July 5, 1883. ] JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
INDEX. 
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ABIES ALBERTI AX A, 492 
Abutiious, new varieties of, 46, 
49 
Abutilon and Hibiscus, cross 
between, bigener, 261 
Acacia lophantha as standards, 
364; iineata, 467 
Acers polymorphum varie- 
gatum and crataigifolitim 
variegatnm (certificated) 497 
Acids, making sulphuric and 
carbolic. 337 
Aconites, planting Winter, 341 
Adenandra fragrans, 447 
Adiantum mundulum, 8; novie- 
caledoniai, 498 
Agapetes buxifolia, 399 
Allamnnda Hendersonii, prun¬ 
ing, 59 
Allium ueapolitanum, 452, 512 
Aloes, American, flowering at 
Oxford, 363 
Alpine spoils, 387 ; plants, a 
prize collection of, 426 
Amaryllises Acis and Achilles, 
136; culture of, 171; at 
Chelsea, 219; George Gordon, 
A. F. Barron, and Or. Hogg, 
220 ; Lady of the Lake, Words¬ 
worth, Byron, aud Tennyson, 
certificated, 261; Mr. Hib- 
berd’s lecture, 262; Adolphus 
Kent, 344 
Amateur’s holiday, 32, 177, 113 ; 
Aberdeen, 141 
American Bornological Society, 
363 
Ammonia aud phosphates, 
value of, 438 
Amorphophallus campanu- 
latus, 491 
Auemoue japonica, 46 ; in 
Covent Garden, 217 
Angraecum cifraturn at Dublin, 
176; A. articulatum certifl¬ 
cated, 261 
Auisanthus splendens, 438 
Annuals and border plants for 
cut flowers, 225 ; choice, 
raising, 285; selections of and 
sowing, 370 
Anthurium ferriense certifi¬ 
cated, 261; splendidum, 342 
Ants and Bose buds, 526 
Aphis, destroying black, 539 
Apples—The Cobham,83; in the 
north, 115; Warner’s Seed¬ 
ling, certificated, 220; Austra¬ 
lian, 375 ; cause of trees can¬ 
kering, 444 
Apricots, branches dying, 397, 
423,443 ; estimate of varieties, 
397; preparing trees, 443 ; in¬ 
sects, 423; culture of under 
glass, 447; branches dying,515 
Aquatics, manure for, 54 
Aralia gemma, 235 
Arboriculture, revival of, par¬ 
liamentary motions, 356 
Arbour, a novel, 449 
Arbutuses, propagating, 82 
Ardisia crenulata, promoting 
flowering of, 101 
Ar"ids, potting, 463 
Articles, abstraction of, 216 ; 
manufactured, 235 
Ashton Court, notes at, 324 
Ash, the Manna, 6»3 
Aspaiagus,sowing,102 ; culture 
of under difficulties,338; Kale, 
359 ; early culture of, 446 ; 
special prizes for, 498 ; cut¬ 
ting and manuring, 523; fer¬ 
tilisers for, 549 
Aubrietias, 33 
Auriculas, treatment of, 24; 
notes on, 160; cross-breeding 
of,169; top-dressing, select va¬ 
rieties, 194; “ strains ” of, 195 ; 
cross breeding and results, 
2(>0;“ strains "of, Lovely Ann, 
241: effects of frost on, 241; 
new varieties — Greenfinch, 
Auriculas— continued. 
