July 17, 1878. ]

JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER.

TO OUR READERS.

X

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 Why, the club was 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.' 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 You told us all as was said when 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. 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 the best of Fish.' It wo'n't 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 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 66 BETSY HARRIS." very next 25th of July as is-I'll show you gentlemen that there is

[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.]

July 17, 1873. ]

JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER.

ABERDEEN POULTRY SHOW, 66
Acacias and their culture, 206
Acanthus arachnitis, 393
Accrington Poultry Show, 421
Adelaide Botanic Garden, report on,

356

Adiantum, farleyense, repotting, 440;
formosum, 186

Agricultural returns, 243
Air-admitting, 125

Akebia quinata propagation, 817
Alexandra Palace, 418; Flower Show,

436

Allamanda. flowers defective, 308;
training, 189

Alocacias losing leaves, 210
Aloes in a cellar, 169

Alsomitra sarcophylla, 2(3
Alstromeria seedlings, 441
Alyssum saxatile compactum not
flowering, 441

Amaranthus salicifolius, 397; culture,
441

Amaryllis formosissima, planting, 17
American blight bird. 121
American trees and shrubs, neglected,
341; and Japanese plants similar,
55, 72

Ancylogyne grandiflora flowerless, 308
Andryala mogadorensis, 99
Anguloa Clowesii and uniflora
perba, 143
Animal food for fowls, 216
Annuals, for border, 494: late-flower-
ing, 127; sowing half-hardy, 247;
for Rose circles, 249; half-hardy,
from seed, 293
Antennaria tomentosa propagation,
493

210

Areca pumila, 227

Azaleas, culture, 247, 327; after flower-
ing, 476; leaves browned, 270; pro-
pagating, 149; removing leaves, 441;
repotting, 441: soil for, 127, 166, 170
Azores, fowls in, 363

su-

Ants, 458; trapping, 313; on wall, 339
Aphides, destroying, 40
Aphis, black, 517
dwarf bushes, 463: espa-
Apples,
liers, 127; pruning, 127; grafted with
Pears, 28; lists of, 40; pruning py
rainid, 211; scale on, 461; summer
culture. 380; indications, 488; Tower
of Glamis, 50
Apricot, branches dying, 344; sheds,
206
Aquatics, heat of water for stove, 63
Aralia japonica culture, 230
Araucaria Bidwilli, 242

Arbour, climbers for, 361; evergreen,

BAILDON ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY'S
SHOW, 46, 67

Balcony decorations, 9
Balsam culture, 375

Bantams, cock, 236; trait of cock, 130;
Cochin. 132; eggs not forthcoming,
403; points in Game, 70; in gar-
dens, 110; Japanese, 309; Pekin and
China, 444
Bardney Manor, 76
Bark for bottom heat. 476
Barkeria, Skinneri, 144; spectabilis,
and elegans, 159

Barrow Poultry Show, 108
Barton Poultry Show, 22
Batemania Burtii, 7

INDEX.

Arisarum vulgare, 227

Arnott's stove, 127; versus hot water,
79

Arpophyllum, cardinale, 166; gigan-
teum, 166; spicatum, 227
Artichokes, planting, 75: culture of
Globe, 75, 228; Jerusalem, 75, 229
Asparagus, 399; salt for, 460; making
beds, 476; renewing beds, 494: im-
proving beds, 518; culture, 379, 440,
517: cutting, 361; dying-out, 441;
hastening, 476: planting, 249; shoots
grub-eaten, 494; all white shoots,
461: Connover's, 127
Asphalt walks. 419
Asplenium myriophyllum, 485

Asters, culture, 249; sowing out of
doors, 380
Ancuba, flowers,

fertilising, 808;
leaves browned, 361; male, 230;
seeds not growing, 84
ugust-flowering plants, 210
Anriculas, 126. 850; bloom in 1872, 141;
culture, 367; to the front, 241; mil-
dewed, 279; at South Kensington,
987: in Lancashire, 413; selection,
288, 440
Aviary, birds losing feathers, 274;
portable, 40

Bath and West of England Associa-
tion, 29); Poultry Show, 461, 477
Bedding-out season, 396
Bedding plants, bine, 379: culture,
345; hardening, 268; potting, 248;
seed sowing, 880; planting, 428;
watering, 476

