CONTENTS. 
December 26 th, 1908 . iii. 
The Gardening World. 
Roses at Christmas, 78; at Regent’s Park, 470, 
472; -at Westminster, 636; at W-isley, 558; 
Dijon, 122; for amateurs, selecting', 644; for 
Scottish gardens, 4; how to bud, 485; in a 
suburban garden, 512; in Linlithgowshire, 
543; in the garden of, 23, 109, 158, 231, 299, 
381, 445, 502, 573, 633, 699, 753; on light soils, 
62; on their own roots, 696; planting, 733, 
726; pruning, 242; remarkable vitality of, 
178; treatment for failing, 774 
Botation, 44, v-ii. 
Royal Gardeners’ Orphan Fund, 374, vii 
.gages, two blue-flowered, 314 
Saintpauli-a ionantha, 345 
Salt mixture -as a spray for plants, 482, vii. 
Salvia splendens, 180; ZuTick, 656 
Sarra-cenias, 392 
Saxifraga montavoniemsis, 393; siarmentosa, 
244, 781 
Scarlet Tassel, 543 
Sckizantkus, culture of, 559; w-isetonensis in 
baskets, 4 
School of Horticulture, Wisely, 774, v. 
Seillas and Chionodoxas as pot plants, 733 
Seed sowing, 226. 357; sowing and how to cir¬ 
cumvent birds, 365 
Seedlings from damping, preventing, 64 
Seeds, about the germination of, 242; protect¬ 
ing, 332 
Selaginella emiliana aurea, 710 
Shefa, 308 
Shrubs for the rockery, 779 
Siderdtis hysso-pifolia, 180 
Soil, treatment of the, 568 
Sophroca-ttleya warnhamensis J. M. Black, 547 
Sophrola-elia Felicia, 215 
Spiraea family, the, 307 
Spray, Gow’s caterpillar, 406, vii. 
Spring, vagrant thoughts on, 187 
Staking Carnations, 510 
Stocks, strain of Brompton, 440 
Strawberries in the open, 344; planting, 515 
Strawberry Vicomtes-se Hericart de Thury, 615 
Streiitziia Regin-ae, 522, 630 
Summerhouse, A Pretty, 376 
Sunflower, new Miniature, 87 
Sweet Pea Constance Oliver, 540; George Stark, 
524; Helen Lewis, freak of, 481; Mrs. Andrew 
Ireland, 540; Mrs. EDardcastle Sykes, 210; Mrs. 
Win. King, 153; Paradise Ivory, 540; Sweet 
Pea Novelties for 1908, 81; Number, Our, 86 ; 
Society, National, proceedings of, 40; va¬ 
garies., 14, 52, 87; Sweet Peas, 516; and house 
flies, 533; and superfluous super, 19, 47; at 
Althorno Lodge, 155; at Marks Tey, 500; at 
Prested Hall, 496, v., 509; at Westminster, 
523; a useful note on, 397; autumn v. spring- 
sown, 601; best pink, 787; from Quorn, 428; 
from Upton-oniSevern, 530; inoculated, 675; 
monthly operations, 52, 142, 216, 283, 348, 431, 
488, 543, 618, 671, 740; quick growth of, 482; 
that scorch, 326; the culture of, 137; the cul¬ 
ture of, 628; too-much-alike, 708; two beauti¬ 
ful, 86 . 
Tansy, the silver-leaved, 585 
Temple Show, the, 380, 388, 404, 415 
Thistle, the Scotch, 153 
Thorn, the Co-ckspur, 48; the Washington, 71; 
Thrush, lines to a, 481 
Tomato culture, 534, 552; culture for amateurs, 
558; plants from seed, 127 
Tomatos and their management, 181; outdoor, 
373 
Tools, garden, 390, 406, 421, 437, 452, v., 466, 
482, 496, 510; the amateur’s garden, 70 
Tree stumps, picturesque, 747 
Trees and shrubs, choice flowering, 498; pro¬ 
pagating, 3; soil, 58 
Tropaeolum lobbianuin, 442 
Tuberose, the, 104 
Tul-i-p Canary Bird, 613; Duchess of West¬ 
minster, 422, vii.;. Walter T. Ware, 422, vii. 
