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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER, 
v 
INDEX. 
Abell*, rupestris, 4i 7 
Acacia platyptera, 4 d 4 
Acanthorhiza aculeata, Wendl. 
527 
Acidanthera bicolor, 440 
Adiantums, cuneatum for cut¬ 
ting. 203 ; farleyense, 456, 478, 
503, 525 
Agapanthus umbellatus, 323, 
353 ; alba, 416 ; albus, 438, 459 
Agapetes buxifolia, 335 
Ageratums, propagating, 203 
Aglaonema costatum, 149 
Air, town, impurities of, 262 
AUamandas supporting, 43; 
resting,339 ; treatment of, 885 
Allerton Tower, 243 
Alexandra Park and Palace, 5G6 
Allotments, at Cardiff, 209 ; 
suburban, 307 
Aiternantberas, propagating, 
203 
Amaryllis, 471 
Amasonia punicea, 351 
American garden implements, 
America, tbe national flower 
of, 458 
Ancient Society of York 
Florists’ annual dinner, 567 
Anemones, coronaria, 25 ; 
japonica, 823 ; japonica 
elegans, 397 
Angutoas and M. Linden, 98 
Annuals versus bedding plants, 
122 ; when they are not 
annuals, 281 
Anomatheca cruenta, 381 
Anticyclones in tbe southern 
hemisphere moving, 567 
Antirrhinums, raising plants, 
111 ; for bedding,488,£05 
Aotus villOsa,2b9 
Aphides, the migration of, 283 
Apple scab and fungicides, 9 
Apple trees, cankered, 181 
Apples—red spider on, 66 ; 
stealing aDd its sequel, 194; 
Barcbard’s Seedling,214; Kes¬ 
wick Codlin, “AO, 257, 287, 873; 
Irish Peach, 238; at Chiswick, 
238; Lady Sudeley.357 ; War¬ 
ner’s King and D. T. Fish, 
257 ; Frogmore Prolific, 257 ; 
in the north, 283 ; Emperor 
Alexander, 287; Stirling Cas 
tie,287; St Edmund’s Pippin. 
287 ; Bess Pool, 287 ; Cox’s 
Orange Pippin, 287 ; Annie 
Elizaoeth, 287 ; Lord Gros- 
venor, 287 ; King Harry, 287, 
310; Lady Sudeiey, 287; at 
Beverley, 287; Irish Peach, 
287; discussion on varieties, 
pruning, 302 ; Rivers’ Codlin 
310; Royal Jubilee, 324 ; 
Hambltdon Deux Ans, 324 ; 
Mere de Menage, 324 ; 
Bramley’s Seedling, 325 ; 
Tower of Glamts, 325; Beauty 
of Hams. 325, 344, 378, 501 ; 
Cockpit, S25 ; Chatley’s Ker¬ 
nel, 325 ; Feasgood’s None¬ 
such, 825 ; American Mother, 
825 ; Baumann Red Reinette, 
825; for localities, 325; Walt¬ 
ham Abbey Seedling, 344, 412, 
500; Varieties for clay soils, 
344; Cellini,345,412,501; Pott’s 
Seedling, 345 ; Bauman’s Red 
Reinette, 345 ; Golden Spire, 
345 ; gathering, for keeping, 
864 ; at Crawley, 369 ; The 
Professor 869 ; influence of 
soil, 872 ; Lord Grosvenor, 
872 ; Emperor Alexander, 
872 ; Five Orotvn or London 
Pippin, 872 ; Nelson Codlin, 
878, 412; King of the Pippins, 
873; Cox’s Pomona, 373, 438 ; 
Warner’s King, 873 ; on light 
soil, 873 ; colour in Apples, 
878 ; storing, 886 ; Cockle’s 
Pippin, 412 ; Duchess of 
Oldenburg.412 ; Lord Suffleld, 
412; Unctuous, 412 ; Mank’s 
Codlin, 434 ; Hanwell Sour¬ 
ing, 434 ; Tyler’s Kernel, 434 ; 
Harvey's Wiltshire Defiance, 
448 ; for wet land, 451; 
