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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
v. 
INDEX. 
ABERAMAN, PARK 136 
Acalyphas, propagating, 260 
ASschynantnuses, 498 
Agricultural Hall (new) at 
Kensington. 250 
Aleyrodes vaporariorum, 309 
Allamandas, 374,569 
Alpines, propagation of choice, 
274; wintering, 347 
Aly9sum saxatile compactum, 
381 
Amaryllises,autumn flowering, 
423,435 ; Lady Mayoress, 434 
Amasonia pumcea, 190 
" Amateurs,” 252,336,361 
Ambury, 335,382 
Ammonia vapour, 512; in the 
soil, 571 
Androsaces, 276 
Angnecum aviculare, 434 
Annuals—thriving, 54 ; and 
perennials, 57; and herba¬ 
ceous flowers at shows, 142 ; 
for spring flowering, 161 
Anona9, culture of, 286 
Anti-calcaire, 317 
Ants, destroying, 376 
Aphides, habits and reproduc¬ 
tion of, 124 ; a lecture on, 471 
Appearance v. flavour, 559 
Apples—early for market, 198, 
266,298; on walls, 251 ; grub- 
eaten, 309; about, 334; Cana¬ 
dian at Kensington, 341; 
and Pears, fine, 355 ; 
Bramley’s Seedling, 365, 885; 
Yorkshire Beauty, 370 ; in¬ 
sect enemies of, 165,371 : bush, 
381 ; Gascoigne’s Seedling, 
428; selection of, 442 ; popular, 
dessert varieties, 564 
Apple trees, thinning the spurs 
of espalier, 308 ; cankered, 376 
Aquatic plants, 530 
Arabis albida, 381 
Arnebia echiodes, 275 
Arrangements of plants, 582 
Ashpits, watertight,365, 387,431, 
574 ; water in, 513 
Asparagus—cutting, 42, 84, 153, 
156: staking and tying, 99 ; 
cutting small growths of, 109; 
cutting the first growth of, 
140 ; 461; plumosus nanus,515 
Asters—at Chiswick, 154; Amel- 
lus bessarabicus, 318 
Aubrietias, 381 
Auchendrain, 430 
Auriculas—notes on, 46 ; 426 ; 
Mr. Meiklejohn’s, 113; Leek 
Show, 113 ; (National) Car¬ 
nation, and Picotee Society, 
494, 515 ; Shows in Scotland, 
539, 566 ; Campbell’s Green- 
edge, 566,579 
Australian wild flowers, paint¬ 
ings of, 41 
Autumn flowers, 328 
Azaleas—hardy, soil for, 262 ; 
Ghent, 550 
BAMBUS 4. KATANG, 134 
Banana “ Ladies’ Fingers,” 449 
Barkerias, 361 
Barometer and thermometer, 57 
Barron, portrait of Mr., 7 
Barrow, patent bedding and 
potting, 49 
Bath Rose Show, 46,227 
Bedford Show, 72 
Bedding, spring, 356 
Beef-suet Tree, 65 
Bees—making section racks, 
supering, 15; section racks 
and how to make them, 30; 
preparing for next year, 31; 
roboing, its prevention and 
cure, 55 ; queen introduction, 
56, 101, 102, 169; seasonable 
notes, on, 79, 100, 375, 651 ; 
honey season, 79 ; destroying 
queen wasps, 103; building 
comb9 in an isolated hive, 
preparing for the moors. 
Bees —continued— 
preserving, hives, 122; the 
wintering probleml43 ; Cale¬ 
donian Apiarian Society’s 
Show, 145 ; dead bees in 
supers, 147,192 ; ants and, 147; 
and Bell Heather, 147; frame 
feeder, 147; cluster ing out¬ 
side hives, 147 ; preparations 
for winter, 191; at the Heather, 
191; dead larvae, 194; comb 
foundation, 214 ; hives, 215 ; 
removing unsatisfactory and 
worn-out comb, 216, 239 ; at 
the Moors, in Cuba, 260 ; 
notes on the honey season, 
extractors, home markets for 
honey, 284, 307, 420; Simmin’s 
dry-feeding system, 285 ; the 
Canadian exhibit at South 
Kensington, 285 ; sterility of 
drones and queens, 307; mov¬ 
ing, arranging hives, 329: the 
honey market, death of Mr. 