Turf laying, hints on, 298 
Turnip Dobbie’g Selected Golden Ball, 159 
United Horticultural Benefit and Provident So¬ 
ciety, 706 
Vanda caerulea Oharlesworthii, 755; eaerulea 
R. Choi let, 761 
Vases for the garden, flower, 126 
Verbenas as pot plants, 379 
Vegetable Marrows, 398; on hillocks, growing, 
582 
Vermin, the proclivities of, 649 _ 
Veronica Anderso-ni variegata, 346; Traversal, 
571 
Vines, propagating grape, 65 
Viola eornuta purpurea, 716; olympica, 547 
Violas, 229, 534; at Marks Tey, 444; criticism of, 
551; for Rose beds, 790 
Violets, 643; and their culture, 440; in frames, 
683 
W-ahlenbergia saxicola, 19 
Waldsteinia fragarioides, 392 
Wall, beautifying a, 195 
Wallflowers as pot plants, 47 
Walls, planting old, 209 
Watering plants, hints on. 554 
Weeds, 586 
White City, horticulture at the, 6 C 6 
Window boxes, how to decorate, 538; garden¬ 
ing, 226 
W-isley, aquatics a-t, 544 ; trials at in 1909 
Wistaria chinensis, 748 
Year 1907, the, 44, vii. 
Yew trees, a use for, 384 
Yorkshire Gala, the, 448 
Yuccas, 364, 695 
Zephyranthes, 748; aurea, 442 
ILLUSTRATIONS. 
Achillea Huteri, 557 
Ackimenes, growing and propagating, 313 
Aetkionema grandiilorum, 295; pulobellum, 137 
Alcove, the Gunnersbury Park, 298 
Alo-oasia. sanderiana, 6 _ 
Amarantus sjjeoiosus, 377 
Angelonia so-licariaetfolia, 63 
Antirrhinums, propagating, 585 
Aphides on Cherry branch, 317 
Apple King Edward VII., 697; King of Tom¬ 
kins County, 35; Spi-tzenburg, 51 
Apple trees, planting and labelling, 777 
Arbutus Unedo, 684 
Artichokes, piamting Jerusalem, 217; protect¬ 
ing Globe, 701 
Asjoaragns, cutting down, 635; seeds, how to 
sow, 233 
Aster a-lp-inus superbus, 319 
Asters, Webbs’ bedding, 211 
Aubrieti-a Lavender, 573 
Bean, Golden Waxpod Dwarf, 167; Runner, Kel- 
way’s Tremendous, 91; Webbs’ New Supreme 
Dwarf, 85 
Beans, a good method of staking Runner, 
351; Broad, 288; sowing double rows of, 301 
Bed, arranging plants in a circular, 367 
Bedding plants, simple way to harden, 301 
Beet Blood Red, 281; storing, 663 
Begonia Gloire de Lorraine, propagating, 350; 
Mary Pope, 159 
Begonias, foliage, 555; from seed, raising 
tuberous, 139; starting tuberous, 164 
Birds, methods of protecting seeds, 332 
Border, an old-fashioned, 15 
Boronia hoteropliylia. 38 
Broccoli and Brussels Spro-uts, planting out, 
460 
Bulbs, planting, 614 
Calceolaria cuttings, inserting, 646; plant a 
bedding, 217 
Calceolarias, pinching bedding, 88 ; rearing 
■ herbaceous, 443 
Callistepkus hortensis, 67 
Campanula phyctidocalyx. 247; portenschla- 
giana, 645; pulloides, 279 
Carnation Beacon, 10; Britannia, 19; Enchan¬ 
tress at Tangley Nurseries, house of, 248; Hax- 
lowa-rden, 723; Linksman, 753; Malinaison, 
Irene, 501; Mrs. H. Burnett, 20; Nell Gwynne, 
395; Rose Pink Enchantress, 3; White Perfec¬ 
tion, 7; Winsor, 39 
Carnation cuttings, 33 
Carnations, how to- layer, 475; layering, 428; 
the right and wrong way to stake and tie 
up, 413 
Carrots, growing, 219 
Cauliflower in a frame, how to- pack, 728 
Celery, earthing up, 447, 575; how to- protect, 
767; planting, 383; trenches, 232; two ways 
of jrlauting, 164 
Oentaurea Margarita, or Giant White Sweet 
Sultan, 161 
Christmas Roses in frames, placing, 749 
Chrysanthemum coronarium Morning Star, 174; 
Lady Crisp, 723; Madame C. Desgranges,’ 738; 
Merstham White, 751; Mrs. Hazelhurst, 765 
Chrysanthemums in boxes, cuttings of border, 
201 ; a new way of growing dwarf, 452, v. 
