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Howison, James, Esq., on the ripening of fruit
by artificial heat, after being taken from the
tree, 444.

Hyacinth, on the cultivation of the, by Mr.
Thomas Fleetwood, 426,

Hyacinths, query on growing in moist sand, 259;
in pots, list of, 530.

Hybrids between the turnip and wild mustard,
query respecting, 611.

Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens, 329.
Hyde Park, improvement proposed respecting,

459.

Hydrangea, gigantic, 82.

Hydrangea hortensis, on the culture of, as prac-
tised in the Potsdam gardens, by M. G. A.
Fintelmann, 273.

Hypogýmna dispar, S24.

Hunter, Perceval, Esq., answer to query respect-
ing Tulipa Sibthorpiana, 784,
Hunting box, in landscape-gardening, 36.
Hull, botanic garden of, 221.

Human developement, principle of, 543.
Impostor, horticultural, at Sheffield, 215; from
Paris, 459.

Improvement of the people mentally, remarks
on, 224.

Independent Society of Florists at Heworth,
June 6th, 489.

India, education in, 549.

Indian corn, 106. 617; from New York, 211.
Infant schools, 225, 694.

Inglis, Mr. D., two articles in the constitution
of the Dumfermline Florists' Society, 618.
Inns ought, as much as possible, to create an
allusion to home, 558; of England and the
Continent compared, 673.

Inoculation on the Russian transparent crab,
queries respecting, 722,

Insect in fruit trees, query on, 237; destructive
one, 480.

Insects injurious in horticulture, 324.
Involucrum, application of the term, 543.
Ionian Islands, Lancasterian schools in, 549.
Ireland, increase of schools in, 84; agriculture
of, 179; education in, 338; evils in, remedies
for, 666.

Irideæ, query respecting, by Mr. David Fal-
conar, 611.

Iron and coal in France, 326.

Islay, hot-house in, lately erected, 663.
Jægersborg Park, 72.

Jamaica Society for the encouragement of Arts
and Agriculture, proceedings of, Nov. 11th,
77; April 14th, 458.

Jet d'eau at Mr. Knight's nursery, 338.
Johns, William, Esq. M.D. F.L.S., remarks
concerning Fowler's thermosiphon,
Brown's gas engine, 607.

and

Journeymen, conduct of some master gardeners
to their, 18; conduct of head gardeners to,
101.

Kennedy, L, Esq., his opinion on benefiting
the poor, 540.

Kensington gardens, remarks concerning, 329.
Kew gardens, 380.

Kings, British, their example not of much con-
sequence in gardening affairs, 563.
King, Lord, estate of, 10.

Kinmell Park, Balm of Gilead firs in, 103.
Kitchen, well contrived, 564.

Kitchen-garden, &c., answer to query on keep-
ing in order, 108.

Knapp Hill nursery, 571.

Knight, Thomas Andrew, Esq. F.R.S. &c., con-
sidered as a cultivator, 87; on the culture of
the potato, 294; on the cultivation of the pine
apple, 296; correction of erroneous statements
respecting his communications to the Horti-
cultural Society, 364; defended, 465; observ-
ations on his experiments on the potato, 609;
remarks respecting his pines, by Mr. Mearns,
716, 717; by Mr. Pearson, 717; statements
respecting his culture of the potato, 718 to 722.
Knight's exotic nursery, visit to, 338.
Knowledge, general, importance of, 601.

Labels for fruit rooms, &c., 683.
Labour, division of, 564.

759

Labourer, definition of the word, 69.
Labouring classes, condition of the, 706.
Laborious classes, criticism respecting music and
dancing among, 723.

La Fayette, General, his agricultural improve-
ments at La Grange, 208.

La Grange, agricultural improvements at, 208.
Landscape-gardening as a part of the study and
Landin, residence of, 644.
business of practical gardeners, 30; concluded,
264.

Lang, Mr. Joseph, on the culture of the pine-
apple without pots, in the royal kitchen-gar-
dens at Nymphenburg, 427.

Latch for gates, an improved, 683.
Lawrence, Mr. C., good apple trees for an or-
chard, 731; prices of heaths and ferns, 731;
growth of broccoli, &c., 732.

Laws, numerous, the result of ignorance, 715.
Lea House, near Godalming, 574.

