The Gardening World.] 
[August 31st, 1886. 
CONTENTS OE VOL. V. 
FOR THE YEAR ENDING AUGUST 31st, 1889. 
i' 3 — 
A 
Abbey Paik, Leicester, 743 
Abies cep\ialonica, 280 
Acacia dealbata, 35S; Drummondi, 
341 
Acer colcbicuin rubruin, 89; Gor¬ 
don i, 694 
Achillea Gerberi, 727 
Acineta maculata, 616 ; Wrightii= 
Lacsena bicolor, 673, 704 
Aciphylla squarrosa, 168, 615 
Aconitum autumnale, 835 
Ada aurantiaca, 504 
Adiantum Capillus-Veneris grande, 
4S6 ; cuneatum versaillense, 789; 
Farleyense, raised from spores, 11, 
24, 117; versaillense, 11 ; Waltoni 
diffusum, 104; Williamsii, 214 
Adonis pyrenaica, 533 
iEranthus grandiflora, 7T2 
iErides Lawrencise, 232 ; suavissi- 
mum, 215 
iEschynanthus speciosus, 215 
iEsculus rubicunda, 422 
Aganisea coerulea, 663 
Agapanthus umbellatus maximus, 72 
Agapetes buxifolia, 4S5 
Ageratum, Cupid 2?0 
Agricultural lectures. 64 
Aigburth Nurseries, the, 824 
Ailauthus glandulosus, 132, 195, 232, 
740 
Albert Nursery, Peckham, 545 
Alderminster Lodge, 816 
Allamandas, 55 
Allotment gardens, 9, 223, 595 ; in 
England and Ireland, 39 
Alocasia, anew hybrid, 262 ; President 
Comte Oswald de Kerchove. 790 
Alpine nursery at Southport, 594 
Alstroeaieria psittacina, 21 
Amaryllis and Vallotas, 10 
Amaryllis Finette, 565 ; J. R. Pitcher, 
454; John Ruskin, 455; Terentian, 
487 
Amaryllis, new, 486, 533 ; at Chelsea, 
466 
Amasonia calycina, 168 
America, gardeners in, 453; vegetable 
culture in, 658 
American timber trade, 816 
Amorphophallus Titanum, 673, 70S 
Ampelopsis tricuspidata, 56, 136 ; a 
bronze-leaved, 71 
Ancient Society of York Florists, 256 
Anemone blanda, 481 ; double, King 
of Scarlets, 608 ; ranunculoides, 
497 ; sylvestris, 401 
Anemone, the Japan, 3S; the Poppy, 
657 
Angraecum citratum, 439; Sanderia- 
num, 4S7 ; sesquipedale, 281 
Annual, a showy, 711 
Annuals at Chiswick, 735; suitable 
for London gardens, 737, 755, 770 ; 
for spring flowering, 54; thinning, 
630 
Antholyza sethiopica, 550 
Anthracite Coal. 120, 136, 247, 273, 
295, 340, 359, 370, 391, 454, 582 
Anthurium crystallinum, 179 ; Dickii, 
784; Schertzerianum Williamsii, 
465 
Anthuriums, 30S, 695 
Antirrhinum, a three-ranked, 726 
Antirrhinum, the, as a bedding plant, 
819 
Aotus gracillima, 471 
Aphelandras, 293 
Aphelandra aurantiaca, 375 
Aphis destroyers, Lady-birds as, 752 
Aponogeton distachyon, 518 
Apple, Akera, 193 ; Baldwin, 281 ; 
Beauty of Bath, 836 ; Beauty of 
Kent, 264 ; Blenheim Orange, 21 ; 
Bramley’s Seedling, 181; the 
Bringewood Pippin, 257; Chatley’s 
Kernel, 264; Cox’s Orange Pippin, 
227 ; Devonshire Quarrenden, 227 ; 
Devonshire Quarrenden, origin of, 
240, 264, 290, 306; Duchess of 
Oldenburgh, 241; the Fox Whelp, 
306, 323; Golden Noble, 360; Golden 
Spire. 227, 281 ; Hawthornden, 306; 
Keswick Ckdlin, 290; Lady Sudeley, 
129; Lane’s Prince Albert, 408 ; 
Lord Burghley, 21, 193 ; Lord Suf- 
field, 227, 516; Niton House, 71; 
the new Northern Greening, 165 ; 
Potts’ Seedling, 281; The Professor, 
71 ; Rosemary Russet, 241, 408 ; 
Schutter’s Reinette, 388; Stirling 
