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The Gardening World.] 
[September 2, 1893. 
COlsTTElsTTS 
OF VOL, 
FOR THE YEAR ENDING AUGUST 26 th , 1893, 
12c. 
A 
Abelia floribunda, 231, 164 
Aberdeen Floral Fete, 82, 819 
Aberdeen, a new Park for, 386 
Aberdeen Public Parks, 32 
Abies orientalis aurea, 662 
Abies as Forest trees, 214 
Abrus precatorius, the influence of 
light on, 243 
Abutilon Souvenir de Bonn, 562 
Abutilons and Sparmannia africana, 
102 
Acer platanoides Schwedleri, 566 
Achillea Ptarmica The Pearl, 758 ; 
rupestris, 660, 673 ; tomentosa,i67 
Achimenes at Reading, 772 
Aconites, Winter, 470 
Aconitum Napellus bicolor, 726 
Actsea racemosa, 786 
Action by a Gardener, 752 
Adenophora liliiflora, 758 
Addison’s Garden, 543 
Adiantum Capillus-Veneris Mariesii, 
311 ; cuneatum foliis argenteis 
variegatis, 231 ; elegantissimum, 8 ; 
Henslovianum, 551 
Adiantum cuneatum, hardiness of, 23 
Adonis vernalis, 535 
iEchmea Zahnii, 503 
Aerides Augustianum, 41; Lawrencise, 
23 ; Leonis expansum, 792 
^Esculus hippocastanum, 164; JE. 
rubicunda, 164 
.lEthionnema grandiflorum, 631 
Agaricus rufescens, 325 
Aglaonema costatum, 183 
Aganisia ionoptera, 809 
Agriculture, the condition of, 208 
Aigburth Spring Show. 457 
Ailantus glandulosa, 375 
Air, liquid and solid, 488 
Albert Nurseries, Peckham Rye, the 
453 
Allium pedemontanum, 727 
Allotments, 466 
Allotment Gardening, 725 ; in Corn¬ 
wall, 544 
Allotments at Hampton Wick, 482 
Alocasia Edwardi, 231 ; Lindeni, 231 ; 
Sanderiana nobilis, 626 
Alpine house at Kew, the, 529 
Alpinia mutica, 422 
Alstroemeria aurantiaca, 737 : chilen- 
sis, 694 
Amaryllis at Chelsea, 470 
Amaryllis Mrs. William Lee, 215 ; 
Lord Roberts, 626; the Hon. W. 
F. D. Smith, 406 
Amasonia punicea, 198 
Amateurs and the R.H.S., 33, 49, 69, 
83. 96 
Amateur, what constitutes an ? 17 
Amateurs, our, 353 
America, the Chrysanthemum in, 260 
American Forests, 392 
American Jottings, 753 
American Weights and Measures, 144 
America, special Societies in, 18 
Andromeda japonica, 772 
Androsace sarmentosa, 545 ; corono- 
pifolia, 536 
Anemia collina, 279 
Anemone blanda alba, 503 : japonica, 
786 ; japonica alba, 822 ; Hepatica 
alba, 440; ranunculoides, 518; 
sylvestris, 614 
Anemonopsis macrophylla, 614 
.Angraecum Ellisii, 232; fastuosum, 
488 ; fragrans, tea made from, 272 ; 
species, 304 
Anoiganthus breviflorus, 456 
Anopteris glandulosa, 455 
Antennaria dioica rosea, 581 
Anthemis Biebersteinii, 806 
.Antirrhinum glutinosum, 55 ; Yellow 
Bedder, 806 
.Anthurium Andreanum Wambekea- 
num, 231 ; crystallinum foliis 
variegatis, 626 ; Londinense, 232 ; 
Parisiense, 626 
Apospory, new case of, 707 
Aphelandra aurantiaca, 359 
" Apple ” of the Bible, the, 184 
Apple American Mother, 294 ; Bar- 
chard’s Seedling,98 ; Bess Pool,324; 
Blue Pearmain,34o ; Court of Wick, 
3ro, Eliza Rathke, 279 ; Fearn’s 
Pippin, 263 ; Galloway Pippin, 291; 
Golden Russet, 215 ; Greenup's 
Pippin, 55; Jacquin, 536; Kentish 
Pippin, 82 ; King Harry, 70, 98 ; 
Lady Sudeley, 55; Landsberger 
Reinette, 136; Lord Suffield, 136; 
Montrous Incomparable, 136; No. 
