The Gardening 'World.] 
[September 3, 1887. 
CONTENTS 
OF YOL. 
FOR THE YEAR ENDING AUGUST 27th, 1887. 
III. 
A 
Abies canadensis argentea, 678; ex- 
celsa mutabilis, 614, 678 
Abronia umbellata, S24 
Abutilon Boule de Neige, 202, 20S 
Abutilons, for winter-flowering, 340 
Acacia Drummondi, 427 
Acanthosicyos hornda, 582 
Acer Leopoldi foliis variegatis, 55 ; 
negundo variegata, 54 ; Webbiana, 
54 
Achillea ptarmica flore pleno, 729 
Achimenes, 696 ; coccinea, 2S3 
Achrocline Saundersoni, 766 
Acropera Loddigesi, 780 
Ada aurantiaca,"395 
Adesmia balsamica, 4S7 
Adiantum Capillus-veneris Mariesii, 
678 ; cuneatum, Gordon’s variety, 
51S ; Farleyense, 266; Farleyense, 
fertility of, 296, 32S, 475; pedatum, 
650 ; schizophyllum, 632 
Adiantums growing on a wall, 424 
Aeranthus sesquipedalis, 535 
Aerides expansum Leonae, 694; Fiel- 
dingi, 651 ; Lawrenciae, 502 
zEsculus liippocastanum aureus, 55 
Aigburth Nursery, the, 282 
Ajuga reptans purpurea, 75 
Allamanda Hendersoni, 763 
Allamanda, a prolific, 730, 826 
Allotment Gardens, 182, 776; Mr. 
Gladstone on, 825 
Alonsoa linearis, 780 
Alpha-acme Label rest, the, 699 
Alstrcemeria aurantiaca, 757 
Althenosmia macrophylla, 427 
Amaraboya princeps, 631 
Amaryllis Belladonna, 635 ; Nestor, 
440 
Amaryllis, varieties of certificated, 
474, 518, 533, 549 
Amasonia punicea, 1S5,294; calycina, 
346 
Amateur’s Garden at Oxford, an, 696 
Amateurs, Rose culture for, 51 
A m ateur’s Gardens, hardy plants for, 
408 
American Blight, 149; on apple trees, 
6S4 
American Exhibition, 579 
American Florists, the Society of, 36 
Ampelopsis japonica, 330 
Ancient Society of York Florists, the, 
341 
Androsace coronopifolia, 646 ; lanu¬ 
ginosa, SOS 
Anemone apennina, 407; Fanniniae, 
555; fulgens, 374; japonica alba, 
43; japonica elegans, 808 ; King 
of Scarlets, 475; ranunculoides, 
540 ; sylvestris, 682 
Anemones, 520 ; Empress Poppy, 
233 
Angraecuni arcuatum, 125 ; cordatum, 
109 ; eburneum, 253 ; falcatum, 
780; Leonis, 252; sesquipedale, 
203 
Annuals in Cottage Gardens, 603 ; 
half hardy, pricking off, 567 
Ansellia africana, 332 
Antholyza sethiopica bicolor, 491 
Anthurium Rothschildianum, 699 ; 
splendidum, 631 ; Veitchii, 602 ; a 
double spathed, 459 
Antirrhinum, White Swan, 730 
Antirrhinums and Marigolds, 731 
Aphelandra chrysops, 664 
Aphelandras, notes on, 326 
Apple, Beauty of Bath, 790 ; Bis¬ 
marck, 75 ; Golden Noble, 539 ; 
Golden Pippin, 565 ; Winter Quoin- 
ing, 507 
Apple pest, a new, 730 
Apples and Pears, early v. late, 619 
Apples, Canadian, 556 ; late-keeping, 
325, 342, 361, 394, 440, 632, 635 
Aquilegias, hybrid, 715 
Arachnanthe Cathcarti—Vanda Cath- 
carti, 395 
Aralia Chabrieri—Elaeodendron orien- 
tale, 267, 745 ; Reginas, 741, 788 ; 
Sieboldi, 500 
Araucaria excelsa, 357 
Arbutus Unedo, 70 
Ardisias, the, 68 
Aristolochia elegans, 314; ridicula, 
794 
Armeria plantaginea rosea, 698 
Artificial Manures, 522 
Artillery Plants, British, 810 
Artistic pottery, 136 
Ascot in summer and winter, 198 
Ash Grove, Sheffield, 266 
Aspidium angulare proliferum, 474 
Asplenium Ceterach, 443 ; marinum, 
124, 491 ; scandens, 826 
Asparagus Kale, 346, 362 
Asparagus, planting, 551 
Asparagus plumosus and plumosus 
nanus, 427 
Aster, a dwarf pigmy, 779 
Aster hybridus nanus, 235 
Asters, early flowering at Chiswick, 
812 
Ataccia cristata, 731 
Aubrietias, notes on, 632 
Auchendrain Gardens, 135 
Auction Sales at Covent Garden, 8 
Auricula, Alpine, conspicua, 605 
Auricula frame, Mr. Fife’s, 696 
Auriculas, Alpine, with white centres, 
429 ; with gold centres, 492 
Auricula, on the culture of the, 70 ; 
cheap named, 573; certificated, 518, 
534 ; early white, 520; Rev. F. D. 
