VI, September 5, 1891.] 
CONTENTS. 
[The Gardening World. 
Pink, Maud, 656 
Pink, a popular chapter on the, 729 
Pinks, garden border, 556 
Pink, the laced, 56, 88, 104, 136, 200, 
426; laced and border, 444, 460 
Pinks, 652 ; and the Pink Society, 620 
Pink Society, the National, 120, 166, 
248, 328; Midland Show, 748; 
Northern Show, 764 
Pitmaston Duchess Pear, 124 
Planting time, 131 
Planting season, the, 339 
Plant Barometers, 443 
Plant collections, private, 791 
Plant groups, decorative, 727 
Plant life in ocean depths, 327 
Plants and legends, 359 
Plants for exhibition, 342 ; as living 
beings, 197 ; pedigree, breeding of, 
651 ; protecting, 281 ; reserve food 
in, 343 
Platyclinis Cobbiana, 285 ; filiformis, 
833 
Plum crop, the, 808 
Plum St. Etienne, 815 
Plums, 532 ; for market, 154 
Poinsettia pulcherrima, hardiness of, 4 
Poison in food plants, 314 
Polemonium Richardsoni, 653 
Poltalloch, the gardens at, 5, 21 
Polyanthus Bullock's Lancer, 620; 
tne Gold-laced, 216, 232, 376, 408, 
427, 444, 460, 476, 571 
Polygonum sachalinense, 60 
Polygonum vaccinifolium, as a Bee 
Plant, 122 
Polypodium glaucophyllum, 251 
Polystichum angulare divisilobum 
densum, 634 ; simense, 512 
Pond life, Rev. G. Henslow on, 586 
Ponds, garden, 123 
Poppy, the Bride, 2S0'; the Shirley, 
830 
Potato, Early Puritan, 39; Early 
Short-top, 799; Liliputian, 43 ; 
Magnum Bonum, 244 ; The Major, 
77 
Potato Culture for the million, 522 
Potato, the, 86, 102 ; in Ireland, 75 
Potato disease, the, 52, 93, 140, 187 
Potato disease, a remedy for the, 12 ; 
proposed trial of Sulphate of 
Copper, 601 
Potatos, disease resisting, 245 ; Mar¬ 
ket Prices of, 85 ; preserving, 792 ; 
proliferous, 795 ; stored, 248 
Potentillaaurea, 657; formosapallida, 
12 
Primula Poissoni, 672 ; imperialis, 686 
Primrose James Nimmo, 527 
Primroses, Blue, 180, 558; hardy, 
264 ; Japan, 340 
Primula Clusiana, 511 ; involucrata, 
591; mollis, 591; obconica, 235, 
544 ; obconica, improved forms of, 
511; obconica, poisonous, 11; 
Chinese, double sport of, 363 
Primulas at Forest Hill, 395 
Propagation by circumposition, 686 
Prostanthera lasianthos, 590 
Prunella Webbiana, 735 
Prunus divaricata, 559 ; triloba, 575 
Pteris palmata, 267 ; serrulata pen- 
dula, 762 ; tremula Smithiana, 360, 
607 
Pulmonaria mollis, 527 ; saccharata, 
608 
Puschkinia scilloides, 543 
Puya edulis sp. nov., 375 
Pyrethrum, Jas. Kelway, 656 ; uligino- 
sum, 77 ; 
Pyrethrums, new, 699 
Q 
Queen wood, Chertsey, 814 
Quercus rubra, etiolation of, 731 
R 
Rain, artificial production of, 314 ; 
without clouds, 619 
Ranche life in the N. W. T., 346 
Ranunculus amplexicaulis, 591 ; asia- 
ticas, 476, 556; bilobus, 554; 
gramineus, 656 ; speciosus, 622 
Ranunculus, the Persian, 649 
Reinwardtia trigynum, 348 
Rhodanthe Manglesi, 617 
Rhododendron Champion®, 532 ; 
Colletianum, 608 ; Rosalie Seidel, 
634 
