VI. 
August 31, ijor.l 
CONTENTS. 
[The Gardening World. 
the best, 19S, 228 ; for Roses, 219 ; 
for Strawberries, chemical, 238 ; for 
Vines and Peaches, chemical, 238 ; 
judicial use of artificial, 246 
Manuring, green, 489 
Marigold Afiican Orange, 53 
Market earden, a London, 361 
Market gardener’s compensation case, 
245 
Market Gardeners, Nurserymen and 
Farmers’ Association, 389 
Marketing, 545 
Marmalade, the composition of, 537 
Malaria and mo'quitos, 600 
Maple, silver-leaved, 4 
Maranta major, 844 
Masdevallia Alceste, 544 ; Bocking 
Hybrid, 187 ; burfordiensis, 187; 
sp- 555 
Massachusetts Horticultural Society’s 
hall, 668 
Maxillaria mooreana, 218 
McHattie, Mr. J. W., 181 
McLeod, Mr. Angus, 197 
Mealy bug and scale, the eradication 
of, 214 
Meconopsis heterophylla, 674 
Melon excelsior, 674; Free Chase 
Favcurite, 123; Late Perfection, 
187 ; Royalty, 155 ; seed, fruit from 
old, 295 
Menzies & Co., Edinburgh, 652 
Mertensia primuloides, 642 
Mignonette for winter blooming, 522 ; 
pot culture, 394 
Mildew, 149: on Chrysanthemums, 54 
Miltonia macropetalum, 671 ; vexil- 
laria gigantea, 544 
Mint, forced, 358, 365 
Mistakes in fruit culture, 214 
Mistleto, 151, 308; in the Oxford 
Botanic Gardens, 507, 571; legend, 
the, 341 ; variety, 375 ; vars, 428 
Models of plants, 504 
Moisture, conserving, 636 
Monarda didyma alba, 125 
Monsteras, 426 
Montbretia Germania, 798 
Montbretias, 59, 310, S44 
Moor Hall, Cookham, 236 
Morland Nursery, South Norwood, 
330 
Morningfield Nursery, Aberdeen, 107, 
235 
Moschosma riparium, 495 
Mosquito bites, antidote for, 668 
Mosquitos, 748 
Moth-catching plant, a, 102, 117 ; the 
Death’s-head, 343; the Wood 
Leopard, 425, 436 
Motherwell Floral Association, 87 
Motor cars and Strawberries, 732 ; in 
the harvest field, the, 341 
Mount Kenya, first ascent of, 117 
Mulberry, the neglected, 843 
Mulching, x 18 ; Carrots, Onions, &c., 
616 
Mushrooms, 214 ; collecting field, 244 
Mutual Improvement Associations : 
Acton Scientific Society and Field 
Club, 245; Beckenham Horti¬ 
cultural Society, 117, 149, 182, 196, 
212, 244, 293, 308, 357, 405, 420, 
489, 504, 536, 584; Bristol and 
District Gardeners' Mutual, 84, 117, 
132, 149, 182, 228, 261, 325, 373, 
405,437, 473, 504, 568, 652, 616, 780 ; 
Broughty Ferry Horticultural, 552 ; 
Chester Natural Science Society, 
404 ; Chester Paxton Society, 404 ; 
Chislehurst Gardeners’ Society, 
388 ; Chiswick Gardeners’, 182, 
404; Croydon and District Horti-" 
cultural Mutual Improvement 
Society, 20, 37, 116, 133, 166, 213, 
309, 340, 373, 389, 420, 437. 489, 
520, 552, 600, 652, 716 ; Devon and 
Exeter Gardeners’ Association, 117, 
150, 166, 198, 260, 341, 389, 437. 
