June 30, 1892. ] 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
V 
A CHIMFNES, 31: culture of, 330, 
S3f, 338 
Adlantiim cuneatnm, 53, 82 ; 
C'apillus-Venerislmbricatuui, 
240 
Adon Mount, Dulwich, in 
spring, 358 
Aerathus (Angrsecum) Leonia, 
409 
Ageratums, 52 
Agricultural Holdings Bill. 158 
Allainandas, treatment of, 74 
Allerton Beeches, Orchids at, 
ICl 
Allotment garden.",2, 36 
Allotments, 223, 473 ; in Fonth 
Lincolnshire, 296 ; at Win¬ 
chester, 492 
Aloeasias, potting, 117 
Amaryllises all tne year round, 
167 ; at Chelsea, 236; alter 
lloweilng, 305 
Ammonia, 71 
Anemone patens, 377 
Angraicum fastuosnm.Sll 
Aniline dyes for colouring 
flowers, 21 2 
Annuals, sowing hardy, 285 
Anthracnose, 50l 
Anthnrliims, hjbrid,201 
Apple and Pear trees, renovat¬ 
ing, (•2 
Appies, Benoni, 22; Northern 
Spy, 54; notes on cooking 
tests, 140; Bismarck for bak¬ 
ing, 144; Quality of, 181; 
D’Arcy Spice, 182 ; pruning 
pyramidal, 190; notes on, 195, 
214; Red Bletigheimer, 195; 
Chelmsford Wonder, 221; 
vagaries of, 260 ; Wheeler’s 
En»,-et, 269 ; mulching newly 
planted trees, 292; Alfriston, 
896; grafting, 44s 
Apples and Pears, bush and 
pyramid trees. 51 
Apricots, disbudding, 283 
Aralia Sleboldi, 23 
Aralias as table plants, 491 
ArboricultnralSociety,EngIifh, 
meeting of the, 2u5 
Artificial manures for Cucum¬ 
bers, 13. 
Arum (yellow) Pentlandi, 498 
Asparagus plumosus nanus, 7 ; 
from seed, 21 ; manure fer, 
2G6, 268; cutting, 342, 423; 
beds of young, 343; young, 423 
Asphalt for a pond, 230 
Aspidistra flowering from the 
leaves, 414 
Asters, 63; bedding. 107 
Airbrietias, Campbelll, 336 ; 
raising, 365 
Aurietila fcociety, 145 
Auricula and Primula Sorlety, 
National, Southern Show, 
302 
Auriculas, notes on, 146; at 
the Southern Show, 810; in 
1892, 314 ; National, Northern 
Show, 340 
Avenue tiees,456 
Azaleas, notes on, 131; Sieboldi, 
177; at Slough, 356 ; potting, 
405 
BALAttSA, DEATH OF MR. B., 
145 
Balsams, raising, 285 ; planting 
out, :96 
Bamboo, uses of in Japan, 375 
Bananas in the Canary Islands, 
376 
Banner, death cf Mr. Edward, 
200 
Bai ksian Roses, 128 
Barter, Mr. J. E., change' of 
adoress, 415 
Basing Paik Gardens, 9 
Basket plants. Fuchsias as, 
146 
Bates, death of Mr. H. W., 145 
Bath Spring Show, 227 
Btan.», early Kiuney, 30; 189; 
Broaa, li5; culture of, in 
Colorado, 1 9 ; origin of the 
common, I3o; forcing In 
frames. 265 ; forcing Qwarf, 
598 ; Kidney, 343; Runner, 
343 
Bearpark, death of Mr. John, 6* 
INDEX. 
Bedding out, hints on, 390 
Bedding, preparing lor sum¬ 
mer. 194 
Bedding plants, hardening, 
842; propagating, 342 ; raising 
from seed, 342 
Beet h trees, planting, 116 
Bees—Pnnics, li, 53, 172, 306, 
343. 463, 500; Mr. Cowan’s 
inaccmacies, seif hivers, 
flight of bees, 31; apiarian 
notes, Punic bets, naptha¬ 
line and foul brood, 73; 
foreign bees, CarnioJans, and 
Pnnics, 95; apiarian notes, 
prevention ot swarming, 
116; apiarian notes, 135, 
171, 285 ; extsacting and 
marketing honey, 136; 
apiarian notes, dryness, feed¬ 
ing, 153; the weather in 
Lanarksnire, 171 ; in March, 
172; Mr. Cowan’s accuracy. 
