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VII. 



Silver-leaf disease, 243 



Singleton, Mr. Robert, 301 



Small holdings, 58; committee on 



cheaper buildings for, 105 

 Smith, Mr. W. W., 171 



Smith, Thomas [The Profitable Cul- 

 ture, of Vegetables), 196 

 Snowdrop tree, the, 73 

 Snow in the Midlands, 44 



Societies:— Aberdeen Chrys., 

 338; Aberdeen Warehouse Hort., 

 281; American Association of 

 Park Superintendents, 242; An- 

 cient Society of York Florists, 

 127 ; Association of Economic Bio- 

 logists, 244; Barnsley Paxton, 

 129; Bath and West of England 

 Agricultural, 370 ; Bath Gar- 

 deners', 79, 128, 211, 288, 401; 

 Baughurst and Tadley Gardeners', 

 79; Biochemical Club, 319; Bir- 

 mingham Botanical and Hort., 

 421; Birmingham Hort., 110; 

 Blackburn and District Hort., 

 14; Bournemouth Hort., 109; 

 Bournemouth Spring Flower 

 Show, 210; Brighton Hort., 78: 

 Brighton, Hove and Sussex Hort., 

 208; British Gardeners' Associa- 

 tion, 42, 75, 78, 154, 192; (An- 

 nual Meeting), 370; (London 

 Branch), 46; Bristol and District 

 Gardeners', 129, 269, 310; Bury 

 Hort., 95; Canterbury Rose, 211; 

 Chelmsford and District Gar- 

 deners', 128; Chesterfield Chrys., 

 140 ; Chester Paxton, 128 ; Cleve- 

 don and District Hort., 421; 

 Colchester Rose, 429; Cornwall 

 Daffodil and Spring-flower, 

 268; Coventry Chrys., 14; 

 Croydon and District Hort., 

 79, 128, 211, 269, 288 ; Debating 

 46, 79, 128, 211, 269, 288, 310, 

 345, 401, 421 ; Devon and Exeter 

 Gardeners', 128; Devon Daffodil 

 and Spring-flower, 288; Don- 

 caster Gardeners', 128; Dresden 

 Botanical and Hort., 105; Dur- 

 ham, Northumberland and New- 

 castle Incorporated Botanical and 

 Hort., 162; Edinburgh Mar- 

 ket Gardeners', 45; Essex A^i., 

 413; Ghent Hort., 127; Glasgow 

 and West of Scotland Hort., 107; 

 Glasgow Fruit Trade Benevolent, 

 78; Haarlem Bulb Growers', 342; 

 Hants. Spring Flower, 286 ; Hasie- 

 mere District Chrys., 78; Here- 

 fordshire Fruit Growers and 

 Horticulturists, 108 ; Hereford- 

 shire Fruit, Root, Grain, and 

 Chrys., 108; Herefordshire Spring 

 Flower, 286 ; Hort. Club, 42, 78, 

 210, 324, 340, 368, 432 (Annual 

 Meet, and Dinner), 144; Irish 

 Forestry, 173; Irish Rose and 

 Floral, 414; Kent Commercial 

 Fruit Show, 110; Kilmarnock 

 Hort., 129; Lee, Blackheath and 

 Lewisham Hort., 128; Leeds Gar- 

 deners' Friendly Benefit, 127 ; 

 Leeds Professional Gardeners', 

 77; Lincolnshire Daffodil, 325; 

 Linnean, 15, 78, 123, 161, 210, 

 325, 337, 400; Liverpool Hort., 

 78, 89, 230; Manchester and 

 North of England Orchid, 14, 31, 



Jk "& 128 > 175 > 193> 229, 268, 



WO, 342. 369 ! ManpTlPQfPT Ttrkfani- 



1, 162; Midland Daffodil, 307; 

 **: Auricula and Primula 

 (Midland Section), 324; (Southern 

 Section), 307; Nat. Chrys., 45, 

 128, 155, 429; (Annual Meeting), 

 94 ; Nat. Dahlia, 140, 176 ; Nat. 

 Gladiolus, 369 ; Nat. Hardy Plant, 

 210 ; Nat. Horticultural of France, 

 242 ; Nat. Rose, 337 ; Nat. Sweet 

 Pea, 30; N. of England Horti- 

 cultural, 63, 193, 341 ; N. of Scot- 

 land Hort. and Arboricultural, 

 247, 288; Nursery and Seed 

 Trade, 309, 348; Nurserymen, 

 Market Gardeners' and General 

 Hailstorm Insurance, 247; Ox- 

 ford and District Gardeners', 79; 

 Perpetual-flowering Carnation, 

 209, 340; Reading and District 

 Rose and Sweet Pea, 15 ; Reading 

 Gardeners', 46, 79, 129, 211, 129, 

 269, 288; Richmond Hort., 432; 

