The Gardening World.] 
CONTENTS. 
[August 27, 189S. 
V. 
Essex field experiments, 343, 357 
Eulophiella peetersiana, 538, 629 
Euonymus radicans variegata, 462 
Euphorbia corollata, 772 ; Poinsettia, 
249 
Examination in horticulture, 659, 667, 
683 
Exeter, parks and open spaces in, 
486; public gardens of, 324 ; suc¬ 
cessful culture at, 665 
Exhibits, questionable, 364, 375, 396, 
428 
Experiments with crops and manures 
563 
Explosive, a new, 756 
Eynsford, seed farm at, 101 
F 
Fagus sylvatica peDdula, 779 
Falkland Park, South Norwood Hill, 
147, 727 ; Orchids at, 509 
Fall from a tree, fatal, 455 
Features of the N C.S. great show, 
163 
Fern Bulletin, the, 132; factory, a 
fine, 678 
Ferns, a locality rich iD, 772; and 
surfacing, tree, 621; growing in 
Chancery Lane, 626 
Fertiliser, a new, 567 
Fertilisers and Celery, 179 
Fever, do pot plants disseminate ? 455 
Ficus radicans variegata, 23 
Fig gardens, public, 53 
Fig, Thomas a'Becket and the, 53 
Fire in Holborn, the great, 3go 
Fires in the Forest of Dean, 518 
Flag, the, in plants, 724 
Flood on cultivated land, salt-water, 
596 
Floral and botanical demonstration, 
710; decorations at Chiselhurst, 
708 
Florist’s Company Limited, the Lon¬ 
don, 116; rascal, 342 
Flower and fruit farming in England, 
723 ; boxes, Parisian, 52 ; competi¬ 
tion, winter, 438 ; faker 487 ; fund, 
children 1 s, 455 ; gardening notes, 
25; hunter in Queensland, 645; 
pictures by lady artists, 364 
Flowers and fruit in November;" 196, 
197, 212 ; at Poollwe, choice hardy 
and other, 373; early, in North¬ 
umberland, 423 ; early spring, 394 ; 
forced, at Mr. Iceton’s, 332; in 
Hyde Park, spring, 553; in mid¬ 
winter, 292 ; in the North, fashion¬ 
able, 245; in the open, garden, 
181 ; the destruction of alpine, 53 ; 
the home of, 7/3, 789 ; who sets the 
fashion in ? 293 
Food, artificial, 788 
Forbes, Mr. Archibald, marriage of, 
228 ; Mr. John, at Carlisle, 164 
Forest Hill.Stanstead Park Nurseries, 
378 ; Begonias and Dahlias at, 155 
Forde Abbey, notes from the open 
from, 214 
Fordhook Farm, U.S.A., 116 
Forester, a royal, 228 
Forest for Scotland, a state model, 
772 
Forestry, 314 
Forfarshiremen at the Edinburgh 
show, 211 
Fossil forest of Atanakerdluk, 65 o; 
plant in Hampshire, new, 522 
Foxgloves with a regular top flower, 
20 
Freesia bulbs arrested, 631 
Freesias, 246, 792 
French Chrysanthemum Society, 
164 ; Horticultural Society of Lon¬ 
don, 332; horticulture, loss to, 
422 ; rosarians, 52 
Fritillaria macrophylla, 584 
Fritillarias, 476 ; early, 440 
Frost in May, 614 
Fruit and vegetables in South Devon, 
661; British grown, 83, 89 ; chil¬ 
dren and, 660; crops, our, 772; 
culture at the Cape, progressive, 
84 ; culture extending, 819 ; culture 
in Her Majesty’s Reign, 1837-1897, 
68, 92; culture, profitable, 341; 
farm, work on a Kentish, 787; 
prospects, 518, 428 ; prospects in 
North Britain, 645 ; for Christmas, 
229; growing and study in Vic¬ 
toria, 805 ; growing at the Cape, 
245; medicinal, 651; other uses 
for, 52; the preservation of fresh, 
36; to grow fine, 581 ; tree beetle, 
the, 741 
Fruits, dried, 580; the cooking of, 
550 
Fuchsias fulgens, 60 ; Riccartoni, 36 
Fuchsias in tubs, 109 
Fuels, the working value of, 604 
Fungus on Beech, 364 ; on Chrysan¬ 
