VI. 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
t January 10, 1889. 
Ealing show, 59 
Earwigs, 62; eggs of the, 7; 
infesting climbers,86; a good 
catch of, 265 
Eastbourne Horticultural So¬ 
ciety, 25 
Easton Lodge, Dunmow, show 
at, 122 
Echinocereus, Echinocnctus, 
and Echinopsis, 173 
Eccremocarpns scaber, 516 
Economic entomology, 455,524, 
591 
Edinburgh Show, 272 
Epacrises,culture of, 99 
Fp deudrum bicornutum, 437 
Epiphyllums, 157 
Eranthemum Andersoni, 479 
Eremurus Olgas, 244 
Erica metukcflora bicolor, 81 ; 
softwooded, 275 ; Alporti,297 ; 
Erica andromedasflora, 314 ; at 
Cheltenham, 523 
Escal Ionia macrantha, 25 
Eucalyptus globulus, 75, 77 J 
large trees, 93 
Eucharis, culture of, 188; 
grandiflora, an experiment 
with, 258; grandiflora, 289, 
299, 317, 366 
Eucomis punctata, 110 * bicolor, 
>148 
Evergreens, pruning, 568 
Everlasting Flowers, 138 
Exeter Show, 202 
Exhibiting by show officials, 
220 
FABIANA IMBRICATA, 22 
Failures, a chapter on, 163,212 
Farm—manures for pastures, 
the Dysou’s Wood experi¬ 
ments, 15; Dr, Voelcker oil 
manures, 16 ; agricultural ex¬ 
periments, 39; treatment of 
cows before calving, 40; pure 
seed, 63 ; lessons from prize, 
87; a wet summer, 111; liver 
fluke in sheep, 112; books on 
farming, 112, 460 ; hard times, 
186; harvest time, 159; the 
harvest, 160; feeding mix¬ 
tures and manures, 184; notes 
by the way, 208; Farming by 
landlords, 232, 256; Gorse as 
cattle food, 232; harvest pro¬ 
spects, 279; making ensilage, 
280; progress, 3«3; land for 
permanent pasture, 304; 
Wheat-sowing,326; the future, 
S49; ensilage, 350; live stock, 
Wheat manure, 372 ; shelter 
for live stock, 394; one-sided 
farming,416; wflnter corn,438; 
manure in agriculture, 459; 
treatment of poor pasture, 460; 
sheep management, 481, 506, 
551,574 ; Webb and Sons’ root 
competition, 482 ; tbe plough 
drill, 530 ; seed stands at 
Smithfield, 552; lessons of the 
year, 596 ; home, work on, 40, 
64, 88, 112. 136, 16 ), 184, 208, 232, 
256,279,304,326,350,372, 394, 416, 
438.460,482.506. 530, 552, 574, 596 
Ferns—sowing, 39; at Westmin¬ 
ster, 76 
Figs—out of doors, 35; in July, 
36; early, 132; unsatisfactory 
cropping, 203; border, making 
a, 207; in pots, 275; culture 
and varieties,390; the harvest 
Of, 445 ; forcing, 525, 59i 
Filbert and Cob Nuts, 509 
Firbeck Hall Gardens, 116 
Fish potash manure, 515 
Flies, a plague of, 317 
Flora of the Lesser Antilles, 
investigation of, 171 
Flora of the Ivermadec Islands, 
424 
Floral decorations at Regent’s 
Park,18 
Floriculture in America, com¬ 
mercial, 19), 217, 271 
Florists’ flowers, notes on, 120, 
338 
Flowering plants in July, 35 
Flowers—garden, July work in 
the, 60 ; supports (Cheat's), 105; 
show, a children’s, 194; a 
Chinese pagoda of, 194; sea¬ 
sonable, 267 ; beds in Septem¬ 
ber, 298 ; garden plants, pro¬ 
pagating, 298 ; beds, planting 
for spring, 335,400; gardening 
notes, 34i; garden, beds iu, 
415; sweet-scented,406; hardy, 
for cutting, 489, 508 
Fonthill Abbey, Tisbury, 69 
Forcing house, the, 503 
Forests in Ceylon, report on, 170 
Frosts, early, 266 
Fruit—growing and bee-keep- 
ing, 39; growers’ Conferences, 
65, 187, 193, 219, 327, 583, (Mr. 