James Anderson. 330; modi¬ 
fied increase, 351 ; varieties 
of, 35l; stimulative feeding 
in autumn. 374 ; purchasing 
hives and. 376; hive making, 
397; Cottagers’ show skep, 440, 
529 ; section honey, 443 ; Cale¬ 
donian Apiarian So ;iety, 441; 
notes of the season, Syrian 
bees, 439; hints to bee-keepers, 
462 ; cottager’s straw skep, 
363 ; where to place the 
empty super, 463; feeding and 
covering hives, 486 ; manip i- 
lating stocks, 506 ; foreign v. 
English races of, 507 ; honey 
employed in comb-building, 
529; feeding, 507 551, 553; sec¬ 
tions large and small, 569; 
mead - making, 570 ; skep 
management, a 91 ; small v. 
large hives. 591; obituary, 592; 
foreign, 592 
Befaria glauca, 296 
Begonias, tuberous, 55, 374; at 
Forest Hill, 156 ; maggots in 
leaves, 170 ; in frames, 260 ; 
in beds, 250; seedling at Drura- 
lanrig, 296; at Swanley, 385 ; 
conns eaten by grubs, 487 
Begonia metallica for rooms, 
249; Princess Beatrice, 295 ; 
Jubilee, 566 
Belgian horiiculturists, meet¬ 
ings of. 40, 88, 364 567 
Bernard,death of M.Constantin, 
472 
Berry plants, hardy, 556,578 
Bigeneric hybrids, 127 
Bignonia Chamberlayni, 393 
Bli kenhead’s beetle trap, 325 
Birmingham Gardeners’ Mu¬ 
tual Improvement Society, 4) 
HI *ckberry, the Wilson Junior, 
4^, £49 
Black country, pit-mound gar¬ 
dening i n the, 275,303 
Blanching, 530 
Blinds for greenhouses, 331 
Boehmeria nivea,340 
Bog garden, and plants for, 113 
Boilers—contest at Liverpool, 
69 ; report of the, 128; Mee’s 
and Bramham’8, 247; 292; and 
hard water,425; old-fashioned 
tubular, 449; results of patch¬ 
ing, 492; for heating a con¬ 
servatory, 508; hard water in, 
524 ; Weeks’s Fireplace, 546; 
waste from, 571 
Bones for land, 592 
Book, review of — * How I 
Managed and Improved my 
Estate,” 281 
Border plants, good selection 
of, 263 
" Botanical Magazine,” 585 
Botanic (Royal) Society—Even¬ 
ing Fete, 21, 40 ; report, 154 ; 
fixtures for 1887, 514 
Bougainvillea glabra, 408 
Bouquet, the Sultan of Tur¬ 
key’s, 319 
Bouvardias 55 ; culture for 
profit, 41,55 
Box, Mr. J. R. t 491 
Bran as manure, 102 
Briars, suckers ou seedling 
430 
Brighton Show, 2)9 
Bristol Show, 74 
British plants worth cultivat¬ 
ing, 185 
Broccoli, Veitch’s Self-protect¬ 
ing, 505 
Brompton Stocks, wintering, 
262 
Broome Leasoe, 252 
Broome, death of Mr. C. E., 494 
Brown, death of Mr. Thomas, 
534 
Baccleuch estate at Richmond, 
295 
Buffalo berries, 65 
Bulbous plants, lifting and 
planting. 239 ; 331 
Bulbs—for the parks, 135; for 
early flowering. 293; in beds, 
374; forcing, 412 ; 528 
Bate Show, 2LL 
CABBAGES AND CAULI- 
flowers for spring, 105 ; 
spring, 232; disease, 335 
Cal ad iu ms in Brazil, L55 
Calanthes—Williamsi, 45 ; 514 ; 
in Moss, 71; culture of, 539 ; 
failing, 586 
Calceolaria tetragona, 63 
Californian fruits, 297 
Caioch irtus pulchellu9, 256 
Caltha palustris, 365 
Camellias—watering imported, 
490; tricolor, 293 
Campanulas, notes on, 155 
Cape Gooseberry, culture of, 236 
Cardiff Rose Show, 45; Show, 
160 
Carpenteria californica, 5S5 
Carpet bedding, 421 
Carnations—and Finks, propa¬ 
gation of. 54: and Picotees,83; 
at Chelsea, 91; National So¬ 
ciety’s Southern Show, 96 ; 
Terra Cotta, 98; Souvenir de 
la Malmaison at Rangemoor, 
113; Shows and notes, 116 ; 
and Picotees at Caiswick, 
134; and Picotee (National) 
Show (northerndivision),157; 
Souvenir de la Malmaison 
culture, 414 ; wintering, 426 ; 
tree,439 
Carnivorous plants. Mr. La¬ 
tham’s lecture on, 473, 491. 517 
Carron House, Stirlingshire, 
20 i 
Carrots, late, 99 
Carter’s Provident Sick Fuul, 
419 
Catalogues, 357 
Catasetuin Bungerothi, 554 
Cattleyas — Moss* as, 22 ; gig as 
Hill’s variety, 98; resting, 125, 
resting, 240; management of, 
168 ; Trianae var. Backhousi- 
ana, 337, 385 ; Eldorado virgi¬ 
nal is, 39 5; culture of the, 536 
Cauliflower plants, 505; Eclipse, 
585 
Celery, early, 142 ; pithy, 308, 
330 ; Standard Bearer, 361 
Celosias, Calceolarias, Cinera¬ 
rias, and Chrysanthemums, 79 
Cereus MacDonaldiae and C. 
