The Gardening World.] 
[August 28,1897. 
OOZtTTJSHSTTS OF VOL. XIII 
FOR THE YEAR ENDING AUGUST 2 8 th, 1897. 
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Abelia floribunda, 726 
Aberdeen, new Chrysanthemum 
society for, 283 
Abies bracteata, 615 
Abutilon Golden Fleece, 126 
Abutilon megapotamicum, 125 
Acacia and Calanthe Veitchi, 309 
Acacia platyptera, 285 
Acanthophippium javanicum, 215 
Acidantbera bicolor, 39 
Acanthus and Greek architecture, 
516 
Adam, an enterprising, 437 
Addington Park, Canterbury, 453, 
532 
Adiantum Capillus - Veneris cunei- 
formis, 39 ; Capillus - Veneris 
semilunatum, 437 ; farleyense, 413 ; 
fasciculatum, 711 
Aeranthus carpophorum, 684 
Aeschynanthus Lobbii, 438 
Agapetes buxifolia, 604 
Aglaonema Curtisii, 118 
Alkanna tinctoria, 566 
Allington Nurseries, the, 89 
Allotments, boys’, 564 
Alpine and rock plants, a plea for, 
45 i 
Alps, flora of the, 348 
Altrincham, Concerts at, 260 
Amalgamation at Edinburgh, pro¬ 
posed, 213, 228 
Amaryllis Brenda, 533 ; Chimborazo, 
533; Duke of York, 533; Fran- 
cisca, 503 ; Hidalgo, 503 ; Ionacite, 
533 ; Lord Brassey, 503 ; Pera, 
486; The Czar, 533; Thunberg, 
533; Topaz, 533; Xantho, 503 
Amaryllis at Aigburfh, 493 ; at Chel¬ 
sea, 485 : at Kew, 502 ; the, 422 
Ambury, the, 797 
American Carnation Society and 
seedling Carnations, 117 ; Chrysan¬ 
themum Society Gold Medal, 117 ; 
plant emporium, a model, 469 
Amorphophallus variabilis, 183 
Anemia rotundifolia, 59S, 615 
Anemone, a new double white, 652 ; 
fulgens, 551 
Angraecum mooreanum, 486 
Anoectochilus sanderianus, 630 
Ansellia africana, 533 
Anthuriumadreanum atropurpureum, 
365 ; scherzerianum Geant San- 
glant, 487 
Antirrhinum Hendersonii, 749 
Aphelandra fascinator, 349 
Aphides, a wash for, 100 
Appeal, an anniversary, 363 
Apple Allington Pippin, 91 ; Belle de 
Boskoop, 327; Brabant Bellefleur ; 
Cardross Green, 569 ; Cranston’s 
Pippin, 487 ; D’Arcy Spice, 195 ; 
Hambling’s Seedling, 89 ; Hillier’s 
Easter OraDge, 566; Sir Joseph 
Banks, 103; Standard Bearer, 
327 
Apple leaf, twin, 791 ; root with ad¬ 
ventitious buds, 471 ; trees, curious 
method of feeding, 421 
Apples and the complexion, 679 : 
Canadian, 52, 195 : diseased, 791; 
medicinal value of, 293 ; petalless, 
615 
Appointments : Addison, Mr. John, 
292 ; Arthur, Mr. William, 644 : 
Barber, Mr. William, 628 ; 
Bennett, Mr. Charles, 308 ; Casel- 
tOD, Mr. George, 516; Conway, 
Mr. T. F„ 484 ; Cook, Mr. V. F„ 
227; Cowie, Mr. James, 227; 
CummiDg, Mr. John H.. 596; 
Dunbar, Mr. James, 436 ; Edwards, 
Mr. W. G., 420; French, Mr. 
William Bernice, 132 ; Gibson, Mr. 
David, 84 ; Hammill, Mr. R. J., 
84 ; Heath, Mr., 308 ; Holland, Mr. 
