VI. December 31st, 1904.] 
CONTENTS. 
[Ti e Gaidening Wor’d. 
Pollen as food, 295 
Polyanthuses or cluster Prim¬ 
roses, 276; strain of, 371 
Polygonum spectabile, 310 
Ponds, destroying slime on, 383; 
weeding of, 669 
Poppy, a magnificent, 974; Shir¬ 
ley, 326 
Potato, another new, 311; boom, 
the, 23, 40, 128, 166, 206, 226; 
Carrot-coloured, 248; culture, 
281; dispute, 327; novelties, 
503 ; plants at £4 each, 330; 
produce, 947 ; record, 712 
Potato Eldorado, 640; Fidler’s 
Record, 934; Northern Star, 
176 , 818 , 851; Parkend Don, 
413 ; Peckover, 1018 ; Queen 
Alexandra, 1018; Sutton’s Dis¬ 
covery, 999 ; The Pearl, 713 
Po'tatos, 336, 365 ; cooking test, 
1064 ; in November, new, 991; 
old and new, 745; outside, 
dear, 217; Paterson’s, 837; 
Professor Malden and, 289; 
propagating, 9, 16, 48; the 
black scab of, 481 
Potent ill as, diseased, 752 
Pot-pourri, substitute for, 246 
Potting, 114 
Presentations : Buchanan, Mr. W. 
J., 391; Dean, Mr. A., 898, 
922 ; Glass, Mr. and Mrs. Niel, 
64; Hutcheson, Mr. D. C., 
372; Stevenson, Mr. J. B., 64; 
Stirzalier and Jones, Messrs., 
413 
Preserving flowers hi sand, 587 
Primrose and Darwinism, the, 
663, 686 ; “ Buttercup,” 282, 
327 ; Miss Massey, 113 
Primroses and Polyanthuses, 450 ; 
hybrid, 502; in Devonshire, 
426 
Primula kewensis, 219 ; obeonica, 
142, 326; o'bconioa hybrids, 
358 ; Sieboldii, 503 
Primulas at Forest Hill, 157; at 
Reading. 135 ; as garden plants, 
27; heredity and variation 
amongst, 199 ; Himalayan, 823 
Protector, plant and seed, 155 
Pruning, 1021, 1041 
Prunns triloba, 288 
Pteris Binotii, 486; cretica capi- 
tata, 476; Hillii, 200; Sum- 
mersii, 371; tremula, 867 
Puocinia Gentianae, 984 
Punches, letter, 86 
Pyrus Scheideckeri, 598; specta- 
bilis, 652 
Quercus Mirbeckii, 1013 
Questions, discussion of, 710 
Railway banks, flowery, 697 
Rainfall at Glasgow, 439; in 
London for 1903 . 67 
Raspberry, Pen-will’s Champion, 
600, 997 
Raspberries, 75 
Ravenscourt Park, 365 
Reading, bulb rooms at, 779; 
Chinese Primulas at, 135 ; Uni¬ 
versity College, 16 
Refuse, how to dispose of garden. 
182 
Rehmannia angulata, 115 
Reminders for May, 398 
Restrepia aspasicensium, 852; 
leopardina rosea, 522 
Rhodanthes, 99 
Rhododendron Dawn, 476; Jekyll, 
Gertrude, 476; Littleworth, 
Beauty of, 476; Mangles, 
Harry, 371; Penjerrick, Glory 
of, 371; Queen, Rose, 371; 
yunnanense, 991 
Rhododendrons, 388; Himalayan. 
541; in California, wild, 96; 
in Hyde Park, 562; Messrs. 
Waterers, 539 
R.H.S. centenary, 239; lectures 
for 1904, 205 
Rhus cotmoides, 862 
Ribes sanguineum King Ed¬ 
ward VTL, 371; speciosum, 
195 
Richardia africana, 73; elliot- 
tiana, 156 
Richmond Park, 295 
Rockery, 154 
Rock garden and some of its gems, 
our, 544, 668; renovating the, 
729 
Rodgersia pinnata, 7, 650 
Ronmeya Coulteri, 600, 657 
Room decoration, plants for, 196 
Rosa noisettiana, 765 
Rose: Ames, Mrs. Oliver, 575 ; 
Annesley, Countess, 599; 
Austria striata, 522; Battersea, 
Lady, 580; Bedder, single 
crimson, 871; Belle, Vichy - 
soise, 556; Bessie Brown, 344; 
Billiard et Barre, 575; Cant, 
Ben, 744, 798, 818; Cochet, 
White Maman, 706; Desir, 
Monsieur, 575; Detroit, La, 
168; Dickson, Hugh, 826; 
Driout Mine., 158; Druschki, 
Frau Ivarl, 596; Earl of War¬ 
wick, 1046; Electra, 634; 
English, Rosalind Orr, 1057; 
Flight, Mrs. F. W., 599; 
Foras, Comte Amede idle, 278; 
Grabame, C. J., 599; Grant, 
Mildred, 575; Irene, hybrid 
Tea-scented, 12; Maharajah, 
522; Marshall, Field, 647; 
Niph'eitos, 580; Perle de 
Neiges, 487 ; Pharisaer, 511 ; 
Rambler, Philadelphia, 168; 
Richmond, 1011 : Ulster, 575 ; 
Vibert, Aimee, 275; Waltham 
Rambler, 511; Westminster, 
Duchess of, 599; White. Lady, 
848; Yellow Banksian, 415 
Rose and Clematis grafting, 178 ; 
Lord Tullibardine’s button-hole, 
697; the Hybrid Tea, 542, 577. 
