The Gardening World.] 
CONTENTS. 
[August 26, 1839. 
VI]. 
Scilla nutans, 589 
Sciadopitys verticillata, 342 
Science unbends, when, 805 
Scientific Committee of the R.H.S., 
646 
Scilly Islands, flowers from the, 375 
Scolopendrium varieties, 23 
Seachffe, Edinburgh, 134 
Sea Holly, 489 
Seakale forcing, 62T; and Asparagus, 
culture of, 510 
Seed dispersal, 772 ; germinate twice? 
can a, 340 ; sowing, 440 
Seeds, the buying and home-testing 
of, 1x7 ; the plant with the greatest 
number of, 53 
Seftcn Park, Liverpool, 804 
Sell’s Commercial Intelligence, 149 
Sequoia, meaning of, 149 
Shabden Park, large Nectarine tree 
at, 219 
Shadings, sun blinds and, 376 
Shakespeare’s Greenwood, customs of, 
518 
Sherry industry, the, 455 
Sherwood Cup, the 10 guinea, 182, 
406 
Shift on, another, 414 
Shipley Hall, Derby, 245 
Shirley Poppy seed, 459 
Shrubs, new and rare hardy flowering, 
429; on the west coast of Ross- 
shire, flowering, 501 
Sibthorpia europaea, 286 
Sidbury Manor, Devon, 489 
Silver Wedding of an Ayrshire gar¬ 
dener, 805 
Sisal in Mexico, 566 
Slipper Orchid, the English, 774 
Smilax, beautiful, 133 
Snow in the North, 213; on Ben 
Nevis, 84; on Lochnagar, 149; 
something like a fall of, 325 
Societies and shows; Abbey Park 
Flower Show, 797; Acock's Green 
Horticultural,59; Ancient Society of 
York Florists, 260; Bath, 28; Bath 
and West and Southern Counties, 
654; Birmingham and Midland 
Counties, 692 ; Brighton and Sussex 
Horticultural, 14; Burton-on-Trent, 
14 ; Bute National Rose and Horti¬ 
cultural, 14, 133 ; Cawdor, 14 ; Cob- 
ham Flower Show, 763 ; Cornwall 
TDaflodil, 493 ; Dundee, 28 ; 
Durham,Northumberland and New¬ 
castle Horticultural and Botanical, 
454; Dutch Horticultural and 
Botanical 36, 149, 197, 260, 660; 
Eltham Rose Show,748; Eppingand 
Essex Horticultural, 668 ; Falkirk, 
28, 492; Formby Horticultural, 
750; Gateacre, 812 ; Glasgow and 
West of Scotland, 36, ^3 ; Goole 
Agricultural and Horticultural, 
824; Grassendale and Aigburth, 
477; Guernsey Show, 812; Hal- 
berton Cottage Garden, 692; 
Hanle}- Horticultural, 359, 717, 
733; Haughley and Wetherden, 
762 ; Hornsey Horticultural 
Association, 797; Ipswich, Christ¬ 
mas Show at, 252 ; Ipswich Horti¬ 
cultural, 299 ; Ireland, Jloyal Hor¬ 
ticultural of, 27, 37, 52, 539; Lady- 
well and Lewisham, 813; Leven 
Horticultural, 14 ; Liverpool Horti¬ 
cultural, 358, 796; Maidenhead 
Chrysanthemum, 358; Manchester 
Botanic, 621, 733; Mearns Rose 
Society, 765 ; Midland Carnation 
and Picotee Society, 375 ; Midland 
Daffodil, 540; Millbiook Horticul¬ 
tural, 781 ; National Amateur Gar¬ 
deners’, 734, 740 ; National Auricula 
and Primula (southern section), 493, 
542 ; National Carnation and 
Picotee (southern section), 469, 708, 
764 ; National Chrysanthemum, 30, 
70, 108. r25, 140, 157 165, 171, 189, 
221, 228,236, 507, 518 ; (annual din¬ 
ner, 235 ; annual general meeting, 
381; annual outing, 708; Con¬ 
ference on Chrysanthemum rust, 
124; N.C.S. reserve fund, 228; 
Report of Investigation of Sites 
Sub-committee, 139); National 
Dahlia, 28, 196, 438, 550, 660, 757; 
National Rose, 707, 716, 732, 748 
(at Colchester); New Brighton Rose, 
763; Newcastle-on-Tyne Flower 
Show, 260; New Maldon Floral 
Fete, 763 ; Norfolk and Norwich 
Horticultural, 573; One and All 
Flower Show, 825 ; Ormskirk Hor¬ 
ticultural, 58; Parkeston Flower 
Show, 824 ; Perthshire Royal 
Horticultural, 14; Petersham 
Flower Show, 779; Prescot, 781; 
Preston and Fulwood, 477 ; Radley 
