508 



INDEX. 



Page. 



Photogl j'pliic engraving 394 



Physical properties of soil as affecting 



their f.-itility 169 



Physionometer 4ll5 



Pine trees, cultivating 170 



Pisciculture 3U4 



Plane stoclis, made by machinery 475 



Planting a market garden 1 63 



vf heat in drills 160 



Plants suited to an aqunrium 125 



too many in one frame 2(i7 



Plaster, hydroboronated 475 



Platinum 461 



Plums 185 



on peach stocks 28 L 



Poem I)}' Miss Fanny AV. Bruce Ill 



Polytcehric Association- proceedings of 



S6y-5C4 

 Subjects : 



Building materials of the State of 



New York 465, 471 



Coral oil 426, 434 



Edifice for the Institute 407 



Electrotyping 479, 488 



Iron for steam boilers 491 



Making butter 421 



Microscope 439 



Microscope applied to nature and 



the arts, 458 



Setting of steam boilers 37 1 



Steam lire engines 405 



Steam or caloiic for canal naviga- 

 tion 391, 395 



Telescopes 412, 422 



Warming and ventilation.... 375, 378 



Pomological Congress at Lyons 317 



Potatoes, 63, 76, 101, 122, 124, 118,311, 316 

 339, 313, 350, 352, 360 



Potato disease > 134 



Potato, liainville 316, 339 



Potato rot, sulphur to prevent 1 22 



Poultry business 285 



Premiums awarded at the 3('.th fair .... 28 



from 1835 to 1857 26 



Preparation of flower beds 302 



Progress of English agriculture 90 



Propeller, Sheiry's 411 



Propulsion of vessels 396 



Pruning blackberries 153 



Puddled steel 391 



Q- 



Quack grass 276 



Quantity of hay per acre 276 



Quartz, grinding, for gold 373 



Eadi.-hes, growing 312 



Railways, speed on 373 



Rainville potato 316, 339 



Raising melons 260 



Raspbciri.s 99, 144, 150 



Reaping machines, improved 92, 259 



Receipts and expenditures from '39 to '67 24 



30th annual fair 19 



Red cattle of New England 282 



Pielative food value of the grain of India. 80 



Renovating old orchards 347, 353 



peach trees 342 



worn out soils 60, 1U2, 120 



Page. 



Renwick's remarks on lime 363 



Report, 17th annual, of the Institute. .. . 7 

 committee on manufactures, sci- 

 ence and arts, on Millers' safety 



steam boiler alnrm 35 



committee on the library 44 



niauiigers of the 30th fair 14 



select committees on the paying 

 out machinery of the Niagara. 35 



of the trustees 7 



Rhododendrons, hybrid 174 



Rhubarb wine 288 



Rice 309 



Japan, 10 varieties 124 



Road making 476 



Rocky Mountain corn 298 



Royal Agricultural Society 343 



Rust on wheat, a preventive 119 



Rusty oats 151 



Rye •••• 308 



Safety valves « 386 



Salmon 304 



Salt, uses of, in agriculture 217 



Sea Island cotton, long staple 124 



Seed assorting m«hine 74 



Seedling dahlias 166 



plants, how to grow 107 



potato 343 



strawberry, Hooker's 147 



Seeds, fertilizing 338 



germination of Z61 



steeping 274 



vitality of 338 



Self-propagation of turnips 150 



Setting out peach and pear trees 174 



of steam boilers 371 



Sewer water 222 



Sewerage of Paris 182 



Sherry s new propeller 411 



Shrubs, ornaraentiil 255 



and plant , list of 85, 95 



Silk of Algeria 142 



from New Zealand 180 



woim, oak 125 



■worms 168 



Society of arts, London 383 



Soil, physical properties of 169 



for strawberries 348 



Sorghum 122, 186, 190 



Speed on railways 373 



Spinach, New Zealand 237 



Statuary, painted 404 



Steam, economy of 374 



boilers, iron for 491 



boilers, setting of 371 



for extinguishing fires 402 



lire engines 405, 412 



on canals 395 



plow of Mr. Fav/kes 171 



Steel, puddled 391 



Steeping seeds 274 



Strawberries 62, 75, 99, 1U6, 113, 121, 147, 346 



Douglas 106 



Straw for manure 164 



Stumps of trees 275 



Submannc cable, 381, 393, 394, 395 



Sulphur to prevent potato rot 122 



Sweet corn (black) 298 



Williams' 301 



