The Gardening World.] 
CONTENTS, 
[September 3, 1887. 
V 
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Nannokhops Riteheana, 631 
Narcissus, Capt. Nelson, 580 ; cala- 
thinus, 362 ; cyclamineus, 373, 518 ; 
Glory of Leyden, 580 ; incompara- 
bilis Gloria Mundi, 580 ; Johnstoni, 
549 ; Madame de Graaff, 580 ; mono- 
phyllus, 362; moschatus tortuosus, 
411 ; obvallaris, 539 
Nash Court, Faversham, 458 
National Chrysanthemum Society’s 
Medal, 229 
Nicotiana afflnis, 508 
Nicotyl Vaporiser, the, 581 
Nelumbium seeds, germination of, 
475 
Nepenthes Mastersiana, 324 
Nepeta tenerifolia, 708 
New Zealand, notes from, 184 
Nursery and Seed Trade Association, 
373 
Nursery, Messrs. Cocker and Sons’, 
775 ; Mr. H. B. May’s, 536 ; Messrs. 
Sutton’s, 629 
Nut Weevil, the, 75 
Nymphaea flava, 359 
o 
Oak, an old, at Aberdeen, 391 
Oakholme, Sheffield, 153 
Oakley, Burnley, 246 
Obituary:—Bailey, Mr. T., 532, 542; 
Broome, Mr. C. E., 197; Brown. 
Mr. Thomas, 269; Bushby, Canon, 
285; Can', Mr. R., 532, 541; Cox, 
Mr. John, 19, 30; De Smet, M. 
Ch. Louis, 486 ; Falconer, Mrs. 
Susannah, 493 ; Forsyth, Mr. W., 
107, 126: Fowler, Mr. A., 820; 
Frost, Mr. P., 590; Fry, Mrs., 670 ; 
Gibbs, Mr. G., 164; Green, Mr. 
Charles, 197; Jackman, Mr. G., 
62S; Johnson, Mr. G. W., 148; 
Kickx, Mr., 486 ; Kinghorn, Mr. 
F. R., 670; Lee, Mrs. John, 164; 
Leech, Mr. W., 477; Le Grelle, 
Madame, 413; Lennox, Lord H. 
Gordon, 14; McElroy, Mr. J. F., 
317; McFarlane, Mr. D., 197 ; 
McHutcheon, Mr. John. 493 ; 
McIntyre, Mr. A. 670; McMorland, 
Mr. E., 493; Milford, Mr. Jas., 
477; North, Mr. W., 413; Per¬ 
rins, Mr. J. D, 422; Pohlman, 
Mr. E., 237; Salter, Mr. John, 
164 ; Sherwin, Mr. W.. 782 ; 
Sinclair, Mr. A., 381; Stanniforth, 
Rev. T., 724; Stevens, Mr. Zadoe, 
126; Stevens, Mrs., 372 ; Swan, 
Mrs. W., 814; Vair, Mr. James, 
422; Van Geert, Mr. Aug., 219; 
Wadds, Mr. W., 548; West, Mr. J. 
F., 364. 