John Henry, 132; McDermiad, 
Mr. Andrew, 772 ; McFadyen, Mr. 
N.. 404 ; McKenzie, Mr. Kenneth, 
692 ; McMillan, Mr. H. F., 292; 
McShee, Mr. Neil, 436; Miller, 
Mr. William, 116; Pettigrew, Mr. 
J. A., 357; Rick, Mr. Jack, 404; 
Roberts, Mr. J., 692 ; Rourke, Mr. 
James, 260; Sage, Mr. G. H., 788 ; 
Stoney, Mr. J. T., 532 ; Stuart, Mr. 
Robert, 227 ; Thatcher, Mr. John, 
211 ; Waite, Mr. M. B., 227; 
Walters, Mr. Wm , 260; Waugh, 
Mr. John, 644 ; Weathers, Mr. P., 
243; Willis, Mr. 69, 101 
Arachnanthe Lowei, 38 
Aralia triloba, 39 
Araucaria imbricata, 313, 346, 363 
Arbor Day in Kent, 484 
Archerfield Gardens, Drem, 516, 
532 
Arisaema bakeriana, 630 
Aristolochia brasiliensis, 742 ; the 
first hybrid, 791 
Arnewood, Glasgow, 457 
Artemisia arborescens, 78 
Artichokes from seed, Globe, 821 
Ascott, Leighton, 646 ; winter flower¬ 
ing plants at, 299 
Asparagus, 141 ; deflexus, 413; Pea, 
461 
Asplenum Herbstii, 118 
Asquith, Mr. H. H., at the Dundee 
flower show, 21 
Aster turbinellus in pots, 141 
Asters as pot plants, 301 
Ayr show, big plants at, 284 
Ayrshire gardening, 458 
Azalea rosaeflora, 507 ; rustica fl. pi. 
Freya, 630 ; rustica fl. pi. Ribera, 
630 
Athens, gardens of, 682 
Auricula Double White, 615 ; Duke 
of York, 533 : Fred Knighton, 566 ; 
Greenfinch, 533 ; Mrs. Markham, 
53 3 
Australian dried fruits, 346 
Australian dry country, conquering 
the, 540 
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Bacillus radicicola, 311 
Balchin & Sons, Messrs., Brighton, 
411 
Bambusa Fortunei variegata, 233 
Banana culture, 605 
Battersea Park, 740 
Battle of flowers at Skegness, 741 
Baubinia ferruginea, 349 
Bayham Abbey, 57 
Bean, Dwarf, Carter’s Stringless 
French, 329, 331; Emperor William, 
566 ; Golden Wax Pod, 566 ; Mo¬ 
hawk Improved, 566 ; Ne Plus 
Ultra, 566; Osborn’s Forcing, 566 ; 
Smyth’s Hybrid French, 141 ; 
Veitch’s Early Favourite, 566 
Beans for forcing, French, 356 
Beaten by his own fruit, 804 
Beckett, Lord Tennyson's, 580 
Bedding, winter and Spring, 573 
Bee, the Leaf-cutter, 295 
Bees and grapes, 653 ; in a London 
garden, 133 
Beet in France, cultivation of, 342 
Beetles in house, 494 ; with grapes, 
47 i 
Begonia Gloire de Sceaux, 438 ; 
gracilis martiana, ro8 ; Louise 
Closon Improved, 23; metallica 
Regina, 118; odorata rosea plena, 
39 
Begonia, tuberous, Bijou, 523 ; 
Diamond Jubilee, 630; Ensign, 
215; Lady Pearson, 711 ; Miss 
Griffiths, 742 ; Queen of Queens, 
630 ; seedling white, 93 
Begonias, tuberous, at Forest Hill, 
729; at Leighton Buzzard, ro8 ; 
culture of, 348 ; double, at Steven¬ 
age, 94 ; from Plymouth, 29 
Belladonna Lily, the, 101 
Berlin, international horticultural 
exhibition at, 437, 517 
Bertonerila Madame du Toict, 233; 
Madame Treyeran, 601 
