VI 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
[ January 12, 188 8 . 
Edinburgh Show, 232 
Edinburgh Apple and Pear 
Congress, Report, 270 
Edinburgh, horticultural sap¬ 
per in, 540 
Elder, the Go'den, 162,250, 274 
Elford Ila'l Gardens, 141 
Endive. 215 
Eranthis hyemalis, 272 
Ericas, 18 ; summer dowering 
species,94 ; Shan noniana, 94 : 
ampullacea, 95; mundula, 438 
Eryngium giganteom, 8 y 
Esher Show, 95 
Essex Field Club, £92 
Eucharis amazonica, 282 ; spoil¬ 
ing and restoring, 316; fre¬ 
quent flowering of, 840; cul¬ 
ture, 343; and Gardenia cul¬ 
ture, 438 
Eupatoriums,260 
Evergreens, transplanting, 260; 
for winter, 392 
Exhibition, plants for, 218 
Exhibits and judging, 294 
Eyles, Mr. G* death of, 516 
Farm —Forage crops, 21 , 
43 ; permanent or temporary 
pastures, 22 ; Royal Agricul¬ 
tural Show, New-castle-on- 
Tyne, 44; the drought, 65; 
Hessian Fly, 66; cropping a 
farm, 81,105,129; iron sulphate 
v. parasitic fungi, 106 ; effects 
of drought, expei iments, 151; 
grten crops, 174, 197; Hessian 
fly enemies, 198; keeping a 
cow, 219, 263; Michaelmas, 
285,306,329,351; farmers und 
their cattle, 107 ; true and 
false Hessian fly, 308; seeds 
and roots at the Hairy Show, 
330; report of seed harvest, 
330; agricultural education, 
352 ; progress, 395, 439, 483, 
506 ; Wheat growing, 374; 
prize farm and cropping, 
418; Progress and educa¬ 
tion, 461; distinguishing sex 
of Guinea Fowls, 484 ; the 
"Wheat crop, 484 ; Essex As¬ 
sociation’s rules, 507; ma¬ 
nures (Mr. l.uckhurst’s pa¬ 
per), 5(8 ; breaking up layers, 
529; manures in relation to 
agriculture, 530 ; Potatoes 
for cows, 530; cultivation, 
553 ;quality, quail t ty, depres¬ 
sion, 554; poor pasture, 130 
Fareham, 257 
Fareham Show', 59 
Fasciated stems, 89 
Fernery, hanging baskets for a 
cool, 110 
Ferns for baskets, 110 ; for warm 
house, 224; winter treatment 
of, 354 
Fertilisation of Grapes, 375 
Ficus elastica variegata, 116 
Figs in pots and planted out, 
260 ; early iu pots, 391; early 
trees plaLted out, 414; forcing, 
457, 100 
Filberts and cobnuts, 571 
Fir tree branches withering, 373 
Flora of West Yorkshire, 91 
Floral decorations, 243 ; at 
Regent’s Park, 26 
Florists’ flowers, seasonable 
notes on, 384 
Flow’er garden at Easton Lodge, 
Essex, 90 
Flowers in 'East Lothian, 222; 
fertilisation of, 341; iarming 
in south Fram e, 344; struc¬ 
ture of and insect fertilisa¬ 
tion, 365, 389 ; packing, 83 
Flower garden, 260, 346. 356, 442, 
540 
Flower show (co-operative) at 
South Kensingtou, 90 
Flowering plants for a thrub- 
bery border, 395 
FogSjithe effects of on plants, 470 
Forcing, early, 436 
Forget-me-nots, raising, 64 
Fowler, death ui Mr. Archibald, 
16 L 
Foxglove, a peculiar, 5 
Frames unhealed in winter, 103; 
me of cold, 150 
France, horiiculture and agri¬ 
culture of, 493 
Froine Show, 121 
Frost—in the-north, 138; in Sur¬ 
rey, 161; early, 216; preparing 
for, 260; early, 292; and its 
effects, 466 
Fruit—packing, 23, 29 ; culture 
