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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER, 
[ January 10, 1884. 
Essex Field Club, transactions 
of,294; Cryptogatnic Meeting, 
29(1 
Eucalyptus coccifera, 75 
Eucharis, propagating, 40 ; 
Sanderi.324 ; amazouica, 443 ; 
Sanderi,486,549 
Eupatoriuin riparium, 309 
Euphoruia splendeus, 28 
Euphorbias, 260 
Evergreens, propagating, 326 
Evergreen shrubs for a bank, 
434 
Exhibiting, dishonest, 89 
Exhibition, proposed inter¬ 
national, 266 
Fairy rings, 212 
Falkirk Show, 190 
Farm—Sussex breed of cattle, 19, 
42, 63, 85; notes on manures, 
42; Yorkshire farms, 86; 
horse labour in farming, 107, 
129, lot; mountain breed of 
sheep, 173, 197 ; mountain 
breeds of sheep, 218, 211; 
manures v. stimulants, 220 ; 
sowing Vetches, 220; green 
and fodder crops, 263, 285 ; 
Lucerne and Sainfoin, 285 ; 
tares and vetches, 286; use of 
green fodder crops, 306, 327, 
346; Vetches, Buckwheat, Lu¬ 
pins, Dodder, 306 ; Lupins, 
Burnet, Clover, 327 ; Rye 
Grass, Lentils, Wheat-sowing, 
328; seed harvest of 1883, 
Ro al Agricultural Benevo¬ 
lent Institution, farming on 
poor soil, 318 ; improved dairy- 
cattle, 367 ; improved dairy 
cattle, 389, 411, 433, 455; fly 
iniesting cattle, 390; Guern¬ 
sey cow, 411; ear-cockle in 
Wheat,422; weed eradication, 
477,499 ; breeding and training 
mules, 521, 541 ; agricultural 
machinery, 563; and Ame¬ 
rican farm, 564 
Fern roots for Orchid culture, 
28 
Ferns for decoration,104; tropi¬ 
cal Maidenhairs, 180 
Figs in Kent, 7; culture, 147; 
garden of at Tarring, 252 ; 
in pots, 281; trees for forcing, 
324,430,518 ; early in pots,384 ; 
best for open air, 417; prun¬ 
ing and cleaning, 474 
Firing and ventilating, 508, 525 
Firm soil for Vines and fruit 
trees,199 
Fittonias, 37 
Fleming, death of Mr., 487 
Flower show, Sunday, 93 
Flower garden, preparing for 
winter, 302 
Flowers, choice hardy, 8 ; press¬ 
ing and preserving, 19; ex¬ 
hausting plants, 44 
Flowers, single, 403 
Flowers in Middle Florida, 184 
Flora of the English lake dis¬ 
trict, 375 
Floral decorations, 394 
Florists’ flowers, notes on, 222, 
488 
Forcing house, a model, 490, 531; 
house, defects in *• model,” 515 
Forestry, proposed exhibition 
of, 250, 334, 399 
Francoa rainosa, 287 
Freesia refracta, 171 
Fritillaria Meleagris, 25, 291 
Fruiterers’ Company, presenta¬ 
tion of, 375 
Fruit garden, work in, 215 
Fruit house, aspect for, 218 
Fruit and cholera, 89; protect¬ 
ing, 126 , 662; crops in Fife- 
shire, 1H0; gathering and 
storing,260; trade of Jamaica, 
228; growing, 310 
Fruit trees, training, 37; pre¬ 
parations for planting, 169 ; 
seasonable notes on, 185 ; in 
pots, 277 ; lifting and trans¬ 
planting, 298 ; preparations 
for planting, selections of 
small and large gardens, 324 ; 