Panics, 189; Napthaliue and 
foul brood, 2u8, 267, 3,5; 
mortality, peat as a preserva¬ 
tive, hybernation, 230; North 
African, 247; punic stocks, 
285; foul brood and nostrums, 
285; Dr. Lortrt .s remedy, 305; 
curing foul biood, 305 ; the, 
origin of foul brood, 305; ex¬ 
perience. 306 ; comb iounda- 
tion, 3(6, 324; the apiary, 
324 ; ethics in controversy, 
824; the season, 343; granu¬ 
lated honey, 343; swarming, 
343; nuclei, 344; experience 
and controversy, 344 ; two 
queens in one hive, 363,403 ; 
Goubling hives, 363; raising 
queens, Oa'nlolans ami 
Punics, 386; the weather and 
swarming, 423 ; stimulative 
feeding, 423 ; unfed, 424 ; 
strong jhives, 424 ; queen lay¬ 
ing two eggs fu one cell, 423 ; 
spiteful, 442; su eiirg, 44 : 1 ; 
societies,443; exhibiting, 443 ; 
hive improvements, 443 ; 
eaten by sparrows, 443 ; the 
tveather, 463; the Lanark¬ 
shire hive, 463; swarming, 
464 ; several eggs inoneceb, 
464 ; The Hailamshire queen-, 
483; Punics and Mr. T. W. 
Cowan, 483 ; swarms or 
nuclei by frost, 483 ; swarm¬ 
ing, feeding! 500 
Beet for exhmiiion, 106 
Beetles and 3 raw berries, 218 
Beginning, a bright, 1 
Begonla.s, tuberous, 31, Ip. 3, 442 ; 
raising fiom seed, 44, 52 ; 
B. odorata, culture of. 97; 
storing Tuberous, 200; Gloire 
de Lorraine, 199; Baumanni, 
240 ; Bismarckana, 297 ; 
tuberous, planting out, 462 ; 
progress in, 494 ; Picotee, 446 
Benthamia fiagifera, 32 
Ber olonias, 110,171,498; anew, 
Birds, attacking buds, 22 ; in 
London, 218 
Birmingham Gardeners’ Asto- 
ciat’OD, 41,126, 140, 198 
Blackheath and Le.wi.sham 
Horticultural Society, 22 
Bone dust and shavings, 82 
Book, “The Rosarians’ Year 
Book,” 37 
Borecole or Kale culture, 149 
Boroeaux mixture, 444 
Boronia hetetophyila, 315 
Botanic Gardens, Bntbh, 41 
Botan c Society iRoyal), 199, 
229; second spring snow, 322 ; 
summer show, 383 
Botanical siauons in the West 
Indies, 336 
Bournemouth Gardeners’ As- 
sociatiou, 65.146 
Bouvatoias, 223 ; notes on, 442 
Bowman, oeath of Sir Winiam, 
210 
Box for a low hedge, 806 
Brighton and Sussex Horti¬ 
cultural Society, 42 ,164 
Brighton spring shows, 277 
Briony, Black, 104,188 
British Fruit Growers’ Associa¬ 
tion, anriual meeting and 
Rcpoit, 63 
British plants, 412, 415 
Brixton and Clapham Horti¬ 
cultural Society, lb7 
Broccoli, autumu 74;Veitch’B 
Model, t5i; notes on, lit; 
late, culture of. 428; Late 
Queen, 434; late, 455 
Broccoli ana Kale, planting and 
varieiies. 499 
Brough ouia iilacina, 397, 401 
Browa'.lia elata, 137 
Brown, death ot Mr. W., 239 
Bulb.-, after flowering. 281; 
growing, seamy sioe of. 3o0 ; 
growing at home,391,430 
Biilbophy um comosum, 141 
Bury Sc. Edmund’s Horti¬ 
cultural Society, 164 
CABBAGES, SPRING, 152 ; a note 
on, 352; nor.es ou ear.y, 378 ; 
notes on, 418, 4;3 
Cactus Society m Baltimore, 
Caladiums, 31, 53; and their 
culture, 257 
Calanthes, 86 
Calceolarias, bedding, success 
and failure with, 289; failing, 
414; btdoing, as pot plant-’, 
452 
Callas, planting out, 412; yellow, 
sale of, 475 
Cambridge Botanic Garden,494 
Camellia, buds failing, 74 ; 
a gigantic, t94: potting, 405 
Camp Hill, Wuolton,376 
Cannas, preparing, 94 
Carbolic solt-oap and the 
Tomato fly 2 )9 
Car onate of copper, preparing, 
259,260; ammouiacal solution 
of, 344 
Carnation grub and Insect 
Hylemyia uigiescens, 491 
Carnations, Mr. Don wells book 
on, lOj ; Carnationists, 21; 
National Society, 14.5; ideal, 
182 ; propagating, 207 ; Fou- 
venir de la Malmaisoa, 258, 
.300 ; Miss Jo'iffe, 305 ; D.irder, 
Mr. Mai tin Smith’s paper on, 
350 
Carnations and Plcotees for la- 
door decoration, Ui2 
Carpet bedding design, 283 
Carriage road, formation of a, 
133 
Carrots and Radishes, 30 
Carrots, culiure of, 99; suo- 
cessional crops, 189 
Carter & Co.’s new seed pre¬ 
mises, 242 
Castle, presentation to Mr. 