Horner on, 776 ; good, a selection 
of, 74S ; in cold frames, 666 ; notes 
on, 573; potting, 668; seedling, 
126 ; in winter, 156, 349 
Auricula growers, small, 568, 632, 646, 
696, 727 
Austrian Briar, the, 730 
Austrian Pine for shelter, the, 474 
Autumn fashions in flowers, 100 
Autumn Flowers, 135 
Autumnal notes, 134 
Azalea balsaminmfiora, 347; Criterion, 
539 ; Davisii, 507 ; Deutsche Perle, 
347, 411, 443; Jean Vervaene, 523 ; 
narcissiflora, 394; Souvenir de 
Frangois Vervaene, 614 
Azalea leaves, fungus on, 522 
Azaleas, hybrid, 614, 615 ; Indian, 
619 ; Indian, late-flowering, 682; 
white, 507 
B 
Bacterium aceti, 570 
Balm, golden, 75 
Balsams, out-doors, 760 
Barkeria Vanneriana, 310 
Bartholina pectinata, 796 
Basing Park, Hants, 169 
Basket plants, flowering, for the 
stove, 504 
Batatas edulis, 200 
Bean, Broad, Carter’s Leviathan, 10S ; 
Beck’s Dwarf Gem, 827 ; Ne Plus 
Ultra, divarf, 92, 139, 155 
Bean, Osborn’s Dwarf Kidney, 411; 
Ne Plus Ultra, 459 
Beans, notes on, 70 ; Runner, 763 
Beaumontia grandiflora, 76 
Beddington House Gardens, 4 
Bedding plants, 455 ; golden-leaved, 
75 ; hardening off, 568; for small 
gardens, 553 ; notes on, 7 
Beetle-trap, Birkenhead’s, 124 
Beetles, sharp work with, 202 
Begonia, albo-pieta, 186; Arthur 
Mallet, 699; cyclophylla, 631; 
Froebelii, 283; Gogoensis, 424; John 
Heal, 171; nitida, 521; sanguinea, 
442 
“ Bellicide ” or the Daisy Eradicator, 
180, 491 
Belvedere House Gardens, Wimble¬ 
don, 299 
Begonias, tuberous, 108, 314; their 
history and cultivation, 265, 313 ; 
flowers of, dropping, 92; as winter¬ 
flowering plants, 362 ; Jubilee, at 
Forest Hill, 681; at Maidenhead, 
85; new, 599, 614, 678, 726, 757; 
seedling tuberous, 39 ; ornamental¬ 
leaved, 581 
Berberidopsis corallina, 235 
Berberis aristata integrifolia, 726 ; 
Jamesoni, 298 ; stenophylla, 616 ; 
vulgaris, 92 
Bergman, M. presentation to, 478 
Berry-bearing plants, 313 
BignoniaChamberlaynii, 139; Cherere, 
716, 762; radicans, 780; Tweediana, 
522 
Billbergia decora, 822 
Billinge Scarr, 56 
Bird scarer, a, 684 
Birmingham, the Queen’s visit to, 488 
Birmingham Rose show, 746 
Bletia Shepherdi, 764 
Boilers, the Gunnersbury, 517; welded 
and cast iron, 553, 566 
Books noticed :—Castle’s Chrysan¬ 
themum Annual, 532 ; Dodwell’s, 
The Carnation and Picotee, 662; 
Hazlitt’s Gleanings in Old Garden 
Literature, S24; Journal of the 
Royal Horticultural Society, vol. 
