The Gardeners' Chronicle,] 



[June 29, 1912. 



INDEX 



OF 



CONTENTS 



JANUARY TO JUNE, 1912. 



(For Special Headings see under Books; Certificates; Law Notes; Nursery Notes; Obituary; Plant Portraits; 



Plants, New; Scientific Committee; Societies; and Illustrations.) 



A 



Aberdeen city gardeners, 338 



Aberdeen florists and master gar 

 deners, 225 ; and the Town Coun- 

 cil, 173 



Aberdeen market gardeners' stances, 

 415 



Aberdeen University, agriculture at 

 the, 378 



Acacia Baileyana and Iris stylosa, 

 76; A. Baileyana flowerinr out-of- 

 doors, 59; A. dealbata, 162 



Academy, Royal, pictures at the, 

 331 



Adams's, the late H. J., collection 



of Orchids, 281 

 Africa, fruit trade of South, 282; 



gardening in West, 256 

 Agar, Madeline (Garden Design in 



Theory and Practice), 407 

 Agricultural education and the 



Board of Agriculture, 58 

 Agricultural statistics, 25 

 Agriculture at Aberdeen University, 



378 ; in the Transvaal, 395 ; North 



of England College of, 225; 



scholarships for, in Staffordshire, 



262; school of, at Cambridge, 155 

 Albino flowers, 167 

 Alcohol from plants, 300 

 Alexandra Day, 429 

 Algae in ponds, 382 

 Almond, the flowering of the, 139 

 Aloe dichotoma and A. Bainesii, 



425 

 Alpine garden, the, 81, 98, 117, 135, 



277 

 Alpine Pinks, the four great, 195 

 Amaryllis (see Hippeastrum) 

 America, forcing Roses in, 85 ; new 

 plants in, 25; notes from, 85, 116, 

 165; public horticultural educa- 

 tion in, 396 ; seeds and plants im- 

 ported into, 354 



American Association of Park 

 Superintendents, 242 



American Gooseberry mildew, 262 



American Sweet Peas, 21 



Ampelopsis quinquefolia berries, 

 poisoning by, 204 



Androcymbium melanthoides, 13 



Androsace Henryi, 354 



Anemone coronaria and Pluim rust 

 disease, 263 



Anthemie Cupaniana, 117, 174 



Antirrhinums as bedding plants, 91, 

 142 



Ant plants, 156 



Aphyllanthes monspeliensis, 134, 

 173, 208 



Apiary, the (see " Bees ") 



Apple, abnormal flowers of, 402; a 

 sporting, 25; bark of, destroyed, 

 130 



Apple-culture in the Clydeside fruit 

 farms, 225 ; in Ireland, 90 



Apples Blenheim Pippin, 64; from 

 Australia, 156 ; in grass land, 44, 

 76 ; in Ontario, 222 ; instruction in 

 packing, 89 ; late dessert varieties 

 of, 285, 323 ; Senlis, 25 ; the colour- 

 ing of, 13, 28, 44, 59, 76, 83, 90, 

 124 



Apricot paste, the manufacture of, 

 in Syria, 353 



Arbutus Unedo in South Scotland, 

 142 



Archer, Mr. W. E., 319 



Arches, garden, 255 



Argentina, the Maize crop in, 224 



Arnold Arboretum, map of, 413 



Arsenic in plants, 378 



Ashridge Park, Beeches at, 57 



Ash tree, a famous, at. Ruthin 

 Castle, 4 



Asparagus, the treatment of, 27 



Athyrium filix-foemina, 257 



Attar of Roses, 253 



Australia, Apples from, 156; gar- 

 dening employment in, 15, 224; 

 Potato-growing in Western, 89; 

 proposed new botanic garden in, 

 378 



Austria and the Royal International 

 Horticultural Exhibition, 188 



Autumn flowers in the soTith-west, 

 36 



Autumn tints, planting for, 51 



Avocado Pear, the, in California, 150 



B 



Bacterial flora of the soil, the, 378 

 Bagatelle, trials of Roses at, 51 

 Balcombe House Gardens, Sussex, 



archway of Pear trees at, 301 

 Balfour professorship of Genetics, 



the, 171 

 Barnes, Mr. G. F., 224 

 Barren soil, treatment of, 241 

 11 Barr " memorial fund, the, 241 

 Basic slag for lawns, 96 

 Bateson, Professor, on Genetics, 57, 



74, 89, 104, 120, 139, 337 

 Bath, Broom Botanical Garden, 



424 

 Batsford, Gloucestershire, 163, 188 

 Beccari, Dr. O. (Asiatic Palms — 



Lepidocaryece), 273 

 Beech, weeping, in John Waterer 



& Son's, nursery, 114 

 Beeches at Ashridge Park, 56 

 Bees, the management of, 39, 87, 



119, 201, 259. 317, 363, 411, 427 

 Beet, sugar, salt as a manure for, 



262 

 Begonia Gloire de Lorraine, 47; B. 