in pots culture of, 329 ; plant¬ 
ing, 335, 3A ; varieties for 
market, 384 ; select list of, 
361 ; root-pruning, 366 ; in 
pots, 378, 463 ; for small gar¬ 
dens, on arches over walks, 
413 ; select varieties, plant¬ 
ing bush, 430 ; good in pots, 
433; pruning; and training, 
474; renovation of soil for, 
pruning, training, and dress¬ 
ing, 518 
Fruit show, proposed at Chis¬ 
wick, 183 
Fruits and flowers, artificial, 
Show of, 314 
Fuchsias, Buss’s treatise on, 71; 
cultivating successfully, 109; 
gracilis, 232; pendula, 297 ; 
corallina, 463 
Fuel for heating boilers, 462 
Fungi, lower orders of, 322; 
foray at Chingford, 334; large 
specimen of Polyporus squa- 
mosus, 356; determining poi¬ 
sonous, 387 
Oaillardias, 208; G.pictaLo- 
renziana, 250 
Galium rubrutn, 117 
Garden and field crons, lec¬ 
tures on diseases of, 375 
Garden, a plain, 44; judging 
produce of, relative merits of 
vegetables, Margam schedule, 
17.) ; Sunday work in, 128; 
making a new, 200 ; notes 
from a Scotch, 270 ; making 
new r kitchen, 272 
Garden chemistry, 1 ; liming, 
22; phosphates, 54, 67, 88; 
sources and use of nitrogen, 
110; magnesia, 133; potash, 
153 ; sulphur, 202; iron, chlo¬ 
rine, soda, silica, 203 ; man¬ 
ganese, 204; value of ma¬ 
nures, 236 ; aerial elements, 
253; care and analysis of ma¬ 
nures, 277 ; soil losses, 315; 
application of manures, 337; 
soils,362 ; loams,376 ; burning 
soils, 406 ; peats and humus, 
422, 442 ; clay soils, 493 
Gardeners’ benefit societies, 402, 
439 
Gardeners, advice to young, 
503; mutual improvement of, 
599 
Gardeners’ Royal Benevolent 
Institution, 294, 312, 332, 3.54, 
356; addition to list of pen¬ 
sioners, 410, 441 
Gardenias, culture of, 127; pro¬ 
pagating, 496 
Gardening orthography, 161 
Gardening, learning com¬ 
mercial, 366; wild, 531 
Gas stoves in conservatories, 
481; for greenhouses, 509 
Genera v. species of plants, 477 
Geranium Traversif, 261 
Gesneras and Gloxinias,culture 
of, 215 
Gillia Brandegli, 419 
Gladioli, select, 183: Colvilli 
albus culture,267 ; lifting and 
storing,430; storing,440 ; The 
Bride, 460; blooms for six 
months, 486 
Glass vases for bulbs, 228 
Gloxinia, Alabaster, 189; cul¬ 
ture of, 358 ; culture for 
winter flowering, 506; start¬ 
ing, 519 
Goat Moth, the, 217 
Gooseberries for market, 364 ; 
jelly f omseaweed,” Growers’ 
Register,” 486; National Show 
of. 143 
Grafting thick limbs, 16 
Grapes—Buckiand Sweetwater, 
27 ; Duchess of Buccleuch,29; 
heaviest bunch of, 40; influ¬ 
ence of light on colouring, 
9i ; Alnwick Seeding at Os- 
berton, 156 ; colouring, 169; 
Duke of Buecleuch iu an out¬ 
side border, 178 : berry within 
a berry, 179: keeping, 194; 
colouring, 204 ; late-keeping, 
238; keeping Black Uam- 
burghs, 263 ; not ripening, 
262 ; shanking and improving, 
266 ; at. the Edinburgh Show, 
