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GENERAL INDEX. 



Diplazium, cryptog. Alices and filicea?, a S. peren. 



Jamaica, a tern which grows in loam and peat in 



the shade, and is increased by seed or dividing at 



the root. . • 



Dipsacus, teasel, tetran. monog. and dipsacea?, H. 



bien. Eur. of common culture. 

 Dipterix, tonquin-bean, diadel. decan. and legumi- 

 nosea?, a S. tr. Guiana, which grows in light loam, 

 and ripened cuttings root in sand under a hand- 

 glass in a moist heat. 

 Dirca, leather-wood, octan. dig. and thymelefe, a 

 H. tr. Virginia, which grows best in peat earth, 

 and is increased by layers : snails are particularly 

 fond of this plant. 

 Disa, gvnan. monan. and orchidea?, G. peren. 

 C. B. S. which thrive in sand and peat, and re- 

 quire very little water when not in a growing 

 state. 

 Disandra, heptan. monog. and pedicularea?, a G. 

 peren. Madeira, a trailing plant of common cul- 

 ture. 

 Disperis, gynan monan. and orchidea?, a G. peren. 



C. B. S. which may be treated as disa. 

 Diss, orient, gard., Chambers's Dissertation on Ori- 

 ental Gardening. 

 Ditchley, a seat in Oxfordshire, 7559. 

 Dittany, origanum dictamnus. 

 Diurus, gynan. monan. and orchidea?, a G. peren. 



N. S. W. requiring the same culture as disa. 

 Dock, — see Kumex. 



Dodartia, didyn. angios. and scrophularinea?, a H. 

 peren. Levant, which thrives in rich light soil, 

 and is increased by seeds or dividing at the 

 root. 

 Dodder, — see Cuscuta. 



Dodecatheon, the African cowslip, pentan. monog. 

 and primulaceae, a H. peren. Virginia, which 

 thrives in light loam, and is increased by dividing 

 at the root. 

 Dodona?a, octan. monog. and terebintacea?, S. and 

 G. tr. Austral. Amer. and Africa, which thrive 

 well in loam and peat, and are increased by cut- 

 tings under a bell-glass in sand. 

 Dodsley, Robert, as a British author on gardening, 



page 1106. A. D. 1764. 

 Dogmersfield Park, Hampshire, 7594. 

 Dogsbane, — see Apocynum 

 Dog's cabbage, thelygo'num cynocrambe. 

 Dogtail-grass, — see Cynosurus. 

 Dogtooth-violet, — see Erythronum. 

 Dog-wood, — see Cornus. 



Dolichos, diadel. decan. and leguminosea?, S. and 

 G. tr. bien. and an. which grow freely in light 

 rich soil, and are increased by cuttings under a 

 hand-glass or by seeds, which many produce 

 freely. 

 Dolichos sova, or sov plant, 6037. 

 DoI-y-MyUynltyn, a seat in Merionethshire, 7612. 

 Dombeya, monad, dodec. and malvacea?, a S. tr. 

 Mauritius, which grows in sandy loam, and ripen- 

 ed cuttings root in a pot of sand in moist heat 

 under a hand-glass. 

 Don, David, Esq. F.L.S., librarian to the Linncean 



Societv, 7045. 

 Don, George, of Forfar, a celebrated British bo- 

 tanist, 5m>. 

 Donegal, countv of, as to gardening, 2278. 

 Donn, James, F.L.S , curator of the Cambridge 



botanic garden, page 1112. A. D. 179o. 

 Donnington Grove, Berkshire, 7561._ 

 Donnington Park, Leicestershire, 7573. 

 Doodia, cryptog. filices and filicea?, a G. peren. 



N. S. W. a fern of the usual culture. 

 Dombach, a seat, and also a mountain near Vienna, 



2u4. 

 Doronicum, leopard's bane, syngen. polyg. super, 

 and corymbiferea?, H. peren. Eur. of common 

 culture. 

 Dorsetshire, gardens and residences of, 7598. 

 Dorstenia, tetran. monog. and urticea?, Eur. and S. 

 Amer. which grow freely in light rich soil, and 

 increase at the roots or by seed. 

 Doryanthes. hexan. monog. and amaryllidea?, a G. 

 tr. N. S. W. which grows in loam and peat, and is 

 increased by suckers. 

 Dorvcnium, diadel, decan. and leguminosea?, G. 

 tr.' and peren. S. Eur. which thrive in loam and 

 peat, and young cuttings planted under a bell- 

 glass in sand, root freely, or they may be raised 

 from seeds. 

 Doucin-stocks, 1387. 