iu Jersey, 107 ; and flowers— 
transit of, 160; the supply of 
and packing tor market, 163; 
gathering and sioring, 196; 
crops and the storms, 204 ; 
trees in pots, 2U4; remarks on 
hardy,265; showing and judg¬ 
ing, 278 ; facts about, 279; 
exhibition at the (Jhilwell 
nurseries, 427 ; from Huppas 
House, N.B., 425 ; storing, 460 
Fruit trees — cankered and 
cured, 226 ; root priming, 281; 
for a south wall, 284 ; trans¬ 
planting and root pruning, 
295; planting, 343; on w’alis, 
394 ; canker in, 424; hardy, 
480 ; for kitchen garden walls, 
512 ; protecting, 528 ; manure 
for, 524 ; winter dressing lor, 
571 
Furnishing vases when the 
flowers are few, 119 
Furze for banks, 340 
GAILLARDIAS, 85 
Garden pest, 70, 9) 
Garden, study in a, 206 
Gardeners, old and new, 353; 
advice to journeymen, 423; 
under, and exhibitors, 546 
Gardeners’ Orphan Fund, 2, 73, 
408 ; List, £04; list of local 
secretaries, 293 ; finances, 489; 
General Meeting, 24 
Gardenias, 457 
Gardening lectures at Birming¬ 
ham,; 36 
Gelasine azurea, 357 
Gesneras, 282 
Ghent, Royal Agricultural and 
Botanical Society of, 3L 
Ghent Quinquennial Show in 
1888,469 
Gishuretine, 337 
Gladioli in Scotland. 99; corms 
and mites, 196; The Bride, 262; 
notes, 380; reduced prices of, 
4C3 
Glasgow, Horticultural Shows 
470, 561 
Glasgow Pansy Show, 93 
Glasgow Show. 233 
Glazing with white-lead and 
sand, 321 ; bars for glass 
houses, 89 
Gloriosas, 249; superba, 272 
Gloucester Show, 254 
Gloxinias, 282; leaves dis¬ 
figured, 20 
Gooseberry cm tings, 372 ; prun¬ 
ing the, 557 
Gourock, Mr. Campbell’s nur¬ 
sery at 99 
Grafting Pears on Apples, 271; 
notes on, 309 
Grape9-Madresfield Court, 6 ; 
ripening, 84 ; growing in Jer¬ 
sey, 107; Carmichael s Seed¬ 
ling, 120; shanking, 128; 
Black Hamburgh, varieties 
of, 128; methods of keeping, 
201; judging at the Crystal 
Palace, 205, 221, 228, 251, 277 ; 
houses of ripe, 215 ; abnormal 
production of. 218; not colour¬ 
ing, 218; B'ack Muscatel (Mo¬ 
rocco), 263; late, 259; Black 
Hamburgh uot colouring,305; 
judging, 31 1 ; wine, making, 
373; fertilisation,stoning,and 
swelling of, 375; facts about, 
398 ; Gros< olman, not colour¬ 
ing, 428 ; Lady Downe’s, nn- 
satisfactoiy, 438 ; at Ipswich, 
426; keeping thin skinned 
436; setting, stoning, and 
swelling, 442,536 ; for quality, 
445 ; not colouring, 448; at 
Eagle Home, Howuham, 467 ; 
Barbarossaand Alicante, 482 ; 
Lady Howne’s, 527 ; facts 
about, 534; Ma-dresfield 
Court, Black Hamburgh,and 
Gros Guillaume, .584; pro¬ 
duction, rapid, 585 ; insect 
enemies of the, 558 
Grasshopper plague iu Algeria, 
9 
Greenhouse, heating a small, 
394 438 ;. removing, 552 
Gronping’plants, 75 
Grubs, destroying, 548 
Guelder Roses, 392 
Gumming of Cucumbers and 
Melons, 561 
Gunnera scabra, 173 
HABENARIA MIIITARIS, 235 
Halesia retrapte a, 425 
Hallamshire Show. 187 
Hampton Court Gardens, 137 
Harding, death of Mr.. 320 
Harpalium rigidurn, 162 
Hastie, death of Mr. 'I'., 31 
Hawke, death of Lord, 493 
