JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. c January so, im. 
Cobam penduliflora, M. Ernst’s obser¬ 
vations upon the fertilisation of, 9 
Cochins as mothers, 318 
Cockerel, scurf on head of, 364 
Cocoa-nut fibre refuse, uses ot, 805, 458, 
511 
Coffee disease in Fiji, 237 
Coleuses—pi uning, 380; varieties of, 86, 
87; C. Mrs. W. M. Sliirreff, 262; C. 
Pompadour, 142; C. Sowteri, 54 
Coleworts, culture of, 35 
Colletia cruciata, 553 
Comb foundation—artificial, 61, 84, 177, 
201,226,474, 519 ; experiences with, 107, 
153; experiments with, 41; fixing, 226, 
341 
Combs—crooked, 542 ; destroyers, 565 ; 
draining, 496 ; new and old, 107 
Common sense in gardening, 8 
Congress of German and Austrian bee¬ 
keepers, report of, 586, 606 
Conifers for screen, 380 
Conservatory in November, 436; shad¬ 
ing, 489 
Cornflowers, culture of, 534 
Corn, pedigree, 40 
Costmary, 222 
Cottagers’ Kale, 601 
Covent Garden Market, flowers at, 574 
Cows—acorns for, 364; dairy manage¬ 
ment and food for,542 ; feeding milch, 
83 ; salt for dairy, 586. Kerry, 18 ; 
selection and breeding of, lf'5 
Crinum Kirkil, 308 ; C. purpurasccns, 
529 
Crocuses, potting, 379; Indian, 461 
Cropping, rotation of for heavy or mixed 
loamy soils, 150,173; and for strong 
soil, 172 
Crops—acreage of green, 428; in the mid¬ 
lands, 60 ; prospects, 106 ; successioual, 
124, 132,163 
Croton Stewarti, 458. See Plants Certifi¬ 
cated 
Crousse’s, Mons., nursery at Nancy, 
France, 169 
Crystal Palace, visit to, 100 
Cucumber house management, 518 
Cucumbers—culture, 16 , 77, 78, 124, 171, 
220, 268, 312,356, 400,467, 557 ; gumming. 
601; not swelling, 149; not thriving 
in greenhouse, 17 ; old plants, 825, 
369; planting, 403; producing early, 
359; raising, 403 ; tlirips on, 16; un¬ 
healthy, 80 
Cultivation of land by animal power, 
580 
Cuphea selenioides, var. Zampari, 329 
Currant bushes, moss on, 489 
Custard Apple, sowing seed of, 535 
Cyclamens—culture, of, 467 ; potting, 
103,148; unhealthy, 314. C. persicum, 
culture, 350,446; and sowing, 292 
Cypella caerulea, 142 
Cyperus laxus variegatus,352, 460 
Cypripedium insigne, 413 ; twin flowers 
of. 534; C. jFairieanum, 465; C. .Mor- 
ganianum, 54 
DAHLIAS-culture, 835, 546; good, 234; 
varieties at Slough, 189,234. See Plants 
Certificated 
Dairy farming—breeds of cattle adapted 
for, 425, 448, 469, 490; industry, 106 ; 
American industry, 472 
Daisies, Michaelmas. 325 
December flowers, 544 
Delphinium Ajacis, D. alopecuroides, 
D. Barlowii, D. Beatsonii, D. Bella¬ 
donna, D. Brunonianum, D. cashmer- 
ianum, D. Consolida, D. elatum, D. 
grandiflorum, and D. nudicaule, 140 
Dendrobium chrysanthum at Ewell, 
552; culture of D. formosum in pots, 
490; D. endocliaris, 575 
Desfontainea spinosa in the north of 
Ireland, 137 
Digestion in plants, 332 
Diouam muscipula culture, 197 
Dipladenia amabilis, 487 
Diplothemium caudescens, 553 
Disa grandiflora, culture of, 109, 186; 
from seed, 204. D. megaceras and D. 
