^^l^^^^^^^^l^^^^^^fj|,'^•[■'r1^i^■X LIBRARY OF THE SO MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL ^-vvCOL^EGE V.79 The Garden. [December 25, 1915. AN Illustrated Weekly Journal OF Horticulture in all its Branches, Founded by W. Robinson in 1871. Edited by HERBERT COWLEY. VOL. LXXIX. CHRISTMAS, 191^. LOU^DOU^. Office: 20, TAVISTOCK STREET, COVENT GARDEN, W.C. Published by "COUNTRY LIFE," Ltd., 20, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, W.C, and by GEORGE NEWNES, Ltd., 8-11, Southampton Street, Strand. The Garden-I Q_ IDecember 25, 191 =;. THIS VOLUME OF "THE GARDEN" is dedicated by pepmission to FIELD-MARSHAL LORD GRENFELL, G.C.B., G.G.M.G., LL.D. {President of the Royal Horticultural Society.) WHEN Field-Marshal Lord Grenfell accepted the Presidency of the Roj^al Horticultural Society in the spring of 1913, the cloud of the great European war was not apparent. It therefore appears the more fortunate that he should have consented to preside over this great National Society- at a time when his knowledge, experience and connections are in\-aluable to the Societ}- over which he exercises a wise and guiding hand. Ever since the revival of the Society in the eighties, there almost seems to have been some higher care watching over it. When difficulties have threatened, they have been removed in remarkable ways, lea\'ing the Society stronger than ever and in a better position to pursue the good work it is doing in increasing beauty, happiness and health throughout this fair land. Lord Grenfell has been devoted to the art of gardening for the greater portion of his life. In the many parts of the globe where he has been stationed, he has succeeded in creating a garden for himself. He was probably the first to grow English Roses in Malta. He imported a large number there aiid grew them successfully. When in Egypt he founded a horticultiural society, which became influential in improving the cultivation of flowers, despite the difficulties involved by the annual rise of the Nile. In late years Lord Grenfell has taken the keenest interest in his beautiful garden at Overstone, near Northampton. Lord Grenfell entered the Army in 1859 and served in the Kaffir and Zulu Wars of 1878-79. He was Quartermaster-General in the Transvaal in 1881-82. Between 1882 and 1892 he was occupied in the Egyptian and Nile Expeditions, and was Sirdar of the Egyptian Army from 1885 to 1892. Subse- quently, Lord Grenfell was Inspector-General of the Auxiliary Forces, Governor and Commander- in-Chief of Malta, for some time Commander of the 4th Army Corps and for five years Commander- in-Chief in Ireland. In recognition of his great services, Lord Grenfell was raised to the peerage in 1902. It falls to the lot of very, few men to gain such distinguished honours, but one tribute very dear to him is that of his late and gallant nephew. Captain Francis O. Grenfell, who was the first officer to win the Victoria Cross in the present war. Referring to his imcle, Captain Francis Grenfell in his will, which has been recently proved, says : " I should like to express my deep gratitude for his kindness to me during my lifetime, ever since the day when he decided I should go into the Army at his expense. I have endeavoured to base my career on his example. He has, since the death of my father, done everj^hing that a father could do for me." Vol, LXXIX. "The Garden," December 25, 1915. INDEX. AbutQon