luxurians, 29 

 Belgium, horticultural education in, 



399 ; market gardening in, 414 



Belsize Court, Hampstead, Orchids 



at, 253 

 Benevolent Institution, Gardeners' 



Royal, 9, 45, 56, 156, 319, 393; 



(annual meeting), 62 

 Berberis Bealei, 164 

 Berlin, Orchid show at, 204 

 Big bud, spraying for, 58, 106, 142 

 Bilberry, the, Vaccinium Myrtillus, 



232 

 Birds and fruit-buds, 227, 246, 265, 



285 

 Birds, curious nesting places of, 

 379, 397, 415, 431 ; eggs, a lecture 

 on, 78 ; in fruit nets, 430 ; protect- 

 ing crops from, 156 

 Birmingham, flower shows at, 263 

 Blickling Hall, Norfolk, 15J 

 Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, 

 the, 395 ; and agricultural educa- 

 tion, 58 ; horticultural branch 

 of the, 412, 428 ; returns, 74 

 Bog land, reclaiming, in Ireland, 



141 

 Bonfires and rubbish heaps, 392 



Books, Notices of : — Agricul- 

 tural Bulletin of the Straits and 

 Federated Malay States, 105; 

 Annual and Biennial Garden 

 Plants (.4. E. Speer), 69; An- 

 nuals, Hardy and Half-hardy 



(Charles H. Curtis), 359; Asiatic 

 Palms — Lepidocaryese (Dr. 

 Odoardo Beccari), 273 ; Book 

 about Roses (S. Reynolds Hole), 

 240; A Botanical Expedition to 

 Newfoundland and Southern 

 Labrador (M. Z. Fernald), 88; 

 Botanical Magazine, 9, 105, 187, 

 241, 319, 394; British Fern 

 Gazette (Chas. T. Druery), 171; 

 British Journal Photographic Al- 

 manac (George E. Brown), 9; 

 Bulletin of Agricultural Statis- 

 tics, 25 ; Carnation Year Book, 

 223; City Gardener (Thomas 



Fairchild), 65 ; Critical Review of 

 the Genus Eucalyptus (/. H. 

 Maiden), 391; Englishwoman's 

 Year Book and Directory (G. E. 

 Mitton), 9; Enumeratio Plan- 

 tarum Formosanarum (/. Matsu- 

 mura and B. Hayata), 8; Fleurs 

 des champs et des bois, des haies, 

 et des murs (Henry Correvon), 

 389 ; Flora of the Upper Gangetic 



Plain (J. F. Duthie), 156; Gar- 

 den Design in Theory and Prac- 

 tice (Madeline Agar), 407 ; Gar- 

 dening for the Ignorant (Mrs. C. 

 W. Earle and Miss Ethel Case), 

 389; Gardening Year Book and 

 Interleaved Diary (George Gor- 

 don, V.M.H.), 123; Histoire des 

 Legumes (Georges Gibault), 19; 

 Horticultural Directory, 9 ; House- 

 hold Book of Lady Grisell Baillie 

 (Lady Grisell Baillie), 356; 

 I cones Plantarum Formosanarum 

 nee non Contributiones ad Floram 

 Formosanam, or Icones of the 

 Plants of Formosa, &c. (B. 

 Hayata), 394; Illustrated Ency- 

 clopaedia of Gardening ( Walter P. 

 Wright), 19; Irises (W. Rickat- 

 son Dykes), 333; Journal of 

 Genetics, 24; Journal of the 

 R.H.S. Club (John Fraser), 41; 

 Kew Guild Journal (H. Cowley), 

 140; Lawns, (Sutton db Sons, 

 Reading), 123 ; Meteorological 

 Instruments and Weather Fore- 

 casts, 187; Modern Culture of 

 Sweet Peas (Thomas Steven- 

 son), 223; Monograph of 

 the Mycetozoa (Arthur Lister), 

 187; My Garden Diary (Sutton 

 & Sons), 9; Natural History of 

 Clay (Alfred B. Searle), 133; 

 Orchid Review, 57, 87; Orchid 

 World, 9, 89; Orchidaceen von 

 Deutsch-Neu-Guinea (Dr. Rudolf 

 Schlechter), 50 ; Perpetual Car- 

 nations (Laurence /. Cook), 

 251; Plantae Wilsonianae (C. S. 

 Sargent), 69 ; Profitable Poul- 

 try-keeping, 263 ; Publications 

 received, 25, 74, 105, 173, 

 188, 219, 243, 264, 283, 303, 

 320, 338, 358, 378, 414; Re- 

 port on the Dune Areas of New 

 Zealand (/. Cockayne), 25; Re- 

 sultats de l'Expedition Scien- 

 tifique Neerlandaise k la Nou- 

 velle Guinee en 1907 et 1909 (Dr. 