Odontadenia speciosa, 744 
Odontoglossum Andersonianum, 604 ; 
Andersonianum, Maxwell’s variety, 
636 ; blandum, 614 ; Cervantesii, 
540 ; Cervantesii and Od. Rossii 
majus, 316 ; Cambridgeanum, 549 ; 
citrosmum album, 685 ; cordatum 
Kienastianum, 523 ; crispum, 428, 
459 ; crispum with three spikes, 
572 ; crispum albense, 678 ; cris¬ 
pum, Blair's variety, 678 ; crispum 
guttatum, 459 ; crispum guttatum 
fastuosum, 236 ; crispum Leopardi- 
num, 374, 425 ; crispum Regina, 
324; crispum var. Stevensii, 244 ; 
crispum : Thompson’s var., 518 ; 
crispum with three spikes on one 
bulb, 540 ; a hybrid, 604 ; a new 
type of, 470; Mr. Shuttleworth’s, 
540 ; Edwardii, 572 ; gloriosum, 
443; Harryanum, 45, 125, 732, 757, 
764; pardinum, 502; Pescatorei, 
621; Pescatorei, Pollett’s variety, 
614; Pescatorei virginalis, 518; 
Phalaenopsis, 540; Rossii majus, 
26S; Rossi majus rubescens, 379, 
396; Schlieperianum, a freak in, 
7S0; triumphans, 508, 556; 
triumphans, Rosefield var., 474; 
vexillarium chelsoniense, 700; 
vexillarium leucoglossum, 549 ; 
vexillarium radiatum, 661; spotted 
var., 685; vexillarium, peculiar 
growth of, 6S5: Vuylstekianum 
maculatum, 726; Wardianum, 50S ; 
Wilckeanum, 53 
Odours of Orchids, 390 
(Enothera biennis, 795; densiflora, 
SOS 
Oncidium Brunleesianum, 474; cebol- 
leta, 364; crispum, 348; Jones- 
ianum, 253, 268, 573 ; Lanceanum, 
172; macranthum, 732 ; Marshail- 
ianum, 621 ; Phalaenopsis, 332 ; 
pumilum, 780 ; superbiens, 746 ; 
unguic.ulatum, 508 
Onion, Veiteh’s Main Crop, 827 
Onions at Chiswick, 778; . notes on, 
357; weights of, 44 
Orange trees, small, 411 
Orchid grower’s calendar, 12, 93, 109, 
156. 219, 2S5, 316, 348, 363, 428,491, 
555, 571, 636, 651, 685, 700, 732, 780, 
796, 811 ’ 
Orchid shows, Mr. Bull’s, 564 ; Mr. B. 
S. Williams’, 582 
Orchids, syringing, 252, 268, 284, 315, 
347, 374, 822 
Orchids at Birdhil], 824; from 
Bohemia, 475 ; from Mr. Buchan’s, 
732 ; Mr. Cypher’s, 77; from Cloven¬ 
fords, 268 ; at The Dell, 219, 764; 
from Garston, 285 ; from Glasnevin, 
219; at Heaton House, 301, 604 ; 
from Howick House, 396; in flower 
at Kew, 77 ; Mr. Kimball’s, 612; in 
flower at Messrs. Laing’s, 156 ; from 
Capt. Maxwell, 796; from Moat 
Lodge, 475 ; at Nunfield, 743; from 
Perth, 379; at Priorwood, 599; 
from Riversdale, 268; at St. Alban's, 
662 ; in Scotland, 555 ; at Messrs. 
Shuttleworth, Carder & Co.’s, 189,; 
at Studley House, 395, 710; at Sud¬ 
bury House, 487, 712; at Messrs. 
Veitch & Sons’, 412; at West¬ 
brook, Sheffield, 428; in flower at 
the Woodlands, 93, 412 
Orchids at the Cape, 316; on the 
Eastern Cordilleras of the Andes, 
42 
Orchids, cool, on potting, 28, 44, 60 ; 