polygonoides, 598 
Dock, a hybrid, 162 
Dominy, Mr. John, 23; biography and 
portrait of, 11 
Dove plant, 351 
Doves unhealthy, 452 
Dracienas for table decoration, 527 ; 
new and choice varieties, 219. D. Tel- 
lingi, 569 
Dracontium Carderi, 529 
Drainage of land, 96,147, 214, 264, 316 
Dublin, flowers in, 374 
Ducks. See Poultry 
Early produce for market, 314 
Early recollections of, floriculture, 206 
Earwigs — destroying, H97 ; infesting, 
climbers, 172 
Echeverias, wintering, 5341 
Eggs—age of'for sitting,864 ; preserving, 
152; lime for, 176; trade in America, 
272 
Electricity, effects of on vegetation, 255, 
282, 304, 354, 546 ~ 
Electric light and insects, 385 
Enchanter’s Nightshade, alpine, 190 
Endive, sowing, 86,147,220 
English harvest, 225 
Entomological Society, report of month¬ 
ly meeting, 450 
Epidendrum vitellinum, 413 
Epigcea repens, 117 
Epimedium Perralderianum, 170 
Erica mediterranea, propagating, 489 
Erigeron multiradiatus, 598 
Eriobotrya japonica, 447 
Erythrina Parcelli, 459 
Escallonia montevidiensis, 242 
Espalier tree, cankered, 447 
Eucharis amazonica for Christmas, 378; 
resting, 78 
Eucomis punctata, 156 
Eueryphia pinnatifolia, 142,191 
Eulalia japonica, 57 
Euonymus europaius, uses of, 4S9; E. 
latifolius, 261 
Eupatorium ageratoides, 372 ; E. pur- 
pureum, 211 
Euphorbias, culture of, 195; E. splen- 
dens, culture of, 125 
Everlasting l’eas, 368 
Experiences with comb foundation, 107, 
158 
Experimental Garden, Mr. Laxton’s, 121 
Expei iments with foundation, 41 
Extraordinary tithes on fruit and mar¬ 
ket gardens, 598 
Eymoie Black fowls, 604 
Falling leaves and ruined choirs, 
389 
Farming, 340 ; the Speaker on, 297 
Panning— Acreage of green crops, 428. 
Advantages of a home farm, 295, 316, 
839,888,426. Advantages of autumn 
cultivation, 104, 126. Agricultural 
disasters in Kansas, 362 ; prospects, 
129, 318, 340, 862,385; returns, 200,406. 
Agriculture, future of, 201. American 
dairy industry, 472 ; farming, Messrs. 
Read & Pell’s report, 200; grain trade. 
840; harvest,174; Wheat for England, 
385. Butter at Clonmel Show, 199; 
grain and butter making, 249, 883; 
Irish, 472. Canadian products, 519. 
Cattle—American dairy, 540 ; breeds 
of adapted for dairy farming, 425, 448, 
469, 490 ; Highland, 385; malting 
Barley for feeding, 427; mortality of 
from America, 225 ; shed accommoda¬ 
tion for, 270.293,314. Cereals, acreage 
of, 406; pedigree in,18. Cheese, manu¬ 
facture of foreign, 152. Cheese fac¬ 
tories, early progress of in England, 
40. Clover as a preparatory crop for 
Wheat, 535, 559; analysis of hay, 536; 
and of roots and soil, 559. Corn, pedi¬ 
gree,40. Cows—acorns for, 364 ; dairy 
management and food for, 542; feed¬ 
ing milch, 88; salt for dairy, 586; 
Kerry, 18 ; selection and breeding of, 
105. Cropping, rotation of for heavy 
or mixed loamy soils, 150,173; strong 
soil, 172. Cultivation of land by 
animal power, 580. Dairy farming 
industry, 106. Farming, 340; the 
Speaker on, 297. Flour, how to make, 
495. Food production in America, 225. 
Harvest—American, 174 ; and grain 
values, 249, 272 ; dates in Berks, 175; 
effects of, 297; English, 225 ; French 
wine, 219; Irish,340 ; of 1880,199; pro¬ 
gress, 200 ; prospects in Scotland, 225: 
to harvest, 272. Hops in England and 
America, 249. Horses,.should we shoe 
them ? 495. Insect foes of Mangold 
Wurtzel, 295. Lessons taught by the 
exhibition of fat stock, 601. Live 
stock returns, 428. Lupins, culture of, 
246. Maize, cultivation and growth 
of, 512. Meat, price of, 176. Milk- 
method of testing, 151; price of, 362; 
supply for London, 472; trade, 540. 
