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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[ July 6, 1883. 
Dendrobium Leechianum, 111; 
nobile var. nobilis and Wardi- 
auum rar. Waddcllianum, 
£20; AVardianum, culture of, 
249 ; nobile yar. nebilus, 378 ; 
Dearei, 435; nobile, removing 
pseudo-bulbs, 458; draconis, 
491; summer treatment of, 547 
Dentzia crenata flore-pleno, 61 
Diplacus glutinosus, 482 
Dipladenia Brearleyana cul¬ 
ture, 165 
Diplopappus clirysopbylla, 8 
Domestic gardening, Mr. Bur- 
bidge’s lecture on, 217 
Douglas, presentation to Mr., 
114 
Dracaenas, propagating, 121 
Draining, advantages of, S; a 
lesson in, 419 
Drawing, value of for gardeners 
books and prizes for, 335 
Drumlanrig, notes on, 157 
Dundee,Dickson and Turnbull’s 
nurseries, 177 
Dust storms in India, 257 
EARTH TEMPERATURES, 
notes on, 291; natural and 
artificial, 368 
Eelieveria retusa at Chiswick, 
27 
Echinocactus AVhipplei, sta¬ 
mens sensitive, 470 
Egyptian garlands, 383 
Elm, removal of memorable, 
goat moths attacking, 361 
Epidendrums, notes on species, 
364,410 ; uemorale, 365; coch- 
leatum, 411; replicatum, 430 
Epping Forest, Committee re¬ 
port of, 73 
Eranthemum Andersoni, 9 
Ericas, culture of, 37; carnea, 
174 
Erigerons, species of, 33 
Erythroniumgrandifloruin,381, 
412 
Eucharises, potting, 143 
Euonymuses, notes on varie¬ 
ties. 466 
Enpatorium AVeinmannianum, 
273 
Euphorbia splendens, 145; jac- 
quiniaiflora, topping, 524 
Eurya latifolia variegata, 213 
Evolution, l’rof. Meehan on, 36 
FARM — retrospect, 18; maxi¬ 
mum weight for age of cattle, 
19; Goat farming, 40, 62, 103; 
the Angora Goat, 62, lt,4; feed¬ 
ing live stock. 105 ; analysis 
of Goat milk, 124; indications 
of fertility or barrenness of 
soils, 146,166, 186 ; AA'heat and 
Oats for spring sowing, bacon 
and hams, curing, 147; Drum¬ 
head Cabbages and Kale, cows 
calving prematurely, Colts¬ 
foot in pastures, 168: sowing 
barley with oats, selling sheep 
to advantage, formation of 
pastures, 187; the polled breeds 
of cattle, 206, 226, 246; manure 
for Potatoes, top-dressing for 
AVheat, 207; Ensilage, 268, 289; 
Dutch barn and silo, 266 ; 
bottled milk. 290 ; ensilage 
and hay, tabulated resu ts, 
309 ; Oats v. Barley, “ Easy 
Lesson on Dairying,” Mus¬ 
tard in fields, 310 ; plough- 
ing-in or feeding green crops, 
331, 352, 372, 394, 417 ; soil ex¬ 
haustion, special wants of 
special crops, 353,395>; Cabbage 
for dairy cows, Alderney cow 
management, 354 ; tabular 
composition of various crops, 
373; Lucerne, Rape cake, 374; 
cost of sheep feeding, 394 ; 
International Forestry Exhi¬ 
bition, 396 ; Committee of Ag¬ 
riculture, 396; hay-saving by 
machinery, 439, 459, 483, 505; 
cream cheese making, 462 ; 
food for cattle, 484 ; corn-sav¬ 
ing by machinery, 505,551 
Feeding ewes, 85 
Ferns, substitutes for, 196; re¬ 
potting, 203; dividing hardy, 
222; fronds, substitutes for, 
237 ; in bottles, 357 
Fertilisers—Clay’s, quantity to 
use, 246; Sussex experiments 
with, 419 
Figs, forcing, 120,285 ; at Chats- 
worth, 468; second crop, 523 
Filberts, pruning, 79,200; prun¬ 
ing ana blossoms, 255 
Filmy Ferns and frost, 53 
Fir-tree oil, 16 
Fisheries Exhibition, decora¬ 
tions at, 403 
Fisli, Gold, killed by water 
beetles, 469 