treatment of, when at rest, 125 ; 
hardy, 360; in the open-air, 57; 
odours of, 390 ; prizes for, 301; sale 
of the “Harvey” collection, 459; 
sale of Dr. Paterson’s, 52; seedling, 
93 ; labels for, 219 ; prices of, 125 ; 
on staking and other modes of 
fixing, 172; slugs among, 621; the 
value of, 563 
Orchid Peat, 490 
Orchid roots, injury to, 189 
Orchid cultivation, amateur, 156 
Orchid culture, on the use of manures 
in, 392 
Orchid culture, experiments with 
Jensen’s Fish Manure, 34S 
Orchid house, the amateur’s, 615 ; salt 
in, 523 
Orchid houses, shading on, 77 
Orchid specialities, 12 
Orchids, terrestrial, and Cape bulbs, 
744 
Orchis maseula, a bouquet of, 716 
Orobus lathyroides, 777 
Osborn’s forcing Bean, 427 
Osmunda regalis and its varieties, 
554 ; regalis palustris, 314 
Olearia Haastii, 776, 810 
“ Our Garden,” 8S 
Oxalis lutea, 507 ; double Rose, 810 
Oxford, an amateur’s garden at, 696 
Oxford Carnation and Picotee Union, 
666 
P 
Pachip.a insignis, 7S0 
Pachystoma Thomsoniana, 374 
Pasonies, Herbaceous, 424 
Pseonia, Glory of Somerset, 695 ; 
mollis, 6S2 ; Moutan for forcing, 
330 ; Moutan, new, 599, 614 
Paeonies, tree, 697 ; Snowflake and 
lilacina, 635 
Pancratium fragrans, 314, 378 ; mari- 
timum, 699 
Pansy, Countess of Kintore, 795 ; 
Magpie, 650 
Pansies, fancy, 508, 686, 729 ; in beds, 
621 ; in pots, 32S; seedling, 603, 
827 ; home-grown, 698 
Papaver uinbrosum, 666 
Paeonies, herbaceous, 730 
Paraffin oil as a preventative against 
attacks of birds, &c., 487, 522, 539 
Parkhall, notes from, 7, 791 
Park Hill, Streatham, 68 
Parsley, 92; Sutton's Giant Curled, 
75 
Passiflora coerulea, 139; Constance 
Elliott, 619, 676, 680; Raddiana, 
252 
Paulownia imperialis, 11 
Pavetta borbonica, 347; montana, 
651 
Pea, Harrison’s Eclipse, 27; the Hun- 
tingdonian, 747,; new seedling, 
779; Royal Jubilee, 827 ; Terra 
Cotta, 708 
Peas, Everlasting, 762; Sweet, new, 
20, 726 
Peas, new, 762, notes on, in 1886, 6 ; 
notes on varieties of, 202, 250 ; the 
most useful, 58, 75; on staking, 
299 
Peas on trial at Chiswick, 739 
Peach, The Shah, 826 
Peach culture in the open air, 411, 
427, 455, 459, 534 
Peaches, early, notes on, 794 ; and 
Earwigs, 59; bad stocks for, 108 ; 
notes on, 43, 54; mildew on, 715 
Peach house, unheated, 554 
Peach trees, treatment of neglected, 
278 ; protecting, 554 
Pear, Beurre de l’Assomption, 133 ; 
Beurre Ranee, 507 ; Easter Beurre, 
602 : Glou Morceau, 539 ; Mademoi¬ 
selle de Solange, 790 ; Susette de 
Bavay, 555 
Pear Congress Report, 359, 823 
Pears v. Peaches, 52, 181, 200, 216 
Pears, classification of, as to quality, 
202, 283 
Pears, a note on, 212 ; late-keeping, 
389 ; of the 17th century, 297; Mr. 