2,98; Red Ribbed Greening, 152; 
River’s Codim, 98 ; Ross Non¬ 
pareil, 310; St. Edmund’s Pippin, 
98 ; Standard Bearer, 406 ; Swed¬ 
ish Reinette, 136; Wadhurst 
Pippin, 310; Winter Greening, 
263 ; Worcester Pearmain, 82. 
Apple Scab, 483; experiments on, 
403 ; and the size of fruit, 643. 
Apples, British, late-keeping, 337 ; at 
Earl’s Court, 96; the cultivation of 
for profit, 512 ; market, 799 ; under 
glass, 281, 263 
Apple Trees, form of, 97, 167 
Apricots, early, in Devonshire, 688 
Aquilegia chrysantha, 727 
Araucaria Cooksoni, 232 
Araucaria, the old, at Kew, 406 
Arboriculture, 767 
Ardcairn Nurseries, the, 533 
Ardisia trimaculata, 342 
Aristocochia gigantea, 544; gigas 
Sturtevantii, 70 
Arnebia echioides, 545 
Artichokes, Globe, 131 ; Jerusalem, 
Sutton’s White, 210 
Artificial flowers, 512 
Arum palestinum, 356 
As others see us, 374 
Asparagus deflexus, 8; plumosus 
gracillima, 176; retroflexus, 294; 
tenuissimus, 422 
Asparagus Kale, 549 
Asplenium ebeneum, 328; margina¬ 
tum, 626; obtusilobum, 279 
Aster alpinus, 663 ; Amellus as a pot 
plant, 388 ; diplostephioides, 710 ; 
Novi-Belgii lasvigatus, 404 ; pyren- 
seus, 786 ; versicolor nanus, 184 
Asters, 48 ; China, Bouquet Rose and 
Liliput, 69 
Athyrium Filix-foemina setigerum, 8 ; 
Filix-foemina setigerum grandiceps, 
626 
Atraphaxis lanceolata, 69 
Aucuba japonica, 787; japonica 
fructu alba, 500 
Auricula, Golden Queen, 536 ; Old 
Gold, 483 ; Engineer, 562 ; Winifred, 
562 
Auricula, the, in January and Febru¬ 
ary, 340 ; in February, 404 ; Alpine, 
quality in the, 533; Mr. J. T. 
Kean on, 132, 164 
Auriculas, 512; and heat, 420, 452, 
533 : judging, 544; new, 564; Mr. 
