T^e Gardening World.) 
[August 30, 1890. 
CONTENTS OF VOL. VI. 
FOR THE YEAR ENDING AUGUST 30th, 1890. 
A 
Abelia floribunda, 651 
Abies Tsuga, 796 
Abutilon megapotamicum, 283 ; viti- 
folium album, 132 
Acacia, the, 67S 
Acacia linearis, 410 ; lophanta, 299; 
ovata, 443 
Acer, Prince Hendjery, 604 
Achillea mongoliea, 652 
Achimenes, Rosy Queen, 571, S23 
Acine^a Barkeri, 7S1 
Adiantum Capillus-Veneris as a wall 
plant, 373 ; Capillus-Veneris imbri- 
catum, 411 ; caudatum, 2S3:cunea- 
tnm and its forms, 21S ; Daddsii, 
395 ; Fergusoni, 219; pedatum, 66S 
Adlumia cirrhosa, 747 
iEchmea glomerata, 340 
Aeranthus Leonis, 411 
Aerides illustie, 34S ; Sanderianum, 
669; quinquevulnerum, 27 
African Forest, the great, 601 
African Hemp, 394 
Agapanthus Mooreanus, 91 
Agricultural Education Bill, the, 4S7 
Akebia quinata, 76 
Albinism in plants, 534 
Aldiborontiphoskiphorniostikos, 132 
Alkanet, the Italian, 645 
AUamanda, the Oleander-leaved, 5S7 
Allium karataviense, 5SS 
Allotment gardens, 211, 812 
Alpine botanic garden, a new. 420 
Alpine house at Kew, the, 330 
Alstrcemeria haemantha, 764 
Amaranthns caudatus and A. tri¬ 
color, 709 
Amaryllis, the Champion, 440 ; Mrs. 
W. Lea, 427 
Amaryllis, Messrs. Veitch’s, 472 ; the, 
at Upper Holloway, 506; new 
varieties of, 4SS; a primrose- 
scented, 502 
Amasonia punicea, 1S6 
Amateurs’ greenhouses, 659 
Amateur’s lament, the, 730 
American dried fruits in foreign 
markets, 780 
American “ Florists’ Directory,” 420 
American Fruit Evaporators, 807 
American Government seed barn, 
the, 726 
American notes, 107, 815 
Amherstia nobilis, 555 
Ammobium alatum, 123 
Amorphophallus Eichleri, 331; 
Titanum, 492 
Ampelopsis bipinnata, 6S 
Amectochilus Lowii, 315 
Anemone angulosa, 363 ; apennina 
blanda, 375; coronaria, hardiness 
of, 284 ; the Crown, 455 ; fulgens, 
378; fulgens oculata, 556; japo- 
nica alba, 43; nemorosa flore pleno, 
603; trifolia, 571, 5SS; palmata 
alba, 604; pratensis, 588 ; stellata, 
363 
Anemones, Japan, 7 
Angrrecum Chailluanum, 77; citratum 
var., 493 : eburneum, 365 ; fragrans, 
34S ; hyaloides, 315 
Annuals for exhibition, 520 
Annuals, hardy, blue-flowered, 729 
Anthemis tinctoria, 60 
Anthurium album maximum, 635 ; 
carneum, 152; Laingi, 442; Leo- 
dense, 91; margaritaceum, 460 ; 
Scherzerianum Rothschildianum, 
300 ; splendidum, 460; Waroque- 
anum, 299 
Anthuriums at Tulse Hill, 712 
Antirrhinums, 72, S6 
Antirrhinums and Sweet Williams, 
77S 
Ants in hot-houses, 427 
Aotus graeillima, 571 
Apiarians, female, 436 
Apple, American Mother, 157; Ar- 
morel, 476; Barchard’s Seedling, 
103; Beachamwell, 215 ; Calville 
Rouge Preeoee, 166: the Cockpit, 
