IV. December 26, 1903.] 
CONTENTS. 
[The Gardening World. 
Chrysanthemum notes: Earls- 
wood Nurseries, 946; Edin¬ 
burgh, 990 : Exmouth, 947; 
Liverpool Botanic Gardens, 
859 ; Oakhurst, Ealing, 947 ; 
Ryeeroft Nursery, 935 
Chrysanthemumshovvs: Aberdeen, 
997, 1017, 1018; Border Dis¬ 
trict Chrysanthemum, 124; Bor¬ 
der District, 1033; Bradford, 
974 ; Brighton,957 ; Chester,972 ; 
Corbridge, 997 ; Dundee, 1016 ; 
Eastbourne, 974; Edinburgh, 
995 ; Highgate, 957 ; Hull, 996 ; 
Leeds, 974 ; ' Liverpool, 972 ; 
Manchester, 994; National 
Chrysanthemum, 858, 955, 971, 
1033; Ulster Horticultural So¬ 
ciety, 993 ; York, 993 
Chrysanthemums, a ohat about, 
954 ; for exhibition, 283 ; in 
6 and 7-in. pots, 148 ; late, 95, 
123; preparing for exhibition, 
916 • recipe for a dish of, 959; 
single, 1004, 1008 ; tying early, 
733 
Cirrhaea warreana, .656 
Citrons in Cornwall, 839 
Clematis from seeds, raising, 960 
Clerodendron, 74; trichotomum, 
886 
Clianthus, 391; Dampierf, 444, 
653 ; Dampieri tricolor, 409 ; 
punieeus albus, 409 
Olivia T. E. Arnold, 254 
Clovenfords, the big vinery at, 
985 
Coldbrook, 771 
Coleus Coppini, a new edible 
tuber, 263; thrysoideus, 66, 
Supt. April 4th, 300, 550 
Colour in flowers, 51 
Comments, notes and, 910, 936 
Commons and Footpaths Preser¬ 
vation Society, 454 
Conservatory at Gotham House, 
Bristol, 816; Hartbum Lodge, 
640. 649; Harwberry Park, 
1046 ; decoration, 574 
Coombe Cliffe, Croydon, 275 ; Gar¬ 
dens, Supt. March 28th 
Cornflower, a rose and blue, 212 
Corydalis cheilantbifolia, 322 ; 
thalietrifolia, 43, 595; tomen- 
tosa, 757 
Co-smos bipinnatus grandiflorus, 
212 
CotoneaSter frigida, 938 
Cotton, a substitute for. 659 
Cotula eoronopifolia, 25 - 
Cranberry culture, 1014 
Crinums, useful, 717 
Critics, the, 292, 362, 390, 400, 
446, 484 
Crocus caspius, new, 806 
Crocuses, a note on autumn, 777 
Crowfoot, the Aconite-leaved, 51 
Crovdon’s disappearing gardens, 
111 
Cucumbers, death from eating, 
416 : diseased, 806, 822 ; Morti¬ 
mer’s Unique, 490 
Oucumis Melo, 108 
Cullen House Gardens, 635 
Cultivation, decreasing, 807 
Cupressus obtusa and varieties, 
297 
Currant, the golden-flowered, 450 
Ouscuta reflexa, 868. 940 
Cyclamen culture, 413; culture, 
successful, 887; hardy and ten¬ 
der, 542 
Cyclamen ihericum, 206 : libanoti- 
eum, 322; persicum, 98 
Cyclamen seed, sowing, 850 
Cymbidium eburneo-lowianum 
concolor, 295; hookerianum, 
296; lowgrinum, 295; wigai- 
ianum. 966 
Cypripedia, 573 
Cypripedium Empress Alexandra, 
66; fairieanum hvbrids. 288a. 
682 ; fulshawense, 966 ; Gratrix 
Minnie, 66: hindeanum, 66; 
insigne Sanderae, 296 ; Leeanum 
staffordianum, 1013; Minos 
Young’s var., 188; Pitt, Mrs., 
347; Potter, J. Wilson, 113; 
Queen of Italy,1013 ; Ultor,656 ; 
Venus O'akwood var., 316, 362; 
Ville de Paris, 966; Cypripe- 
diums, hardy, 254 
Cyrtostachys Renda duvivieriana, 
402 
Cytisus keiwensis, 444; praecox, 
450 ; scoparius and its varieties, 
534 
Daffodil, the advance of the, 363 
Daffodils, a plea for forced, 789 ; 
Hoop Petticoat, 339; in con¬ 
fusion, 331; new trumpet, 776 ; 
some large trumpet, 423 
Dahlia Bronsson Mrs. H. L., 793 ; 
drifts, 783; Dainty, 866; 
793; Eva, Cactus, 274; Nell, 
Sweet, 866 ; Pearl, 793 ; Perry, 
Mr. Amos, 866; Sillem, Mr. H. 
