VI. 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENERr'-i 
June 27, 1895. 
EARWIGS, baffling, 841; flying, 
429 
Eastbourne battle of flowers, 
382 
Eaton, impressions of, 140; the 
corridor at, 141 
Eelworms, and carbolic acid, 
21; in Tomatoes, preventing, 
41 
Electro-culture, 226 
Elements of plant growth, 333, 
354, 388 
Employers and gardeners, 806, 
328 
Epacris, late flowering, 39 
Epidendrums, Iragraus, 331 ; 
Stamfordlanum, 3s9 
Eremuri, 186 
Erica candidisslma, 39 
Eucharis, biooms frozen, 132; 
Stevensl, 236. 253 
Euonymus japonicus, 134 
Euiophiella Elizabetha;, 307 
Euphorbia jacquiuiajtlora, 68,73 
Examinations in horticulture, 
234 , 251, 270, 290, 333, 361, 880, 
412 
Exhibiting, difflculties in, 34 
Exposition Universeile d’Am- 
sterdam, 228 
FAKFUGIGM GRANDE, 166 
Farm—Safe farming, 21; work 
on the home, 22, 43, 64, los, 
128, 154, 176, 198, 212, 264, 284, 
304, 326, 350, 372. 396, 418, 442. 
464, 488, 510, 532, 656, 572 ; 
profit and loss, 42; pro¬ 
gressive improvement, 63; 
irothy cream, 61; Lucerne, 
64, 108 ; Dairy, 83 ; butter- 
making, 86; profitable live 
stocS, 107,128, 176; Herefords, 
154 ; farmers’ incomes and 
the lax, 108 ; farm manage¬ 
ment, 108; Scotch cattle, 128; 
filling a ditch 176; seedtime, 
198; live stock, for grazing. 
220 ; green crops, 241 ; filling 
a silo, 242 ; lessons of 
adversity, 264; strugg ing 
farmers, 284, 303; dairy 
work, 304 ; smoking bacon, 
804 ; Mangolds, 326, 349 ; 
Canadian experimental 
farms, 350; Mangolds, 872; 
sorting Potatoes. 372; pasture 
cultivation, 396; tainted 
butter, 393 ; butter, 417; 
home-raised Cabbages, 418; 
poor land, 441; value of grass, 
442; the management of 
young stock, 464; poultry, 
488 ; grazing, 510; swine,532; 
tab.epouitry,536; progressive 
agriculture, 572 
Fashion’s fancies, 213 
Ferns, maggots Inj uring, 41; 
weevils on, 370 ; '1 ree. 570 
Fighting insect pests, 634 
Figs, treatment of, 39 ; season¬ 
able notes on, 125, 393; 
attention to, 301; outdoors, 
345; under glass, 347 ; dis¬ 
eased, 446; attention to, 461, 
.568 
Flies, friendly, 559 
Floors Castle, a visit to, 389 
Floral facts and fancies, 54,246, 
356. 467 
Floral wreaths, making, 65 
Florists’ flow,prs, hints on, 213 ; 
wild flowers, pressing, 219; 
spravlng plants, 205 ; notes 
on, 546 
Flower garden, 301, 317, 415, 
484; calendar, 156, 231; 
annuals, 217 
Flowering trees and shrubs 
(Mr. Bartlett’s paper), 68 
Flowers, hardy, notes on, 4, 
397, 465, 614 . 636 ; Christmas 
at Belvolr, 9 ; sweet-scented, 
and fragrant leaves, 32; in 
the Scilly Isles. 94; white, for 
June, 2fe ; spring, 298; old- 
fashioned, 340; for winter 
cutting, 654 
Force, what to, 4 
Forcing, preparing for, 61; 
house, the, 39 
Freesias, from seeds, 370; treat¬ 
ment of, 608 
Fritillaria Sewerzowi,319 
Fro.sts, severe,and their le-sons, 
129; the eSecrs of, 163; 4U‘’ 
below zero, 193; the long, 
and Insects, 294 
Fruit — Growing, failures in, 
15; fruit forcing, 17, 39, 60, 
104,124, 150, 172 , 238, 260, 286, 
300, 322, 346, 368, . 892 , 414, 438, 
460, 506, 629. 552, 588 ; hardy, 
38, 124. 172, 260, 299. 345, 
392, 438, .5U6, 552 ; growing 
and Mr. Blackmore s critics, 
34, 81; culture in New 
South Waies, 95; weights 
and measures of, 133; forcing. 
