VI The Gardening World.] 
CONTENTS 
[September S, 1SSS. 
Sandy Flower Show, 8 
Sarraeenia Williamsii, 661 
Saxifraga Burseri, 443; cordifolia 
purpurea, 567 ; Frederici August!, 
456; ligulata, 459 ; Maweana, 665 ; 
media, 616; purpurascens, 567; 
retusa bryoides, 555 ; saneta, 617; 
sarmentosa tricolor variegata, 235 ; 
Sibthorpii, 53S ; Wallacei, 630 
Scale destroyed by immersion, 140 
Scarecrow, a new, 724 
Schinus molle, 1S6 
Schubertia grandiflora, 42 
Science, the value of, to the gardener, 
421 
Scilla sibirica, 421 
Scolopendrium vulgare cristulatum, 
762 
Scotland, Ivies in, 200 
Scuticaria Keyseriana, 620 
Sea Anemone, “ Granny,” death of 
the, 123 
Sea-beach, gardening on the, 693 
Sea-Lavender, the spring, 11 
Sealing vegetables for exhibition, 52 
Seaside gardens, shrubs for, 68 
Seasonable reminders, 403 
Season, the, 501, and the drought, 
522 
Seasons, late, 564 
Season's produce, the, 140 
Sedum Sieboldii, 11; spectabile, 91 
Seed collecting, S26 
Seed farms, the Kinver, 69 
Seedlings, raising by steam, 375 
Seed sowing, 566 
Seeds and Seedsmen, 230 
Seeds, protection of. 539 
Seed trade and the non-warranty 
clause, 724 
Selaginella Braunii v. S. Willde- 
novii, 90 ; euspidata crispa, 519 ; 
Emiliana, 459; uncinata, 251 ; 
pilifera, 601 
Selborne House, Streatham, 250 
Sempervivum tortuosum variegatum, 
730 
Senecio elaeagnifolia, 625; maero- 
phylla, 774 
Shelter for plants, a new, 124 
Shrubs, flowering, 711; forced, treat¬ 
ment of, 471 ; for sea-side gardens, 
6S ; on planting, 119,121; pruning, 
S26 ; pruning, mistakes in, 647 
Silene alpestris, 715 ; Armeria, 826 ; 
pendula, double-flowered, 533 ; 
schafta, S22 
Siphocampylus Humboldtianus, 321 
Smoky districts, trees for, 345 
Snails and Slugs, on destroying, 716 
Snowflake, the spring, 476; summer, 
581 
Snow in July, 724 
Snowstorm in June, a, 660 
Sobralia leucoxantha, 22 
Societies, Horticultural;—Aberdeen, 
61, 231; Acton, 7S2; Alexandra 
Palace Rose Show, 701 ; Bath, 45, 
622 ; Bath and West of England 
Association, 669 ; Birmingham 
Gardeners’ Mutual Improvement 
Association, 126; Braintree and 
Bocking, 734 ; Brookfield, 7S1 ; 
Cheadle, 13, 829; Chiswick, 750 ; 
Crystal Palace, 2S, 493,605; East 
Harptree, 829; Emsworth, S30; 
Gloucester and Cheltenham, 62 ; 
Hallamsliire, 13 ; Harpenden, 253 ; 
Harrow Weald, 797 ; Kettering 
district, 71S; Ledbury, 830 ; Lei¬ 
cester, S14 ; Liverpool, 509, 796 ; 
Longford Valley, S14; Lough¬ 
borough, 766 ; Manchester Horti¬ 
cultural Improvement, 174, 206, 
270, 445; Manchester Royal 
Jubilee, 61 ; Manchester Royal 
Botanical, 476, 573, 621 ; Mansfield, 
79S; Moor Park, S29 ; National 
Auricula (Southern Section), 557, 
National Carnation and Picotee 
(Southern Section), 765 ; (Northern 
Section), S24 ; National Chry¬ 
santhemum, 29, 44, 110, 142, 212, 
253, 316, 389. 413, 445 ; National 
Co-operative, Flower Show, 82S; 
National Dahlia, 28 ; National Rose, 
733 ; North of Scotland Horticul¬ 
tural Association, 55, 142, 199, 263, 
311, 343 ; Notts Horticultural and 
Botanical, 477 ; Petersfield, S30 ; 
Preston and Fulwood, 29, 94, 317, 
