VI. 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER, 
[ Janu&ry 7, 1885. 
Clonmel Show, 493 
Cloverley, notes at, 163 
Coccoloba pubescens, 181 
Cocoa-nut Palm, culture of, in 
America, 517 
Concrete walks 595 
Cones and berries, 222 
Conservatory, climbers for a 
warm, 137 : ventilating a, 262 
Cordon trees, angle tor, 392 
Cotton seed as food, 403 
Crab John Downie, 470 
Cranberry marshes in Wiscon¬ 
sin, 338 
Crassula coceinea, 195 
Crocuses in lawns, 329 
Crotons, 55; at Liverpool, 85; 
leaves falling, 148 
Croydon Show, 28 
Cryptogamic Society of Scot¬ 
land, 338 
Crystal Palace Fruit Show, 324; 
Shows for 1886, 561 
Cucumbers—roots diseased, 4; 
culture, 55; disease, 4L; for 
winter, 98, 168 ; failing, 148 ; 
for autumn, 214; Cardiff Castle 
2i5: ridge, 213; forcing, 259,303; 
Roffev’s Improved Telegraph, 
333; judging,357; in autumn, 
369; winter treatment, hot¬ 
beds for,570 
Culzean Castle, Grapes at, 555 
Currants for market, 266 
Cutbusb, death of Mr. James 
108 
Cyclamens at Aigburth, 423 ; 
culture, 570 
Cymbidiurn Lowianum, 25. 23 
Cypripediums—458; Stone.i.220 ; 
Spicerianum, 446 ; Godefroyas, 
579 
DAFFODILS, NOTES ON, 365, 
428.4 43 
Dahlias self-sown, 18; prizes 
for seedling, 182; National 
Show, 227 ; new, 228 ; ex¬ 
hibiting, 251; tabulated list 
of varieties at the National 
Dahlia Show, 290; at Antwerp, 
315; preserving tubers, 379 
Darlington Rose Show, 96 
Dean, Mr. R., presentation to, 
293 
Decumaria barbarea. 540 
Dendrobiums — Wardianum 
resting, 168; nobile, pruning, 
495, 517. 546 ; imported, 595 
Dianthus chinensis from seed 
and cuttings, 101 
Dielytra spectabilis, 412 
Diplacus glutinosus, 48 
Dodecatbeon splendidum, 106 
Dracaanas,55; Douceti, 132; pro¬ 
pagating, 195 
Dracocephalum virginicum 
album, 93 
Drought, teachings of the, 128, 
152 
Drumlanrig Woods, 336. 359 
Drummond’s turf-cutting ma¬ 
chine, 31 
Dundee Flower Show, 229 
Dunferi ne and West of Fife 
Show, 211 
Dyer, Mr. W. T. Thiselton, 561 
EALING SHOW, 31 
Ealing Society, twenty-first 
anniversary, 294 
Echeyerias propagating, 100 
Edinburgh Show,248; Congress 
ot Apples and Pears at, an¬ 
nounced, 338 
Elm, the, 347 
Endive, 75; planting, 168 
Epacris multiflora, 446 
Epilobium obcordatum, 246 
Epiphvlturns, culture of, 391 
Eranthemum pulchellum, 503 
Eriobotrya japonica, 414; fruit¬ 
ing in the open air, 494 
Eritrichium nanum, 177 
Erytlirinas, culture of, 392 
Escallonias, 456 
Essex Field Club, 66; meeting 
of the, 228 ; Cryptogamic 
meeting of the,295; Meeting, 
380 
Encharis grandiflora, culture, 
265 ; value of, 295 ; curing 
diseased, 402, 424 ; at Shire- 
cliffe Hall, Sheffield. 539 ; 
amazonica, culture of. 573 
Euphorbia jacquini.Tflora, 503; 
splendens, culture, 551 
Evergreens, planting, 442 
Everlastings for wreaths, 528 
Exeter Show, 188; Fruit Show. 