Rivers’paper), 234; and vege¬ 
tables, degeneration of, 82,165; 
Exhibition at Vienna, 75 ; 
failure of crops, 90; commer¬ 
cial realisation of, 103, 126,145, 
164; exported and evaporated 
fruits, canning of fruits, 127: 
Lardy, protecting, 155; on wall 
trees, 155; preservation of, 148, 
302; cold storage of, 187, 267; 
revival in growing, 233; con¬ 
stituents of, 235; packing ("Mr. 
Webber’s paper), 236; market¬ 
ing (Mr. Rawson’s paper), 237; 
grafting (Mr. Miller’s paper), 
239 ; science of distributing, 
FRUIT— continued—- 
239: cost of preparing land, 
and planting, 301; trade of 
California, 294; farms, small 
295,409,519; culture, progress 
of, 312; Growers’Association, 
the British,310,44 ; preparing 
for planting, 346 culture for 
profit (Mr. W. Paul’s paper), 
3.58; farming profitable (Mr. 
J. Wright’s paper, 363; name- 
holder. 367 ; as diet, 386; lands 
in California, 386 ; production 
and distribution, Mr. E. J. 
Baillie’s paper, 379; culture In 
Jersey, 408 ; in Herts, 426 ; 
room, the, 485; culture iu 
California, 569,590; for market, 
533; garden,592* trees—in pots 
at the Crvstaf Palace, 21; 
thinning snoots of, 110; over¬ 
cropping, 124; gumming, 257, 
281 ; renovating, 288; canker 
in, 376, 398.446,555 ; notes OQ 
the bark of, 383; for a north 
wall, 414, 422; pruning, 430; 
young v. old, 441; hardy, se¬ 
lections of, 455 ; destroying 
scale on, 467; planting, 484; 
transplanting, lifting, root- 
pruning, 548; planting on 
clay soil, 550 
Fuchsias —out of dcors, 317; 
notes on, 456 
Fungi, heteroicism in, 102 
Funkia grandiflora in pots, 324 
Garden produce, 38; wall, 
wiring a, 62 ; notes in a Herts, 
263, 284; refuse, charred, 302; 
oracle, 564; walks, making 
and keeping,577 
“ Garden and Forest.,” 9i 
Gardener leaving, 61 
Gardeners’ difficulties and 
duties, 35 ; under, leaving, 182; 
a warning to, 194; education 
and position of, 332; educa¬ 
tion and social position, 544 ; 
Society in Ealing, 565 ; an 
over supply of, 587 
Gardeners* Orphan Fund, 7,25, 
67, 98, 406, 491, 519; annual 
meeting, election,and dinner, 
43 
Gardeners’ Orphan Fund con¬ 
cert, 385 
Gardeners’ Royal Benevolent 
Institution, 491; annual meet- 
in gaud dinner, 23 
Gardenias, 60,253,413 
Gardening, learning, 62; litera¬ 
ture, 79 
Gentiana acaulis, 545 
Gesneras from seed, 231 
Gilias, 138 
Gishurstine, 406 
Gladiolus, 121 ,186 ; Colvilli, 22 ; 
new, 196; varieties flowering, 
212; Castro, 244 ; no’es on. 259, 
234 ; floriferous, 277 ; brench- 
leyensis, 317; raising from 
spawn and seed, 481 
Glasgow and West of Scotland 
Show, 58 
Glasgow Shows for 1889,565 
Glasgow show, 273 
Gloriosa superba, 158 
Gloxinias, notes on, 263 
Gooseberries as cordons, 112 ; 
Whinham’s Industry, 246 ; 