T. F. Rivers on, 296 ; Standard, 298 
Pear tree, an ornamental, 620; ar¬ 
rangement, 298 ; training, 310; 
young, to make bear, 124 
Pear Wall, the cordon, at Holme 
Lacy, 505 
Peat or moss litter, 44 
Pelargonium, Duke of Clarence, 661; 
Henry Daukes, 614 ; Magpie, 599 ; 
Punch, 523; Volunte Nationale 
alba, 92 
Pelargoniums, Bedding, 55; Fancy, 
new, 679 ; Ivy-leaved, at Chiswick, 
70S; large-flowered or show, 108, 
533, 678 ; Show, French and Fancy, 
504, 517; Show, on the cultivation 
of, 22; zonal, for winter-flowering, 
153; winter-flowering, 251; white, 
235; zonal, 630 
Pentstemons, 57; notes on, 309 
People’s Palace, the, 756 
Peristrophe speciosa, 276 
Pescatoreas and Bolleas, 156, 172 
Peseatorea cerina, 604 
Petasites vulgaris, 646 
Petunias, two attractive, 795 
Phalaenopsis amabilis, 301; aphrodite- 
amabilis, 332; grandiflora, 822 ; 
grandiflora aurea, 535; Hariettse, 
757; Manni, 572; Mariae, 700; 
rosea, 294 ; Sanderiana alba, 636; 
speciosa, 614 ; Sumatrana, 651 ; 
Stuartiana, 395 ; Stuartiana, origin 
of, 572; tetraspis, 780; sweet- 
scented, 364 
Phoenix rupicola foliis argenteo 
variegatis, 746 
Phloxes, herbaceous, 9 
Phlox Drummondi, 779; Drummondi 
grandiflora splendens, 491 
Photinia japonica, 602 
Phrynium variegatum, 600 
Picotee, Agnes Chambers, 726 
Pictorial trees, 54 
Pine Apple, Lady Beatrice Lambton, 
261 
Pinguicula Bakeriana, 509 
Pinkie House, the old Horse Chestnut 
at, 537 
Pink, Lord Lyon, 253, 491 
Pinks and their culture, 77 
Piptanthus nepalensis, 744 
Planting and thinning, 698 
Planting season, the, 179 
Planting trees and shrubs, 120 
Planting under Tew trees, 424 
Plants, new, certificated, 440, 474, 
490, 518, 533, 549, 580, 614, 661, 
678, 694, 726, 767, 790, 826 
Plants, garden, illustrated, 410, 455, 
487, 502, 535, 573, 630, 746, 794, 
822 
Plants from ancient Egyptian tombs, 
36 ; and flowers, grouping, 516 ; 
berry-bearing, 313; at the American 
Exhibition, 808 ; cultivated, origin 
of, 550; curious, 570, 582 ; of dwarf 
and pendulous habit, 410; the 
fertilisation of, 460 ; herbaceous 
and alpine, 646; for a heavy soil, 
525 ; hardy, from Tottenham, 6S0 ; 
mimicry in, 808 ; for rooms, deco¬ 
rative, 280 ; for spring gardening, 
152; shelter cases for, 251 ; for 
table decoration, 310; useful winter, 
278 
Platycodon grandiflorum, 808 
Pleione humilis proliferated, 781, 764 
Pleurothallis insignis, 795 
Plumbago capensis, 779, S10; as a 
basket plant, 827 
Plumbago coccinea superba, 299 
Plum crop, the, 35, 36 
Poinsettias at Clarendon Park, 267 ; 
on the culture of, 532 
Poinsettia pulcherrima planted out, 
555 
Polyantha Roses, 534 
Polyanthuses, Gold-laced, 60, 140, 
413 
Polyanthus, Jack-in-the-Green, 635 
Polypody, arborescent, 490 
Pontederia crassipes var. delicata, 
171 
Poppies, notes on, 661 
Portugal, an English landscape 
garden in, 300 
Post Office and Sunday Postal labour, 
676, 708 
Polygonum cuspidatum, 43 
Potato, Abundance, 362; Champion, 
degeneration of the, 378 ; Sutton’s 
Seedling and Abundance, 251 
