The Gardening World ] 
^September 12, 1SS5. 
CONTENTS 
OF VOL. 
FOR THE YEAR 
ENDING AUGUST 29th, 1885, 
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A 
Ap.utilon Thomsoni as a pillar 
plant, 155 , 
Acacia annata and Drummondi, 45S ; 
Riceana, 394, 613 
Achillea ptarmica flore plena, C2S ; 
tomentosa, 028 
Achimenes in baskets, 553 
Aconites, notes on, 02S 
Acroelininm album flore pler.o, 205 
Aeanas, notes r.n, 701 
Aea-na pulchella and sanguisorba, 714 
Aeineta chrysantha, 3S0 
Acorns, cattle poisoned by, 203 
Adders in the wild ;arden, 51 
Adiantusi capillus-veneris, 24, 3S; 
capillus-veneris var. obliqmim, 375; 
Lathomii, 105; mundulum, SS; neo- 
caledoniie, 665 ; Pacotti, 5 
Adiantums, two useful, 130 
Advertisements, ancient, 702 
-Prides Br.llantine anuni, C53; Ortgie- 
sianum, 004 ; Rohanianuni, 70 ; 
Lawrencianas 2S ; Wilsonianum, 
021 ; virens, 140 
Agapanthus umbellatus, 54 ; umbel- 
latus variegatns, 070 
Agarics, eatable and poisonous, S05, 
820 
Agatliiea eoelestis, 45S, 5S5 
Agecroft Hall, Lancashire, 701 
Ageratum Mexicanum, 455 
Agrostemmas, notes on,- 028 
Alesander or Alexander, 491 
Allium giganteum, 794 ; Koratavense, 
(i21 ; macrantliuin, 250 
Allotment gardens, 35, 3S7 
Allotment question, the, 115, 179 
Allotments, Railway, 107 
Alnwick Seedling Grape, the, 3 
Althiea frutex, 232 
Alocasia guttata var. imperialis, 310 ; 
Hendersoni, 733 ; Sanderiana, 340 ; 
Regime, 413 
Aloe supralsevis, 420 
Alpinia pumila, 794 
Amaryllis, Mrs. William Lee, 27; Mrs. 
B. S. Williams, 4S7 
Amaryllis, the, as an amateurs’ plant, 
500 ; prizes for, 244 ; Messrs. 
Veitcli’s, 455, 475 
Amasonia punicea, 27 
Amateur criticism, 4S3 
Amateur gardeners, 227 
Amateurs' gardens, 50, 72, SS, 1C4 
Amateur, what is an, in relation to 
gardening ?, 50, 71, 223 
Amateur's storv, Only a Rose Leaf, 
254, 20S 
Amateurs, Orchids for, 12 
American Apples, 142 
American exhibition, 1SS0, 504 
America, gardeners in, 22; ornamental 
trees in, 125 
American Seed Firm, an, 40 
Anelmsa italica, 02S 
Andersonias, notes on, 515 
Anemone coronaria, giant, 597 ; Em¬ 
press, 507 ; japonica, 35 
Anemones, Japanese, 27S ; garden, 
499, 554, 504; flowering in Septem¬ 
ber, 51; notes on, G2S 
Anemone, sea, “ Old Granny,” S4 
Angrsecum Ellisiii, 052 ; Leoni, S21 ; 
sesquipedale, 412 
Animal manure, quality of, 55 
Annuals, cheaply grown, 442, 502 ; a 
neat edging of, 442 ; for massing, 
409 ; new, 205 
Anoptcris glaudulosns, 539 
Amortiser, Steven’s, 565 
Ampelopsis Yeitehii, 130, 16S 
Anthericum eeheandioides, 503 
Anthericums, notes on, 649 
Antirrhinums, notes on, 6S2 
Ants, how to destroy, 02, 077 
Ants and tropical vegetation, 340 
Aphides, habits of, 523 
Aphis, Lady-birds, and, 580 ; migra¬ 
tion of, 571 
Apple, Bramley’s Seedling, 106; Cox’s 
HrangePippin,603; Duuielow’sSeed¬ 
ling, 202 ; Ecklinville, 217 ; Gas¬ 
coyne’s Seedling, 394; Golden Xoble, 
90, 234, 37S; Irish Peaeli, 217; 