Triumph, 496 Acacia, False, as a hedge plant, 133 ; platyptera, 25, 551 Achillea Obristii, 315 Aconites, Winter, and Snowdrops, 97 Actinidia chine nsis, 589, 610 Actinidias, two climbing, 565 iEsculus parvifiora, 436 ; plantidrensis, 311 Agave americana, 554 AgTostis nebulosa, 95 Ailantus glandulosa, a noble group of, 242 Akebia quinata, 529 Allium kansuensp, 543 Alpines as . border plants in Scotland, 337 ; increasing, 340 ; in Yunnan, Mr. George Forrest on, 347 ; late-flowering, 506, 541, 573 ; under glass, 121 Alyssum spinosum, 302 Amaryllis, the, after flowering, 263 Anemone blanda, 217 ; fulgens, how to grow, 207 ; japonica Kentish White, 431 ; nemorosa bosniaca, 211 ; Pulsa- tilla, 181 ; rupicola, 273 ; sylvestris 277 Annual, a good hardy, for edgings, 140 ; flowers suitable for cutting, 103 Annuals at Reading and Slough, 131 ; between shrubs, 372 ; for beds, 23 ; hardy, among shrubs, 127 ; in border, 179; sowing late, 265; the best climbing, 201 Antirrhinum Asarina, 372 Antirrhinums and disease, 171 ; and Mr. Cuthbertson, 135 ; as bedding plants, 480, 505, 541; cultivation of , 31; eaten by animals, 539, 553, 588 ; in the Bournemouth Public Gardens, 457 Apple, a good culinary, 549; Blenheim Orange, 492 ; blossom, about, 313 ; blossoms, about, and other things, 278 ; Ck)x's Orange Pippin grafted on Irish Peach, 243, 312, 336 ; crop, prospect of the, 182 ; crop, storing the, 458 ; double flowers, 323 ; Edwin Beckett, 496 ; frost damage to, 1 ; Gascoyne's Scarlet, 578 ; growing in Nova Scotia, 368 ; Lane's Prince Albert, 566, 589 ; Langley Pippin, 419 ; Madresfleld Court, 566 ; Miller's Seedling, 529 ; Wellington, 503 Apples and Pears for Midland Counties, 19 ; at Swanmore Park, Hants, 261 ; flavour and pedigree of, 29, 70 ; fruit- ing on young trees, 458 ; storing late, 467, 493 ; the four best dessert, 560 ; two fine, 629 Aquilegia, the Long-spurred, in Scotland, 350 Aquilegias in pots, 467 Arbutus XJnedo, 564 Armeria csespitosa, 157 ; fasciculata, 479 Artichokes, wintering Globe, 597 Arum Lily, a hardy, 614 Asclepias fruticosus, 629 Ash, the Eowan or Mountain, 197 Asparagus, hints on growing, 140 ; giant, 604 Aster alpinus Nancy Perry, 306 ; Amcllus King George, 541 ; Amellus Mrs. Perry, 518 Aubrietias, the value of, 217 Auricula Edenside, 201 Auriculas for the outdoor garden, 221 ; notes on, 93, 141, 173, 207, 281, 410, 498, 591 Australian Bluebell Creeper, the, 438 Azaleas, propagating, 191 ; from cuttings, 266 Balsams, hardy, notes on, 471 Bamboos, hardy, and their cultivation, 222 Banksias, 611 Barbadoes Pride and its Latin name, 601 Barberries, two showy new, 206 Bartsia Odontites, 468 Bartsias, little-known British, 504 Beans, Haricot and Butter, cultivation of, 192 Bed, a charming autumn, 126 Begonia Fireflame, 566; Lord Methuen, 354 ; Mrs. Cuthbertson, 354 ; President Carnot, 433 Begonias, trial of winter-flowering, 277 ; tuberous, from seed, 37 -* Benthamia fragifera fruiting in Surrey, :: 50 ; fruits of, 23 fc Berberis. acuminata, 575 ; Aquifohum, a ^ tall specimen of, 218 ; candidula, 109 ; "" hybrids, some beautiful, 142 ; pinnata, ^ 206 ; pinnata in Hertfordshire, 324 ; '^ SargentisD, 447 ; sargentiana, 592 Birds and ripe fruits, 433, 457, 480 Blackberry, the cultivation of, 499 I Black or Berry-Bearing Alder for gun- ^T powder, 465 BOOKS — " Adventures among Wild Flowers," 35 " Fungoid Diseases of Field and Garden Crops," 453 " Gardeners' and