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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER, 
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INDEX. 
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ABTTTILONS FOR WINTER, 60; 
vitifolium, 51; for decoration, 
194 
Acacia grandis, 223 
Achillea serrata, 186 
Achimenes, culture of, 82 ; good 
varieties of, 115 
Aconitum japonieum, 289 
Actfca spicata fructn-rubra(cer- 
ti floated), 77 
Adiantnm tetraphylium gra- 
ciie, 186; Weigandi, 324 
Alderminster, Mr. Williams’ 
garden at, 357 
Alecost and its uses, 172 
Alicante Grapes shanking, 240 
Allamandas, culture of, 82,453; 
starting, 519 
Alpine plants, notes on, 224 
Amaryllis vittata var. Clovis, 
26 ; Belladonna, 356; culture 
of, 409 
American Blackberries, 45 
American Vines and the phyl¬ 
loxera, 313 
American Walnut, 366 
American blight and scale, de¬ 
stroying with oil, 526 
Amsterdam Exhibition, lawns 
at, 137 
Anagallis tenella, 267 
Anaphalis triplinervia, 259 
Andiosace lanuginosa, 398 
Anemones, 143; iaponica and 
alba, 232, 436, 4)4, 484; for 
spring flowering, 355 
Anguloa eburnea, 232 
Angnecunr Scottianum (certi¬ 
ficated), 77 
Annuals for spring, 148; sow¬ 
ing, 204 
Anthurium Schertzerianum 
culture, 155 ; Andreanum, 560 
Apples—the Golden, 67; con¬ 
demnation of Australian, 93; 
degeneration and improve¬ 
ment of cider, 132 ; Mr. Glad¬ 
stone, certificated, 141 ; Mr. 
Gladstone, 159 ; for sandy soil, 
171; for chalk soil, 172 ; early, 
for home use and market, 175 ; 
select main crop varieties, 222; 
Mr. Gladstone, 227, 246 ; pro¬ 
posed exhibition of, 228; in 
Sussex, 252 ; National Con¬ 
gress,254; useful varieties of, 
Bringewood Pippin, 270; pro¬ 
posed congress,274; American 
varieties at Congress, 357 ; 
curious varieties, confusion of 
names, 358; dinner of, 361 ; 
storing,299; at the Chiswick 
Congress, 307; Mr. Gladstone, 
315 ; Lord Derby, 320, 342; 
Grenadier,321; National Con¬ 
gress at Chiswick, 316; large 
ana richly coloured varieties 
at the Congress, 336; Bram- 
ley’s Seedling, certificated, 
337, 341; for planting, 352 ; 
Lord Grosvenor and Jolly 
Beggar, 354; proposed show 
at Manchester, Lord Derby 
In the north. 356 ; for market, 
364; Grenadier and Bramley’s 
Seedling, weights of, 366; not 
bearing, 387; work amongst 
trees, 400; Onibnry Pippin, 
398 ; late dessert, 410; Tyler’s 
Kernel and The -Sandring¬ 
ham,certificated,421 : Tommy 
Knight, 404; Lane’s Prince 
Albert, 442; Stoup Leading- 
ton, 464; storing on straw, 
485; scarcity of in America, 
487 ; for shallow soil, 541 
Apples and Pears, double graft¬ 
ing, 355 
Apples and the Appletons, 399 
Apricot branches dying, 114, 
134 ; soil and climate, 114 ; 
cultivation, 134 
Aquatic plants, a search for, 161 
Aralia papyrifera and sea water, 
418 
Arbutus Unedo and var.Croomi, 
462 
Artesian wells and Abyssinian 
pumps, 410 
Artichokes, Globe, 384; Jerusa¬ 
lem, 452 
Ash for railway embankment, 
172; trees, raising from seed, 
498 
Ashton Court, 162 
Asparagus, treatment of, 384; 
forcing, 407 ; beds, making, 
429 
Asters versicolor, polyphyllus, 
Amellu9, and dumosus, 290; 
selection of herbaceous, 312 
Auricula, proposed show for 
Scotland.il; seedling Alpine, 
304 ; and woolly aphis. 532,547 
Australia (South), plantations 
and fruits in,2‘>l 
Australian Gum Trees, 74 
Avenues in America, 269 
Azaleas, summer treatment, 60 ; 
maturing, 194,196 
Barron, presentation to 
Mr., 361 
Batemannias, notes on, 555 
Battersea Park, 205 