460; Dumelow’s Seedling, 215 ; 
Gascoigne’s Seedling, 103; Gib¬ 
bon’s Russet, 340; Gravensteiu, 
70 ; Lady Henniker, S7; Reinette 
Van Mons, 135; Rymer, 215; 
Sturmer Pippin, 410; Warner’s 
King, 87 
Apple, the mystical, 294 
Apple orchards, our, 119 
Apples, the best, 307 ; and localities, 
71; at Chiswick, 40; at the Drill 
Hall, 68; dried, poisoned; 420; 
grown in North Wales, 52 ; market, 
30S ; pruning and manuring, 361 
Aponogeton distaehyon, 155,187 
Aquarium Flower Show, 764 
Aquilegia, Red Gold, 676, 725 
Arachnanthe Lowii, 509 
Aralia graeillima, 442 
Aralia Sieboldii, a splendid specimen, 
101 
Araucaria Rulei, 315 
Araucarias, the grove of, at Snelston 
Hall, 390 
Arbutus Unedo, 108 
Arctic Bramble, the, 745 
Arctotis acaulis, 571 
Arddarroch, 616; Orchids from, 423 
Arddarroch and Finnart, a visit to, 
661 
Arissema filiformis, 66S 
Aristolochia Goldiana, 555 
Arnebia eornuta. 795 
Arts Club, Manchester, the, 357 
Arum Italicium, 492 
Asparagus plumosus nanus, 299 
Aspen House, Streatham Hill, 45S 
Asplenium longissimum, 427 ; nitens, 
425 ; resecturn, 299 
Association competitions, gardeners’, 
454 
Aster alpinus speciosus, 635 
Asters, China, 24, 40 ; miniature, 1S6 ; 
quilled, 4, 71; Ruby Victoria, 4 ; at 
Chi-wick, 73 
Atriplex hortensis atrosanguinea, 6S4 
Aubrietia deltoides violacea, 61S ; 
violacea, 61S 
Auction-sale season, the, 35 
Aucuba, the Himalayan, 362 ; japon- 
ica longifolia, 37S 
Aucubas, berried, 293 
Auricula, Magpie, 552 ; Monarch, 56S 
Auricula aphis, the, 344 ; maggots, 
the, "60 
Auriculas, 136. 521, 552, 664. 712; 
alpine, SS ; blooming in autumn, 
1S4; gossip on, 210; Rev. F. D. 
Horner on, 232 ; in April, 504 ; in 
October, 72; under frost, 2S0 
Auricula Shows, 549 
Auricula and Carnation Societies, 3S9 
Auricula Society, the National, 517, 
539 
Autumn foliage for decorative pur¬ 
poses, 107 
Autumn leafage, 131, 156 
Autumn tints, 149 
Avocado Pear, the, 156 
Azalea, Indian, a variegated, 395 
Azalea, Deutche Perle, 411 ; Madame 
Herman Jeidell, 427 ; Prince of 
Wales and Miss Buist, 51S 
B 
Babiana rubro-cyanea, 716 
Balsams, on sowing, 423 
Ballymoon House, co. Carlow, 39 
Bananas at Syon, 822 
Bantaskin, 6S2 
Barr & Son’s new nursery, 30S 
Batemannia Wallisii, 652 
Bath and West of England Society, 
653 
Bean, Girtford Giant Runner, 235 ; 
Chelsea Giant White, 824 
Beans, French, good early, 791 ; Kid¬ 
ney, at Syon House, S10 ; Runner, 
820 
Beanfeast, a Banbury. 21 
Beauly Horticultural Association, 
628 
Bedding, hardy plants for, 71; winter, 
297 
Bedding out, 595 
Bedding plants, almost forgotten, 
134 
Beeches, gnarled, 617 
Bee-keeping, 491 
Bee season, the, 772 
Bees, a Band of Hope for, 692 ; in¬ 