Hawkfnirst Show, 57 
Heale, deatn of Mr. William, 336 
Heaths, summer flowering, 94 
Heathfleld House,229 
Heating, hints on, 204 
Hedera Helix canariensis, 470 
Hedges, plunts for, 262 
Helensburgh Rose Show, 99 
Helicophyllum Alberti, 560 
Heliotropes, 346, 572 
Hellebores,559; notes on Dlant- 
inv, 377 
Hepaticas, double, 536 
Hessian fly, 175 
Hexham .Nurseries. 498 
Hibiscus roots, warts on, 438 
Hindlip Gaidens, 491 
Higbgate Show, 77 
Hui House, Langport, 278 
Hole, Canon, appointment as 
Hean of Rochester, 516 
Holeyn Hall, 340 
Holiday in the south, 135, 202 
Hollies, a bed of, 297 
Holiyhock 3 , 155, 201, 228, 444, 
267, 291, 32L 
Holloway, notes at, 541 
Hooker, Copley medal to Sir 
Joseph, 493 
Horseradish bed, making a, 284 
Horsetails for florists, 321 
Horticultural (Ruyal) Society- 
meetings, 32,76, 89,120, 160,235, 
278, 324, 408, 428, 513, 518, 539; 
Professor Foster’s re - or¬ 
ganisation scheme, 68 ; 
and provincial support, 191 ; 
Floral Committee at Chis¬ 
wick, 210 ; publications, 250 ; 
vegetable competition, 366 ; 
leaving South Kensington, 
HORTICULTURAL (ROYAL) 
SOCIETY— continued — 
446; past and present position, 
463; donations and subscrip¬ 
tions, the Society’s charter, re¬ 
model ling the Society, 544 ; 
trials at Chiswick, 545; Coun¬ 
cil and Committee meetings 
in 1888, 560 
Horiicultuial (United) Benefit 
Society, 292 ; twentv - first 
anniversary dinner, 323 
Horticultural Club, meetings of 
the, 337, 423, 516 
Hotbed, making a, 574 
Hoveas, 269 
Hutt, death of Mr., 225 
Hyacinths, useful, 238 
Hybrids fertile, 426 
Hybridising and cross fertilisa¬ 
tion, 521, 569 
Hydrangea—stellataflorepleno, 
20 ; propagating, 62; dwarf, 602 
IMPATIENS HAWKERT, 457 
Indian experiences, 88 , 100, 214, 
256, 280, 338, 358, 382 
Insects—at flower shows, 115; 
attacking Vines, 143; and hot 
water, 321; enemies of garden 
crops : the Grape, 558 
Inula glandulosa, 273 
Irises—Spanish, 10; Krempferi 
varieties,32; Saari var. lurida, 
337; whit^, 872 
Irrigation in Australia, 139 
Isle of Wight, notes in, 135,202 
JASMINUM GRACILLIMUM, 241; 
Reeve si, 535 
Jersey, notes in, 107 
Jesmond Dene, 186; Lord 
Armstrong's garden, 229 
Jolmston, death of Mr. G., 336 
Jubilee carpet bed, 248 
Jubilee tree planting, 447 
Judging—criticism of, 221 ; at 
the Crystal Palace, 205, 221, 
228, 251, 277; Chrysanthe¬ 
mums, the science of, 487 
KALMIA LATIFOLIA, 424 
Kendal Celery Show, 293 
Kew Bulletin and Colonial 
fruits, 404 
Kew bulletin, 516 
Kingston ( lirysanthemum So¬ 
ciety, 517; annual meeting, 
540 
Kinver, seed selection at, 113 
Kitchen garden—work in the 
38, 125,548 ; walks for a, 395 ; 
autumn work in the, 391; 
walls, tree-< for, 512 
Kitchen gardening, 77 
LABKL REST, A NEW, 9 
Laburnums, 523 
Lacharme, death of Mr. Fran¬ 
cois, 425, 511 
Ladybirds, swarm of, 250 
Ltelia anceps, 479, 563 ; Bate- 
manniana, 33, 55; rosea, 134 
Laing, Mr. John, 56L 
Lambton Castle, 207 
Landolphia fiorida, 494 
Lapagerias-rosea, Nash Court 