Milk pail, “The Perfect,” 39. Prepar¬ 
ing for root crops, 225. Rabbits, pre¬ 
served Australian, 540. Rotations for 
cropping light soils, 837, 359, 381,403. 
Sheep, cross-breeding of, 197,222 ; mor¬ 
tality in, 406. Top-dressing experi¬ 
ments upon grass land, 273. Wheat 
in America, 152, 176 ; prices of from 
1641 to 1875, 177; sowing,310; supply 
and prices, 472 
Fence, ornamental, 150 
Ferniehurst, Yorkshire, 434 
Ferns—automatic movements of, 898; 
culture of, 35; eaten, 93; Gold and 
Silver, 125, 433 
Ficus elastica — stopping, 489; un¬ 
healthy, 314; unsatisfactory. 245 
Figs—cracking, 314; culture, 15,124,171, 
812,374,445 ; forcing in pots, 497, 557 ; 
second crop, 221; temperatures for, 
510. Grizzly Bourjassotte, 328 
Finsbury Park, 235 
Floral defences, 145,160.193 
Floriculture, early recollections of, 206 
Flower borders, hardy, 49; making and 
furnishing an old-fashioned, 387 
Flower girls’ brigade, 575 
Flowering plants for a room, 16 
Flowers—about cut, 505; artificial, 285; 
boxes for exhibiting cut, 149; colour 
of. 309 ; for borders, 22, 118, 283; for 
cutting, 292; for December, 544; for 
front garden, 358; in Dublin, 374; 
seasonable management of florists’, 
*45 ; trade in cut in America, 169; 
varieties for forcing, 533 
Flute budding, 49 
Food—American and Canadian supply, 
385; production in America, 225 
Forcing department, management of, 
468, 532, 533, 599 
Foreign supplies and home production, 
549 
Forest trees, Australian, 213 
Forestry, proposed school of, 553 
Fowls. See Poultry 
Fragaria indica, 28 
Frost in Lancashire, 483 
Fruit crops, 204,229; of Canada and the 
United States, 307 
Fruit farm, Mr. McKinstry’s in America, 
439 
Fruit gardens, extraordinary tithes on, 
596 
Fruit-growing in India, 114 
Fruits—for cold district, 534,549 ; hardy, 
570; notes on, 476, 523 ; shrivelling, 
511; weights of, 506, 519 
Fruit trade, Chicago, 553 
Fruit trees—and galvanised wire, 568, 
588 ; autumn treatment of, 134; barren, 
292; damage by frost in Germany, 261; 
digging amongst, 511; for training to 
walls,380; leaves discoloured, 172; not 
bearing, 424; on grass, 245; pruning 
hardy, 244,253,336,532; pruning young, 
545; root-pruning, 52 i; summer-prim¬ 
ing, 221, 380 ; training, 526 ; training 
espalier, 433; transplanting, 396, 411 ; 
v. rabbits, 424 
Fuchsias—culture, 102, 446, 468; propa¬ 
gating, 293 ; wintering, 336, 413,434 
Fungi—a cause of disease in plants, 280, 
324, 368, 411; a result, not a cause of 
disease, 258, 302, 345, 399, 436 ; on Hop 
plant, Peach trees, and Grapes, 333 ; on 
Potatoes, 333, 354; t’. disease in plants, 
_ 237 
Gale, DISASTROUS, IN YORKSHIRE, 419 
Galleridse, 565 
Galvauised wire and fruit trees,568,588 
Gardeners’ (Market) grievances, report 
of meeting, 141 
Gardeners’ Royal Benevolent Institu¬ 
tion, thirty-seventh anniversary of, 50 
Gardenias, culture, 88 
Gardening, common sense in, 3; ex¬ 
penses, 79; teaching of Nature in, 69 
Garden refuse audits uses, 476, 5c3,656, 
577 
Gardens—a Queensland flower, Sll; 
flowers for front,858 ; gas limefor,511; 
men lequired in, 149, 197; on St. 