Monarch, Ajax, Miss Lodge, 
Adonis, and Carbuncle, 340; 
at South Kensington, 359,379; 
Douglas’s Conservative, 371; 
notes on culture, 388 ; show¬ 
ing aud handicapping, 444 ; 
alpines, certiflcated—Homer, 
Dr. Denny, A. Lloyd, Rob Roy, 
Roysterer, Resplendens, deli- 
cata, 385; at X or wood Green 
and Manchester, 475; new va¬ 
rieties of, 488; proposed 
Scottish Society, 540 
Australian Apples, 375 
Azalea, Duchess of Albany, 34; 
renovating exhausted, 82 ; 
destroying thrips on, 205; 
potting and mstnagement of, 
265; pruning, 288 ; A. Anti¬ 
gone, 344 ; certificated—Sou¬ 
venir du l’rince Napoleon,384; 
Baron N. de Rothschild, 
Princess Louise, Comte de 
Chambord, 385; Dr. Hermann 
Wiegel, 435 ; repotting, 436 ; 
hardy at Kew, 449; new at 
Ghent, 465; Nancy Waterer, 
492; indica, hardy, 512 
Azolla caroliniensis, 224 
BALSAMS, culture of, 119 
Bause, Mr., 134 
Beaus, early for market, 61 ; 
forcing Kidney, 276; history 
of, bean-leasts, 520 
Bedding plants, treatment in 
winter, 15 ; propagating, 134; 
propagating succulent, 184 ; 
planting aud arranging, 456 
Beading-out, preparing lor, 311 
Bedford new public park, 217 
Beeches, varieties of copper and 
purple, 448 
Bees—feeding, 15; art of keep¬ 
ing, 59 ; separators a neces¬ 
sity, 60 ; feeding in spring, 
80 ; last year’s swarms, 83 ; 
influence of autumn feed¬ 
ing, introducing queens with¬ 
out cages, HO ; standard 
frame, 103 ; art of keeping, 
sizes for hives, 121; autumn 
feeding, 122; feeding in au¬ 
tumn, spring, and summer, 
143; remedy for foul brood, 
hives uu-get-at-able, bees 
breeding in winter, 144; feed¬ 
ing effects of, Bee-keepers’ 
Association’s Annual Meet¬ 
ing, 163; small sections, best 
bees, 164; art of keeping, 
gathering; and extracting, 
184; feeders for, 203 ; guides 
in purchasing and price of 
hives, 223 ; amongst snow, 
Mr. Edwards’ feeder, 244 ; 
feeding, 246 ; unget-at-able 
hives,266; Bee-keepers’ Com¬ 
mittee aud Show fixture, 
266 ; feeding, 306; premature 
swarming, 307; beer, brandy, 
and bees, 328 ; the straw 
StewarLon hive, 329 ; feed¬ 
ing and uniting, 350; art of 
supering, 370 ; autumn feed¬ 
ing, hives, uniting hives, 
straw ntewurton bees, beer, 
and rum, 392 ; notes on 
swarming, 415 ; moving, oil¬ 
cake pollen, 437 ; artificial 
swarming, appliance for 
driving, Show at Bridgwater, 
pleasure and profit, 457 ; 
book, review of “ Plain 
and Practical Bee-keeping,” 
swarming, reward of perse¬ 
verance, 480 ; bees and fruit 
481 ; removing stocks, 5 2 ; 
mos profitable race of, 524; 
Bees— continued. 
art of keeping, sections, 
dangers, uniting and feeding, 
286 
Bees and horticulture, 548 
Begonias, culture of Tuberous, 
516; propagating, 225, 803; 
Prince of Wales and Dr. Duke, 
435; Orange Giant, certifi¬ 
cated, 545 
Bermuda, vegetable culture in, 
471 
Blackberries, American Ivitta- 
tinny, 519 
Blight in May, 466 
Blossom, abundance of in Scot¬ 
land, 514 
Boiler,stopping leakage in, 165 ; 
KinneU’s horseshoe-shaped, 
450 
Bones, dissolving, 39 
Books, reviews of, “ Rosarian’s 
Year Book,” 51; Sach’s “ Text 
Book of Botany,” 57 ; “ Les 
Plantes Potageres,”74; “Vines 
and Vine Culture,” 180; 
“ Herefordshire Pomona,” 263 ; 
Williams’ “ Greenhouse 
Flowering Plants,”283; Ville's 
“ Artificial Manures,” 348 ; 