380 
Exhibiting, 12 
Exhibitions, judging at. 220 ; 
255 ; management of, 878 
FARM-DAIRY FARMING, 13 ; 
a walk round the, 35; sconr¬ 
ing calf,36; near large towns, 
57; the cle gyman’s, 79, 125, 
149, 171, 195, 241 ; ear-cockle in 
Wheat, 150; Prickley Comfrey, 
culture of 150; clover pest, 
Dodder, 172 ; autumn crop¬ 
ping, 263 ; hybrid wheat, 264 ; 
lessons on the past, 307; 
lessons of the year, charlock, 
329; root crops, seed harvest, 
30 • Wheat - sowing, 351 ; 
helter for live stock, 371; 
ver Giant White Wheat, 
Farm— continued— 
372; winter diet, 393, 415,437, 
461; draining, 394, 416; bal¬ 
last burning, 416 ; cost of 
burning ballast, 438; Mr. W. 
J Murphy, 462 ; ploughing in 
green crops, 5 '7; nitrogen in 
the soil. 507 ; Messrs. Harrison 
and Son’s Root Show at Lei¬ 
cester, 508; Messrs. Webb and 
Sons’ stand at Birmingham, 
508 ; foot-rot in sheep, 508 ; 
agricultural progress, 551 ; 
Chick weed, spread of, 552 ; 
agricultural progress, 573, 596 
Farmers’ Gardens, 357 
Felling-on-Tyne Chrysanthe¬ 
mum Show, 568 
Fence posts, indestructible, 424 
Ferns, good Filnw, 124; from 
New Zealand, 182; in vineries, 
321 ; growing British. 402 ; 
Cycads from New Zealand at 
Chiswick. 516: their history 
and habitats, 587,561; spores, 
sowing, 570 
Firecracker, vegetable, 16 
Figs, culture of, 76; falling, 101; 
stopping and wood ripening, 
121; culture, 168, 237 ; forcing 
303: forcing. 525,592 
Flies on Vines, trapping, 284 
Floral decorations in London, 
156; at the Guildhall, 359 
Floral reaths, 463 
Florist flowers, seasonable 
notes on, 298, 405 
Flower beds, mulching, 77; 
mixed, 208 
Flower pots, ornamental, 42 ; 
washer, 1 1 9 
Flowers, cheap and effective, 
103; early hardy. 117; white, 
164; culture in America, 251; 
for winter, 575 
Flower garden, September in 
the, 287; work in the, 304,504; 
plants, raising and trans¬ 
planting, 412 
Forcing plants, 489 
Forestry,evidence of committee 
on, 109 
Forests and climate, 97; fires, 
American loss by, 317 ; of the 
British Colonies, 360 ; trees, 
planting, 442; School in Eng¬ 
land, 517 
Forster Herbarium, the, at 
Kew, 294 
Foster’s Seedling Grapes at 
Kensington. 250 
Foxgloves, raising, 104 
Frames for florists’ flowers, 241 
Frome Show, 209 
Frost, early, 293; in summer, 
357 
Frozen plants, treatment of, 
571 
Fruit—at the Bath Show, 20; 
forcing, 32; hardy, 54; split¬ 
ting of, 62, 120, 158 ; fuagoi l 
diseases of trees, 64; crops 
and drought, 121 ; trees, 
pruning in summer, 131; at 
Chiswick, 179; garden, 192; and 
fruit trees, 198 ; trees in pots, 
206 ; canker in trees, 247, 250, 
376, 447, 517, 536, 540, 587 ; and 
insects, 222; renovating old, 
243; damage to by storm, 250; 
and fruit - growing — Mr. 