268 ; Duke of Buccleuch at 
Beechwood.270; at Glasvevin, 
271 ; best late, 284; at Cloven¬ 
fords, 295 ; keeping, 302; not 
colouring, seedling, 304 ; the 
Strawberry, 326; at Old War¬ 
den Bark, 333; Madresfield 
Court, 354 ; at Gilmerton,36i; 
keeping late, 363; at Chis¬ 
wick, 399; Gros Colman at 
Hopewood, 419; keeping, 410 ; 
Gros Colman and GrosMaroc, 
437; Winter King, 462; Gros 
Colman at Chiswick, 487 ; 
late black, Duke of Buccleuch 
in December, 488, 534; influ¬ 
ence of stocks on. Winter 
King, Duke of Buccleuch, 
Gros Maroc, 501, 513: rack for 
bottling, sto; keeping, 518 ; 
late black, 527 ; bottling, 54"; 
management of Lady 
Downe’s,545 ; exhibiting and 
keeping, 546 ; importance of 
early thinning, 550; influence 
of stocks on, 552 
Graie, Brincess Louise coil and 
Gibbs’s hot-waier, 71 
Gray, Mr. James, death of 462 
Great vinery at Chiswick, 338 
Greenhouse and its inmates, 76, 
122, 142,300 ; heating, 304 
Gymnocladus canadensis, 19 
Gypsophila paniculata, 289 
HABENARIA BIFOLIA, 124 
Hampton Court, 257 
Ham wood Gardens, 407 
Handsworth Nurseries, 98 
Hardy plants at Wood Lawn, 
185 
Heaths in winter, 324 
Heating pits and frames, 284 
Hedges, clipping, 83 
Helianthuses, 79 ; orgyalis, 171; 
lenticularis, 440 
HeliotroDe White Lady, 530 
Herbaceous borders, June 
flowers in. 5; in autumn, 298; 
plants in Ireland, 299 
Herbaceous plants, 57, 78, 91 ; 
notes on, 224 
Herbs, cutting and drying, 193 
Herefordshire orchards and the 
Woolhope Club, 132; Fruit 
Show, 343, 398 
" Herelordshire Pomona,” 335 
Holiday, a horticulturist’s, 97 
Hollies, how to save peeled, 15 
IloUingworth, Mr., 295 1 
Hollyhocks, notes on, 52 
Hooper, Mr. H., death of, 312 
Hope End, Mr. Grant’s garden, 
357 
Hops from Australia, 117 
Horticultural Benefit and 
Provident Society.349,374 416 ; 
limitations and lapsed mem¬ 
bership, 488 
Horticultural Exhibition, pro¬ 
posed International, 210 
Horticultural ramble—Chelten¬ 
ham, Penllergare, Singleton, 
and Bath, 557 
Horticultural (Royal) Society’s 
meetings, 36; Committees, 77, 
141, 189,231,323,421,516 ; Meet¬ 
ings for 1881,529 
Hotbeds, preparing material 
for, 538 
Hoi-water pipes, fixing, 326 
Houstonia cajrulea, 352 
Hull Flower Show, 4s 
Hyacinths, forcing, 238; select¬ 
ion of, 385 
Hyaciuthus candicans, 232 
Hydrangea paniculata propa¬ 
gation, 106 ; culture of, 215 
Hymenocallis macrostephana, 
375 
ILEX LATTRIFOLIA AUREA 
marginata, 516 
Imantophyllum miniatum, 37 
Impatieusplatypetala alba, 115 ; 
Sultani,310,526; iu winter,496 
“ Inga” seed, 141 
Insect enemies of garden crops, 
35, 235, 145, 425, 534; in wood, 
262 
Ipomsea Learii, 356 
Irises, notes on bulbous, 181 
1 resine formosa, 422 
Isolepis gracilis culture, 83 
Ivy on trees, 84; for walls, 241 
Journal of Horticulture, past v. 