“ Mushrooms for the Million,” 
430; “ Agriculture,” 46L; “Life 
on the Farm—Plant Life,” 552 
Books and reading, 211 
Books, catalogue of, 448 
Boronia tetrandra, 536 
Bossiaia tenuicaulis, 94 
Botanic (Royal) Society, sea¬ 
weeds in gardens of, 257 
Botanic (Royal) Society’s first 
Spring Show, 264 ; Second 
Spring Show, 346; First Sum¬ 
mer Show, 412; Second Sum¬ 
mer show, 500 
Bougainvi Ilea glabra, 50; spec- 
tabilis culture, 441 
Bouquets in Covent Garden, 383 
Bouvardias, culture of, 502; re¬ 
potting, 524 
Brainea insignis, 368 
Briza maxima, 224 
Broccolis and Cauliflowers, dif¬ 
ferences between, 279 
Brussels Sprouts, 71; Reading 
Exhibition, 4; The Aigburth, 
24 
Budding, the scallop method, 
393 
Bulbs, liquid manure for, 62 ; 
under trees, 280,325 
Bullfinches and fruit blossom, 
444 
Bnrghley, Peaches and Grapes 
at, 514 
CABBAGE LITTLE PIXIE, 25 ; 
growing and cutting, 357; 
good varieties of, 432; Me- 
Ewcn’s Early, 469 
Cacti, Mr. Loder’s lecture on 
hardy, 386 
Cal adiuni esculentum in Africa, 
860 
Calanthe Veitclii, treatment of, 
39; Regnieri, 136; culture of, 
242; cultivation of, 355; 
watering, 547 
Calceolarias at Reading,426 ; in 
beds, 446; at Balhain, 449; at 
Farnham Royal, 477 
Cakterhead, testimonial to Mr., 
403 
California, scenery in and 
colours of flowers, 449 
Camellias, causes of buds fall¬ 
ing, lu2; culture of aud varie¬ 
ties, 119; historical and cul¬ 
tural notes on, 209; destroy¬ 
ing scale on,288; not expand¬ 
ing, 307; effect o cutting 
CAMELLIAS— continued. 
down, 361; cutting down,416 ; 
Belgian, 466 ; renovating, 508 
Camphor and seed germination, 
303 
Cannas, two good varieties, 245 
Caper Spurge, 16 
Capparis spinosa, 16 
Carbolic acid v. insects, G6 
Carbolic acid and glycerine as 
an insecticide, 113', 135 ; and 
methylated spirit, 66; and 
weeds, 330 
Cardiff Castle Cucumber, 280 
Carica, new hybrid, 221 
Carnations and Picotees, treat¬ 
ment or, 25; culture in beds, 
varieties,47; potting, 61; new 
varieties, 4; proposed show of 
at Slough, 176; in beds, old 
and new varieties, 276, 230 ; 
growing for winter, 245 ; 
Field Marshal, 435 
Carpi t beds, arrangement of, 502 
Carriage drives, edgings for, 40 
Caryota excelsa, 136,137 
Caterpillars and Cabbages, 398 
Cattleya Perciviliana, 135; Gas- 
kelliana, 344; nobilior, 435; 
Morganitc, 491; management 
of, 547 
Cauliflowers and Lettuces, early 
varieties and management, 4<i 
Cauliflowers and Broccoli all 
the year, 212 
Celery bulging, 61; fly, descrip¬ 
tion and habits of, 83; Turner’s 
Incomparable and Sandring¬ 
ham, 92; Turnip-rooted, cul¬ 
ture and use of, 257 ; planting 
aud earthing, 512 
Ceutropogon Lucyanus, 510 
Cephalanthera ensifolia, 526 
Cerbera Thevetia, 351 
Cereus, night flowering, at 
Leigham Court, 449; grandi- 
floras at Leigham, 513; at 
Pendryft'ryn, 538 
Certificating plants, 404 
Ceylon Botanic Gardens report 
and Cinchona cultivation, 470 
Chestnut, double, 198 
Ckimonanthus fragrans, propa¬ 
gation of, 39 
Chionodoxa Lucilhe, 215 
Chorozema eordata, 245 
Christmas Roses in the London 
markets, 113 
Chrysanthemums — culture of, 
5 ; yellow varieties, 17 ; for 
exhibition, 23; notes on, 29; 
Star of Whyke, 45 ; late- 
flowering varieties, 50; dress¬ 
ing, 52 ; at Christmas, 67 ; Mr. 