and profitable fruit farming, 
363 ; notes on, 534 
Gooseberry bushes, trained, 85 
Goodyera pubescens, 187 
Grapes on walls. 7 ; at Elford, 
75; Muscat, shrivelling 134; 
scalded, 135, 158; Mrs. Pear¬ 
son, failing, 183; scalding, 162, 
2 1 2,244, 260, 294, 819.333,399,428, 
colouring Mrs. Pince, 243; 
470,517,556 ! keeping late, 227 ; 
Gros Maroc, 266 462 ; keeping 
Black Hamburgh, 302; Gros 
Maroc and Cooper's Late, 307; 
keeping late, 368; Trebbiano 
and White Tokay, 354 ; 
berries, 4t5; notes on, 418; 
not keeping, 436 ; Gros Col- 
man in a pot, 445 ; Alnwick 
Seedling and Gros Maroc, 462 ; 
notes on cracking, 546; late, 
bottling, 548 
Gray, death of Alderman, 445 
Grevillea robusta,d3 
Gros Maroc, two varieties of, 
246 
Groups, prize, 42 
Gumming in Peach and 
Nectarine shoots, 39 ; in fruit 
trees, 257,281 
Gunnersbury House, 344 
Gymnogramma Pearcei ro- 
busta,27 
GymnosporaDgium confusum, 8 
HABEN ARIAS, 187 
Habrothamnns elegans,435,567 
Hampton Court Gardens, 189 
Hardy Fruit Growers’ Con¬ 
ferences, 65 
Hardy plants for autumn 
flowering, 352 
Hardy flowers, 508; for cutting, 
489 
Harpalium rigidum semiple¬ 
num, 292 
Heaths, summer flowering, 89 
Helianthus multiflorus plenus, 
296 
Heliotropes, 202 ; Miss Nitrht- 
ingale and White Lady, 837 
Hellebores, 567 
Helenium autumnale,3-55 
Herbaceous plants, 158 
Herts garden, notes from a, 
263,352, 426,567 
Hessle Chrysanthemum So¬ 
ciety, 491 
Heuclmra sanguinea, 579 
Hexisia bidentata, 541 
High irate Show, 80 
Holiday excursion, 116 
Hollies, 573; silver, 22; t r ans- 
planting, 231 
Hollyhocks, 194 
Horn shavings as manure, 
489 
Horseradish culture, 595 
Horticultural shows — Frome, 
153; Leicester, 154; Hnrstpier- 
point, 155 
Horticultural College, 33-1 
Horticultural Club, 365, 423; 
meeting, 564 
Horticultural Directory for 
1889, 564 
Horticultural (United) Benefit 
Society, 25; anni /-ersary din¬ 
ner, 356 
Horticultural (Royal) Society, 
425; Committee meetings, 26 , 
76,148,195. 291, 536; Scientific 
Committee, 56, 102, 562; Na¬ 
tional Apple and Pear Con¬ 
ference and Show at Chis¬ 
wick, 335, 356, 373; commit¬ 
tees, 386; retirement of 
Assistant Secretary, 564 
Horticulture, early English, 
144,285, 4*18 
Hoveas, species and culture of, 
214 
Hull Chrysanthemum Society’s 
Show for 1889, 564 
Humea elegans, culture of, 93 
Hyacinths, Roman, 398 
Hydrangeas, 133, 204,571 ; pink 
and blue, 15; paniculata 
grandiflora, 268 
ICHNEUMON FLY, 436 
Improvements, making, 143 
India, developing gardening in, 
246 
Indian Figs, 255 
Insects, troublesome, 62; garden 
and farm, 219 ; in soil, 277 ; 
Celery fly, 459 
Insect-life in 1888, 306; anom¬ 
alies of in 1888, 444 
Inomea limbata elegantissima, 
*98; Leari, pruning, 550 