Castle, 71, 337 ; Warner’s King, 280 ; 
Worcester Pearmain, 264 
Apple blossom, the. 597 
Apples, 799 ; grafting on Pears, 815 ; 
home-grown, 821 ; imported, 784 
Apples and Pears certificated, 147 
Apple and Pear, enemies of the, 706 
Apple and Pear trees, dwarf, 241; in 
Irish gardens, 242 
Apple culture at home, 687; for 
profit, 112, 119 
Apples, Pears and Plums, 147 
Apples, notes on some good, 82; the 
Nottinghamshire, 115; from cut¬ 
tings, 369, 423 
Aquilegias, 624 
Arachis hypogrea, 407 
Aralia pentephylla variegata, 791 
Ardisia mamillata, 199 
Aristolochia elegans, 663 
Aroid, the Giant, 708, 719 
Arran Islands, a few suggestions 
about the, 17S 
Artichokes, Jerusalem, in the West 
Indies, 20 
Artillery plant, the dwarf, 391 
Asimina triloba. 658 
Asparagus Chicory, 247, 295 
Asparagus culture, 277, 290 ; forcing, 
611 
Asparagus plumosus nanus var , S36 
Aspasia lunata, 105 
Asplenium caudatum, 471; scandens, 
615 
Asters,- the Chiswick trials of, 11; 
Comet. 52; late-flowering, 209 ; 
perennial, 120 
Aubrietia tauricola, 614 
Aueuba japonica, 612 ; and hiraalaica, 
2S0 
Auricula gossip, 500, 532 
Auricula Heatlierbell, 533 ; Marcus 
Aurelius, 484 
Auric l.s, 52 ; Alpine, 564, 5S0, 596 
Auricula show, the, 527; at Man¬ 
chester, 564 
Auriculas, 420; Mr. Horner and his, 
431; potting, 612 ; the winter rest, 
164 
Autumn Roses, 47 
Autumn tints in Kent, 14S 
Azalea amoena calyciflora,327; amoena 
Colvillei, 481; Deutsche Perle, 342 ; 
Madame Vander Cruyssen, 57S; 
obtusa alba. 503 ; puntica for town 
gardens, 390 
Azaleas, the Carmichael strain of, 183; 
good forcing, 308; h irdy, 647 ; 
specimen, 512 
B 
Bailey Denton v . the Great Northern 
Railway Co., 457 
Balsam, the culture of the, 615 
Balsams, two fine, 582 
Bambusa arundinacea gigantea, 152 
Banksian Medal, the, 610 
Barkeria Lindleyana, 297 
Barlow and Horsefleld, 550 
Barnet Nurseries, the, 49 
Barons, the, Twickenham, 385 
Barron, Mr. A. F., presentation to, 640 
Bayonet plant, the, 168, 615 
Bean, Carter’s Jubilee Runner, 103; 
Chelsea Giant, white runner, 32S 
Beans, broad, 692; long-pod and 
broad, 724 
Bean crop, the, of 18S8, 4 
Bean weevil, the, 384 
Bear’s foot, 422 
Beaufortia purpurea, 7S4 
Bedding plants, on propagating, 405 
Beech hedge, an immense, at Meik- 
lour, 51 
Bee-keeping, 655, 673 
Bees and fertilisation, 609, 645, 70S. 
725 
Beet, Downie’s Superb Blood Red, 
115 ; McGregor's Favourite, 72; 
Sutton's Silver, 731 
Beetle trap, Birkenhead’s, 592 
Begonia, Mrs. J. Chamberlain, 660; 
Froebelii, 152 ; Frcebelii, hybrids 
of,120; geranioides. 183 : Haageana, 
743 ; John Heal, 248 ; insignis, 311; 
manicata aureo maculata, 485 ; 
Octavie, 1S3, 199, 232 ; Rosebud, 
721 ; Socotrana, winter-flowering 
hybrids of, 131 ; suaveolens, 535 ; 
Weltoniensis, 807 
Begonia in America, the, 720 
Begonia jottings, S34 
Begonias, M. Lemoine’s new race of 
winter-flowering, 207; tuberous, 55, 
498, 582; double tuberous, 694 ; 
tuberous, new, 11, 100, 596, 612, 
692, 818; at Forest Hill, 820 ; in 
Somersetshire, 177; tuberous, varie¬ 
