LONDON:

PRINTED AT THE JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE OFFICE,

171, FLEET STREET.

TO OUR
OUR READERS.

We publish the following without either comment or correction:

"MR. EDITORS,—

"I've long wanted to tell a bit of my mind, but days was so short and candles doesn't give the light they used to; but now's different, and I sits down to say how things is changed. Even gardeners is. They used, when Ben was a-courting me, to be loving chaps-quite friendly-like; but now even their big club at Kensingtun is all tumbling apieces-and why? I'll just tell 'e, and do you tell 'em -it's cause they doesn't mind your motto, For Gardening and Gardeners.' Why, the club was made for them only. But now one of the big-club men says, I'm for Cole;' and another says, 'I'm for Kensintun, my girls croquet there;' but no one says nothing for old Chiswick, the club's old best home. Bah! Them lords and them as has nusmaids at Kensingtun do as good as blue-aprons to pay club-money, but blue-aprons should have the management more. You told us all as was said when they was a-quarrelling-and how they did talk, surely !—but they was talkers and not doers. Jist as my Ben used to say when he was alive

"Men of words and not of deeds

Is like gardens full of weeds.'

And weeds we all knows smothers the crops. Jist do you and a good blue-apron or two put your hoes among 'em. Blue-aprons can do without them big-club men, but the big-club men can't do without the blue-aprons.

"And you your own born selves, Mr. Editors, you doesn't behave as when my Ben wasn't dead. Cottage Gardeners you was then, and he showed you how to grow big Cabbages; but now you've a finer name, and put in a precious lot of what we doesn't want. I could cop the thing into the fire sometimes, I'se so riled, specially that about cooking Ginny pigs. Then what's become of 'old Bob,' as you called him? but I know who you ment, and my Ben said he was the best of Fish.' It wo'n't do for you Editors to show the cold shoulder to old friends. Why, fashions changes in gardens as they does in bonnets; and if you hasn't an old gardner to ask to help ye, how will the old flowers fare as is a-coming up agen? Why, one of them chaps as wins prizes with crackjaw-named plants didn't know t' other day a Turkey Nunculus that 's in my garden. He com'd a-courting to my Mary Anne, and she has on Sundays what she calls a Dolly Varden hat-why, it's the old gipsy hat of my courting days! And that minds me that he what wrote about that Dolly Varden spluttered as if there was no one of my name living, and Ben was very riled about it; but I said he's only one of them writing chaps as lives by telling lies. If you, Mr. Editors, will come to Tiptree on our race-day-the very next 25th of July as is-I'll show you gentlemen that there is

"BETSY HARRIS."

[We have no need to accept the invitation, and have told our friendly plain-spoken correspondent that we agree with her in most that she has written-have assured her that we do not cast off our old friends-that Mr. Fish is unwell, but is still one of our helpmates-that we tell all that is new about Cabbages as well as about Orchids and other things of the homestead; and we will add for the information of our readers, that "cop" in Essex is synonymous with throw, and that there "riled" means angry.]

INDEX.

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Combs, red, 381

JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER.

Companionship of varieties affecting
offspring, 129

335;

Composts, preparing, 808
Conservatory, arrangement,
border compost, 230: furnishing,
454; path, edging, 380; heating a
small, 249; plants injured, 149;
vinery, &c., 84; gay in winter, 460
Convolvulus mauritanicus propagat-
ing, 518

Coops, 292

Copings, of glass, 95; glazed, 143
Cordon training, 188

Cork and South of Ireland Poultry
Show, 45

Cornwall Poultry Show, 443
Coronilla glauca culture, 197
Corynocarpus lævigata, 416

Corynostylis

Hybanthus

507

albiflora,

Cotton an ornamental plant, 100
Cotyledon mamillaris, 203
Couch-grass, destroying, 105
Covent Garden Market, 24. 48, 70, 92,
110, 132, 154, 176, 196, 216, 236, 254, 274,
292, 312, 330, 348, 866, 384, 404, 424, 440,
462, 480, 498, 522