Iris Susiana, culture of, 25; 
pallida dalmatica, 125; Su- 
warowi, 539 
Ivy eaten by cows, 38; notes on 
the, 578 
Ixoras, 60 
JASMINUM HIRSUTUM, 421 
Jersey, fruit culture in, 4u8 
Jones, death of Mr. J. J., of 
Abberley Hall, 123 
Juniperus occidentalis, 562 
Justicia flavicoma, 435 
KERMADEC ISLANDS, FLORA 
Of, 4.50 
Kew Bulletin, the, 75, 123,582 
Kew, notes at, 137 
Korsambi nuts, 562 
Kitchen garden — vacant 
ground in, 56 ; seasonable 
work in the, 84, 132, 413, 570 
LiELIA AMESIANA, 77 ;' EYER- 
inanniana, 76; monophyila, 
244; Dorphyrites, 335; Vic¬ 
toria, 541 
Lambton Castle gardens, 81 
Lantanas in winter, 456 
Lapagerias, 204; alba, 365; fall¬ 
ing, 458 
Lawn, weedy, 86 
Ledbury Apple and Pear Exhi¬ 
bition, 410 
Ledbury autumn Show, 265 
Lee and Blackheath Show, 3 
Leeds Horticultural Society, 
444 
Leeds Paxton Society, 123 
Lettuces for wintering ia cold 
pits, 147; and Endive for 
winter, 228 
Leycesteiia formosa, 246 
Lilium gigaDteum, 75 ; candl- 
dum, 124; planting, 158; ne- 
palense, 244, 268 ; Wallichi- 
anum, 292 ; and Roses, 336 i 
auratuin degenerating, 424 ; 
partial shade for, 445 i 
auratum, management, 534 ; 
candidum, 571 
Lily of the Valley, forcing, 
418, 469, 436, 512, 595; culture, 
462,509 
Lime irees, galls on, 86 
Littonia modesta, 148, 268 
Liverpool Show, 123 
Lobelia magniflca, 344 ; car- 
dinalis, 290 
Lombardy Poplars and light¬ 
ning, 170 
London’s lesser open spaces, 29, 
213, 401, 566 
Longleat, impressions of, 423 
Lunicera japonica, 137 
Loofah. 324 
Louth Rose Show, 25 
Lycaste disease, 164 
MADRAS AGRI - HORTICUL- 
tural Society, 321 
Maidenhead Show, 175 
Makart decorations, 100 
Malta, horticulture in, 447 
Manetti stocks, budding. 86 
Manures—Dr. Voelcker on. 16; 
artificial, 10, 54, 145, 186, 243; 
systems of application, 10 ; 
and moisture, 557 
Marguerites in winter, 456 
Masters, Dr. M. T., Belgian 
honours for, 24 
Mealy bug, exterminating, 546 
Medinilla magniflca, 275 
Melons —renewing crops, 12; 
failing, 62; in July, £9; can¬ 
kering, 91, 194; large, 79,122; 
not swelling, 134; Ketton 
Gem, 147, 170,193 ; in pits and 
frames, 181; pits for, 188; 
Blenheim Orange, 246; Brut- 
ton’s Perfection and Thames 
Ditton Hero, 243; Blenheim 
Orange and Hero of Lockinge, 
266, 289,406 ; new, 266; sowing 
seed, /93 
Meteorological Society’s Re¬ 
cord, 582; French, 581 
Midlands, in the, 419 
Mignonette, 132 
Miltonia cuneata, 309 
Mimnlus cupreus Prince Bis¬ 
marck. 123 
Mint, spiral tortion in, 8 
Montbretias, 545 
Moringa, 321 
Mountain Ash, preserving 
berries of, 246 
Muelier, Sir F, von, 583 
Mulberries tailing, 110 
Mushroom spawn, 62,134; large, 
86; beds, 322 
Myrtles in the open air, 118 
NATIONAL CO - OPER ATIVE 