Douette.Richardat. his works on gardening, page 

 1121. A. D. 180S. 



Down, county of, its gardens and residences, 7683, 

 Downing, a seat in Flintshire, 7606. 

 Draba, whitlow-grass, tetrad, silic. and cruci- 

 ferea?, H. peren. bien. and an. Eur. of easy cul- 

 ture. 

 Dracaena, dragon-tree, hexan. monog. and aspho- 

 delea?, S. tr. E. Ind. which thrive well in light 

 loam, and large cuttings stuck in the bark-bed 

 when in a brisk heat root freely. 

 Dracocephalum, dragon's head, didyn. gymnos. and 

 labiatea?, a G. tr. and H. peren. and an. Eur. and 

 Amer. of common culture. 

 Dracontium, dragon, heptan. monog. and aroidea?, 

 S. peren. India, which grow in light rich soil, 

 and are increased by dividing at the roots. 

 Dragon, — see Dracontium. 

 Dragon's head, — see Dracocephalum. 

 Dragon-tree, — see Dracaena. 

 Draining, 1095. 



Dreghorn Castle, near Edinburgh, 7618. 

 Dreyssig, his works on gardening, page 1127. A. D. 



1809. 

 Drill [drillen, Dutc. to bore holes with a drills, a 

 lengthened excavation formed in gardening by 

 the hoe, for the purpose of inserting seeds. Some- 

 times drills are formed across beds by a large 

 wide-toothed rake, and the same rake serves, 

 when the plants are sprung up, to stir the soil 

 between the rows, 1873. 

 Drill-rake, 1315. 



Drimia, hexan. monog. and asphodelea?, G. peren. 

 C. B. S. bulbs which grow in sandy loam and de- 

 cayed leaves. 

 Dronningaard, a seat in Denmark, 61. 

 Dropc, Francis, B. D., a British author on garden- 

 ing, page 1101. A. D. 1672. 

 Dropsy in plants, 883. 

 Dropwort, spirea filipendula. 



Drosera, sundew, pentan. pentag. and droseracea?, 

 H. peren. Brit, which grow in watery bogs in 

 peat earth, but which will thrive and rlower well 

 when kept in small pots in the green-house. 

 " The pots should be filled three parts full of 

 peat earth, and some moss placed on it, the 

 drosera? then planted in the moss, and the pots 

 placed in pans of water." (Sweet.) 

 Drottningholm, a royal garden near Stockholm, 



246. 

 Drummond Castle, in Perthshire, 7636. 

 Dry rot, — see Merulius destruens. 

 Dry-stove, its construction, 6176. 

 Dry-stove plants, 6663 ; woody sorts, 6664 ; climb- 

 ing, 6665 ; succulent, 6666 ; bulbous, 66t>7 ; her- 

 baceous, 6668. 

 Dryander, Jonas, M. D., an eminent botanist and 

 bibliographer, who compiled the Bibliotheca 

 Banksiana, and the greater part of the Hortus 

 Kewensis. 

 Drvandra, tetran. monog. and proteacea?, G. tr. 

 S". Holl. which require the same treatment as 

 banksia. 

 Dryas, icos. polyg. and rosacea?, a H. peren. Brit, 

 which thrives" best in a border of peat, and may 

 be increased by cuttings dividing at the roots or 

 by seeds, which it produces in abundance. 

 Dryburgh Orchard, in Berwickshire, 2220. 

 Drvpis, pentan. tetrag. and caryophyllea?, a H. 



bien. Italy, of common culture. 

 Du Halde, a missionary who wrote on China and 



its gardening, 479. 

 Du Ham., Du Hamel's Treatise on Fruit Trees. 

 Du Petit Thouars, Le Chevalier Aubert An- 

 bert, his works on gardening, page 1122. A. D 

 lSbi. 

 Dublin, county of, its gardens and residences, 



7653. 

 Dublin botanic garden, 7653. 

 Dublin society, 7653. 

 Dubois, Louis, his works on gardening, page 1121. 



A. D. 1804. 

 Duchesne, Ant. Nicholas, his works on gardening, 



page 1118. A. D. 1760. 

 Duck's loot, — see Podophyllum. 

 Duck-weed, — see Lenina. 

 Duckingfield Lodge, Lancashire, 758S. 

 Duddingston House, in Midlothian, 76K 

 Dutf House, Banfshire, 7640. 

 Dufi emoy, a celebrated French landscape-gardener, 



165. 

 Duhamel,— see Du Ham. 

 Dumb cane, — see Arum. 

 Dumbartonshire, gardens of, 7630. 

 Dumfriesshire, as to gardening, 7684 