Pines, Vines, 194; prospects, 
313; new method of pre¬ 
serving, 314; prize essay on 
fruit growing. 334 ; pmsp-cte 
of fruit in North Stafford¬ 
shire, 381; the promise of 
hardy fruit. 384 ; packing 
Australian, 401; prospects in 
Scotland, 436 ; insects on 
trees, remedies, 427; and 
early vegeiabies in the 
Fruit— cowfjnwed. 
Canary Islands, 459 ; insects 
on, 498 ; Apple shoots 
withered, 531; Nectarine 
fruits failing, 531; destroying 
Apple chermes, 631; remedy 
for insects on, 517 ; hardy at 
Allerton Priory, 638; Cleveley, 
Allerton, 538 ; Knowsley Hal , 
Prescot, 539; The Calaer- 
stones, Aigburih,639 ; Court 
Hey,Broad Green, 639; Black- 
low House, Koby, 539; fruit 
growing on a large scale, 551 
Fruit trees, washing, caustic 
soda and potash solution tor, 
20; manuring, 38; and frost, 
40; selections of, 63; pruning, 
81; barked, 84 ; spraying in 
the winter, lu3 ; a good oress- 
mg for, 1.53; worn-out orchard 
trees, 193; in a Caiilomiau 
nursery, 214 ; forcing, 216 
Fuchsias from seeds,241 
Fulmer, aspring day at, 342 
Fumigating, the latest, 334 
Fond, Koyal Gardeners’ 
Orphan, 9 
Fungi, edible, in Surrey, 250 
Fungoid diseases of plants, 344 
Fungus in a Mushroom bed, 
440 
Funkias, notes on, 378 
GALE, the extraordinary, 271; 
uestfuctive, the, 299 
Garden charities, 62 
Gardeners’ Koyal Benevolent 
Institution, 29, 115, 296, 235 ; 
report, 79; election of 
candidates and supper, 8i; 
notes on, 209 ; Wolver¬ 
hampton branch. 357 
Gardeners’ Koyal Orphan Fund, 
9, 116, 146; annual dinner, 
319 
Gardeners, the prospects of, 
158 
Gardening, picturesque, 244; 
water, 310; town vct jms coun¬ 
try, 478 
Gardens,confusion in, 136 
Gases, noxious, and vegetation, 
428 
Gazanla nivea, 153 
Geuliana Kurroo, var. Brevl- 
dens, 3 
Germination, 238 
Gladioli, diseased, 370; about, 
546 
Glass structures in the winter, 
Mr. Williams’ essay on, 536, 
560 
Gloxinias, culture, 192 ; the, 
386 
Gooseberry trees and red 
spider, 174, 228, 248 ; spotted 
red, 571 
G.afting, 299; young stocks, 
24l; crown, 300; cleft, 300 ; 
old trees, 405 
Grape grower, a noted, an 
interview with, 11,26 
Grape growing, modern, 252, 
294, 343, 379, 424, 470, 544 ; 
bunches defective, 302 ; 
express, Mr. Colebrook’s, 305; 
modern borders and drain¬ 
age, 316 ; scalded, 825 ; spray¬ 
ing Muscat, 325 ; express, 328, 
363, 386, 459, 425, 408, 478, 495, 
522, 548; Gros Colman, 476, 
503; colouring, 554 
Grapes, on open wails in Kent, 
9; growing in Kent, 75; Black 
Muscat blackened, 283 
Green manuring, advantages 
of, 519 
Qreyla Sutherlandi, 101 
Grubs in potting seil, 349 
Guernsey, ihe weather in, 337; 
weather and crops in, 427 
Guests, welcome and unwel¬ 
come, 143 
HABENARIA bifolia, 544 
Hailstorm insurance, 183 
Hardenbergia Comptonlana, 
360 
HarrowWeald House,502 
HaseiePManor, Warwick, 274 
Head, Mr. W. Q., presentation 
to,277 
Heatherlee House, 38 
Heating by hot water,312 
Hedges, for sheltering fruit 
trees, 63; unsatisfactory, 416 
Herbaceous plants in J uly, 408 
Hibiscus sinensis, 153 
Hoeiug, the value of,329 
Hogg, Mr. Thos., death of, 402 
Home tor the holidays — 
American methods, 34 
Hops, manuring, 314 
Hordeum jubatum, 134 
Horner, Key. F. D., visit to, 
458 
Horticulture, examinations in, 
214, 234, 251, 270, 290, 353, 361, 
380,4i2, 429; problems in, 229 
Horticultural (Royal) Bociety 
—Committee meeting, 59 — 
meetings and lectures, 74; 
HORTICULTURAL ( ROYAL ) 
SOCfETY—coTiffnued. 