Baillie’s lecture on, 244, 266 , 
299 ; for market, 285 ; work i n 
the garden, 281; judging,313 ; 
gathering, 328; paintings of, 
315 : Show at the Crystal 
Palace, 324; planting trees, 
332,1885,344 ; hardy, 368 ; lift¬ 
ing and pruning trees, 395, 
422,468 ; select varieties, 411; 
shelter trenches for cordon, 
404 ; construction of houses, 
420,444; forcing,434; cordons, 
457 ; winter pruning, 502 ; 
ventilation of houses, 514; 
hot water and scale, 543; at 
Bath and Bristol, 550 ; old 
trees, 547; heating houses, 595 
judging, 56.5, 589 ; garden, 592 
Fuchsias General Roberts and 
Edith Todman, 85; as wall 
plants, 1(9; culture, 548 
Fungi — on Tomatoes, 34 ; 
poisonous, 64 ; on Vines, 240 ; 
cultivating edible, 271 ; on 
Sweet Williams, 270 ; on 
Primula and Cyclamen leaves 
284 
GAILLARDIAS, raising and 
wintering, 104 
Gall mites on trees, 34 
Garden—Canon Hodgson’s, 94 ; 
in the, 141; north and south, 
357,295 
Gardeners’ Royal Benevolent 
Institution, legacy to the, 228 
Gardeners, a caution to, 54o ; 
and gardening, 555 
Gardenias—aphides on, 79; cul¬ 
ture of the, 238, 586 ; as an 
insect harbour, 295; G. citrio- 
dora, 429 
Gas tar, effects on Potatoes, 560 
Gesneras, 259 
Ghent horticulturists, honours 
to the, 469 
Gishurst compound, 392 
Gishurstine, 446 
Gladioli—new, 192 ; Mr. Camp¬ 
bell’s, 229 ; at the Crystal 
Palace, 254 ; at South Ken¬ 
sington,364 ; culture of G. 
Colvilli alba, 615 
Gloxinias, 55,259 ; leaves rusted 
148; propagating from leaves, 
171 
Glasgow Show, 234 ; Botanic 
Garden, 402 ; Horticultural 
Society’s fixtures for 1886, 491 
Glass structures, heating, 195 ; 
cleaning, 326 
Gleichenia culture, 529 
Goodwood. 494 
Gooseberries—Whinham’s In¬ 
dustry, 43,252 ; trees, 48 ; Na¬ 
tional Show, 233 ; for gardens 
and market 325.266 
Gould’s Garden, Mr. Jay, 43 
Govenia deliciosa, 446 
Grapes—mildew on, 13; at Car¬ 
diff Castle vineyard.5; injury 
ro foliage oi,63; GrosColman, 
63,576; stands for exhibiting, 
84 cracking, 86,314: successful 
culture of Muscats,89 ; at Nor¬ 
wood Park, 92; at Bexley 
Heath, 107; Gros Colman and 
Foster’s Seedling, 109; grow 
ing at Bath, 127,202; Alnwick 
Seedling and Gros Maroc, 134, 
401; not setting and stoning, 
134; splitting, 134; Gros Maroc 
and Muscat of Alexandria, 
187; atBath, 189; shanking, 
195,262,551 ; late,214; judging, 
204, Z23.25L 268, 292 319,340,360, 
389; show at Kensington, 235; 
bottling, 26 1 ; for Canada, 26 1 ; 
at the Edinburgh Show. 277 ; 
John Downie, 293; at Bath, 
296; keeping late, 306; “John 
Downie.” Alnwick Seedling, 
and Trentham Black, 310,447, 
480,334; judging summer and 
winter, 313; Muscatels, 328; 
late at Chrysanthemum 
show#, 336,389; exhibiting, 337, 
4'6, 537; Foster’s Seedling 
cracking, 339; on the standard 
principle, 345 ; remarks on 
varieties, 351 ; Trentham 
Black, Madresfield Court, and 