III., 485; Molyneux’s Chrysanthe¬ 
mums and their culture, 168; 
Morley’s Amateurs’ Greenhouse 
Guide, 439; Pear Conference Re¬ 
port, 823; Thomson’s Cookery for 
Invalids, 104; Topham’s Amateur 
Gardeners’ Note Book, 423; Veitch’s 
Manual of Orchidaceous Plants, 
268, 393. 
Boronia heterophylla, 474; megas¬ 
tigma, 411 
Botanical work, the oldest in the 
world, 486 
Bouquet, a Jubilee, 6S0 
Bouvardias, 394 
Bouvardia Triomphe de Nancy, 155 
Box trees, remarkable, 202 
Brash and Lias, 635 
Brassavola Digbyana, 651 
Brassia brachiata, 540 ; Keiliana var. 
tristis, 540 ; verrucosa, 636 
Briar, Scarlet Austrian, 747 
Bricks of Cork, 1S5 
British Empire, Flora of the, 134 
British Rain-tree, a, 760 
Broccoli, purple-sprouting, 358 
Broom, yellow Portugal, 651 
Browallia elata, 360 
Browneas, 634 
Brownea coccinea hybrida, 490 
Brunsfelsia calycina, 571 
Brunsvigia Josephine, 186 
Brussels Sprouts, Northaw, 522 
Budder, a “ Stout,” 44 
Burchellia capensis, 521 
Burford Lodge, Herbaceous plants at, 
789 
Bulbocodium vernum, 440 
Bulbs, how to grow, in town houses, 
134 
Bulb culture, Dutch, 778 
Bulbs, early flowering, 124 
Bulb trade, the Dutch, 740 
Bulbous - rooted plants in pots, on 
watering, 123 
Bunyard and Co.’s nursery at Maid¬ 
stone, 3 T 
Burdock, the, 139 
Butcher’s Broom fruiting, 331 
c 
Cabbage, Sutton’s Imperial, 635 
Cabbage show at Kelso, 599 
Cabbages, notes on, 602, 620 
Cacti, an hour with the, 329 
Caigwyn, North Wales, 5S1 
Caladium argyrites, 693 
Calanthe vestita Williamsii, 84 
Calanthe culture, 470, 505 
Calanthes at Dedlington Hall, 363 ; 
with branching spikes, 412, 42S; 
not flowering, 348, 364; well grown, 
379 
Calathea zebrina, 539 
Calceolarias, herbaceous, 427 ; shrub¬ 
by, 214 
Callander, notes from, 616 
Calluna vulgaris, 826 
Caltha palustris flore pleno, 602 
Cambridge Lodge, Camberwell, 778 
Camellia reticulata, 411, 491 
Camellia, the double white, at The 
Hanburys, 779, 810 ; at Thames 
Bank, Kingston, 552 ; at Slough, 443 
Camellias, buds injured, 139, 378; 
grafting, 557 ; planting out, 377 
Campanula, a monster, 698 
Campanula medium ealycanthema, 
677 ; persicifolia alba plena, 762 ; 
Portenschlagiana, 6S3 ; pulla, 683 ; 
rhomboidalis, 708 
Canadian Apples, 356 
Canna Ehemanni, 651 
Cannas, hybrid, 794 
Cantua buxifolia, 500 
Cape bulbs, notes on, 744 
Cape, Lily culture at the, 292 
Carbert Castle, the Chrysanthemums 
at, 183, 199 
Cardamine pratensis flore pleno, 619 
Carnations and Hollyhocks at Totten¬ 
ham, S06 
Carnation, the Tree, 120 
Carnation, Amber, 726 ; Souvenir de 
la Malmaison, 730; Pink var., 726 
Carnations, new, certificated, 757; 
border, 459 ; indoors and out, 27 ; 
outdoor, 140 ; winter-flowering, 126 
Carnations, Picotees, and Pinks, 538 
Carnation and Picotee Union, 774 
Carnations and Picotees, 93, 236 ; 
selections of, 326, 520 637 
Carnations at Tring Park, 252 
Carnation Maggot, 267, 298, 283 
Carrots, 92 
Carrot tops for dressing vases, 311 
Carter & Co.’s Seed Warehouses, 410 
Cassia laevigata, 827 