present'writers, 544 
Judging garden produce, 111, 
135, 155; at country exhibi¬ 
tions, 225 
Juniperus sabina, 192 
KALOSANTHES COCCINEA, 142 
Keevil Show, 161 
Kew — improvement of Palm 
house, 251; notes on bulb 
and Iris gardens, young men’s 
rooms at. 491 ; young men’s 
lodging wanted at, 510 ; re¬ 
arrangement of museum, 530; 
young men’s rooms wanted, 
547 
Kilns, Falkirk, 280 
Kitchen garden, making a new, 
200, 469 
Kniphofia quartiniana, 399 
LABURNUM, NEW GOLDEN, 28 
Lachenalia tricolor, 142 
Lapagerias, 142 ; double, 412 
Lapland, plants in, 161 
Larch trees diseased, 18 
Laurels, pruning, 217 
Lavateria arborea variegata 
284 
Lawn tennis ground making, 
128 
Lawns in winter, 520 
Leaf soil and moisture, 7; pre¬ 
paring, 4»2; from Oak leaves, 
454; and fungi, 481,509 
Leather parings as manure, 3 ,J 4 
Leaves and their functions, 192 
Lee and Blackheath Show, 59 
Leeks, culture of, 59; cultiva¬ 
tion in Scotland,2n7 ; topping, 
284; Renton’s Monarch, 526 
Lettuces lor winler on ridges, 
46 
Leucoium hyemale, 272 
Lilies, Californian at home, 250; 
Water, species and culture of, 
265; Mariposa, 504 
Liliums, culture, 143; canrti- 
dum, 148 ; L. auratum decay¬ 
ing, 172; L. Washingtont- 
auum at home, 184; not ex¬ 
panding, 240; auratum fasci- 
atert, 297 ; auratum, 335 ; in 
pots and beds, 374; size and 
weight of bulbs of, 375; in 
pots, 388; notes on culture 
and species, 396 ; cutting late 
spikes, 398; notes on species, 
414, 458 ; longiflorum flower¬ 
ing twice, 4i8; potting, 428 ; 
auratum cu ture, 492; Har- 
risi,52o; imported and home¬ 
grown, management of, 553 
Lily of the Valley, forcing, 377 
Lime and liming, 1; effect of 
on Vines, 160 
Lincoln nurseries, 140 
Liverpool Naturalists’ Field 
Club, 161 
Loam, nature and constituents 
of, 376 
Loasa lateritia, 160 
Lobelia pyrainidalis, 486 
London gardens, 144 
London parks—Hyde,180 ; Chel¬ 
sea Hospital gardens, 181; 
Finsbury and Victoria, 273 
Longford Castle, 274 
Love-in-a-Mist, 541 
Lychnis coronaria atro-san- 
guinea, 188; L. chaicedonica, 
L. pyrenaica, 186 
Lycoperdon giganteum, 106 
Lysimachias, notes on, 514 
MADEIRA, A RAMBLE IN, 117 
Madras and its vegetation, 193; 
gardens, 376 
Maidenhair Ferns, tropical, 186 
Manchester Horticultural Mu¬ 
tual Improvement Society, 46S 
Manetti Rose, 184 
Manetti stocks, budding, 40 
Manures, application of, 337; 
artificial v. stable, 434; apply¬ 
ing artificial, 499 
Mealy bug and scale on Vines, 
461 
Meconopsis Wallichii, 144 
Medinilla Curtisii, 324 
Melons under Cucumber treat¬ 
ment, 74; Goodwood certifi¬ 
cated, 141 ; failing, 150 ; Ben- 
ham Beauty, 183; pit for, 190; 
late-fruiting plants,215; Mas¬ 
terpiece, 256 ; growing with¬ 
out ventilation, 506 
Metastasis, 562 
Meteorological Society, Royal, 
465 
Michaelmas Daisies, 311 
Microsperma bartonioides, 160 
Mignonette in pots, 16,49,282 
Mildew on Roses, 262 
Mildew on Chrysanthemums, 
262 
Miltonia bicolor, 232 
Mitchella repens, 508 
Moffat, career and death of 
Dr., 137 
Montbretias, notes on, M. 