Florists' Annual for 1915," 107 " Gardening for Beginners," 132 " My Shrubs," 240 " My Villa Garden," 356 " Plant Life," 368 " Popular Hardy Perennials," 356 " School Gardening," 416 " Sweet Peas and Antirrhinums," 96 ; " The Book of Hardy Flowers," 393 " The Door in the Wall," 595 " The Garden Under Glass," 35 i " The Hobby Gardener," 393 I "The Mutation Factor in Evolution,' with Particular Reference to CEno- thera," 416 ! " The Principles of Agriculture through ; the School and Home Garden," 441 I " The Spirit of the Soil," 607 i ' ' Transpiration and the Ascent of Sap in Plants," 36 "Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles," 95 Border, a bright summer, 528 ; scarlet and white in the, 347 Borders, flower, at a cripples' home, 360 ; at Goodnestone Park, Canterbury, 494 Botany, railway, 361 Bouvardias, treatment of, 205, 218 Bracken roots, 565 ; use of, as litter, 467, 513 Brambles and their peculiarities, 215 Brasso-Cattleya Admiral Jellicoe Broad- lands Variety, 566 ; Cliftonia albens, 56 ; Chftonii Fowler*s variety, 225 ; Cliftonii Sir John French, 152 ; Schro- derse Shrubbery variety, 129 ; ^i^ moriniana Shrubbery variety, 225 Briar wood for pipes, 217 Brunsfelsias, the, 112 Buddleia Colvillei, 457, 493 ; from Middle- sex, 416 ; madagascariensis, 599 ; ofBcinalis as a pot plant, 13 Buddleias, late -flowering, 470 Bulb notes, 408 ; order in 1915, 451 ; planting and trial gardens, 474 Bulbs, blue-flowered, for autumn planting, 484 ; British ver&us Dutch, 408 ; early planting of, 441 ; for convalescent camps, 575 ; for grass and woodland, 473 ; for spring planting 195 ; forced, the colouring in, 159 ; in grass, 503 ; some, for spring planting, 165 ; that ought to be potted in August, 385 Business, starting a, 333 Butcher's Broom and other plants, 27 Cabbage, a hint on cooking, 122 ; a remedy for club in, 529, 576 ; club in, 516 ; Little Gem, 50 ; Sutton's Har- binger, 218 Cabbages and perennial Poppies, trials of, at Wisley, 359 CsBsalpinia japonica and C. pulcherrima, 577, 601 Cffisalpinias, two hardy, 546 Calceolaria cuttings, 457 Calceolarias, herbaceous, 305 ; three S>od shrubby, 245 una vulgaris cuprea, 73 Camellia reticulata, 73 Campanula Abundance, 402 ; arvatica (acutangula), 378 ; garganica hirsuta, 603 ; Meteor, 378 ; portenschlagiana, 90 ; portenschlagiana and Pinks, 223 ; Profusion, 592 ; pusilla Miss Willmott, 188, 330 Candytuft, Ibeiis gibraltarica, 61 Cannas and Dahlias, storing, 498 Canterbury Bells and Alkanet, 352 Carduncellus pinnatus, 195 Carnation Alice, 518 ; Aviator, 543 ; Bishton Wonder, 47 ; Bookham Clove, 273 ; Caprice, 47 ; Colleen, 47 ; Daisy Walker, 196, 273 ; Delice, 47 ; General Joffre, 47 ; Good Cheer, 152 ; Grena- dier, 47 ; Malcolm, 617 ; Mme. Charles Page, 47 ; Mrs. G. Lloyd Wigg, 176 ; Nora West, 47, 192; notes, 631; Wivelsfleld White, 47 Carnations, border, 542, 579, 611 ; autumn planting versus spring planting, 421 ; new Perpetual - flowering, 404 ; notes on, 101, 135, 177, 234, 314, 362, 375, 472 ; Perpetual-flowering, 266 ; Tree, sporting, 528 Carpenteria californica, when to prune, 24 Cassia corymbosa at Eastbourne, 372; flowering outdoors, 564 Cassinia fulvida, 145 Catalogue, the ideal, 22; Daffodil, 99 Catasetum Bungerothii, 447 Catkins, notes on, 151 Cattleya Ajax Primrose Dame, 518 ; amabihs Fowler's variety, 477 ; drap- siana vinosa, 426 ; hardyana alba, 447 ; hardyana variety His Majesty, 426 ; Harold