Show at the Crystal Palace, 
171 
Nectarines in July, 37; for 
walls, 265 ; unsatisfactory 
trees,298 
Nepenthes Dicksonlana, 335 
Nerine Fothergilli major, 291; 
excellens, 293 
Newcastle-on-Tyne, 19J 
Notospartium Carmichael!,470 
Nottingham Fruit and Potato 
Show, 365 
Nottinghamshire Horticultural 
and Botanical Society, 2tT 
Notts Horticultural Society’* 
meeting, 147, 565 
Novelties, trials of, 533 
Nurserymen, a libel on 328 
ODONTOGLOSSUM9 — MACULA- 
tum, 149; vexillarinm, 207, 
393 ; Harryanum, 518; eu- 
genes, 556 
CEnotheras, tbe best, 7 
Olearia Haasti, 137, 193 
Omphalodes verna, 7 
Oncidiums — ornithorhynchura 
album, 244; Mantini, 389 ; 
aurosum, 518 
Orecome Candollei, 77 
Onions—early, 25 ; autumn, 26, 
131, 180; at Chiswick, 103; 
harvesting, 275; large, and 
their culture, 366, 388 
Ophiopogons, 424 
Orchards-trees for a small, 87; 
p anting, compensation for, 
383; renovation of, 377; his¬ 
torical notes on, 531, 554 
Orchids —the Oldfield, 8; at 
Downside,8; British,Epiden- 
drum atro - purpureum var. 
Raadi, 28 ; stray notes, 46, 93; 
54l; Cypripedium Measures 1- 
anuni, 47 ; at Forest Hill, 94; 
in unheated houses, 127; Sar- 
cochilus Hartmanni, 127; 
North American, 187; Schom- 
burghkias, 290; Oncidiums 
oruithorhynchum and Jones- 
iauum, 309; Compirettias, 
Miltouia cuneata, 809; Phaius, 
culture of, 310; seed, sowing, 
371; Cypripedium tessellatum 
porphyreum and Stanhopea 
tigrina, 382; Satyrium car- 
neum,399; Sophronitis grandi¬ 
flora, Cypripedium Klliotti- 
anum, an Orchid protector, 
flower holder, 400; in Novem¬ 
ber, 420; Crypripedium Fitchi- 
anum, 4*1; Dr. Paterson’s, 
442 ; dauder v. the Duchess of 
.Montrose, 491; in flower, 518; 
useful, 567 ; in flower at Kew, 
useful winter, 581; Indian 
Crocuses, Masdevallias,Oalan- 
thes, Dendroblum nobile, 
Odontoglossum Rossi majus, 
anil Phaius graudifolius, 581; 
Odontoglossom house in win¬ 
ter, 582 
Orchis (Bee), culture of, 111 
Orton Hall Gardens, 3 
Ostrowskya magniflca, 27,53 
Ourisia coccinwi. 210 
Oxaiis culture, 5J4 
PANICUM VARIED \TUM, 156 
Papaver orientale, 7; Blush 
Queen, 148 
Paris, cider and perry fruits la 
492 
Paritium elatum, 821 
Parkfleld, Worcester,463 
Parsley for winter, 313 
Passi floras, 434 
Peaches and Nectarines, 156, 
275; notes on early, 12; shoots, 
gummed, 39; under glass, 59 ; 
out of doors, 78; succession, 
203 ; for walls, 265 ; good, 317 ; 
Peaches, Hale’s Early,332,337; 
Bellegarde, S37; origin of, 
(Mr, Rivers’paper), 340; forc¬ 
ing, 347, 525, 570; early 434 
Peach house, oil stoves ia 
134 
Peach trees, bud sporting, 7; 
foliage turning yellow, 62; 
planting, 528; summer prun¬ 
ing 155 ; for forcing, 572 
Peaches—in July, 37 ; notes on, ’ 
P'7; ; Barrington, 110; and 
