January 2o, i88i. ] JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
INDEX. 
ABIES DOUGIjA.su— transplanting, 373 ; 
utility of, 378. A. Smithiana, 438 
Abutilon insigne, 55 ; A. Thompson!, 335 
Acacia melanoxylon, 523; A. pubescens, 
447 
Acama microphvlla, 212 
Acanthus latifolius, 255 
Acer Negundo variegata, 123 
Acliimenes, culture, 195 
Acorns for cows, 3(14 ; poisoning by, 451 
Adiantum Bausei, 144; A. Capillus- 
Veneris var. cornubiense, 396; A. far- 
leyense unhealthy, 424 
Advantages of a home farm, 295,310,339, 
383, 426 
jEschynanthus grandiflorus, 350 
Agapunthus, planting, 292 
Agave horrida, 170 
Ageratwns, culture, 335; propagating, 
336 
Agricultural disasters in Kansas, 302; 
prospects, 129,318,340,362,335 ; returns, 
200, 406 
Agricultural (Royal) Society, report of 
meeting, 450, aud meeting of Council, 
540,564 
Agriculture, future of, 201 
Aleyrodes vaporariorum, 601 
Aloe distans, 535; A. Greenii, 399; A. 
mitneformis, 535 
Alpine plants, dividing, 245 
Alsophila australis unhealthy. 222 
Alternantheras, wintering, 358. A. pa- 
ronychyoides aurea, 116 
Amaryllises, culture, 195, 290 
Amateurs, glass structures for, 402, 550 
America—cut flower trade in, 169; food 
production in,225; Hop products, 428 ; 
mortality of cattle from, 225; Pota¬ 
toes in,362 
American and Canadian food supply, 
885; dairy industry, 472 ; farming, 
Messrs. Head it Pell’s report, 200 ; 
grain trade, 340 ; harvest, 174; Wheat 
for England, 385 
American blight on Apple trees, 380; 
destroying, 172, 511 
Amorphophallus Rivieri, 459 
Anaeharis alsinastrum,306 
Anemone, sowing seed, 113. A. alba 
and A. alpina, 414; A. alpina var. sul- 
phurea, A. angulosa, A. apennina, 
A. baldeusis, A. blanda, A. corouaria, 
A. dichotoma, and A. Hepatica, 415; 
A. japonica, 189, 326,369, 415; A. japon- 
ica alba, 189, 415; and A. nemorosa, 
416; A. narclsslflora, A. palmata, fA. 
pavonia fl.-pl., A. Pulsatilla, A. ranun- 
culoides, A. Robinsoniuna, A. steliata, 
A. steliata fulgens, A. sylvestris, A. 
trifoliata, and A. vernal is, 437 
Angrajcum Kotschyi, 352 ; A. Scotti- 
anum, 71 
Aniseed Tree, 79 
Annuals for spring flowering, 197, 242 
Anthomyia Beta), ravages of, 318 
Anthurium Andreanum, 46, 483; A. 