l’ottsii, 247 
Morina longifolia, 186 
Moth, caterpillars of brown¬ 
tailed, 548 
Moult, Mr. W., retirement of, 
228 
Murray’s Vine composition, 514, 
532 
Musa rosacea, 467 
Mushrooms, soil for, spores 
germinating, making spawn, 
18 ; in a vinery, 150; bed not 
heating, spawning, 196; inill- 
track spawn, 262; Mr. Wood¬ 
cock’s paper on, 276; in the 
open air, temperature of beds, 
521 ; in orchard house, 540 ; 
quick production of, 562 
Mutual improvemeut in gar¬ 
dening, 485 
Myrtle rust fungus, 19» 
NARCISSI for forcing, 239; notes 
on sections and varieties, 218 
Nectarines, 435 ; the Stanwick 
and Stanwick Elruge 520 
Nanhecium ossifragum, 96 
Nice, International Exhibition 
at, 294 
Nepenthes Nortliiana, 324 
Nerines and their culture, 143 
Nut Duke of Edinburgh, 466 
Nutmeg culture in NewGumea, 
418 
Nymphaias at Kew, 228 
OAK leaves as leaf soil, 454 
Odontoelossums, notes on, 435 
(Enotliera Fraseri and pumila, 
186 
(Enothera riparia, 227, 257 
Oncidium Marshallianum, 171 
Onions, autumn-sown, 52 ; first- 
rate in second-rate local it' ,65; 
autumn sown, 98; history of, 
189; cultivation in Scotland, 
207; Ouiou Rousham Bark, 
228 ; harvesting, 238 ; storing, 
257 
Orchids, cultural notes on, 145 ; 
at Glasnevin, 184 ; list of use¬ 
ful, 284; high-priced, 293 ; in 
autumn, 308 ; culture of 
hardy, 330 ; at Mr. Bull’s, 28 ; 
notes on imported, 373; in the 
open air, 391; at Bridge of 
Allan, 438; out of doors, 481, 
550 ; fluctuations iu value of, 
549 
Orange fungus on Roses, 159 
Orange trees, renovating, 326 ; 
culture of, 454 
Orchards and paraffin oil, 483 
Orchards, renovating, draining, 
551 ; iu mixed plant houses, 
557 
PANSIES and Violas for bedding, 
56; 374, 423, 461; distinguish¬ 
ing, 395 
Pansies,prize varieties,5; fancy 
varieties, 46 ; history of the 
faucy type. 69; good varieties, 
94; notes on Scottish Show of, 
118 ; notes on Fancy and best 
varieties of, 139; insect ene¬ 
mies of, 150; 312 
Paraffin oil in vineries, 3 
Parcels post, rules of, 102 
Parnassia palustris, 196 
Passifloras, culture of, 182 
Peaches in uuheated houses, 
106; lifting and root-pruning, 
194; Golden Eagle and Glad¬ 
stone, 271; for cool house, 477; 
forcing and pruning, 495 
Peach flowers falling, 345 
Peach tree borders, 558 
Peach trees, spurring, 139; luxu¬ 
riant, 167 
Peaches and Nectarines,making 
borders for, 259 ; selecting 
trees and varieties, 259 ; re¬ 
novating, 290 ; pruning and 
dressing, 302 ; late varie¬ 
ties, 387: in cold localities, 
392 ; in houses, 407 ; forcing 
638 
Peas, American Wonder, 29 ; 
Evolution, 69,159; the Perfect 
Marrow, 172; Sweet, new va¬ 
rieties certificated, varieties 
identical, 189; notes on new 
and good, 112; thin v. thick 
sowing, 113 ; in 1863, notes on, 
221; andmildew,229; souvenir 
du Congres, 289 ; midsummer 
and late varieties, 3i>4 ; 
new and early, 293; notes 
on,311; insects attacking, 332; 