telligence of, 583 
Beet, Cheltenham Green-top, 796; 
Nutting’s Dark Red, 86 
Begonia, what is a ? 260, 282 
Begonia Adonis, 219; a pitcher on, 268; 
Arthur Malet, 616 ; Corallina, 812 ; 
Duke of Sutherland, 584 ; Fairy 
Queen, 700 ; Lord Salisbury, 570 ; 
Lubbersii, 155 ; metallica variegata, 
140; Miss Eastwood, 684; Prince 
Albert Victor, 616; Scbarffiana, 292; 
Weltoniensis, 60 ; Worthiana, 788 
Begonias, M. Crousse's new double, 
6 
Begonia, Rex varieties, lor rockwork, 
61 
Begonia, a hermaphrodite, 763 
Begonia, a new winter-flowering, 123 
Begonias in autumn, 100; autumn 
and winter-flowering, 292; tuber¬ 
ous, 747, 760; at Beechhill, 87; as 
bedded out plants, 42; from the 
open ground, 91; new, 600, 635, 648, 
668; seedlings of, 454 ; variegated 
tuberous, 668 
Bell-flower, the bearded, 683; the 
Chinese, 712 
Benary, Mr. E., presentation to, 165 
Bennett, the late Mr. H., 808 
Berberis, the, 507 
Berberries, Ash-leaved, 358 
Berlin Chrysanthemum Show, ISO 
Bertolonia Souvenir de Gand, 651 
Bifrenaria glauca, 491 
Bignnnia Tweediana, 377; venusta, 
269 
Billbergia nutans, 363 ; thyrsoidea, 
139 
Birds and the Celery Fly, 10 
Birds, our friends the, 57 
Birmingham Gardeners’ Improve¬ 
ment Society, 92, 187, 220, 253, 349, 
396, 470, 502, 692, 804 
Birthwort, a giant, 555 
Blackberry, the Parsley-leaved, 411 
Blackberries, 91 
Blandfordia nobilis imperialis, 604 
Blechnum spieant, 197 
Blenheim Palace Gardens, 629 
Blue Bell, the New Zealand, 763 
Blue-flowered hardy annuals, 729 
Blue Gum Tree in Devon, the, 342 
Boceonia cordata, Sll 
Bonnets of natural flowers, 756 
Boronia megastigma, 394, 404; ser- 
rulata, 50S 
Bottle Tree of Australia, 4SS 
Bouquet making, 504 
Bouquets, water, 4, 20 
Bouvardia Hogarth flore pleno, 10; 
Humboldtii coryinbiflora, 124 
Bournemouth Pleasure Gardens, 122 
Box edging, S6 
Boyd, Mr. Thomas, 356 
Brachycome iberidifolia. 7S9 
Bramble, the Arctic, 745 ; the Rock, 
714 
Brassia antherotes, 669 
Briars, The, Reigate, the Orchids at, 
396 
British Fruit Growers’ Association, 
the, S3, 100, 102 
Broccoli, April Queen, 555, 596 ; 
Methven’s June, 603, 64S, 667 ; 
Veitch’s Model, 603 ; Sutton's 
branching, 596 ; a good late, 588 
Bromus brizeeformis, 764 
Broughtonia sanguinea, 732 
Broughty Ferry Gardeners’ Improve¬ 
ment Society, 321, 444, 4S6 
Browallia elata, 124 
Brussels Sprout the Aigburth, 86 ; 
a singular. 107 
Brussels Sprouts, 455 ; small com¬ 
pact, 294 
Bud-dropping in Peach houses, 119, 
391, 409, 468, 55S 
Bulbs, spring, 572 
Burchellia capensis, 525 
Burlingtonia fragrans. 573 
Bullace, the white, 150 
Bulbs, duty on, in America, 596 
c 
Cabbage, Winningstadt, 119 