Cow tree, 322

Creosoting woodwork, 262

Crocus, culture, 420; Sieberi, 893
Crooked breasts, fowl's, 498
Cropping, 268

Crowfoot, extirpating, 149

Croydon and Oxford catalogue mis-
takes, 18

Crystal Palace, Bird Show, 174;
Flower Show, 408

Cucumbers, bottom heat for, 440; re-
ants in
moving blossoms, 441:

frames, 442; culture, 400, 493; dis-
eased, 460; failures, 885; in green-
house, 188; house, 210; insects in
house, 248; leaves spotted, 476; in
pots, 127; over hot water, 127; roots,
seeds, 307;
insect about, 289;
thrips on, 344

Cultural notes, 165

Datura Tatula and ferox culture, 17
Deaf-ears, 384

Defoliation phenomena, 820
Dendrobiums, 322; chrysocrepis, 7;
Hookerianum, 99; old growth, 308;
nobile, 264

Deutzia gracilis, and culture, 372, 379;
sowing, 270

Devizes Poultry and Pigeon Show, 129
Dibbles, 314

Dielytra spectabilis, 440; culture, 336
Dionæa muscipula culture, 400
Diospyros, 207

Dipton Poultry Show, 847

Distress, a case of, 486

Dogs, home for lost, &c., 494
Dorking Poultry Show, 107

Dorkings-cock's comb, 70, wounded,
251; diseased, 498; their excellence,
382; pullets drooping, 522; pullets
dying, 176; unhealthy, 24: ilver
Grey, 421; judging Silver-Grey, 18,
139; White, for showing, 329
Dover Poultry Show, 290
Downie & Co.'s show of plants, 260
Dracænas, australis, 163; indivisa and
lineata. 8; red-spidered, 442
Dragon Flies, 411

Drainage of land, 51; depth of drains,
63

Draining boggy soils, 98, 166

Drake, diseased, 196; feeding, 92;
Rouen's bill, 92

Dublin Poultry Show, 346, 400
Ducklings, fattening, 421; hen with,
236

Ducks, eggs, fertility, 254, 402; keeping,
480
Dumpies, 330

Dundee Poultry Show, 18

Egg-plant fruit, 189

Egg-eating fowls, 153, 175, 845, 400;
producing fowls, 110, 393; 424; and
their management, 48
Eggs-consumption and importation
of, 87, 829; shell-less. 132, 234, 522,
829: fertilised, 311; indications of
fertility, 274: preserving, 24; pre-
venting shell-less, 70; imported. 87;
preventing hatching, 92; earthy-fla-
voured, 92; selling by weight, 354;
yolkless. 366; not true, 444; soft, 196;
pullet's deformed, 13; unproductive,
462; double-chicked, 477, 522; hens
dropping, 479: addled. 479; more
chicks than, 480; testing incubat-
ing, 522

Eglantine, 288

Egyptian vegetation and gardening,
224

Elleanthus xanthocomus, 203

Elm, 308: plant under, 361; Wych, 494
Elsham Poultry Show, 20
Endive blanching, 247, 287
Entomological Society's meetings, 102,
204, 306, 410, 516

Epidendrum vitellinum and memo-
rale, 264

Epiphyllum culture, 880
Epworth Poultry Show, 401

Eranthemum pulchellum culture, 94
Erica codonodes for winter flowering,
124; hyemalis culture, 189
Eriobotrya japonica culture, 150
Erythrina Crista-galli, 327
Escallonia macrantha and culture, 510
Eucharis amazonica, culture, 64, 337;
bulbs rotted, 440
Euphorbia
177

jacquiniæfolia culture,

Evening musings, 163, 183, 266, 385, 445
Everlasting flowers, 396
Exhibited fowls, claiming, 196

FAKENHAM POULTRY SHOW, 151
Farm, fowls for, 153
Feathers, promoting growth. 366; re-
moving stumps, 292; split, 176
Ferns, for case, 420; in case. 441;
for hanging baskets, 170; compost
fer, 270; and Fern culture, 155; for
the dinner-table, 435; house for
heating, 380; shrivelled, 460
"Ferns and Lycopods," 435

Fig, blossom, 149; culture, 399; prun-
ing, 361

Filbert, trees, caterpillars on, 170;
planting and training, 62
Fittonia culture, 189
Floral charity, 487