French in London, 4^8 ; in 
Belgium, 458 ; importation of, 
458 ; Nova Scotian. 459 ; prices 
of,478 ; pruning. 492; Cobharn, 
495 ; Northern Spy, 5 u'J; 
Apples— Continued 
unctuous, 500 ; Blenheim 
Orang 1 , 500 ; names of, 500; 
Hoilaudbury, 500 ; at the 
Hereford Show, 600; inferior, 
500; a plethora of varieties, 
5C0, 583 ; the Fruiterers’ Com¬ 
pany Show, 500; selection 
of, 500 ; proposed methods of 
education, 561 ; pr ces and 
quality of, 502, 530, 642 ; 
varieties, and hosv to grow 
them, 522 ; large, 528 ; Bald¬ 
win, origin of, 526; the Cob- 
ham, 538 ; imported, 548; sul¬ 
phate of iron for, 573 
Apples and Pears, early, gather¬ 
ing, 156; season, 158; root- 
pruning, 573 
Apricots and Plums,Conference 
on at Chiswick, 183 
Apricots, cause of branches 
dying, 262; the successful 
management of, 275'; at 
Maidstone, 374 ; failing under 
gia s s, 490 
Araucaria excelsa, 471; imbri- 
cata, 548 
Arboricultural Society, Eng¬ 
lish, excursion of. 189 
Ardisia crenulata, 79 
Aristolochia gigas, 79; and A. g. 
Sturtevauti ,353 
Arsenic as an insecticide, 58 
Artichoke, Globe, 45) 
Artificially coloured flowers, 
526 
Arums, yellow, 7,31,122, 526, 550 
A‘h,Weeping,at BenhamPark, 
3 9 
Asparagus—staking, 43 ; sup¬ 
porting the tops, 100; A. plu- 
mosus, 43 ; common, for pot 
culture, 120; deflexus, 192; 
fruiting 2)7 ; beds,manuring, 
384 ; aiunmu treatment or, 
384 ; forcing, for market, 472; 
forcing, 493 
Aster diplostephioides, 79,313 
Asters, for indoor decoration. 
216; novae-belgii Lady Tre¬ 
velyan, 282; Amellus bessa- 
rabicus, 283 ; annual, 283; 
Victoria, 808 ; Mr. Dewar’s 
lecture on perennial, 311; 
D iniel’s Dwaif Perfection, 
327 
Ancubas, Croton, 875; soil 
from, 429 
Australian fruit, 438 
Aquilegia glandulosa, culture 
of, 67, 141 
Aquatics for a small fountain 
basin in a conservatory, 572 
Azaleas, cleansing and housing, 
249; mollis, 411; imported, 
569 
BAILLIE, PRESENTATION TO 
Mr. W. M., 100 
Balsams at Chiswick, 55 
Bamboos at Kew, 79 
Bank holiday, spending, 93 
Banks and slopes, planting, 
570 
Bananas in England, 458 
Battersea Park, 240 
Bauhinia grand iflora, 5)6 
Beans, late, 43; at Chiswick, 
194; blue-podded,239; sowing 
French, 293 ; long runner, 
327 ; kidney, tor winter 427 
Bedding plants, summer, 537 
Beds and borders, effective 
arrangement of, 257; winter 
Cherry in, 563 
Beetle, the Mustard, 459 
Bees—Punies, changing, hives 
20 ; notes on, 44, 66 , 89. 249 ; 
queens by post. 44; Punies, 
67, J58, 226. 494, 515, 558 ; 
swarming and snpering, 67 ; 
bees by post, 89 ; old ideas 
and new notions, 90, 133 ; 
fertile workers, 111 , 180; faulty 
comb foundation, 133; feeders, 
133; swarming after drones 
are killed, 134 ; superiority of 
Punies, 134 ; what others 
think, 131 ; utility of fertile 
woikers, 184 ; transferring, 
134; the honey season, 157; 
Be ES— Continued. 