Rhododendrons, 616; Alpine, 766; 
hardy, 120; Himalayan, 569; hy¬ 
brid, 584 ; soil for, 220 
Rhynchostylis coelestis, 684, 833 
Richardia SEthiopica, 636; africana, 
Little Gem, 108 
Rhubarb Shows, 198 
Rockeries, the pests of, 602 
Rock Roses, hardy, 747 
Rodgersia podophylla, 703 
Rohais Nursery, the, 138 
Romantic Garden, a, 202 
Root-pruning, effects of, 40 
Roots, Market, 521 
Rosedown Nursery, the, 395 
Rosemary, wild, 575 
Rosa polyantha, 702 
Rosa rugosa, fruit preserve of, 59, 93 
Roses, 730 
Rose, Danmark, 479 ; Devoniensis, 
245 ; Gloire de Dijon, 341 ; Little 
Pet, 77 
Roses, autumn, 36, 490 ; and the frost, 
312; on budding, 750; for button¬ 
holes, 767 ; Giant Banksian, 665 ; 
Damask, 685 ; for low situations, 
235 ; new, 575, 607, 634 ; on prun¬ 
ing, 408; since i860, 666; six 
popular, 166; sweet scented, 187 ; 
on their own roots, 235 
Rose Shows, the, 663 
Roupell Park Nurseries, the, 730 
Royal Horticultural Society's Com¬ 
mittees for 1891, 299 
Royal Horticultural Society, 211, 276, 
359. 389; the Treasurership, 116, 
292, 324 
Rubbish Heaps, 575 
Rudbeckiacalifornica, 752; purpurea, 
28 
Rue Anemone, 590 
S 
Saccolabium bellinum, 432; bigib- 
bum, 530 
Saladings, 76, 87 
Sale catalogue, a novel, 490 
Salvia patens, 167 ; patens alba, 42 
Salvias, autumn and winter flowering, 
220 ; planting out, 236 
Sarracenia purpurea, 702 
Savoys, Early, 815 
Saxifraga Boydi, 497 ; Burseriana, 
490; cordifolia purpurea, 552, 588; 
juniperifolia, 479 ; moschata atrc- 
purpurea, 608 ; oppositifolia, 478 
Sawdust for propagating, 639 
Scabiosa atropurpurea, proliferation 
in, 827 ; caucasica amoena, 833 
Schizanthus Grahamii retusus albus, 
59 
School of Handicrafts, Chertsey, 648 
Schubertia grandiflbra, 140 
Scorzonera, a new use for, 552 
Scottish Primula and Auricula 
Society, 588 
Seakale, 228, 356, 458; its history 
and culture, 267 
Season, peculiarities of the, 568 
Sea-weeds, concerning, 246 
Sedum asiaticum, 608 
Seedsmen's orders, 291 
Seed orders, 315 
Seeds, their germination, &c., 525, 
542 ; spiral cells in, 38; the vita¬ 
lity of, 729 
Selenipedium Lindleyanum, 302 
Shaddock on an open wall, the, 123 
Shortia galacifolia, 497, 604 
Show season of 1890, 195 
Shrubberies, crowded, 544 
Shrubs for planting under trees, 234 
Silene pusilla, 656; pendula com- 
pacta, 197 ; Vallesia, 717 
Sisyrinchium grandiflorum, 528 
Skimmia Fortunei, 431 
Slug, the ear shelled, 507, 527 
Smell, the sense of, 279 
Snowdrops, 445 
Snowflakes, 495 
Snow, work in the, 281 
Societies :—Acton Horticultural, 769; 
Alloa Horticultural, 60 ; Chiswick 
Horticultural, 721 ; Birmingham, 
529; Crystal Palace, 29,108,480,593 ; 
Devon and Exeter, 834 ; Edinburgh 
Botanical, 672; Liverpool Horti¬ 
cultural Association, 512, 785; 
Manchester Botanical and Horti¬ 
cultural, 578, 609 ; National Chry¬ 
santhemum, 45, 139; North of 
Scotland Horticultural, 141, 331 ; 
