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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER 
v. 
AB3LIA OAFFRA, 338 
Abies brachyphyUa, cones of, 93 
Aboricultural (English) So¬ 
ciety, 323 
Acacia loph intha, 592 
Adiantum dolabriforme, 377 
Afghanistan, flora of, 42 
Agave americana variegata, 337 
Agriculture, lectures on, 293 
Allam indas, 593; leaves, curled, 
34 ; on hot-water pipes, 86; 
planted out, 167 
Allotment cultivation, 510 
Alpine plants, 175 ; choice, 138; 
protection of, 315; culture ot, 
547 
Aloe Bainesi, 517 
Amaryllises, early, 525 
Amasonia punicea, 491 
American garden, Mr. Jay 
Gould’s, 43 
Ammoniacal liquor as a 
manure, 511 
Ammonia — preparation for 
plants, 85; for Vines, 101 
Anfectochilus, 132 
Anemones, Himalayan, 230 ; A. 
poiyanthes, 230; Crown, 821; 
planting. 318; Crown in au¬ 
tumn, 379 
Angrtccum Leonisj 1#2 
Annotta, 441 
Annuals, 77; autumn-sown, 140 
Anthurium Andreanum, 429 ; 
A. crista! linum, 483 
An'irrhinums, 260; from seed, 
103 
Ants, destroying, 57,170 
. Antwerp International Horti¬ 
cultural Show and Congress, 
111; notable plants at, 181; 
reports of, 337 
Aphide 5 *, migration of, 109; in¬ 
crease of, 491 
Apothecaries Garden, Chelsea, 
402 
Appleby Hall, 357 
Ap-des—export trade in, 74; 
Bess Pool, 79; Conference in 
Scotland, 204; for market, 266; 
Lo r d Suffield and Blenheim 
Pippin, 293; crop in America, 
294; bearing on the previous 
year’s wood, 297 ; lichens on 
trees, 307 ; selection of, 325, 
Prince Bismarck, 325; Sep¬ 
tember Beautv, 325 ; British 
and foieign, 337 ; Show at 
Kensington, 345; New Eng¬ 
land crop of, 359 ; cutting 
down, 362 ; popular, 370 ; 
autumn, 4<>4; early, 422 ; the 
Nanny, 436 ; pyramids not 
fruiting, 461 ; good varieties 
of, 468; from seeds, 483; Lady 
Sudeley. 489 ; culture on 
light soil. 509; Show at Edin¬ 
burgh, 501; canker in, 567 ; 
grafting, 573 ; the culture of 
the, 580 
Apricots -Hemskirk and Moor 
Park, 134; insect enemies of, 
249; failing under glass, 436 ; 
branches dying, 483,491 
Aquilegias, 497 
Aristolochia gigas, 293 
Arnica montana, 19 
Artichokes—Globe, 75, 258; for 
alcohol in Belgium, 109 ; 
Jerusalem. 570 
Arundel Castle, 317 
Asparagus beds failing, 232 
Aster Amellus bessarabicu9 
at Hampton Court, 315 
Auriculas—culture of, 298 ; Mr. 
Horner’s lecture, 381,3 8,418; 
Society’s Meeting, 516 
Auricula election—lists of va¬ 
rieties, 5 ; opinions of voters, 
Alpine varieties, 17 
An tralia, Western, as a fie’d 
for emigrants, 63 
Autumn plants, showy, 272 
BA.LS4MS, CARTER’S STRAIN 
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INDEX. 