 H. A. Lorentz), 275; Roses (H. R. 

 Darlington), 40; Roses and Rose 

 Gardens (Walter P. Wright), 

 292; Scottish Botanical Review, 

 141; Small Holders' Hand- 

 book (W. M. Elkington), 389; 

 Small Holder's Year Book, 9; 

 The Complete Gardener (H. 

 H. Thomas), 243; The Plums 

 of New York (U. P. Hedrick), 

 167; The Profitable Culture of 

 Vegetables (Thomas Smith), 196; 

 Types of British Vegetation (A. 

 G. Tansley), 114; Vie a la 

 Campagne (Andre le Notre), 25, 

 264; Vine-growing in England 

 (H. M. Tod), 183; Vinton's Agri- 

 cultural Almanac and Diary, 9; 

 Webster's Forester's Diary (A. 

 D. Webster), 9 ; Who's Who Year 

 Book, 9 ; Who's Who? 9 ; Woburn 

 Experimental Fruit Farm Report 

 (Duke of Bedford and Spencer 

 U. Pickering), 17; Writers' and 

 Artists' Year Book, 



Books, old garden, 10 



Botanic garden, proposed new Aus- 

 tralian, 378 



Botanical aDDointment. 429 



Bowling green, dressing for a, 112 

 Brambles, Chinese, 123, 147, 165 

 Brasso-Cattleya Wellesleyae, 135 

 Bread Fruit and the mutiny of the 

 " Bounty," 302 



Broccoli in a French garden, 257 



Bromeliads, epiphytic, the food of, 

 187 



Bruges Exhibition, 301 



Brussels International Exhibition, 



awards to British jurors at the, 

 188 



Bryntirion Gardens, Dolgelly, N. 



Wales, rainfall in, 246 

 Buddleia asiatica, 123 

 Bud -dropping in Peach tree, 292 

 Bulb-garden, the 19, 164, 181 

 Bulbs in the L.C.C. parks, 123 

 Bulgaria, botanising in, 252, 274 

 Burchellia capensis, 292 



C 



Cabbage, Finger-and-Toe disease 



of, cure for, 354 

 Calceolaria, the herbaceous, 359; 



C. Clibranii, 425; C. virgata, 50 

 Calceolarias, distinct species of 



shrubbery, 373; Hollyhocks and, 



44 



Calder, Mr. C. C, 171 



California, plant diseases in, 187; 

 the Avocado Pear in, 150 



Cambridge agricultural mono- 

 graphs, 140 



Camellia cuspidata, 262 



Camellias, the propagation of, from 

 cuttings, 326 



Campbell, Dr., retirement of, 283 



Canada, fish hatcheries in, 264; 

 forest areas in, 241; population 

 of, 243, 378; railways in, 263; 

 street trees in, 3, 77; Tobacco 

 growing in, 172; vegetable grow- 

 ing in, 140 



Canadian rockeries, the, 368 



Canvas as a protective substitute 



for glass, 96 

 Carbon-assimilation by plants, 263 



Carbon- dioxide and nitrogen in 

 plant-houses, 76 



Carnation, Baroness de Brienen, 

 x 254 ; Mrs. A. F. Dutton, 244 



Carnations, a conference on, 171; 

 border, in pots, 416 ; in America, 

 116 ; perpetual-flowering, 133, 

 158, 209; perpetual-flowering, as 

 bedding plants, 210; perpetual- 

 flowering, in winter, 100; propa- 

 gating, 422 



Carson, Mr. D., 353 



Case, Miss Ethel (Gardening for 

 the Ignorant), 389 



Castello di Poggio Gherardo, Italy, 



the gardens at, 315 



Caterpillars on Apple trees, 370 



Cattleya Dirce M Westonbirt va- 

 riety," 226 ; C. Gudrun and Lselio- 

 Cattleya Norma, 164; C. Maggie 

 Raphael alba " Orchidhurst va- 

 riety," 75; C. Mossiae, 405 



Cauliflowers, the culture of, 182 



Caustic alkali on vines, 64 



Celery, leaf -spot in, 172 



Celsia cretica, 322 



Cement, Portland, 172 



Certificated Fruits and Vege- 



tables : — Apple : Oatlands 

 Seedling, 127; Pear: Mrs. Seden, 

 30 



Certificated Plants : — Ane- 

 mone Pulsatilla rosea " Mrs. Van 

 der Elst," 210; Araucaria ex- 

 celsa elegantissima aurea, 306; 

 Auricula Cleveley Gem, 307; A. 

 Mars, 307 ; A. Mrs. Neville 

 Chamberlain, 325 ; A. Mrs. W. H. 