 Royal, 155; Bpyal Caledonian 

 Hort., 45, 262, 248; Royal Hort., 

 29, 45, 60, 91, 125, 143, 159, 174 

 189, 208, 227, 247, 265, 286, 305 

 323, 339, 368, 379, 400, 416 ; (An- 

 nual Meeting), 107, 124; Roval 

 Hort. of Ireland, 15, 157, 249, 286 ; 

 Royal Institution, 340; Royal 

 Meteorological, 77, 230, 286, 301, 

 381, 429 ; Royal Nat. Tulip, 342 ; 

 Royal Scottish Arboricultural, 

 110, 247 ; Royal Society of Edin- 

 burgh, 230; St. German's Hort., 

 262; Sandy Hort., 95; Scottish 

 Hort., 63, 108, 127, 143, 144, 175, 

 244, 247, 341, 400; Shropshire 

 Hort., ^ 309; Societe Fran ? aise 

 d'Horticulture de Londres, 42, 

 231 ; Southampton and District 

 Gardeners*, 310 ; Southampton 

 Royal Hort., 77, 155; Southern 

 Counties Agri,. 401 ; Stirling and 

 Dis. Gardeners', 128, 269, 433; 

 Stirling Chrys., 45; Surveyors' 

 Institution, 14, 155; Torquay 

 District Gardeners', 230; Ulster 

 Hort., 63; United Hort. Benefit 

 and Provident, 155, 175, 268, 

 421; Vienna Royal Hort., 171; 

 Wargrave and " District Gar- 

 deners', 79, 211, 288; Watford 

 Hort., 288; Western New York 

 Hort. , 302 ; Wevbridge and Dis- 

 trict Hort., 79, 129 ; Wolverhamp- 

 ton Hort., 129; Women's Agri. 

 and Hort. International Union, 

 39, 242 ; Yorkshire Gala, 419, 429 

 Soil, barren, treatment of, 241 ; con- 

 stituent, a beneficent, 187; 

 fertility, some factors of, 150; 

 method of sterilising, 130, 146; 

 poisons in the, 154; sewage sick- 

 ness in, 170 ; the bacterial flora of 

 the, 378 ; the partial sterilisa- 

 tion of glasshouse, 97, 113 



Solanum jasminoides, 142, 158, 173 ; 

 S. tuberosum, 124 



South Africa, fruit trade of, 58, 

 282 ; mode of exhibiting flowers 

 in, 372 



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Spring flowers in the south-west, 

 386 



Standard fruit trees, training, 28 

 Starling, the, as friend or foe, 413 

 State-aided land purchase, 69 

 Stereum purpureum causing silver- 

 leaf disease, 243 



Sterilisation, partial, of greenhouse 



soils, 97, 113; methods of, 130 

 Stevenson, Thomas (The Modern 



Culture of Sweet Peas), 223 

 Stocks, the origin of cultivated, 205 

 Stove plants, a select list of, 16 

 Strawberries, etherisation and the 

 forcing of, 359; failure of forced, 

 208, 226, 245, 250, 284, 304, 338, 

 367; record, 397, 416, 430; the 

 causes determining the yield of, 10 

 Strawberry leaf-spot, 219 



Streak disease of Sweet Psa, 52, 84 

 124 



Street trees in Canada, 3, 77 



Strobilanthes Dyerianus, 68; S. 



Kunthianus and varieties, 41 



Sulphur as a fertiliser, 392; for 



use with copper-containing spray 

 fluids, 140 5 F J 



Sunflower, the red -flowered, 353 

 Sunshine, Lilies and, 159 

 Superphosphates, the world's con- 

 sumption of, 42 



Sweet Peas, a lecture on, 143; 

 American novelties in, 21 ; 

 culture of, in Scotland, 158 ; dis- 



T^ e °i* ^ 52 > M > 124 J ear ty> 



304; for the garden, 90; in 

 America, 116; in Ireland, 141; 

 Mrs. Routzahn, sport of, 27; 

 novelties at the R.H.S. show, 315 ; 

 Senator Spencer, 60 ; sport in, 14, 

 27; streak disease of, 101 

 Sweet William, rust disease nf aa 



Trelease, Dr., retirement of, 

 Tulipa Kaufmanniana, 217 

 Tulip, the, 234 

 Tulips, branched, 382 

 Turnip, the, 213 



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Udaipub, the gardens of, 222 

 Ulnius Plotii. 35 



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Vacuum cleaner as a destroyer of 

 plant pests, the, 74 



Vegetable crops in Canada, 140 : in 

 Ireland, 205 



Vegetables, 134, 182 

 Veitch, Sir Harry J., 366 

 Vienna Horticultural Society, 171 

 Vines, red-spider on, 256, 304; re- 

 potting, 48 ; the culture of, in the 

 colonies, a lecture on, 319; the 

 making and planting of borders 

 for, 326 ; treatment of young, 146 

 Violas, a trial of, 226, 260 



Violets, British, a monograph of, 

 171 



Virginian creeper berries, poison- 

 ing with, 204 



Vitex Agnus-castus, 52 



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Tanslet, A. G. {Types of British 