Schertzerianum, 78; A. Warocque- 
anum, 459 
Antler moth. 61 
Ants v. paraffin, 79 
Aphides, increase of, 487 
Apiarian exhibitions, 541 
Apiary, a successful Vermont, 406 
Apiculture, the professorship of, 298 
Aponogeton spathaceum var. juuceum, 
19) 
Apples—at Chiswick, 343; for market, 
402; good culinary for succession, 408; 
in Worcestershire, 570; large, 579 ; 
stocks for, 489 ; weights of, 506. Be- 
noni, 279 ; Early Harvest, 246, 261 ; 
Ecklinville Seedling,589; Sam Young, 
336; Schoolmaster, 596; Small’s Ad¬ 
mirable, 859 ; The Lady, 126 
Apple trees—American blight on, 380; 
for orchard, 880; for walls, 380; ma¬ 
nuring, 580; removing American 
blight from, 16; planting, 367; prun¬ 
ing, 511: which canker aud which do 
not canker, 454 
Apricot branches dying, 255 
Apricots for walls, 389 
Aquilegla cajrulea, 118; A. jucunda, 
239 ; A. Skinneri, 71 
Arable land, manures for, 883 
Araucaria imbrieata in Scotland, 209 
Arbutus Uuedo, 481 
Aictotis aspera, var. arborescens, 598 
Arrangement of hot-water pipes, 558 
Arsenic for destroying weeds on walks, 
424 
Artichokes (Globe) from seed, 308; 
Jerusalem, 380 
Artificial flowers, 285 
Artificial incubation, 175 
Artocarpus Cannoni, 553 
Asparagus —dying, 511; failure, 568; 
forcing, 469; how I failed to grow it, 
503; how to grow, 543 : soil for, 527 
Aspleuium cicutarium, 439 
Astelma cximium, 574 
Aster Amellus, 325 ; A. novfe-anglirc, 
325; Mr. Lee’s seedling, 351 
Auk, Great, high price of eggs of, 40 
August, plants to flower in, 293 
Auriculas—autumn-flowering of, 588 ; 
culture of, 35.446, 545; from seed, 135, 
162; wintering, 346 
Australia, vegetables in, 242 
Australian Blackwood Tree, 523 
Australian forest trees, 213 
Australian sheep station, 177 
Autumn—cultivation, advantages of, 
104,126 ; planting, 395 
Autumn-flowering plants, 276 
Aviary in greenhouse, 222 
Azaleas — at Chiswick, 343 ; culture, 
102, 268, 400; repotting, 35 ; stopping 
growths of, 43 
BALLARAT HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, 
528 
Bankfield, Liverpool, 136 
Bantams, Red Game, 226 
Barley, malting for feeding cattle, 427 
Baskets, plants for, 292 
Bath and West of England Society, 
report of Council Meeting, 127,564 
Battersea Park, 209 
Beans—forcing French, 197 ; kidney, 
notes on varieties, 323. Carter’s Le¬ 
viathan, 232; St. Ignatius, 149 
Bedding plants, propagating, 148, 338 
Bedfordshire, a day in, 98,121 
Beds, filling, for winter, 40L 
Bee-keepers, report of Congress of Ger¬ 
man and Austrian, 583, 606 
Bee-keepiug—cottage, 841; in Paris, 83 ; 
new and old practices, 249, £19, 451; 
successful, 407, 520, 605 
BEES— 
And Clover, 450; and Heather, 432; 
attacked bv wasps, 176 ; deserting 
hive, 496; driving, 154, 274; feeding, 
520; feeding driven, 176; flowers for, 
274; hints for safe wintering, 540; 
how to italianise, 274 ; in conserva¬ 
tory, 511; in north of Ireland, 586; in 
Nottinghamshire, 541; in winter, 452; 
killing, 320 ; large hives of, 320 ; Ligu¬ 
rian v. English, 430; notes, 429; not 
taking syrup,474; ou Dartmoor, 202; 
on the moors, 541; protecting, 451. 
Queens, colour characteristics of Li¬ 
gurian, 130; encasement, 407; piping, 
41; purely mated, 129. Removing bees 
from a tree, 130 ; transferring, 20; 
uniting, 274 ; wintering transferred, 
542,585 
Hives— American mode of removal, 20 ; 
anti-robbing porch for, 363; bar-frame, 
496; artificial foundations in straw, 
474 ; bee moth, destroying a, 408; Dal¬ 
beattie bar-frame, 541; dead grubs in, 
84; how to divide stock in a frame, 
542 ; improved straw, 566; products 
of bar-frame, 451, 474 ; space between 
bars and cover of, 342 
Honey— English v. foreign, 495; harvest 
of 1880, 273, 885; Heather, 478, 565 ; 
keeping, 342; season in Scotland, 342 
Stocks— Converting stocks in skeps into 
stocks in frame hives, 250; dwindling, 
Bees— Conlinued 
130; how to divide in a frame hive, 
542; making the most of weak, 407; 
treatment of foul-broody, 341 
Miscellaneous— Artificial comb founda¬ 
tion, 61, 84, 177, 201, 226, 474,519 ; fixing, 
226, 341. Brood, transferring, 154. 
