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FEVEKSHA3I. 



Feveksham, Lord (B. D.), on lailk, xxiii. 

 418. 



, on agricultural education (R. D.), 



XXV. 548. 



FiBRiNE, its plastic power, see Henfrey on 

 " Vegetable physiology," xviii. 412. 



, vegetable (Dr. Voelcker), xxii. '3H5. 



Fir.ROUS covering, on, by C. K. Vacv, vii. 

 277. 



Field madder, its soils and habits (Buck- 

 man), xvi. oGl. 



FiLAKiA bronchialis, an entozoon infesting 



• .sheep (Simonds), xxiii. 90. 



, varieties of (Simonds), xxiv. 600, 



605. 



Filbert, the, analysis of the wood'j bark, 

 and leaves of, xiii. 530. 



FiLiCES, see " Ferns." 



Fine bent grass (Buclnnan), xvii. 517. 



Finger and toe in turnips, described by 

 J. Curtis, iv. 121. 



in root-crops, by James Buckmnn, 



XV. 125 ; experiments with the wild 

 roots of the parsnip and carrot, ib. ; a 

 clear unbranched tap-root is not natftral 

 to the parsnip or the carrot, 131 ; finger 

 and toe will always be found in a field 

 of either carrots or parsnips, 132; will 

 prevail where the seed is brought from 

 a rich to a poor soil, ih. ; or has been 

 ripened in the same district, ib. ; or 

 where the seed-roots are not selected, 

 133 ; or where the original species is a 

 wild native, ih. ; but there are different 

 degrees of liability to degeneracy, 134 ; 

 this disease the midway from wildness 

 to cultivation, 135. 



very common on the gi-eensand for- 

 mation of O.Kfordshu'e (Kead), xv. 195. 



and the analysis of diseased turnips, 



fDr. Voelcker), xx. 101 ; lime, though 

 useful, not a universal j^reventive, ib. ; 

 potash, &c., maybe wanting, 102 ; visit 

 to a diseased crop, ib. ; soil deficient in 

 lime, 103 ; effect of a chance load of 

 gas-lime, ib. ; analysis of the soil, &c., 

 of diseased turnips, 104 ; poor and 

 diseased roots contain more nitrogen 

 than good ones, 105. 



Finlayson's harrow, J. Morton on, with 

 a sketch, iii. 120. 



Fir, the, analysis of the wood, bark, and 

 leaves of, xiii. 530. 



, analysis of a soil where the firs were 



dying, xiii. 554. 



Fire-clay analysed, xiii. 536. 



Firestone rock, of the chalk formation, 

 analysed by J. T. Way, xii. 549. 



Fish as manure. Dr. Fownes on, iv. 542. 



, sprats, analysis of (Wav), x. 610 ; 



xiii. 498. 



Fish, on the refuse of the cod-fishery of 

 Newfoundland, as convertible into a 

 portable manure, by K. B. Hamilton, 

 xiv. 393 ; analysis of such a manure, 

 394. 



• , dried codfish, analysis of (Lawes), 



xiv. 498. 



, on the teeth of, by J. B. Simonds, 



XV. 278. 



FisH-MANURE — engixiis poisson — at Paris 

 (1856), xvii. 53. 



Fisher, Rev. R. W., on the Dyock oaf, 

 iii. 387. 



, R., on the bathing of lambs, as a 



cure for the scour, v. 279. 



Fisken's patents for steam cultivation 

 (Clarke), xx. 193 ; xxiv. 368. 



Fits in sheep (Dun), xvi. 26. 



Fitzheebert, Sii'A., on flukes in the liver 

 of slieep (' Book of Husbandrye,' a.d. 

 1532), xxiii. 92. 



Flack, W., on Hertfordshire draining, iv. 

 33. 



Flannels, the manufactories of, J. Wilson 

 on, xvi. 244. 



Flax dressed with pigeons' dung in 

 Flanders (Sprengel), ii. 312. 



• , its cultivation in the Netherlands 



described (Rham i, iii. 254. 



, on the cultivation of, by G. Ni- 



cholls, V. 547. 



, on the cultivation of, by J. Mac- 

 Adam, a prize essay, viii. 361 ; analysis 

 of soils adapted to the growth of, 369 ; 

 choice of seed, 370; the quantity of 

 seed, 372 ; rijipling of, 375 ; steeping 

 of, 377 ; scutching of, 382 ; the storing 

 of, 387 ; analysis of steep-water, 389 ; 

 oil-cake and oil produced from the 

 flax-seed, 392; expense' of growing 

 flax, 394. 



, on the cultivation of, by G. Ni cholls, 



viii. 438 ; cultivation of, 446 ; jirepara- 

 tion of the fibre, 452 ; preservation and 

 use of the seed, 463. 



, analysis of, by J. T. Way and G. 



Ogston, xi. 517. 



, analysis of the stem, seed, and fibre, 



xiii. 474. 



, analysis of rich Irish and Dutch 



flax-soils, xiii. 552. 



, its treatment, agricultural and 



technical, by John Wilson, xiv. 187 ; 

 native soil, ih. ; the different members 

 of its order— some weeds, ib. ; history 

 of its cultivation, 188 ; analysis of, 191 ; 

 sorts adapted for its ordinary produce, 

 of straw and seed, 193 ; section of straw 

 and fibres, 194; Lee's patent, 195; 

 Hill and Bundy's, ib. ; steeping, 196 ; 

 warm-water steeps, 197 ; the German 

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