W., 793; Spitfire, 866; Stred- 
wick, Florence M., 793, 894; 
Vernon, Dorothy. 866; Wales, 
Princess of, 793 ; Whites, Queen 
of, 793; Wilkinson, Mr. J. W., 
793 
Dahlias, 75; among the Cactus, 
729 ; Cactus, for garden decora¬ 
tion, 937 ; of 1903, Cactus, 226 ; 
seedling, 426; the best Cactus, 
952 
Daisy, the, 600 
Damson Farleigh Prolific, 867 
Dandelions and the sun, 484 
Daphne Mezereum, 211 
Davallias and their culture, 249 ; 
a group of, Supt. March 21st, 
252 
Davidia involucraita, 612a 
Deeaisnea Fargesii, 22 
Decorating, dinner table, 1032 
Delphinium : Avebury, Lord,617 ; 
Holland, Lord, 617; Hunt, 
Leigh, 617; Macaulay, 617; 
Monarch, 577 ; Rev. W. Wilks, 
577 
Dendrobium Auchterarder Pearl, 
395 ; glomeratum, 487; luteo- 
lum, 316; nobile, 469; 
nobile rotundiflorum, Supt. 
May 30th ; Ophir, 205 ; Salteri, 
205; splendidis'simum, Mrs. 
Haywood, 205; Sunray mel- 
Ictnodiscuin, 205; Thwaitsiae, 
254 ; Venus grandiflorum, 382 ; 
Wiganiae xanthoohilum, 161, 
188; wiganianum album, 205 
Dessert, illustrated, 841 
Devon and Exeter gardeners’ 
■outing, 613 
Dianthus caesius, 550 ; negleotus, 
713; plumarius semperflorens 
Argus, 22 
Diaries, the question of, 132, 202 
Diascia Barberae,-, 273 
Dicksons, 3 Gold Medals for, 648 
Digging and trenching, 953, 1007 
Dimorphanthus mandscliuricus 
fol. arg. var., 617 
Dodder on Marguerite, 745 
Dog’s-tooth Violets, 324 
Drosera as -a greenhouse plant, 
849 
Droseras, 380 
Dunn Memorial, the Malcolm, 
199 
Edinburgh city gardens, 360; 
East Princes Street Gardens, 
'937; seed trade, 436; Seed 
Trade Assistants, 1036 ; tree 
planting at, 455 
Eelworms, 184 
Electricity, a new use for, 747 
Electric light, the latest, 109 
Elel. Regent’s Park, 692 
Elm in Cornwall, the largest, 688 ; - 
tree, a famous, 793 ; trees and 
the hark beetle, 221; two golden 
leaved. 788 
Endive Staghorn, 866 
Epi.cattleya matutina, 538 
Eranthis cilicica, 321 
Eremurus in cultivation, species 
of, 557; Mrs. Reuthe, 578; 
robustus, 572; Warei, 595 
Erigeron aurantiaeus hybridus, 
^ 212 
Erica gracilis nivalis, 933 
F.ryngium olivierianum, 791 
Essential oils and plants, 262a 
Essex field experiments, 961 
Etherisation of plants, 121 
Eucharis grandiflora, 127 
Eueommia ulmoides, 212 
Eulophia Coleae, 489 
Eulophiella peetersiana, 656 
Euphorbia jacquiniaeflora, 541 
Failures, some, 915 
Fern Balls, 274 ; fronds, grubs in, 
669 ; garden, the hardy, 710 
Ferns from spores, propagating, 
255, 345: British, 42; from 
spores, 127; plumose British. 