Floriculture, tastes in, 66 
Flower bed, a pretty, 513 
Flowers, colours of, 54,90; early, 
174 ; from France, 196; heat 
in relation to sexes of, 514; 
choice hardy,*518; preserving 
colours of, keeping in water, 
562; exhausting plants, 532 
Flowerstand, combination, 405 
Forests, in Ireland, 115; in Italy, 
114; in .North Carolina, 319 
Franeisceas, propagating, 162 
Fraxinus ornus, 449 
Frost, severity of and effects, 
217,221; in March, effects of, 
256 
Fruits, Beach’s preserved,298 
Fruit —forcing, 319; blossom, 
thinning,361; thinning,hardy, 
376; varieties of, not canker¬ 
ing, 379 ; prospects, 407, 424; 
varieties cankering and not 
cankering,428; proposed show 
of at South Kensington, 444; 
prospects of in the north, 445 ; 
proposed national show of, 
472 ; prospects in Kent, 468; 
fruit seeds, cleansing, 481 ; 
prospects in AA’orcestersliire, 
513 
Fruit trees — syringing, bud¬ 
ding, 17 ; growing on chalk 
soils, 29 ; planting, pruning, 
and training, 37 ; forcing, 
Beaches and Nectarines, 58; 
growing on chalk soils, 67 ; 
pruning and training, 79, 82; 
protecting, 101 ; planting, 
pruning, and protecting, l2o; 
culture in Russia, 135 ; pro¬ 
tecting blossoms of, 162 ; grubs 
attacking, 165; farming, ex¬ 
tensive, 170; culture in New 
South Wales, 197 ; protecting 
blossoms,202 ; blossom frozen, 
267; protecting, 242; spring- 
pruning, 284; canker in, 337: 
mulching, 539; pinching and 
training, 54 i 
Fuchsias, wintering, 39 ; new 
varieties, 45; Mrs, Rundell, 
241; certificated, 220; origin 
of, 251; Bella, 492 
Fungus in greenhouse, 267 
GALANTHUS F I.AVES1 AND 
other species, 215 
Gallo and gall makers, 515 
Gardeners and Excise duties, 
160 
Gardeners, conduct of young, 
172, 234 ; Jaw on taxing, 190 ; 
dismissal of, 482 
Gardeners’ Benefit Society, 324 
Gardeners’ (Royal) Benevolent 
Institution, appointment ol 
Treasurer, 156 
Gardening and gardeners, 87; 
thoughts on, 134; Mr. Richard¬ 
son’s paper on, 346 
Garden, my suburban, 26,48,91, 
340; thoughts on manage¬ 
ment of, 530 
Garden structures, 21, 88, 91, 150, 
182 
Gardenias, culture of, 38; buds 
deformed, 267; planting out, 
398; for the million, 442 
Gardiner, presentation to Mr., 
218 
Garrya elliptica, grafted on 
Aucuba japonica, 221 
Gas lime for gardens, 61 
Gentianas, species of, bavarica, 
274 ; acaulis albus, 244 ; seed¬ 
ing and self-sowing, 301 
Gesueria ciuuabarina, culture 
Of. 88 
Ghent International Shotv, 
schedule of, 156 
Ghent, M. A’an Houtte’s nursery 
at, 465 
Gladioli for Scotland, 40; ex¬ 
periments with, 96; failures 
with, 157, 175, 178; notes on 
ncAV varieties, 212 ; planting 
and disease of, 242; culture of 
earty-flowering varieties, 251; 
in Scotland, 293; notes on, 
312; raising from cormlets, 
341 
Gloxinias, culture of, 38; choice 
new varieties, 474; at Reading, 
490 
Goat farming, 83 ; and mohair, 
207 
Goat Show, 484 
Gold fish dying, 450 
Gooseberries, useful, 82 ; prun¬ 
ing, 109 
Gooseberry Sawfiy, 481 
Grafting Blums and Cherries, 
62 
Grafting, 118 ; cleft and notch, 
130; crown, 155 
Grapes—Muscat of Alexandria, 
3; Madresfield Court, 5; notes 
on, 6; Duke of Buccleuch, late 
keeping, 12; cool-system cul¬ 
ture, 14; Black Alicautc, 23; 
Mrs. l’ince, 23; culture, coot 
system of, 26; aspects for, 47; 
GRAPES— conlinuecl. 