Cimioifuga ra-cemosa, 329 
Clematis Jackmani, 179 
Climbers, how to plant, 767 
Olivia mini-ata superha, 181 
Cloches, 366 
Clock at Edinburgh, the floral, 633 
Gon-andron ramondioides, 59 
Coreopsis cardamina-efolia, 381 
Coronilla var-ia, 31 
Coryda-lis ca-pnoides, 698; tomentosa, 766 
Crocus Chrysaruthus albidus, 229; Dobbie’s 
Mammoth, 613 
Cucumber seed, 201 
Currant, Black, Resister, 726; bud mite. Black 
749 
Currants, making and inserting cuttings of 
794 
Gutting of Viola, 545 
Cyclamen- ibericum, 213 
C-ymbidium Sander-i splendens, 231 
Daffodil Mrs. H. D. Betteridge, 616 
Daffodils naturalised on grass, 631 
Dahlia Fa-iry, 349; Peggy, 331; Ruby Grinsted, 
Dahlia tubers put in box to start, 128 
Dahlias, cutting down, 663; first prize stand of 
pompon, 711 
Damson Farledgk Prolific, 791 
Design for summer bedding, 431 
Diamtkus chinensis, 199; Requiem, 141; Stern- 
bergii, 246 
Dibber, Barr’s special bulb and Potato-. 263 
Earthing up winter greens, 531 
Edges of lawns, cutting. 111 
Edging, filling, gaps in Box, 351 
Erica multiflo-ra, 105 
Epi-lobium angustifolirun album, 125 
Epipactis g-igantea, 683 
Fig trees, summer pruning of, 460 
Filbert trees, pruning, 675 
Forcing Rhubarb, 742 
Fritilla-ria Imperia-lis, 624 
Fruit border, making a, 17; tree, how to 
plant a, 727; tree, planting a bush, 
36; trees, cutting down for grafting, 
88 ; trees, holes for, 687; trees, nailing in 
young shoots of, 399; trees, root pruning, 
754, 755; trees to- be grafted, cutting back, 
701 
Fuchsias from cuttings, propagating, 110 
Garden, a novel, 571; at Barr’s Surbiton nur¬ 
series, view of rock, 160; making much of 
a, 5; picturesquely backed with tall trees, 
380; showing the value of tubs in the scheme, 
3; the beat kept, 650 
Genista, dalmatioa, 243 
Gladiolus Countess of Limerick. 597 
Gooseberry bushes, supporting the branches 
of, 367; tree entwined with black cotton, 185; 
trees, how to plant cordon, 164 
Gooseberries, thinning the berries of. 351 
Grafted trees, removing shoots from the stock 
of, 475 
Grafting, cleft, 233; saddle, 249 
Grapes, thinning, 447 
Grease band o'n fruit tree, 128 
Hedges, methods of planting. 794; pruninz, 
601 