Bedlington Poultry Show, 20, 478
Bees-ants in hive, 480; apiarian ap-
pliances, 496; apiarian memoranda,
422; books on, 273; bottle-feeding,
23; building in glasses, 462; combs,
crooked, 522; combs fixing, 423:
deserting hives, 312: domiciles and
management, 58, 109, 191, 215, 253;
driving, 423; drones slaughtered in
June. 522; dwindling, 404: dysen-
tery in Ligurians. 462; ekes remov-
ing. 499; felon. 365; hives, 216, 423;
another. 383; the best, 47, 109, 195,
215; and the brimstone-pit, 253;
controversy, 131, 285; large, 829;
347; versus small, 383; largest in
the world, 21: overturned, 154;
placing. 312; sizes of, 496; Stew-
arton, 28, 69; straw for. 48; Taylor's.
424, 444: Woodbury, 404; tea chests
for. 444; and honey, 92: honey
harvest, 195; honey taking in
winter, 109; Ligurian, 254; in Lon-
don, 444; management, 194; moving
to a greenhouse, 151; nadiring, 253,
278, 365. 403, 444: notes. 480; notes
for beginners, 273: pasturage, 384;
Pettitt's apiary, 461; prizes for. 92;
purchasing, 522; starving colony,
saving, 235: Stewarton system, 69;
spring feeding, 365, 403: stocks, in-
creasing, 153; large number of, $30;
moving, 480: swarming, 196: swarms
artificial, 522; swarms uniting, 195,
215; supering, 310: taking off glass
supers, 480; transferring, 312; trap,
423, 444; wasps attacking, 480; wax
and honey, 423; winter ventilation,
423
Beet, for borders. 38; dark-leaved
for winter garden, 186; ornamental,
83
Beetles, to destroy, 829
Begonias, failing, 149; herbacea, 471;
from seed. 188
Belfast Poultry Show, 521
Belgian horticulture, 122, 303.857
Belgian King at horticultural places,
395
Belladonna Lilies not flowering, 880
Bellis, aucubaefolia, 308; rotundifolia
cærulescens, 203

Blechnum corcovadense two-headed,

38

Blickling Hall, 166

Blue-flowered plants, 105
Boiler for several houses, 844
Bones, dissolving, 17

Border flowers, 198, 241, 280, 336, 354,
872. 427, 451, 470, 488
Borrowed birds, exhibiting, 283
Botanical Locality Record Club, 359
Botanic (Royal) Society's Shows, 259,
833, 399, 467

"Botany, General System of," 341, 451
Bottle-brush plant culture, 400
Bougainvillea, glabra culture, 150;
spectabilis culture, 442

Bouvardia, cuttings, 379; Vreelandii,
7
Bowenia spectabilis fœm., 7
Bowling and croquet green, 442
Brace for fowls, 24
Brachyotum confertum, 203
Bradford Ornithological Show, 109
Bradford Pigeon Show, 129. 192. 213
Brahmas, 70, 273, 329, 345, 362, 382, 420;
cock dying, 154; characteristics, 191;
Dark, 477; Light, at Crystal Palace,
18; pullets ill. 21; in pens, 40; for
confined space, 110; mouth ulce-
rated, 216; cock's spurs, 236; Dark
and Light hen tumoured, 254; their
merits, 309; sneezing, 312: eggs,
414; colour of eggs, 348, 403; two-
years-old, 366; nests. 381; merits,
400, 401; ulcer in, 403; Light, plu-
mage, 424: cockerel unhealthy, 441
Bramble, double rose-leaved, 411
Breeders' names, deceptive use of, 109
Breeds of fowls neglected, 363
Bristol Poultry Show. 42
Broccoli, Cooling's, 808; from Corn-
wall, 102; dying, 518
Bromeliaceae at Liege, 224
Brosimum galactodendron, 322
Brugmansia compost, 23)
Brussels Sprouts. 231
Buckwheat for fowls, 812
Buffalo Berry, 278, 334, 429; sowing,
482

Bulbs, notes on some, 83
Bull's prizes offered for new plants, 33
Bumble feet, 384
Burton-on-Trent Poultry Show, 521