Potato Tercentenary Exhibition, 138, 
195, 234, 250, 
Potato Society, a suggested, 227 
Potato, whence came the, to Eng¬ 
land, 234 
Potato cultivation by the Incas, 234 
Potato disease, the, 43. 75, 21S, 234 
Potatos, “curl” in, 507, 521 
Potatos and Turnips, 791 
Potato experiments, Messrs. Sutton 
& Sons, 199, 229 
Potato crop, the, 755, 779 
Potatos, new, certificated at Chis¬ 
wick, 27 ; old v. new, 374; planting, 
439 ; judging by agriculturists, 279 
Potato, the sweet, 200 
Pottery, artistic, 136 
Potting, the operation of, 374, 358 
Pots, garden, 11 
Primula erosa and P. capitata var., 
359; floribunda, 202, 372; imperialis, 
411 ; japonica, 664 ; obtusifolia 
Gammieana, 533, 549 ; Reidii, 699 ; 
rosea, 539 ; Sieboldi, Ware’s White, 
580; Sieboldi, 603 
Primula sinensis Brightness, 374 ; 
CanneU’s White Perfection, 374 ; 
Magenta Queen, 406 ; Purity, 374; 
Snowflake, 374; The Queen, 314 
Primula sinensis, 235, 267, 311, 378, 
458; double, 4SS ; culture of, 10; 
in the Birmingham district, 245; at 
Perry Hill, 413; at Reading, 315 ; 
at Woodside, 389 
Primula, curious varieties of, 440 
Primrose, Harbinger, 107 ; Mrs. Wil¬ 
son, 549 
Primrose, the Bird’s-eye, 557 ; double 
crimson, 218 
Primroses, fickle, 634 
Producer and consumer, 76 
Propagating, by seeds, by cuttings, 
&c., 422 ; hard-wooded plants, 441; 
preparing the cuttings, 441 ; the 
proper compost, 441 
Propagating House, the, 390 
Protea Cynaroides, 792 
Protecting Fruit trees, 456 
Prunus depressa, 684; illicifolius, 
372 ; Pissardii, 139 
Pyschotria jasminiflora, 508 
Pteris Mayi, 533 ; tremula var. 
flaceida, 310, 533 
Pyracantha Lalandii, 108 
Pyrethrums, good double and single, 
364 ; single, 699 ; new, 661, 679 
Pyrgo Park, Essex,]52 
Pyrus Maulei, 651 
Q 
Quassia and soft soap, 413 
Queen Mary’s tree at Craigmillar, 7 
Quercus nigra, 55 ; peduneulata con- 
color, 54 
R 
Rainfall and the crops, the, 645 ; 
excessive, at Liverpool, 171 
Rainy-month flower, the, 14 
Railway rates, 59, 250 
Ranunculus cortusaefolius, 615 
Raspberries in November, 152 
Rating of nurseries and market 
gardens, 469, 523 ; Haynes v. the 
Penge vestry, 100 ; meeting of the 
trade, 693 
Redleaf, Pensjiurst, 426 
Rhodanthe Manglesi, 360, 698 
Rhododendron argenteum at Pink 
Hill, 455 ; balsaminaeflorum Rajah, 
24; balsaminaeflorum carneum, 474; 
Pink Beauty, 520 ; Countess of 
Haddington, 680 ; formosum, 619 ; 
La Belle, 440 ; luteo-roseum, 678; 
nobleanum, 375 
Rhododendrons, hardy, 662; some 
good and useful, 501 
Rhubarb, concerning, 617, 729 ; early, 
549 
Rhus cotinus at Harley House, 795 
Richardia mhiopica, 155 ; two- 
spathed, 539 ; three-spathed, 571 
Rivers, Thomas, 68 
Road improvements, 307 
Rochea falcata, 56 
Roman Hyacinths, 777 
Rooms, decorative plants for, 280 
Root crops and their uses, 442 ; and 
the dry season, 762 
Roots, on forcing, 150 
Rosa minutifolia alba, 518 ; rugosa, 
684 
Rose, Tea, The Bride, 440 ; Tea, 
Cleopatra, 694 ; Comte de Paris, 
359; Golden Fairy, 518; Tea, Miss 
Edith Gifford, 599 ; Climbing, 