489, 684, 764 (outing); Dundee 
Horticultural, 326; Ealing and 
District Gardeners’ Mutual, 84,166, 
196, 228, 261, 340, 372, 405, 436, 
472, 505, 520; Hamilton and Dis¬ 
trict Gardening and Forestry As¬ 
sociation, 182, 340, 389, 421. 472, 
489, 520, 668; Liverpool Horti¬ 
cultural Association, 166, 182, 309, 
34 i. 357 . 4 C 4 - 43 6 1 Loughborough 
and District, 68; National Amateur 
Gardeners’ Association, 166 ; Read¬ 
ing arid District Gardeners’ Mutual, 
102, 116, 149, 182, 212, 244, 261, 
3 ° 9 . 34 L 357 . 4 ° 4 > 473 . 504 . 536 , 
568, 600, 641 (at Buckiebury Place), 
657, 700; Sandwich and District 
Market Growers', 26r, 3C9; Scot¬ 
tish Horticultural Association, 52, 
308, 325, 389, 504; Sevenoaks 
Gardeners’Society, 277 ; Sherborne 
and District Gardeners’, 389; Wal¬ 
sall and District Gardeners', 212 ; 
Wargrave Gardeners’, 212; West 
Derby Gardeners’ Society, 356; 
Woolton Gardeners’ Mutual, 102, 
196, 244, 309, 389, 453 
Musas, 819 
Myosotis alpestris Victoria, 510 
Mythology, wonderful, 182 
Names, new, for an old friend, 151 
Narcissi, notes on, 376 
Narcissus Aftermath, 607; Amber, 
607 ; Corydon, 607 ; Day Star, 607 ; 
De Wemyss, 607, Earl Grev, 576; 
Elaine, 607 ; General Roberts, 575 ; 
incomparabilis Lucifer, 575; John- 
stoni Queen of Spain, 23 ; Master 
at Arms, 576; Moonbeam, 607 ; 
poeticus Herrick, 575; poeticus 
ornatus, 7; Rear Guard, 607; 
Robert Berkeley, 576; rugilobus, 
22 ; St. Cecilia, 576 ; Santa Fina, 7 ; 
Sea Bird, 607 ; Spenser, 607 
Narcissus in January, planting, 442 ; 
legend of the white, 4 ; poeticus in 
masses, 10; the, 246; Trumpet 
Major, 262 
National Sweet Pea Society, the first 
exhibition, 779 
Native Guano on the farm and in the 
garden, 356 
Natural pnenomena in Britain, the 
scientific observation of, 667, 683 
Nature, one touch of, 599; study, 
636 
Nicholson, retirement of Mr. George, 
780 
Nectarine Early Rivers, 72, Supt. iv. 
Neill Prize, the, 196 
Nematanthus longtpes, 293 
Neobenthamia gracilis, 283 
Nepenthes, 701 ; Chelsoni excellens, 
91; mastersiana, 426; Sir W. T. 
Thiselton-Dyer, 27; Vieillardi, 295 
Nepenthes, seedling, 576 
Nerine Purple Prince, 123 
Neriums, 817 
Nertera depressa, 317 
Nesaea salicifolia grandifiora, 837 
Nettle stings, 828 
New century thoughts, 310 
Newquay, notes from, 85, 124, 154, 
216 
New year greenhouse flowering plants, 
35 s ’ 
Nomenclature, provisional, 4.07 ; pro ¬ 
visional, for forms of life, 684 ; the 
vexed question of, 355 
Northern notes, 670 
Notes and notions, current, 797 
Nuthatch, the stronghold of the, 584 
Nymphaea stellata, speedy flowering 
of, 118 
Nymphaeas, hybrid, 537 
Oak leaf with spangles, 135 
Oaks in woods of Shirley, t88, 215 
Obituary : Armstrong, Lord, 293 ; 
Baker, Mrs,, 577 ; Bishop, Mrs., 
-797 ; Cooke, Mr. Sydney, 302, 309 ; 
Crowley, Mr. Philip, 302 ; Cuth- 
bert, senr , Mr. George, 780; 
Butcher, Mr. Thomas, 132 ; Cypher, 
Mrs. J., 413 ; Davis, Mr. M., 584; 
Dunnett, Mr. William Herbert, 
302 ; Fish, Mr. D. T., 577 ; Gillian, 
Mr., 166;, Goodall, Mr. Geo. 413, 
422 ; Gordon, Mrs. George, 333 ; 
Henderson, Mr. A., 466; Howie, 
Mr. James, 150 ; Hunter, Mr. John, 
197 ; Jefferies, Mr. John Robert, 
78 ; King, Mr. Mark, 609 ; Kitmear, 
Mr. John, 828; Laing, Mrs. John, 
182; Lawes, Bart, Sir John Ben- 
net, 19 ; McIntyre, Mr. John, 260 ; 
Mitchell, Mr. Andrew, 388 ; Morris, 
Mrs. George Field, 317; Ormerod, 
Miss E. A , 764 ; Pynaert, M. 
Edouatd, 174, 292; Queen, the, 
345 ; Saunders, Mr. William, 68 ; 
Scott, Mr. Geo., 340 ; Sim, Mr. 
John, 732 ; Smith-Carrington, J.P., 
Richard, 413 ; Stocking, Mr. William, 
197 ; Sutton, Mrs. Leonard, 20 ; 
Thomson, Mr. George, 317 ; Thom¬ 
son, Mr. John, 557, 584 ; Veitch, Mr. 