and Kennington, 780; Richmond 
Horticultural, 358, 714 ; Royal 
Botanic Society of London, 359, 
539, 621, 699; Royal Caledonian 
Horticultural, 43, 51, 59, 390, 508, 
525 ; Royal Dublin Show, 252 ; 
Royal Horticultural, 29, 61, 107, 
140, 174, 22i, 252, 317, 365, 396, 
429, 461, 493, 541, 573, 605, 630, 
634, 651, 669, 692, 700, 766, 780, 
813 ; (annual general meeting, 397 ; 
Dates of R.H.S. meetings, 82 ; 
New Charter,756) ; Royal Liverpool 
Show, 812 ; Royal National Tulip, 
621; Royal Scottish Arboricultural, 
582 ; Shropshire Horticultural 
Society, 309, 826; Smithfield Show, 
245 ; Southampton Royal Horticul¬ 
tural, 692 ; Southern Counties Car¬ 
nation, 454, 780; Stirling, 43 ; Stutt¬ 
gart, Germany, Rose Show at, 65 i ; 
Syndical Chamber of Belgian Hor- 
ticulturalists, 36, 132, 245, 324, 391, 
550, 614, 661, 725, 804 ; Tamworth 
Floral Fete, 765 ; Tibshelf Flower 
Show, 780; Tiverton Show, 781; 
Windsor, Eaton, and District Rose 
and Horticultural, 699; Wisbech 
and District Horticultural Associa¬ 
tion ; 558 ; Wolverhampton Floral 
Fete, 749; Woodbridge Horticul¬ 
tural, 763 ; Woolpit and District 
Horticultural, 762 ; Woolton Chrys¬ 
anthemum, 340; Woolton Show, 
762; Yorkshire Gala, the, 685 
Solanum etuberosum, 396 ; S. Maglia 
hybrids, 396 
Soldier's Song, a, 101 
Solidago Virgaurea prostrata, 139 
Soot, good kitchen, 566 
Sophrocattleya Cleopatra, 119 ; Queen 
Empress, 774 
Sophrolaelia laeta superba, 473 ; Mar- 
riottii, 186 
Sophronites rossiteriana, 326 
Species in naked bits of protoplasm, 
599 
Spinach in pans or pots, 589 ; winter, 
550, 598, 677 
Springtime foliage tints, 666 
Squashes, big, 789 
Squirrels, 138 
Stand Hall, Manchester, 101 
Stanhopea Wardii, 279 
Stanley-Mobbs & Ashton, Messrs., 
Southgate, 249 
Starch, home-made, 427 
Stauropsis lissochiloides, 821 
Steriliser, my experiences and results 
with Week’s, 487 
Stevenstone, North Devon, 22 
St. Leonards, Edinburgh, 709 
St. Petersburg, International Exhibi¬ 
tion at, 20, 69, 1x6, 212, 453, 486 
Sto k, Webb’s new Crystal White, 
427 
Stoking, the art of, 269 
Stover Park, Newton Abbot, 307, 326 
Stratiotes aloides, 791 
Strawberry, Lady Suffield, 646; Lord 
Kitchener, 743 ; Plymouth, 23 ; St. 
Joseph, 71 
Strawberry, culture of the, 779; 
pickers, 756; plants defective, 23 
Strawberries from Hampshire, 260 ; in 
fruit, 101 ; pot, 697 ; six good, 748 
Street sweepings as a fertiliser, 132 
Streptosolen Jamesoni, 615, 661 
Student in a far land, a successful, 
389 
Study, a method in, 261 
Succulents, 614 
Sulphate of copper, adulterations of, 
5i9 
Sulphide of potash, and newly 
painted houses, 317 
Sunflowers for seed, 645 
Surrey garden, a, 19, 75 
Sutton's Amateur Guide in Horticul¬ 
ture, 246; Angling Association, 
294 ; Cycling Club, 582 
Swanley, flowers in season at, 726 
Swanley Horticultural College, 731 ; 
women’s branch, 389 
Swamp culture, 741 
Sweet Pea seed, 459 
Sweet Peas, 426; in pots, 662; in 
Scotland, 36 ; malformed, 791 
Sweet William Elizabeth, 743 
Swift, Dean, and the Fruiterer, 229 
T 
Tasmania, orchards in, 340 
Taste in bedding, curious, 116 
Tea plants attacked by mites, 231 
Teasel head proliferous, 199 
Temple Show, the, 630, 634, 651; ex¬ 
hibitors at the, 631; friends at the, 
666 ; some features of the, 629 
Tewin Water, Welwyn, 755, 779 
Thames, preservation of the, 470 
Thatch, incombustible, 713 
Then and now, 308 
Thistle seed from Bannockburn, 549 ; 
the value of the, 519 
Thunia Bensoniae superba, 649 