Felicite perpetue, 283 ; H.P., Lady 
Alice, 695 ; Tea, Princess Beatrice, 
490, 507 ; The Puritan, 518, 522, 
534 ; single white perpetual, 790 
Roses, new, of 1885-6,104; New Pedi¬ 
gree, 580 ; Polyanthus, 534 
Rose Hedges, 171 
Roses on the briar stock, 746 ; and 
Rose budding, 743 ; Crested and 
White Moss, 729 
Rose culture under glass, 518, 537 ; 
for amateurs, 51 
Rose growing in Aberdeen, 775 
Roses, cutting for exhibition, 570 ; in 
December, 244 ; late-flowering, 301 ; 
pot, some good, 605 ; pot, for 
market, 38; the mildew of, 790; 
notes on, 551 ; Orange Fungus, S27 ; 
the Scotch, 686 ; of the season, 102 
Rose growers’ Cot, the, 788 
Rose nursery, Messrs. Cooling’s, 601 
Rosewood, the, 77 
Royal Horticultural Society, 323, 344, 
354, 360, 371, 407, 456, 517, 627, 54S, 
675, 691 ; and its programme, 531, 
571 ; Professor Foster's letter, 758, 
771 ; medals, 762 
Rudbeckia purpurea, 27 
Ruellia Herbstii, 331 ; macrantha, 344 
Ryelands, Lancaster, 213 
s 
Saccolabium bellinum, 412; gigan- 
teum, 573 ; giganteum illustre, 363; 
Heathii, 790 
Salad plants and their culture, 457 
Salt in orchid houses, 523 
Salvia splendens, 171; violacea, 59; 
Sambucus nigra aurea, 55 
Sanchezia nobilis, 522 
Sand Verbena, the, 824 
Sand and Peat, a caution to gar¬ 
deners, 269 
Sandersonia aurantiaca, 293 
Sanvitalia procumbens flore pleno 
772 
Satyriums, 316 
Satyrium, a crimson, 301 
Saxifraga aretioides, 682; Burseriana, 
443 ; calyeiflora, 682; Camposii, 
619; granulata flore pleno, 603; 
Huettei, 647; ligulata, 491; retusa, 
bryoides, 539 
Scarlet Runners in market gardens, 
683 
Schizanthus pinnatus, 43 
Schizocasia Regnieri, 747 
Schizophragma hydrangeoides, 6S4 
Sehizostylis coccinea, 252 
Sehomburgkia tibicinis, 821 
Scilla hispanica, 634 
Scillas, 442, 4S6 
Scoliopsis Bigelowi, 508 
Scolopendrium vulgare crispum fim- 
briatum, S26 
Scolopendrium vulgare Vaillasii, 726 
Scottish Arboricultural Society, 756 
Scottish Seed and Nursery Trade 
Association, 324 
Scuticaria Hadweni, 651 
Sea Kale and Rhubarb, 727 
Sea Kale, the culture of, 201 
Sea Holly, the, 680 
Sea Lavender, yellow, 791 
Season, the dry, 819 
Sedum Sieboldi medio-variegatus, 620 
Seed harvest, the, 67 ; the foreign, 99 
Seed pans, watering, 650 
Seed warehouse, Messrs. Carter’s, 410 
Seeds, small, how to sow, 471 
Selaginella caulescens, 602 ; gracilis, 
474 
Selaginellas, notes on, 550 
Semele androgyne, 508 
Senecio Ghiesbreghtii, 331 
Sequoia sempervirens alba spicata, 
678 
Setaria viridis, 324 
Shading on Orchid houses, 77 
Shelter, the Austrian Pine for, 474 
Shelter caves for plants, 251 
Shrewsbuiy, the Quarry at, 8 
Shrubs, free-flowering, 744; after 
blooming, treatment of, 631; on 
planting, 7 
Sibthorpia europaea variegata, 762 
Signs of the times, 211 
Silene alpestris, 698 
Silloth, development of, 199 
Silphium albiflorum, 376 
Silver Fir sleepers, 12 
Sisyrinehium grandiflorum, 406, 490 
Skiminia japonica, 427, 554 
Smith, W. G., with portrait, 377 
Snowdrops, the, 472, 490 
Snowdrop tree, 344 