Cassinia fulvida, 757 
Catalogues, the new, of 1SS7, 260 
Catalpa syringaefolia, 795 
Catasetum Bungerothii, 790 ; macro- 
carpum, 376 ; tridentatum, 348 
Cattleya bicolor Wrigleyana 60 ; 
citrina, 410 ; Dowiana aurea, 535 ; 
Gaskelliana, 764, 780 ; gigas, 685 ; 
gigas Shuttleworthii, 748 ; inter¬ 
media Laingii, 491 ; labiata leuco- 
phlaea, 694 ; Lawrenceana, 535, 
555, 571 ; Lawrenceana alba, 540; 
Mendelii, 685 ; Mendelii var. Duke 
of Marlborough, 502 : Mendelii 
limbata, 678 ; Mendelii, a mon¬ 
strous, 604; Mossiae, Darnell’s var., 
67S ; Mossiae, with mottled petals, 
685 ; Mossiae, new white variety, 
636 ; Percivaliana, 412 ; Sehroderae, 
700 ; speciosissima Buchananiana, 
294 ; Trianae alba, 443 ; Trianae 
Backhousiana, 42S ; Trianae Hoole- 
ana, 294 : Trianae Lady Tennant, 
428 ; Trianae Schroderae, 518 ; Trianae 
from Howick House, 443 
Cattleyas and Laelias, the lesser, 236 
Cattleyas at Messrs. F. Horsman & 
Co.’s, 685 ; at Messrs. Veitch’s, 636 
Cauliflowers, autumn, 75 
Ceanothus dentatus, 744 ; varieties, 
376 
Cedar wood, 36 
Celery and Seakale, 283 
Celery, Clayworth Pride, 267; Dick¬ 
son’s Champion White, 58 
Celery for exhibition, 106; large v. 
small, 171; the largest white, 92 ; 
prize, 251; solid, 58 
Celery Show, an English, 266 
Cement wash for the walls of hot¬ 
houses, 330 
Centaurea for cut flowers, 699 
Centropogon Lucyanus, 299, 508 
Cercis siliquastrum, 684 
Cereus, a rich-coloured, 650 
Ceropegia Monteiroae, 631 
Cestrum aurantiacum, 295 ; elegans, 
394 
Challenge Cups and Trophies, 425 
Chamaepeuce diacantha and cassa- 
bonae, 629 
Charlock, 650, 678 
Cheiranthus alpinus, 647 
Chelone barbata, 11 
Cherry, Emperor Francis, 790 
Cherries and Plums, planting and 
pruning, 247 
Cherries, double-flowering, 616 
Cherry tree, a large Mahaleb, 650 
Cherry tree, Jerusalem, 620 
Chestnuts, the, Gunnersbury, 3S9 
Chimonanthus fragrans, 235 ; fragrans 
grandiflorus, 299 
Chinese Bellflower, SOS 
Chiswick House, 568 
Chiswick, Peas on trial at, 739 ; tree 
Ferns at, 314 ; the vegetable trials 
at, 820 ; the vinery at, 792 
Choisya ternata, 522, 713 
Choro-gi, a new vegetable, 117 
Chou de Burghley, 507, 555 
Chrysanthemum shows :—Aberdeen, 
231 ; Birmingham, 221 ; Brixton, 
186 ; Bromley, 187 ; Caterham, 189; 
Crystal Palace, 166 ; Devizes, 204 ; 
Dunfermline, 231 ; Ealing, 157 ; 
Edinburgh, 231, 455 ; Finchley, 
205 ; Highgate, 157 ; Hitchin, 205 ; 
Huddersfield, 18S ; Kingston, 166 ; 
Lambeth, 187 ; Lewisham, 188 ; 
Lincoln, 205 ; Liverpool, 203, 21S ; 
Luton, 205 ; National, 165, 203 ; 
Peckham Rye, 1S7 ; Putney, 205, 
Reading, 1S8 ; Richmond, 187 ; 
St. Neot’s, 1S7 ; St. Peter’s, Ham¬ 
mersmith, 203 ; Salisbury, 204 ; 
Sheffield and Hallamshire, 1SS ; 
Sheffield and West Riding, 205 ; 
Staines and Egham, 1S7 ; Wirks- 
worth, 237 
Chrysanthemum Annual, the, 532,731 
Chrysanthemum Leueanthemum, 
semi-duplex, 694 ; lacustre, 378 ; 
maximum (lacustre), 186 ; segetum 
grandiflorum, 779 ; (Pyrethrum) 
uliginosum, 154 
Chrysanthemums, Golden Gem, 310, 