Fowler's variety, 402 ; Luegese Fowler's variety, 543 ; Mendelii Mrs. Smee, 354 ; Moira rubra, 543 ; Olympus, 129; Paula, 354; Sybil Scintillant, 402 ; Sybil variety rotundobeUum, 426 ; Sybil variety W. R. Lee, 447 ; Tityus Rex, 273 ; Trianse Queen Elizabeth, 80 ; Venus Princess Mary, 477 ; Warscewiczii Mrs. E. Ashworth, 354 Ceanothus Fantaisie, 477 ; George Simon, 496 ; rigidus (vera), 260 ; vais. 609 Celeriac and its cultivation, 227 Celery, crisp, how to grow small, 48 Centaurea ^theopappus pulcherrima, 111 Ceratostigma plumbaginoides, 400 ; will- mottianum, 491 Cercis Sihquastrum, 287 Chamomile, the double, 63, 110 Charity begins at home, 534 Cherry, the Bird, 312 ; Waterloo, 378 Cherries, Morello, for north walls, 29 ; the flowering, 229 Chicory or Witloof, the cultivation of, 225 Chionanthus \irginica, 100 Chionodoxa Lucilise, 73 ; sardensis, 157 Chorizema ilicifoUum, 251 Christmas Roses, 613 ; transplanting, 15, 38 Chrysanthemum Aphrodite, 578, arcti- cum, 545, 576 ; Aristocrat, 590 ; Bertha Fairs, 543 ; Charlotte E. Soyer, 543 ; Edith Cavell, 666 ; General Smith-Dorrien, 543 ; Golden Cham- pion, 566 ; Louisa Pockctt, 590 ; Market Bronze, 543 ; maximum Cale- donia, 420 ; Merstham Beauty, 551 ; Monica Mitchen, 690 ; Phyllis Cooper, 566 ; the, and its associations, 537 Chrysanthemums at Finsbury Park, 563 ; border, notes on, 544 ; border, winter treatment of, 20 ; early flowering or border, 224; notes on, 17, 32, 70, 140, 177, 259, 283, 332, 392, 618 ; out- door or border, 566 ; propagation of, 12 ; protecting early flowering, 575 ; that last well in Scotland, 41 ; to bloom at Christmas, 47 ; work among the, 411, 486, 578 Chrysogonum virginianum, 14 Cistus cyprius, 347 ; purpureus, 99 Citrus trifoliata, fruits of, 597 Clarkias for the conservatory, 363 Clematis aphylla, 260 ; Flammula in the flower border, 498 ; Hendersonii, 371 ; montana, 43, 63 Clematises and their cultivation, 448 ; where to grow, 316 Clerodendrons, hardy, 578 Clethra ahiifolia, 431 Climbers, late-flowering, 576 ; some good greenhouse, 223 Clivia, the, as a window plant, 206 Cobs, not Filberts, 528 Ccelogyne cristata, treatment of, 36 Colchicum speciosum, 472 Colchicums and autumn-flowering Cro- cuses in grass, 447 Collomia coccinea, 384 Colour charts, 116, 147, 159, 183, 429, 501 Combination, a pink and blue, 205 Copper preserving pans, 157 Coreopsis grandiflora and Madonna Lilies, 371 Cornflowers, about, 335 Com, Sweet, cultivation of, in England, 34 Cornus Nuttailii, 374 Coronilla glauca, 539 ; as a hardy plant, 300 Corylopsis spicata, 169 Corylus Colurna, 97 Cosmos, early flowering, 80 ; naturalised in Rhodesia, 235 Cotoneaster frigida, 575 ; Simonsii, 480 ; as a wall plant, 456, 492 Cotyledon simpUcifoha, 306 Cowley, H., appointment of, 479 Crab Apple, I^rus niedzwetzkyana, 229 Crat£egus cordata, 347 Crinum PoweUii, 50 ; how to plant, 2 ; in a reader's garden, 528 ; planting, 38 Crinums at Michaelmas, 19 ; the, 432, 481, 455 Crocus biflorus Alexander!, 104; Lemon Queen, 104 ; byzantinus, 554 ; Imperati albiflos, 104 ; pulchellus albus, 518, 527, 529 ; species, 481, 552 ; speciosus Bowles' White, 529 ; in the grass, 467 ; susianus, 109 ; tommasinianus, 85 Crocuses at Kew, 158 ; of autumn, 387 ; outdoor, for bowls, 97 ; the Autumn, 566 Crops, produce of, 1915, 587 Crown Imperials, 205 Cupressus, gaU on root of, 527 Cuttings with heeh, 2, 27, 50, 75 Cyclamen Coum, 101 ; Persian, how to succeed with, 