gated, 24 
Begonia leaves, remarkable, 743, 754 
Begonias, seedling, as bedding plants, 
356; seedlings v tubers for bedding 
out, 372 
Bellflower, the giant, 711 
Bell, Mr. R., presentation to, 52S 
Berberry, the, 611 
Berkeley, the late Rev. M. J., 7S5 
Berry-bearing plants, 259 
Bignonia Cherere, 754 ; venusta, 151 
Bilbergia nutans oil 
Birds and the fruit crop. 164,1S3,199 
Birmingham Botanical Gardens, 81 
Birmingham Gardeners' Mutual Im¬ 
provement Association, 96 
Birmingham Spring Flower Show, 536 
Blackberry, the Wilson Junr., 85 
Bluebell, the New Zealand, 711 
Blood showers. 624 
Boiler, new horizontal tubular, 21 
Boiler power, insufUcient, 224, 24S 
Bougardii Rauwoltii, 470 
Books; Cranston’s Cultural Directions 
for the Rose, 420 ; “The Garden” 
Annual, 224; Harkness’ Practical 
Rose Growing, 516 ; Simkins’, The 
Pansy and How to Grow it, 500 ; 
Veicch’s Manual of Orchidaceous 
Plants, 309 ; Weeks’ Horticultural 
Pocket Book and Diary, 256 ; 
Shilling Gardening. 4 
Borecole, Read's new hearting, 562 
Borouia heterophylla, 471, 615 ; me¬ 
gastigma, 391 
Bouquet from the North, a, 3S7 
Bougainvillea, 6 
Boussingaultia baselloides, 199, 375 
Bouvardia, Mrs. Robert Green, 752 
Box edgings, 550 
Bramh’e, the double Rose-leaved, 2S0 
Bramley’s seedling Apple, 1S1 
Brassavola caudata, 599 
Briars, the, Chislehurst, 629 
Bridehead House, Dorset, 324 
British Fruit Growers’ Association, 
176, 178 
Broccoli, a branching, 741; Hartland’s 
April Queen, 579 ; purple sprouting, 
353 ; at The Grove, Teddington, 387 
Brookville, co. Dublin, 34 
Bronghtonia sanguinea, 25 
Brownea coccinea, 567 ; graudiceps, 
391 
Brussels Sprout, The Conqueror, 328 ; 
Sutton's Exhibition, 328; Webb’s 
Matchless, 401 
Brussels Sprouts, 448 ; at Chiswick, 
22S 
Buckbean, the, 534 
Bulbs in Hyde Park, 576 ; on lawns, 
496 ; planting, 102 ; the sacrifice of, 
195 ; culture of, 23 
Bulb trade in Ireland, 82 
Bulbophyllum Dearei, 712 
Bunyard, Mr. G., on Apple culture 
for profit, 119 
Burlingtonia decora, 2S1 
Burton, Mr. W., presentation to, 288 
Bupthalmum cordifolium, 772 
Butter-nuts, 247, 406 
c 
Cabbage, EllanTs dwarf, 833 
Cabomba aquatica, 663 
Cacao tree, the, 754 
Caladiums, 516 ; at Maida Vale, 582 
Calamus ciliaris, 485 
Calanthemasuca,2Sl; Sandhurstiana, 
361; vestite oculata gigantea, 487 
Calathea zebrina, 391 
Calceolaria Sinclairi, 679 
Calceolarias, 10 ; herbaceous, 626 
Callicarpa purpurea, 199 
Calliopsis atrosanguinea, 98; tinc- 
toria, 51 
Callirhoe involucrata, 9 
Calyptrogyne Ghiesbreghtiana, 550 
Camellias, a few good, 308 
Campanula carpatica turbinata, 743 ; 
garganica, 567 ; isophylla alba, 11; 
macrostyla, 743 ; persicifolia alba 
fl. pi., 401 ; pusilla, 743 
Camptosorus rhizophyllus, 384 
Candytuft, rock, 407 
Canker in fruit trees, 149 ; grafting to 
cure, 451 
Canna Ulrich Brunner, 104 
Cannas as decorative plants, 11 
Capsicum Little Gem, 342 
Carnarvon, notes from, 64 
Carnation, Mdlle. Carle, 36; Emma 
Lakin, 52; Gentle Jacky, 164; 
Germania, 116, 148; J. Harrison. 
