CClxxxviii PROCEEDINGS OF ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Babianas at the Cape, 15 

 Bacillus amylovorus, 266, 298, 779 

 lathyri, 507 

 Savastanoi, 482 

 Bacteria in nectar, 295 

 Bacterium solanacearum, 805 

 tumefaciens, 469, cxxii 

 Bagniesiela Diantherae, 278 

 Balance Sheet for 1912, xiv 

 Balfour, Prof. I. B., on extra-European 



Primulas, 128 

 Ball, C. F., on botanizing in Bulgaria, 1 

 W. L., "The Cotton Plant in 

 Egypt," 249 

 Balm, honey, see Melittis Melisso- 



phyllum 

 Banana, 336 



ripening of, 764 

 Banks, treatment of, 21 

 Banksia aemula, 493 



Cunninghami, 493 

 dryanoides, 493 

 ericaefolia, 493 

 grandis, 493 

 integrifolia, 493 

 Solandri, 493 

 speciosa, 493 

 spinulosa, 493 

 Bartlett, A. C, " Gardening," 443 

 Bastin, H., " Insects : their Life- 

 Histories and Habits," 259 

 Bastin, S. L., " Flowerless Plants : 



how and where they grow," 260 

 Bean, broad, ' Aquadulce,' 379 

 black fly of, 461 

 French, 714 



' Sunrise,' A.M., cxxvi, 

 cxxvii 



' Perpetual, ' A.M., cxxvi, 

 cxxvii 

 Thrips, 765 

 Beans, broad, damaged by beetles, 379, 

 767 



tried at Wisley, 713 

 " Beautiful Bulbous Plants for the 

 Open Air," by J. Weathers, reviewed, 

 444 



" Beautiful Flowering Trees," by J. 

 Weathers, reviewed, 259 



" Beautiful Garden Flowers for Town 

 and Country," by J. Weathers, 

 reviewed, 444 



"Beautiful Roses for Garden and Green- 

 house," by J. Weathers, reviewed, 

 716 



Beech Orchestes, see Orchestes fagi 

 " Bees and Wasps," by O. H. Latter, 



reviewed, 721 

 Beet, seakale, its cooking, 525 

 Beetroot rot, 279 

 Beetles, parasitic, 765 

 Begonia aptera, 300 



boliviensis, 345 



sulphurea, 460 



Davisii, 345, 460 



eelworm attack, 349 



' Lena,' A.M., 460, cxxxiii 



mite, 350 



pneumathodes, 300 



Begonia arosaeflora, 345 



' Rosalind,' A.M., ccl 

 semperflorens var. gigantea, 



460 



socotrana, ccxxviii, ccxxxii 



' Syros,' A.M., ccxlviii 



undulata, 300 



Veitchii, 345 



vitifoha, 300 

 Belladonna-tomato graft, 782 

 Belvoir Castle, spring flowers at, 16, 

 17 



Berberis aggregata, A.M., ccxxxix 



Darwinii, 20 



new Chinese, 765 



Sargentiana, 765 

 Berkheya purpurea, 8 

 Beschorneria yuccoides, xxvi 

 Betula alba var. papyrifera, 284 

 Bidens dahlioides, cxlix 

 Biff en, Prof. R. H., on investigations 

 on control of disease in plants, 313 

 Biota in Congo valley, 276 

 Birch for protection from frost, 308 



in Bulgaria, 3 

 Birches in N.-E. America, 285 

 Birds and weed seeds, 511 



food, 283, 765 



of nestling, 460 



insectivorous, 476, 765 

 Birmingham, deputation to, cix 

 Bitter pit in pear, xxxix 



see also apple 

 Black Currant ' Seabrook's Black,' 

 cxxiv 



knot, biologic forms, 766 



rot of cabbage, 273 

 Blandfordia Cunninghamii, A.M., cxxxix 

 Blastophaga, 472 

 Bletia hyacinthina Gebina, lxxi 

 Blighia sapida, 330 

 Bluebells, 15 



Blue gum, see Eucalyptus Globulus 

 Bog plants, 270 

 Bohmeria nivea, 808 

 Bolleochondrorhynchus x Froebeliana, 

 766 



Bombax, 462, 768 



" Book of Salads," by A. Suzanne and 



C. H. Senn, reviewed, 247 

 Book reviews, 240, 439, 715 

 Books added to Library, 739 

 Bordeaux mixture, injury due to, 267 

 Border flowers, autumn, 530 

 Borders, herbaceous, 271 

 Boring insects, 766 



Bose, J.C., " Researches on Irritability 



of Plants," 440 

 Botanizing in Bulgaria, 1 

 " Botany," by E. Brucker, reviewed, 



720 



Botrychium, abortive spike in it, 271 



Lunaria, 6 

 Botryosphaeria ribesii, cxvii 

 Bougainvillaea lateritia, 766 

 Boulger, G. S., "Plant Geography," 253 

 Bowenia serrulata, 271 



spectabilis, 271 

 Bracken in N.-E. America, 285 