Snow guards, 295 
Snow, a substitute for, 171 
Snowstorm in January, effects of the 
346 
Snowdrops, scented, 378 
Societies, Horticultural;—Acton, 798; 
Bath Floral Fete, 589; Birmingham 
Horticultural, 493 ; Birmingham 
and Midland Counties Gardeners’ 
Improvement, 253, 317, 444; Black¬ 
pool, 46 ; Bury St. Edmund’s, 701; 
Bolton Horticultural Mutual Im¬ 
provement, 253; Cheltenham, 61; 
Chiswick, 748 ; Croydon, 702 ; 
Cryptogamic of Scotland, 94; Crys¬ 
tal Palace, 28, 93, 492; Crystal 
Palace Rose Show, 733; Dumfries 
Horticultural Improvement, 311, 
444, 525, 647; Dundee, 29; Fyvie, 
423; Galashiels, 263 ; Gloucester 
and Cheltenham, 605; Handswortk 
and Sheffield, 14; Heeley, 62 ; 
Hounslow, 798 ; Lewisham and 
District, 765; Liverpool Hor¬ 
ticultural Association, 190, 364, 
460, 731 ; Luton, 813; Longford 
Valley, S12 ; Maidstone, 94 ; 
Maidstone Gardeners, 116, 253; 
Manchester Royal Botanical, 380, 
460, 637 ; Manchester Horticultural 
Improvement, 173, 220, 237, 333, 
364, 396, 429, 460; Matlock Bath, 
830; Moseley and King’s Heath, 
79S ; National Auricula, 557; Na¬ 
tional Carnation and Picotee, 766; 
National Chrysanthemum, 19, 46, 
110, 142, 212, 317, 396; National 
Co-operative, S29; National Dahlia, 
30; National Rose, 716 ; National 
Tulip, 66S; Nether Edge, 812 ; 
Norton Pansy Club, 637, 652; North 
Lonsdale Rose, 766; Northampton¬ 
shire, 782 ; North of Scotland Hor¬ 
ticultural, 55, 119, 198, 263, 343, 
407; Notts Horticultural and Bo¬ 
tanical, 220, 670 ; Nottingham, 749; 
Petersfield, 830; Preston and Ful- 
wood, 78, 477, 605; Reading, 13, 
652; Richmond, 717; Royal Bo¬ 
tanic, 477, 541, 604; Royal Cale¬ 
donian Horticultural, 230, 528 ; 
Royal Horticultural, 28, 60, 109, 
141, 173, 228. 237, 316, 3S0, 444, 476, 
524, 556, 5SS, 621, 669, 700, 732, 764, 
797, 829; Royal Northern Horti¬ 
cultural of Aberdeen, 7, 45, 221, 
471, 775 ; Royal Oxfordshire, 685 ; 
Royal Southampton, 782; St. Ann’s 
Nottingham, 525, 5S9, 748; Sand¬ 
hurst, 45 ; Sandy (Beds), 12; Scot¬ 
tish Auricula and Pansy, 573; 
Scottish Horticultural Association, 
S7, 151, 311, 375, 525, 583, 647, 711, 
775 ; Shildon, S30 ; Shropshire Hor¬ 
ticultural, 509, 814 ; Stirling Horti¬ 
cultural Association, 359; Stoke- 
upon-Trent, 13; Taunton, 813; 
Walkley Amateur Floral, 605; Wel¬ 
lingborough, 797; Wirksworth, 61; 
Yorkshire Gala, the, 667. 
Solanum jasminoides. hardiness of, 
27, 827; jubatum, 715; Wendlandi, 
346 
Solanums, the tuberous, 234 
Soldanella alpina, 476 
Solomon's Seal, 635 
Soot and Celery, 283 
Sophronitis grandiflora, 475 
South Africa, notes from, 442 
South Kensington Shows, 148 
Sparmannia africana, 346 
Sparrow's and Crocuses, 475 
Spathoglottis Kimballiana, 52; an- 
gustorum, 700 
Spinach, 394; Round Flanders, 539 
Spindle-tree, the, 325 
Spiraea aritefolia, 757; aruncus astil- 
boides, 616 ; aruncus, 70S; aruncus 
at Buckminster Park. 730; japonica, 
500, 776: japonica alba, 776; Thun- 
bergii, 579 
Sportive nature, 151 
Sprekelia formosissima, 533 
Spring Cottage, Nelson, 277 