Lewis, 65 
Cat excluder, 249 
Caterpillars, are theydcitroyed 
by irost, 3,50 
Cats, excluding from gardens, 
260 
Cattleyas, labiata, an enor¬ 
mous, 21 ; large .-peclmen of, 
42; C. hybnda, Prince ot 
Wales, 86; Lawrenciana, 197 ; 
Triante, culture of, 220 ; 
management of, 237; sickly, 
274; Victoria Kfgiua, 870 ; 
Schroder ai Leyswo diensis, 
397 ; Cattleya Sctiroaeraj 
leyswooaiensis, C. Skiimerl 
Temple var., C. iricolor, 883 
Cauliflowers, in frames, 30; 
Wintering, 315; Erlnrt, 415; 
Veitch’s Extra Early, 434 ; 
notes on, 462 
Cedar of Lebanon coning, 190 
Celery and the lro,-t, 43, 18 O ; 
Williams’ Matchless, 145; 
early, 152 ; plants and 
trenches, 385 
Celosias, culture of, 294 
Certillcateu plants 01 1891, 15 
Channel islands, fruit and 
flowers from the, 144 
Charcoal making, 16 
Ch) riles, notes on, 170; under 
glass,342 
Cherry house, 51 ; January 
work in the 11; seasouxDle 
Wo k in file, 93 
Chicago Exhibition, horticu'- 
lurai department, 50; flori¬ 
culture at, 123 
Chrysanthemums—Seedling, 5; 
Mrs. Needs, 6; Mrs. E. W. 
Clarke, 21; Mrs. Robinson 
King 24, 41, 71,85 ; a Sheffield 
dinner, 69; propagating, 94; 
Golden Star, IflO; a late, 127; 
International Exhlbition,123; 
Mrs. Alpheus Hardy, 150; a 
new use for, 164; Eva Hoyt, 
Kent County Society, Shei- 
lleid, Hallam-hire, and West 
Riding Society, Birmingham 
Society, Mrs. Robinson King, 
185; early hud formation, 
Birmingham, Watford, and 
Sheffield Societies meetings, 
230 ; present work, National 
Society, Rugby Society, 224; 
Mrs. A. Hardy, dfsiroyleg 
insects, plants on walls, 238; 
analysis, 251; Bolton society, 
282 ; Kingston and Surbiton 
scuedule, 282; sir Edwin 
Saunders, F.H.C.S., 282 ; 
exhibition, 282 ; the 189t 
analysis, 300 ; potting early, 
305; seasonable hints, 361; 
loss of coloui in lollsge, 361; 
dwarl, 361; the iiadame 
Desg ange type, 361; Gulden 
Queen of England v. John 
Lambert, 361 ; Chicago, 
Portsmoath, and South 
Shields nhows, 380; late, 398 ; 
the National society, 399 ; 
Confusion in nomenclature, 
433,451 ; Messrs, urover and 
Adams’ book on, 480 
Church decorations, 339 
Cinerarias, at midwinter, 47; 
itom suckers, 286 ; at Farn- 
ham ROj ai, 355 
Cirencester Chrysanthemum 
Society, 85 
Claremont, visit to, 456 
Clematis Jackmanniand seed, 
19t; montana, 490 
Cleroaendrou Baliouriannm, 
423 
Climbers, select hardy, plant¬ 
ing, 286; for greenhouses, 368 
Cobma soaudens, leitinslng, 101 
Cocoa-nut, double, at Kew,259 
Coeiogyne cri.slata, 141, i97 
Coelogynes,220 
Cole, Mr. Edmund, death of, 
396 
Coleuses, 7 ; Stanstead Beauty, 
474 
Co.ewort, Rosette, 122 
Colorado, market gardenlug in, 
119 
Coiumbus celebration, 258 
Commercial lertilisers, history 
of. 28 
Composts for potting, 78 
Couiierse at Uropmore, 416 
Constantinople Nut, 75 
Coumbe, death of Mr. Benja¬ 
min, 43 
Cooper, Mr. E., death of, 334 ; 
funeral of, 355 
Copper iusect.cide, 239 ; for the 
Tomato disease, 276 
Copper sulphate and lime, in- 
k jurious, 491 
Comers, not, plants for, 462 
Cottage gardens and allot¬ 