Jacob’s Strawberry, 101; King of 
the Pippins, 184, 211, 217 ; Lodge- 
more Nonpareil, 5S0, 650; Stamford 
Pippin, ISO ; Tom Put. 154 
Apple and its history, the, 697 
Apples, Pears, &e., exhibition, 227 
Apples and Pears, grafting, 490 
Apple Congress Report, the, ISO 
Apple culture in Oxfordshire, 202 
Apple Fair at- Exeter, 157, 103 
Apples and Apple soils, 040 
Apples, cordon trained, 202 ; English 
in Normandy, 36; 100 bushels irom 
one tree, 458 ; late, 474, 522 ; list of 
good dessert ami kitchen, 170; 
Nova Scotian, 90 ; well-kept, 442 ; 
in Yorkshire, 234; shows, 147 ; 
trees, dwarfed, 50 
Apricot, t Ire St. Ambrose, 154 
Apricot culture, Mr. Temple on, 720 
Apricots under glass, 350, 300 
Aquilegia glandulosa, 123, 130 
Aquilegias, hybrid, 669 ; notes on, 
649 
Arabis albida, 650 
Arabs and Arabian plants, S04 
Araucarias, a forest of, 581 
Arbutus Milleri, 034 
Arch, a rustic, 221 
Ardisia crenulata, 231, 017; mam- 
lnilata, 138 ; polycepliala, 317 
Arenarias, notes on, 050 
Aristolocliia ornithocepliala, 731 
Arnebia echioides, 018, 003 
Aroid, a new, 503 
Artichokes, Jerusalem, 101, 535; in 
flower, 123 ; history of the, 171 
Arum Lilies, 91 
Ascott, the Gardeners' bothy at, 233 ; 
the gardens at, 328 
Asparagus culture, 5S7 ; planting, 
507 ; on forcing, 203 
Asparagus plumosus, 633 ; plumosus 
nanus, 532 ; medioloides, 427 
Aspliodils, the, 603 
Aspidistra lurida variegata, 45S 
Asplenium adiantum-nigrum, 38 ; 
fontanum, 3S ; Gennanieum, 38, 
243 ; honidum, 196 ; laneeolatuin, 
3S ; marinum, 3S ; Ruta-muraria, 
S3 ; septentrionale, 38 1 Tricho- 
manes, 3S 
Aster amellus, 116 ; punctatus, 117 ; 
rigida, 117 ; dracunculoides, 117 ; 
cana,117 
Asters for Exliibition, 2S0 ; peren¬ 
nial, notes, 003 ; and disasters. 110 
Athyrium Filix-fccmina, 38 
Aubrietias, the, 246, 207, 603 
Auriculas in December, 221 ; in Feb¬ 
ruary, 397, 400 ; notes on, 502, 567 
Auricula Show, the National, 515,5;:0 
Auricula, the double black, 109, J25 
Auricula seed, on sowing, 811 
Australia, gardening in, 510 
Autumn crops, 75 
Autumn tints, 110, 141 
Alstroemerias, notes on, 095 
Azalea Illuminator, 477 
Azaleas, greenhouse, 750 
Azalea, the Indian, 483 ; new, Indian, 
522, 590 ; select varieties of, 124 
Azolla caroliniana, 141 
B 
Bachelor’s Buttons, the true, C12, 
004 
Badly sold, 044 
Balsams and Balsams, 439; and Cocks¬ 
combs, 409; on the culture of, 669 ; 
in the open air, 078 
Bamboo, a graceful, 499 
Banana, the, 198 
. Barkeria elegans, 31S 
Barlow Moor, Lancashire, 793 
Basket plants, 342 
Bauhinia variegata, CS2 
Beans, Broad, 299, 083; experiments 
with, 45 ; Long-pod, 70 ; French, 
on forcing, 150; Negro Dwarf 
French, 395 ; Girtford Giant Scarlet 
Runner, 203 ; Haricot, 235 ; Scarlet 
Runneron stopping555,571 ; White 
Dutch Runner, 555 
Bed, a scroll, 453 
Bedding plants, 347, 707; dwarf¬ 
flowering, 491 ; potting off, 283; 