328 ; Golden Madame Desgrange, 
651; Mrs. H. J. Jones, 311; La 
Belle Blonde, 362, 37S ; La 
Favourite, 362 ; La Petite Marie, 
43 ; notes on, 123, 155 
Chrysanthemum Culture, 253, 424, 
520, 629, 661, 694, 775 ; Mr. Austin 
on feeding and disbudding, 6, 21; 
cuttings of, 253 ; cuttings, should 
they be watered? 2S4, 299, 330 ; 
damping off, 139 ; early flowering, 
58 ; earwigs and, 11, 27 ; Japanese, 
171 ; on judging, 59, 90, 107, 116, 
132, 149, 155 ; in June, 663 ; in 
small pots, 232 ; prizes for, 29S ; 
Challenge Cups and Trophies, 376 ; 
late flowering, 292, 570 ; the season 
of 1886, 147 ; Mr. Sanderson’s, 140 ; 
round Huddersfield, 184 ; round 
Liverpool, 152, 168 ; in the north, 
216 
Chrysanthemum monograph, a, 163, 
197 
Chrysanthemum groovers at Swanley, 
826 
Christmas Flowers, 261 
Christmas and Lenten Roses, 456; a 
bouquet of, 328 
Christmas Roses and Lenten Lilies, 
245 
Christmas Roses, the culture of, 281 
Chysis bractescens, 410 
Cinerarias, varieties of, certificated, 
474, 490, 518, 533 ; at Farnham 
Royal, 541 
Cirrhopetalum ornatissimum, 172 
Cissus discolor, 539, 549, 762 
Clapton and Bush Hill Park 
nurseries, 117 
Claytonia sibirica, 698 
Clematis grafting, 558 
Clematis flammula magnifica, 715 
Clematis for arches and beds, 795 
Clement Park, Dundee, the Chrysan¬ 
themums at, 183 
Clerodendron nutans, 171 
Cleveley Gardens, Allerton, 312 
Clianthus Dampieri, 197, 827 ; puni- 
ceus, 619 
Clitoria ternatea, 795 
Clivia Gardeni, 331; miniata, 459 
Clivia v. Himantophyllum, 566 
Clover, Calvary, 349 
Cliffe Hall, novelties at, 104 
Ccelogyne cristata, 34S ; cristata 
alba, 443, 491; cristata Lemoniana, 
428; cristata maxima, 535; Dayana, 
661; flaccida, 492; lentiginosa, 412; 
Massangeana, 604 
Coal dues, the, 387 
Coal smoke, a curable evil, 4 
Coccocypselum discolor (C. repens), 
331. 
Coffee plant, the, 619 
Coleonema rubra, 650 
Coleus Jubilee, 678 ; seedling, 810 
“ Collections,” the trade in, 405 
Colonial and Indian Exhibition Re¬ 
ports, 515 
Colonial fruit production, 132 
Conifers at Dropmore, the, 821; at 
Wansfel, the 169 
Convolvulus, the three-coloured, S05 
Cookery for invalids, 104 
Coolhurst, Horsham, 793 
Cooling and Son’s Rose nursery, 601 
Cornflower, the, 35 
Cornus mascula variegata, 55 
Coronilla glauca, 442 
Coryanthes macrantha, 604; speeio- 
sum, 253 
Corydalis Kolpakowskiana, 455 
Corylus avellana purpurea, 54 
Cotoneaster frigida, 155 ; frigida and 
affinis, 283 ; microphylla, 491 
Cottage Gardening in Lancashire, 3S 
Cottagers’ Kale, 439 
Covent Garden, auction sales at, S 
Crabs, ornamental, 472 
Crassula Jasminea, 666 
Crataegus pyracantha, 283 
Cress, Australian or Golden, 347 
Crinum amabile, 11; Hildebrandti, 
324; Powelli, 44; Vanillodorum, 
376 
Crocus Karduchorum, 406 
Crocuses and Croakers, 347; and 
Sparrows, 475 
Croome Court gardens, 409 
Cropping, close, 823 
Crops, the rainfall and the, 645 
Crotons at Gunnersbury House, 50S; 
for table decoration, 523 
Crystal Palace, the, 19 
