vi. 
TABTi—continued. 
ment, 336; management of 
lambs and calves, 856 ; farm 
poultry, 377; the dairy, 393; 
a field for emigration, 419; 
good butter, 439; cream man¬ 
agement, 440 : butter not 
keeping, 440; the Wheat bulb 
fly, 440; good butter, 400; a 
good dairy cow, 479; butter 
not keeping, 480; swine fever 
in the north, 480; Normandy 
butter, 6'2; rural holdings, 
books on farming, 523 
Farming in America, emi¬ 
grants, 78 
Fertilised moss, plants In, 448 
Ficus stipulate, fruiting and 
barren branches, 133 
Figs, forcing, 54; earliest in 
pots, 134; trees, pruning, 255; 
out of doors,273; forcing,332; 
trees casting their fruits, 400; 
forcing,415; early trees, 475; 
St. John’s, 485 ; forcing, 520 
Flora of British India, 805 
Floral decorations in Birming¬ 
ham, 184 
Florist flower Societies in Bir¬ 
mingham, 92 
Florists’ flowers, notes on, 82, 
490 
Flower culture for profit, Helle¬ 
bores, 6; Calanthes, 79; Coelo- 
gyne cristate, 262 
Flower garden, insects of the, 
12,202; January work, propa¬ 
gating plants, 95; notes on, 
416; early bedding out, 456; 
work in the, 498 
Flower pot suspenders, 207 
Flowers for cutting, 110; in 
Paris, 159; showing, cut, 196; 
pressing, 197 ; note on hardv, 
220; hardy perennials,199,263: 
half hardy annuals, 282 ; 
gumming, 358 ; the value of, 
366; hardy, 422; drying, 438 
Fogs in London, 8 
Fog effects on plants, Dr. 
Oliver’s report, 267,288 
Foliage plants, variegated, 81 
Forests of Europe, 8 
Forget-me-nots, 490 
Frames,protecting plants in,32 
France in February, 159 
Franeoa ramosa, 333 
Frees;as, hints about, 128 
Frost in November,10; severity 
and effects of, 59; trees crack¬ 
ing. 64; results of the, 85; 
record at the Kew Observa¬ 
tory, 91; effects of the, 126; 
and insect life, 161,181; and 
vegetation, 167 
Fruit and flower factory, Mr. 
Whiteley’s, 142; protectors, 
489 
Fruiterers’ Company, annual 
banquet, 88 
Fruit, hardy—Red, White, and 
Black Currant", 467 ; culture 
of the Strawberry, 437 
Fruit pests, the Toddington 
Conference, 433 
Fruit prodvictlon and distribu¬ 
tion, 6; preserved, 17; for 
market, 20; comments on 
culture, 23; exhibiting hardy, 
44; exhibitions, 68; farming, 
; quality versus size in, 
102 ; growing, economic, on 
arches, 146; forcing, 173; 
CTOwing (British) as an in¬ 
dustry, 163; packing, 176 ; 
houses, arranging pipes in, 
179; garden, work in toe, 193 ; 
thinning buds, 227; notes on 
hardy, 231; hardy, prize paper 
at Cardiff, the Apple, 363; 
growing in India, the Mango, 
371; notes on blossom, 379; 
culture under glass, 3s3; pro¬ 
spects, 387; prize paper on 
culture, 390; disqualifying 
exhibitors of, 407 ; prospects, 
405, 407, 424, 430; farms in 
Colorado, 445; and vegetables 
at the Temple Show, 453; 
garden, work in the hardy, 
455; production in California, 
507 
Fruit trees,pruning, 54; barked 
97; planting, 97; and rainfall, 
112 ; artificial manures for, 
876; flowering of, 484 
Fuchsias, starting and potting, 
74 
Fungicide and distributor, 487 
Fungi in relation to plant 
diseases, 85; hetercecismal, 
413 
Fungoid diseases of the Grape, 
284 
Fungus on Mushrooms, 156 
GALANTHUS ELWESI. 642 
Garden difficulties, 358; scene 
in May, 431 
Gardeners as domestic ser¬ 
vants, 157, 176; lady, 345; 
Sultan’s, 346; definition of, 
351 
•‘Gardener’s Chronicle,” Jubi¬ 
lee of the, 109 
Gardeners, City Company of, 
166 
Gardeners’ Royal Benevolent 
Institution, financial state¬ 
ment, 46; election, presenta¬ 
tions and dinner, 63; note on, 
85 ; the late Mr; Cutler, 203 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. [jaiy2,i89i. 