Bibio, larvae of, 551 
Bignonia venusta, 270, 333 
Big plants at Ayr show, 284 
Bird life in Banffshire, 357 
Birds in conservatories, 357 
Birmingham horticulturists at dinner, 
282; interesting plants in the 
Botanical Gardens, 269 ; show, the 
future of, 262 
Blackbird, a fearless, 484 
Blackberry Kittatiny, 807 
Blenheim Palace, fire at, 228 ; Water 
Lilies at, 772 
Blizzard, the recent, 340 
Bomarea Carderi, 475 
Books, Notices of : Clay's Successful 
Gardening, 694; Country Gentle¬ 
man’s Catalogue of Requisites, 
598 ; Dahlia, the, 500; Everybody's 
Medical Guide, 284; Flowering 
Bulb Culture, 300 ; Fruit-Culture 
for Amateurs, 307 ; Guide to Vege¬ 
table Culture. 428; Hand-list of 
Trees and Shrubs, at Kew, 75; 
Hardy Coniferous Trees, 275; 
Hartland's Conference Daffodils, 
726; Hortus Boissierianus, 758; 
How to grow Begonias, 667; 
Journal of the Royal Horticultural 
Society,140, 316; Le Cbrysantheme 
a la grande fleur, 459 ; My Garden 
Diary for 1897, 3 l6 1 Official Cata¬ 
logue of the National Chrysanthe¬ 
mum Society, 163 ; Popular Bulb 
Culture, 347 ; Potato Culture and 
Disease Prevention, 483 ; Queens¬ 
land Past and Present, 667 ; Sweet 
Peas Up-to-Date, 428 ; The Culture 
of Vegetables for Prizes, Pleasure 
and Profit, 518 ; The Narcissus or 
Daffodil, 284 ; The Orchid Hybrids, 
300; Water and Irrigation in 
Orchard and Garden Cultivation, 
788; Wild Bird Protection and 
Nesting Boxes, 437 
Boronia megastigma, 475 
Botanical drawings, 59; garden at 
Pisa, 708 
Botanists of Philadelphia and their 
work, 596 
Botany and bicycles, 548; institute 
for teaching, 420 
Bournemouth Gardeners, 357 
Brassavola venosa, 263 
Bread, the alimentary value of white 
and brown, 52 
Bridal veil of Princess Helene of 
Montenegro, 1:7 
Bridal wreath (Francoa ramosa), 773 
Bridal Wreaths, 726 
Brightest stars, sixty years with, 628 
Bristol Amateur Horticultural 
Society, 244 ; naturalists, 628 
British grown fruit, 644; Produce 
Supply Association, 101, 117 
Broccoli, a good December, 491 ; 
Champion, 668 ; Universal, 726 
Brussels flower festival, 628; In¬ 
ternational Exhibition at Tre- 
vueren, 437 
Bulb culture for exhibition, 11 ; 
number, our, 5 
Bulbophyllum auricomum, 263 ; day- 
anum, 327; Ericssoni, 454; sp., 22 
Bulb, what is a ? 6 
Bulbs, Dutch and Cape, 53; for the 
million, 14; Sutton’s, 793; with 
arrested roots, 502 
Bumble bees intoxicated, 532 
Bunyard, Mr. G., on Fruit Culture, 6 
Bunyard’s centenary exhibition, 35, 
4 U 373 
Burford Lodge, Dorking, 51, 99, 823 
Burpee, Mr. W. Atlee, 756 
Bush Hill Park, hard-wooded plants 
at, 492 ; Nurseries, 556 
Butterflies, exterminating, 133 
Byrne, Mr., 373 
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Cabbage, Sutton’s Earliest, 684; 