Golden Queen, 50 ; producing 
large bunches, 53 ; cracking 
and prevention, 61; bottled 
not keeping, 102; so-called 
large bunches, 201, 218, 239; 
thinning, twisting bunches, 
230; temperatures for, 351; 
iveights and sizes of bunches, 
372; large v. small bunches, 
399 ; Duke of Buccleuch, 401; 
express growing, packing, 402; 
footstalks decaying, 416 ; 
Duke of Buccleuch footstalks 
decaying, 420, 464; forcing 
and growing, temperature 
for, 452; packing at Cloven- 
foids, pruning Duke of Buc¬ 
cleuch, 458 ; at Dunecvan, 
513; Duchess of Buccleuch, 
536; Madresfield Court, warm 
v. cool-liouse treatment, 533 ; 
thinning and scalding,547 
Grasses and Everlasting 
Flowers,notes on,108; raising 
ornamental, 224 
Greenhouse and its inmates— 
syringing and plunging, 532; 
an amateur's, 428 ; neat stage 
in, 450: the Citrus family, 535 
Ground levelling, 78 
Grubs, destroying in garden, 
393,550; destroying with sal 
ammoniac. 488 
Guernsey Lilies, 102 
Gutta perclia, sources of, 453 
HABROTHAMNUS ELEGANS 
argentea,283 
Hardenbergia Comptoniann,280 
Heaths, repotting, 102, 306 
Hedges, formation and manage¬ 
ment of, 126,131; Conifers for, 
144 
Heliotrope, Swanley Giant- 
certificated, 385 
Hellebore tea, 394 
Hepaticas. 216; triloba, 241 
Heracleum gigauteum, 538 
Herbaceous borders in June, 514 
Herbaceous plants, a prize col¬ 
lection of, 426 
Hippeastruin equestrevar.semi- 
plenum, 511 
Hooker, Sir J., and Royal Geo¬ 
graphical Society,362 ; Society 
of Arts’ award to, 537 
Hollyhocks, propagating select 
varieties, 215 
Hop mildew, destroying, 426 
Horn shavings and bone, con¬ 
stituents of, 526 
Horsefield, death of Mr., 115 
Horticultural buildings, 137; 
how to succeed, 277 
Horticulture, prospects of, 311 
Horticultural (Royal) Society’s 
Meetings, 8,33,135,220, 260,394, 
344,384,435,497,544 ; privileges 
of Fellow's,8; proposed officers, 
50 ; Aunual Meeting and Re¬ 
port, 139 ; arrangements for 
1883, 157; resumption of pro¬ 
vincial shows, 216; Spring 
Show, 260; proposed evening 
meetings, 341; Society’s Sum¬ 
mer Show, 433 ; meeting at 
Burlington House, 498 
Horticulture, review of in 1882 , 
56 
Horticulturists, proposed inter¬ 
national meeting of, 236 
Hose, leather v. india-rubber, 
858 
Hot water as au insecticide, 256 
Hot-water pipes,stopping leak¬ 
age in,871 
Hova campannlata, 406 
Hyacinths and Tulips for ex¬ 
hibition, 58 
Hyacinths Rink Perfection and 
Souvenir de J. H. \ r een certi¬ 
ficated, 261 
Hyacinthus candicans, 98; 
raising from seed, loi 
Hydrangeas, culture of, 5; dis¬ 
budding fiowers of, 68 
Hymenocallis macrostephana, 
culture of, 102 
Hypericums, notes on, 12, 76 
IBERTS GIBRALTARICA HY- 
BR1DA, 435 
Imantophyllumminiatum,257 ; 
Mrs. Laing, 862; the best va¬ 
rieties of, 465 
Impatiens Sultani, 470; from 
seed,547 
Indian muslin for shading, 216 
Insect enemies of garden crops, 
70, 201,345, 471 
Insects on fruit trees, modes of 
destroying, 149, 318, 476 ; 
Gooseberry moth, 345 