702, 740 
Rosebush, the oldest, 553 
Roses, 1017, 1039, 1062; a new 
stock for Rambler, 642 ; an un¬ 
usual way of rooting. 625 ; in a 
cold greenhouse, 387; in 
America, wild, 517; in pots, 
204 ; pot, 99 ; pruning, 318 ; 
the art of pruning. 341: then 
and now, 579 ; too little known 
Tea, 168 
Rossie Priory, 761 
Roval Gardeners’ Orphan Fund, 
61, 124, 163, 434 
Rudbeckia Golden Glow, 800 
Runner Beans. 760 
Rustic work, 1063 
Sacoolabium gracile, 560; longi- 
calcaratum, 599 
Salix repens argentea, 490 
Sandringham, 322 
San Jose Scale, 191 
Sarracenia flava major, 511 
Saxifraga. miuscoid.es atropur- 
purea, 359; muscoides Rhei . 
superba, 401: Riheii Guildford 
Seedling, 320. 367, 411; 
tenefa, 485 : Wallacei, 215 
Saxifraga, a hybrid, 505; the, 
319 
Scale, Palm, 984 
Scone Palace Gardens, 873 
Scotch Fir. the. 159 
Scottish Challenge Trophy, 545 
Sea Buckthorn, 120 
Seakale from. Kenilworth, 171 
Sedum Sieboldi, 759; sspeotajbdle 
atropurpureum, 931 
Seedless plants, 633 
Seed order, the. 49 
Seeds, 441. 684. 738 ; the sowing 
of, 71. 113, 161, 185 203; the 
vitality of, 231 
Selaginella watsoniana, 324 
Seluginellas, 366 
Shamrock, the, 231 
Shrub, a very floriferous, 802 
Shrubs, forcing, 776; for rock¬ 
eries, 998; from Aldenham 
House, 556; late flowering, 
758; notes on American, 118 
Slime on ponds, destroying, 383 
Slugs, 524 ; and) how to keep them 
under, 408, 426 
Snowdrops, 52 
Sobralia Ruckeri, 476 
Societies: Abbey Park Flower 
Show, 656 ; Aberdeen Chrysan¬ 
themum, 964; Ancient Society 
of York Florists, 964 ; Bedding- 
ton, Carshalton, and Wal- 
lingtan, 38; Birmingham 
Chrysanthemum., 940; Bol¬ 
ton, 982; Border District 
Chrysanthemum, 985; British 
Pteridological 675; Chester 
Paxton, 962; Corbridge Chry¬ 
santhemum, 983 ; Cornwall Daf¬ 
fodil, 328; Croydon Chrysan¬ 
themum. 919, i051 ; Croydon 
Spring Show, 368: Darlington 
Chrysanthemum, 984; Devon 
and Exeter Horticultural, 709 ; 
Dulwich 'Chrysanthemum., 963 ; 
Dundee Chrysanthemum, 985 ; 
Dundee Flower Show, 728; 
Dusseldorf, International Hor¬ 
ticultural Exhibition at, 710 ; 
Exmouth Flower Show, 691; 
Glasgow and West of Scotland, 
748: Grassendale Horticul¬ 
tural, 264 ; Harrow and Roxetb 
Allotment, 810 ; Harpford and 
Venn Obbery, 655; Hartlepool 
Chrysanthemum, 982; Hoddes- 
don Flower Show. 637 ; Isle of 
Wight Horticultural, 565: 
Leeds Paxton, 963; Liverpool 
Horticultural Association, 347, 
962 ; Liverpool Root and Fruit 
Show, 854; London Dahlia 
Union, 267 ; Manchester Royal 
Botanical and Horticultural, 
348. 451, 601, 620, 747. 983; 
Midland Carnation and Piicotee, 
673; Midland Daffodil, 369. 
388; National Auricula and 
Primula, 368 ; National Carna¬ 
tion land PAcotee, 621, 673: 
National Chrysanthemum. 123. 