Swithin’s day, 68 ; seeds for, 402; two 
Kentish, 347,391; yellow in the flower, 
76 
Garston Vineyard, Liverpool, 305 
Garthmyl Hall (Mrs. Troughton’s) 
poultry yard, 405 
Geese in Ireland, 340 
Gentiana ornata, 308 
Geranium pratense flore-pleno, 97 
Gesnera zebrina, 483 
Gladiolus—at Langport, 238; culture, 
322, 546 ; disease, 322, 368; history of, 
417; raising from seed, 439; ripening 
tlie corms, 322; storing, 346; varieties, 
418. Cleopatra. 278 ; Marguerita, 278. 
! See Plants Certificated 
Glass structures for amateurs, 462,550 
Gleichenia dicarpa longipinnata, 575 
Gloriosa superba, 189 
Gloxinias—at Reading Nurseries, 90; 
culture, 78,195 
Goats’ milk, 585 
Goats, Nubian, 542 
Golden Pheasants, 320; poisoning of,564 
Gomphrena globosa nana compacta, 96 
Gooseberry bushes, moss on, 489; trans¬ 
planting, 431,486 
Gooseberry caterpillar, 431 
Grafting, herbaceous, 14 
Graues—at Agricultural Hall, 372; at 
Chiswick, 343 ; autumn management, 
118,162; colouring, 93 ; cracking, 221; 
culture, 78,244; decaying, 269, 293 ; for 
greenhouse, 314; for market, 559 ; for 
succession, 269; fungi on, 333; grow¬ 
ing without lire heat, 477, 499, 556, 580; 
keeping, 365, 420; mildew on, 246 ; 
mouldy, 336; not colouring, 103, 358; 
scalded, 52, 103, 109, 132, 133, 157 ; 
scorched, 17; shauking, 125, 149, 161, 
183, 206, 237,302,328, 398; thinning, 44 ; 
weights of, 506. Black Hamburgh, 
keeping, 416; Duke of Buccleuch, 165; 
Gros Maroc, 350, 419 ; Muscat shrivel¬ 
ling, 222; Trebbiano, 221 
Grass-cutter, Ridgway’s, 113 
Grass in orchard, 313 
Grass land, top-dressing experiments 
upon, 273 
Grave, planting a, 314 
Great Doods, Reigate, 159 
Greenhouses—arrangement of, 298; 
aviary in, 222; heating, 511, 558; ma¬ 
nagement of, 268, 313, 357, 489, 558; 
painting, 221 
Griffinias, culture of, 378 
Griselinia littoralis, 36 
Grotto, a picturesque, 161 
Gynmogramma schizopliylla, 594 
HAMPTON COURT GARDENS, 302 
Hand-flower tree, 511 
Hardy flower borders, 49 
Harvest—American, 174; and grain 
values, 249, 272 ; dates in Berks, 175; 
effects of, 297; English, 225; French 
wine, 249; honey, 273,385; Dish, 340 ; 
of 1880,199; Olive, 595 ; progress, 200 ; 
prospects in Scotland, 225 ; to harvest, 
272 
Heaths, culture, 400 
Heating—buildings, a new mode of, 598; 
greenhouse, 511; and with sanitary 
pipes,511 
Hedera maderiensis, 54 
Hedychium Gardnerianum, 324 
Helianthus orgyalis, 343 
Helichrysum frigidum, 308 
Hellebore powder v. caterpillars, 9 
Helleborus niger maximus, 594 
Hemp as a decorative plant, 287 
Herbaceous plants, 7 ; and bedding-out, 
69 
Hereford Poultry Fair, 604 
Herniaria glabra, wintering, 269 
Hibiscus schizopetalus, 46, 529; H. 