Bauera rubioides, 3 
Bean, John Harrison (certifi¬ 
cated), 77; forcing Kidney, 
177 ; varieties ot Broad, 294 
Bedding plants, propagating, 
211 
Beech, large at Newbattle 
Abbey, 234 ; leaves and fun¬ 
gus, 292; manure and mouid 
from, 436 
Bees—the coming bee, clip¬ 
ping the wings of queens, 497; 
parasites an, 499 ; tood in 
hives, protecting, springman- 
agement, 519; theory for im¬ 
proving, 539 ; supering,17, 38 ; 
straw Stewarton hives, 17,38; 
covering bees, 17 ; British 
Bee-keepers’ Association 
Show, vagaries of bees, 39; 
British Bee-keepers’ Exhibi¬ 
tion at Knightsbridge, 60; at 
York, 61; overstocking, 83; 
ejecting brood, 85; Apis mel- 
liflca in Java and Ceylon, 
105; first preparations for 
winter,127; show at Oldham, 
128; driving, 129; hive-con¬ 
struction and honey produc¬ 
ing, 148 ; foul brood and sali¬ 
cylic acid, 170; stimulative 
feeding, Sadler’s tablet candy, 
195 ; brood in hives, uniting 
stocks,197 ; hive construction, 
216; transferring, 218; the 
stings of, 239; wintering 
stacks, 261; hive construction 
and management, 282 ; stings 
of, 283; hive construction and 
management, dimensions of 
hive, swarming in September, 
303 ; seasonable notes, over- 
multiplication, “ taking ” 
September swarms, 325; hive 
construction and honey pro¬ 
duction, 344 ; Lincolnshire 
Bee-keepers’ Association, 345; 
hive construction,365 ; Garlic 
a cure for stings, swarms in 
September, bee-farming, 365; 
robbing and its remedy, 886 ; 
bee-farming, 408; pasturage, 
40'; irritable, 410; hive con¬ 
struction, covering quilts, 431 ; 
best time te sling honey, 432 ; 
practical management, 453; 
how far will they go for 
honey, 454; robbing, uniting, 
feeding, 475 
Bees v. gardeners, 56t 
Begonia fuchsioides at Snn- 
dridge, 7; for winter, 60; 
three good tuberous, 116; vir- 
ginalis, 142; Madame Grody, 
189; Novelty and The Queen, 
232; B. ulmifolia, 271; as bed¬ 
ding plants, 288; B.picta, 293; 
B. Mons. Duvivier, 324; pro¬ 
pagation of Tuberous, 378 ; 
Frosbeli, 385 ; fioin seed, 405 ; 
wintering tubers of, 526; 
notes on Tuberous, 543 
Benevolent, Gardeners’ Koval 
Institution,contributions and 
pensions, 176,277 
Bertolonias, culture of, 126 
Biggs, death of Mr., 71 
Bird scarers, 72 
Blackberry, the Parsley-leaved, 
112 ; American, 5,118,136,178 
Black Bryony, 128 
Blinds waterproofing, 345 
Bogs, plants in, 144 
Boiler, Beard's coil grate, 15; 
making a, 346 
Boltonia glastifolia, 270 
Bonemeal, Spratt’s Patent, 549 
Book, review of “Ferns of In¬ 
dia,” 157; Buttons’“ Vege¬ 
tables and Flowers,” 429 
Border flowers, white, in 
August, 136 
Border, herbaceous plants 
flowering in, 165 
Borders, shrubs and flowers in, 
656 
Boronia polygalifoiia, 45 
Boswell’s “ English Botany,” 
137 
Botanic (Royal) Society’s even¬ 
ing fete, 12 ; report, 162 ; fix¬ 
tures for 1884, 398 
Botanic stand, Twining’s, 314 
Bothy life, 547 
Bougainvilleas, starting, 519 
Bouvardia Thomas Meehan, 529; 
culture of, 652 ; in winter, 441 
Bramble, the Parsley-leaved,72, 
532 
Brassavola Perrini, 141 
Breeze for stoking, 454 
Bridal wreaths, ancient, 295 
Bristol gardens—Stoke House, 
36o; Sneyd Park, 403; Old 
Sneyd Park, 424; Cote House, 
517 
Brodia:as, notes on, 113,133,178 
Brussels Sprouts, small, 540; 
large v. small, 548 
Bulbs and bulb culture, 335 
Bunyard’s, Messrs. G., nursery, 
Maidstone, 397 
Burmese fruits, 208 
Burning garden refuse, 415 
CABBAGES for autumn, 25; sow¬ 
ing, 59; history of, 98 
Cafiogyne cristata, 57 
Caladium argyrites, culture of, 
127 