Gardeners’ Orphan Fund, 112: 
proposed fete in the Crystal 
Palace, 245,468, 482 
Gardenias cankered at the 
collar, 97; culture of, 381; 
treatment of, 418; note on, 457 
Garden glory, 99 
Gentiana bavarlca, 280 
Gentians, 463 
Gesnera clnnabarin.a, 34 
Gilbert, death of Mr. Thomas, 
167 
Gladioli, Lemoine’s hybrids, 
511 
Glass, rough, 196 
Gloxinias in frames, 314; Elec- 
tra and Monarch, 516 
Gooseberries in spring, 415 
Gooseberry bushes, sparrows 
and, 176 
Gooseberry, the, 468; Early 
Green, 500 
Gossip in a parson’s garden, 2 
Grafting and budding Apples, 
363 
Grafting fruit trees, 272 
Grapes, cleaning of mealy bug, 
13, 108; Alnwick Seedling 
and Barbarossa, 157; syring¬ 
ing Muscats, 216; Duke of 
Buccleuch, 255 ; fungoid 
diseases of the,281: dwindling, 
376 ; ripening, 415 ; scorched 
and rusted; 459; that will 
keep, 483; late, 497; scalding, 
517 
Grass edging broken, 176 
Grassendale and Aigburth 
show, 265 
Gravelling paths, 346 
Green fly on Peach trees, 261 
Greenhouse, climber for a, 136 
Grey, death of Mr. John, 265 
Qrlnstead Horticultural So¬ 
ciety, 127 
Guano, native, 186 
Gumming flowers, 358 
Gynerlum, a new, 9 
Gypsophila paniculata, 191 
HALL FOR HORTICULTURE, 
PROPOSED, 423 
Ham House, 11 
Hamanielis Zucoariniana, 125 
Hardy flower notes, 220,230, 337, 
422, 481 
Hardy fruit, essay on, 423 
Hardy plants (Mr. Upstone’s 
paper), 607 
Haycock, death of Mr. C., 126 
Haywards Heath spring Show, 
372 
Heating by steam, 304,322,325 
Heating fruit houses, 179 
Hedges, planting quickset, 193 
201 
Hellebores, 5,212 
Helleborus atrorubens, 840 
Hemerocallises, 263 
Herbaceous borders, 155 
Herbaceous plants, rare, 190; 
for exhibition, 258 ; for bor¬ 
ders, 416; Mr. Wilks’lecture, 
514 
Hetercecismal fungi, 413 
Hiboerd memorial fund, 283 
Hibber ’s library, the late 
Shirley, 488 
Highfleld Gardens, 508 
Hippeastrum J. R. Pitcher, 
213; at Chelsea, 325 
Hollies and caterpillars, 316 
Hollyhock, notes on, and 
election of varieties, 37; for 
exhibition, 108 
Horticulture in America, Mr. 
Laing’s paper, 247,270,29o, 8t2, 
324 
Horticultural appliances at the 
Crystal Palace, 192 
Horticultural progress, sixty 
years of, 238,463 
Horticultural (Royal) Society, 
Journ al of, 9; committees and 
programme, 50; meetings, 124, 
172, 212, 249, 266, SIO, 328. 347, 
391,412,495,5i5 ; nominations 
for the Council, 111; annual 
meeting, 125; report of the 
Council for 1890 91,130; special 
prizes, validity of elections, 
139; interpretation of by-laws, 
171; charter and by-laws, 187; 
Mr. Morris’s resignation, 210; 
Mr. Wilks’ explanation of 
procedure, 226, 230; Journal, 
Temple Show and dinner,365; 
annual dinner, 516 
Horticultural (United) Benefit 
and Provident Society’s 
annual meeting, 132 
Hot-water pipes, arranging, 
210, 243, 267, 280, 309, 320 
Hot water and steam heat ng, 
359 
Hyacinths, notes on varieties, 
319; at Kew, 357; failing, 876; 
Tour d’Auvergne, 429 
ICE STACKS, CONSTRUCTING, 77 
Indian corn, 45 
Indigofera Gerardiana alba, 
516 
Insect life, frost .and, 161 
Insect enemies of fruit trees, 
423 
Insecticide a continental, 407 
Insects, Miss Ormerod's works 