3S1, 476; Preston Cottagers’ and 
Amateurs, 686 ; Reading, 12, S20 ; 
Royal Botanic, 477, 605, 685 ; Royal 
Caledonian, 44, 510; Royal Horti¬ 
cultural, 44, 77, 109, 141, 173, 253, 
316, 395, 445, 461, 492, 524, 556, 5S9, 
621, 669, 701, 733, 765, S13 ; Temple 
Show, 59S ; Royal National Tulip, 
664 ; Royal Oxfordshire Horticul¬ 
tural, 702; Scottish Arboricultural, 
791; Scottish Horticultural As¬ 
sociation, 23, 87, 151, 231, 295, 375, 
439, 593, 567, 711 ; Scottish Pansy, 
686; Shirley and Freemantle, 13 ; 
Shropshire Horticultural, 493, 828 ; 
Southampton, 796 ; St. Albans, 829; 
St. Neots, 797; Stirling Horticul¬ 
tural, 359; Taunton, S20; Trow¬ 
bridge, 29 ; Warwick, 797; Wirral 
Rose Show, 749 ; Worcester City 
and County, 12 
Soil, condition of the, in November, 
155 
Soil, firm, and stone fruit, 140 
Solanum Empress, 347 ; .jasminoides, 
330; ovigerum, 379, 411; pseudo¬ 
capsicum, 151 
“Some other classes,” 195 
Sophrocattleya Batemanniana, SOS 
Sophronitis grandiflora, 509 
South Park, Wadhurst, 409 
Southport Botanic Gardens, 693 
Spade tillage, 356 
Sparmannia africana, 346; africana 
flore-pleno, 330 
Sparrows! those, 554 
Spathoglottis angustorum, 93 ; Kim- 
balliana, 4S6 
Sphseralcea nutans, 636 
Sphrerogyne latifolia, 59S 
Spinach, Victoria Improved Round, 
747 
Spindle Tree, the common, 202 
Spiranthes autumnalis, 12 
Spirsea astilboides, 741 ; digitata, 
774 ; discolor arisefolia, 757; Doug- 
lasii, 757 
Spring, 538 ; the character of the, 
564 
Spring gardening, 211 
Spring flowering plants, choice, 120, 
491, 597 
Spring flowers, a box of, 523 
Spring flowers in London gardens, 
5S0 
Sprout, the Aigburth Brussels, 234; 
a hybrid, 104 
Squill, the Siberian, 555 
Stachys affinis, 244 
Stanhopea inodora, 796 ; insignis, S27; 
tigrina superba, 827 
Starch, Potato, 4 
Stenactis speciosa, 763 
Stephanotis floribunda, 300 ; fruiting, 
26 
Stocks, Broinpton, 56, 633 ; Dyson’s, 
667 
Stocks, Intermediate, 568 
Stock, the night-scented, 804 
Stock, the, is it a native plant, 501 
Stocks for exhibition, 35S 
Stocks for fruit trees, blight proof, 74 
Stone fruit and firm soil, 140 
Stove plants and their culture, 389 
Stove plants, flowering, 790; orna¬ 
mental, 5S2, 59S; winter treatment 
of, 154 
Strabane Show, the, 75S 
Stradbrooke Hall, Dublin, S22 
Strawberry, Elton Pine, 747 ; John 
Ruskin, 716 : the President, 795 ; 
the Plymouth, 771 
Strawberry crops, 67S 
Strawberries at Chiswick, 744; in 
pots, 167 ; in pots, wintering, 170; 
for forcing, 712; making new 
plantations of, 74, 730; notes on, 
788 
Strawberry plants as edgings, 167 
Strelitzia Reginae, 716 
Streptosolen Jamesoni, 604 
Strophanthus Madagascariensis, 453 
Structure of bulbs, 505 
Stuartia sub-Camellia, 762 
Styrax Obassia, 661 
Sub-tropical garden, hardy plants for 
the, 22 
Sugar, cheap, 22S 
Sulphide of potassium, 67S 
Sumach, the Stag’s-horn, 22 
Summerville, Limerick, 4S7 
Sunflower, a useful, 92; Yeitch's 
Miniature, 10 
Sunflowers, 424; at Hurstside. 8 
Sutherlandii frutescens, 636 
Sutton & Sons, the firm of, 691 
Swanley, visit of horticulturists to, 