Leaves, spots on, accounted for, by John Ferme,
Esq., 664.

Leaves, rationale for stripping off wall trees, 739.
Lemons and oranges, 213.
Leek, grown in great perfection in Rouen, 371.

Levers, bent, improved principle of, in agricul-
tural implements, explained, 655.
Liberality of Messrs. Young of Epsom, 598.
Libraries, provincial horticultural, 94; remarks
on the East Lothian itinerating ones, by
Samuel Brown, 95; agricultural, 228.
Lilac, the hybrid, where raised, 498.
Life, vegetable, remarkable law of, 176.
Lindegaard, Peter, Esq. C.M. H.S., on straw or
Lime-burning, 176.
reed mats as a covering for hot-houses and
hot-beds, 414.

Lindley, Professor, his introductory lecture on
botany, 328.

Lisbon botanic garden, some account of, by W.
Lysimachia longifolia, figured and described,
Churchill, Esq., Royal Marines, 412.

310.

Liverpool botanic garden, remarks on, 383.
Loddiges's establishment, 308, 379.

London University, and the lecture on botany
delivered there, 328.

London nurseries, 220; in July, 469.
Longleat, garden at, figured, 194.
Lupinus, new species of, 613.
Loudon's Howe and Loudon's Brae, 663.

Machine for breaking flax, $26; for moving
large orange trees, figured and described, 377;
for transplanting large trees, notice of one, by
Mr. Bennet, C.M. H.S., 422.

Mackenzie, Sir George Stuart, Bart. F.R.S. &c.,
on a simplified method of marking numbers on
tallies, 145; an account of some varieties of
apple, &c., 285; on the cultivation of the
strawberry, 286."

Madagascar, general education in, 549.
Magnolia sinuata, query respecting, 239.
Mahogany, first discovery of its beauty, 304;
season for cutting, S04.

Mailleraie, Château du, 643; village of, 644.
Maize, 179; cultivation of, in France, 547; see
Indian corn.

Malartie, M. la Comtesse, description of her
Malcolm's nursery, call at, 339.
mansion, &c., 247.
Mammoth gourd, 679.
Manners on the Continent, 7.

Manor house, in landscape-gardening, 36; old,
figured, 675.

Mansions castellated, with respect to landscape-
gardening, 33.

Manure, liquid, in Switzerland, 548; in Hol-
Manure lost in the common sewers, hints for a
land, &c., 549.
plan for saving, &c., 690.

Marica Northiana, flowered by Mr. Robert Reid,
661.

Mary-la-bonne nursery, call at, 339.

Master gardeners, conduct of some, to their
journeymen, 18.

Masters and servants, 649.

Mats of straw or reed as a covering for hot-
houses and hot-beds, by Peter Lindegaard,
Esq. C.M.H.S., 414.

Maupoil's nursery in Dolo, 458.

Mausoleum, the, seen from Greasborough, 679.
Mealy bug and white scale on pine plants, on
destroying, by Mr. W. M'Murtrie, C.M.H.S.,
57; by Mr. James Dall, 430.

Mearns, Mr. John, F. H.S., remarks on Mr.
Knight's pines, 716, 717.

Measure for filling sacks, figured, 674.

Melons and pine-apples produced by steam, 83.
Melons at Petworth House, 578.
Menagery, the king's, 568.
Méridien à détonation, 642.

Metallic hot-houses, remarks on, by Mr. George
M'Leish, 416.

Methley's fire-places, 238.

Merrick, John, gardener, on a large crop of
grapes and peaches in the same house, 81.
Metzger, M., upon the influence of rocks on the
prosperity of vine plants, and on the quality
of their produce, 436.

Mexico, vegetation in, 658.

Mezereon as a conservatory plant, 259.

Indian corn, 106; on the everlasting potato
107.

Museums, parochial, as a means of educating the
feelings of the laborious classes, 248.

Music, as a means of educating the laborious
classes, 250.

Music and dancing among labourers, critical
remarks on, 723.

Mutisia ilicifolia, figured and described, 304.
Myrtle, sweet, gigantic one, 83.

Names, botanic, rules for pronouncing, 232; sys-
tematic, use of, 650.

Natural history, use of, 700.

Natural system of plants, a great advantage of,
497.