Combs, crooked, 542; destroyers, 585; 
draining, 496; new and old, 107. 
Drones, utility of 225. Experiences 
with comb foundation, 107, 153. Ex- 
eriments with foundation. 41. Foul 
rood, a fight with, 363. Foundation 
fixers, 20; fixing in frames, 341. Gal- 
terida), 565. Grubs, white carried out, 
130. Management, routine of, 386. 
Metheglin, 130. Pettigrew’s, Mr., 
challenge, 520. Season of 1880, 420. 
Swarming, extraordinary, 153; facts 
about, 42 ; much, 108; preventing ex¬ 
cessive, 20, 83. Syrup, preserving, 430. 
Wax mite and moth, 565 
Beet, Egyptian Turnip-rooted, 285,344; 
storing, 378 
Begonias—for winter, 78. Tuberous as 
bedding plants, 347, 350; at Reading 
Nurseries, 90; propagating, 57, 22t; 
wintering, 221. B. lixcida, 103; B. sem- 
perflorens grandiflora, 574 ; Suttons’ 
seedling, 189. See Plants Certificated. 
Berberis buxifolia, 120 
Biguonia capreolata var. atro-sangui- 
nea, 120 
Birds—breeding, 39; mules and hy¬ 
brids, 39; notes on, 435, 459, 530 
Blackbirds, more about, 486 
Blackwood Tree of Australia, 523 
Boilers for heating vinery, 172 
Bolbophylluiii Beecarii, 191, 237 
Border—a cheap perennial, 64; a gay, 
21; flowers for, 22, 49,118, 283; making 
and furnishing an old-fashioueu 
flower, 387 
Botanic (Royal) Society’s evening fete, 
28 ; visit to gardens, luo 
Bouquet presented to the Lord Mayor, 
416; Italian, 594 
Bouvardias, culture, 401; and value of 
189. B. Bridal Wreath, 438; B. Daz- 
zler, 464 
Boxes for exhibiting cut flowers, 150 
Brail mas as mothers, 3X8 
Bredia liirsuta, 328 
Briars, raising seedling, 468 
Brisbane Botanic Gardens,Queensland, 
422 
Bristol Channel Observatory, proposed, 
540 
British Bee-keepers’Association—report 
of Committee meeting, 200 , 519, 584; 
and of quarterly conversazione, 429; 
tent at Clonmel, 178 
Broccoli—in Cornwall, 528 ; iaying-in, 
441; planting, 56; transplanting 
winter, 134. Gilbert's Cabbage,416 
Brockhurst, Manchester, 73 
Brood, transferring, 154 
Browallia elata, culture, 446 
Brussels Sprouts, 336, 374; culture, 517; 
cutting tops, 556 
Bucklaudia populuea, 170 
Budding, flute, 40 
Buffalo horn manure, 344,389, 447 
Buildings, a new mode of heating, 598 
Bulbs—aud bedding, 6 ; culture, 232 ; 
Dutch, 252; in beds, 370,401; packing 
for New Zealand, 79 ; potting, 379, 
4ul; storing, 16; varieties, 252 
Bullflnches, trapping, 530,656 
Burning clay, 419; and soil, 880 
Butter at Clonmel Show, 109; grain and 
butter making, 249; Irish, 472; making, 
383 
Buttercups ou pastures, 2?, 40 
Cabbage— culture, 220 , 243 , 812 ; sow¬ 
ing, 50, 85,196. El lam’s Early, 110 
Calauthes, compost for, 511 
Calceolarias—culture, 227 , 335, 446; of 
herbaceous, 601; sowing seed, 196; 
striking cuttings, 313 
Calochortus pulchellus, 530 
Camellias—buds abnormal, 358 ; cul 
ture, 79, 268; disbudding, 314; leaves 