724; winter flowers, 264 
Sweet William, the, 60, 72, 93 
Sympathy, 522 
Symphytum orientale, 651 
Syringa vulgiris Marie Lemoine, 4S6 
T 
Tabern.emontaxa coronaria, 460 
Table decorations, 424 
Tacsonia insignis, 90 ; a hybrid, 665 
Taxodium distichum, 315 
Tayside House, Perth, 647 
Tea leaves as manure, 59 
Technical education, horticultural, 4, 
27S 
Teddington Horticultural Discussion 
Society, 602 
Temple Flower Show, the, 579, 598, 
633 
Terminalia elegans, 715 
Tlialictrum aquilegifolium, 665 
Thomson’s Vine Manure, 269 
Thorn, the double scarlet, 647; the 
Fiery, 292 
Thyme, Fraser’s Silver, 235 
Thymus rotundifolius, 774 
Thyrsacanthus rutilans, 269 
Thujopsis borealis lutea, 695 
Thuya gigantea, 149, 293, 411; gigan¬ 
tea from seed, 137; gigantea as a 
timber tree, 166 
Tigridia and Hippeastrum, the fer¬ 
tilization of, 580 
Tillandsia Lindenii vera, 37S ; tessel- 
lata, 330 
Toad Lily, the Japanese, 91 
Tobacco, 14S; the night-scented, 
596 ; a perennial winter-flowering, 
347 
Tobacco culture, 107 ; home-grown, 
228, 325, 566,596, 619, 792 ; in Scot¬ 
land, 455 ; Irish-grown, 630 
Tomato Blenheim Orange, 25 ; Drum- 
lanrig. 792; Harefield Grove, 106; 
The Pedigree, 92, 74, 106 ; Webb’s 
Sensation, 74, 90, 106 
Tomato nomenclature, 58 
Tomatos, the culture of, 5S0 ; in the 
open-air, 644 
Tomato disease, 747, 826 
Tomatos, the black spot of, S25 
Tomatos, 10; the Chiswick trials of, 
70 ; 90 ; 806 ; notes on, 119, 420 
Torenia Fournieri, 26 
Tottenham, hardy plants at, 5 
Traehelium cceruleum, 439 
Trachelospermum jasminoides’ 475 
Trade exhibition prizes, 19, 5S 
Trade sales, 3 
Traveller’s Joy, 43 
Travelling notes, S07, S23 
Trial fees at Chiswick, 260 
Trichopilia suavis, 444 
Tricyrtis hirta, 91 
Trillium discolor atratum, 472 
Triteleia uniflora, 549, 567 
Tritoma, Tritonia, or Kniphofia, 75 
Treboth Hall, 235 
Tree of Heaven, the, SS 
Tree and plant labels, Druery’s, 59 
Trees and shrubs, flowering, 647, 663, 
697 
Tree planting at Braemar, 631 ; in 
towns, 1S5 
Tree pruning at Turnham Green, 
372 
Trees, ornamental and pictorial, 296; 
for smoky districts, 344 
Tropseolum Mrs. Ellis, 90; speciosum, 
10, 74 
Tryphia secunda, 312 
Tub, a neat, for plant growing, 154 
Tuberoses, 486 
Tulipa Kolpakowskiana, 581 
Tulip, a monstrous, 523 ; the Parrot, 
470 
Tulip, the Florists’, 190, 504, 584, 
648 ; breeder, from Holland, 651; 
at Manchester, 6S0 
Tulip Show at Batley, 664; at Haar¬ 
lem, 612 
Tulip Society, the Royal National, 
664 
Tulip tree, the, 757 
Tunica saxifraga, 826 
Turf laying, 167 
Turner Memorial, prizes for 1SS8, 340 
Turnips, early, 251 
Tweed Vineyard, the, 232 
u 
Umbilifer, earliest flowering, 554 
United Horticultural Benefit and 
Provident Society, 99 102, 390 
United States, floriculture in the, 
565 
Utricularia rliyterophylla, 456 
Y 
Yaccinium leucobotrys, 139 
Vanda, 252,270 ; Cathcarti, 428 ; cris- 
tata, 539 ; limbata, 27 ; Lowii, 125 ; 
planifolia, 555; Sanderiana, 77; Spa- 
thulata in Ceylon, 233; suavis, 
Chatsworth var., 539 ; suavis, Rose- 
field var., 669; undulata, 492 
