288 



Plane-trees on Thames Embankment ... 



Plant Houses (Illustrations) 



Plant Protectors, Rendle's Patent (Illus- 

 trations) 



Pleasure-ground, decorative plants for ... 



Plectopoma, new hybrids of 28, 



Plum, Black Orleans, 48; Cherry, 96; 

 Mirabelle 



Podocarpus Maki variegatus 



Poeppig, Dr. E., death of 



Poinsettia pulcherrima, culture of 



Polymnia grandis 



Polystichum angulare Pateyi 



Pomegranate, remarks on, 42 ; fruit of, 

 from open air.' 



Populus argentea 



Potato, Almond's Yorkshire Hero, 51 ; 

 new, 51 ; Early Rose, 249 ; new 

 American 



Potato culture, experiments in 



Potato -grafting 



Primulas, alpine, how to grow, 37 ; 

 P. pedemontana, (Illustration) 226 ; P. 

 cortusoides lilacina 



Primula sinensis, new double, 51; fim- 

 briata alba magnifica, 117 ; rubra 

 grandiflora, 70; Walthani White, 70; 

 Wonderful ... 



Pruuing of fruit trees, 223 ; summer ... 



Pteris aquilina for game preserves 



Quercus Robur Concordia 



Rabbits in Australia 



Rendle's Patent Plant Protectors (Illus- 

 trations) •••• 



Retinospora filicoides ... ;.;. : 



Rhododendron, Mrs. J. Clutton, (Illustra- 

 tion) 193; R. ponticum for shrubberies, 



Rondeletia specio3a major for winter use, 



Roots, penetration of 



Rose, Madame la Baronne de Rothschild, 

 143 ; Duke of Edinburgh, 93 ; Prince 

 Leopold, 118 ; Clemence Raoux 



Roses and Rose-showing 



Roses, budding, 157 ; English-raised, 

 243 ; fast life among the, 56 ; budding 

 Marshal Niel on Gloire de Dijon, 157 ; 

 new, 93, 118, 143. 190, 237; new, of 

 1867, 8; new, of 1869-70, 268 ; pegged- 

 down, 183; cultivation of, in pots 



Rose Hedges 192, 



Royal Horticultural Society's Meetings 

 in 1870 



Saccolabium Huttoni 



Sambucus racemosa aurea 



Savoy, Early Pancalier Joulin 



Seheer, F., Esq., death of 



Schnizlein, Dr., death of 



Scillas, Early Spring-blooming 



Scolime d'Espagne ... ... 



Seasonable Hints for Amateurs: — Janu- 

 ary, 11; February, 35; March, 57; 

 April, 86; May, 111; June, 135; July, 

 159 ; August, 181 ; September, 198 ; 



71 



178 



196 



180 

 239 



96 

 122 



24 



4 



153 



27 



23 



181 



120 



204 



95 



118 



18 



126 



71 



25 



172 



196 

 25 



89 

 271 



237 

 173 



193 

 205 



215 



27 

 180 



44 

 240 



24 

 247 

 167 



October, 230 ; November, 241 ; Decem- 

 ber 272 



Seed Adulteration Bill 215 



Shade for plant houses, permanent ... 143 



Shrubberies, conifers for 62 



Silkworm, Ailantus, 134 ; Oak-leaf ... 78 



Smith, Rev. Dr., death of 168 



Snow, Mr. Seward, death of 96 



Solanums, hybrid 18, 27 



Solanum Pseudo-Capsicum, to grow, 143; 



S. racemigerum 73 



Sonchus, hybrid 120 



Specimen trees, protecting young 130 



Spiraja japonica variegata, 74; palmata, 26, 192 



1 



143 

 33 

 23 



13 



... 24 



,.. 177 



122 



'.'. 26 

 ... 76 

 ... 25 



23,71 

 ... 72 

 ... 240 



Spring flowers for ferneries 



Spring Gardening, Hyacinths for 



Statices, greenhouse, culture of 



Stock, influence of, on graft 



Stocks, to perpetuate, double, 239, 265 



varieties of . 



Stove, Trotman's Gas 



Strawberries in 1869 



Struthiopteris orientalig 



Sub-tropical plants, 144 ; new 



Tacsonia eriantha 



Tarnarix plumosa 



Thames Embankment, planting of .. 



Theobroma Cacao, fruiting of 



Thompson, Mr. Robert, death of 



Thuja gigantea (Lobbii of gardens) as a 



hedge plant, 247; T. gigantea (Lobbii) 



aureo-variegata 74 



Thunia Bensonise 27 



Tobacco, M. Armand's antidote for ... 263 



Todea hymenophylloides compacta 75 



Tomato, 137 ; ornamental varieties of 



(Illustration), 73 ; currant (Illustration) 73 



Toxicophlcea spectabilis 123 



Tropseolums,bedding, 108 ; T. ochroleucum 261 

 Tulips, protecting and seeding of, 67 ; 



red bizarre, 93 ; in Hyde Park 



Tyda?a Lindeniana 



Vanda Denisoniana, 122, (Illustration) 



249; V. insignis, 27 



Vegetables, new, of 1868 



Veitch, Mr. James, death of 



Verbenas, new, 214 



Veronica, Blue Gem 



Victoria regia, sustaining power of leaf of 284 

 Vine, budding the, 195 ; Muscat, at Castle 



Kennedy, 96 ; one to a house, 22 



Vine disease (Illustrations) 



Vine Manure, 119 



Viola cornuta, 16; V. Perfection 



Virgilia lutea 



Vitis heterophylla humulifolia 



Wallflower, Double German, culture of, 



120; Yellow Tom Thumb 



Warner, C. B., Esq., death of 



Waterer, Mr. J., death of 



Whiting, Mr. J. B., death of 



Yucca, the 



120 

 28 



76 



49 



240 



236 



237 



158 

 245 

 167 

 237 

 181 

 26 



142 

 216 

 24 

 216 

 259 



Zygopetalum aromaticum (Illustration) 170 