John Downie, 855; Black 
Morocco, 371; origin of John 
Downie, 379 ; varieties for 
mixed houses, 382 ; tempera¬ 
ture for ripe. 392 ; showing 
late, 404, 443, 513 ; exhibit¬ 
ing unripe, 423; Alicante, at 
Brixton, 423 ; free-growing, 
460 ; Gros Guillaume, heavy 
bunch of, 470 ; white for cool 
house, 483 ; keeping, 532, 595 ; 
free fruiting, 544 ; seedling 
white, 550; at Culzean Castle, 
555 ; fine bunch of Foster’s 
Seedling, 567; tine bunch of 
Alnwick Seedling, 556 
Grass under trees, 447 
Gray, Dr. Asa, presentation to, 
540 
Greens for winter, 173 
Greenhouse—removing lights, 
170 ; climbers for a cold 306 ; 
is a tenant’s abuilding? 335, 
414 ; Rhododendrons at Chel¬ 
sea, 339; and Building Acts, 
386 ; notes on plants, 448 
Grevillea robusta, 592 
Groundsel, African, 437 
Gunnersbury House, Acton, 18 
Gutta Percha, a new source of, 
294, 316 
hackney microscopical 
Society, meeting of,359 
Hajmatoxylon campechianum, 
535 
Hailstorm, American, 86 
Hallamshire Show, 189 
Hampton Court, bedding at, 
160; Guide of, 270 
Handsworth Show, 210 
Hardy plants—at Kensington, 
5, 183 ; seasonable, 51; peren¬ 
nials in Septem-ber, 250; at 
Malpas, 496 ; choice, 498 
Harefield Grove, Melons at, 250 
Heaths and Epacrises, 326 
Helenium pumilum, 95 
Heliotropes, 548 
Helleborus niger maximus, 513 
Hensol Castle, 254 
Herbaceous plants — definition 
of, 79; note on, 162, 180, 204 ; 
arrangement of, 159 
Herbs, 167 
Hibiscus, hybrid, 5 
Ilighgate, proposed park at, 402 
Himalayan Windflowers, 230 
Holiday Handbooks, the Hartz 
Mountains, 5 ^_ ' 
Hooker, Sir J. I).,portrai£and * 
biography of, 469 
Horticultural arguments, 17 ; 
outlook, the, 542 
Horticultural Society (Royal) 
Committee Meetings, 52, 64, 
93, 140, 191, 346, 388, 426, 52L ; 
Cottagers’ Show, 191; Show 
and Meeting 235 ; and pro¬ 
posed International Show, 
314; Assistant Secretary, 447; 
North of Scotland Associa¬ 
tion, 360 ; first Scotch, 402 
Horticultural Club meetings of 
the, 359, 446; Dinner aud Con¬ 
versazione. 539 
Horticultural Exhibition, pro¬ 
posed International, 422,439 
Hotbeds, how to make and use 
them, 554 
Houses—for Cucumbers and 
Tomatoes, 195 ; construction 
for horticultural purposes, 
333,444,487,514 
Hot-water and scale, 558 
Hull Chrysanthemum Show, 
prizes offered nt,66; challenge 
vase at, 424, 469 ; fixture for 
1886,516 
Ilyacinthus candicans. 48 
Hyacinths—holders,66; culture 
of Roman, 146,151 ; selection 
of, 171; Blush. 195; in beds, 
302 ; insects injuring,539 
Hyde Park, bedding in the, 276, 
583 
Hydrangeas—culture of, 217, 
569 ; Thomas Hogg, 48; in 
the open air, 449 
Hypericums, 127 
IBERISES GIBRALTARICA, 
Tenoreana, correadolia, cori- 
folia, sempervirens plena, 176; 
coriacea, 240 
Ice—preserving, 512; heaps, 534, 
557; how to fill a house, f.G8 
Tmantophyllums, culture of, 391 
Impatiens Sultani.392 
