VOLUMES ONE TO SIXTEEN. 



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PEAT. 



grow fir-trees in, 394 ; -where converted 

 into excellent water-meadows, 395 ; 

 power of the steam-engine to drain and 

 irrigate land, 39G ; lime as an applica- 

 tion for peat-soils, ib. ; potatoes as a first 

 crop, iO. ; following crops, ih. ; manures 

 applicable by the drill, 397 ; peat and 

 nightsoil in compost, ih. ; Hme and 

 peat in compost. 398 ; mode of dividing 

 fields, ditches, hedges, 399 ; results of 

 bringing bogs into cultivation, ib. ; 

 on the improvement of, by P. Pusey, 

 400 ; good drainage the priniarj^ step, 

 ib. ; the first crop, in Lincolnshire, 

 401 ; subsoil-ploughing. 403 ; the second 

 crop, 405 ; rye-grass, ib. ; clay applied 

 to peat-soils, 4uu ; this clay in Ivincoln- 

 shire how found, 4u7 ; claying de- 

 scribed by AV. B. Wingate, ib. ; on the 

 action of lime on peat, 410 ; Sir C. G. S. 

 Monteith's account of the use of lime 

 on peat-soils in Scotland, ib. ; kinds of 

 clay employed, ib. ; on the application 

 of a marine peat as a manure in Car- 

 narvonshire, by Rev. ,J. V. Vincent, 

 417; claying the peat-soils, mode of, 

 deseribe(i by P. Pusey, iv. 299. 



Peat-soil8, on those of Norfolk, by J. 

 Trimmer, vii. 474. 



, their influence on the temperature 



of the atmosphere (Whitley), xi. 11 ; 

 those of Ireland, ib. 



, or moors of Somersetshire (Ac- 

 land), xi. 707. 



of Lincolnshire, described by J. A. 



Clarke, xii. 281, 288, 368, 381, 3S2. 



, paring and burning of, in Lincoln- 

 shire (Clarke), xii. .381. 



, claying of, in Lincolnshire, xii. 382. 



the peat-mosses of Cumberland, by 



W. Dickinson, xiii. 278 ; Solway moss, 

 tb. 



, marl from Forfarshire analvsed, xiii. 



53(i. 



, drained and undrained. from Lewes 



and Iiollan<l, analysis of, xiii. 54<i. 



, analysis of one said to be over- 



linicd, xiii. 554. 



, rotation on a, in Derbyshire (Row- 

 ley , xiv. 49. 



, farming of the light (Haxton), xv. 



95, 122. 



. experiment with nitrate of soda and 



guano on a peat-bog, by J. D. Nicol, 

 XV. 185. 



-i , on the barreimess and fertility of, by 



.1. Coh'nian, xvi. 173, 181. 



Peat-tilks, on the use of, for draining, 

 by the Duke of liiclimond, viii. 570. 



Pelha.m. Dudley, on the winter-feeding 

 of sheep, \\. 88. . 



PHOSPHORITE. 



Peel, Sir Robert, an account of a field 

 thorough-drained at Drayton by, iii. 

 18. 



Piece-work, see " Task -work." 



Penicili.ium, one of the fungi of the 

 dairy, by E. Sidney, x. 395. 



Pkpi'ek-baxd in corn, arc " Smut." 



Pepperwort, its soils and habits (Buck- 

 man), xvi. 360. 



Petroselinum segetum, sec " Corn- 

 parsley." 



Perennial rye-grass, or darnel, analysis 

 of (Way), xiv. 177. 



, its growth in different situations, 



(Buckman), xv. 468. 



Perry (src "Pears";, on the making of, 

 by F. Falkener, iv. 380, 406. 



of Gloucestershire (Bravendar), xi. 



1 53. 



making in Herefordshire (Rowland- 



Bon), xiv. 440 ; the " Barland perry," 

 446 ; the amount of juice obtaiued 

 from a given weight of pears, i'-. ; arti- 

 ficial preparation of the oil of pears, 

 448. 



Peru, the cause of its dry climate, 

 (Pusey), xiii. 351. Sec "Guano." 



Petasites vulgaris, sec " Butter-bur." 



Phalaris aruudiuacea, see "Reed canarj-- 

 grass." 



Pheasants are great destroyers of the 

 wireworm (Curtis), v. 208. 



Phillips, C. B., on the Purik sheep of 

 Thibet, xi. 63. 



Phillips, G., on the potato-disease, a 

 prize essay, vii. 300. 



PiiLKUM pratense, see " Timothy grass." 



PnoNOLiTE, the, sec " Clinkstone." 



Phosphates, on their presence in the 

 strata of the earth and in all fertile soil, 

 by Dr. Buckland, x. 520. 



, on the American and other native 



phosphates of liiae, by J. Hudson, xii. 

 ;i49. 



of lime the manure for cereals 



(Way\ xvi. 535. 



, tlieir money value in different sub- 

 stances (Way), xvi. 539. 



Phosphoric acid, chemical properties 

 U lemming', xiii. 431. 



strata of the chalk formation, on, 



by T. M. Paine and J. T. Way, ix. 56. 



Phosi'Hohitj-, oil the occurrence of in 

 Estremadura, by Dr. C. Daulwny and 

 Captain Widdrinpton, v. 406 ; it occurs 

 in the clay-slaie fomitition, 411 ; ana- 

 lysis of one of the specimens, 414. 



, on its use as a manure (Daubeny), 



vi. 329. 



, Spanish, on the use of, and other 



manures, bv Sir H. N'erncy, vi. "J.'U. 