Bignonia Pandora not thriving, 460
Birch, common, 186; for mixed border,
289

CANARIES-Continued.
exhibition,

132, 175; Goldfinch
mules, 154; nux-vomica for, 154;
feeding hen, 176; food for young,
404; with Bullfinch, 404; restless
hens, 404; pairing, 404; young in
aviary, 443
Canker, 425

Canna culture, 288

Cannes, gardening at, 97
Caracas chair of Botany, 293

Carica aurantiaca, 488

Carnations, culture, 517; culture of
Tree, 494; grub-eaten, 493; select,
126

Carpet flower-bed planting, 379
Carpocapsa pemonana, 32
Carriage roads and drives, 218, 324
Cats, teachableness, 310; trespassing,
476: Cyprus and Tabby, 48
Cauliflowers, dying, 518; forcing, 267
Cedar transplanted, 106
Celery, culture, 208, 268; decaying,
127: pricking-out, 149; sowing, 307
Cements, useful, 292, 311, 347
Centaurea, candidissima sowing, 127;
ragusina from seed, 248
Cephalotus follicularis culture, 40
Chalk for fowls, 153
Chamædorea Tepejilote, 323

Chamaerops, Fortunei, 81, 184, 202;
humilis, 81; Martiana, 101.
Charcoal fumes, 40

Chater, Mr. J. J., 262
Cheltenham Canary Show, 23, 46, 91,

92

Cherry, its derivation, 412; tree gum-
med, 380; black fly on, 440; trees,
pruning, 49; repotting, 17
Chickens, adopted, 363, 383; birth,
aiding, 382, 420; Black, 881, 384, 4' 0;
dwinding, 424; dying, 479, in hatch-
ing, 366; failures, 274; leg-weak,
274; detecting sex, 366; treatment,
311
Christmas, decorations, 9; eve tem-
peratures, 62
Chrysanthemums, buds not opening,
127; after flowering, 105; culture, 4",

459
Cinchonas, variations, 415
Cinerarias, after blooming, 494; cul-
ture, 248; at Royal Horticultural
Society's Show, 30)

Cissus discolor leaves spotted, £99
Clay soil, improving, 494
Clematises, out of doors, 420; in pots
out of doors, 441; in greenhouse,
808; Jackmanni propagation, 344
Clerodendrons, 481; Balfourii leafless,

246: LIQUID
CULTURE,
CABBAGES,
MANURE FOR, 460; SMALL, 248
Calceolarias, bedding, 35; culture,
179; herbaceous, 179; leaves injured,
491; plants, rearing. 872, 379
Caledonian (Royal) Horticultural So-
ciety's Show, 305
Calochortus venustus culture, 427
Camberwell Beauty butterfly, 466
Cambridge Poultry Show, 24, 48
Camellia tub, fungus on, 41
Camellias, culture, 217; after flower-
ing, 476; buds falling, 150; grafting,
149; repotting, 127; seedlings flower-
ing, 269; for vinery walls, 269; under
Vines, 40, 380; out of doors in New
Zealand, 59; from cuttings, 105;
Princess Mary, 471
Canaries, colour influenced by food,
291, 310; wasting nest, pairing, 312;
at the Crystal Palace, 214; painted,
231; insects on, 274; dressing for

16
Climate's influence over stature, 425
Climbers, for greenhouse, 218; stove
and greenhouse, 481

Coal flora, 38

Cochins, breast, 444; for confined
space, 110; greeting, 211; hen's vent
swollen, 498; twisted flight, 274;
Black. 328, 362, 461, 477: Buff, 176;
Partridge, 444; White, 110
Cock hen-pecked, 176, 236, 274; ailing,
274; comb injured, 236
Cockatoo craving for meat, 285
Cockerel dying on rail, 92
Cockscombs, retarding, 493
Cocoa-nut fibre for propagating, 79
Codlin moth, 32
Coelogyne cristata and corrugata, 264
Pigeon
and Bradford
Colchester
Shows, 212
Colchester Poultry Show, 191
Coleus wintering, 476

Colours, effect of on plants, 415
Columbarian Society, New
382

York,

Combs, red, 384

Egg-plant fruit, 189

Companionship of varieties affecting Egg-eating fowls, 158, 175, 845, 400;
producing fowls, 110, 393; 424; and
offspring, 129
their management, 48
Composts, preparing, 308
935;
Eggs-consumption and importation
Conservatory, arrangement,
of, 87, 829; shell-less, 182, 234, 522.
border compost, 230; furnishing,
329: fertilised, 311; indications of
454; path, edging, 380; heating a
fertility, 274: preserving, 24; pre-
small, 249; plants injured, 149;
venting shell-less, 70; imported. 87;
vinery, &c., 84; gay in winter, 460
preventing hatching, 92; earthy-fla-
Convolvulus mauritanicus propagat
voured, 92; selling by weight, 354;
ing, 518
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,

Coops, 292

224

JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER.