Jndigofera tinctoria, 523 
Indian and Colonial Exhibition, 
1886, 66 
Ingestre Hall, 343 
Ingram, Mr. W.,of Bel voir Gar¬ 
dens, proposed testimonial to, 
402 
Insects—cocoons on Roses, 351; 
and garden crops—Cabbage, 
522 
International Horticultural Ex¬ 
hibition, proposed, 336, 417,439 
Ionopsidium acaule, 337 
Irises—atropurpurca, 3; Ger¬ 
man, 7; reticulata, 16; Kiemp- 
feri at Kew, 66 ; bulbous, 436 
Irrigation, automatic, 159 
Ismenes, notes on, 139 
Isolepis gracilis, 146 
Ixoras, 339 
JACOB’S LADDER, 46 
Java Botanic Gardens, 380 
Jersey Lilies, 57 
Judges and their work, 203, 355, 
450, 489 
Judging—window plants. 57 ; 
at exhibitions, 22n, 255, 380; 
reflections on, 485; at the Bath 
Show, 490, 52); evenness of 
collections, 537 
Junipers, pruning, 31 
KENT. A DAY IN, 107 
Kiln dust, 302 ; for fruit trees, 
328 
Kingston Chrysanthemum So¬ 
ciety’s Annual Meeting, 560 
Kitchen garden, work in the, 
32, 167,347, 434,569 
LABELS—making zinc and ink 
for, 38); rendering durable, 
392; zinc, out of doors, 429; 
preserving wooden, 492 
Laburnums for town gardens, 
483 
Ladds, establishments of Mr., 
107 
L;elias, 458 
Ladybirds, 16 
Lambeth Amateur Chrysanthe¬ 
mum Society, 516 
Lapagerias at Chelsea, 338 
Larch, profitable planting, 357 
Lascelles, death of Mr. W. H., 
402 
Lathyru-; sativus, 63 
Laurels, pegging down, 483 
Lavatera arborea variegata, 153, 
182 
Lawns, worms on, 284 ; tennis 
ground, improving, 370 
Leaf mould for Rhododendrons, 
38 
Lee, Blackheatli, and Lewi sham, 
49 
Leeds Show, 3 
Leeks, 258 
Lettuces on iCelery ridges, 40 ; 
Veitch’s Perfect Gem and 
Webb’s Summerhill, 86 
Leuca endron argenteuin,414 
Life, the difficulties of, 582 
Lilac, pruning, 13 
Lilies, stem roots of, 5, 51 
Lilies and Roses, 82 
Limes, gall-mites on, 34; leaves, 
gall on, 57 
Liliums, forced, 48; candidum, 
75,247; candidum in winter aud 
summer, 84; virginal and 
platyphyllum, 85; in pots, 
Harrisi, 98 ; auratum platy- 
phyllum, 250 ; speciosuin ru- 
!»• urn cruentum,294; auratum 
floriferous,316; Szovitziauum, 
3671 longiflorum and Harrisi, 
412 
Lily ef the Valley, 4121 forcing, 
488 
Limestone, planting slopes on, 
437 
Linuean Society, meetings of, 
336 
Lisianthus Russellianus, cul¬ 
ture of, 545 
Littonia Keetii, 48 
Liverpool Show, IIP* 498 
Lobelias, tall growing, 274 
Logwood, 535 
London’s Jesser open spaces, 70, 
212, 322, 445, 590 
Loquat, fruiting in England, 
494 
Lychnis vespertina plena, 250 
MADRESFIELD COURT GRAPE 
336 
Mahonia aquifolia, uses of, 170 
Maidstone Rose fehow. 10 
Malt and kiln dust, 302 
Manchester, notes at, 65; shows 
for 1886, 560 
Mangrove and Mandrake, 360 
Manures—relative value >i, i 
use of, in gardens, 155; * 
paring, 573 ; a useful, 583 
Marden Park, 409 
Marston Gardens, the, 296 
Matthiola bicornis, 42 
Maurandya Barclayana, his¬ 
tory of, 317 
Mealy bug, clearing Vines of, 