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Baptisia australis, 9) 
Barron, Mr. W., 245 
Bath Floral Fete, 230 
Bath Show, judging at the, 465; 
520 
Battersea Park, bedding at, 
187 
Banhinia Vahlii, 229 
Beans, 258 ; Sutton’s White 
Czar Runner, 293; Kidney and 
Runner, 397 ; Scarlet Runner, 
cnIture, 515 
Bedding plants, propagating, 
214; useful, 565 
Bees — unsealed cells, super- 
ing, 13; casting accounts, 
11 ; killing bee9 in autumn, 
34 ; bees and hives for 
beginners, 33 ; skeps versus 
frame hives, 55; spreading 
breid, outside cises. 77; 
s ctions, aking off,78; frame- 
hives, 99; stinging, removing 
supers, 100 ; straw skep as 
supers, 101; surplus bees, 
skeps, 99; preserving, supers, 
125; a word in season, ex¬ 
tracting honey, 123; strength¬ 
ening stocks, 124; useful 
hints, 146 ; in a Stewarton 
hive, 147; supers on a 
Stewarton hive, 149; notes on 
management, 168; foreign 
varieties of, 169; Syrian, 169; 
taking to empty hive, 170 ; 
supers v. sections, 170 ; ques¬ 
tions in bee-keeping, 170 ; 
uniting or returning swarms, 
193 ; frame hives and sections, 
194 ; useful hints, 194 ; the 
Stewarton hive, uniting 
swarms, a bee adventure, 215 ; 
notes on, open v. close 
driving, 238; rearing queens, 
supers v. sections, 239; frame 
hives v. 9keps, 240; ideal hive, 
239 : stray thoughts on, 2G1; 
theory v. practice, 261; vi¬ 
cious bees 261; examination 
of hives—joining hives—suffi¬ 
cient stores—foul brood— 
queenless colonies—robbing, 
260; profitable bee-keeping, 
283; driven bees in a frame 
hive, 283; Stewarton hive, 
282; useful hints on, the Hea¬ 
ther harvest, Syrian bees, 
condemned bees, young bees, 
305 ; labour lost, 305; useful 
hints, 326 ; in Mexico, wax 
production, the honey market, 
327 ; queenless hive, bee 
slaughter, 350; driven and 
fed bees for stocks, 350 ; the 
honey market, 350; market¬ 
ing honey, the last chance, 
349 ; spreading brood, 369; 
wasps destroying, 370 ; the 
best hive in creation, 391; 
Notes on, smoker, glass in 
supers, temperature of Oc¬ 
tober, 413; skep coverings, 
Caledonian Apiarian Society, 
435 ; square Stewarton hive, 
437; general management, 459; 
useful hints, 459 ; a year’s 
record, 460; bees and bee¬ 
keeping, 460; wax extractor, 
honey bottles, races of bees, 
481 ; feeding, carbolic acid, 
catching swarms, 482 ; arti¬ 
ficial swarms from skeps, 504; 
general management of bees, 
505 ; notes on, wax extractors, 
production of wax, 526; honey 
packages, races of bees, calm¬ 
ing bees, cottage bee-keepers, 
the Bligh competition, 627; 
frame and Stewarton hives, 
528 ; swarming and non- 
swarming, 549 ; reversible 
frames, zinc floors, 550 ; foul 
brood, 571; the best hive, 594; 
education in bee-keeping, 593; 
useful hint*, 593 
Beet, Spinach, 134; 467 
Begonias, Tuberous, as florist-*’ 
flowers, 57 ; Marquis of Loth¬ 
ian, Marquis of Staff ord, 
Picotee, Prince Henry, and 
Thwaitesi, 93 ; supporting 
Tuberous, 100 ; at Kathron m 
House, 208 ; in beds. 320; 
Carrierei, 423 ; semperflorens 
rosea, 324 ; manicata and 
heracleifolia, 503; Royal Tu¬ 
berous, Laing’s, 561 
Belgian horticulturists, meet¬ 
ing of, 271; 338 
Berberises.474 
Berlin, exhibition at, 20 
Berry-producing plants. 566 
Bertolonias, Van Houttei, 101.; 
132 142 
Bexley Heath Nursery (Mr. 