404 ; persicum, hardiness of, 3 ; pseud-ibericum, 133 ; sowing, 443 Cydonia Mallardi, 447 Cymbidium coningsbyanum Brockhurst variety, 32 ; Schlegelii Fowler's variety, 104 Cypress, the Deciduous, 342, 360 Cypripedium arthurianum Langley variety, 32; Calceolus, 399, 420, 429; in Switzerland, 361 ; Curtisii Sanderw, 306 ; Grand Duke Nicholas, 32 ; lona Priory variety, 590 ; Priory Beauty, 590 ; Pyranus Chardwar Ideal, 32 ; spectabile, 299 Csrtisus DaUimorei, seedling forms of, 299 ; fragrans, 109, 218 ; praecox, 229 ; purpureus, 265 ; scoparius sulphureus, 67 Daffodil, a word to, seedling raisers, 170 ; bulbs, living pests in, 4 ; bulbs, soaking, in water, 39 ; Leedsii, new division of the classes and a suggestion, 300 ; names, a classified list of, 551 ; notes, 53, 64, 88, 113, 125, 138, 148, 164, 174, 187, 199, 209, 220, 233, 243 ; notes from New Zealand. 22, 352; Olympia, 443, 469 ; or Narcissus, 147 ; what is a ? 147; "Year Book, 1915," 531, 565, 613 Daffodils, a new cup for, 165 ; and Tulips, lifting and storing, 301 ; classes for miniature, 242 ; division of Leedsii, class of, 110 ; for the garden, 39, 58, 75, 87 ; garden, 242 ; Leedsii, the new- division of, 324 ; technical terms used in describing, 158 ; what is wanted in, 183 Dahlia Aggie Hutt, 431 ; Anna Louise, 518 ; A. R. Perry, 477 ; Bacchante, 496 ; Blaze, 477 ; Caprice, 447 ; Carron, 496 ; Constance, 477 ; Coyness, 477 ; Cresset, 477 ; Curlew, 477 ; Diamond, 496 ; Don Juan, 477 ; Erin, 496 ; Esm6e, 477 ; Garland, 496 ; Greraldine Edwards, 426 ; Gossamer, 477 ; Herald, 447 ; Landmark, 496 ; Leviathan, 518 ; Madonna, 496 ; Bliss Judd, 447 ; Patrol, 426 ; Printfose Queen, 447 ; Rainbow, 518 ; Sappho, 477 ; Saucy, 496 ; Scarlet Queen, 447 ; Sceptre, 496 ; Searchlight, 496 ; Sharman Crescent, 477 ; The Boy, 496 ; The Girl, 496 ; ' Tipperary, 477 ; trial at Duffryn, 22 ; Ursa Major, 496 ; Vanesse, 477 ; Warneford, 447 ; Wash- ington, 447 ; William Pound, 477 ; Yellow Star, 447 Dahlias, 547 ; on a trellis, 242 the Collarette, 200, 407 ; the Mignon, 396 Damson, the Merryweather, 583 Daphne Arbuscula, 260 ; Mezereum, 145 Davidia involucrata Vilinorinii, 145 Decoration, table, hints on, 453 Delphinium Queen of the Belgians, 330 ; venustum, 306 Delphiniums, 102 ; the, or perennial Larkspurs, 610 Dendrobium hookerianum Fowler's variety, 477 ; Triumph, 56 Deutzia Vilmorince in Ireland, 564 Dianthus gracilis, 597 ; neglectus Aurora, 306 ; Spencer H. Bickham, 324, 373 ; woodfordiensis, 306 Dianthuses or Pinks, the, 184 Dictamnus albus, 507 Dimorphanthus mandschuricus variegatus, 598 Dimorphotheca pluvialis, 553 Disa Blackii, 272 Dombeya Mastersii, 601 Earthworms, useful and injurious, 61 Elderflower wine or Frontignac, 349 Elders, some scarlet-fruited, 342 Elm trees, the danger of, 455 Endive, some notes on, 432 Epitaph on a garden friend, 552 Erica arborea, 288 ; australis, 26 ; cinerea atrorubens, 354 ; cinerea atrosan- guinea, 323 ; cinerea coccinea, 420 ; mediterranea hybrida, 109 Erigeron Asa Gray, 335 ; hybridus Ma. Gray, 330 ; philadelphicus, 564 ; Quakeress, 575 ; speciosum superbum, 455 Eryngium giganteum, 395 Escallonia langleyensis, 315, 336 ; macrantha, 551 ; montevidense", 496 Eschscholtzia The Geisha, 447 Eucalypts for EngUsh gardens, 496. 