Preston and Fulwood Horticultural, 
94 ; Royal Botanic, 466, 593, 673 ; 
Royal Caledonian Horticultural, 
45, 513 ; Royal Horticultural, 28, 
109, 141, 657, 238, 318, 381, 449, 
480, 528, 546, 592, 688, 719, 752, 
801, 834 ; Royal Horticultural of 
Aberdeen, no, 528, 826;' Royal 
Manchester Horticultural, 44 ; 
Royal National Tulip, 652; Sandy 
and Districts, 13 ; Shropshire Hor¬ 
ticultural, 4, 480, 830; Stirling 
Horticultural, 29 ; Westminster 
Aquarium, 108, 561, 609, 704 ; York 
Gala, the. 688 
Solanum Seaforthianum, 235 ; Wend- 
landi, 622 
Soot deposit, the, 473 
Soot plague, the, 422 
Sparrows, about, 221 
Spigelia splendens, 703 
Spinach, 373 
Spiraea astilboides, 825; Aruncus with 
perfect flowers, 751 ; Bumalda, 
752; the blistered-leaved, 747 ; 
Japonica multiflora compacta, 
656 ; Kamtchatica, 767 ; Lindley- 
ana, 817 ; lobata, 794 ; media, 497 
Spraying engines, trial of, 494 
Stachy's tuberifera, brandy from, 132 
Stanhopea, the first hybrid, 356 ; 
oculata, 769 ; saccata, 769 
Stapelia gigantea, 122 
Starch in leaves, 311 
Statice puberula, 332 
Stenoglottis fimbriata, 60 
Stipules, their form and function, 667 
Stocks and Asters, on sowing, 636 
Stocks, concerning, 809 ; Night- 
scented, 766 
Stock, influence of the, 311 
Stocking, Mr, W., presentation to, 
553 
Stove plants, culture of, 357 
Stoves 150 years ago, 295 
Strawberries, Gunton Park seedling 
and Lord Suffield, 752; John 
Ruskin, 680, 702 ; Latest of All, 829 
Strawberries, 100, 680; early, 718; 
for forcing 730 
Strawberry blight, 20 
Strawberry breadths, 406 
Strawberry season, the, 750 
Streptocarpus, hybrid, 37, 76 
Succulents, a bed of, 794 
Sugar Canes, seedling, 246, 279, 357 
Summer tints, 719 
Sycamore and Sycamine, 795 
Sydney, notes from, 556 
Syon House, 459 
Syringa villosa, 672 
T 
Table plants, 196 
Tagetes lucida, 12 
Tainia sessilifolia, 189 
Tannin, the functions of, in plants, 571 
Tapton House, Chesterfield, 624 
Tasmania, the forests of, 715 
Tea, British grown, 40 
Tea plant, the, 155 
Technical Education, 505 
Temple Show, the, 599, 631, 638 
Tennyson's Flowers, 539 
Thunia Bensoniae Winniana, 704 
Tiarella cordifolia, 640^ 
Tillandsia Lindeni, 332 ; psittacina, 
332 
Titmice, about, 268 
Toadflax, bastard, and its host plants, 
543 
Todeas, giant, 251 
Tomato Optimus, 108 
Tomato, the tree, 425 
Tomato, average life of a, 407 ; green, 
sweet pickle, 315 
Tomatos, 36,121, 260,664, 749; early, 
656; in January, 314 ; and Fog, 
251; Fog-resisting, 622 ; the right 
compost for, 154 ; early, treatment 
of, 603 ; at the Guildhall, 91 ; at 
Forest Hill, 10 
Tottenham, hardy flowers at, 618 
Town Trees, 148 
Trade Catalogues, 637 
Tradescantia virginica, 735 
Tree planting in towns, 231 
Tree pruner, Coppin's, 245 
Trees and shrubs, evergreen, 559, 
571; in flower, 620; spring flowering, 
316, 327 
Trees, the defoliation of, 315 ; late- 