288 
Measures, market, 35 
Medinilla mayniflca,429 
Medlar, the, 171 
Melons, 55 ; flavourless, 81; cul¬ 
ture of, 146,193 ; classification 
of, 178; twelve hundred plants 
250 
Meteorological observations at 
Hodsock Priory, 43, 134, 229, 
4u3,517; Meetings of the Royal 
Society, 471, 516, 568 
Metropolitan Parks and Gar¬ 
dens, management of, 250 ; 
Public Gardens Association, 
583 
Microphcenix Sahuti, 492 
Mignonette, 76 ; Machet, 294, 
314; tree, 381 
Miles, Mr. G. T., presentation 
to,294 
Miltonia cuneata, 344 
Moles, extirpation of, 328 
Molyuenx, Mr. E., 450 
Monarda didyma, 158 
Monmouth Show, 66 
Moss Flora, Braitnwaite’s, 402 
Mowing machines, 445 
Musa Cavendishi, 12 
Mushrooms—poisons in edible, 
42; failing, 57; on ridges at 
Parliugton, 83 ; culture of, 151, 
581; beds, 213; scorched, 203; 
beds outdoors, 285,506 ; large, 
307 ; manure for beds,35i; in 
sheds, 480; from cow manure, 
5 25 
NARCISSI-NOTES ON, 3G3, 443 ; 
Bulbocodium var. monophyl- 
lus, 590 
National Library, Cassell’s, 516 
Native plants, preservation of, 
68, 4U3 
Nectarines—Lord Napier, 4, 18, 
89, 109 ; successional varieties, 
origin of Goldoni, 113 ; for 
succession, 325 
Nepenthes,157; Lowi, 68; North - 
iana, 274 
Nether-Edge (Sheffield) Show, 
143 
Newcastle Show, 83 
New Britain, vegetation and 
fruits of, 23 
New Zealand, amongst the 
ranges of, 75; botanisiug in, 
448 
Nicotiana affinis,3G3 
Nidularium Meyendorffi, cul¬ 
ture, 550 
Nierembergia rivularis, 335 
Night soil, 583 
Northampton and Newport 
Shows. 491 
Nostell Priory, 340 
Nottinghamshire Horticultural 
Society’s Annual Meeting, 567 
Nutmeg Tree, the, 285 
Nymphieas—culture of alba,4; 
Daubeniana, 358; hardy rose- 
coloured, 393 
OAK, the, 165 
Oakbrook,358 
Odontoglossums, 458 ; O. nebit- 
losum with three lips, 93 
(Enothera Lamarckiana, 104 
Oil stove, Rippingille’s, 423 
Omphalodes Lucilia*,, 176; pro¬ 
tecting from slugs, 229 
Onion maggot, 13 
Onions, autumn, 76; for early 
spring, 168; autumn-sown, 
213; harvesting, 258 ; select 
varieties of, 441; a profitable 
crop, 463 : farms in Ohio, 494; 
culture, 519 
Oncidiums crispum and vexil- 
lariurn, 42,66; iucurvum, 221; 
B > unleesianuin, 359 
Onosma taurica, 138 
Oranges, seedling, 171; from 
Florida, 561 
Orchard house, construction of 
273 
Orchids, pruning, 10; of Here¬ 
fordshire, 136; at Hillingdon, 
139; in Australia, 143 ; cul¬ 
ture of, in August, 168; of 
Herefordshire, 164 ; Mr. 
Smce’s, 202 ; Conference, offi- 
cial.*reporLof, 270 ; at Kew, 294; 
at Upper Holloway, 376; in 
November, 403 ; at Brixton, 
423;[culture of, 435; at Messrs, 
J. Laing, and Co.’s nursery, 
470 ; at Mr. B. S. Williams* 
nursery, 470; proposed show 
at Birmingham, 491; culture, 
pruning, 39; sale of valuable 
in New York, 561; new of 1885, 
565 
Orgyia antiqua, 171 
Overcropping, 60 
Oxalis—lactiflora, 48; cernua, 50 