autumn propagation, 10 ; notes on, 
823 ; potting off, 240 
Boc-t, on the culture of, 153 ; 
notes on, 123 ; Turnip-rooted Egyp¬ 
tian, 24 ; Perennial or Spinach, 139 
Begonia Carrierei, 2S2; Felix Crousse, 
110; Madame Crousse, 27; fuchsi- 
oides as a pillar plant, 75 ; Gluire 
do Sceaux, 243 ; hybrida floribunda, 
378 ; King of Kings, 110 ; Martiana, 
123 ; Octavie, 27; Princess Beatrice, 
813 ; Socotrana, 2s2 ; Tliwaitesii, 
765 ; Miss Simpson, 43; a good 
winter-flowering, 154 
Begonias, hybrid, 703 ; tuberous, 13, 
91, 2S2, 320, 439 , 539 ; as bedding 
plants, 37; raising from cuttings, 
11 ; on propagating, 2o; for winter- 
fiowering, 522 
Belvior Castle, spring gardening at, 
550 
Bent ham's, Mr. G., will, SOS 
Bentley Pliory, 279 
Bcrberis Darwinii, 123, stenoplivlla, 
105 
Berkliamstead, notes from, 205 
Berry bearing trees, Autumn and 
Winter, 070 ; plants, 34S 
Bessera elegans, 43, 490 
Billbergia nobilis, 653 
Bignonia venusta, 401; purpurea, S10 
Bird, tile, as tlie labourer of man, 292 
Birds and Fruit buds, 234 
Blackberry Jelly, 120 
Blechnum boreale, SS 
Blue Gum tree, the, 51 
Boabob tree, the, 070 
Boceonia eortlata, 003 
Bucking Place, a Flower Show at, 70S 
Bog Garden, the, 013 
Bohn, Mr. H. G., death of, 14 
Boiler, Fawkes’s Improved, 172 
Bomarea Caldasiana, 554 
Book, an old Gardening, 494 
Borecale, Kale, &c., 468 
Boronia megastigina, 410 
Botanical Magazine, the, 41, 87 
Botrycliium Lunaria, 39 
Bouquet, a novel, 281 
Bouquets, Drawing-room, 603 
Bouvardias, on the culture of, 0, 551, 
double-flowered, 347 ; new, 124 
Bouvardia Huniboldtii corvmbiflora, 
106 
Box edgings, 134 
Books Noticed :— Apple Congress 
Report, ISO; Baines’ Greenhouse 
and Stove Plants, 747 ; Bradner’s 
Chrysanthemums and their Culti¬ 
vation, 524 ; Burbidge’s The Chry¬ 
santhemum, 167 ; Castle’s Cacta¬ 
ceous Plants, 637 ; Dictionary of 
Gardening, 55 ; Dunster's How to 
Make tlie Land Pay, 740; Hogg’s 
Fruit Manual, the, 165; Oreliid 
Album, tlie, 140 ; Ros Rosarum ex 
liorto Poetarum, 603; Wright’s 
Mushrooms for the Million, 373 
Bracken, Legends of the, S5 ; Brassia 
antlierotes, 140 
Bray’s Insecticide Spray, 505 
Bridge, a rustic, in Battersea Park, 
530 
Broacllands, the gardens at, 327 
Broccoli, Burgliley Late Queen, 155, 
0S3 ; Carter’s New Pyramid, 459 ; 
Gilbert's Queen of the, 051; Gil¬ 
berts New Late White, 715; 
Hallam’s Hybrid, 051 ; Queen, 099 ; 
Snow's'Winter White, 824 ; Sutton’s 
Late Queen, 019; Yeiteh’s Self- 
protecting, 207; Yeitcli’s Spring 
White, 475 
Broccoli and Cauliflowers, C44 ; All 
tlie Year Round, 292, 315, 331 ; 
late 007 
Browallia data, 11 
Brussels Sprouts, 139, 303 
Buchanan’s, Mr. G., garden, 804 
Buckwheat, tlie, 137 
Bulb culture, Dutch, 820 
Bulb culture in pots, 759 
Bulb Show at Haarlem, Hie, 473' 
Bulbous plants, spring-flowering, 647 
Bulbs, Cape, easily grown, S6 ; Dutch, 
for amateurs, 03 ; for early forcimr. 