Committee-, 147, 235, 278 , 320, 
363,432,523,564; annual general 
meeting, 147 ; Scientific Com¬ 
mittee, 255, 298, 387, 460, 548 ; 
the Primula Conference, 354 ; 
Temple show, 444 ; examina¬ 
tions in horticulture—ques¬ 
tions and answers, 470. 501 ; 
examination papers, 500,550 
Hot-water mains, coating, 383 
Houses, heating, 240, 274 
How gardeners are made, 489, 
539 
Humea elegans, 212 
Hyacinths, roots decaying, 29 ; 
casting its flower spike, 144 ; 
Roman, unsatisfactory, 174 
Hyde Park, jottings in, 520 
ICE, making, 30; thickness of, 
183 
Illicium floridanum, 365 
Incar Vi I lea Delavayi, 449 
India, questions from, 13 
Ink tor zinc labels, 161 
Insect eggs, removing in 
February, 164 
Insects, the long frost and, 294; 
pests, fighting, 534,564 
Irises from seeds, 348 ; asiatica, 
564 
Ivy, for wreaths, 134; a note 
on, 291 
JUDGING—court of appeal, 78, 
97, 123,169 ; at Shows, 424 
Kale, Thousand-head, 312 
Kentias, 77 
Kew Gardens, 250; the history 
of, 228 
Kew temperate houses, the, 
29 
Kingston, Mr. K. C, death of, 
541 
Kitchen garden, 18, 61, 105,151, 
239, 281, 323, 369, 415. 485, 529, 
569 ; salading, sowing seeds 
under glass, Celery and the 
frost. Onions, Parsnips, 195 
LABOUR-SAVING METHODS, 535 
Lacheuailas, the best varieties, 
230; Neisoni, 23J, 272; culture 
oi, 230 
Laiila anceps, 106; L. Craw- 
shayana, 67 ; L. cinnabarina, 
201, 223, 245 ; majalis, 544 ; 
Insects on pseudo-buios ana 
stem of L. aibida, 555 
I,aello-Cattleyas, Decia, ISO ; 
Myra, 236 ; Epioasta, 363 
Laird, Mr. K. B., death of, 226 
Lakin, the late Mr. J., 251 
Lanlum Berkeley!, 2> 
Larne Horticultural Society, 
30 
Lawns for America,49 
Leaves, teeumg Value of, 74; 
functions of, 203; black spots 
on, 263 
Leotospermum bullatum, 435 
Lettuces, forcing bl; scarcity 
of spring, 498, 517 
Lilacs, forcing, 2j4; notes on, 
5.H9; at the Arnold Arbore¬ 
tum, 542 
Lilies, onental, 26; in abund¬ 
ance, 514 
Lilies of the Valley, forced, 72 ; 
falling, 348 ; home-grown, 402 
Lime trees, caterpillars on, 263 
Lime, use of, 16, 57, 87 ; and 
chalk, 71; superphosphate of, 
175 
Llnaria macedonica, 469 
Lincoln’s Inn Fields, 5uo 
Liverpool Horticultural Asso¬ 
ciation, 48, 357 
Liverpool notes, 38, 169 ; Pea 
culture, 258; preserving 
French Beans. 258; New park 
for Waveriree, 435; Straw¬ 
berries and Amaryllises at 
Knowsley, 435; two useful 
Spiraeas, 435 ; a pretty, com¬ 
bination, 435 
Lycaste Kossiana, 363 
MACDONALD, the late Mr., 428 
Manure lor Tomatoes, 21; for 
Mushroom be is, 197 
Maples, tapping, 369 
Marantas,499; M. Massangeana 
var. Florentlna, 499 
Market plants and flowers, 343, 
865, 380, 40s 
Masdevatllas, culture of, 131; 
Fraseri, 236 ; of the Chimaera 
group, 287 
May, the promise of, 419 
Melons. Beauty of Syon, 114 ; 
Triumph, 119; the cultiva¬ 
tion of, 118 ; about, 173, 461, 
507, 569; in houtes, 289; in 
frames, 289 ; in early houses, 
3i)l; attention to, 414 
Men anc manners, 513, 540 
Mentzelias, 349 
Mesoupinidium sanguineum, 45 
Meteorological (Koyal) Bociety, 
30,184 
Miltonlas, Jolceyana, 45; Bleui- 
ana vlrginalis, 476 
Missel thrush, auecdote of, 358 
Moisture, atmospheric, 492 
Moles in an orchard, 283 
Morris,death of Mr. John, 73 
Mount Kinibalu, flora of, 229 
Mount Merrion, 338 
Moveable feasts, 269, 292 
Moving trees, ls5 
Mulberry, the, 112; more about 
the, 181 
Mushrooms, beds failing, 62; 
in peat moss and sawdust, 
68; beds, Puff-oaiis in, 127; 
beds, spawning, 147. 167.211 ; 
spawn, 292,814; diseased, 895; 
bed, insects in, 4f7 ; beu, 
fungus in, 440 
Mustard and Cress, spurious, 
249 
My first flower show, 401 
NARCISSI, poeticus ornatus, 
iCb; furcii.g, lU: Messrs. 