rostratus at Cromwell House, 
22 
Challenge trophies and foreign 
words. 508 
Cheiranthus alpinus, 380 
Cherry, 80; Morello not stoning, 
308 ; Chicory, 143, 595 
China grass, 340 
Chiswick Show, 72, Young 
Gardeners’ Mutual Improve¬ 
ment Society, 339 
Christmas flowers, 565, 565 
Chrysanthemums — dwarf, 16; 
culture, advantage of riDe 
wood, northern and southern 
growers,37 ; feeding, and top¬ 
dressing, 62 ; summer treat¬ 
ment, 69 ; buds, taking, 88 ; 
housing plants, 103; “ timing” 
blooms, 107; dwarf, 124; 131; 
flowers damping, travelling 
box, dressing appliances, 132; 
National Society’s catalogue, 
135; cnos, and tubes, 176 ; 
night work and night ene¬ 
mies, 177 ; keeping the blooms, 
preparing for shows, 199; box 
and stand for blooms, 200 ; 
the "Jameson ” tube for, 223; 
dressing blooms, 224; quali¬ 
ties of, 225 ; arranging 
in stands, 245 ; staging at 
shows, 246 ; at Swanmore, 
Japanese "order” of, 250 ; 
Aquarium Show, 253; cups 
and tubes, 255 ; dressing, 256 ; 
noteson judging,257; blooms, 
dressing, 279 ; early, 283 ; 
dressing, 294 ; 300 ; notes, La 
Vierge, properties of blooms, 
324 ; classification of varieties, 
325, 337 ; Madames Des- 
granges, Belle Paule. 338, 413, 
429 ; Emperor, 362 ; deformed 
blooms, taking the buds, 361; 
outlook, the, 368 ; notes, 383 ; 
taking buds, 384 ; Emperor, 
384 ; Madame Dasgrange, pro¬ 
pagating. 385; Lady Selborne, 
385 ; at Finsbury Park, Swan- 
ley, Swanmore, 390; Temple, 
391; AVilliam Stevens, Eiise 
Durdan. Flambeau Toulon- 
saine, 393 : Buttercup, 394 ; 
William Holmes, La Triom- 
phante, Phoebus, 410; last 
year’s plants, new varie¬ 
ties, taking the buds, pro¬ 
liferous, 413 ; at Forest Hill 
and Chelsea. 415; not opening, 
420 ; at Slough, 427 ; at Maid¬ 
enhead, 428 ; nomenclature, 
428 ; varieties worth tying 
429 ; Maiden’s Blush, 448 ; 
October blooming Japanese, 
448, 473, 495, 519 ; ripening 
seed, 508; at Leeds. Chilwell, 
and 0;d Warden Park, 495; 
proposed challenge cup for, 
513 ; at Chat9worth, 514 ; 
Hartlaud’s Marguerite, 515 ; 
in America, 518; at Ingate- 
stone, 519; on walls, 525 ; 
grouping in colours, 534 ; 
White Ceres, 542,561; late and 
forced, 548 ; culture, 550 ; 
Exhibition, winter, 566 ; chal- 
leuge trophies. 567 ; new, 574 ; 
at Clement Park, 586 ; group¬ 
ing in colours, 586 
Chrysanthemum shows — Ha¬ 
vant, Stoke Newington, Brix- 
ton, 434 ; Crystal Palace, 435 ; 
Kingston, 436 ; Peckham, 
437 ; National Society, 437 ; 
Croydon, 433 ; South¬ 
ampton, 451 ; 8t. Neots, 
452 ; Guernsey, Bath, Ports¬ 
mouth, Reading, 453 ; Bury 
St. Edmunds, Wey bridge, 
Richmond, 454 ; Salisbury, 
456; Lichfield, Exeter, Weston- 
super-M ire. Canterbury, 458 ; 
Huddersfield. Lewisham, 459; 
Leicester. Putney, Win¬ 