Ladds), 107 
Bilberry, the, 231 
Birds, migratory, 359 
Bixa Orellana, 441 
Blackberries — 266 ; American, 
275, 293, 304; for m irket, 313; 
cut-leaved, 468 
Blithedeld, 343 
Books, review of, <f Wild Flow¬ 
ers worth Notice,” " Where to 
find Ferns.” 121; “ Greenhouse 
and Stove Plants,” 142 : 
“ Walks in Epping Forest,” 
182; Bible flowers.379 ; flower¬ 
ing plants and Ferns of the 
Riviera, 425 ; Mr. Hibberd’s 
“Golden Gate with Silver 
Steps,” 446 ; Williams’ “ Or¬ 
chid Growers’ Manual,” 546 ; 
Carters’ Vade Mecum, 539 ; 
Illustrated Dictionary of 
Gardening, 58 s; Fruits and 
Fruit Trees, Horne and 
Freign, 591 
Boilers and pipes, provision for 
cleansing, 109 ; the Rochford, 
149 
Boissier, death of M. Edmond, 
316 
Boletus edulis, 307 
Botanic (Royal) Society. Even¬ 
ing Fete, 2;; Shows for 1886 , 
583 
Botanical mares’ nests, 337 
Bougainvillea spectabilis, 12; 
glabra, 593 
Bouvardias, stopping, 284, 304 ; 
culture of, 335; choice varie¬ 
ties, 339; root propagation of, 
537 
Box, transplanting, 483 
Bracken Fern in Australia, 492 
Brazilian Hawthorn, 470 
Briars budding, 10 1 
Brighton Show, 238 
Bristol Chrysanthemum So¬ 
ciety, 294 
Bristol Show, 492 
Broc.kham Rose Association, 8 
Brodiaea coccinea, 16 
Broditeas ixioides and laxa, 141 
Bromeliads, 132 
Brown, death of Mr. Samuel, 
379 
Bryn Glas, 472 
Buda-Pesth, proposed interna¬ 
tional fruit show at, 317 
Bulbs for the park-, 158; pre¬ 
paring for forcing,282: choice, 
368 ; rationale of potting and 
planting, 437 
Bull, death of Dr. H. G., 402 
Burghley, three good things 
from, 337 
Burlingtonia fragrant,470 
Burton Constable Nurseries, 
280 
CABBAGES — SPRING, 38 J 
El lam’s Early, 85 ; insect 
enemies of the, 364: Venus’s 
Early Dwarf, Cook’s Early, 
450, 490, 584; injects on, 522; 
clubbing, 595 
Cacao and Cocoanut, 492 
Cactuses at home, 144 in 
America 280 
C.iladiums, 259 
C.ilanthes, early, 168; culture 
of, 434 ; C. vestita ocnlata gi- 
gantea, 446 ; C. porphyrea, 522, 
539 
Caledonian Society, Royal, 
Shows, 49, 500 
Calochorti, 51 
Calla aethiopica, 304 ; a9 an 
aquatic, 488 
Cambridge Botanic Gardens 
Report, 54 
Ca nellia-\ varieties of. 350 
Cam anulas.76,497 ; C. Heuder- 
soni, 93 
Candytuft for spring. 103 
Canker in fruit tiees, 376. 422, 
426, 517, 529, 536, 549 ; in Apple 
trees, 567 
Cannas, wintering, 461; cul¬ 
ture, 595 
Canterbury Rose Show, 6 
Carbonate of soda as manure, 34 
Cardiff Castle, 89 
Carnations—characteristics of, 
Souvenir de la Malmaison, 20, 
35, 21, 181 ; at Chelsea, 65; 
best border varieties of, 83; 
the Governor, 93 ; choice 
varieties of, 125 * at Slough, 
135; sport. 148; Yellow, 195; 
winter flowering, 839 ; Tree, 
368; sport from Sonvenir de 
la Malmaison, 470 ; culture, 
543 
Carnation, National (and Pico¬ 
tee) Society,funds for the, 42; 
Show, 95 ; Northern Section, 
180 
Carpet beds, 77 
Caryophyllus aromaticus, 144 
Caterpillars in a garden, 306 
Cattleyas—C. Hardyana, 141 ; 
autumn treatment, 168; from 
Dr. Paterson, 158 
Cauliflowers, 213; varieties of, 
303 
Ceanothus dentatus, 278 
Cecil Lodge, Abbot’s Langley, 
278 
Celery—76; earthing, 86; ex¬ 
tensive injury of, in America, 
317 ; White Gem, 403 ; White 
Plume, 423, 424. 443. 489, 514, 
557. 557, 586; the varieties of, 
465 ; crop in,471; Sandringham 
White, special varieties, 586 
Centropogon Lucyanus, 503 
Cereals, fertilising. 240 
Cereus.the Night-blooming, at 
Mr. Major’s, 204 ; Napoleonis 
at Kew, 294 
Chatsworth, 358 
Cheadle Floral Society, 42 
Cherries — crop in Kent, 5 ; 
house, the, 11; in pots, Rivers’ 
Early Prolific, 115 ; selections 
Of, 325 
Chertsey Show. 9 
Cheshire fruit farm, 225 
Chestnut, the, 347 
Chimonanthus fragrans, ripen¬ 
ing seed,403 
Chiswick Show, 67 
Chlorophyll, development of, 
315 
Chou de Gilbert, 346 ; de Burgh¬ 
ley, 424 
Christmas—cogitations, 553 ; 
berries in the openair, 568 
Chrysanthemums — history of 
2, 60, 104,130, 159, 205, 359 ; dis¬ 
budding, 34, 122; Mdlle. Me¬ 
lanie Fabre. 20; show in May, 
42; for exhibition, 56; stem 
and root cuttings, 53 ; syno¬ 
nymous, 61; for exhibition, 
79 ; raising seedlings, 104; late 
propagating, 122 ; sports, 131; 
insects on, 148; house for, 148 ; 
setting buds,171; disbudding 
214; top-dressing, 216; exhi¬ 
biting. 245; early flowering, 
267 ; notes on, 279 ; prospects 
in the north, exhibiting, 279; 
at the Middle Temple, 293; 
best method of staging, 298; 
Chrysanthemums —ontinued — 
at Camberwell, 293; manure* 
for, 293; late varieties, 298 ; 
travelling box for, 301 ; in¬ 
sects on, 306 : and Ameri¬ 
can aphis, retarding,328; ear¬ 
wigs on, 329, 361; Madame- 
Desgrange, at Hampton 
Court, 315 ; fine early, 315; at 
the Inner Temple, 334 ; and 
the frost, 334 : are they semi- 
aquatic plants, 334 ; aphis,. 