on, 289 
Insects injurious, methods of 
prevention, 302 
Insects of the flower garden, 
12, 202, 384 
Ireland, a gardening tour in, 
46, 228 
Iresines, 374 
Iris Danfordite, 125, 151; varie- 
gata, Robert Burns, 616; 
Gates!, 516 
Irises, raising from seed, 334 
Iron and frtiit trees, 15; its use 
In fruit culture, 39; 
Iron sulphate, applying, 156 ; 
for Potatoes, 176 
Iron sulphate and sewage, 76 
JUSTICIA FLAVICOMA, 457 
KALB, SCOTCH CURLED, 24; 
hardy, 86; Asparagus and 
Jerusalem, 387 
Kierapferia tubers, 343 
Kelso Cabbage competition, 
429 
Kerria japonica flore - pleno, 
490 
Kew Observatory, 182 
Kingston and Surbiton Chrys- 
aulhe'num Society, 264 
Kitchen garden notes, 74; for¬ 
mation of a, 237; prize plan 
’ of a, 247; notes, 529 
Kombe poison, 9 
LACJENA BICOLOR, 516 
LsBlia anceps Ballantineana, 
50; hybrida Aruoldiana, 465, 
49); Gottoiana and Tring 
Park grandis, 516 
Lfelias in winter, 65 
Langford Lodge, 47 
Laurel shoot, blanched, 127,167 
Lawn gra,s seeds, sowing, 
262 
Lawn improving, 156 
Lawn mowers, setting, 376 
Leaves, a lesson on, 52; un¬ 
healthy, 96 
Leeks, culture of, 24 
Lepto.spermum bull at um, 454 
Leschenaultia biloba major, 455 
Lettuces, the Blockhead, 8; for 
market, 9, 15; culture in 
Parisian market gardens, 102, 
145 : early, 174; Lee’s hardy 
green,340 
Lettuces and Onions, 16 
Leucophyllum texanum, 45 
Lewisia rediviva, 231 
Libonias, culture of, 224; flori- 
bunda, .500 
Lilac from cuttings for forcing, 
222 
Lilium auratum, 368; gigin- 
teum, 496, 510 
Liliums for exhibition, 29 
Lilies in pots, 62 
Lily of the Valley, growing and 
forcing, 72 
Lime and sulphur mixture, 
56 
Lime, superphosphate of, 137 
Lindsay, presentation to Mr. 
G.,9 
Liquid manure, 211 
Lisburn Chrysanthemum So¬ 
ciety, 127 
Liverpool Horticultural Asso¬ 
ciation, 112,127, 266, 285,308 
London, about, 357 
London Almanack, 10 
MAGNOLIA CONSPICUA, 488 
Manchester Show,4l4,429; notes 
at the, 433 
Marantas, repotting, 34 
Market gardening In pre-rail¬ 
way times, 438 
Market gardens, lessons in, 
100 
Market, growing produce for 
315 
Marsden, death of Mr. W., 181 
Masdevallias, Mr. Burberry’s 
paper on, 4,25; Troohllns, 125; 
Armini, 409 
Masters, Dr. M. T., 109 
Maxillaria Sanderiana, 455 
Maximowicz, death of C. J., 245 
Mealy bug, clearing from 
Grapes, 108 
Meehan’s Monthly, 284 
Meissonier and his gardener, 
167 
Melons, raising, 32; manage¬ 
ment of, 164; culture, 165, 
182; late, 207 ; Mr. Palmer’s 
paper on, 211; forcing, 292,459; 
notes on setting, 381 ; in 
houses and pits, 416; late 
setting, 493 
Memorial funds, 44 
Mentzellas, 334 
Meteorological Society, the 
Royal, monthly meeting, li; 
annual meeting, 83; meeting, 
127, 168, 245, 430 
Metropolitan Public Gardens 
Association, 127 
Mezereum, the common, 264 
Mice, destroying, 264 
Mice and aphides, 231 
Microlepia hirta cristata, 95 
Midland Counties Pansy So¬ 
ciety, 429 
Mignonette, 281; as standards, 
399 
Milde’w, new remedy for, 168 ; 
a preparation for destroying, 
413 
Mistletoe in Normandy, 286 
Mite of the Black Currant, 222 
Montrenil, Peaches at, 461 
Moorman, Mr. J, W., appoint¬ 
ment to Brock well Park, 365 