variety, 381; 525; at Chelsea, 
566 
Larkhall, 276 
Laurus nobilis, 424 
Lawns—in autumn, 245 ; tennis 
ground, making a, 382; im¬ 
proving. 416 
Leaf soil, preparing, 557 
Leaves, preserving the colours 
of, 438 
LeedsClirysanthemumShow,336 
Leeks, show of, 447 
Leicester Show, 122 
Lettuce—Early Paris Market, 
123; and Endive in frames, 
302 
Lewisham Show, 77 
Lilacs, Marie Lequay, 10 
Lilies—in sun or shade, 267; 
under glass, 414; at Duneevan, 
518 
Lilies of the Valley, culture of, 
205, 305. 502 
Liliums, 10 ; Harrisi, 70 ; japoni- 
cum Colchesteri, 115 ; for 
shrubberies, 162; L. neil- 
gherrense, 173; Browni, cul¬ 
ture of, 284; speciosum and 
its varieties, 358 
Limes, caterpillar on, 128 
Lime-superphosphate of, 128; 
for Rose beds, 219 
Liquorice culture, 42 
Liverpool Show. 96 
Liverpool Horticultural Asso¬ 
ciation, annual meeting, 521 
Lobelias—Duchess of Suther¬ 
land, 31; Wave of Blue, I 16 
London’s lesser open spaces— 
Chelsea, 273; 446 
Lyca 9 tes—Skiuneri, 479; plana 
Measures]'ana, 516 
Lychnis viscaria fl. pi., 57 
MAHONIA AQUIFOLIUM WINE, 
8 
Maidenhead Show, 166 
Manchester Show, 255 
Manchester. Apple and Pear 
Show at, 336 
Manures—artificial, 28 ; for hot 
weather, 85; for Mushrooms, 
218; applying, 333, 501; pre¬ 
paring, 4s9; in relation to 
agricu ture, 530 ; Odam’s hor¬ 
ticultural, 517; 552; heaps, 
558; odourless, 659 
Marguerite Cloth of Gold, 337 
Market garden, a large, 381 
Market plant nursery, 117 
Marigolds in pots, 495 
Masdevallia Cufex, 236; to 
varensis, 437 
Maxillaria picta grandiflora, 
479 
Melons, 18 ; forcing, 100; Long- 
leat Perfection, 128; roots 
clubbed, 150; notes on, 224; 
raising, 2i7 ; in autumu, 302, 
3J6; inl8'7,376 
Mealy bug, eradicating, 492 
Memories of a tour, 361 ,404 
Mesembryanthemums, propa¬ 
gating, 227 
Meteorological observations— 
in Notts, 227; report from 
Hodsock Priory,293; at Work¬ 
sop, 425 
Meteorological Society (Royal), 
517, 470, 567 
Metropolitan Public Gardens 
Association, 320 
Microsperma bartonioides, 562 
Mignonette—standards, 62 ; in 
pots, 534 
Mildew and oil, 321 
Mildew on Roses,376 ; destroy¬ 
ing with oil and sulphur, 487 
Millipedes, garden infested 
with, £19 
Mina lobata, 333 
Mistletoe, notes on the, 537 
Moore, memorial stone to the 
late Mr. T., 72; death of Mrs., 
494 
Morina betonicoides, 494 
Morley House, bt. Helier’s, 107 
Moulsey Show, 59 
Mulching, 182 
Muscat of Alexandria, late, 259 
Mushroom — culture. 158; iu 
pastures, 196; culture, good, 
222 ; 259 ; growing in a tunnel, 
266 
Mutisia decurrens, 209 
NANNAU PARK, 137 
Narcissi, polting, 238 
Nectarine Peach, 3i 6 
Neilgherry Hills,2.55 
Nerine Manselli, 518 
Newbury Show, 123 
Newcastle ou-Tyne Autumn 
Show, 90 
Newcastle-on-Tyne Show, 212 
Newcastle-on-Tyne, * parks of, 
185; gardens around, 229,315 
Newton Hall, 340 
OAKWOOD ORCHIDS, 316 
Octoberfiowering perennials,310 
Odontoglossums —crispnm, 6 ; 
40; Harryanum, 87; Schrcede- 
rianum, 236, 257 ; Pescatorel 
Germinyanuin, 516; ramosis- 