Vegetation), 114 

 Tar, road, effect of, on trees, 223 

 Tasmania, fruit-growing in, 353 

 Thomas, H. H. (The Complete 



Gardener), 243 

 Thrips on Peas and Beans, 397 

 Thyra wood, 130 

 Tobacco, home-grown, and nicotine 



extraction, 260; the culture of, 



In Canada, 172; the effect of 



manures on, 262 



To £' , H - M - l Vine Growing in 

 England), 183 



Tomato, a giant, 430; industry in 

 Ontario, the, 242 ; leaf rust of, 140 



Tomatos, glasshouses for, 178; the 

 outdoor cultivation of, 403 



Tools, garden, notes on the historv 

 of, 371 J 



South-Eastern ' Agricultural 

 lege, Wye, grants to, 204 



Soya Bean in Scotland, 173 



Speer, A. E. (Annual and Biennial 

 Garden Plants), 69 



Spraying, compulsory, 140; for big- 

 bud, 58, 106, 124, 142, 173; fruit 

 trees, 84, 290 



Tough, Mr. William, 338 



T °ino gardening, 318 ; a lecture on, 

 108, 127 



Toxic excretions of plants, 124 

 Transvaal, agriculture in the, 395 

 Tree-growth, the drought and, 58 

 Trees and road tar, 223; and 

 shrubs 11, 51, 164, 283, 331, 372; 

 exotic forest, 277 ; forest and orna- 

 mental in 1911, 138, 159 ; for fuel, 

 159; hybrid, 414; sale of, in 

 Ireland by the Department of 

 Agriculture, 222, 225, 246, 322; 

 street, in Canada, 3, 77; treat- 

 ment of decay in, 64; what to 

 plant under, 204, 257 



gracilis, 326 



Wallace, Dr. Alfred Russell, 413 

 Wallflowers, rogue, 285 

 Wandsworth Common, 394 

 Ward, Mr. William, 57 



Wart disease of Potatos, the present 



distribution of, 104 

 Wash, winter, for fruit trees, 130 

 Water gardening, 16 



Watering, an automatic system of, 

 10 



Waverley Market, Edinburgh, the 

 heating of, 10 



Weather guides for French farmers, 

 74 



Weather in 1911, 41, 58; in North 

 Devon, 323 



Weathers, Mr. J., 42 



Weeds, a lecture on, 210 



West Africa, gardening in, 256 



West Indies, notes from, 224 



Western Australia, Potato-growing 

 in, 89 



Wheat crop, the, 141, 205 

 Williams, Mr. Richard, 429 

 Wilson, Mr. E. H., on the flora of 



China, 25: honour for, 104 

 Wines, Cape, 394 

 Winter, the mild, 29 

 Wisley, trial of Violas at, 226, 260 

 Woodlice in glasshouses, 346 

 Wye College, grants to, 204 



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Yew hedge, treatment of a, 270 

 Yucca, a hybrid, 167; with abnor- 

 mal, horn-like growths, 45; Y. 

 £loriosa in Upper Hall Gardens, 

 edbury, 139; Y. Whipplei, 106, 

 167 



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Zach arias 

 Zoological 



Zygopetalum Mackayi 

 worthii," 83 



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Beech, the ■■ Queen, m at Ashridqe Park, I 



J*lickling Hall, Norfolk, the "East" garl,*;« ax ..naruu *i 



^ousus thyrsoideus ^coloured plate) (June 22) 



tiALEsiA tetraptera (February 3) 



JJkngrave Hall, Suffolk, views of (January 6) 



£Jarcissus Cbcesus (coloured plate) (May 18) 



ORTRAITS OF THE DIRECTORS, INTERNATIONAL HORTICULTURAL ExHI 



bition (May 25) 



RIKULA FORRESTII GROWING IN ITS CHINESE HABITAT (April 13) 



££imula Knuthiana (coloured plate) (June 1) 



SUPPLEMENTARY ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Primula 



AND P. PINNATIFIDA GROWING WILD 



in China 



VTNOE FLORA 



(May 11) 

 Ranunculus Lyallii (June 29) 



Sf °£°^ EN ? B ?N FOREST ON THE SuNG-KWEI PASS, CHINA (May 4) 



St. Fagan's Castle, Cardiff (March 23) l 7 ' 



Saussurea leucoma growing wild in China (February 10) 



Ynrrt °w™ k AT UpPER HALL Gabde * s . Ledbubx (March 2) 



(Feb^y I?? FL0W * BI ™ «" ^™* Ma*oe Wdehs, Sussex 





(For List of General Ittustrations in the text see next fiage.) 