chester, 430 ; Hull,478; Bristol, 
Lincoln, 479; Sheffield, Ips¬ 
wich, 480; Street, Hitchin, 
Ascot, 431; E istbourne, 435 ; 
Gravesend, Colnbrook, De¬ 
vizes, York, Livernool, 484 ; 
Chorley, Leeds, Wimb'edon, 
Tavistock, 4 2 ; Chiswick, 
Luton, Hawkhurst,483; Liver- 
poo', 499 ; Birmingham, 5eo ; 
Cuckfield. Wells, Colchester, 
501 ; Manchester, Clonmel, 
502; New York, 503 
Chrysanthemum Society (Na¬ 
tional), Meeting of the, 365, 
494,495; Annual Dinner, 546 
Chrysanthemum Society, Shef¬ 
field and West Riding, meet¬ 
ing of the, 539 
Clematises, propagating, 262 
Clerodendron nutans, 434, 874, 
569 
Climate modifying plants, 818 
Climbing plants for west side 
of a house 530 
Cobaea scandens, 352 
Cockscombs, prize and despised r 
227 
Codonopsis ovata, 136 
Commercial products at the 
Indian and Colonial Exhibi¬ 
tion, 21 
Conifers for lawns, 330,530 
Conservatory, covering a 
back wall of. 146 ; heater, 494 
Constantinople nut, 383 
C iraelian n herry, 16 
Corvlus Colurna, 383 
Cotton plant, insect enemy of 
the, 309 
Covent Garden Market, 427 
Cox, death of M\ John, 249 
Crataegus tatarica (C. pinnati- 
fida var. major), 394, 416 
Crocus Sharojaui, 135 
Crotons, 376 
Croydon Show. 22 
Cryptogamic Meeting of the, 
Essex Field Club, seventy 
annual, 295 
Crystal Palace Show, 228 
Cucumbers — late, 16; insects 
on, 57; summer culture of, 78 ; 
at Turnham Green, 83 ; for 
market, 103 ; for autumn and 
winter, 213; seeding, 240 ; for¬ 
cing, 550 ; for winter and 
spring, 558 ; forcing, 593 
Cucumber house, trellis in a, 
487; construction and heat¬ 
ing, 503 
Cuerden Hall, 417 
Currants manure for,154; Black 
and Red, for wails, 249 ; 
Carter’s Champion, 250, 275 
Current topics, thoughts on, 
61, 577 
Cuscutas—notes on the, 280 ; 
chilensis, 580 
Cyanide of potassium and the 
Pharmacy Act, 113 
Cyclamens, culture of, 55 
Cyrtauthus hvbridns roseus,319 
Cypripedintn callosum, 525 
Dahlias — National Society’s 
Show of, 131,230; Eccentric, 
Constance, Amo3 Perry, Miss 
Lmaker and Mr. Rose ceitifl- 
cated, 189 ; varieties certifi¬ 
cated. 231; at South Kensing 
ton, 234; Empress o' India, 
Willie Garrett, King of 
Purples, K T. Rawlings, and 
Mrs. Theobald 255 ; a double, 
339 ; at the National Show, 
468; for cutting, 470 
Daisies, double, 357 
Darlaston and Bilston Shows, 
21 ; Horticultural Society, 340 
Datura sunveolens, 103 
Decoration, plant, 588 
Deep cultivation, 12 
Dcphiniums, 135 
Dandrobiuun Williamsianum 
51,87; ripening, 238 
Deutzias, culture of, 360 
I>‘Von and Exeter Show, 239 
D A, presentation to Mr. J* 
Douglas 41? 
Dielvira spectabilis, 529 
D gging. 519 
Dinner-table decorations, 537 
Diosma uni flora, 207 
l>isa grandiflora, 168 
Doneraile, Mallow,523 