Navet and Cape Broccoli, query on the time of
sowing, 611.

Neatness, English gardener superior to the
French in, 502.

Nectarine, the Violet, 315;
England, 582.

Elruge, largest in

Nepenthes distillatòria, $37.
Nitre, as a manure, 176.
Northumberland, Duke of, some account of his
improvements in the garden at Syon, 502.
Nuremberg, soil in the neighbourhood of, 69.
Nurseries of London, 220. 579.

Oak, query on the cultivation of, 239.

Miasmata in a conservatory, correction of, by Oak coppice, insects on, query respecting, by Mr.

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Models of estates, 213.

Moggridge, John H., Esq., on the laying out
and planting of burying grounds, 26.
Mole cricket, new process for destroying, 205;
figured, 203.

Monck, Sir Charles Miles Lambert, a plan for
transplanting large forest trees in parks, 147.
Money, Mr., F.H.S., his excellent grape, an ac-
count of his practices, and improved watering
pot, &c., 737 to 740.

Monolifera, fero, to bear, and monile, a bracelet,
criticisms on this etymology, 104.
Morrey, Mr. Arthur, gardener at Stroud House,
575.

Moss soil, crops on, 83.

Mould, Mr. F., on introducing heated air into
cucumber frames and pits, 435.

Mouse-trap, humane one, by Mr. James Rollins,
109; critical remarks respecting the, by Mr.
D. French, 725

Mulberry, certain and expeditious method of
raising, 63; the United States, 78; method of
cultivating the, in the government mulberry
plantations at Nymphenburg, with a list of the
species and varieties grown there, by M. Bis-
chof, 424; plantation near Cork, abandoned,

667.

Munich, landscape-gardening at, 210; university
of, 326; Royal Nursery at, description of, 385.
M'Murtrie, Mr. W., F.H.S., on destroying the
mealy bug and white scale on pine plants, 57;
on the liberties taken by Agronome, 98; cri-
tique respecting the Anson or Otaheite Pine,
607.
Mushrooms, on raising, and on the forcing of
rhubarb stalks in the open air, by Mr. James
Stuart, 443.

Murray, John, Esq., F.L.S. A.S. &c., figure and
description of the cow-cabbage, 64; on the cor-
rection of miasmata in a conservatory, 65; on
planting an onion near a rose to increase its
odour, 66; Cobbett not the first who raised the

John Owen, 610.

Obituary of Mr. C. Davidson, Mr. A. M'Leish,
and M. Bosc, 112; of Thos. Tredgold, Esq.,
Mr. Jas. Grange, Mr. Jas. Astin, Thos.
Weare, Esq., and W. Stevenson, Esq, 240;
of Mr. Francis Channer, 496; of M. Holböll,
640; and of Mr. John Hervey, 750.
Objections to a national education establish-
ment, 701.

Occupation, benefit derived from, 543.

Onion planted near a rose to increase its odour,
by John Murray, Esq., 66.
Onslow, Lord, seat of at Clandon, 11.
Oranges and lemons, 213.

Orange tree, venerable, reference to a fuller
account, 338.

Orange trees, successful mode of propagating in
Rouen, 375.

Oriental garden at Brighton, 119.
Otaheite pine, origin of corrected, 103; intro-
duction of, by Mr. C. F. Webster, 466.
Owen, Mr. John, query on some insects infesting
an oak coppice, 610.

Oxford, botanical garden at, 306.
Oxneed Hall, figured, 193.
Pain's Hill, vineyard at, 9.

Paintings and engravings as a means of instruc-
tion, 225.

Palace, royal, with reference to landscape-gar-
dening, 52; episcopal, with reference to land-
scape-gardening, 33.

Palermo, botanic garden at, 657.
Palmyra of Jaffna, figured and described. 77.
Parents, obligation of, to send their children to
school, 698; answer to the objections to, 702.
Paris, state of the season at, 326; state of veget-
ation in, for June, 456, 457; botany among
the common people in, 546.
Parish gardens, suggested, 714.
Parochial institutions; or outline of a plan for a
national education establishment, 692.
Parks, Mr. John Damper, F.H.S., errors by the
Conductor pointed out, 97; on the proper ma-
nagement of plants during their voyage from
China to England, 293, 572.