Bryant’s at Kingston, 74 ; 
wood ripening, 76 ; as cut 
flowers, 89; notes on late, 94; 
at Kingston, 96,112 ; election, 
the polling, 110 ; late varieties, 
113; ripening wood of, 115; 
producing late flowers of, 134 ; 
too-much-alike varieties, 138; 
election, 151; notes on too- 
much-alike, 177, 237, 261 ; late, 
179 ; early and late-flowering, 
193 ; notes on election, 195; 
pruposed conference on, 216, 
280 ; C. segetum, 288; Crim¬ 
son, Velvet, and Crimson 
King, 308; for decoration, 366, 
372; potting and stopping, 456; 
culture lor decoration, 464 ; 
coronarium var. Aurora, 500; 
cutting down, 538 
Cinchonas, Mr. Howard’s lec¬ 
ture on, 427 
Cineraria Victory, 136 ; culture 
of, 198; Captain Edwards and 
Colonel Clarke, certificated, 
220 ; at Bristol, 234; Princess 
of Wales, Mr. Herrin, and Duke 
of Edinburgh certificated, 261; 
sowing, 459 
Clay, value of burnt, If 2 
Clematises as isolated speci¬ 
mens, 113; indivisa, 238 ; in¬ 
divisa iobata, 342; C. John 
Brown, 344; C. cirrhosa, 308; 
Krao, 362; montana, 497 
Cierodendrons Balfourianuin 
and fallax, culture of, 59 
Climbers for conservatory, 224 ; 
pruning, 306; for east aspect, 
wiring wall, 308 
Clovenfords, Grapes at, 813; 
criticism, 401 
Cocoa-nut fibre refuse aud 
wood lice, 278 
Cockscombs, culture of, 182 
Coelogyne cristata at Reading, 
27 ; culture, 467; dividing, 512 
Coix lachryma, 279 
Coiax jugosus punctatus,certi* 
cated,385 
Colesliitl House Gardens,389 
Colombo, scenery near, 383 
Corbuiaria alba, 72; citrina, 196, 
217 
Cordyline indivisa, hardiness 
of, 8 
Coronilla ibcrica,33 
Cotoneaster microphylla for 
edgings, 235 
Cottage gardens in winter, 52 
Cox, death of Mr., 427 
Crinodeudron Hookerianum, 97, 
98 
Crinum Kirkii, 428 
Crops for shaded position, 185 
Crossandra infundibuiiformis, 
70 
Croton leaves in flower glasses, 
112 
Crotons, culture of, 146 
Crystal Palace, a new French, 
427 
Cucumber disease, the, 4 ; fumi¬ 
gation as a remedy for, 28 ; 
preparing hotbeds for, 14 ; 
Pettigrew’s Cardiff Castle, 27; 
in pots, 165; Cardiff Castle, 
256; analysis of, 438 ; without 
ventilation, 564; Elliott’s 
Yorkshireman and Sanders’ 
Telephone, 550, 534; break¬ 
down of the “ Express ” cul¬ 
ture, 530 
Cucumber and Melon disease, 
Mr. W. G. Smith’s remedy for 
297 
Currants, pruning Black, 39 
Currant (black) x Gooseberry 
hybrid, 435 
Currant Clearwing, 472 
Cupressus Lawsoniaua erecta 
viridis, flue specimen of, 492 
Cyclobothra pulchella carnivo¬ 
rous, 498 
Cyclamens, culture of, 80,535 
Cymbidium Dcvoniauum—cer¬ 
tificated, 384 
Cypripedium insigne culture, 
82 ; notes on, 115,117; species, 
116,152 ; spectabile, 205; albo- 
purpureum, 478 
Cyrtockilum stellatum, 491 
DAHLIAS, NEW SINGLE VAIUE- 
ties,46; propagating, varieties 
for exhibition, 61; growing in 
pots, 82 ; single, raising from 
seed, 190 ; show fixture, 279; 
select, classified colours, 358 i 
D. luiperialis, 399; pegging- 
down single, 426; Natioual 
Show schedule, 514 ; pegging 
down, 649 
Darwin, memorial to late Mr., 
in Sweden, 73 
Daphne indica, culture of, 123 
Dead branches detrimental, 478 
Decaisne’s library, sale of,403 
Delphinium Dick Sand, 545 