themums, 253 ; on Thuyas, 695 
Furcroea watsoniana, 807 
G 
Gaillardia W. B. Child, 711 
Galanthus Ikariae, 366 
Galega officinalis, 789 
Gall on Jessamine, 215, 231 
Galls on roots of Oak, 135, 183 
Gamboge, 628 
" Garden and Forest,” 324 
Garden, a big, 423; crops in West 
Lothian, 741; of love, 454 ; scenery, 
the Beauty and order of, 811 
Gardener, a royal, 550; the qualifica¬ 
tions and duties of a, 266, 282 
Gardeners, a nursery of great, 20; 
awakening to the needs of the times, 
453; on Holiday, 45; wake up 
young, 541 
Gardeners’ Royal Benevolent Institu¬ 
tion, 6, 292, 309, 34 c; annual 
dinner, 666; annual general meet¬ 
ing, election and friendly supper, 
347; lost votes, 342; “Victorian 
Era Fund,” 523 
Gardening for children, 604 ; prac¬ 
tical, 284 
Gardens, roof, 293 ; and the drought, 
803 
Geranium club, children's, 724 
German society of Rose growers, 597 
Germinating Peas, Cress and Barley, 
708 
Gesnera amabilis, 151 
Gesneraceous plants at Reading, 649 
Ghent, New Holland plants at, 531 ; 
Quinquennial Show, 538 ; show, a 
general view of the, 534 
Gishurstine, 180 
Gladioli, early flowering, 11 ; with 
double flowers, 276 
Gladiolus, Eunice, 39 ; Lemoinei 
Baron J. Hulot, 807 ; Lemoinei 
Vesuvius, 807 ; Oriental, 39 ; Queen 
Wilhelmina, 89 ; Sutton's Queen of 
Roses, 711 ; W. B. Child, 807' 
Gladstone, William Ewart, 615 
Gladstone’s favourite flower, Mr., 660 
Glamis Gardens, Forfor, 57 
Glanbeuno, Carnavon, 438 
Glasgow Botanic Gardens, 297. 473 ; 
Parks and Gardens, 75 ; public 
parks, 788 
Glasnevin, practical botany at, 374 
Glastonbury Thorn, 395 
Gloriosa superba, 77 
Gloxinia Galatea, 679 
Golder's Hill estate, 788 
Goodyera Rollisonii, 23 
Gooseberry Pruning, 395 
Goring Hall Gardens, 823 
Gramraatophyllum Ellisii v G. rum- 
phianum, 709, 772 ; speciosum, 23 
Grandeur and decadence, 36 
Grape Directeur Tisserand, 230; 
Marchioness of Downshire, 151 
Grape room, the, 380 
Grapes, shanking of, 46 
Grasse and Cannes, flower gardens 
of, 486 
Green Fly, a plague of, 691 
Green, Mr. Augustus G , 53 
Greenway, Mr., deplorable gun acci¬ 
dent to, 260, 343 
Greenwich Park, 565, 601, 614 
Grevillea Fosterii, 649 
Grey Coat School, Westminster, 740 
Ground Ivy, the variegated, 573 
Gun accident to Mr.Greenway,260,343 
Gunnera manicata, 526; scabra, 653 
Gunnersbury House, Acton, 99, 820 
Gypsophilla cerastioides, 667 
H 
Haarlem, lake of, 471 
Hafton, Hunter’s Quay, N B , 268 
Hail, havoc by, 564 
Hailstorm Insurance Corporation, 
508 
Hamamelis arborea, 301 
Hamburg Exhibition, 75 
Harcourt, Sir William, as a gardener, 
211 
Hardy herbaceous plants, 602, 651, 
677, 698, 725 
Haricots, Lentils and Peas, composi¬ 
tion of, 45 
Hartstongue, a fine frilled, 694 
Hawthorns on Hampstead Heath, 
628 
Hay making in a wet season, 805 
Heath,green-flowered,cross-leaved, 22 
Hedysarum multijugum, 121,711 
Heinemann’s Novelties, 249 
Heienslea, Broughty Ferry, 237 
Helianthemum Fireball, 795 
Hellebores diseased, 279 
Helleborus, niger, 301 
Hemlock, the Western, 361 
Herbaceous border, 441 
Hibiscus Manihot, 38 ; syriacus, 550 
Holly Golden King, 630; with red 
and yellow berries, 279 
Home of flowers, the, 778, 789 
Honour to whom honour is due, 52, 68 
Hooker, Sir Joseph, 422 
Hop-tree, the, 89 