Parker, Thos. N., Esq., on the destruction of
wasps, 277.

Parks, English, remark on, 381.
Parson's flower-garden at Brighton, 121.
Passe, meaning of the term as applied to fruits,

68.

Patents, infringements on, by rich manufac-
turers, 545.

Paving, improved plan of, figured and described,

79.

Peach, the Royal, 316.

Peaches and grapes, large crop of, in the same
house, by John Merrick, gardener, 81.
Pear, the Gilogil, 315; the Princess of Orange,
$16; the Seckle, the Grey Doyenne, the Na
poleon, and the Duchess of Angoulême, 316;
the Easter Beurrée,450; the Beurrée d'Arem.
berg, 529; the Beurrée Rance, 530.
Pears, Scotch, an account of, by Mr. A. Gorrie,
C.M. H.S., 285.

Pears and apples, select list of required, 111.
Pear trees, &c., on rendering fruitful, by oper-
ating on the borders, and by natural training,
by Mr. Robert Hiver, 60.

Pearson, Mr. John, remarks on Mr. Knight's
pines, 717.

Pentstèmon, new species of, 613.

Portuguese style of gardening very artificial,
413.

Potato, on the culture of, by Thomas Andrew
Knight, Esq. F. R.S. &c. President, 294; state-
ment respecting the culture of, by Mr. Knight,
718 to 722; on the everlasting, by J. Murray,
Esq., 107.

Pots without holes in the bottom, query respect-
ing, 732.

Potsdam, weather, &c., at, 210.

Prejudice, tendency of gardeners to, 15.

Preston Institution for the Diffusion of Know-
ledge, 659.

Prevost, M., fils, account of his garden, &c., in
Rouen, 372.

Prize questions, hints for, 713.

Pentstèmon atropurpurea, figured and described, Prince, Mr., of the Linnean botanic garden near
310.

Penny, Mr., A. L. S, 598.

Perry, Mr. John, on the introduction of the
Verbena Melindris, 106.

Perry, J., Esq., view of Midhurst cottage, 581.
Perry, the Misses, 575.

Pestalozzi's system of education, 225.

Petersen, M. Jens Peter, C. M.C.H.S.,horticultural
observations, 547; garden library establishing
by, 548.

Petworth House, 576.

New York, fruit trees received from, 211.
Priorics, with respect to landscape-gardening, 33.
Professions, the result of ignorance, 647.
Prosperity, conservative tendency of, 543.
Pugh, Mr., his villa in Rouen, 499.
Questions for prizes, hints for, 713.
Queville, Chateau de, description of, 641.
Racine, M., fils, his method of cultivating the
Honfleur melon, 141; account of his nursery,
Radepont, Château de, 647.

123.

Philosophy, false, in agriculture, pointed out, by Railing, handsome Gothic, 680.
Mr. Ayton, 581.

Phlox, answer to query on the genus, 109.
Phormium tènax, 84.

Physiological botany, account of some experi-
ments in, undertaken with a view to ascertain
the probable cause of failure in early forced
grapes, by Mr. Joseph Thompson, 253; an essay
în continuation of, 257.

Pike, Mr. Henry, an effectual mode of destroy-
ing/slugs among cauliflowers and cabbages, 143.
Pin de Bordeaux, 612.

Pine, the Frankincense, query respecting, 731.
Pine, Anson or Otaheite, critique respecting, by
W. M Murtrie, 231; introduction of, by Mr.
C. F. Webster, 466; critique respecting, by
Mr. W. M Murtrie, 607.

Pine-apple, on the cultivation of the, by Tho-
mas Andrew Knight, Esq. F.R.S. &c. Presi-
dent, 295; on the culture of without pots, in
the royal kitchen-gardens at Nymphenburg,
by Mr. Joseph Lang, 427.

Pine-apples grown in common dung hot-beds,
464.