Cabbages, useful, S09 
Cactus, an old, 666 
Caladium, Ville de Hamburg, 616 
Caladiums, new, 61S ; in small pots, 
475 
Calamintha grandiflora, 731 
Calanthe Masuca, 11; Veitchii, a 
sportive, 269 
Calanthes at Syon House, 249 ; at 
Wray Park, 269 
Calathea vittata, 427 
Calceolaria, Cloth of Gold, 572; 
Lemon Gem, 76 
Calceolarias, herbaceous, 343; cul¬ 
ture of, 699, 710 
Calceolarias,preserving during winter 
219, 235, 251, 2S3 
Californian fruit production, 614 
Calla aethiopica, 582 
Callicarpa purpurea, 219 
Calystegia pubescens flore pleno, 825 
Camellia, Lady Hume’s Blush, 283 ; 
La Vestale. 442 
Camellia, a monster, 341 
Camellias at Rook’s Nest, 45S ; at 
Walton Lea, 411 ; a selection of 
good, 74 
Campanula barbata, 683; excisa, 764; 
pulla, 716 ; persieaefolia grandiflora 
alba, 66S ; pyramidalis, 805 ; Van 
Houttei. 747 
Campernelle, the, 405 
Campions, the, 724 
Canarina campanula, 347 
Canna, Madame Crozy, 635 
Canterbury Bells, 714 
Clardoon, the Spanish, 810 
Cardoons, how to cook, 254 
Carex baccans, 460; pilnlifera aurea 
variegata, 442 ; sp. variegata, 124; 
a variegated, 299 
Carludovica elegans, 409; palmaefolia, 
10, 664 
Carnation, Duke of Fife, 360 ; Flam¬ 
beau, 569 ; Horace, 793 ; Louisa 
Ashburton, 312; Madame A. 
Warocque, 552 ; Mrs. Muir, 88; Mrs. 
Saunders, 714; Pride of Great 
Britain, 6S4; Pride of Penshurst, 
hardiness of, 794 ; the Rothschild, 
9 ; Souvenir de la Malmaison, 603 ; 
Scarlet Souvenir de la Malmaison, 
460 ; Uriah Pike, 664; Winter Cheer, 
235 
Carnations, yellow ground. 200, 216, 
232,2S0, 296; classifying the yellow, 
312, 360 
Carnation and Picotee Union, the, 24, 
776 ; the changes in the schedule, 
664, 680 
Carnations and Picotees : growls from 
Oxford, 8, 24 
Carnation classes, self, 312 
Carnation, classification of the, 425 
Carnation and Fern Conference at 
Chiswick, 70S, 723, 755, 759 
Carnation and Pinks, 728 
Carnation notes. 37, 72, S8, 104, 184, 
377; by Mr. Dolwell,56; gossip,472 
Carnation and Picotees, 600 : good, 
730; dressing, 8, 40, 56, 72, 121 ; 
diseased, 73J ; and the green-fly, 
234 ; border, 745, 755 ; border, at 
Chiswick, 75S ; layering, 24, 698 ; 
propagating. 730; maggots. 72; 
seedlings, 215; from seed, 40S, 424, 
4S8, 503, 77S 
Carnation trial, the proposed, 100 
Carnations at Chiswick, 244 
Carnations, tree, 136, 440; select, 6S0; 
winter blooming. 56 
Carnation Show at Manchester, 792 
Carnations at Tower House, 792 
Carnivals, flower, 404 
Carrington, Mr. Smith, Mayor of 
Worcester, 436 
Carrot, Manchester Table, S6 
Carrots, a paying ciop of, 14S 
Carter's “ Practical Gardener," 4S6 
Cassebeera triphyllis, 187 
Castilleja indivisa, 699 
