey 
353; Bonner’s experiences, 371; 
Milan Apiarian Show, 372; 
weak hives, supering, 393 ; 
bee-keeping for beginners, 
queens, workers, drones, 411; 
figures in honeycomb, 413; 
sectional supers, 434, 435 ; 
unsettled points in history of 
—comb-building, 453 ; swarm¬ 
ing, 477; Show at Car¬ 
din', 478 ; casts, discoloured 
comb, drone-killing, 479; pro¬ 
longing life of queen, feeding, 
500 ; artificial swarms, 501 ; 
knowledge of bee-culture, 
unsettled points, 522; return¬ 
ing swarms, 524, 546 ; honey- 
dew, 544 
Begonia semperflorens grandi- 
flora, 11: socotrana, 95 ; Tu¬ 
berous, culture of, 157; wiu- 
BEGONIA S— continued. 
ter-flowering, 327; Ball of 
Fire, 430; Annie Laing, 528; 
Hon. and Rev. J.T. Boscawen, 
533 
Bellflowers, notes on, 218 
Belgian horticulturists, visit 
Of, 445, 513, 533 
Belgium, a week in, 452; M. Lin¬ 
den’s nursery, 472; M.Auguste 
Van Geert’s nursery, 496; M. 
D’Haene’s nursery, 512 
Belvoir, notes on, 402 
Berberises, select, 320 
Bignonia venusta, 55 
Bird’s-nest fungus, 120 
Birmingham Spring Show, 340 
Bixa' orellana, 204 
Boilers, incrustation of, 89 
Bone manure, 143 
Books, Reviews of—“ Botanical 
Atlas,” 445 ;" Christowell,” 29; 
“ Composts for the Use of 
Gardeners and Amateurs,” 
133 ; “ East Ardross Experi¬ 
mental Station,” 307; “ Here¬ 
fordshire Pomona,” 200 ^‘Pax¬ 
ton’s Flower Garden,” 235 ; 
“Rosarian’s Year-Book,” 76; 
“ Topographical Botany ” 
(Watson’s), 54 
Bouvardia, double pink, 112 ; 
double pink, 155; culture of 
and varieties, 439 
Brick-kilns v. shrubs, 353; v. ve¬ 
getation, 312 
Broccolis for succession, 200,238, 
267; good late, 420 ; late v. 
early Cauliflowers, 485; Silt- 
tons’ Late Queen, 495 
Bromeliads, notes os, 196 
Brussels Sprouts, 150 ; the Aig- 
burth, 218 
Bulbs in grass, 234 
Burghley, doings at, 198,237 
Butter, making high-class, 41, 
62, 82 
CABBAGES—sowing and plant¬ 
ing, 47 : Little Pixie and 
“ Broccoli,” 49 : Ellam’s Early, 
92; Suttons’ All Heart, 108; 
clubbing, 152; Broccolis at 
home, 200 ; clubbing, remedies 
for,291 
Cacao orchard in America, 303 
Caladiums, culture of, 180 
Calanthes, potting, 112 
Calceolarias at Balham, 404 ; at 
Reading, 446 
“ Calvary Clover,” 3S2,402 
Camellias, cause of buds fall¬ 
ing, 47, 70; potting, 79; for 
wall, 101; cutting down, 143, 
156,240,287; at Regent’s Park, 
212 
Carnations, Mr. Rudd’s lecture 
on, 97 ; decaying, HO, 137 ; 
from seed, 120; disease, 139; 
for winter, 173; notes on, select 
varieties, 264; Alice Duflield, 
304; Howard, 389 
Caryota urens, uses of, 54 
Cattleya Mendelli Jamesiana, 
304 
Cauliflowers, cheap in London, 
49; new, 150; early, 398 
Centropogon Lucyanus, 360 
Cephalotus follicularis, 373 
Cerasus sylvestris flore-pleno, 
321 
Ceropegia Gardneri, 191 
Charcoal peat, uses of, 175 
CUeirauthus mutabilis, 301 
Cherry trees in stone heaps, 199: 
trees barren, 361 
Chiouodoxa Lucilue, spurious, 
155; from seed, 222 
Chrysanthemums, dressing 
flowers, select varieties, 12; 
classification of Japanese, 24; 
for cutting, 27 ; culture, graft¬ 
ing, 31; Mrs. Charles Carey, 
old Japanese, 53; selecting 
buds, 101 ; culture and varie¬ 
ties, 264 
Cinerarias dying, 61: soilfor, 81; 
Mr. Cullingford, 221 
Clark,Mr.,proposed testimonial 
to, 154 
Clematises, propagating, 143 ; 
calycina, 194; inaivisa lobata, 
216; progress in, varieties, 483 
Climbing plants, select, 143 
Cochlearia pyrenaica, 301 
Cockroaches, destroying, 246; 
with hellebore, 280 
Cockscombs, culture of, 89 ; 
large heads, 138 
Coelogyne cristata culture, 101, 
112, 303; large specimen, 132; 
Lemoneana, 139, 158; glandu- 
losa,221 
Colchicum Parkinsonii, 373 
Coleopliora laricella (Larch 
moth), 316 
Columbines, notes on raising, 
66, 441 
Columuea Kalbreyeri, 51 
Conifers, transplanting, 353 
Coprosma Baueriana variegata, 
234 
Coronilla glauca, 9 
Coryanthes macrantha, 263 
Craigleith Nurseries, 176 
Crickets, destroying, 385 
Crinum Makoyanum, 304; C. 