620; wild finds of, 419, 493 
Fernery walls, covering, 148 
Fertilisers to plants in pots, 653 
Ficus pandurata, 426 
Fig harvest of Southern Italy, 
880 ; the, 915 
Flora of New' South Wales, 14 
Floral aid, 429 
Florist, hints from a retired, 535 
Florists’ and gardener’s clubs, 
1015 
Flower garden in spring, 323 
Flowers and foliage, 496 ; at Earl’s 
Court, 797; autumn, 870; early 
spring, 139; in season, hot¬ 
house, 459 ; in the home, cut, 
445 ; in winter, red, white and 
blue, 574 ; London wild, 941 ; 
self-advertising, 455 ; the nam¬ 
ing of wild, 843 ;the passions of, 
100 ; winter, 70 
Forsythia europaea, November 
7th, ix 
Fossil plants, wax models of,195 ; 
trees as garden ornaments, 715 
Freesia, a hybrid, 321 
Friedenheim Hospital, in the gar¬ 
den of, 828 
Frost, damage by, 353 
Fruit, a tropical,1001; and flowers 
high prices for, 610 ; as a diet, 
1001; at the Mansion House, 
841, 881; and products exhibi¬ 
tion .at the Crystal Palace, 859 ; 
and vegetable supply company, 
589 ; bottling, 964 ; crops, the, 
729 ; culture in Canada, 1036 ; 
culture in Hungary, 981 ; 
delayed, 706; failure, 763; 
famines in Cambridgeshire,744 ; 
from the Cape, 503; growers 
and insect pests, 688 ; growers 
and insects at Hereford, 1017; 
growers 'and railway rates, 705 ; 
Growers’ Federation, National, 
** 416 ; growing, 528 ; growing in 
Ireland,493 ; growing in Queens¬ 
land,1028 ; growingand orchards, 
202, 246, 266, 312, 390, 445, 
506 ; industry in Canada, 764 ; 
in the olden time, 833 ; keeping 
qualities of, 566; merchant re¬ 
tires to Canada, 763; on the 
railway, delay of, 328;. pros¬ 
pects in Blairgowrie district, 
521, 566; prospects, Clydlsdale, 
515; seeds and appendicitis, 
217 ; show, lessons of the, 851: 
supply, high temperature and 
the, 627 ; tree pests, 1019 ; tree 
planting, 1032 : trees and their 
management, 754:trees, parlia 
ment and, 419, 434, 591 ; trees, 
some of M&^srs. Rivers’. 829: 
with plants,how to grow, mixed, 
518 
Fruits and flowers in 1902, 196 ; 
and vegetables, British, 310; 
from the Argentine, 825 
Fusbsias, hardy, 73 
Fuel economisers, Stubbs’ patent, 
975 
Fugosia bakeaefolia, 934 
Fumigator, hand, 280; nicotine 
wool, 279 
Fungi, edible, 825; exhibition of 
edible, 666 
Furniture, garden, 281 
Garcinias and itheir uses, 141 
Garden, a Gloucestershire wild, 
557; charts to scale, 61, 224, 
266, 400 ; City Association, 763 ; 
city scheme, the, 1021; City, 
the, 724 ; cities, lecture on, 195 ; 
compound, a, 754; for Bucks 
County Council, 196 ; notes on 
a private, 678, 714, 810, 864; 
strange dispute about a, 566; 
the alpine, 405; to the Royal 
Horticultural Society, gift of a, 
707 
Gardens in West Lothian, 202 
Gardener in fiction, the, 257; 
success of a local, 763; the lady 
638, 658, 684 
Gardeners, a national guild of, 
158, 180 ; and low wages, 416 ; 
conceited? are, 631; course of 
instruction in Edinburgh, 920 ; 
dinner, the proposed, 394, 454, 
480, 543, 637, 744, Sunt. Oct. 
3rd, p. 3 ; hints to young, 213 ; 
Parliament, 544 
Gardeners’ Royal Benevolent In¬ 
stitution, 39, 97, 101, 105, 196, 
221, 224, 286, 328, 455, 522, 
606, 613, 1027 
Gardenias, 303 
Gardening at 100, 763; for 
women, 940, 979; in Lanca¬ 
shire, market, 207, 511; in 
tree tops, 923; the world of, 
46 . 63, 117, 159, 225, 267, 334, 
403; wall, 869 
Gaul the ria S'hallon, 211 
Genista hispanica, 15 
Geranium pratense flore pleno, 
552 
Germs, Strawberry-flavoured, 705 
Geum Heldreichi superbum, 489 ; 
rivale, 612a ; rivale, monstrous 
form of, 196 
Ghent Quinquennial, 388 
Gift of £22,000, free, 133 
Gill, Mr. Norman, 822 
Gladioli from Langport, 797 
Gladiolus Ellington Belle, 704; 
Fire King, 713; Lady Muriel 
Digby, 774; Nymph, 774 
Glaucium flavum tricolor, 22 
Glasgow, meteorological notes 
from, 375, 459; new park for, 
881 
Glencarse, excursion to, 641 
Gloriosa superba, 127, 136, 202 
Gloxinia, the, 171 
Gloxinias from seed, 737 
Goldfishes, food for, 435 
Gooseberry, a big, 685 
Gooseberries, Bingley big, 722; 
ornamental flowered, 509; 
Stone Gooseberry Show, 723 
Gourd, a giant, 979 
Grahame, Mr. C. J., memorial to, 
372 
Gramatophyllum speciosum,195 
Grape Gros Colman, 985; juice, 
unfermented, 730 ; Melton Con¬ 
stable Seedling, 986 ; Reine 
Olga, 1037 
Grapes, bacteria on, 550; flower¬ 
ing, 181; lecture on the culture 
of, 164 
Grasses, leaves of, 612a 
Greenhouse, the cold, 7, 356, 523 
545 
Greenhouses, wire-tension, 280 
Gunnera manicata, 41 
G'lnmr-bury House, 912, 1025 
Gymnogrammes, 654 
Hailstorm Assurance Corpora- 
ti n, 344 
Hall of Horticulture, the, 45, 111, 
707 