Horticultural Club, the, 200 
Horticultural Sundries, 474 
Horticulture, a generous donor to, 
597 ; R.H S. Examination in, 659, 
667 
Hospitality of the Scottish Horticul¬ 
tural Association, 214 
“House, the,” 85, 212 
Humphreys, Mr. T., a sad accident 
to, 622, 708, 788 
Humphries, Ltd., Messrs. Edward, 69 
Hurst & Son Cricket Club, the, 233 
Hurst & Son, Messrs., at the Hol¬ 
born Restaurant, 267 ; Clover and 
grass seed circular, 301 
Huxley and his garden, 342 
Hyacinth Ball of Gold, 523; Cine¬ 
raria, 523 ; City of Haarlem, 490; 
the Cape, 13 ; the Roman, 7 
Hyacinths and Evergreen Conifers, 
7; Grape, 11; Roman, 269 
Hyde Park, spring flowers in, 553 
Hydrangeas in Co. Down, 297 
I 
“ Ichthemic ” at Yarmouth, 77 
Ilott, Mr. Chas., and fruit growing, 
55 
Imantophyllum Favourite, 490 ; 
Optima, 490 
Income-tax grievances, 277 
Inks, ancient and modern, 565, 580 
Insect miners, 788 
Insects and flowers, 180 
Inula Hookeri, 725 
Iris cristata, 653 ; juncea numidica, 
711 ; Kaempferi, 333, 349; Kaemp- 
feri by the acre, 475; sibirica 
japonica, 725 
Irish Gardeners’ Benevolent Society, 
580 
Italian Chrysanthemum Society, 676 
Ivy-sports, 541 ; stem, large, 492 
Ivy-leaved Toad-flax, to the, 59 
J 
Jadoo Fibre, 439 
Japan, new year’s banquets in, 597 
Japanese as flower lovers, the, 724 ; 
Mushrooms, 268 
Jeemes and the laird, 342 
Jones, Mr. H. J., serious illness of, 84 
Judging at horticultural exhi¬ 
bitions, 379. 396, 428; flowers, 
fruits and vegetables, 21 
Juglans regia laciniata, 734 
Juniper Berries, gymnospermous, 135 
Juno Cycles, 470; at the Crystal 
Palace, 212 
Justicia carnea, 666 
K 
Kailyard story, another, 53 
Kale, varieties of : Barr’s Exquisite, 
231 ; Brydon’s Selected, 231; Chou 
de Milan, 23:; Cottager's Kale, 
231; Culzean Castle, 231; Cuth- 
bertson, 231; Dobbie’s Selected, 
231 : Dwarf Purple, 231; Late 
Hearting, 231; Variegated, 231 
Kales, ornamental, 444 
Kalo-Rochea, 821 
Kay’s Annual for 1898, 229 
Kelway's Annual, 325 
Kew, a year's Orchids at, 789 ; and 
Chiswick gardeners fraternising, 
374. 39°1 early flowers at, 380; 
Gardens, the cottage grounds iD, 
645 ; Guild, 422 ; Guild, journal of 
the, 644 ; hardy Azaleas at, 645 ; 
leguminous trees and shrubs at, 
651; Nepenthes house at, 299; 
Orchid houses at, 645 ; Palace, the 
old, 308 ; rare Orchids at, 791 ; the 
Kew pelican, 293 
Kinver specialities in flowers, bulbs 
and vegetables, 86 
Kirn, notes from, 139 
Kittshayes, 725 
Kniphofia longicollis, 724 ; primulina, 
301 ; Tucki, 662 
Krelage, Mr. J. H., 74: 
L 
Label and Holder, the Ideal. 117 
Laburnum seeds, death from eating, 
1x6 
Lachenalias, 325 
Lady crofters, 359 
Laeken, the royal domain of, 661 
Laelia anceps amesiana Crawshayana, 
326; anceps from Ravenswood, 229; 
anceps Mrs. De B. Crawshay, 263 ; 
anceps Whiffeni and L. a. craw¬ 
shayana, 277, 292 ; anceps schroder - 
iana Rosslyn var., 375; anceps 
waddoniensis, 396; Brtseis, 263 ; 
elegans, Mrs. Moojen, 571; elegans 
Monica, 597; lindleyano-elegans, 
263; longipes, 150 ; Olivia, 230 ; 
pumila albens, 151; pumila Gatton 
Park, var., 70 ; pumila Lowe's var., 
118 ; pumila magnifica, 150 ; pumila 
praestans, 263, 346 : pumila praes- 
tans, at the Sale Rooms, 180; pur- 
purata, a fine, 597 ; purpurata 
Ernestii, 678 ; purpurata Mrs. R. 