Flower beds, preparing. 440
Flowers, and fevers, 339; buying to

exhibit, 263; changing colour of, 511;
growing for sale, 419

Flue, changing, 150; faulty, 440; heat-
ing beds. &c., 63
Food, wholesome, 176

Forcing, by natural heat, 245; pre-
cautions, 15

Fountain Plant, 397
Fowls-crooked breasted, 11: neg.
lected breeds, 345: for confined
space. 110; liver diseased, 274; for
exhibition, 132, 176: feather-eaters
and elephantiased, 336; feeding, 182;
home-keeping, 154; keeping for table,
480; moulting, 182: parentage. 132;
past and present, 327. 381; egg-pro-
duction, 110: tarred plaster floor for,
49; unwell, 311

Franciscea propagation, 210
Freycinetia Banksii, 323

Frost, covering frem, 147; severe, 410,
415.436

"Fruit culture under glass," 243
Fruit-dressing borders, 248; crops
of 1872, 27. 76: culture, 425: packing,
339; room arrangement, 270; trees,
barren, 231, blossoming, 379, culture
of bush and pyramidal, 275, on
heavy soil, 317, for light soil, 476,
in pots. 249, potted, 268, pruning
time, 211, pyramidal, 447, pyramid
and bush, 317, fruiting of seedling,
selection, 170

Fachsias, culture. 248; for market,
476; for September, 419; variegated,
889: turning green, 380; Lustre for
pillars, 299

Fuel, 237: cheap. 227. 279; economy,
164; wood for. 279, 288
Fumigating, 418; a greenhouse aviary,
399

Funeral flowers in New York, 371
Fungi, parasitic, 457

GAME COCKS, COURAGE, 235; DEFIANCE.
231; diseased, 175; dubbing, 196; of
the fighting and showing periods,
271

Gander, distinguishing, 848

Gapes, 366, 401; cause, &c., 495; in
chickens, 330

Garden arrangements, 63

Gardener, regular and professed, 39?
Gardeners' Benevolent

anniversary, 378

Gardening for ladies, 395

Institution

Gardening in the West, 471, 488, 513
Gas, boiler for conservatory, 102;
tar on trees, 518

Geese, for profit, 70; Embden or Bre-
men, 329

Gentiana verna culture, 440
Geraniums-for bedding, 111; scarlet
for bedding, 126; leaves spotted, 150;
cuttings, 169; potting, 169; hybridis
ing. 170; leaves browned, 230; for
pots, 211; new, 300; notes on, 465;
fosing leaves, 476; propagating, 494:
several on one stem. 63; wintering
and managing bedding, 81: shoots
drawn, 380; Mrs. Pollock, 494; Jean
Sisley, 288

Ginger flowering, 269
Gipsy moth, 457

Gladiolus, 279; culture and showing,
508; in pots, 170; pronunciation, 241,
260; and wireworms, 465
"Gladiolus, the," 221

Glass, case, 120; coloured, influence
of, 457: houses, plants for back and
roof, 255; roofs, 202; weight of, 149
Glasgow Poultry Show, 443
Glastonbury Thorn, 40
Glazed house, uses of, 189
Glazing, double, 211

Gleichenia speluncæ culture, 270
Glendinning fund, 518

Gloriosas and their culture, 489
Gnats, 318

Godwin's Peach house and vineries,
452

Gooseberry, caterpillars, 477: cuttings,
105; shoots shortening, 518; trees,
syringing, 84

Goose sitting twice, 424
Gordius aquaticus. 519
Grammanthes gentianoides and cul-

ture, 488

Grapes-Black not colouring, 127;
diseased, 476; keeping, 349; late,
393; preserving, 420; rusted, 399;
441;
shanked, 440; spotted, 343,
higher temperature for late, 120;
thinning, 518; Golden Champion, 487,
515; Gros Colman, 97, 211; Lady
Downe's not ripening, 303; wasps
and the Madresfield, 473; Muscats
in late house, 380; Mrs. Pince v.
Lady Downe's, 410. See Vines.
Greenhouse, altering, 170; and hall
heating, 16; converting to vinery,
16; ornamental-foliaged plants, 63,
327; piping for, 63; plauts for, 83, 249,
808, 374, 476; and vinery, 83; heating
small, 84; heating, 344, 494: remov
ing, 419; heating removeable, 444;
spring-flowering plants, 440; shad.
ing for, 808; temperatures, 230; ven-
tilation, 494