Vegetable, a new, 244 
Vegetable cookery, 5S0 
Vegetables, culture of, 244 ; at the 
South Dublin Union, 806 
Vegetable Marrows, 787 
Vegetable Marrow, Pen-y-Byd, 75 
Vegetable Notes, 150, 199, 759, 792 
Vegetable notes from the West, 295 
Vegetables, exhibition, 36 
Vegetables for exhibition, “ Sealing,” 
52 
Vegetable, forced, 359 : useful, 57 
Vegetable Show at South Kensington, 
the last, 14S 
Vegetable watch dog, a, 62S 
Vegetable world, foods from the, 16S 
Vegetation, the antiquity of, 645, 725, 
757 
Yeitch Memorial Prize for 18SS, 3SS 
Verbascum phoeniceum, 725 
Verbenas, 7 
Veronica gentianoides, 650; Guth- 
rieana, 651 ; Hulkeana, 6S4 ; longi- 
folia subsessilis, 727; salicifolia, 
772 
Vetplantenkring, 292 
Viburnum opulus, 663 ; plicatum, 697 
Victoria and Paradise Nurseries, 312 
Vine, the Black Hamburgh at Kin- 
nell, 1S6 
Vine culture in Belgium, 405 
Vine growing at Harvey Lodge, 24 
Vine laterals, tying down, 099 
Vines and manure, 327 
Vines, effects of soil on, 119 ; renova¬ 
ting, 54 
Viola, Blue cell, 219, 234, 251; biflora, 
581; corauta, 665; Countess of 
Kintore and Magpie, 75; Holyrood, 
269 ; pedata bicolor, 603; Skylark, 
636 
Violas, autumn planting, 107; bed¬ 
ding, S6 ; new, 792 ; notes on, 680, 
696 
Violet, the Bride, 456; the Cool- 
cronan, 630; Marie Louise, 75; 
Victoria, 535 ; the Laurel-leaved, 
196 ; Rawson’s White, 425 
Violet culture in France, 90 
Vitis heterophylla variegata, 571; 
tricuspidata, 139 
w 
Waddox House, Croydon, 200 
Wallflower, the changeable, 603 
Wall fruit trees in cottage gardens, 
683 
Walls, on covering bare, 247 , effects 
of Ivy on, 56S, 629 ; Morello Cherries 
on, 187 
Walnut trees, fine old, 406 
Warscewiczella discolor, 588 
Warwick Road Nursery, Coventry, 
138 
Wasps and Bees, 791 
Wasps, the destruction of, 202 
Water for nothing, 24 
Water, hard, how to soften, 635 ; the 
scarcity of, 516 
Watering in winter, 311 
Weather and the crops, 455, 660; in 
Lancashire, 411; in the north in 
June, 631; in July, the, 79S 
Weed destroyer, a, 730 
Westbrook, Sheffield, 567 
West Coates Winter Garden, 535 
West of Scotland notes, 5S3 
Wcstmount, Kelvinside, 1S4 
Wheat, cross-breeding of, 6 
Wliitton, Mr. J., presentation to, ISO 
Wild flowers, 260, 730 
Wild and domesticated plants, 40S, 
422, 571 
Wilts Horticultural Society, 3SS 
Windflower, the forked, 667 
Windlestrawlee Nursery, 102 
Wind and the fruit, 139, 154 
Window gardening, 164,197, 21S 
Window plants in winter, 343 
Winter Heliotrope, 347 
Wistaria chinensis, 647 
Witsenia eorymbosa, 75.153 
Wolffia microscopia, 330 
Wood-boring insects, 756 
Woodbridge, Mr. John, the late, 541, 
54S 
Woodhateh Lodge, the Orchids at, 
309 
Woodside, Paisley, 214 
Wood, to prevent from rotting, 539 
Wrexham, Fruit Show at, 21S 
Wycombe Abbey, the Cherry house 
at, 2S5 
Y 
Tear, the new, 275 
Yew, galls on the, S21 
York Florists, Ancient Society of 
3SS 
York Gala, the, 30S. 340 ; retirement 
of Mr. Wilson, S19 
Z 
Zemiyranthes Treatise, 716 
Zinnia elegans, 805 
Zinnias, culture of, 116; double, 100; 
at Hoole Hall, 74 ; notes on, 59 