Morel, the edible, 459 
Moth, the winter, 4,264; death’s 
head, and bees, 365 
Muscat Grapes, early, 174; 
syringing, 238; not setting 
419; berries not swelling, 478;i 
lateral growth on, 485 
Mushrooms, 19; beds, frozen, 
56,86 ; growing, a critique, 90; 
united, 136 ; growing, 294 ; 
nitrate of soda for, 385; grow¬ 
ing, an experiment In, 474; 
wiihering, 478 
Myosotls Bexley Gem, 392 
Myrobalan hedges, 176,185 
NAKZ, DEATH OF H., 429 
Narcissus Backhonsei, 241; 
Horsefleldi and princeps, 406 ; 
habitat of maximus, 407; 
cultivation of, Mr. Edmonds’ 
paper,426; Trumpetm iximus, 
429; maximus from Spain, 448; 
Bernard!, 473 ; Leeds! Bea¬ 
trice, 495 
Narcissus hybrids, Albatross, 
391 
Neighbour, death of Mr., S3 
Nepenthes, improving, 194 
Newcastle Show, 330; Gar¬ 
deners’ Society, 336 
Nitrate of soda for Onions, 
294 
Normandy, a run through, 
283 
Nut trees, neglected, 137 
ODONTOGLOSSUM TRIUM- 
PHANS, WHITELET’S VAR., 
143; luteo-purpureum Ames- 
ianum, 213 ; Pescatorei, var. 
Prince of Orange, 328 ; cool 
winter treatment,340; shading 
and potting, 341 ; natural 
hybrid,341; crispum varieties, 
O. crispum var. Amesianum, 
361 ; hastilablum, 408; vexil- 
larium,428; Leroyanum, 465; 
crispum (Burford var.), and 
luteo-purpureum il lustre, 516 
Oleander, poisonous, 216 
Omphalodes verna, 323 
Oncidlum heteranthnm, 41; 
Pha'tenopsi", 65; Larkinia- 
num, 328; loxense, 444,517 
Oranges, proliferous, 64, 111; 
grafting, 376 
Orange trees, black fungus on, 
76 
Orange fungus and coccids, 
328 
Orchards of Normandy, 286 
Orchards, renovating, 92 
Orchids — Masdevallias and 
Disas. 4; shows of, 64; at 
Holloway, 65; leaves In 
Orchid houses, hardy Cypri- 
pedlums, 81; the Vanilla, 82; 
at Slreatham and Carshalton, 
101; Oncidium superbiens, 
121 ; catalogue of cultivated 
Orchids, leaves and seaweed 
for Orchids, City fogs and 
soot, a large Vanda coerulea, 
121; Odontoglossum trium- 
phans Whiteley’s variety, 
122 , 124; Orchids at Cleveley, 
122; Oncidlum Cavendishl- 
anum, 122; at Camp Hill, 
AVoolton,163; at Forest Hill, 
Odontoglossum raaculatum, 
Sehomburghkia Sanderiana, 
163 ; Dendrobinms, notes on, 
162 ; leaves in Orchid houses, 
181; Coelogyne cristata, Cym- 
bidiums, 291; Disas, 223 ; 
Lailia anceps, cultural notes 
on, 240; Coelogyne cristata, 
culture of, 282 ; sale of the 
Fernside, 235 ; the Comte de 
Germiny’s, 287; at the Drill 
Hall, 310; cool house, 297; 
white flowered, 314; notes on, 
321; cool house, 339; in 
Holland, 331; jottings, 361; 
new, Odontoglossum crispum 
Wrigleyanum, O. Halli leuco- 
glossum, excellens, 3S4; at 
Aymestrey Court, Woolton, 
428 ; for grouping,cnt flowers, 
Oncidium Larkinianum, 428; 
at the Temple, 450; new, 444 ; 
Jottings, 464; new, Lmlia 
hybrida Arnoldiana, Disa 
Veitchl,465; renovating, 478; 
on tree stems, 493 ; review of 
tbe Lindenia, 517 
Orchids and fog, popularity of, 
145 
Ormerod’s works, Miss, 289; 
Report, notes on, 362 
Orton Longueville, 38,413 
PALMS, BURMESE, 89 
Palms, cutting off the roots of, 
339, 306 
Pancratiam.s, 175 
Panicum varieeatnm, 194 
Pansy, cultivation of the, 122 ; 
the Fancy, and best vanetie.s. 