spotted, 36; repotting, 148; setting 
buds of, 43 
Campanula fragilis, 120 
Canadian products, 519 
Canaries—afflicted, 4.52 ; how long will 
they live? 318; songlesg, 430; treat¬ 
ment in olden times, 224 
Caunas, culture, 335; storing, 337 
Cape Gooseberry, growing in pots, 10 
Capsicums at Chiswick, 236 
Carnations—at Christmas, 591; culture, 
515 ; setting-up and judging, 64; 
planting aud potting, 346 
Carpet beds in autumn, 372 
Carrots—storing, 378. Suttons’ Cham¬ 
pion Shorthorn, 3 
Catalpas, uses of, 580 
Catchfly, 118 
Cattle—American dairy, 540; breeds of 
adapted for dairy farming, 425, 448, 
469,490; Highland,885; malting Bar¬ 
ley for feeding, 427 ; mortality of from 
America, 225 ; shed accommodation 
for, 270,293,314 
Cattleya crispa at Burston, Notts, 140, 
180 . C. gigas, 71; C. Marstersonise, 
352 ; C. superba, aud C. virgiualis, 71 
Cauliflowers—culture, 56, 312, 446 ; sow¬ 
ing, 86, 196, 219. Carters' Defiance 
Extra Early, 3 
Ceauotlius latifolius, 284 
Celery—culture, 35; eartiling, 196 ; 
hollow, 523 
Celery fly, 16, 30, 76, 115,116, 132 
Cereals—acreage of, 406; pedigree in, 
17 
Cerens grandiflorus, flowering of, 28; 
fruit of, 36 
Charlwood House, 526 
Cheese factories, early progress of iu 
England, 40 
Cheese, manufacture of foreign, 152 
Cheirostemou platanoides, 511 
Chelsea, an hour at, 590 
Cherries for walls, 380; Morello falling, 
17 
Cherry house management, 124,356,467, 
582 
Cherry trees, forming pyramid, 490 
Chicago fruit trade, 653 
Chickens — buying exhibition, 271; 
drooping, 202, 274; dying, 542; feeding, 
202; gapes in, 226; not thriving, 474 ; 
suffering from roup, 154 
Chimonamhus fragruus, pruning, 149 
Chionographis japonica, 170 
Chiswick Gardens, 139; a chapter on, 
342 ; vegetables at, 461 
Chlora grandiflora, 23.5 
Christmas, seasonable notes on, 567 
Chrysanthemums-against walls, 460; 
at Ewell, 528; culture, 269; for con¬ 
servatory decoration and exhibition, 
279; Mr. Henslow’s lecture ou, 465 ; in 
the open air, 511; notes on, 78; out¬ 
door in Baris, 376 ; propagating, 534 ; 
stopping, 269; training, 269 ; winter¬ 
ing, 3H. C. Etoile d'Or v. C. segetum, 
284; C. frutesceus, culture of, 125; C. 
lacustre, 416 ; C. Lady Selborue, 460; 
C. Lilac Gem, 594 
Churchyant, trees for, 358 
Cinchona cultivation in Bengal, 373 
Cinerarias-culture, 227, 313, 44 J; de¬ 
stroying insects ou root, 245 ; pottiug, 
148; sowing seed, 196 
Cireaui alpina, 190 
Citrus trifoliata, 3 8 
Clark, Mr. James, autobiography and 
portrait of 485 
Clay, burning, 419 
Clematis Davidiauit, 164; C. Star of 
India, 380 
Climbers for conservatory, 447 ; and for 
exposed situation, 424 
Clomenocoma montana, 552 
Clonmel, tout of the British Bee-keepers’ 
Association at, 178 
Clover—aud bees, 450; analysis of hay, 
536; aud of roots aud soil, 559 ; as a 
preparatory crop for Wheat, 535,559 