R. Dean on new varieties of 132; 
the Rev. F. D. Horner on new 
varieties of 116, 148 ; at Read¬ 
ing, 66; in the South, 100, 116; 
seedling, 340 
Autumn Flowers, 101 ; at Earl’s 
Court, 34 
Autumn Roses, 5 
Autumn tints, 144 
Ayrshire, gardening notes from, 824 
Azalea Anthony Koster, 529 ; indica 
Forteana, 775 ; Mrs. Stogdon 342 ; 
mollis Hilda, 562 ; viscosa Raphael 
de Smet, 562 
Azalea, a hardy, white-flowered, 528 
Azaleodendron Comte de Kerchove, 
775 
B 
Balm, the Golden, 136 
Bamboos for decorative purposes, 738 
Barlow, Mr. S , the late, 177, 641 
Barons, the Orchids at the, 675 
Batemannia Burtii, 17; Colleyi, 488 
Battersea Park, 20, 759 
Battle of life, 534, 546 
Bauhinia Candida, 503 
Bean, Runner, Hill’s Prize, 67 
Bean, early Mazagan, 659 
Bean, Runner, Sutton’s Prize-winner, 
67 
Beans for exhibition, 291 
Beans, Runner, 611, 752 ; at Chiswick, 
85 
Beechhill Nursery, Edinburgh, 825 
Beech Mast Oil, 800 
Bees in relation to fruit, 435 
Bees, the Death's Head Moth and, 
355 
Beet seed, germinating power of, 370 
Bedding, summer, 560 
Begonia argenteo-guttata, 391; decora, 
194, 609; incarnata, 311; Rex 
Bertha McGregor, 9; semper- 
florens rosea, 215; semperflorens 
rubra Vernon’s var. = Crimson Gem, 
22, 801 
Begonia Arthur Malet, 391 ; Baron 
Schroeder, 626 ; Bexley Gem, 
626 ; Countess of Craven, 690; 
Countess of Zetland, 22 ; Duchess 
of Teck, 22; Duke of Fife; 
609; Duke of York, 22; Earl 
Cranbrook.g; Earl of Craven, 609; 
elegans, 626; Ernest Cook, 662; 
gigantea, 662; Gloire de Sceaux, 
340; Hector, 598 ; Hon. Sydney 
Herbert, 609; John Fraser, 690; 
Lady Beatrice Herbert, 609 ; Lady 
Brooke, 609, 626 ; Lady Esher, 22 ; 
Lady Gertrude, 9; Lady Grim- 
thorpe, 22 ; Lady Theodora Guest, 
22 ; Lord Brooke, 626 ; Lord Byron, 
562; Lord Esher, 9 ; Lord Llan- 
gattock, 626 ; Madame Alamangy, 
8 ; Marie Louise, 8, 231 ; Miss 
Jeannie Fell, 562; Mrs. Bourne, 
769; Mrs. Jenkins, 609; Mrs. 
Regnart, 626 ; multiflora L'Avenir, 
22; Madame Louis Urban, 22; 
rosea, 22; Louise Robert, 22 ; 
Princess Beatrice, 22 ; Picotee, 9 ; 
R. B. Parsons, 598 ; R. Dean, 662 ; 
Sir John Lennard, 690 ; Stanstead 
Gem, 22 ; Sunset, 562 ; W. Phelps, 
690; Triomphe de Nancy, 468; 
Winter Gem, 183 
Begonia as a bedder, the, 48; as a 
window plant, 87 
Begonia freak, a, it8 ; hybrid, a, 135 
Begonia, new double winter-flowering, 
183 
Begonias, 39, 338; and Gloxinias, 
356; as bedding plants, 4 ; at 
Forest Hill, 673; dwarf bedding, 
772, 806 
Belvoir Castle, Spring Gardening at, 
63 1 
Berberis Wallichi in fruit, 168 
Bergamotte, 128 
Bertolonias and Sonerillas, 516 
Berries and the Cold, 320 
Berries, Christmas, 256 
Billbergia Bruanti, 359; sanguinea, 
598 _ • 
Birds, small, protection of, 419; wild, 
a plea for, 643 
Birkley House, Kent, 663 
Birmingham Amateur Gardeners' 
Association, 545, 784 
Birmingham Botanic Garden, 119 
Birmingham Gardeners’ Association, 
192, 224, 256 ; at Windsor, 817 
Birmingham Gardeners’ Improve¬ 
ment Society, 40S, 441, 473 
Birmingham, the Narcissus Exhibi¬ 
tion at, 566 
Blackbirds and Fruit, 768 