notes on swarming, 157; 
plurality of queens, 158; 
the Heather 180; voles, 180 ; 
producing better varieties, 
180 ; superiority of Lanark¬ 
shire hives and Punic bees, 
203; driving and transferring 
bees to frame hives, 203 ; api- 
cultural items, 204 ; at the 
Heather. 225 : number to a 
pound, 226; a brief review of 
the season, 249; apicultural 
items, 249 ; the Punic con¬ 
troversy, 250 ; swarms, 271; 
feeding swarms, 271 ; non- 
swarmers, 272; preserving 
queens, 272 ; winter eke, 272 ; 
home from the Heather, 
293; monopoly, 293 ; what 
variety is best, 294; Carniolan, 
294 ; notes on, 864, 885, 408 ; 
drones, Punies, feeding, 
317 ; bees, 840 ; feeding, 34 1 , 
408; preparing hives for 
winter, 340 ; dysentery, 340 ; 
how to make hackles, 340; a 
handbarrow, 340 ; swarm 
catchers, 340 ; preparing for 
winter, 364 ; wintering Dees, 
364; winter preservation of, 
885 ; strong hives, 385; in¬ 
troducing a Carniolau queen, 
408 ; winter feeding,450 ; blue 
titmice, 450 ; management of 
hives for early work, 450 ; 
queens, 471; strong hives, 
472; brood combs, 472; hivei s, 
472; Punies dying, 494 ; honey 
gatherers, 4:i4 ; average yield 
of honey, 494 ; Punies sealing 
honey, 494 ; notes, 515 ; 
gardeners and bees, feeding 
bees in winter, methods of 
feeding, a cheap feeder, 
fountains, the apiary, 538 ; 
breeding, 538 ; space over 
bees. 558; brood drawing, 558 ; 
a fertile and prolific queen, 
658 ; bees and Stonecrop, 558 ; 
coloured combs, 572 ; testi¬ 
mony, 572; effect of flowers 
on supers, 572 ; study of bees, 
572 
Beet, storing, 384 
Begonias—Duchess of Edin¬ 
burgh and Crimson Gem, 7 ; 
Vernon, 8 ; progress in, 31 ; 
bedding, 82; birds attacking, 
78; at Bexley, 143; conference 
at Chiswick, 166; Marie 
Louise, 195 ; propagating 
tuberous, 202; at Forest Hill, 
264; at Yeovil, 308; winter 
flowering, 339; Tuberous, 407 ; 
foliage, 493 
Benefit and Provident Society, 
United Horticultural, 122 
Benevolent Institution, Gar¬ 
deners’ (Royal), 122 
Berberis Thunnergi,4.7 
Berners, Rev. Hugh A..,portrait 
of, 555 
Berry-bearing shrubs, 526 
Bilberries and Cranberries, 205 
Birds, insect-eating, 527 
Black knot on fruit trees, 101 
Black Rice, 109 
Blue tit and fruit buds, 487, 525, 
527 
Books, review of, Land: Its 
Attractions and Riches, 14 ; 
Fruit Culture, 2 * 2 ; Chemical 
Technology, 312; Agricultural 
Entomology, 888 ; A Book of 
Choice Ferns, 552 
Bones, mistake in dissolving, 
658 
Bordeaux mixture versus car¬ 
bonate of copper in ammonia, 
45 
Border, a sub-tropical, 480 
Botanic Society (Royal), anni¬ 
versary meeting, 148; meet¬ 
ings for 1893, 515, 528 
Bougainvillea glabra, 339, 874 
Bouillie bordeiaise, cause of 
failure, 108 
Bournemouth Gardeners’ Im¬ 
provement Association, 261 
Bouquet rii qualified, 135 
Bouvardias, as bedding plants, 
167 ; culture of, 875 ; Purity, 
397 
Box edging, cutting, 538 
Brighton and Hove Horticul¬ 
tural Society, 527 
Brighton and Sussex New 
Horticultural aad Mutual 
Improvement Society, 53 
Brighton societies, 81 
Broccoli, Michaelmas White, 
284 ; autumn, 450 
Brussels Sprouts, 5 6 