Mowrei, 849 ; pedunculatum 
pacificum, 366,367 
Crioceris Asparagi t 291 
Crocuses, species ot, ill 
Crops, extraordinary values of, 
274 
Croton Princess of Waldeck, 541 
Cucumbers, management of, 
38; in greenhouse, 101; cul¬ 
ture, 843; growing for mar¬ 
ket, 357; diseased,479 
Cultivation v. manure, 285 
Currants, summer pruning, 545 
Cyclamens giganteum, roseo- 
compactum, giganteum com¬ 
paction, 139 ; raising from 
seed, 247 
Cypella Herberti, 47 
Cypripedium barbatum War- 
neri, 115; insigneculture,143; 
Spicerianum, 157 
Cytisus sessiliioiius, 424 
DAHLIAS—select Pompons, 138; 
a plea for, select varieties, 315; 
single, 390,401 
Dandelions, destroying in 
lawns, 333 
Dandelion wine, making,403,424 
Daphne indica rubra culture, 
81; cneorum, propagating, 
435 
Davallia Grifllthiana, 389 
Dendrobium Leechianum, 233; 
endocharis, 233, 239; notos on 
species, Bensoniai, 255; Devo- 
nianum, 257; Brymerianum, 
265 ; Falconer!, 275 ; chrysotis, 
277; bigibbuui superbum, 281; 
macrophyllum Dearei, 304 ; 
lituiflorum var. robustius, 332 
Dianthus ierrugineus, 13 
Digging and cost of, 20; fork t>. 
spade, 362, 380 
Dionaia muscipula culture, 456 
Diplacus glutinosus culture, 
456 
Disbudding fruit trees, 286 
Doodia aspera multitida, 448 
Doryanthes Palmeri, 300 
Dracama GoUlieana flowering. 
30 
“ Dry rot” in wood, 412 
Ducks, usefulness of in gar¬ 
dens, 514 
EGG PLANTS, CULTURE OF, 225 
Enkianthus reticulatus, 13 
Epidendrum bicornutum, 383 
Epigtea repens, 237 
Eranthemum pulchellum, 98, 
133 
Erica hyemalis alba, 34; liye- 
malis alba, 51; melanthera, 
hardiness of, 111 
Escallonias, propagation and 
culture, 116 
Eucomis punctata culture, 290 
Euonymuses, notes ou, 330 
Eupatorium ianthinuui, culture 
of, 212 
Exhibiting, ethics of, 470 
FARM—a retrospect, imports of 
butter and cheese, 21 : Mechi 
fund, 22 ; making first-class 
butter, 41,62, 82; sowing Cab¬ 
bages and Turnips, 44; food 
for dairy cows, to cure oedema, 
63 ; chalk-hill pastures, 64 ; 
Hop culture, influence of 
male plants, 144, 164 ; calves 
dying, 146; drying Hops, 165; 
economy in the farmyard, 
184, 205 ; covered yards, 185; 
hedges, 186 ; cross-breeding 
horses, 226, 248, 271 ; food for 
cows, 227 ; drench for cows, 
250; injurious insects, 292,813, 
334, 354 ; the Turnip saw-fly, 
384 ; manure for Mangolds, 
355 ; labour and wages, 374, 
414; management of pigs, 376; 
manual labour on, 394 ; Man¬ 
golds injurious for sheep, 393 : 
manures for Potatoes ana 
Mangolds, 415 ; wool and its 
uses, 436, 457, 480; weight of 
fleeces, price of wool, 480 ; 
Swedes v. Mangolds for feed¬ 
ing, chalk v. clubbing of roots, 
459; Shorthorn cattle, history 
of, 502, 524, 546; the lietton 
herd, 524; securing hay, the 
“ exhaust ” process, 525; im¬ 
proving grass land, 548 
Ferns—choice at Holloway, 32: 
repotting, 190 ; varieties for 
case, 247; Tree, management 
of, 291; Tree, on Kina Balu, 443 
Fertilisers, nature and use of, 
187; notes on potash, 236, 284, 
366, 325, ,486 ; for Onions, 342; 
potash and magnesia, 380,425; 
chloride and sulphate of pot¬ 
ash, 398; solubility of ma¬ 
nures, 450; potash, soda, and 
magnesia, 466 ; for Potatoes, 
47u; chloride ol potassium, 489 
Figs, forcing,79; soilfor, 373; in 
pots, 41 
Fmochio, 366; running to seed, 
384 
Flower beds, hardy plants in, 
353 
Fiower gardening in clay soils, 
116; in spring, 406,444, 505 
Flowers (hardy) in January, 8; 
arrangement of cut, 9; colours 
of, 50 ; colours in British 
plants, 111; early in York¬ 
shire, 133; choice for spring, 
232,234 ; packing, 247,297,397 ; 
spring, 465 
Fiower show, how formed, a 
story, 76 
Forestry, proposed school of, 
155 
Forests, buried, 303 