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

German paste, 154
Germantown Horticultural Society,
President's address, 376
Ghent, International
Show at, 281, 378
Gilliflowers, 169; Mrs. Ives' book on,

Horticultural

Dumpies, 330

Dundee Poultry Show, 18

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

EARTH'S TEMPERATURE, 396

Echeverias, metallica leggy, 288; pro-
pagating, 494; soil, 440
Edgings, hardy plants for, 331, 351
Edinburgh Botanical Gardens, 5

Fuel, 237; cheap. 237. 279; economy,
164; wood for. 279, 288
Fumigating, 418; a greenhouse aviary,
899
Funeral flowers in New York, 871
Fungi, parasitic, 457

Horses, protecting trees from, 295
Horticultural (Royal) Society-Annual
General Meeting, 102, 134, 156; Bath
Show, 335, 410, 428, 467, 471, 473, 483,
and
500; plan, &c., of ground and tent.
Committee Meetings
387;
Shows, 3, 52, 140, 201, 239, 278, 316,
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, 395; future of, 181; Report of
Council, 131, of Chiswick Board of
Direction, 188; 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

anniversary, 378
Gardening for ladies, 395
Gardening in the West, 471, 483, 513
Gas, boiler for conservatory, 102;
tar on trees, 518

IBERISES, GIBRALTARICA, 393, 407;
HARDY, 483

Indian timber and fancy woods, 511
soil-indicators,
Indigenous plants

437
Insects, beautiful and useful, 205, 261,
817, 411, 466; destruction of, 457;
some predatory, 81, 115
Ipomea Horsfalli, 73
Iresine Herbstii flowering, 327
Iris foetidissima variegata, 432; iberica
Perryana, 203; reticulata culture,
440; susiana and reticulata not flow-
ering, 289

Irritability of plants, 513
Italian Rye-grass, sowing, 380
Ivy, planting, 494; variegated, culture,

210

Ixia culture, 189

JAPAN, LETTERS FROM, 469, 485, 509
Jersey Agricultural and Horticultural
Show, 506
Judas tree, 476

Judges of poultry shows, 127

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

249: from scullery boiler, 63
Heating, 148, 237; by hot water, 108,
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
not laying, 196;
unmated, 424;
laying away, 312; moving sitting,
384; old and young, 236; not sitting,
424; trespassing, 403
Herbaceous plants, summer-flower-
ing, 106

Herbary, the, 276

Hexham Poultry Show, 45, 64
Hippeastrum maculatum culture, 189
Hoes and hoeing, 368
Hollingworth Lake Poultry Show, 478
280;
quick-blooming,
Hollyhocks,
select, 83
Holly leaves variegated, 248
Honeysuckle, fruiting Japanese, 26
Hooker, Dr., to be P. R.S., 187
Horse Chestnut seedling, 361
Horseradish planting, 75

KALES AT CHISWICK, REPORT ON, 73
Kalosanthes browned, 17
Karaka tree and nuts, 416
Kendal Poultry Show, 64
Kent Poultry Show, 65

Kew, Gardens, Dr. Hooker's Report,
468, 487; Museum, 124

Kidney Beans, failing, 494; forcing,

40

Kioto (Japan) Exhibition, 469
Kirkcaldy Poultry Show, 65
Kirkcudbrightshire Poultry Show, 21
Kitchen-boiler, 105, heating from,
105, 169; garden, cropping, 25, ex-
tent needed, 267, management, 71,
sowings, 307; vegetables, election,
95, forcing, 168, supply, 209

TALLIES, 184; EXHI

LABELS, AND
BITION, 231
Laburnum 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
fowls
Legs, weakness of in fowls, 479;
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 Lishmanni,

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