ments, 156 
Cottage gardening in Suffilk, 
260 
Cotyledon fulgens, 372 
County councils and waste 
land,205 ; and cottage gardeu- 
ing, 395 
Conte Tronchuda. 122 
Cox, Mr. A. K., death of, 392 
Crocus, notes on species ot, 121 
Crocuses ana Chionodoxas,255 
Crock , invlucioie, 182 
Cros.'iug plants, 91 
Crotons, 135 ; Golden Ring, 63 
Cropping, a garden, 193; top 
and 001 tom, 411 
Crops, rotation of, 254, 29 ', 296 
Cioyuon garueners’ dinner,277 
Ciystai Palace Show, 245 
Cucumbers, early, 11: artificial 
manures for, 13; in wiuter, 
52; in February, 94 ; notes 
on, 171, 31 5, 342, 442 ; In 
spring, 2)7; Dicksons’ 
Excelsior, 392 ; ridge, 423 433 ; 
growing, 464; frnlt disease, 
465 
Culture versus Nature, (Mr, 
Burbidge’s paper), 447, 468 
Currants, pruning, 176 ; cater¬ 
pillars on, 364 
CyanopnyUnm magni'Acum, 60 
Cyclamens,potting, 154; plant 
ingont, 164; fragrance In, f97 
Cypripedlnms, HO; in Febru- 
aiy, 117; C. Creon, 16, 2115 ; 
C. insigne, 18; C. insigne 
SanneraB, 16; C. Pitcheri- 
anum var, Willlamsi, 101 
Chamberlainianum, IsB, 294y 
new, 197; insigne In New 
York, 221; hybridum gigas, 
257 ; Lawrebel, 295; Eveuor, 
383; htbridum Vipani, 421 ; 
Calceolus and speciabile. 452 
Alice, 481 
Cytlsus scoparins Andreanus 
from seed, 297 
Daffodils, new, 276 ; on the 
Pyrenees, 276, 296; and Nar- 
cisBl, notes on, 293 ; at Long 
Ditton, 3il; and Narcissi, 
833; at Ham, 360; cultivation 
and varletie-), 38o 
Dahlias showing eyes in the 
bloom.", 13; Cactus, 63 ; start- 
in g, 94; 'Pom 'Ihuuio, 102; 
analysis, 1883- 891, 271, 272, 
273; propagating,342 
Dandelion wine, 844 
Date Plum, 269 
Davies, Mr. William, death of, 
354 
Dendroblnms, ^ Cassiope, 111 7 
nobile, 221 Phaiainopsis 
Shroeuerianum ana deii- 
camm, 226 
Deutzla crenata flore-pleno, 12 
Devon and Exeter Gardeners' 
A.-sooiution, 5, 106 , 277 
DIplauenias, culture of, 4.57; 
atroDu purea var. Clarkei, 457 
Dlta Veit hi, 16 
Draining pots, 99 
Dulwich Park, rock plants in, 
435 
Dutch Horticultural Society, 
218 
Dyeing flowers, 202 
Dyer, presentation to Mr., 260 
EALING AND DiSTBICT GAR¬ 
DENERS’ Mutual improve¬ 
ment SOCIETY, 277 
Earl’s Court Exhibition, 3f9 
Easter decorations in churches, 
273 
Eccles Chrysanthemum So¬ 
ciety, 108 
Education in gardening, 2, 261, 
276; pioposed scheme lor 
gardeners, 23; meeting of 
Yorkshire societies, 28); 
Surrey examinations, 150 
Eel-worms and Fern-, 476 
Elals melanococoa, 110 
Electrical Exhibiiloi)i,344 
Electric light on flowers,effects 
of; 476 
Endive culture, 13 
Eranlhemum pnlchellum, 122 
Ermine moth c.iterpiliars and 
Pans green, 886 
Essays ana lectures, 277 
Eucharls grandiflora in bad 
condition, 74 ; amazonlca 
we l-grnwn, 336, 374 
Eucalyptus as a health-giver, 
835 
Eulalia japonica,8 
Euouymns japoniens com- 
pacius, 226 
Eupatoriums, 151 
Euphorbia jacquinitoflora, pro¬ 
pagating, 267,423, 468 
FALKLAND PARK, SOUTH 
NoHWOi D Hill, 440 
Faim — small holdii g", 11; 
creameries, 38, 66 ; Lucerne, 
66 ; technical educat on, 76 ; 
farmhouse dairies, 97; full 