Pine-apples and melons produced by steam, 83.
Pine plants, on the destruction of the mealy bug
and scale on, by Mr. James Dall, 430.
Pines of Mr. Knight, remarks respecting, by
Mr. Mearns, 716, 717; by Mr. Pearson, 717.
Pinol, the name of a variety of grape, 69.
Pinus spectabilis of Nepal, 215.
Pinus Cembra, figured and described, 231.
Pinus Pinea, figured and described, 230.
Pipes for hot-water, price of, corrected, 107.
Plants, on discovering the anatomy of, by nitric
acid, 68; on the proper management of, dur-
ing their voyage from China to England, by
Mr. John Damper Parks, F.H.S., 293; for
rock-work, 239; exotic, attempts to accli-
mate, 331; alpine, for sale or exchange, 352;
new, flowered in the Epsom nursery during
July and August, 613; green-house, trials of
in the open air, 669; systematic arrange-
ments of, plans for hinted, 670; in pots, ob-
jectionable in the country 672.
Plough, 179; Mr. Finlayson's skeleton, 651;
Wilkie's, for diminishing friction, 652; the
pressing, figured and described, 677.
Pomological Magazine, critique on its appella-
tion, 103.

Pomona Britannica of Brookshaw, query re-
psecting, 111.

Poor, labouring, on bettering the condition of,
79; gardens for the, 551.
Poor laws, system of, 706.

Poore, Sir Edward, Bart. F. H.S., observations
on the cultivation of stove plants, 293.
VOL. V.- No. 23.

Railways, introduction of, contemplated, 686.
Raja Pakse, description and figure of, 75.
Ranunculuses, on, a method of obtaining late

flowers of, by Mr. Henry Groom, F.H.S., 293.
Ranunculus show of Wallingford, June 10., 744.
Reaping machine, by Mr. Peter Bell, 600.
Reid, Mr. Robert, flowered Márica Northiana,
€61.

Reider, M., 69.

Renard's market-garden in Rouen, 372.
Rhubarb leaf, large one, 81.

Rhubarb plant, leaf of a hybrid one, by the Rev.
W. T. Bree, 81.

Rhubarb stalks, on forcing, in the open air, 444.
Rice paper, some account of, 309.

Ridges of roofs covered with stone, 677.
Rinz, M. Jacob, jun., remarks on various gar-
dens about London, and in other parts of
England, visited in April and May, 1829,
Ripening of fruit by artificial heat, after being
taken from the tree, by James Howison, Esq.,

444.

Rivère, T. R., Esq., on a winter garden, 23.
Roads, on planting with fruit trees, 115; im-
provements suggested for, 116; of England
and the Continent compared, 113.

Rocks, influence of, on the prosperity of vine
plants, and upon the quality of their produce,
by M. Metzger, 436.

Rockwork, plants for, 239.

Roberts, Mr., description of an ornamental con-
servatory, in the Grecian style of architecture,
to be disposed of, 268.

Robertson, Mr. John, F.H.S., an account of the
manner of training the vine upon open walls,
at Thomery, near Fontainebleau, 286.
Rogers's flower-garden at Brighton, 121.
Rollins, Mr. James, on the neglect of practical
gardeners by the provincial horticultural socie.
ties, 101; on an improved mode of cultivating
the Calceolaria corymbosa, 272; personal no.
tice respecting 213.

Ronalds, Miss Elizabeth, her beautiful drawings
of fruit, 736.

Ronalds, Mr., F.H.S., his nursery and collection
of apples, 756.

Roots, plants cultivated for their, 176.
Rose, double yellow, on the culture of, by Mr.
John Fraser, 142.

Roses, standard, cast-iron stakes for, 332.
Rouen, remarks on the approach to, 370; bo-

tanic garden of, 497; the principal public
garden of, 498; Agricultural Society of, 501.
Rouvroy, M. de, figure and description of his
kitchen garden, 204.

Sàbal Blackburnia, figure and description of a
3 D

plant of, now in the gardens at Hale Hall,
Lancashire, by Thomas Kirkland Glazebrook,
Esq., 52.

Sabine, Joseph, Esq. F.R.S., the most remark.
able of the spring crocuses in the garden of
the Horticultural Society, 516.

Sacks of corn, iron frame for weighing, figured,
674.

Saffron in England, 460.

Salubrity of high and dry situations, 347.

Sálvia splendens, new variety of, figured, 577.
Sandpit Gate in Windsor Forest, 568.

Saul, Mr., record of the prize gooseberries of
1828, 728.

Saunders, Mr. Bernard, on the culture of the
cow cabbage, or Cesarean cole, 440.
Savoureux, M., his nursery and flower-garden,
&c., in Rouen, 378.

