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CONTENTS. 
[The Gardening World. 
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Vallota, cream-coloured, 791 
Vanda Agnes Joachim, 683 ; caerulea 
Lord Rothschild's var., 70 ; san- 
deriana, 137 ; teres at Gunnersbury, 
55 6 
Variations of seedlings from fruit, 
490 
Vegetable Calendar, 23, 55, 87, 118, 
167, 199, 230, 262, 294, 327, 358, 
406, 438, 470, 503, 535, 566, 599, 
631, 663, 727, 759, 790. 821 
Vegetable culture for exhibition, 347 ; 
profitable, 293; depilatory, 215 
Vegetables and flowers for competi¬ 
tion, 516; exhibitors of, 269, 343; 
forcing of, 409, 425 ; for exhibition, 
60 ; two good, 247 
Veitch Medallists of 1897, 739 ; 
Memorial Fund, 326 ; Memorial 
Mrdal at Belfast, 196 
Veitch & Sons, Messrs. James, 276 
Veitch’s Chinese Primulas, 349 
Verbena Tresserve, 807 
Veronica hybrida newryensis, 797 ; 
repeos compacta, 568 ; Seduisante, 
774 
Viburnum Tinus, 285 
Victoria, Australia, the flower gardens 
of, 597. 629, 650, 666 
Victoria and Paradise Nurseries, 550 
Victoria Diamond Jubilee Prizes, 
517; Medal, Royal Horticultural 
Society's, 326 
Victoria, Our Queen and Empress,675 
Victoria Park, 148 
Victoria regia at Kew, a new, 806 
Victoria Vines, Hextable's, 540 
Victorian Diamond Jubilee cups and 
medals at Birmingham, 724 ; Prizes 
at Edinburgh, 614 
Victorian Era Fund, the, 323, 596 
Vine pruning, systems of, 634 
Vines and Phylloxera. American, 
259 ; at Swanley, Diamond Jubilee, 
499 ; for Australia, 747 ; with grapes 
still hanging, late, 166 
Viola Mr. Daniels, 749; Endymion, 
743 ; James T. R ibertson, 743 ; 
Joseph, 773 ; pedata, 653 
Viola Conference, 25 
Violas, 43 ; at Croydon, 637 ; for 
beddiDg purposes, 139 
Violet Amiral Avellan, 407 ; Amiral 
Avellan and Sulpburea, 596 ; 
Marie Louise, 6r. ; Mrs. J. J. Astor, 
583 ; Mrs. Rawson, 485 ; Princess 
of Wales, 61, 564 
Violets, a bunch of, 285 ; the Dog’s- 
tooth, 520 
Voles on Scots Firs, raid of, 523 
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Walthamstow Hall, Sevenoaks, 810 
Wasps, flies and caterpillars, 133 
Watercress and Fower Girl's 
Christian Mission, 517 
Water Hyacinths, a plague of, 78: 
Lilies at Blenheim, 772 ; Lilies at 
Gunnersbury House, 787 ; Lilies, 
morphology and anatomy of, 422 
Waterlow Park, 182 
Water rate for gardens, 212 
Waverley Market, Edinburgh, 
revenue from, 259 
Webb’s Spring Catalogue, 310 
Weed destroyer, a new, 708 ; killer, 
poisoned with, 53 
Weeds. 301 
Weevils on fruit trees, 613 
Welsh names of flowers, 373 
West Dean House, Chichester, 
winter flowering plants at, 326 
Wheat and native plants, a struggle 
between, 71 ; a small variety of, 
53 
White Orchids, 805 
Whiteley’s Nurseries, Hillingdon, 572 
Wbitton, Mr. James, 468 
Wild Birds Protection and Nesting 
Boxes, 437 ; protection of, 293, 437, 
£00, 525, 549 
Wild flowers, 725 ; Devonshire, 341, 
357 . 564 
Window decorations, Christmas, 260 
Windsor, Royal, 677 ; show, Royal 
visitors to the, 708 
Wine, Brixton Hill, 293; from 
Raisins in Russia, manufacture of, 
134 
Wireworms among Carnations, 502 ; 
cure for, 551 
Wistaria sinensis, 634; second flower¬ 
ing of, 820 
Women's London Gardening Associa¬ 
tion, 132 
Wood bridge Nursery, the, 437 
Woodman Memorial, Dr., 85 
Woodwardia radicans, 62 
Worcester and District Auxiliary 
Gardeners’ Royal Benevolent Insti¬ 
tution, 277, 308, 516 
Worm-eating slugs, distribution of, 
116 
Worms, Onion cut-, 708 
Worshipful Company of Gardeners, 
116 
Worthing free horticultural library, 
293 
Wreaths, coloured memorial, 708 
Wren’s nest in the body of a rook, 
422 
Wylam, Mr. David, 596 
Y 
Yorkshire College, Leeds, 68, 748 
Yorkshire Gala, 316, 341, 669, 685, 
804 ; grants to charities, 164 
Yuccas, 538 
z 
Zygofetalum Perrenoudi superbum, 
533 
H_LUST.-BATIOISrS 
A 
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A 
Adnitt, Mr. H. W., 809 
Apple Allington Pippin, 91 ; Hambling's Seedling, 
89; Mrs. Barron, 41 
Araucaria imbricata, at Cudham Hall, 3x3 ; male 
and female cones, 313 
B 
Bacon, Mr. T. B., 124 
Bayham Old Abbey, 57 
Bean, Carters’ Stringless French, Canadian Glory, 
329. 33 i 
Bertonerila Madame du Toict, 233 ; Madame 
Treyeran, 60 i 
Bunyard, Mr. George, 41 
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Carpenteria californica, 713 
Carruthers, Mr. James, 184 a (Sup.) 