Bulbs, culture at home, 24; 
spring flowering, 339; plung¬ 
ing potted, 428 ; in open 
border, stimulant for, 472 ; 
transplanting, 537 
Bulbophyltum barbigerum, 98 
Bullen, Mr. R., death of, 351 
Bullfinches damaging fruit 
trees, 477 
Bulrushes casting their fluff 
294 
CABBAGES, SOWING FOR 
spring, 43; El lam's Early, 79 ; 
for spring, 133, 293 ; spring 
versus autumn planting, 259 
Cacti fruiting, crossed, 91 
Cactus, Night - blooming, at 
Swanley, 32 
Calanthe Veitchi, 73 
Calceolarias, shrubby, 339 ; 
pinnata, 381; beading, 429 
Calcutta Botanic Garden, 284 
Caledonian (Royal) Horti¬ 
cultural Society, shows for 
1893, 548; presentation to Mr. 
P. Neill Fraser, 567 
Californian orchards,yield of, 7 
Callas, Pentiandi and Elliot- 
tiana, 7, 31; the yellow, 122 ; 
Little Gem, 48); nilotica(?) 
and others, 499 ; yellow- 
flowered, 526,550 
Calopogon pu.chellus, 51 
Camellias, cleansing, 219 
Canker in fruit trees, 564 
Cannas, dwarf. 55 ; new dwarf, 
129 ; a new, 374 
Carboaate of copper, precipi¬ 
tated, 409 
Cardiff Horticultural Society, 
549 
Carnation and Picotee Society, 
the Midland Counties, 649 
Carnations—common, 9 , 56; 
propagating, 19; Miss Joliffe, 
82,471; attacked byhylemyia 
grubs, 32; layering, 50; 
Madame de Warocque and 
Miss Nina Balfour, loo ; the 
Manual, 142 ; Duchess of 
Portland, 142; at Slough, 142; 
propagating Souvenir de la 
Malmaison, 157 ; Lady 
Wantage, 167; prize in a 
cottage garden, 168 ; as 
annuals, 2Gt; Winter Cheer, 
352 ; The Margaret, 309, 351, 
483; winter blooming, 418 ; 
maggot, the, 489 ; fungus on, 
494 
Carnations and Picoteos, the 
new German varieties, 280 ; 
as annuals, 282 
Carnations and Pinks, Mar¬ 
garet, 391 
Carnations and Streptoearpus 
at Chelsea, 74 
Carrots, storing, 384 ; hard, 559 
Carshalton Show and Confer¬ 
ence, 94 
Cassia corymbosa, 123,232, 233 
Castor-oil Plant, 627 
Catalpabignonioides, 143 
Cattleyas — iricolor, 4 ; Ack- 
landia:,98; Rex, 170; Schiller- 
iana Lowi, 187; oweniana, 
240, 241 ; Statteriana, 277 ; 
leucoglossa, 418; Alexandra, 
49* 
Cauliflowers, for spring, 293 ; 
Autumn Mammoth, 330 
Cedars, screen under, 158; of 
Lebanon, 417 
Celeriac, 133 
Celery, watering and blanch¬ 
ing, 133; untransplanted, 145 ; 
failing, 1)9; notes on, 258 ; 
insects, 494 
Celosias, 55; in the conserva¬ 
tory, 335 
Certificates at the Interna¬ 
tional Horticultural Exhibi¬ 
tion, 31 
Cephalotus foilicularis, 483 
Cercls siliqua.-trum, 123 
Charcoal, making, 516 
Cherries, Morello, dying,’_204 ; 
under glass, 47.; 
Cherry hou e. 537 
Chester, LOtes on, 98; Dick¬ 
son’s Nors“ries,99 
Chicago, U irticuitural Con¬ 
gress at, 458 
Chicago Exhibition, English 
fruit at, 483 ; English exhibi¬ 
tors for the, 504 *i 
Cholera and horticultural im¬ 
ports, 308 
Christmas, supplies at Covent 
Garden Market, 541; weather, 
custom, and portents, 561 
Chrysanthemums—John Lam¬ 
bert, 9; the John Lambert 
test case, 2 *; a valuable 
summer variety, 64; Stock- 
port Show, 86 ; at Swan- 
more, 108 ; Gustave Qruner- 
wald,145; dwarf, 145; taking 
buds, 155; shoots shrivelled, 
158 ; Messrs. W. and G. 