540, 552, 588 INDEX. [" The Garden," December 25, 1015 Eucalyptus globulus and E. Gunnii, 493 ; in flower in Norfolk, 421, 468 Eucryphia pinnatifolia, 363 Euonymus latifolius, 527 Euphorbia Sibthorpii, 408 Evelyn, John, some historical notes, 105 Evergreens on walls in winter, 114 ; transplanting, 169 Evesbam Valley, the, in early spring, 156 Farmers' Red Cross Sale, 597 Fern, Maidenhair, fronds from Queens- land, 121 Ferns, desirable greenhouse, 356 ; hardy, for shady greenhouses, 267 ; hardy, for shady places, 120 ; in air-tight bottles, 145 ; treatment of, in pots, 73 Fertilisation, physiology of, 85 FertiUsers, our supplies of, 586 Ferula communis, 420 Flax, New Zealand, at home, 50, 110, 135 Florence Fennel, 595 Floriculture in America, 227 Flower-bed, a pleasing spring, 205 ; an effective, 299 Flower-beds, some beautiful, 408 Flower fragrance, some sources of, 624 Flowers, annual, for autumn sowing, 423, 457 ; for the greenhouse, 424 ; in mixed borders, 163 ; manure for, 122 ; autumn, 546 ; deep blue and yellow, 217 ; for hot, sandy soil, 231 ; greenhouse, colour arrangement of, 97 ; sweet-scented, 80 ; hardy, in early autumn, 495 ; limelight, 288 ; long-stemmed, 38; magenta, 577. 603; outdoor, in midwinter, 37, 62, 75 ; preserving cut, 97 ; some annual, for spring sowing, 124 ; spring, at Stratton Park, 270 ; in association, 336; tender, at Hampton Court, 455; the charm of common, 156 ; the cutting of, 301, 360, 397 Fly, the Celery, 183 Figs, green, preserving, 433 ; recipe for bottling, 452 Filbert Nuts, 499 Forget-me-not, the Chatham Island, in Scotland, 171 Forsythia intermedia spcctabilis, 176, 182 ; suspensa, 157 Fothergilla major, 77, 277 Foxgloves and other flowers in the wild garden, 603 ; and their cultivation, 304, 324 Fraxious Ornus, 362 Freesias, a magnificent group of, 139 ; coloured, 151 ; cultivation of, 459 ; cultural hints on, 89 ; for Christmas. 282; from Guernsey, 135 ; hybrid. 110 Friar Park revisited, 304 Fritillaries, wild. 230 Fritillary. the, as a wild plant, 219 Fruit blossom, protecting, 130 ; crops in Calvados, Normandy, 322 ; hardy, summer pruning of, 392 ; prospects at St. Malo, 323 ; rooms, 475 ; trees, hardy, winter spraying of, 81 ; planting, 537, 631 ; summer spraying of, 317 ; thick verms thin training of, 605 : ventures in fruit walls, 628 Fruits and vegetables, bottling, 374 Fuchsias, raising from seeds, 350 ; the cultivation of, 409 Fungus, a large. 408 Funkia subcordata alba odorata, 2, 75 ; subcordata grandiflora, 27 Galan^hus nivalis Scharlokii, 455 Garden, a beautiful, in Scotland, 230 ; a, in the war desert, 313 ; a little, at Kensington, 571 ; a newly made at Sandboume, Worcestershire, 244 ; a snaall, turned to good account, 553 ; an artistic httle, 398: an Ayrshire. 457 ; an East Coast, 338 ; an inter- esting Cornish, 163 : an interesting Surrey, 411, 432; Heath, at W'isley, 462 ; literature, 504 ; my cottage, in Hampshire, 534 ; some " W. G.'s " of the, 584; sparrows in the, 288: Thf Garden in the fighting line, 419 ; the Heath, in autumn, 581 : the Heath, in late summer. 365 ; the sunk, at Regal Lodge, 559; wild, an effective combination for the, 241 Gardeners' Royal Benevolent Institution, the. 322 Gardening, informal and wild, 291, 303, 313, 326 ; in South Australia, 372 ; racecourse, in New Zealand, 414 ; of the week, 618, 630 Gardens, cats in, 432; dry wall, 590; for little Londoners, 597 Gardens op To-pay — Bodnant Halt, Denbighshire, 583 Markyate Cell. Herts. 568 Woodsidf, Chinirs. Burkj^. 281 Gaultheria tricophylla in a Welsh garden, 237 Genista cetnensis. 359 ; etnerea. 