8 ; Robert Houlgrave, SB., 8; Paul 
Engleheart, 790; Perdita, 800; 
Mrs. Reynolds Hole, 22; Souvenir 
de Malinaison, 276; Souvenir de 
Hans Mackhart, 790 
Carnations, the Kilmurry yellow 
ground,356 
OarnatioDs and Picotees, 52, 100, 388, 
404, 420 
Carnation and Picotee Union, the, 
340, 452, 788, 804, S20, S34 
Carnation societies, 464 
Carnation bloom prospects, 596 
Carnation gossip, S34 
Carnation, Mr. Hibberd on the, 772 ; 
properties of the, 388 
Carnation maggot, th *, 596, 612, 628 
Carnation—Ruination, 724 
Carnation trial, the, 164 
Carnations, 500, 028, 767; from 
Chesterfield, 68 
Carnation development, 76S; exhi¬ 
biting. 834; fertilising, 789; layering, 
790, 805 ; potting, 436; seedling, 
132, 679; split pod, 36, 84, 116; 
transplanting, 646 ; without per¬ 
fume, 372; winter-flowering, 132, 
180 
Carpenteria californica, 679 
Carrot, Scarlet Model, 163 
Carse of Gowrie, fruit-growing in, 
816 
Carter’s provident sick fund, 240, 656 
Caryocar nucifera, 406 
Castillega indivisa, 775 
Catalogue plagiarisms, 481 
Catasetum barbatum probiscidium, 
519 ; discolor, 409, 616 ; fimbriatum 
fissum, 297; tridentatum, 536 ; a 
miniature, 215 
Caterpillars, 60S 
Cattleya Bowring'ana 152, 199 ; Bow- 
ringiana violacea, 232 ; citrina, 568; 
crispa, freak of, 12 ; D miniana, 73 ; 
Dowiana, 121, 244 ; Dowiana aurea, 
12, 1S5; Eldorado varieties, 40; 
Gaskelliana alba, 297; Gaskelli- 
ana, Cook’s var., 695 • gigas, a 
phenomenal, 152 ; granulosa Scho- 
fleldiana, 536 ; Harrisii, 137: 
Lauiberliurst hybrid, 137; luteola, 
313; Mendelii, Arddarroch var., 
551; Mendelii, Miss Little, 695 ; 
Mos-ise, 663 ; Mossise, G. T. White, 
695 ; Schilleriana, 791; Schroderi- 
ana alba, 599 ; Trianse, 471 ; Trianae 
ampliata, 487 ; Trianae, Backhouse’s 
var., 472 ; Trianae var., 487 ; Trianae 
delicata, 408; Trianae, the Glen 
var., 392; Trianae “gone wrong,” 
440 ; Warscewiczii Hardyana, 820 
Cattleya, the smallest, 313 ; from 
Arddarroch, 439, 632 
Cedrus atlantica glauca, 168, 183 
Celosia pyramidalis, 391 ; for cut 
flowers, 152 
Centaurea babylouica, 754; macro* 
cephala, 772 
Centropogon Lucyanus, 183 
Cephalotus follicularis, 615 
Cereus Claudiana, 673 
Chamaerops humilis, 406 
Chatsworth, Nottingham gardeners 
at, 752 
Cherries, 6S8 
Cherry house at Gunnersbury Park, 
609 
Chester, gardeners’ visits to, 800 
Chestnut Sunday, 608 
Chicory, 345; Asparagus, 247, 295 
Children’s flower show at Egham, 769 
Children, seeds for the, 470 
Childwickbury, Bouvardias and 
double Primulas at, 247 
Chionodoxa Luciliae, 465, 481; sar- 
densis, 423 
Chironia palustris, 754 
Chiswick Apple and Pear Conference, 
79, 118, 132; Chrysanthemum Con¬ 
gress, 289,400,641; Rose Conference, 
239, 674, 705 ; Vegetable Conference, 
767, 815 ; annuals at, 735 ; the old 
arboretum at, 308; Brussels Sprouts 
at, 22S ; Figs at, 38 ; fruit show, 111; 
manure trials, 335, 400, 432 ; move¬ 
ment to resuscitate, 191, 127 ; Toma- 
tos, 815; trials, the, of 1888, 11 ; 
vegetable trials, 3S9 
Chiswick Gardeners’ Mutual Improve¬ 
ment Association, 497 
Chiswick House, specimen trees at, 
323 
Choisya ternate, 560 
Chorozema flava, 485 
Christmas flowers at Swanley, 260 
Christmas flowers and fruits, 260 
Christmas Roses, 277; protecting, 
150 ; from seed, 260 
Christmastide, 255 
Chrysanthemum coronarium, Cloht 
of Gold, 89 ; leucanthemuin e ill- 
duplex, 628 ; maximum, 629 
Chrysanthemum annual, a new race 
of, 752 ; at the Grove, 837 
Chrysanthemum, bronze sport from 
Golden Beverley, 469 ; Burnaby, 83 ; 
Doree, 113; Elsie, 97; Florence 
Percy, 146; Golden Beverley and 
its sports, 449 ; Golden Shah, S07 ; 
Mrs. Alpheus Hardy, origin of, 704 ; 
Mrs. Hawkins, 36; Jeanne Marty, 
182; La Petite Marie, 113 ; Golden 
La Petite Marie, 113 ; La Petite 
Marie, culture of,97 ; Maud Pitcher, 
833; Rundle class, the, 352; Stan- 
stead White, 469 
Chrysanthemum conference, the, 239 
Chrysanthemum, the centenary of the 
introduction of the, 144, 176, 191; 
centenary prizes at Birmingham,593 
Chrysanthemums 10,32; at Chiswick, 
196 ; blooms damping off, 167 ; buds 
damping off, 182 ; Mr. Gibson on 
damping in, 325 ; hirsute, S33 
Chrysanthemum classes for small- 
flowered varieties, 372 
Chrysanthemum cuttings, 225 ; on 
cutting back, 211, 276, 577; Mr. 