syriacus, 353 
Hives. See Bees 
Holiday notes, 305, 370, 443 
Holly berries, scarcity of, 461,552 ; for 
Christmas decoration, 552 
Hollyhock—diseases, 69, 91, 183; propa¬ 
gation, 09, 293 
Holly Lodge, Liverpool, 186 
Holmestead, Liverpool, 136 
Holmfels, Reigate, 159 
Home farm—advantages of a, 295, 316, 
339, 383, 420 ; work on, 18, 38, 59, 81, 105, 
127, 151, 174, 198, 223, 247, 271, 294, 316, 
338, 360, 382, 404, 426, 449, 470, 491, 513, 
536, 560, 581, 602 
Honey, bee Bees. 
Hops—fungi on, 333; in England and 
America, 249; products in America, 
428 
Horticultural aspect of 1880, 589 
Horticultural (Royal) Society—Com¬ 
mittee meetings, 54, 95, 141, 190, 261, 
351, 464, 553; evening fete, 87; Mr. 
Cheshire’s lecture, 142; Mr.Henslow’s 
lectures, 73, 142 352, 465, 555 
Horticultural shows, judges and judg¬ 
ing at, 275, 308 
Hot-water pipes, arrangement of, 558 
House decoration, plants for, 504 
Hyacinths (Roman falter flowering, 535; 
culture ot early Roman, 184, 221 ; for 
cutting, 116 ; in glasses, 379 ; potting, 
379, 558 
Hyde Park, 286 
Hydrangeas, blue, 301 
Hymenophyllum ciliatum, 461 
Hypericum empetrifolium, 165 
Hypolepis millefolium, 142 
ILEX HODGINSII, 483 
Incubation, artificial, 175 
India, fruit-growing in, 114 
Indian Crocuses, 461 
Iudigofera Anil, 120; culture of I. de¬ 
cora, 149 
Insecticide, Bardney’s, 116 
Insects—and the electric light, 385 ; 
chapters on for gardeners, 27, 99, 144, 
217, 266, 332, 371, 421, 499, 570; foes of 
Mangold Wurtzel, 295. Aleyrodes va- 
porariorum, 601 
Inverness, season near, 525 
Ireland, weather and outdoor garden¬ 
ing in, 461, 524 
Irises—for pots, 269. I. graminea, 7 ; 
1. Kaimpferi (1. laevigata), 215 ; I. Ion- 
gipetala, 331. See Plants Certificated 
Irish harvest, 340 
Isotoma axillaris, 261 
Ivy for covering a house, 36 
lxias, potting, 379 
JAMAICA BOTANICAL GARDENS, 
effects of hurricane, 346 
Japan, Indian Tea plant in, 373 
Jasminum gracillimum, 554, 577 
Jerusalem Artichokes, 380 
Judges and judging at horticultural 
shows, 275,308 
KALE, COTTAGERS’, 601 
Kalosantlies coccinea, 165 
Keele Hall, 444 
Ivennington Park, 211 
Kentish Gardens, two, 347, 391 
Kew Gardens, notable plants in, 43, 76 
Kleinias, wintering, 534 
Knowfleld Nurseries, Carlisle, 146 
LACJ5NA SPECTABILIS, 308 
Lachenalin, potting, 379 
Ladia Wolstenholmai, 351 
Land—cultivation of by animal power, 
580; drainage Of, 96, 147, 214, 264, 316 
Lapagerias at Southgate, 412. L. alba, 
fine, 141; L. rosea, culture, 80; flue, 
141 
Lathyrus rotnndifolius, 399 
Latticework, plants for covering, 336 
Lawn mowers, 327,374,389,414 
Lawns, sulphuric acid v. Plantains on, 
424; wormcasts on, 336 
Lawn tennis ground, 391 
Lee Hall, 192 