140; note on, 364; Society, 
Midland. 429 
Parcels post for flowers, 336 
Parson’s garden, gossip in a, 2 
Paris, gardening and flowers in, 
87 
Paris green, its application, 212; 
and red spider, 876; and 
caterpillars, 385 
Parisian market gardening— 
Radishes, 436 
Parsley for a sandy soil, 85; 
providing a winter snpaly of, 
147; scarcity of, 161, 187 ; on 
mounds, 345 
Passiflora planting, 20 
Patent rights, 354 
Peach trees, regulating the 
growth of, 262; setting and 
stoning fruits, green ny on, 
266, 280, 282, 301, 319, 842, 359, 
3'6, 387; unsatisfactory, 295 ; 
leaves blistered, 489 
Pe-aches, forcing, 32; tree cast¬ 
ing its buds, 137; removing 
flower buds, 181; growing at 
Bexley Heath, 187; Crimson 
Galandc, 225; forcing, 232 ; 
mildew on, 234; spraying, 275; 
outdoor,331; injured by fumi¬ 
gating, 334 ; forcing, 393; at 
Montreuil,4ai 
Peaches and Nectarines, Mr. 
Tunuington’s paper on, 35, 
80, 106; forcing, 73, 114, 273, 
519 ; under glass v. outdoors, 
142; forcing, 154; description 
of varieties, 160; noDs on, 
200, 298; under glass, 311; 
cultural notes on, 341; water- ' 
Ing, tress gumming, 354; 
earliest, 433; in June, 475; 
note on, 497 
Pearl bush, 470 
Pear tree, grafting a, 116, bush 
and pyramid, 180 
Pears, sslectlon of, 193; not 
ripening, 334; cracking in, 
492; and remedies, 504 
Peas, raising early, 115; culture 
of, 184 ; for succession, 25,; 
Sweet, 252; three good varie¬ 
ties, 323; early, 510 
Pelargoniums, 135; for winter, 
299; at Twickenham, 35h; 
Ivy-leaved Zonal, French and 
Fancy, 417; Zona', 476; for 
exhibition, 500 
Phalmnopsis speeiosa, Impera- 
trlx, 384 ; Major - General 
Berkeley’s, 464 
Phenological phenomena, 429 
Phloxes, propagating, 397 ; her¬ 
baceous, 416; dwarf, 453 
Phyllanthus nivosus, 265, 325 
Phyllocactus, notes on, 71 
Phylloxera in champagne dis¬ 
tricts, 147 
Pine beetle,354 
Pines, forcing,135; starting, 173; 
forcing, 291, 436; for winter 
fruiting, 475 
Pinetums, small, 107 
Pink Society, National, 186 
Pipes In fruit houses, arrang'ng* 
179 
Pitcher plants, renovating, 397 
Plant houses, February work 
in, 115; seasonable work in, 95 
Planting and pruning, 193 ; in 
spring, 219 
Plants and gardens in the 
West Indies, 401 
Plants, variegated for rooms* 
39; top-dressing, 277,363; cer¬ 
tificated at the Palace Show, 
453 
Platyceriums, notes on, 892 
Pleurothallis Colibrl, 102 
Plums, pruning, 154; culture of 
the, 423 
Poinsettlas, 457 
Pope, death of Mr., 510 
Poppies, the Shirley, 9: note- 
on, 263; double annua!, 3.59 
“Potato culture,’ Mr. Ward’s 
Manu 1,344 
Potatoes for Ireland, sugges¬ 
tions on, 61,82,103; two good 
eiirly, 87 ; a curious, 114; 
Fenn’s first crosses, 1.52; 
eariy, 239; for exhibition,299; 
early in Ireland, 805; Sweet, 
334; early planted, 489 
Potting plants, 3,43 
Preston and Fulwood Horti¬ 
cultural Society, 24.5 
Primrose, James Nimmo, 311; 
Covenanter and Lady Ersklne, 
328; dividing and replanting, 
522 
Primroses and Polyanthuses, 
245 
Primula capitata, 345,314 
Prlmu’a Imperialis, 515 
Primulas Kentish Fire and 
Kentish Purple, 125; propa¬ 
gating double, 127; at Perry 
Hill, 161; sikkimensis, 275; 
Primula", 333; Scottish So¬ 
ciety’s Show, 387 
Propagating, hints on, 189 
Pruning, rough methods, 45; 
fruit trees, 137; in spring 
after planting, 211 
Pterls serrulata, 95; Victoria’, 
383 
Pulmonaria officinalis, 364 