Cavanagh, Mr. D., 184 a (Sup.) 
Chapman, Mr. Henry James, 325 
Chrysanthemum, Eynsford White, 150 ; Calvat's 
Australian Gold, 152; Exmouth Yellow, 153; 
gloriosum, 473 ; Midnight, 154 ; Mrs. C. Orchard. 
201; Mrs Filkins, 151 ; Mrs. Geo. Rundle, 425 : 
Mrs. G. H. Smart, 149 ; Philadelphia, 155 ; Silk 
Twist, 151 ; Souv. de Mme, G. Eynard, 151; 
William Tunnington, 217 ; specimen, 170 
Chrysanthemums, an avenue of, 220 
Coelogyne cristata, a group of, 585 ; Veitchi, 265 
Crocus Giant Purple in Regent's Park, 13 
Cyclamen at Edinburgh, Mr. Lunt's, 521 
Cryptosperma ferox, 169 
Cypripedium Godefroyae leucochilum grandiflorum, 
745 ; Nandi, 297 ; Regina, 537 
D 
Daffodils on grass, 7 
Dale, Mr. Thomas, 454 
Daphne indica rubra, 409 
Decoration of the Order Chevalier du Merite 
Agricole, 342 
Dewar, Mr. D , 184a (Sup.) 
Dieffenbachia Meleagris, 345 
Duntreath Castle, Stirlingshire, the flower garden, 
105 
E 
Earnock, Lanarkshire, the conservatory at, 185 
Epergn-s, Silver, presented to Messrs. Adnitt and 
Nauuton, 823 
Falkland Park, view in the gardens, 281 
Fraser, Esq., P. Neil, 505 
G 
Gentiana acaulis, 565 
Gloxinias at Swanley, house of, 761 
Green, Mr. William, 709 
H 
Harp of Siberian silver moss, 268 
Head. Mr. W. G., 509 
Hemsley, Mr. A., 165 
Home of Horticulture, 249 
Hyacinths in Hyde Park, 534 
J 
Juniper, varieties of the Common, 489 
L 
Lilium Martagon album, 12 ; monadelphum 
szovitzianum, 12 ; pardalinum, 12 ; Parryi, 12 ; 
tignnum flore pleoo, 12 
Laeliocattleya Pallas, 553 
Lunt, Mr. Thomas, 245 
M 
McIntyre, Mr. Malcolm, 505 
Mo.ris, F.S.I., Mr. G. F.. 121 ; F.S.I., Mr. H. G., 
121 ; Mr. T. A , 121 
Morrison, Mr. James, 505 
N 
Narcissus incomparabilis Orange Phoenix, 8 ; in- 
comparabilis Sutton’s LulwonL, 9 ; maximus, 8 ; 
poeticus ornatus, 793 ; Victoria, 566 
Naunton, Mr. W. W., 809 
Nicoll, Mr. David, 184a (Sup.) 
Nubbs, Mr. Geo., 683 
o 
Orthesia insignis, male and female, 315 
P 
Paeonies, a field of, 441 
Pa? ne, Mr. C. Harman, 342 
Pea, Cannell's English Wonder, 397 ; Carters' Seed¬ 
ling, 39 2 J Chelsea Gem, 396 ; Daniels' Matchless 
Marrow, 394; Sharpe's Charles The First, 398 ; 
Sutton’s Peerless Marrowfat, 395 ; Sutton’s Prize¬ 
winner, 391 ; Telephone, 396 ; Veitch's Autocrat, 
396 ; Veitch’s Exonian, 397 ; Webbs’ Senator, 393 
Pilling, Mr. Oliver, 422 
Primula Sutton's Star, 261, 361 
Protheroe, F.S.I., Mr. W. H., 121 
Q 
Queen and Empress, the, 681 
R 
Ransomes' lawn mowers, 457 
Raphiolepis ovata, 777 
Ricbardia elliottiana, 554 
Rose Souvenir du President Carnot, 729 
s 
Sand pit at Stone Lane Hill, Heath, 73 ; at Mile 
Tree Road, 73 
Sefton Park, Liverpool, the new conservatory at, 25 
Sheffield, new Town Hall, 649 
Slade, F.S.I., Mr. J. B. 121 
Spiraea japonica Bumalda, 805 
Stirling, Mr. John, 683 
Streptocarpus, new types of hybrid, 633 
Sutton, Mr. Martin John, 665 ; Mr. Martin Hope, 
665 ; Mr. Martin Hubert Foquett, 665 
T 
Temple Show, exhibitors at the, 616 (see supplement) 
Tetramicra (Leptotes) bicolor, 697 
Tomato. Sensation, 379; Viceroy, 377; Young's 
Eclipse, 299 
Tropaeolum Phoebe, 789 
Troup, Mr. John M., 683 
Tulipa retroflexa, 11 
Tulips, Keizer Kroon in Regent's Park, 10 ; Parrot, 
11 ; Picotee, Golden Eagle and Bouton d'Or, 11 
V 
Vanda sanderiana, 137 
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Weathers, Mr. P., 278 
Welsh, Mr. W. M.. 197 
Windsor Castle, 677 
Wood, Mr. George, 184a (Sup.) 