326 Oentiana acaulis, 336, 373. 420 ; how to grow, 397 ; treatment of, 281 : ascle- piadea. 492 ; omata, 518 ; treatment for, 457 Gerberas, cultivation of, 144 Geum Mrs. Bradshaw, 503 Ginkgo biloba or Maidenhair Tree, 2, 27, 50 Gladioli for spring planting, 184 Gladiolus brenchleyensis and East Lothian Stocks, 157 : masonionim, 551 Glasnevin, notes from, 232 Globularia incanescens, 423 Gloxinias from seed, 37 Godetia Double Rose, 37 ; Lavender, 330 Goldfish changing colour, 409 ; in cement tank, 216 ; information about, 385 Gooseberry caterpillars, 342, 361 ; flowers and sparrows, 193, 219, 243 ; mildew in Cambridgeshire, 193 ; Roseberry, 378 ; Whinham*s Industry, 378 Grammanthes gentianoides, 395 Grape Vines in early autumn, 470 G apes, an audit of, at the fruit show, 526 Grevillea juniperina sulphurea. 311 ; the genus, 182 GrevUleas in Australia, 170 Ground, newly broken, 128 Gypsophila repens as a wall plant. 49 Habranthus pratensis, 277 Hake^ pinifolia, 599 Hamamelis japonica zuceariniana, 97 ; mollis, 25 Hardenbergia comptouiana. 242 Harvey, F. W.. a few appreciations, 444 ; death of. 431 Heath garden, the. in spring. 197 ; St. Dabeoc's, 56 Heather, the double-flowered, 438 Heaths, some winter- flowering. 40. 63 ; the Tree, 284 Hedge of sorts, a, 14, 38, 50. 75 ; plants for, 24 ; upkeep of garden, :i5 Hedychium gardnerianum, 216. 610 Helenium puiailum magnificum, 38:i Helianthus Nattallu, 419 Helleborus niger altifolius, 1^ 38 Helxine SoUerolU as a carpeting plant, 99 Hemerocallis as pot plants, 49 ; Golden Bell, 354 Herbs, drying, 360 Heucheras, dividing, 265 Hibiscus, the SjTian, 412 Himalayan Blackberry, 447 Hollies, grafting, 216 Holly, the, 239 Homes, good, wanted, 464 Honeysuckle, a Chinese, 563 Honeysuckles, winter-flowering. 61 Horse Chestnuts, collecting, 575 Horticultural relief for Serbia, 404 Horticulture examinations, National Di- ploma of, 380 ; in Belgium^ France, Russia and Serbia, 229 ; in the good old days, 309 Horticulturist, a Wigtownshire amateur, 32 Houseleek, a Cobweb, 348 Humea elegans and skin irritation, 12 Hunnemannia fumariffifolia, 432 Hyacinth Lady Derby, 144 Hyacinths, about, 194 Eyacinthus azureus, 169 Hydrangea Radiant, 225 Hypericum Ascyron, 538; patuliim Henvri. 371 Iris fliifolia, 330. 390 ; Lohengrin. 306 ; Lord of June, 306 ; Maori King, 299 ; pallida dalmatica. 287 ; Rotherside Masterpiece, 306 ; sibirica, 533 ; sind- pers, 133 ; stylosa, 75 ; Tauri, 87 ; The Tiger, 458 ; tingitana. 14 ; walk, an, of Eastern splendour, 588 Irises, Japanese, some attractive little, 241 ; trial of Bearded, at Wisley, 311 \\y for covering damp walls, 07. 135 Ixias and Sparaxis, 486 Ixoras, 504 Jasmine, the hardy yellow,' 597 Kale. Russian, 121 Kew Gardens, an entrance fee to, 587, 609 ; springtime at. 193 Kitchen garden crops, notes on, 513; flowers in, 6 Kniphoflas or Torch Lilies, 451 Kcelrcuteria paniculata. 494 Labels in flower borders, 433 Laboratory, the new, at Wish-y, 491 Laburnums, the, 245 Lachenalias, 433 ; notes on, 185 Lteho-Cattleya Alex, 590; Anaconda, 260; canhamiana Fowler's variety. 330 ; eximea delicatissima, 447 ; Fasci- nator Mossioe var. Imogene, 260 ; Fascinator Mossia- var. Moonlight , 354; Gold Star, 273; Golden Queen, 426 ; Hehus, 273 ; Isabel Sander, 225 ; J. F. Birkbeck. 176 ; King Manoel, 590 ; Nana, 201 ; Sybil Ix)w's Variety, 272 ; Thyone Fowler's variety, 402; Transylvania Leonora Enid, 272 La Mortola, the fardens of, 616 I