Barr s, at Long mttou, 388; 
N. Madame dc Graalf, 889 ; A. 
Leedsl Beatrice, 3b9 
Sew year’s aaurcss, 1; greet¬ 
ings, 28 
Nltiate of soda, 107 
Nitrogen and its elements, 332, 
354 
Nitrogenous manures and their 
effect, 543 
Noxious gases and vegetation, 
428 
Nuts, attention to, 172 
Nymphsea Laydekiii rosea, 474 
OAK, a giant, 30 
Oaks in Essex, 74 
Ddontoglossums, triumphaas, 
Lionel Crawshay, 3o7 ; 
crispum, monograpn of, 363; 
Cervantesl decorum, 423 ; 
Knokeriauum spleudens, 455; 
crispum xauthoies, 445 ; 
Pescatorei La Perfection, 491; 
cirrhosum, 593 
Olearias, 12 
unions, seed, choice, 8 ; culture, 
99 ; gruos, 127; sowing under- 
glass, 117; lor show, 310 
Oranges under glass, 243 
Oienards, renovating, o8 ; old, 
Orchids — Cattleya guttata 
Priuz., lu; Cypripeuium 
Leeauum, lo ; Deuarobium 
nooile, 10 ; Uypripediu n 
amaudum, 10; Uataseium 
imperiaie, 25; Lauium 
Be.keiey., 25 ; Oypripedrum 
niveum, 25; Miltouia Joicey- 
ana, 45; Mesospiuidium 
saugdtueum, 4J; iJoelogyne 
crisiata, 45; Phaiamopsis 
Mariaj, 89 ; Calani hes lailmg, 
89; U. Veitchl, 89 ; Odonto- 
glossum inpudians, 89 ; Ada 
aurahtiaoa, 90; Vaudacoeru- 
lesoens, 90; Lama anceps, lo6; 
Uypripedium Mrs. Freu 
Haruy.lil, Ualantueculture, 
U1: Fhaiije copses at Harn- 
ham Uliffe, 111; Denuroblum 
Crassiuoae Birserianum.ill; 
Odohtoglossum luieo - pur- 
pureum. 111 ; uucidium 
sphaeeiatum, 112; Denuro- 
binm aggregatuin, 11-2 ; 
Laelio-Cattieya Deo .a, 13U; 
(Joeiogyne flaccida, iSO; cul¬ 
ture of Masdevailias, 131; 
Oymbidinm eburneo-Lowi- 
auum superbuui, 157; Calan- 
the Veitchl, 157; Tricho.sma 
suavis, 157; udontogiossum 
pardiuum, 157 ; tvaterlng 
Orchius, 157; Pha ajnopsis 
intermedia Portei, 179; cal- 
turai notes on Ouonto- 
giossumi, i79; Brassavolas, 
179 ; Caianihes and their 
culture, 180; Deudroblum 
speoiosissimum, 201; Phalai' 
nopsis Youhgiana, 201 ; 
Udontogiossum blandum, 
291; Deudroblum nobiie, 291; 
Lania cluaabanna, 201, 245; 
Dendrobium capillipes, 2u2 ; 
uaoutogiosaum cordatum, 
202 ; Godseffi mum, ‘221; 
Lseiia cinnabanua, 228; Den- 
ORC HID S—continued, 
drobinm Alusworthi, 223 ; 
Ooelogyne lamellata, 223 ; 
Angrsecum sesquioedale,223 ; 
A. eburnenm, 224; Dendro¬ 
bium Apollo grandiflora.245 ; 
Orchids at Harrow Weald 
House, 245; Ualanthes and 
their culture, 245 ; Brassla 
Lawrenceana, 276,287,331,353; 
Cypripedlum iuslgne, 275 ; 
Guttleyas "going back.” 275; 
Calanthe culture, 275; Bobea 
Schrb'lerlana, 287; Masde- 
valllas of the Chlmaira giouo, 
287; Euiophiella Eilzabethaj, 
307; Cattleya Perclvaliana, 
307 ; repotting Orchids, 308; 
Phaio - Calanthe Irrorata 
rosea, 831 ; Burlingtonla 
fragrans, 381; Kpidendruro 
fragrans, 33l ; Cattleya inter¬ 
media, 331; C. Lawrenceana, 
331; Lycaste Koasiana, 353; 
monograph of Ojontoglos- 
snm crispum, 353 ; Orchids at 
Warwick, 353; Dendrobium 
pulchellum, 853 ; D. noblle In 
baskets, 353; Lajlio-Cattleya 
Epioasta, 353 ; Coelogyne 
pauduraia, 377; propagating 
Denorobiums, 377; Dendro¬ 
bium Gambridgeannm, 377 ; 
Cattleya cltrlna, 399 ; Epi- 
dendrum Stamfordiannm,399; 
sa'e of the Selwood Orchids, 
399; Cattleya Triame Prlucess 
Beatrice, 399; C. Mendeli, 399; 
Cypripedlum Godefroyas (?) 
