INDEX 



Agriculture in the eighteenth cen- 

 tury, xxiii. 



societies for the encouragement of, 



xxvi and n. 



Ale, output of, in Edinburgh, 30 n. 



Anderson, Robert, younger, of White- 

 burgh, xxvi. 



Arbuthnot, Mr., 64 and n. 



Arniston, 9 n. 



Artichokes, 19, 45, 46, 68, 71, T}>. 



Asparagus, 5. 



Beans, 19, 25, 29, 30, 97. 



Beanston, 75 and n. 



Bell, Adam, 51. 



Charles, gardener at Ormistoun, 



xix-xxiii, xxv, xxvi, xxviii - xxxii, 

 xxxiv, xxxvi ; letters to, from Cock- 

 burn, 1-92, 96-101. 



John, gardener in London, xxviii, 



^ I, SI, 54. 



Belshes, xx and n, 94, 100. 



Biel, 21 and n. 



Bleachfield at Ormistoun, xxxvii, 

 xxxviii. 



Bothwell, Patrick, earl of, xviii. 



Brown of Markle, editor of the Farmer's 

 Magazine, xxii. 



Buchanan, George, his elegy on Alex- 

 ander Cockburn, xxi. 



Burnet, James, younger, of Monboddo, 

 xxvi. 



Burns, Gilbert, xxxviii. 



Cabbages, 2, 29. 



Carmichael, Beatrice, wife of John 

 Cockburn, xlii. 



Wm. , xlii n. 



Carrot hough, i and n. 



Carrots, 19. 



Cattle, 99 and n. 



Cauliflowers (collyflowers), 24, 29, 50. 



Cherries, 19, 55. 



Christie, John, linendraper in Ormis- 

 toun, xxxviii, 21 and «, 32. 



Cleekhim in, 44. 



Clerk, sir John, of Penicuik, 39 ;/. 



Clover, xxv, 88 and n. 



Coal mine, 38, 79, 97 and «, loi and «, 

 102 n, 



Cobb nuts, 5, 12. 



Cockburn, Adam, lord justice-clerk, 

 xvii, xxiii, xxvii. 



brother of John Cockburn, 4 n. 



Alexander, a pupil of Knox, xxi 



and n. 



a tenant in service of John 



Cockburn, 4, 7, 11, 14-16, 32-35, 

 42 n, 49, 81. 



Anne, wife of sir John Inglis, 39 «, 



%Z n. 



Charles, advocate, xxviii «, xxx, 



xliv, 4 n. 



tenant in service of John 



Cockburn, 3, 4, 15, 17, 76. 



Christian, wife of Sir Robert 



Sinclair, of Longformacus, 53 n. 



sir George, xix n. 



George, of Ormistoun, xlii, xliii. 



John, a friend of Knox, xxi and «, 



xxiii-xxiv. 



John, D.D., xxi. 



of Ormistoun, his indiffer- 

 ence to flowers, xix ; his industry as 

 a letter-writer, xxii ; as a landlord, 

 xxiii, xxiv, xxviii ; founds an agri- 

 cultural club, xxvi ; characteristics of, 

 xxviii-xxx ; style of his letters, xxxi ; 

 his Scotticisms, xxxii-xxxiv ; his plan 

 for laying out the village of Ormis- 

 toun, xxxv-xxxvii ; his business in- 

 stincts, xxxix-xl, 17-19, 22, 27, 91- 

 93 ; advocates market-gardening, 25- 

 31; his family connections, xlii, 39W, 

 83 n, 91, 92 ; his death, xvii and n ; 

 sale of Ormistoun, xvii and n, xliii; 

 letters from, to Charles Bell, 1-92, 

 96-101; letter from, to John Dods,92. 



Patrick, advocate, xxvii, 30and«, 



38. 



William, 2, 88. 



Colebrook, Mr., i. 

 Collyflowers. See Cauliflowers. 

 Cotterwell, a farm, 85. 