Savoy, education in, 656.
Scarthing Moor, inn at, 675.

Schleicher, M., his herbarium to be disposed of,

457.

Schools in Ireland, increase of, 84.

Schools of Agriculture, practical, 357.

ameliorating the condition of the laborious
classes, 387.

Soils, analysis of, 404; very tenacious, ploughing
and digging, 651.

Song of the Hungarian gardener, 326.
Soude, the, figured and described, 655.
Spade-forks, two-pronged, 154.

Spades, varieties of, for peculiar soils, 652.
Spain, elysium in, 71.

Spence, William, Esq. F.LS, &c. remarks on
the education and amusement of the lower
classes, 125.

Spinage, New Zealand, 80. 680.
Spring Grove, 564.

Squib, Mr., query on his mode of pruning the
vine, 733.

Stachys palustris, an esculent vegetable, 546.
Staircase, well arranged, 565.

Stakes of cast iron for standard roses, 332.
Stamford, 673.

Standard apple and pear trees, dwarf, upon
pruning and managing by Mr. William Green-
shields, 146.

St. Anne's Hill, remarks on, $82.

Schools, Gaelic, in the Highlands and Islands of Steam, heating by, 188; diffused through a bed
Scotland, 358.

Schools, maritime, in Sweden, 548.

Schools, to be established universally, sugges-
tions for, 696; obligations of the local police
respecting, 699.

Schultes's botanical visit to England, 305.
Scotch pine, on the, by Agronome, 139.
Scotch pine and larch, premiums offered for
raising from foreign seeds, 336

Scraper to the pressing plough, figured and de-
scribed, 677.

Sea air, effects of, query respecting, 730.
Seas, artificial, on forming in ornamental land-
scape, 137.

Seat, garden, made of straw, 594.

Seats for gardens, convenient, 682.

Seats, country, with respect to landscape-gar-
dening, $5.

Seeds, genuine agricultural, on the propagation
of, 179; American, received from New York,
212; alpine, for sale or exchange, 32; of rhu-
barb and sea-kale, for the Horticultural So-
ciety of Pennsylvania, 550.

Selwood Park, 570.

Sepulchre, a metropolitan, 214.
Servants and masters, 649.

Shades for the forcing-pits at Syon, figured and
described, 510.

Sheaves of corn, mode of setting up, figured and
described, 458.

Shed, pleasing effect of one, 676.

Sheffield, horticultural impostor at, 215.
Shetland Isles, gardening in, 663.

Shirreff, Mr. Patrick, strictures on Dr. Fleming's
remarkable law of vegetable life, 532.
Show places, suggestion respecting the payments
given at, 561.

Shrubs, transplanting in full growth, 208; co-
vering for, of wicker-work, 681; American,
treatment of, in the Goldworth nursery, by
Mr. Donald, F.H.S., 143.

Sicily, hedges in, 658.

Siebe's rotatory garden engine and pump, 545.
Silesia, education in, 526.

Silk, growth and manufacture of, 658.
Siphon, circulation of, hot water in, exempli-
fied, 453.

Sisymbrium indicum, query respecting, 733.
Skerrat, Mr. John, gardener at Milton Bryant
Rectory, 564.

Slugs, an effectual mode of destroying among
cauliflowers and cabbages, by Mr. Henry Pike,
143; on destroying by lime water in prefer-
ence to chopped straw, by Mr. W. P. Vaughan,
410.

Sluice, on a new one for regulating the rise and
fall of the tide in artificial seas, 137.
Smith, the late Mr. William, biography of, 495.
Snag-pruning of trees, 664.

Societies, practical cooperative, as a means of

of stones as a means of heating pine pits, 450;
applied to tillage, remarks on, by Mr. James
Wilkie, 655; draining by, 660.

Steam carriages, and their influence on improve.
ment, 684.

Stephenson, William, Esq., obituary of, 240.
Stone, artificial, 82.

Stones, steam diffused through a bed of, as a
means of heating pine pits, 450; on breaking
in gravel walks, by Mr. W. Anderson, 459;
machine for breaking, 678.

Stone pine, critique respecting, 230.
Stove, handsome domical, 680.