20 
c 
Cabbage, Chou de Burgliley, 251 ; 
Ellam’s Early Dwarf, 523, 731; 
Earliest, Vesuvius, 91 ; Early Mongi- 
bello, 91 
Cabbages, early, 379 ; on planting, 27, 
43 
Cabmens’ Shelters, plant growing at, 
S8 
Cacti, cultivation of, 501 
Cactuses, on the culture of, 699 
Caladiums, notes on, 486 
Calandrinia umbellata, 079 
Calantlie Saiidliurstiuiia, 238; .San- 
deriaiia, 470 
Calanthes in winter, 348 ; at Elm 
Lawn, 412 
Calceolarias, herbaceous, 407, 034, 
019, 714 
Calceolarias, on propagating, 42 
Calendula “ Meteor, ' 443 
Callicarpa purpurea, 119 
CaHinscvche aurantiaca, 427 
Calthas, notes on, 079 
Camellia Commeudatore Betti, 520 ; 
Jaeksoni, 539 ; Madame P. de Pan- 
neinaeker, 099 
Camellia culture, 45S; Mr. Walker 
on, 397 ; on grafting, 1S1 ; in tlie 
open air, 050 ; in October, 123 ; at 
Walton Lea, 552 
Campanula Tenorei, 394 
Campanulas, notes on, 079 
Canarina campanula, 051, 570 
Canary Bell-flower, the, 551 
Candytufts, notes on, 85 
Canford Manor, 1S9 
Canterbury Bells in pots, 012 
Carnation, Mary Morris, 13 ; Pride of 
Pcnsliurst, 621; Souvenir de la 
Malmaison, 715; cultuie of, at 
Ascot, 200 ; at Triug Park, 034 
Carnations and Picotees, 702 ; Messrs. 
Veitcli’s, 740 ; notes on, 795 
Cai nation and Picotee Show, National, 
7 04 
Carnations, border, 51 ; Clove, 794 ; 
disease, the, 500 ; a feast of, 772 ; 
perpetual, 422, 43S ; scented tree, 
539; tree, 218, 250; tree, select 
varieties, 10S; winter-flowering, 170; 
on propagating, 485, 51S on layer¬ 
ing, S13 
Carpet bedding, 350, 361, 371, 404 
Carpet plants for Rose beds, 555 
Carrots and Beetroot, on sowing, 155 
Carrots and the Carrot-fly, 420 ; and 
Parsley; cultivation under diffi¬ 
culties, 299, notes on, 414 
Can-ot, Early Nantes Scarlet, 59; the 
Studley Round, 23 
Caryopteris mastacantlius, 440 
Catalpa syringaefolia, S10 
Catananclie ccemlea, 094 
Cattleya aurea, 296 ; Brymerianum, 
50S; bulbosa grandifiora, 238, 
citrina, 572; Eldorado, 44; ele¬ 
gans, 00 ; exouiensis, 1SS ; Gas- 
kelliana, 44; Gaskelliana, an orange 
striped, 771 ; Hardyana, 790, 824 ; 
Lawrenceana, 400, 492, 710 ; maxi¬ 
ma Bachousei, 732; l’ercivaliana, 
304; Reineckiana superbissima, 
60S ; Sanderiana, 080 ; Scliofield- 
iana, 021 ; speciocissima, 732 ; 
superba, tlie Demerava form of, 2S; 
Triame Jamesianuin, 445 ; Triame 
at Lake House, 400 ; Triame at St. 
Alban’s, 50S ; Wagneriana, 60S ; 
Whitei, 30 
Cattleyas of tlie Amazon, 0S4 ; of the 
labiata section, 509; Mr. Lee's, 444 ; 
from Popyan, 400 
Cattleya fly, tlie, 5SS, 055 
Cauliflowers or Broccoli all the year 
round,155 
Cauliflowers and Broccoli, 373 
Cauliflowers, 123; early, without lieat, 
507, 523; on tlie culture of, 11 ; in 
autumn, 43 ; notes on, 91; trials of, 
at Chiswick, 091 
Ceanotlius Yeitehii, S10 
Cedar, a fine, at Bulstrode Park, 420 
Celery, notes on. 307 
Celery, Bibby's Defiance, solid white, 
879; Carter’s Solid Ivory, 171 : 
Henderson’s White Plume, 189; 
Kalamazoo, 372 ; Sulham Prize 
Pink, 379; Wright’s Grove Pink, 
427 
Celery Planting, 539 
Celery Crop, tlie, 123 
Celery, notes on, 43, 59, 67S, 715, 571, 
Celery Seed, wild, 693 
Celosia pyramidalis aurea, 426 ; pyra- 
midalis coccinea, 10 
Celosia cretica, 715 
I. 