Blenheim, 192; the Orchids at, 239; 
the gardens at, 245 
Blenheim Sale, the, 274 ; 321 
Bocconia cordata, 786 
Borassus flabeliformis, 512 
Bougainvillea spectabilis, 529 
Bouvardias and Cyclamens, 226 
Bouvardias, notes on, 118 
Brighton Flower Show, 8 
Brighton, notes from, 67, 81 
Brisbane Botanic Garden, 209 
Bristol and West of England Car¬ 
nation and Picotee Society, 624, 754 
Broccoli, Cornish, 238 ; winter, 451 
Bromelia fastuosa, 342 
Brooklyn, a private garden at, 468 
Brownea Ariza, 500 ; Crawfordi, 440 
Brussels Sprouts at Chiswick, 374 
Brussels Sprout, Exhibition, 19 
Buckwheat, Kangra, 451 
Bud Moth, the 739 
Buddlea globosa, 566 
Bulbophyllum comosum, 360 ; Lobbii 
Siamiense, 567 
Bush Hill Park, Enfield, 229 
Butter-boat, spilling the, 279 
c 
Cabbages at Chiswick, 72 
Cabbage, Sutton’s Imperial, 659 
Caladium Baronne de Maimore, 737 ; 
Ibis Rouge, 626; John Laing, 690 ; 
Le Nain Rouge, 769; Louis Van 
Houtte, 562 ; Lymington, 690 ; 
Mons. Leon Say, 609 ; Mrs. Harry 
Veitch, 598 ; President delaDevan- 
saye, 801 
Caladiums, 804 
Calandrinia glauca grandiflora, 71 
Calanthe gigas, 360; tricarinat um, 
504 ; vestita Oweniana, 648 
Calanthes at Bicton, 228 
Calceolaria fuchsiaefolia, 440 ; Kelly- 
ana, 55 
Calcutta, flowers in winter at, 501 
California, fruit growing in, 356, 403 
Californian fruits, importations of, 4 
Californian fruit trade, 35 
Calochortus albus, 759 ; splendens, 
759; venustus oculatus, 690; 
venustus roseus, 690; venustus 
Vesta, 690 
Calliandra Tweediei, 422 
Callicarpa purpurea, 359 
Callirhoe involucrata, 806 
Callipsyche aurantiaca, 342 
Calluna vulgaris Hammondi, 102 
Calypso boreale, 504 
Camellia Sasanqua Single Red, 246 
Campanula carpatica alba, 758 ; 
glomerata dahurica, 673 ; Hender- 
soni, 694 ; lactiflora caerulea, 742 : 
persicsefolia coronata, 786 ; rhom- 
boidalis, 726; rotundifolia Hostii, 
694 
Campanula or Platycodon, 792 
Campanula, the peach-leaved, 647 
Campanulas for the Rockery, 758 
Canary Creeper, the, 118 
Canna Captaine de Suzzoni, 801 ; 
Comte de Ganay, 609 ; Duchess of 
York, 801 ; Gloire d’Empil, 801 ; 
Konigin Charlotte, 801 ; Lohengrin, 
801; Michelet, 801 ; Progression, 
529 ; Sophia Buchnee, 598 ; Star of 
’ 9 U 33 
Canna, a new, 112 
Cape Peaches, 402 
Caraguata cardinalis, 468, 483 
Carbonic acid in the Soil, 531 
Cardamine pratense flore pleno, 551 
Carludovica palmaefolia, 22 
Carnation Agricola, 738 ; Audry 
Campbell, 737; Annie Sanders,662 ; 
Bendigo, 737 ; The Churchwarden, 
626; Cardinal Wolsey, 73S ; Crim¬ 
son King, 769; The Dey, 738; 
Duke of Orleans, 738 ; Ellen Terry, 
738; Esmeralda, 769, George 
Cruickshank, 737 ; Hayes Scarlet, 
690, 738; Kier Prince, 71 : King 
Arthur, 690 ; Madame Ernest 
Bergmann,232; Mephisto, 737 ; Mrs 
Anstis, 738; Mrs. Cannell,_ 183 ; 
Mrs. Leopold Rothschild, 9; Mrs. 
Apsley Smith, 769 ; Mrs. Seymour 
Bouverie, 626 ; The Patriot, 738 ; 
Pride of Great Britain, 598; 
Princess May, 529 ; Rosa Bonheur, 
737 ; Tom Sayers, 737 ; Sir Charles 
Freemantle, 662 ; Sir Gawain, 737 ; 
Sirius, 737; Uriah Pike, 529; 
Waterwitch, 737 