Stove plants, observations on the cultivation of,
by Sir Edward Poore, Bart. F. H.S., 293.
Strawberry, on the cultivation of, by Sir George
Steuart Mackenzie, Bart. F.H.S, 286; the
Keen's seedling, 530; Wilmot's superb, query
respecting, and answer, 610; large, 552.
Strawberry beds, 183.

Strawberry wall, a plan for a, by Robert Byers,
Esq., 437.

Strawberries, two new ones, 216; grown in Mr.
Knight's manner, 680.
Straw garden seat, 594.

Street, Samuel Spyvee, Esq., upon a mode of co-
vering the naked branches of fruit trees with
new wood, 516

Strelitzia reginæ, query respecting, 239.
Strong, B. W., Esq., on the culture of the sweet
potato, as practised in the neighbourhood of
New York, 275.

Stroud house, 574.

Stuart, Mr. James, on the raising of mush-
rooms, and on the forcing of rhubarb stalks
in the open air, 443.

Succession, natural, of forest trees in North
America, 421.

Sugar in Florida, 78.

Sugar from the beet root, 325.

Surrey, on some gardens and country residences
in, by J. Gale, Esq., 9.

Swan river, new settlement on the, 327.
Sweden, maritime schools in, 548.

Sweet, Mr. R., F.L.S. &c., plagiarism, by the
author of the article signed "A Blooming
Bulb," 105; and, a Blooming Bulb, remarks
on, by T. S. Alcock, 229; notice respecting
Brunsvigia Josephine, $32.

Sweet potato, on the culture of, by B. W. Strong,
Esq., 275.

Sweet's Hortus Britannicus, critical suggestions
respecting, 722.

Switzerland, liquid manure in, 548.
Syon, some account of the improvements in the
garden at, 502.

Systematic names, use of, 650.
Tailly, Château du, 643.

Talipot tree, 76; use of the leaves, 77.

Tally, notice of a durable one of earthenware,

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Tallies, a simplified method of marking numbers
on, by Sir George Stewart Mackenzie, Bart.
F. H.S., 145.

Taste in furniture, &c., 569.

Teachers, suggestions respecting. 627.
Thermometer, improvement in Bregazzi's bark
bed one, 213; self-registering one, 213.
Thermosiphon of Mr Fowler, 453; remark con.
cerning, by William Johns, M.D. FL.S., 607.
Thompson, Mr. Joseph, an account of some ex-
periments in physiological botany, undertaken
with a view to ascertain the probable cause of
failure in early forced grapes, 253; an essay
in continuation of, 237.

Thorn hedges, on a method of facilitating the
growth of, on high and exposed situations, by
Mr. D. Anderson, 42.

Tiles, draining, 677.

Timber, to render uninflammable, 69.

Time, on the judicious division and employment
of, especially addressed to young gardeners,
135.

Tobacco, growth of, 216.

Totes, remarks made at, 247.

Tour through part of France and Germany,
notes and reflections made during a, in the
autumn of 1828, by the Conductor, 1. 113. 241..
S69. 497.641.

Toward, Mr., his dwelling-house at Bagshot
Park condemned, 571.

Training fruit trees en pyramide, observations
on, 373.

Travelling, benefit to be derived from, 2.
Tredgold, Thomas, Esq., obituary of, 240..
Tree cabbage, 460.

Trees, beautiful, in landscape-gardening, 265;
picturesque, 266.

Trèfle farouche, queries respecting, 734.
Trellises, 582.

Trellis-work, a handsome arcade of, 682.

Trianon nursery, belonging to Mr. Calvert, in
Rouen, account of, 374.

Trifolium Molinèri, 734.

Tuberoses, very double Italian, query respecting,
259.

Tucker, Mr. H., description of a flower-stand,
designed and constructed for the Honourable
Mrs. Fox, of St. Anne's Hill, 274.
Tulipa Sibthorpiana, answer to query respecting
by Perceval Hunter, Esq., 734.
Turnip, large one, 83.

Union Florists of, Bishopswearmouth and its vi-
cinity show of, for May, 359; June 8th, 489;
June 29th, 493.

Union Florists of Sunderland, show of June 7th,
490.

Uva passa, origin of the term, 68.
Vallais, the, 657.

Vallet, M., his nursery in Rouen, 376.; diable
for removing orange boxes, 499;
Vases for gardens, 661; lead, for containing
flower-pots, 683.