Centaureas, notes on, 694 
Uentropogon Lucyanus, 318 
CereusEngelmanni, 247; C. M. Hovey, 
475 ; paucispimis, 41 
Ceterach ofllcinarum, 3S 
Ceylon, notes from, 403 
Chania-cladon metallicum, 21(1 
Charity Lands, 50 
Chafer, Mr. W., death of, i6t> 
C'heiranthus Clieiri luteus pleiins, 694 
Chelsea Enbankment, a garden on 
the,2S4 
Cherry, the Florence, SOS 
Cherry Crop, the, 043 
Cherry trees, ornamental, 504 
Chili, a mountain picture in, 505 
Chinese horticulture, 081 
Chionantlius retusus, 053, 7 1 3 
Chionodoxa Luciliae, 794 ; Sardensis, 
477 
Chiswick, dear old !, 628 
Chiswick Flower Show, 7S8 
Chiswick Gardens, the, 504 ; in July, 
729 ; Potato trials, 355 
Choisya teniata, 90 
Chou de Burgliley, the, 123 
Christmas, 259 
Christmas greenery, 259; Roses, 
228 ; flowers at Swanley, 200 
Chrysanthemum cinerariaeiolium, S7; 
coronarium, 747 ; Coquette de Cas¬ 
tile, 006 ; Cullingfordi, 253 ; fru- 
tescens, 794; Etoile d’Or, 182; 
Pompon Yal d'Or, 21S; Sceur Me¬ 
lanie, 234 
Chrysanthemum culture, 248, 340; 
summer-flowering varieties, 290; 
tlie single varieties, 204; large- 
flowering varieties, 280 
Chrysanthemum Society,theNational, 
307, 322, 306, 3S7 
Chrysanthemums, 152,196 ; as border 
flowers, 507; on disbudding, 42 ; 
early-flowering, 70, 452; and the 
electric light, 147 ; for exhibition 
and decorative purposes, 426 ; for 
cutting, 147, 554 ; Japanese, 410 : 
late, 301,346 ; manure for, 524; new, 
115 ; select new, 284 ; notes on, 35 ; 
notes from Somerset, 22S ; out of 
doors, 154; planted out, 275 ; on 
propagating, 200; select incurved 
and Japanese, 204 ; a selection of, 
248 
Chrysanthemum season, the, 99 
Chrysanthemum Shows, the, 179; 
Birmingham, 190 ; Ealing, 173 ; 
Kingston-on-Thames, 173; Man¬ 
chester, 190 ; National, 172 ; Read¬ 
ing, 190 ; Royal Southampton, 173 ; 
Yeovil, 200 
Chrysanthemums, Mr. N. Davis’s, 
157 ; Mr. Henry Little’s, 199 ; at 
Slough, 172; at Messrs. Yeitcli’s, 1SS; 
iu private gardens, 203 
Chrysobaetron Hookeri, 695 
Church decoration, suitable flowers 
for, 253 
Churchtown Botanical Gardens, £23 
Cineraria, Snowflake, 539 
Cinerarias, double, COS 
Cineraria, the, 444; notes on, 572; on 
propagating the, 251 
Cirrhopetalum picturatum, 42S 
Clapton Nursery, tlie, 231 
Claremont, Eccles old Road, 70S 
Clays’ Fertilizer, 493 
Clay Soils, working, 470, 487 
Clematis indivisa lobata, 475 ; tnbu- 
losa var. Hookeri, 427 ; tlie Wild, 
249 
Clematis, double-flowered, 36 
Clerodeudron feetidum, 43 
Clethra arborea, S10 
Climbers on Cottages, S; notes on, 
150 
Coceocypselum discolor, 427 
Cocoa-nut fibre refuse, 130 
Cocoa-nut Palm, the, 503 
Codlin Moth Caterpillar, 002 
Ccelogyne eoirugata, 13 
Colchicum and autumnal Crocuses, 
27, 57 
Colchicum luteum, 394 
Collier’s Garden, a, 727 ; at Swinton, 
I I I 
Collinsia verna, 404 
Colour in the garden, 19 
Columbine, tlie, 67S ; notes on, 649 ; 
in pots, 612 
Convolvulus mauritanieus, 27 
Conservatories, decorating, 459 