Catasetum tabulare Irevis, 11 
Catchfly, the fringed, 714 
Caterpillars and their antidotes, 611 
Cattleya amethystoglossa, 461 ; 
Brymeriana, 669 ; chocoensis. 461; 
Gaskelliana alba, 796 ; Gaskelliana, 
Cooke's var., 685 ; gigas, 681, S12 ; 
gigas Shuttleworthii, 781 ; Hardy- 
ana, Wrigley’s var., 92; Hardyana, 
Wilson’s var., 826 ; intermedia 
Parthenia, 669 ; labiataalba, dimor¬ 
phism in, 396 ; Lawrenceana deli- 
cata,637; Lawrenceana Vinckii, 540; 
Loddigesii, 221; Massiana S26; Men- 
delii Alfred Smee, 669 ; Mendelii, a 
fine variety of, 604; Mendelii albens, 
605 ; Mendelii Hackbridgensis, 
669 ; Mendelii Prince of Wales, 636; 
Miss Harris, 61 ; Mossiae, 637; 
Mossiae, freak of, 604; Mossiae 
decora, 669; Mossiae Measuresiana, 
669; Mossife Wageneri, 732; Mossiae- 
Dowiana Empress Frederic. 716; 
Trianae, Tautz's var, 476 ; Trianse 
fulgens, 461; Trianae marginata, 
461 ; parthenia, 332 ; Walkeriana, 
205 ; Warnerii, 669 
Cattleya, a fragrant, 696 
Cattleyas, erratic, 493 ; Mr.Smee's,646 
Cauliflower, Snowball, 726 ; early, 
694, 683, 709 
Ccanothus Sceptre d'Azur, 90 
Celandine, pale-flowered lesser, 603 
Celery, Bibby’s Defiance Solid White, 
294 ; Standard Bearer, 294 
Celery cultivation, 426 
Celery for exhibition, 341; on blanch¬ 
ing, 72S; earthing up with fine 
dust, 91 
Celery fly, birds and the, 10 
Celsia cretica, 614 
Centaurea montana, 666 
Cercis siliquastrum, 612 
Ceropegia Sandersoni, 91 
Ceroxylon niveum. 794 
Oestrum aurantiaeum, 219 
Chamsecyparis Boursieri Westermani 
aurea, 565 
Cheal, Mr. John, 660 
Cheal, Mr. J., on pompon, single and 
decorative Dahlias, 70 
Cheilanthes radiata, 363 
Cheiranthus mutabilis, 556 
Chelone obliqua alba, 27 
Chelsea Botanic Garden, 724 
Cherries at Gunnersbury Park, 618 
Cherry, the Cornelian, 427 ; the 
Mahaleb, 5S8 
Chimonanthus, the fragrant, 234 
Chinese Sacred Lily, 421, 475, 4S7, 
507, 521 
Chiswick, Apples at, 40; single Dah¬ 
lias at, 551; cordon Pears at, 86 ; 
Tomatos at, 6; the Conference at, 
787; the Vegetable Conference at, 
51, 53, 67, 77 
Chiswick Gardens Improvement 
Society, 197. 486, 747 
Chiswick, the judging at, 763 
Choisya ternaia, 644 
Christmas customs, some, 248 
Christmas decorations, 243 
Christmas flowers, 246 
Christmas greenery, 259 
Christmas Rose, 186; St. Brigid’s, 281 
Chrysanthemum cinerariaefolium, 699; 
carinatum, double varieties of, 788, 
805; frutescens, for winter flowering, 
108 ; Leucanthemum, 747 ; uligino- 
sum, 90; uliginomm, as a pot plant, 
107 
Chrysanthemum, the blue, 118, 152, 
137, 197 
Chrysanthemum, Ada Spaulding, 84; 
Amy Furze, 120; Annie Stevens, 
56; Beauty of Castlehill, 346 ; 
Doric, 91 ; M. Desgraoges and G. 