124, 829, 895, 916, 1007, 1050 
annual dinner, 997: annual 
outing. 549) ; National Dahlia, 
727; National Potato, 17. 23, 
131, 730. 1027 ; National Rose, 
565, 603 789, 1028; National 
Sweet Pea, 109, 602, 1029: 
National Tulip, 451; Newcastle 
Flower Show. 638; Newport, 
I.W., 940- Paisley Horticul¬ 
tural, 728: Richmond Horti¬ 
cultural. 565; Roval Agricul¬ 
tural,. 530; Roval Botanic 
Society of London, 124, 245, 
246, 264, 347. 433, 493. 511. 
586, 854; Roval Caledonian 
Boiticultural, 151, 749. 765; 
Roval Horticultural, 37, 103, 
119, 123, 143, 151. 185 , 223, 
264, 307. 389. 432. 512, 547, 
583 (Holland House), 601, 620. 
655. 691, 747, 768 789, 808 
(British Grown FYuit), 984, 
1023, 1029, 1030 (Temple Show, 
461. 495) ; Roval Horticultural 
of Aberdeen. 709; Royal Horti¬ 
cultural of Ireland. 45, 348. 
673 ; Scottish Horticultural As¬ 
sociation, 960 : 'Scottish Pansy 
and Viola Association, 549, 604 ; 
Shropshire Horticultural. 692: 
Southampton Royal Horticul¬ 
tural, 638; Sydenham’s early 
Chrysanthemums. 808 • Ulster 
Horticultural. 941 ; Ventnor, 
939 ; Ware and District Horti¬ 
cultural, 939; Wolverhampton 
Floral Fete, 602; Yorkshire 
Gala, 61, 529 
Soil inoculation, 1038 ; the, 69 
Soils, germs, and worms, 427 
Solanumis, the, 868 
Sophrocattleya Saxa, 200 
Spiraea assurgeos, 13; Billardi, 
1044 
Spraying, 538 
Squashes and Pumpkins on milk, 
feeding, 89 
Stake, Long’s Patent, 524 
Staking of herbaceous plants, 506 
Stanley, Ashton and Co., 752 
Starlings, a plague of, 625 
Statiees and their uses, 932 
Stems, the forms of, 715, 969 
Stephanotis floribunda, 1044 
Stock for Rambler Roses, new. 
664 
Stocks in pots, 488 
Stoking, 6 
Stove plants, two pretty and 
effective, 318 
Strawberry, Eythrope Perpetual, 
808; Paxton's Reward. 560 : 
The Alake, 560; The Latest, 
600 ; The Laxton, 555 
Strawberry analysis, the, 589; 
farms. 84 ; plantations, making- 
new. 592 
Strawberry-Raspberry, the, 55 
Strawberries at Bedford, 557: 
autumn, 911; farcing, 198; 
large, 622: perpetual hearing, 
896 
St. George, Royal Society of, 271 
St. John’s Gardens, Liverpool, 
587, 640 
Success, practical hints to. 262 
Sumach, Fern-leaved Staghorn, 
1006 
Sweet Pea, Breadmore, Dora, 
614; Dainty, 892; Eckford, 
Henry, 614: Ingram, John, 
614;'King Edward VII., 892; 
Scott. Janet, 614 
Sweet Pea culture, 138 
Sweet Pea.s, 177. 204 ; audits of. 
32; Cupid, 560; the -promise 
of. 613 
Sweet Peas from Boghead. 460 ; 
from Burnley, 874; from Oa- 
venham Park, 851; from Fair- 
field, 751; from Furness, 780: 
from the South, 780; from 
Wem, 700 
Swertia longifolia, 610 
Symphori'carpus raeemosus, 909 
Symphyandra Wanneri, 302 
Tamarix hispida aestivalis, 710 
Taxus bSiccata, and its varieties, 
35 
Teachers, a fortnight’s holiday 
for, 481 
Tecorna radicans, propagating, 
149 
Temple Show. 461. 489 
Thorn, the Glastonbury, 14. 18 
Tiarella cordifolia, 888 
Time, 285 
Tints, autumn and winter. 935 ; 
on the rockery, winter, 285 
Tomato, cultivation of the. 445 ; 
fields, Britain’s foreign. 333 
Tomato®, effects of thinning, 109 
Topiary gardening, 1045 
Topics, current. 1042 
Torch Lilies, 175 
Toreuia Fournieri grandiflora alba, 
908 
Tracbelos'permum crocost onnun, 
235 
Transplanting trees and shrubs. 
912 ; trees at night. 428 
Tree notes from Perthshire, 849 ; 
seedls for sowing, 94; ties, 
Becketts. 14 
Trees and shrubs in the far north, 
957 : •interesting, 1016 ; nursing 
bottle for, 930 : on two con¬ 
tinents, street, 323; street, 33 
Trenching, 35 
