154 GENERAL INDEX TO ROYAL AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



feet wide, ih. ; depots of gravel on the 

 Western road, 360 ; the best season for 

 laying on the annual coat of gravel, 

 ib. ; liow the road should be coated, 

 361 ; the old plan of putting the gravel 

 on the centre of the road, ib. ; an eco- 

 nomical mode of making green sides, 

 363. 



EoADS, mode of repairing, in Derbyshire 

 (Rowley), xiv. 39. 



, materials used in Oxfordshu'e (Read), 



XV. 254. 



, materials for, used in Buckingham- 

 shire (Read), xvi. 312. 



Eo.\D-MAKiNG a sequel to drainage (J. B. 

 Denton), xviii. 82. 



RoAD-MENDiXG, ou CIIou. W. G. Cavcu- 

 dish, M.P.), xviii. 451 ; Mr. Arkwright's 

 plan, ib. ; diagram, 453. 



RoALS, J., on converting a moory hillside 

 into catch-meadow, a prize essay, vi. 

 518. 



Roaring in horses (Dun), xiv. 117. 



Roberts, E., on the management of wheat, 

 a prize essay, viii. 60. 



Roberts, O. O., on gorso, vi. 370. See 

 " Furze." 



RoBEY and Co.'s steam-tackle at Canter- 

 bury, xxi. 491. 



RoBLiQUES process for converting phos- 

 phatic nodules into manure (Dr. 

 Voelckcr), xxi. 360. 



RociiEFOUCAULT and Dolomicu on the 

 nitrification of chalk, xxiii. 355. 



RocHFouD hundred, in Essex, its farming 

 (Baker), v. 38 ; its artesian wells, ib. ; 

 its improved healthiuess, ib. 



Rocks, analysis of various of the common, 

 xiii. 534 ; xvii. 457, 466. 



RocQUiGNY, Madame, her Frencli prize 

 farm, management, and accounts (P. 

 H. Frero), xxiv. 14, 



EouwELL, .J., on cubic petre, ii. 260. 



, on the cultivation of Lucern, iii. 



238. See " Lutern." 



, on Italian rye-grass, its culture and 



usefulness, ii. 214, v. 285. 



, on the comparative uses of tlio 



sickle and scythe in harvesting wheats, 

 i. 447. 



, on the improvements in Suffolk 



farming since Arthm- Young's time, viii. 

 307. 

 Rollers, report on those shown at the 

 Great Exhibition (in 1851), by P. 

 Pusey, xii. 593. 



, those shown at the Carlisle meeting 



(1855), xvi. 507. 



, those showna at Newcastle meeting 



(1864), XXV. 422. 

 Romaine's steam, cultivator at Paris 



(1856), xvii. 51 ; account of (Clarke), 



XX. 181 ; CrosskiU's improvements on, 



184. 

 Romaine's steam cultivator at Leeds 



(1861), report of judges on, xxii. 464. 

 RojiAN embankments in Lincohisliire 



(Clarke), xii. 279. 

 RoiiNEY marsli, its cultivation, by G. 



Bucklund, vi. 299. 

 sheep, described by J. Wilson, xvi. 



227. 

 Roofs, on hollow-brick, by R. Dun, xv. 



181. 

 Rooks great destroyers of the wircwonn 



(Ciu-tis), V. 207. 

 , a method of preserving corn-stacks 



from damage by rooks, by the Rev. T. 



Burroughcs, xiv. 67. 

 Root crops, see '• Turnips," «S:c. 



of Devonshire (Tanner), ix. 462. 



, effect of climate on the growth of 



CWliitlcy), xi. 42. 



of Northamptonshuo (Beam), xiii. 



(i2. 



, soils adapted for (Coleman), xvi. 



204. 

 , their true value on the farm, xviii. 



186. 



fibres, their hmited powers of ab- 

 sorption (Licbig), xvii. 300. 



, their growth and management in 



1860 (C. Rawlence), xxi. 551 ; (P. H. 



Frere), 553. 

 Root cutters and pulpers at the Chester 



meeting (1858), report on, xix. 339; 



Canterbury (1860), xxi. 502. 

 Roots of plants and trees, stoppage of 



drains by (Denison), i. 365. 



of an ash-tree, an instance of, 95 



feet in length (Cambridge), vi. 342. 



of plants (Lanes and Gilbert), xviii. 



509 ; of leguminous crops, e. g, clover, 



510 ; wheat and barley, ib. ; diagrams 

 of, 511. 



, their early start in spring .should bo 



encouraged (Rev. W. R. Bowditch), 

 xix. 229. 



, their structui-e (Professor Hcnfrey), 



xix. 4()7 ; vegetative and reproductive 

 organs, 468 ; the embryo of flowering 

 jtlants has rudiments of stem, root, and 

 leaf, 469; the food store or endospenu, 

 il). ; the cotyledons, ib. ; root growth 

 determined by their number (illustra- 

 tion), 470 ; adventitious roots, 471 ; a 

 root, definition of, 473; its functions, 

 ib. ; ivy-roots, mere hold-fasts, ib. ; 

 underground stems, 474 ; tLe jjotiito a 

 transformed branch, ib. ; rudiments of 

 leaves and buds indicate a stem, ib. ; 

 use of the microscope, 475 ; stomata, or 