leucochilnm, 423; Orchids at 
Sunningd ale Park, 423; sale 
of the Holly Lodge collec¬ 
tion, 424; Cattleva Mendeli 
Princess of Wales, 452 ; 
Cypripedlum Chamberlainl- 
anum, 452; Dendrobium 
Wardianum,Baron SchrbSer’s 
variety, 454 ; at Chelsea, 452 ; 
Orchids at The Dell. 452 ; 
Orchids at Bur.ord Lodge, 
454; Cattleyas and Dendro- 
blnms, 455; Miltouia B euiaua 
vlrginalis, 476; at Woodhatch, 
476; Aclneta Uumboldti, 476; 
at Chelsea, 476; Epidendrnm 
poly bulbous, 491; stimulants 
for, 491; Phaius Cooksoniaj, 
512 ; Odontoglossnm Halli 
xaathoglossum, 513; in •• My 
Garden,” Hackbridge, 513 ; 
Cypripedlum bellatulum 
album, 513; Cattleya gigas 
Sanderte, 544 ; Habonaria 
blfolla, 544 ; Lselia majalis, 
544; Insects on pseudo-bulb 
and root stem of Laliaalblda, 
854 ; Sobralla maorantha, 561; 
Dendrobium illustre, 561 
Overtown, 17 
Oxera pulchella, S3 
Ox-eye Daisies, 17 
PiEONIES, 642 
Palm oil, African, 441 
Pan, steam, for boiling fruit,486 
Pansy, a good. 417; its culture, 
and difflculties met with by 
amateurs, 478 
Pansy aud Viola Associationj 
Scottish, 628 
Pansies and Violas at Tam- 
worth, 538 
Papaver bracteatum, 497 
Parks, Loudon — Hyde Park, 
388; Kegeac’s Park, 388; 
Victoria, 410; Greenwich, 
410 
Parsnips, The Student, 93 ; 
profitable, 228 
Passiflora Pfoidti, 7 
Patience, 109 
Peaches and Nectarines, sea¬ 
sonable work amongst, 39 ; 
buds failing, 41; buQS for¬ 
ward, 62; earliest lorceu, 104; 
outdoors, 124; seasonao'e 
notes on, 172, 300, 346, 568 ; 
caustic soda and potash wa-h 
for, 174; mildew on, 240; 
early forced tiees, 260, 392, 
438; leaves eaien, 534; 
growths blistered, 462 ; com¬ 
post for, 570 
Peach trees, disbudding, 46-4; 
seasonable hints, 483; free 
grewch of, 490; casting fruit, 
609 
Pear roots, fungus on, 325 
Pears, feeding, 37; under glass, 
84 
Peas—album, Messrs. Sutton 
aud Sons’, 28 ; early, 105; rais¬ 
ing under glass, 92 ; raising 
in boxes under glass, 169; 
for exhibition, 282 ; green, 
tinned, 229 ; growing, and 
preventing mildew, 47i; early, 
518; late, 547 ; King W liliam, 
542; caterpillars on. 570 
Peat moss litter, 122,160 
Peckham Eye, 472 
Pelargoniums, (Zonal) in 
winter, 71; from eyes, 303 ; 
leaves spotted,326 
Pentas carnea, 238 
Tetroleum and Peach trees, 
152; for Apple scab, 337 