I. Measures, 150; rubescens, 263 
Laeliocattleya Admiral Dewey, 630 ; 
andreana, 23; canhamiana Joyce 
Wigan, 710 ; Duke of York, 679; 
Eudora splendens, 678 ; Fascinator, 
598 ; Golden Gem, 630 ; Hippolyta 
aurantiaca, 678; Hippolyta Dulcote 
var., 598; Ingrami gigantea, 774; 
Juno, 23; schilleriana Cambridge 
Lodge var., 774 ; Thorntoni, 571; 
warnhamensis, 458 ; wellsiana lang- 
leyensis, 571 
Lambton Castle, floral decorations at, 
213 ; Gardens, 70 
Language of fruit and vegetables, 661 
Law notes : Ashworth v Wells, 124, 
332, 398; rating of market garden 
buildings, 462, 487 ; was it worth 
the trouble ? 391 
Lawes’ Chemical Manure Company, 
Ltd., 180 
Lawton’s Patent Pot Suspender, 359 
Leeds Corporation and its gardeners, 
486 
Leicester public parks and recreation 
grounds, 361 
Lemon bath, 692 
Lemons as soap, 412 
Lettuce forcing in the United States, 
581; Nansen or North Pole, 412; 
soil for, 443 
Licuala Jeanenceyi, 630 
Lilac, a new rose-flowered, 724 
Lilies of the Valley, retarding, 24 
Lilies, popular, 41 
Lilium candidum, 41 ; giganteum, 
153 ; Harrisii in Natal, 293 ; longi- 
florum Harrisii, 38 ; Marham, 710; 
rubellum, 630 
Lille, Chrysanthemum show and con¬ 
gress at, 325 
Lily disease, cure for the, 758 ; fields 
of Bermuda, 645 ; of the Valley, 
the, 10 ; the sacred, 293 
Lime, a pyramidal, 519 
Linaria alpina, 809; macedonica, 750 
Linden, M. Jean, memorial to the late, 
518 
Linnean Society, gold medals from 
the, 628 
Lismore, Broughty Ferry, 377 
Living things, the simplest, 534 
Lobelia Tupa, 184c (supt.) 
Long Ditton, autumn flowering Cro¬ 
cuses at, 284; Irises at, 693; 
Michaelmas Daisies at, 107 
Lozier Manufacturing Co., 116 
Lupinus arboreus luteus, 726 
Lupinus polyphyllus Foxii, 726 
Lupinus polyphyllus Somerset, 711 
Lycaste denningsiana, 70 
Lychnis Lagascae, 667 
Lyons, International Horticultural 
Exhibition, 756 
M 
McDougall’s Insecticide Fumer, 
629 
Magnolia parviflora, 699 
Magnolias, 629 
Maida Vale, Orchids at, 153 
Maidstone, Allington Nurseries, 823 ; 
grapes for, 180 
Making himself known, 740 
Manchester Whit-week show, 637 
Manure in horticulture, employment 
of, 805 