simurn. 541 
Odoutoglossum house, work in 
the, 479 
Oil and sulphur on hot-water 
pipes, 487 
Oil on hot-water pipes, 350 
Oleanders not flowering,372 
Oncidium das\ style, Dr. Wood- 
foorde’s variety, 66; micropo- 
gon, 56L 
Onions, large. 80; at Chiswick, 
16L; sowfng,170; winter, 204; 
harvesting,215; storing, 345 
Oranges and Lemons, culti¬ 
vated, 336 
Orange, the Otalieite, 293 
Orchids, 6; Mr. Charlcsworth’s, 
56; notes on, 134,223,515; cool, 
tare for, 159 ; in the open air, 
Dr. Duke’s, 178 ; atTulse Hill, 
257 ; paper on, 272 ; at East- 
wood Park,277; at Westbrook, 
277 ; comp st about the roots 
of, 290 ; at My In hurst, Shef¬ 
field, 334; at Arnot Hill, 355; 
at Lincoln, 382 ; at Morden 
Park, 424 ; Oncidium da^y- 
style,495 ; chierophorum, 496; 
at Upper llolloway, 541; Den- 
drobiums,562; Lidia anceps, 
563 ; at Veitch’s, 566 
Orchid Album, Williams’, 87, 516 
Oxalis brasiliensis, 170 
Oxford Rose Society's Show, 31 
PiEONIA ALBIFL )RA, 230 ; P. 
officinalis lobata, 517 
Pieonies—Moutan. 312 ; 460 
Palms for rooms, 439 
Pansies, properties and culture, 
350; cuttings, striking, 4U3 ; 
double, 535 
Parsley, 259 
Passion Flower, priming, 21 
Teaches-culture, 16,326 ; man¬ 
agement of, 61; the Dymond, 
226 ; Gregory’s Late, 262; Dr. 
Hogg and Royal George, 305; 
In autumn, 369 ; forcing, 502 ; 
In winter, 548 
Peach trees—cropping, 42 ; bor¬ 
ders for, 148 ; cropping, 305; 
luxuriant, 328 
Pears—tree slug, 104; Madlle. de 
Solanve, 120 ; Chiswick report 
on, 153; gathering. 262; graft- . 
ing on Apples, 271, 293 ; se¬ 
lection of for Great Britain* 
271; late, 281; decaying at the 
core, 284 ; October. 337; un¬ 
healthy, 350; Dr. Hogg, 381 ; 
Doyennd du Comice, 394 ; 
regralting, 395 ; renovating, 
461; twelve good, 465 
Peas — prolific, 53 ; Invincible 
Blue Sweet, 2a2 ; William 
Hurst, Abbot’s Duchess, 181; 
deep sowing, 204 
Pelargoniums—double flowered 
Ivy-leaved. 9, 27. 260; at St. 
Neots, 90; French and Fancy, 
101 : Zonal, 251, 260 ; at Chil- 
wel 1,342 ; scented, 369 French, 
fancy, and zonal, 571 
Perennials for October, 310; for 
town gardens, 872 
Petroleum as an insecticide, 323 
l’haius grandiflora, 178 
Plialamopsis Maria}, 494 
Phylloxera in California, 561 
Pines—forcing, 2L5,549 ; young 
plants in winter, 457 
Pinery, constructing, 395 
Pinks, notes on, 109 
Pitcher Plants at Chelsea, 381 
Pits, forcing, 302 
Plants—met hod of certificating, 
53; the mterdependence of, 
89; chemical composition of, 
E8; drought enduring, 132; 
for halls and co ridors, 150; 
Mr Cypher’s, and how he 
grows them, 144 ; in rooms, 
147 ; neglected, 249 ; for exhi¬ 
bition, 263 ; cleaning, 300, 323, 
338 ; certificating old, 403 ; 
hardy, increasing, 420 ; 
names, 545, 570 
PLANTS CERTIFICATED- 
Adiantuin Regime, 518. As- 
plenium scandens, 160.-Be¬ 
gonias (Tuberous): Prince of 
Urange, Mrs. Lewis Castle, 
aiba magna, Jupiter, Snow- 
ba 1, Jubilee, Perfection, 
Adonis, Lustre,32; Edelweiss, 
Major Leudy, Shirley Hib- 
berd, 76 ; John Heal, 4(8. 