Calanthes Veitchii,435; straight 
v. contracted bulbs,529; notes 
on, 538 
Calceolarias, culture of, 48,215, 
285 ; notes on shrubby, 403 
Calcutta Botanic Garden re¬ 
port, 508 
Caledonian (Royal) Society’s 
Show and Finances, 549 
Calochorti, notes on species, 504, 
505 
Camellias unhealthy, 40; shad¬ 
ing and cleansing, 194; in 
winter, 46G; unshaded, 484 ; 
propagation of, 552 
Campanula pyramidalis aurea, 
7 
Camphor trees at Ranching, 
419 
Canary moulting, 264 
Candytuft Empress, 189 
Caoutchouc, gathering, 293 
Carnations and Picotees at 
Chelsea, 58; in beds, 291 ; 
election of, 441,548 
Carnations for winter,84; Gloire 
de Nancy, 93, 137 ; Mabel 
Morris, 93 ; good varieties of, 
112; border varieties, 207 ; Old 
Crimson Clove, 331; forcing 
Crimson Clove, 372; for bor¬ 
ders, 384 ; Souvenir de la 
Malmaison, 408 ; Mrs. Keen, 
516 
Carrot fly and larva;, 536 
Carrots, forcing, 537 
Carters’ seed farms, 138 
Cattleya marginata, 252 
Cauliflowers, Veitch’s Forcing, 
4; for spring, summer, anil 
autumn, 132 
Cauliflower and Broccoli, 438 
Celastr.ts scandens,487 
Celery, ravages of fly, cutting 
down plants, 7; its culture, 
92: earthing-up, 147; culture, 
357 
Celery fly, destroying, 262 
Celery fly and Cabbage cater¬ 
pillars, 353 
Celosias in winter, 302 
Centaurea stricta, 352 
Centropogon Lucyanus, 538 
Cephalotaxus Fortunei, 230 ; 
fruiting in Sussex. 422 
Ceylon, exhibition at, 280 
Chalk as fuel, 527 
Chamcerops out of doors, 388 
Cherries for market, 364 
Chionodoxa Lucilire culture, 
178; sardensis, 270 
Chiswick, notes at, 115 
Chiswick, how to reach, 274 
Chorozema, culture of, 292 
Chou de Burghley, 312, 462, 511, 
531 
Choysia ternata, 16 
Chrysanthemums, cutting 
down,2,30; Mr. Udale’s lecture 
on, 79,100,146 ; disbudding.90 ; 
formarket,117; C.coronarium 
Aurora, 189 ; notes on, 201 ; 
effects of cutting down in 
June, 246 ; destroying mil¬ 
dew on, 269 ; protecting, 305 ; 
early-flowering, 310; Mons. 
Dufour, 324 ; forcing, 325; in 
Temple Gardens, Gloire Ray- 
onnante, 356 ; at Finsbury 
Park, 381; proposed National 
Society, 399 ; exhibiting, 
boards and cups, 400 ; new at 
Camberwell, 404 ; cutting 
down, new at Putney, 419 ; 
varieties certificated, 422 ; 
early, Mrs. Cullingford, and 
Lvon,422 ; watering,439; new 
varieties. Lord Alcester, 446, 
4*1; Bendigo, 449 ; Roseum 
superbum, M. Astorg, Jeanne 
d’Arc, 450 ; at Slough, 461 ; 
out of doors, 463 ; Mrs. R. 
Eykin, 476 ; out of doors, 
483; fixing sports, 484 ; classi¬ 
fication of varieties, 485; Lord 
Alcester, 486; single, 487 ; 
Liverpool Show of and fi¬ 
nances, 489; predisposing to 
sporting,5 2 ; Taunton Show, 
507 ; single varieties, 511 ; 
classification of, 515 ; South 
Shields Show, 517; Soeur Me¬ 
lanie, 526 ; altering names of, 
527; late white, Dnmfermline 
Show of, 530; notes on exhi¬ 
bitions, 533; Snowball, 536 ; 
Lady Selborne, 558 
Chrysanthemum Shows — fix¬ 
tures, 373 ; Brighton, 419 ; 
Eastbourne, Brixton, 426 ; 
Stoke Newington, Lambeth, 
427; Putney, 428; Southamp¬ 
ton, Ha wkhurst, 446; Lewes, 
Bath, 447; Croydon, Borough 
of Hackney, 448 ; Staiues, 
Kingston, 449 ; Winchester, 
Lindfield, 450; Lincoln, Man¬ 
chester, Twickenham, 451; 
Ealing, 462; Chelmsford, 463 ; 
Jersey, 463; Wimbledon, 467 ; 
Worcester, Bristol, 468 ; Bir¬ 
mingham, 469; Nottingham, 
Northampton, 470: Shews- 
bury, Reading,471; Tunbridge 
Wells, Liverpool, 472 
Cinchona plantation in Bengal, 
208; Ledgeriana, 511 
Cinerarias and Cyclamens, 385 
Cinerarias, culture of, 215; C. 