Drover’s col lection, 234 ; notes 
on early, 265, 288; General 
Hawkes and Lady Brooke, at 
Impney and in other gardens, 
312; housing, 317; at Gort- 
more, 331 ; market, arid early 
frosts, 331; at Chilweli, 332; 
round Liverpool, 332 ; at 
The Hollies, Woolton, 332 ; 
Aymestry Court, 832 ; Elm 
Hall, Wavertree. 332 ; Cleve- 
ley, Allerton, 3)2 ; Thing wall 
Hall, 332; Allerton Beeches, 
332; Ha iley Society, 332 ; 
certificated, 435, 462, 5t>9; 
Beauty of Exmouth, 854,553 ; 
white, 854; large Japanese 
blooms, 854 ; planis and 
prospects around Sheffield, 
355; at Five Oaks, Glossop 
Road, 355 ; Tapton Hall, 
35); Birchiands, 856; Con¬ 
ference at the Royal Aqua¬ 
rium, 357 ; show hoards for 
Japanese. 357 ; shows, list of, 
378; damping, 365; catalogue, 
378; flower stand controversy, 
379; Piercy’s Seedling, 879 ; 
Madame Louise Lerov ,379 ; in 
Norfolk. 379 ; at Finsbury 
Park, 379 ; at Castle Huntly, 
380 ; around Liverpool, 380; 
Show board controversy, 401 ; 
division of cut bloom classes 
at Birmingham, 401; shows 
and gardeu charities, 401; 
calls on celebrities, 4u2; at Mr. 
H. J. Jones, 402 ; at Messrs. 
Reid & Bornemaun, 402; at 
Messrs. Cannell <fe mods, 402; 
at Mr. W. Piercy’s, 403 ; 
Viviand Motel, sports from, 
403 ; in North Wales, 403; at 
Leicester, 403 ; at Battersea 
Park, 403; at Waterlow Park, 
401; at Southwark Park, 404 ; 
at the Temple Gardens, 404 ; at 
“ my garden,” 419 ; at Messrs. 
J. Veitch v Sons, 419; at 
Messrs. J. R. Pearson and 
Sons, 419; at Messrs. Pitcher 
and Manda, 419 ; around 
Sheffield, 42o ; at Downside 
420 ; Colouel Smith, 420 
White Viviand Morel, 422 
at Southwark Park, 422 
at Barton-under-Needwood, 
435 ; Messrs. Carter and 
Co, 436 ; notes from an 
Irish garden, 436; at The 
Priory, Hornsey, 436; Dr. 
Walker’.- exhibiting tubes, 
436; Lord B ooke 462; at 
Chiswick, 457; at Barkby 
Hall, Leicestershire, 461; at 
the Birmingham Gardeners’ 
Association, 461 ; dates of 
shows for 1893, 480; Wake¬ 
field Paxton Chrysanthe¬ 
mum Society, 480 ; sport 
from Mrs. H. Cannell, 481 ; 
Richatd Parker, 481; Queen 
sport, 481; Edinburgh prize 
cup, 481; premier blooms,481; 
blooms for New Zealand, 
481 ; house in Finsbury Park, 
481 ; visitors lo Battersea 
Park, 481; at Moor Park, 481; 