Greyis Sutherlandi, 471
Guinea-fowls laying away, 312
Guinea pigs, 252; for food, 865

HABROTHAMNUS, CULTURE, 189; FAS-
CICULATUS CULTURE, 28)
Hamale's, M. F. de Cannart d', man-
sion, 373

Hamburgh, cock's legs weak, 24; fowls
for laying, 444; in limited space, 254;
points of Spangled, 132; Golden-
pencilled, 196

Hampers, reform of, 400
Hampton Court Gardens, Superin-
tendent, 207

"Handbook of Hardy Trees," &c., 204
Hanging baskets, plants for, 170
Hanley Poultry Show, 174, 191, 212,
251, 271; third prize for fancy Ducks,
231

Hants and Berks Poultry Show, 251,
519

Hardy flowers, notes on, 377
Hatching, artificially, 273, 480; fail-
ures, 366; irregular, 309, 329, 318
Hawk moths, 261

Heating, 148, 237; by hot water, 103,
249: from scullery boiler, 63
Heaths, scented, 344
Hebrides, seeds for, 841
Heckmondwike Poultry Show, 20
Hedges, cutting-down, 210
Hemp v. moths, 473
Hens-for one cock, 312; distinguish-
ing from pullets, 254: egg-ea ing
preventing, 365; indefatigable, 364;
intestines protruding, 176; laying
unmated, 424; not laying, 196;
laying away, 312; moving sitting,
384; old and young, 236; not sitting,
424; trespassing, 403
Herbaceous plants, summer-flower-
ing, 106

Horses, protecting trees from, 295
Horticultural (Royal) Society-Annual
General Meeting, 102, 134, 156; Bath
Show, 335, 410, 428, 467, 471, 473, 483,
500; plan, &c., of ground and tent.
and
Meetings
Committee
387:
Shows, 3, 52, 140, 201, 239, 278, 816,
870, 409, 486, 449; cultural notes on
plants exhibited at, 217; Council,
113, 160, 200, 242, 334; crisis, 200; in-
capability of, 277; examination of
gardeners, 78; Floral Committee
trials, 995; future of, 181; Report of
Council, 134, of Chiswick Board of
Direction, 138; Special Meetings,
256, 279, 295; statement of accounts,
139
Hotbed making and managing, 78
Hothouse shelving, 306

Houdans' combs and plumage, 24;
eggs' colour, 236

Houses, wood v. iron, 248
Hoya carnosa, repotting, 250
Humeas dying, 327

Hyacinths-in border, 419; for exhi-
bition, 301; failing, 127; after flower-
ing, 149, in glasses, 327; forced
blooming again, 308; flowers the
second season, 240; roots decayed,
16; at South Kensington, 263; sup-
ports, 277

Hybridity, imperfect, 185
Hypoxis longifolia, 393

TALLIES, 184; EXHI

Laburnuma flowers two colours, 460
Lady-birds, 319

Lælias, 323; Jonghiana, 471

Lagerstroemias and their culture, 320
Lamps, heating by, 211

Lapageria, failing, 476; propagation,
51, 506

Larix Kæmpferi, 285

Laurustinus, transplanting, 361

Lawn, Clover for, 288; coarse grass
on, 440; dressing, 327; improving,
269; improving croquet, 64; seeds
for, 289

Lawson Seed Company, 38

Laying, promoting, 176

Leaves, skeletonising, 110, 518

Leeds Horticultural Show, 483

Legs, weakness of in fowls, 479; fowls
pecking, 480

Leicester Poultry Show, 23
Leucadendron argenteum, 183
Lewes Poultry Show, 22, 40, 69; judg
ing, 86

Liebig, Baron J. Von, 340, 393
Lilies, Japan, culture, 308
Lilium, auratum v. flies, 341; concolor,
7; lancifolium planting, 17; parthe
neion, 277; trigrinum Lishimanni,

92

Lime-kiln, heating by. 376
Limewash. stone-coloured, 63
Linaria heterophylla, 471

Linden's Ghent Nursery, 122, 357
Liparis dispar, 457

Lisbon Betanical Garden, 115
Livistonas, 35: chinensis, 36
Lobelia, bellidifolia sowing, 270; pu
mila grandiflora, 113, 202; speciosa
culture, 248