Veitch’s Earliest of All, 684 ; £600 
for, 404 
Cabbages and the weather, 548 
Caladium Donna Carmen Macedo, 
23 ; Lady Stafford Northcote, 630 ; 
Mrs. McLeod, 630 
Calamus fissus, 349 
Calanthe and its culture, the, 247 
Calanthe vestita and C. Veitchi, 212 
Calceolaria alba, 807 ; pelorian, 791 
Callas, 790 
Calochortus clavatus, 711 ; Gunisoni, 
684 ; piummerae aureus, 742 
Camellia, a fine specimen, 421 ; 
Duchess of York, 503 
Camellias, smut on, 651 
Cambridge Lodge, Camberwell, 137 
Campanula balchiniana, 30, 781 : 
Profusion, 23 
Canada, horticulture in, 581 
Canford Manor, Wimborne, 378 
Canker, treating fruit trees for, 661 
Canna AUemagnia, 714; America, 
6 i 5 > 774 '• Comte de Bouchard, 
630; Corsaire, 774; Doyen Jean 
Leopold, 774 ; Edouard Mieg, 
774; Italia and C. Austria, 182; 
Miss Elsie Perkins, 774 ; Pfitzer, 
774; Seedling, 774 
Cannas, sub-irrigation of, 293 ; suc¬ 
cessful culture of, 438 
Cannell, Junr., Mr. Henry, 36 
Canterbury Hospital and Charity 
Fete, 116 
Cape fruit, 549 ; growing in favour, 
437 ; Heath in ice, 628 
Cardiff, another breathing space for 
581 
Carnation Artemus, 630; Badminton, 
742 ; Barras, 684 ; Cecilia, 684 ; 
Duchess Consuelo, 629 ; Hampden, 
711 ; Helensman, 684 ; Julian, 263 ; 
Jim Smyth, 749; Miss Violet 
Douglas, 742; Mr. John Fraser, 
757 J Pelegia, 742 ; Sir Henry 
Irving, 742; Waterwitch, 684 ; 
Wm. RobinsoD, 263 
Carnation and flower clip, new, 614 ; 
and Picotee Union, 469 ; cultiva¬ 
tion of the, 794; disease, 215 ; 
leaves diseased, 502 ; society, pro¬ 
posed, 804 
Carnations, 44 ; at Edenside, 777 ; at 
Mr. Chas. Young's Floral Nursery, 
694; at Montague nursery, 793; 
Dodwell’s, 453 ; in America, 484 ; 
in winter, on flowering, 504 ; layer¬ 
ing, 792 ; looking sickly, 424, 441, 
456; watering in winter, 456; 
wheat-eared, 791 
Carpenteria cahfornica, 713 
Carrot Fly, the 581 
Carrots, 644 
Carter’s Catalogue, Messrs., 278; 
Messrs., Cinerarias and Primulas, 
491 
Casabanana (a new fruit), 365 
Catasetum callosum, 22 ; tridentatum, 
fertilising bee of, 215 
Cattleya Apollo, 118 ; bicolor Lewisii, 
38; dowiana Wheatley’s var, 118 ; 
Eclipse, 118 ; Elvina, 167 ; Euphra¬ 
sia, 39; gaskelliana alba, 756 ; 
Jupiter, 118 ; labiata Ashford var., 
215 ; labiata Mrs. E. Ashworth, 
118 ; labiata R. I. Measures’ var., 
166 ; labiata superba, 245 ; Le 
Czar, 166 ; Loddigesii superba, 326 ; 
maxima alba, 183 ; Mendelii Cam¬ 
bridge Lodge var., 582 ; Mendelii 
Madonna, 630; Mossiae, 549; 
Mossiae, a large, 582 ; Mossiae 
Empress of India, 684 ; Mossiae 
Empress Queen, 630; Mossiae In 
Memoriam Richard Curnow, 684 ; 
Mossiae Lady Pirbright, 692; 
Mossiae Lucienne, 582 ; Mossiae 
Mondii, 661 ; schilleriana, 662; 
Schroderae, 582; Schroderae Ban- 