foliating, 619 ; lopping and topping, 
730; in London, 310; for the 
extreme North, 106; staking newly 
planted, 278, 294 
Trial ground, Hurst & Sons’, 719 
Trillium erectum, 590; nivale, 478 
Tritoma uvaria, 237 
Tropaeolums, choice,’654 
Tropaeolum tuberosum, 347 
Tuberose, the, 325 ; in the open air, 11 
Tulip, the florists', 460, 508, 636, 
668, 700 
Tulips for budding, 640 
Tulip Society, the Royal National, 
620 
Turner Memorial prizes, 276 
Turnip crop, the, 776 
Tussilago Farfara, 540 
u 
United Horticultural Provident and 
Benefit Society, 136, 375 
V 
Vaccinium pennsylvanicum, 187 
Valerian, the Golden, 511 ; the round¬ 
leaved, 608 
Vanda Amesiana, 302 ; caerulea, 6o, 
94; parviflora, 641; Sanderiana, 77 ; 
teres at Gunnersbury Park, 685 
Variegation, inherited, 778 
Vegetable culture for market, 85 
Vegetable notes, 747 
Vegetable seedlings, 568 
Vegetable symbiosis, 425 
Vegetables, autumn, 148; imported, 
632 
Vegetables in Sahara, 311 
Vegetarian troubles, 373 
Veitch's Manual of Orchidaceous Plants, 
669 
Veitch Memorial Prizes, 276 
Verbascum olympicum, 752 
Veronica spicata, 826 
Ville's Chemical Manures, 814 
Vine, a new enemy of the, 164 
Vine, a tuberous-rooted, 491 
Vines and soil, 124 
Vine louse, the, 555 
Vines, manuring with copper, 431; 
Mealy Bug on, 236, 251, 261, 298 
Vineyard at Roubaix, a, 165 
Viola sciaphila, 608; tricolor, 122 
Violas, 459 ; select bedding, 72 ; in 
Town Gardens, 812 ; from Rothsay, 
622 ; spring flowering, 571 
Violet, the, 585 ; on the cultivation of 
the, 555 
Violets, double, 123 
Vitis discolor, rapid growth of, 
687 
w 
Wallflowers, single, 588 
Walnut and Pterocarya, 635 
Walnuts, planting for profit, 293 
Ward's Potato Culture for the million, 
522 
Wasps, 600 
Waste of towns, the, 698 
Watercress culture, 607 
Wattles and wattle barks, 10 
Weather, severe, 260 ; the severe, in 
January, 292 ; in December, 295, 
310, 443, 463 
Wedding decorations, 752 
Wedding Flower, the, 685 
Weeder, the Eradicating, 36 
Weedkiller, Smith's, 712 
Weevil, the clay-coloured, 649 
Weigela Abel Carriere, 77 ; hortensis 
alba, 699 
Weigelias, the, 767 
Williams, B. S., Memorial, 84, 340 
Willows, revision of the British, 359 
Window boxes, 823 
Winter and its lessons, 357 
Winter and plants, the, 293 
Winter drought, 422 
Winter Gardening by Rev. W. 
Wilks, 117 
Winter moth, the, 93, 188; grease 
bands, 154 
Wollaton Hall, 23 
Wolverhampton Horticultural Fete, 
75i 
Worms and the seeds of plants, 507 
Worms in flower pots, 590 
Wreath, the Funeral, 406 
Wrens, about, 285 
X 
Xanthoceras sorbifolia, 511 
Y 
Year, the new, 273 
Young men, the, 264, 282, 294, 312, 
325. 347. 363. 376. 4 j 2 
Yucca flaccida, 396 
Z 
Zephyranthes Candida, 12,140, 623 
carinata, 752 
Zinnia Haageana flore pleno, 37 
Zygocolax Veitchii, 398 
Zygopetalum crinitum, 412 ; Linde¬ 
ni®, 608 ; Mackayi, 381 ; Meleagrig 
albido-fulvum, 736 ' 