Wermig, 11S; Golden Gem, 314; 
Sam Henshaw. 40 ; John Lambert, 
391; Mrs. Alpheus Hardy, 132, 163, 
245 ; a sportive Mrs. Rundle, 167 
Chrysanthemum catalogue, a Belgian, 
725 ; a new National catalogue, 26S 
Chrysanthemum Centenary, the, 147 ; 
the real, 163 
Chrysanthemum Conference at Chis¬ 
wick, 10S, 153 
Chrysanthemum Centenary celebra¬ 
tion in Edinburgh, 199 
Chrysanthemums at the Chiswick 
Centenary Conference, 32S ; varie¬ 
ties certificated at Chiswick, 167 
Chrysanthemum Society, the 
National, 29 
Chrysanthemum Conference, the 
National, 35 
Chrysanthemum Society, the Na¬ 
tional. 21 
Chrysanthemum fetish, 211 
Chrysanthemum hedge, a, 230 
Chrysanthemums for amateurs, 172 ; 
double, 200 
Chrysanthemum culture in New Zea¬ 
land, 550 
Chrysanthemums certificated, 16S; 
cut-down, 510 ; for decorative pur¬ 
poses, 1S4.199 ; dressing, 164 ; early- 
flowering. 39, 43, 58 ; for Easter, 
596 ; the hardiness of, 235 ; lafge- 
flowered, 179 ; late, 268 ; the quali¬ 
ties of, 214 ; naturally grown, 26 ; 
notes on, 136, 152 ; notes from New 
South Wales, 760 ; new, 245 ; poli¬ 
tical, 4 ; popular, 137 ; propagating 
by their leaves, 152; huge and un¬ 
gainly blooms of, 230; out-doors, 
196; reflexed, 200 ; select estab¬ 
lished varieties, 167 ; select list of, 
519 ; spoiling the, 2S0 ; sports, 183, 
268; a type for a separate group of, 
230 ; quality v. size, 244 ; hairy- 
flowered, 201 ; mid-winter, Mr. 
Kipling on, 312, 30S ; at the Drill 
Hall, 118 ; in the north, 202 ; in 
October, 91 ; in Perthshire, 183 
Chrysanthemum leaf miner, the, 698 
Chrysanthemum tubes, 164 
Chrysanthemum case, the Mrs. 
Hawkins, 20, 45 
Chrysanthemum Shows ;—Ayr, 183; 
Bacup, 206 ; Birkenhead, 190 ; Bir¬ 
mingham, 1S7, 205 ; Bolton, 190 ; 
Bromley, 1S8; Chiswick, 189 ; 
Crystal Palace, 172 ; East Grin- 
stead, 173; Edinburgh, 199; Exeter, 
1SS ; Faversham, 1S9 ; Ghent, 201 ; 
Hitchin, 1S9; Kent County, 173 ; 
Kingston and Surbiton. 1SS ; Liver¬ 
pool, 206 ; National, 169 ; St. Neots, 
173 ; Southend, 1S9 ; Wanstead, 189 
Church decorations, 101, 117 
Cineraria, Gem, 4S8 
Cinerarias and Calceolarias planted 
out, 666 
Cinerarias, 345; on the culture of, 
104, 567 
Cineraria, the, 501; at Beechhill, 600; 
at the Drill Hall, 454 ; at Forest 
Hill, 520 ; at Hill Place, 411 
Cinnamomum zeylanicum, 475 
Cinnamon, 537 
Cistus, the species of, 265 
Clare Lawn, East Sheen, 677 
Claytonia sibirica, 571 
Clematis indivisa, 578 ; recta flore 
pleno, 764 
Clement Park, Dundee, 59S 
Clerodendron fallax splendens, Sll 
Climate and plant life, 645 
Climbers, greenhouse, 437 ; for subur¬ 
ban villas, 105 
Clivia cruenta and Ambrose Verschaf 
felt, 556 
Clivias in fruit, 292 ; new, 48S ; at 
Forest Hill, 503 ; at Holloway, 503 
Clove culture, 692 
Cistus, the species of, 731 
Cobb's, Mr., garden at Hounslow, 410 
Cochlioda vulcanica, 11 
Cockscombs, on sowing, 423 
Cocos plumosa, 300 