Insecticides—carbolic acid and 
methylated spirit, 66 
Irises, difficulty of seeding, a 
hybrid, 386 ; Dr. Foster’s lec¬ 
ture on, 386 ; notes on rare, 
413 ; siberica, 493; choice va¬ 
rieties of, 491 
Ivy on houses, 380 ; severing 
stems of, 42) 
Ixoras, propagation of, 162 
JEAY'S-EAR FUNGUS, 82 
Kale, hearting curled, 362 
Kalosanthes, culture of, 282 ; 
coccinea culture, 486 
ICew, report of condition and 
progress, 50; earlier opening 
of Gardens, 156 
Kitchen garden, raising early 
crops, 58; notes, 98,349; late¬ 
ness of crops, 265 
Ladder for conifers, in 
Lambeth Palace Garden, 67 
Lamium maculatum aureurn, 
448 
Lathraia squamaria, 330 
Lawns, making and renovat¬ 
ing, 47, 121, 155 ; moss on, 61; 
and their surroundings, 08; 
mixture of seeds for, 272 ; 
draining and levelling, 296 ; 
management of in hot 
Aveather, 490 
LaAvn tennis ground, improv¬ 
ing, 145 
Leaf soil, Belgian and English, 
333; notes on, 379 
Leaves, forms of, 363 ; facts 
about, 45* 
Leucadendron nrgenteum, 330 
Leucojum vernutn, 284 
Lewisia rediviva, 49 
Lilacs, preparing and forcing, 
438 
Lily, Bermuda Easter, 516 
Lilium longiflorum in Avinler, 
12 ; longiflorum, 498 ; at Du- 
neeA'an, 513; preparing for 
Avinter, 524 
Lillesden, plants and Grapes at, 
532 
Lily of the A’alley, 52 ; in 
America, 92; culture and 
forcing, 107 ; Mr. Roberts’ 
pamphlet, 279 ; home-groAvn, 
314,257 ; preparing for forcing, 
339 ; home-groAvu for forcing, 
493 
Liming land, 167 
Lin mean Society, election of 
officers, 449 
Loudon nurseries in April, 320 
Luculia gratissirna at Glas- 
nevin, 9; grotving dwarf, 155 
Lupiuus polyphyllus, 513, 539 
Lycaste Harrisonhc alba, 344.377 
Lyne, presentation to Mr., 92 
MADEIRA, VEGETATION OF,54) 
Magnolia Campbeili at Lake¬ 
lands, 73 
Maize and glucose sugar manu¬ 
facture, 197 
Manchester Botanical Society’s 
report, 92 
Mangricra indica, 404 
Mann, presentation to Mr., 235 
Manure, poultry, 39; economi¬ 
cal, 44 ; tlie best, 487 
Marguerites in London, 490 
Marseilles, proposed Inter¬ 
national SIioav at, 196 
Masdevallia Schlimii, 304, 378; 
M. xanthocorys, certificated, 
384 ; M.rosea, certificated, 385 
Melons, potting and topping, 80; 
stems splitting and remedy, 
195 ; preserving, late keeping 
Avantcd, 234 ; culture after 
setting, 243; culture in pots, 
271 ; culture of Water, in 
frames, 307 ; top-dressing, 308; 
culture of, Mr. Taylor’s 
method, 336 ; culture in 
frames, 405 ; watering and 
mulching, 456 ; toppiug and 
training, 458 ; notes on, 501; 
gumming and canker, 504; 
not SAvelling, 549 
Menyanllies trifoliata, 330 
Meteorological observations in 
Notts, 297 
Meteorological Society, meet¬ 
ing of, 9, 78 ; exhibition of 
instruments, 176 
Methylated spirit v. mealy bug, 
66 
Microcaclirys tetragona, 35 
Mimuluses certificated —mos- 
chatus grandiflorus, m. rubra, 
liose-in-hosc, 386 ; radicans, 
497 
Mistakes in gardening, 529 
Moles, banishing, 283 
Monifietli nurseries, 499 
Monstera deliciosa, 303 
Moss litter, German, 279 