notes on late, 373 ; Sweet, 
481; notes on varieties, 483; 
notes on in Lancashire, 500 ; 
Frederick Roacb, 514; notes 
on late, 539 
Peas v. Pigeons in County 
Court, 7 1 
Pears and Plums for market, 
364; galls on leaves, 366 
Pears, early, 81; for sandy soil, 
171 ; for chalk soil, 173 ; 
Souvenir du Congrfes, large, 
271; Fondante de Charneu, 
342 ; Nec Plus Meuris,388; in 
pots, 387; weights of in Jersey, 
418 ; Bishop’s Thumb, gather¬ 
ing, 510 
Pear-tree slug, 210 
Pear-tree flowering in Novem¬ 
ber, 394 
Pelargoniums for winter. 16,18 ; 
culture of Show aud Decora¬ 
tive, 23; Marie Tallaudier, 51; 
double, 51; Ivy-leaved, Com- 
tesse Horace de Choiseul, 112; 
Zonals at Chiswick, 116; for 
winter, 128; select Zonals, 134; 
peltatum, Jeanne d’Arc, 142; 
propagating Zonals, 154; cer¬ 
tificated — Dr. Orton, White 
Perfection, 189 ; Zonal, 1S2 ; 
Zonal, 260; tali zonal, 284 ; 
v. Geranium, 442, 458, 4u0; 
Madame Vauclier, 395 ; Hon¬ 
ourable Mrs. Oakley, 409 ; 
Zonal, iu vinery,387; Zonals in 
winter, 496 ; Erl King, 516 ; 
Rousham Model, 629 
Pelargonium society, termina¬ 
tion of, 549 
Penllergare, 404 
Pentstemous Ceri«e Queen and 
Purple Queen, 232 
Perennials for a rockery, 40 
Petroleum mixture for insects, 
476 ; use of in orchards, 551 
Petraea volubilis, 52 
Petunias, culture of iu pots, 157; 
iu pots, 3u2 
Philesia buxifoiia, 7 
Phvllauthus sub-emarginatus, 
270 
Phylloxera, destroying with 
gas liquor, 19; in Rossen- 
dale,87; destroying iu Spain, 
154 ; at Ashton Court, 177 ; 
destroying, 2u7 ; its eradi¬ 
cation, 246, 268; inspection of 
Vines for.297 : at Wilton,352: 
Roses at Cheveuing, 415 
Pieotees, good varieties of, 112 
Pigeons in gardens, law affect- - " 
iug, 114 
Pigeons v. poisoned grain in 
gardens, 156 
Pine Apples, culture of in 
Queensland, 72 ; Charlotte 
Rothschild, 137 ; Lady 
Beatrice Lambton, 435 
Pines, culture of, 215 
“ Pinetum Britanuicum,” 334 
Pinks for forcing, 106 
Pithyrospermum acerinum, 233 
Plant names, curious spelling 
of, 375 
PLANTS CERTIFICATED— 
Act:ea spicata iructu-rubro, 77 ; 
Adiantum Weigandl,324 ; An- 
graieum ScoLtianum. 77 ; An- 
guloa eburnea, 232 ; Begonias 
Goliath, 36; Madame Giudy, 
189; Staustead Surprise, 77 ; 
Mrs. Anson, 77 ; Countess of 
Rosslyn.77 ; Novelty,212 ; The 
Queen, 232 ; virginalis, 142; 
Mons. Duvivier, 324 ; Calo- 
chortus macrocarpus, 77; Cat- 
tle.va superba splendeus, 36; 
Candytuft Empress, 189; Car¬ 
nations Dorothy, Mrs. An- 
stiss, Samuel Barlow, Squire 
Whitbourn, 99; Mrs. Keen, 
516 ; Chrysanthemums M ms. 
Dufour, 324; George Steveu-q 
Mdlle. Durnand; roseum su¬ 
perbum, Salteri, Bendigo, 
Mdlle.LeCroix, B.Henri Jaco- 
tot, Comet, 422 ; Lord Alcester, 
447 ; M. A.storg, Jeanne cl’Arc, 
450 ; Clematis Jackmauui 
alba, 77 ; Coleuses Ellen Terry, 
Henry Irving, 77 ; Crinurn or- 
natum, 324 ; Uyathea micro- 
phylla, 617; Cynibidium affine, 