Molyneux on the influence of wood 
ripening on buds and blooms, 208 ; 
Mr. Molyneux on manures for, 312 ; 
culture, Mr. C. Pearson on, 27S ; 
Mr. Tunnington on, 196, 212; Mr. 
Gordon on forms of, 292; in small 
pots, 39; early-flowering varieties, 
67, 83; injured by early frost, 96, 
97 ; effects of the early frosts, 130 ; 
feeding and top-dressing. 757 ; the 
prominent flowers of 18S8, 404 ; at 
Camberwell, 167; at High Elms, 
167, 30S ; notes from Perth, 243 ; 
hirsute, 512 ; mid-winter blooms of, 
337; Mr. Kipling on mid-winter, 
321 ; new. 130,183 ; the new Ameri¬ 
can varieties, 593 ; the new varieties 
certificated, 147 ; northern, 28S ; 
notes on. 66, 434; outdoor, 224; 
propagating, heat v. cold, 241, 262 ; 
season, the, 80 ; September-flower¬ 
ing varieties, 54, 113 
Chrysanthemum growers, a warning 
to, 56, 67 
Chrysanthemum shows ;—Ayr, 227 ; 
Bacup, 234; Birmingham, 216; 
Bolton, 234 ; Brighton and Ho ve, 
184 ; Bromley, 201; Chiswick, 201; 
Clonmel, 192 ; Croydon, 217; Cry¬ 
stal Palace, 1S4 ; Dublin, 194; 
Eccles, 249 ; Edinburgh, 216 ; 
Faversham, 217; Hammersmith, 
201; Kent County, 201 : Kingston 
and Surbiton, 170 ; Lambeth, 200 ; 
Liverpool, 216 ; Manchester, 233 ; 
Margate, 233 ; National, 169, 176, 
183; National at Sheffield, 200 ; 
Nottingham, 217 ; Stockport, 233 ; 
Watford, 1S4 ; York, 200 
Chrysanthemum tube. Lindsay’s, 113 
Cineraria cruenta, 515, 582 ; Emperor 
Frederick, 276, 3SS, 503 
Cinerarias, double, 59S; new, 484,532; 
Mr. Downie’s, 582; at Farnliam 
Royal, 340, 532 ; at Forest Hill, 49S 
Cirrhaea saccata, 712 
Cistus florentinus, 5S2; ladaniferus, 
705 
Citrus, hybridisation in the genus, 32 
Clay Cross Horticultural Society, 
retirement of Mr. Stollard, SO 
Claye House, Halifax, 502 
Claytonia alsinoides in Edensor 
Wood, 784 
Clematis indivisa at Melville Castle, 
435; Jackmanni, 534; montana, 693; 
Viorna coccinea, 816 
Clerodendron fallax, 56 
Clerodendrons, 6, 305 ; two useful, 561 
Clianthus Dampieri, 832 
Climate, fruit culture and foods, 32 
Climbers for town gardens, 198 
Climbing stove plants, 6 
Clivia miniata, 584 ; John Laing, 4S7 ; 
Lady Wolverton, 455, 501 ; robus- 
tum, 43S 
Clivias, 501 
Clovenfords, Grape-growing at, 723 
Clover and grass seed, 305 
Clover seed, prosecution for dyeing, 
424 
CohiBa scandens variegate, 2S0, 471 
Cocos nucifera, 710 
Coelogyne cristate, 345; cristate alba, 
4S0; cristate, freak of, 329, 471 ; 
Gardneriana, 248; humilis, 392 ; 
lentiginosa, 345 ; Massangeana, 376 ; 
pandurata, 56S 
Colchicumarenarium 4S6; maximum, 
136 
Coleuses for winter decoration, 291 
Colonial marvels, 415 
Coloured rain, 723 