359; popu larity of, 361; the 
season.361; earthworms, mil¬ 
dew, new varieties, effects of 
the frost, 362 ; notes on new 
varieties, watering, 387 ; size 
of the, 392; at Westminster 
Aquarium, 38'), 467 ; notes 
on, 421, 418; at Finsbury 
Park aod Camberwell, 399; 
Morden Hall, Combe Leigh, 
Swanlev, Slough,Putney,and 
Inner Temple, 400; Swanmore 
Park, Highgate, Holioway, 
Chelsea, and Forest Hill, 401; 
exhibiting, for grouping, 4L4; 
judging, 414; Japanese Ane¬ 
mone, 426 ; fine bloom pf Mr. 
Bunn, 424 ; Soeur Dorothe'e 
Souille, 427 ; new French, 440 ; 
early-flowering, 455 ; Henri 
Jacotot, 443 ; at Exeter, 446 
La Purete and Mdlle. Lacroix,. 
447, 470; growing exhibition 
blooms, 461; new, 464; varie¬ 
ties certificated, 464, 489 ; at 
Spike House, Hammersmith* 
470; at Messrs. Laings and 
Parkfield, 471; review of the* 
season, 486 ; judging, 488 ; 
specimens, 491; Cullingfordi, 
493. 542 ; judging, 514; new at 
Veitch’s, 516; Boulede Neige, 
Queen of the Yellows, 522; 
Boule de Neige, 539; Belle 
Paule, 540; Mrs. Heale and 
Princess of Wales, 542; an 
American show, 542; Boule 
d’Or, 543; show reports, 543; 
Carter’s Bronze Queen, 543 ; 
culture, preparing plants for 
cuttings, 544; trained speci¬ 
mens, 546 ; culture, best time 
for striking cuttings, 557; 
essay on the culture of, 561; 
new single, 567; at Birming¬ 
ham, 582; trained specimen, 
584 ; notes on, 588; Golden 
Meg Merrilees, 595 
Chrysanthemum Shows—Peck- 
ham, Ealiug, 409 ; Lambeth, 
Brixton, 410; Richmond 429* 
Havant, Crystal Palace, 420; 
Kingston, 43L; Putney 432 ; 
Stoke Newington, 432 ; 
Croydon, 413; National So¬ 
ciety, 433 ; Weston-super-Mare 
452 ; Bath, 452 ; Weybridge, 
451; Leicester, Gravesend, 
Portsmouth, Chiswick, 453 ; 
Brighton, Basingstoke, 454 ; 
Finchley, Lindfield, Lincoln, 
Reading, Huddersfield, 455 ; 
East Grinstead, Shrewsbury 
and Yeovil, 474 ; Cuckfleld, 
Burton, Bristol, 475: Lewis¬ 
ham, Birmingham,476 ; Taun¬ 
ton, Newport, 477 : Hull, 478; 
Winchester, Sheffield, 479 ; 
New York, 517; Felling-on- 
Tyne, 568 
Chrysanthemum Society’s (Na¬ 
tional) meda’s,293; Meetings 
814,362, 493,542 ; Schedule,334 
Dinner. 516 
Cirence-ter Show, 189 
Cissns discolor, culture. 573 
Clarifying cider and perry, 328 
Clematises—C. indivisa lobata 
48; beds. 252; varieties of, 351; 
Lucie Lemoine, 371; for con¬ 
servatories, 371 
Clerodendrons, 238 
C everiey, new houses at, 524 
Climbers, hardy, 125 
Clip for gias9 271 