Berberis aristata integripe- 
tala,33. Bouvardi President 
Cleveland, 367.-Calanthe 
Halli, 408; sanguinaria, 518. 
Carnation Amber, pink Sou- 
ven.r de la Maluiaison, 33; 
Alice Ayres, 76; Gravetye 
Gem, 77. Catasetum Bunge- 
rotlii, 120. Chrysanthemum 
l’Africaine, "Win. Cobbett,325; 
Mrs. J. Wright, Marie Ouvray, 
367; Mr. Ralph Brocklebank, 
Edouard Andiguier, 408; Lord 
Eversley, 518; Elsie, Macau¬ 
lay, 368 ; Mr. Garnar, Amy 
Furze, C. Orchard, Mrs. Beale, 
408; Edwiu Molyneux, 410; 
Mrs. M. Russell, Thorpe 
Junior, Gorgeous, Sarah 
Owen, Charles Dickens, 4.3; 
Charles Gibson, Maggie 
Mitchell,Miss A. Lowe, Agnes 
Flight, album iiuibriatum, 
448 ; J. Collins, 495. Cypripe- 
uium orpbanum, 120 ; praes- 
tans, 160 ; Harrisianum super¬ 
bum, 825.-Dahlia Miss 
Gordon, 160; Maude Millett, 
Miss H. Uenshaw, Glow¬ 
worm, Lustrous, William Car- 
li>le, Purple Prince, Olivia, 
236; Canterbury Tales, Mrs. 
II. Whitfield, Frank Pearce, 
Plutarch, 278; Sidney Hol- 
lings, Malcolm, Miss Roberts, 
Henry Patrick, Zulu, Gr; ce, 
lsult, Janet, Nellie Cramond, 
Lady Emiiy Dyke, W. T. 
Avery, Mrs. Marsham, 237 ; 
Royalty, Blazer, Excelsior, 
William Carlisle, 212. Den- 
drobium stratiotes, 236. Disa 
cornuta, 160.-Epidendrum 
Parkiusonianuin, 33.-Gail- 
lardia Princess Royal, Wm. 
Kehvay, Wm. Roupell, 121 ; 
Admiral ion, 160. Gladiolus 
John Douiiny, Halle, Mary 
Anderson, Mrs. Edgar Wild, 
Bona via,El ton, Sullian, Paget, 
Stanley, Frank Miles, 160; 
Rupert, Irene, lolanthe, 237. 
Uabenaria militaris, 236, 
Hollyhock William Archer, 
Scarlet Gem, 121.-lresine 
Colernani, 236. Iris Kiemp- 
feri, Acquisition, Eclipse, Ex¬ 
quisite, 32 ; Criterion, Unique, 
33.-Ladia Bateman niaua,33. 
-Marigold (African)Leuion 
Queen, Prince of Orange, 120. 
Masdevallia Culex, 236.- 
Nepenthe Curtisi, 236. Nerine 
Manselli, 518.-Odoutoglos- 
BQin Vuylstekianum macula- 
turn, 33 ; Harryanum, 77 ; 
Schrcederianum, 236. Oplis- 
menus albidus, 236.-Pea 
(Sweet) Mauve Queen, Prim¬ 
rose, Splendour, 33. Pelargo¬ 
nium (Ivy-leaf) Souvenir of 
Caarles Turner, 237 ; (Zonal) 