Thuya gigantea, 343 
Tiarella cordifolia, 748 
Tibouchina macrantha, 414 
Tile, Reading trough edging patent 
garden, xg 5 
Tinned green Peas, 582 
Tobacco cultivation in Szechuan, 470 
Tomato, Currant, 22; Golden Jubilee, 
748 ; Lister’s Prolific, 806 ; Rose- 
leigh Gem, 269; The Champion, 
39 ; Winter Beauty, 556, 614 
Tomato, the virtues of the, 772 ; with 
red and yellow fruit, 23 
Tomatos at Newton Abbot, two good, 
85; raised from grafts on Potatos, 
396; with bulbiferous stems, 135; 
with supernumerary carpels, 23 
Toogood’s bulbs, 6 
Torquay and its gardens, 214 
Toxicophlaea spectabilis, 332 
Trade, Horticultural, 37 
Travel, co-operative world, 598 
Tree bounty in Minnesota, 407 ; frog 
at Kew, 708; growing out of a 
chimney, 756; stumps, burning, 
222 
Trees and shrubs for town and villa 
gardens, 340; and soil, 729; and 
soils, 676 ; noble park, 583 
Tropaeolum speciosum,6g ; the home 
for, 679 
Tropaeoiums, annual, 778 
Trouble, the coming, 100 
Trowel and fork combined, new, 487 
Tricyrtis pilosa, 190 
Trinity Grove, Edinburgh, 617 
Tulip May Queen, Darwin, 620 
Tulips, the florists’ show, 487 
Tupistra nutans, 445 
Turf and its products, 471 
Turnips, 457 
Tyntesfielct Orchids, 613 
u 
United Horticultural Benefit and 
Provident Society, 101, 106, 437, 
453. 478 i annual general meeting, 
460 
Upton Leigh, Torquay, Orchids at, 
666 
Urban District Council, 773 
V 
Vanda teres Gunnersbury Park var., 
774 
Van Geert, the heirs of Charles, 245 
Vegetable Marrow Pen-y-byd, 757 
Vegetable notes, 666; physiology, 
gardeners and, 131 ; show, a fine, 87 
Vegetables and flowers, the origin of 
forcing, 519; and frost, winter, 
458 ; at Birmingham, 149; two 
good, 316 
Vegetation, east winds and, 437 ; in 
St. Helena, 741 
Veitch & Son, Messrs. R., Exeter, 
342, 362, 522 
Veitch Memorial Fund, 406 
Veltha, to kill fungoid diseases, 276 
Verbascum Thapsus, 653 
Vernal grass, the sweet-scented, 438 
Vine, a mammoth Grape, 422 ; grow¬ 
ing industry in Russia, 52 ; the 
most fertile eye of the, 740 
Vines, 312; and vine borders, 509; 
800 years old, 276 
Viola Walter Welsh, 804 
Violet La France, 301 ; a new, 483 ; 
the modest, 566 
Violets, damping of, 380 ; of Nice, 229 
Vitis Thunbergii, 774 
w 
Wagtail nesting, 325 
Walton-on-Thames, 406 
Ware, Ltd., Thomas S., 84 
Water Cress culture, 653 
Water Lilies, 503 ; at Edenside, 820 ; 
at the Conference, 761 
Wasp, Giant Wood, 277 
Weather and vegetation, 167 ; in 
London, 677; remarkable, in 
Russia, 244 
Webb & Sons, complimentary dinner 
by, 676 
Weed, a mysterious, 68, 117; a 
troublesome, 331 ; the, 21 
Weeds, a profitable way of getting rid 
of troublesome, 570 ; common, 573, 
598, 615, 647 ; destroying, 277 
Wellingtonia gigantea, 487 
Wells’ Chrysanthemum calendar, 341 
West Indies, co-operation in the, 566 ; 
fruits of the, 788 ; great hurricane 
in the, 805 
West Lothian, weather and crops in, 
789 
Wet and dry periods, 439 
Why ? 297 
Wild flowers at Ottery St. Mary, 293 ; 
in gardens, 148 
Wild plants, dried specimens, of, 750 
Willow, myth of the weeping, 36 
Willows in the Hebrides, 245 
Winds, east, and vegetation, 437 
Winter, mildness of the, 437 
Wisley in Surrey, 725 
Wistaria sineDsis, 553 
Witches’ broom on a Scotch Fir, 572 
Wood pigeons, 534 
Worms in lawns, 663 
Worth Park, 57 
X 
XL All Fumigator, 614 
Y 
York florists, 148, 260 
Yorkshire College, Leeds, gq ; Gala, 
Grand, 308, 374, 685 
z 
Zea May’s Caragua, 772 
Zoo, bedding at the, 789 