Vaughan, Mr. W. P., on destroying slugs by
lime water in preference to chopped straw, 440.
Vegetable physiology, with a view to vegetable
culture, by M. W. Hertz, 132.

Vegetable and Florists' Society of Howdon Dock,
show of May 9th, 358.

Vegetables, on condensing and preserving, 95;
culinary, to make tender, 667.
Verbena chamædryfòlia, 612.

Verbena Melindris, by whom introduced, by
John Perry, 106; critique respecting, 209.
Verjuice, to prepare for bottling and keeping,

668.

Vestries of parishes, obligations of, respecting
schools, 699.

Villa, account of a small one near Quevilly, 501;
design for, with a plan and elevation, 541;
rural, in landscape-gardening, 36.

Villas, town, 36; of England, Scotland, and
France compared, 646.
Village of Mailleraie, 644.

Village library at Carcolston, 95.
Village libraries, East Lothian itinerating juve.
nile, 226.

Vine, an account of the manner of training the,
upon open walls, at Thomery, near Fontaine-
bleau, by Mr. John Robertson, F. H.S., 286.;
black cluster, 665. See Grape.

Vine plants, upon the influence of rocks on the
prosperity of, and upon the quality of their
produce, 436.

Vines in the open air, 96; within the tropics,
by W. Hamilton, Esq. M.D., 98; query on,
when trained down from the rafters, 110;
query on training down from the rafters, 259;
trained from the rafters, answer to the query
respecting, by Mr. John Haycroft, 733; for a
green house, query respecting, 733.
Violet, Russian, query respecting, 611.
Wages of gardeners, discussion on, 100.
Walker, -, Esq., late proprietor of Michel
Grove, circumstance respecting, 588.
Walton, remarks on, 381.
Warsaw, letter from, 458.

Wasps, on the destruction of, by T. N. Parker,
Esq., 277; the most effectual mode of destroy-
ing, 332.; on the destruction of, by Mr. James
Dall, 438.

Waste lands, cultivation of, 704.
Water, soft, plan for collecting, 740.
Water-closet, Downe's self-acting, 545.
Water-melon, sugar made from, 658.
Waterman's nursery, remarks on, 382. 571.
Watering pot, improved, 740.
Watering, system of, at Syon, 504.
Weare, Thomas, Esq., obituary of, 240.
Weather, prognostics of, 78.

Webster's, Mr. C. F., introduction of the Ota-
heite pine, 466.

Weeding under and above the economic point
explained, 372.

Weekes, Mr., improvement in heating by hot
water, 544.

Wells, Artesian (i. e. invented in the county of
Artois), 551.

Wentworth House, 679.

West, Counsellor, remark on his hot-house near
Dublin, 338.

Westdean House, 581.

Westland, Mr., nurseryman, 589.

Weyhenstephan, royal central fruit tree nursery
at, 386.

Wheat, insect which attacks the ear of, 177.
Whin, as a hedge plant, 43.

Whin hedges, query respecting, 730.
White Knights, remarks on, 383.

Whitlaw, Mr., query as to his hemp, 733.
Whitmore Lodge, 564, 722.

Whitton House, near Hounslow, 94.
Whitton Park, near Hounslow, 94.
Wick House, 93.

Wilkie's plough for diminishing friction, 652;
his wheel plough, improvements on, 653; his
brake or cultivator, 653, improvements in, 654.
Windsor Castle, improvements at, 604.
Williams, Mr. Richard, an account of an easy

method of destroying caterpillars on goose.
berry bushes, 294.

Wilson, Mr. William, on training the goose-
berry, 62.

Wilson, Mr. William, of New York, on the cli-
mate of the eastern and middle States of
North America, with reference to horticul-
ture, 409.

Wines, superior gooseberry and currant, French
method of making, 364.

Wingfield Spa in Windsor Forest, 567.

Winter, Mr. Joseph, answer to queries, on,
109.

Winter garden described, by T. R. Rivère, Esq.,
23.

Wire-worm, query respecting a remedy for the,
and answer, 610.

Woburn Abbey, iron hot-houses at, 213; notice
of, 560; beauties of, 561; defects of, 562.
Wood-lice, answer to query on destroying, 238.

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