Archibald, 480 ; Veitch, Mr. Robert, 
480; Veitch, Mrs. P. C. M., 413; 
Ware, Mr. Thomas-S., 669; Wright, 
Mr. David S., 292" 
Odontoglossum Adrianae cobbia- 
num, 607 ; Adrianae Countess of 
Morley, 28 ; Adrianae crawshay- 
anum, 575 ; Adrianae Lindeniae, 
637 ; Adrianae Mrs Robert Ben¬ 
son, 445 ; Adrianae Mrs. Simonds, 
544, Coradinei, Mrs. de B. Craw- 
shay, 444 ; crawshavanum, 766 ; 
crispum Abner Hassall, 637; cris¬ 
pum J Annie, 637; crispum auri- 
ferum, 294; crispum Captain 
Hockeo, 637; crispum Confetti, 
606; crispum Countess of Derby, 
607 ; crispum Domino, 607 ; cris¬ 
pum Edward VII., 575 ; crispum 
Greivei, 215 ; crispum Maud Roch- 
ford, 155; crispum punctatum 
Rosslyn var, 674 ; crispum purpur- 
ascens, 510; crispum Queen Em¬ 
press, 478; crispum Raymond 
Crawshay, 607 ; crispum Sunshine, 
5x0; crispum The Nizam, 637; 
Dennisoniae nebula, 544 ; Fairy 
Queea, 346; Hallii King Edward 
VII., 606; loochristiense coundon- 
ense, 410 ; loochristiense Lord 
Milner, 674; loochristiense Mrs. 
Crawshay, 544 ; loochristiense 
rochfordianum, 419; Iuteo-purpur- 
eum Coundon Court var, 575 ; 
luteo-purpureum hystrix, 575 ; 
maculatum thompsonianum, 766 ; 
nevadense rosefieldense, 380 ; Rol- 
fae, 796 ; Rolfeae Meleagris, 250 , 
ruckerianum Mrs R. Brooman- 
White, 544 ; wilckeanum Golden 
Queen, 637 ; wilckeanum Turnford 
Hall var, 575 
Odontoglossum crispum, peloric, 639 ; 
polyxanthum.from Ravenswood,58g 
Odontoglossums, 510 
Oenanthe crocata, 600 
Ohlendorff’s Diary, 342 
Omphalodes, 394 
Oncidium macranthum, a yellow, 215 ; 
_ marshallianum sulphureum, 375 ; 
stramineum, 607 
One and All exhibit, a, 847 
Onions, autumn sown, 21, 406 ; in 
plenty, 82S ; kept late, 675 
Oleander diseased, 571 
Olearia Haastii, 836 ; stellulata, 248 
Open spaces, a belt of, 795 
Orange peeler, an, 310 ; within an 
orange, 504 
Oranges, a warning against blood, 157 
Orchard area, the, 276 ; management, 
mistakes in, 153 ; planting an, 474 
Orchards, inspecting, 796 
Orchid and the Bee, 652 ; dimorphic, 
215; flowers in the market, 1x6; 
growers’ calendar, 23, 55, 87, rig, 
151, 215; the Tulip, 754; which 
drinks, an, 796 
Orchids at Coombe Cottage, 57 ; at 
Kew, 332 ; at the sale rooms, 20,' 
132, 244 ; British, 719 ; from Camp- 
hill Park, 230 ; from Cheltenham, 
119; Hazeibourne, 667; hybrid, 
523; in flower at Kew, 93 ; mal¬ 
formed, 767 ; the Ashford collection 
of, 197 
Orchis, the Bee, 552 
Ormerod, MissE. A., LL.D., V.M.H., 
520 ; her will, 828 
Ornithogalum lacteum, 295 
Orris-root industry, the, 293 
Osiers or Willow culture, 228 
Osmunda regalis, 831 
Osterley Park, 59 
Ostrowskia magnified, 92 
Oxalis cernua* 805 ; dispar, 125 
Paeonies from Langport, 686 
Paeony garden, 246 ; tree, Christine 
Kelway, 637 ; tree, Elsie Perry, 674 
Paintings, exnibition of, 389 
Palms flowering, 783 
Pan-American exposition, 198 
Panax quiriquefolia, 694 
Pandanus Veitchi, 342 
Pansies, 694 ; at the new year, 293 ; 
Dickson’s superb, 463, from Gar- 
gunnock, 166 
Pansy seed, saving, 54 
Papaver orientale Mrs. Marsh, 674 ; 
Rhoeas var., 719 
Paris exhibition, 4 ; soil products at 
the, 156; green, 616 
Parisian boulevards, 197 
Park-lands in Central Africa, tS8 
Parks of Liverpool, the, 357 ; the 
future of our, 733 
Parsley Dobbie’s selected, 187 ; for 
winter, 41 
Parsnip fritters, 286 
Partnerships, strange, 570 
Patriotism, 659 
Pea the Sherwood, 53 ; with a double 
plumule, 215 - . 