Murucuja, fruits of in C’ovent 
Garden, 383 
Muscari Heldreichi, 215 
Mushroom culture at Liverpool, 
9 ; culture outdoors, 49; beds, 
liquid manure for, 123; de¬ 
stroying insects in, 165, 216 ; 
preserving, 832 : on ridges, 
360 ; for the Million. 403 ; in 
vinery, 427 ; Mr. Wright’s 
treatise on, 430 ; groAving in 
moss, 442; Culture for Ama¬ 
teurs, 491 ; manure for, 526 
NARCISSUS IN POTS, REFEIt- 
ence to lists, 225; dAA-arf early 
varieties of, 283; incompara- 
hilis pallidus, Princess Marie, 
344; bulbocodium in nots, 
362, 382 ; Mr. Heuslow’s lec¬ 
ture on, 406 ; double Poet’s, 
438 
Nepenthes, culture of, 198; 
variet’es for decoration, 200; 
at Clielsea, 474 
Neplirodiuin Rodigasianum, 
certificated, 384 
Newcastle Spring ShoAV, 387 
Nicotiana afflni-,295 
Nightingales in Kent, 511 
Nitrogen, too much, 464 ; too" 
much and too little, 492 ; use 
of, 514 
Nursery sick fund,360; atSaw- 
bridgeAvorth,399 
Nymplnca stellata var. zanzi- 
harensis, 491 
ODONTOGLOSSUM MADRENSE 
Aar. giganteum, 34; Alexan¬ 
dra:, 44; Scotti and crispum 
aureurn magniticum, 163; 
Alexandra:, culture of, 150; 
Alexandra: at Drumlanrig, 
176 ; gloriosum var. pictum, 
321; polyxanthum grandi- 
florum, 344; Ruckerianum, 
423; cordatum var.,377 ; vexil- 
larium splender.s, polyax- 
thum grandiflorum, 378; vex- 
illarium albicans, certifi¬ 
cated, 384 ; elegaus, certifi¬ 
cated. 385 
Oneidiums, notes on, 23 ; 
ltogersii, 69 
Onions—winter and spring, de¬ 
signation of, 246 ; transplant¬ 
ing, 466 
Oplirys aranifera, 415 
Orange, Myrtle-leaved, 17 ; at 
SaAvbridgeAvorth, 72; home 
culture of 108,535 ; trees and 
Mytilapsis citriocola, 261 
Orcliella Aveed. products of, 471 
Orchids—in floAver at Fernside, 
79 ; in CoA’ent Garden, 114 ; 
at Keiv, 114; at Davenham 
Bank, 133 ; at Chelsea, 175; 
sales, 225 ; Fern roots for 
potting, 234 ; coot tempera¬ 
tures for at Fernflcld, 240 ; 
repotting and compost for, 
243 ; at Walthamstow, 304 ; at 
Breutliam Park, 323 ; at 
Clovenfords,402 ; sale of Lord 
Egerton’s,404; at IveAv, 404,448; 
Mr. Bull’s exhibition of, 423 ; 
at Giasnevin, 427 ; Mr. Pea¬ 
cock’s, 449; at UollBAvay, 454 ; 
pott ing,463; sale of Brentham 
Park collection, at Trauby 
Court, 469 ; Mr. Williams’ 
Album, 470 ; at Messrs. 
Veitoll’s, 472 ; at Bridgewater, 
474; at Selborne, 477 
Orchis macuiata for gardens, 
538 
Oxlips from seed, 3S6,401 
PALMS, POTTING, 306 
Panicum plieatum, 174 
Pansies and insecticides, 381,425 
Pansy (Scottish) Society and 
unnamed flOAvers at, 538; 
origin of, 539 ; ShOAV, 542 
Paraffin oil in vineries, 512 
Parsnip, culture of, 29 
Past, present, and future of gar¬ 
dening, 1 
Pasture, barren, 440 
Paterson’s (Dr.) garden, 240 
Peaches, glands of, 39; trees, 
protecting stems of, syring¬ 
ing blossoms of, 82; syringing, 
123; disbudding, temperature 
for, 162; a land of, ls7; forcing, 
243 ; disbudding, thinning, 
and training, 250; disbudding, 
312 ; falling, 330; Alexandra, 
certificated, 384; disbudding, 