Fig diseased, 62 ; in America, 
122 ; succesSional, 134; on 
open walls, 247 ; preparing 
for forcing, 253; the Waterloo, 
266 ; unsatisfactory, 298; why 
they fail out doors, 439; and 
Nectarines, selection of, 456 
Peach case, a useful, S07 
Pears—f filing. 14; forwarding, 
203 ; Flemish Beauty, 265 ; 
the Uessle, 316; certificated 
at Chiswick,.374 ; for dessert 
Mr. Wildsmith’s paper, 359 ; 
storing, 411; cultivation ou 
wall - 429 ; selection of, 455; 
for November and Decem¬ 
ber, 512 ; supporting trees, 542; 
592 
Peas—early, 27; the latest, 36; 
wire netting for, 36; Gradus, 
69; at Chiswick, the Abbot, 
certificated, 103; in 1885, 284 ; 
Veitch’s Autocrat. 290; late, 
344; twelve varieties of, 406; 
sowing in autumn, 439; 
Williams’ Emperor of the 
Marrows, 491; Peas in 1888, 
535; Lynn’s Black-eyed Mar¬ 
row, 564 ; in autumn, sowmg, 
571 
Pelargoniums, 204; Duchess of 
Teck, 7; cuttings, 29; pro¬ 
pagating show and fancy, 159; 
French and fancy, 276 ; Lord 
Palmerston, 445; fragrant and 
zonal, 526 
Pentapera sicula, 539 
Pentstemons, 145 
Perennials, autu&n flowering, 
231 
Pereskia Bleo,148 
l’erlsteria elata, 255 
l’ernettya mucronata, 7 
Petroleum—for woodwork, 892; 
. for Pear scale, 445; for de.-troy- 
ing scale on fruit trees, 407 
Phacelia eampanutaria, 22 
Phaius graudifolius. 584 
Phloxes. Alpine, 2 ; Drummondi 
cu.pidata, 383; in the north, 
415 
Phylloxera on Vines, 135 
Picea nobllls, 194 
Pines—potting suckers, 12; pre¬ 
paring beds for, 59; arrang¬ 
ing, 183 ; forjfng, 181,322,503 
593 
Pine Apples, imported, 535 
Pink Mrs.Sinkins,3l6 
PLANTS CERTIFICATED — 
Adiantum versaillense, 195; 
Waltoni diffusum, 335. 
Allium pedemontinnm, 27. 
Anguloa Ruckeri alba, 77. 
Aster Townsendu 292 -- 
Beet, ornamental, McGrigor's 
Favourite. 293. Begonia C. 
ShowelI,14S; The Lady, Mrs. 
Lascelles, Mrs. Lynch, 195; 
Mrs. Stark, General Chiches¬ 
ter, 335.-Campanula iso- 
phylla alba, 196. Canuas, 
Caprieieuse, Francisque, Ma¬ 
dame .fast, Admiral Courbet, 
196; Geoffrey St Hilaire,Paul 
Bert, 293; LTrictl Brunner, 
335. Carnation Germania,27; 
Eiaine, 77 ; R. H- Elliott. 143 ; 
Madame Carle, 244. Carpen¬ 
taria californica, 27. Cattleya 
Lamberhurst Ilybrid and 
Harrisi,339. Chrysanthemum 
BonSe, 33 ; Mrs. B. Hawkins 
244; E sie, 335 ; Sunflower, 
.Nelson, Violet Tomlin, Ma- 
gicienne, H.Sb *esmith, Stan- 
stead Surprise, 387 ; Sun¬ 
flower. Lincoln’s Inn, Ma- 
gicienne, Edwin Molyneux 
339; Florence Percy, Frede¬ 
rick Marrouch, Jean Marty, 
411; Avalanche Sunflower, 
Alfred Lyne, 433; Avalanche 
and Mr. G-irnar, 447 ; Miss 
M. A. Haggas, Mrs. C. H. 
Wheeler, L’Automne, Alcyon, 
499. Coe'ogyne Sanderiana, 
27. Croton Aigbnrth Gem, 
148.-Dahlias, Beauty ot 
Brentwood, Duchess of 