Peas, &c., 43 ; from Broughty Ferry, 
diseased, 215 ; forcing of green, 717 ; 
late, 134 
Peach and Nectarine trees, pruning 
and summer treatment of, 479 ; 
blister, 719 ; blister, ornamental, 
804; disbudding, 554; houses, 
early, 133 ; shoots, injured, 375 ; 
trees for South Africa, 358 
Peach, Duchess of Cornwall, 675; 
Duchess ot York, 638 
Pear Bergamote d’ Esperan, 544; 
Beurre Buis^on, 218 ; Charles 
Ernest, Z51; Doyenne du Comice, 
187; Gansel's Bergamct, 814; 
Glastonbury, 155 ; Josephine 
des Malines, 346 ; Nouvelle Fulvier 
251- 
Pear Mite, 820 
Peat coke, 636 
Peed and Son's fruit trees, Messrs., 
834 
Palargonium, a mimetic, 733 ; disso¬ 
ciation, 671 
Pelargonium endlicheriaDum, 834; 
Leopard, 674 ; Mrs. W. H. Martin, 
674 
Pelargoniums for winter flowering, 
zonal, 390 ; Ivy-leaf, 616 ; in wime, 
and spring, growing zonal, 167; 
show, 458 ; zonal, 362 
Pentstemon barbatus Torreyi, 454 
Pentstemons, 654 
Penzance Sweet Briers, 229 
People we have met : Eastor, Mr. 
John, 134 ; Monro. Mr. Alexander 
James, 553 ; Wood, Mr. George, 
38 
Peperomias, 554 
Pernettyas, 293 
Persian gardens, 90 
Pests we have not, 198 
Petunia Lord Courtenay, 465 
Petunias, 836; for exhibition, double, 
506 
Peziza tuberosa, 571 
Phaiocalanthe schroderiana, 445 
Phalaenopsis Boxallae, 380 
Phenological observations, 667, 683 
Phloxes, 54 ; herbaceous, 74 
Phosphate of lime, 668 
Phylica ericoides, 295 
Physalis, 421 
Picotee (yellow ground), Lady Bristol, 
799 ; Wasp, 799 
Pineapple industry, 276 
Pineapples from Jamaica, 669 
Pine forests of the past, British, 658 
Pinkhill Nursery, Murrayfield, 297 
Pink, Mrs. H. Young, 739 ; (mule) 
Lady Dixon, 607 
Pinks, mule, 686 
Pinus austriaca attacked by beetle, 
39 1 
Pinus cone, 375 
Places, large v. small, 490 
Plant competitions, 828; stems under¬ 
ground, 373 
Plants and their food, 197, 215; cer¬ 
tificated by the Royal Horticultural 
Society, 103 ; exhibiting tables of, 
154 ; for house decoration, 214 ; for 
shallow gravelly soil, 7-17 ; from the 
high Andes, 504 ; ot the high 
Andes, 553 ; of Thibet', high-level, 
568 ; rise and progress of the study 
of, 674, 707, 738, 764 ; some new or 
interesting, 393; small table, for 
winter, 782 ; specimens of British, 
504 ; that taint milk, 721; the food 
of, 85 ; with souls, 553 
Planter, a new Cabbage, 116 
Planting under trees, 495 
Platycerium, the Congo, 495 
Platyceriums, 553 
Platycodon grandiflorum semiduplex, 
28 
Pleasure grounds, 557 
Pleasure, a month of, 735 
Pleurothallis stenopetala, 218 
Plumbago and Pelargonium, 235 
Plumbago rosea, 199 
Plum, Early Yellow, 835 ; President, 
123 
Plums, profitable, 285 
Plymouth Strawberry, 767 
Podisoma on Juniper, 671 
Poinsettia pulcherrima, 527, 782 
Poinsettias, 750 
Poison in Potatos, 198 ; plants, 677 
Poisons and the general election, 68 ; 
the sale of, 52, 68,69, 229, 3^9, 325, 
388, 405 
Poisonous garden plants, 722 ; plants, 
West Australian, 812 
Pollen showers, 797 
Pollination in orchards, 285, 435 
Polygonum baldschuanicum, 378,661; 
capitatum, 835 ; orientale, 123 
Polygonums, 118 
Polypodium incanum, 585 
Pomegranate in flower, the, 36 
Poppies, Shirley, 739 
Poppy, the Cardinal, 511 
Portable engine, saved by a, 453 
Potamoeeton crispum, 719 
Potato, Baden Powell, 55 ; Beauty of 
Hebrotj, 27 ; Centenary, 55 ; Dum ¬ 
fries -Model, 283; Early Jubilee, 