acanthifolia, propagating, 
217 
Clay, burnt, for Vine borders, 
387 
Clematis coccinea, 290 
Clerodendron fallax, 60; C. Bal- 
fourianum culture, 82 
Clonmel Show, 452 
Coburghia incarnata. 293 
Cocoa-nut refuse, references to 
uses of, 539 
Codonopsis rotundi folia, 314 
Coelogyne cristata, 4 
Colours, complementing and 
harmonising, 21 
Composites, yellow, 79 
Congo, vegetation near the, 
271 
Conifers for bedding, 385 ; pro¬ 
pagation of, 388 
Couvolvulus scammonin, 161 ; 
C. cneorum, 360 
Coreopsis tripteris, 289 
Cotoneaster Simmousii, propa¬ 
gation of, 387 
Cottage garden, judging, 210 
Covent Garden at Christmas, 
549 
Cranberries, 261 
Crassula alpestris, 352 
Crata-gus azarolus, 395 
Crewe, Rev. H. Harpur, death 
of, 228 
Crickets and cockroaches, de¬ 
stroying, 460, 484, 527 
Crinuin Hildebrandtii, 272; C. 
ornatum, 324 
Crotons, propagating, 170 
Crystal Palace, Ferndell and 
fountain, 250 
Cuckoo-spit insect, 235 
Cucumber houses at Prescot, 18- 
Cucumbers, notes on,25; setting 
and stopping, 96; for winter, 
103; Epicurean and Suttons’ 
Cluster, 119 ; raising plants for 
winter, 126 ; watering, 168 ; 
records of culture under old 
and “ express” systems, 178 ; 
for winter, 215, 237, 260 ; his¬ 
tory of,381 ; in winter, 388,495 J 
for seed, 562 
Cultivation, value of deep, 56 
Currant, variegated, 345 
Cuttings, change of, 223 
Cyathea microphylla, 516 
Cyclamens, cult are of, 285 ; 384 ; 
culture of, 429, 492,496 ; grubs 
on, destroying, 494 
Cymbidium afliue, 421 
Cy perus laxus variegatus, 37 
Cypress unhealthy, 345 
Cypripediuin spectabile, 30 ; C. 
iusigne, 37 ; notes on, 459; C. 
Spicerianum, 435; card inale 
and calurum, 516 ; notes ou, 
526,529; C. Riibelini,549 
Cytisuses, culture of 118,122 
DAIHjIAS, Cetawayo, Dr. Moffat,. 
Duchess of Westminster, Mrs. 
W. E. Gladstone, 232; Lady of 
the Lake, 234 ; exhibition 
varieties tabulated, 245; for 
garden decoration, 271 ; 
single, 312, 332 ; securing 
florets of with dextrine, 334 ; 
preserving, 431 
Dalkeith, notes on, 280 
Darlingtonia californica, 208 
Datura Stramonium, 196 ; for 
asthma, 271, 433 
Delphiniums, notes on, good 
varieties, 524 
Dendrobium nobile culture, 17S 
Deutzia gracilis culture, 76 
Dextrine, 409 
Dick, Mr., presentation to, 398 
Dieffenbachias, propagating, 170 
Dielytra spectabilis, propagat¬ 
ing and forcing, 76 
Dinner-table decorations, 394, 
410 
Dipladenia Brearleyana, 415 
Dog’s-tooth Violets, planting, 
410 
Doryopteris indens, 158 ; D- 
piloselloides, 159 
Dracoceplialuiu argunense, 160- 
Draining tools, 466 
Drones in autumn, 541 
Durion, the, 208 
EARTHWORMS, sensitiveness 
Of, 268, 290 
Earwigs, destroying, 196 
Eccremocarpus scaber, 355 
Echinocactus, Echinoeereus, 
and Echinopsis, distinguish¬ 
ing, 84 
Edinburgh gardens criticised, 
187 
Edwardsia grandifiora, 527 
Eleagnue edulis, 93 
Endive culture, 23 
Endive and Lettuce, 146 
Ensilage in America, 28 
Epacrises, culture and varieties 
of, 76 
Epiphyllums, culture o F , 18 
Ericas, culture and varieties of, 
76 ; treatment of, 385 
Ericas and Epacrises, propaga¬ 
tion of, 552 
Erigeron speciosum, 207 
Eriostemons, culture of. 76 
Erythrinas, culture of, 76 
Eryngium pandanifoiium, 233 
