CONTENTS. 



Vll 



incana, U3; Presents to the Public Parks, 18-i ; 

 Open Spaces for Exercise and Recreation for 

 the People, 184; The Flora of Britain, 184; 

 Departure of a Botanical Collector for Madeira 

 and the Canary Isles, 184 ; Pope and Sons' Ca- 

 talogue of Herbaceous Plants, 185 ; Manchester 

 Zoological Gardens, R. Forrest, 185 ; A Horti- 

 cultural and Botanical Garden at Bath, 135; 

 Clapham Common made a Public Pleasure- 

 Ground and Arboretum, 186; I-ist of Pines 

 and other Coniferae in Boytou House Garden, 

 ISri ; A large Fig Tree in Jersey, 186 ; The 

 Canterbury Mulberry, 187 ; The largest Yew 

 Tree in England, 187; Eucalyptus robi'ista, 187; 

 The Jersey Cabbage, 187 ; tlic Black Bigarreau 

 Cherry, 187 ; The Lombardy Poplar, \V. Mas- 

 ters, 188 ; Echeveria gibbifltira, 188 ; Saul's 

 Seedling Apple,188; A novel Method of making 

 young Trees of the Swan Egg Pear bear Fruit, 

 188; Gourds in Sussex, 188; The Tunstall 

 White Wheat, 188 ; The Populus viridis Hort., 

 £30 : Acacia and Eucalyptus in the Norwich 

 Nursery, 231 ; Growing Grapes in the open Air 

 in Herefordshire, 231 ; Trimestrian, or Three- 

 month, Wheats, 231 ; jUimulus Hudson/, 333 ; 

 Owen's Animalised Carbon, 376 ; The South 

 London Floricultural Society, 376 ; A Collec- 

 tion of CactEe and Orchidea;, 376; Anew Hy- 

 brid Rhododendron, 376 ; The Manchester 

 Botanic Garden, 376; Zoological and Botanical 

 Garden at Leeds, 519 ; A proposed Botanic 

 Garden at Newcastle on Tyne, 519 ; Pisum sp., 

 by a Gentleman residing in Beskshire, 520 ; 

 Cow^niVr plicS.ta, 521 ; Agave americana, 521 ; 

 Improvements in the Gardens of Buckingham 

 Palace, 469 ; Kew Gardens, 469 ; Vicinity of 

 Trees to Highways, 470 ; New Plant-Houses at 

 Woburn Abbey and Trenthara Hall, 470; 

 Black Grub of the Turnip Saw-fly, J. O. W., 

 470; Victbr/a regMis, 471 ; Eucalyptus alpina, 

 471 ; Fa\ia macrostachys at the Vicarage, 

 Rickmansworth,471 ; Baron Hugel's new Aus- 

 tralian Plants, 619; Amherst/a nobilis, 620; 

 Mk\va Fulleri^na, Agave americJlna, 621 ; The 

 Four heaviest Gooseberries grown in England 

 in 1837, 621 ; A Mushroom, 621. 



Scot/and. — General Improvement, 188; The 

 Highland Society, 189 ; Agricultural Museum 

 in Dundee, 189 ; Acacia dealbata, 189 ; Onion 

 Crops of 1833 and 1836, 189 ; Improved Modes 

 of building Corn-ricks, 189. Botanical Society 

 of Edinburgh, 231 ; Flora Perth ensis, 232 ; Fes- 

 thca U'r«, 33S ; Early-mowing Grass, 377 ; Al- 

 lanton Park, 471 ; The Marriage Beech at 

 Inverary, 472; Singular Oak in the Western 

 Highlands, 472 ; Gardener's Lodge, 521 ; Heat- 

 ing by Hot Water at Altyre, near Forres, in 

 Elginshire, 521 ; New Seedling Potato, .521 ; 

 The Royal Highland and Agricultural Society 

 of Scotland, 621 ; A Sweedish Turnip, 621 ; A 

 Globe Turnip, 621; A white Globe Turnip, 

 621 ; Two immense Cabbages, 621. 



Ireland. — Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, 87 ; An 

 Experimental Horticultural Garden, and Na- 



tional Arboretum, 88; A Root of Horseradi.-.h, 

 143 ; Yucca aloefulia, 622. 



Retrospcclive Criticism. — Errata, 93. .377. 476. 

 622. ; Johnson's Willow, 94 ; Destroying the 

 Thrips, 94 ; The Deanston Plough and reaping 

 Machine, 9-1; The Principle, that no Soil will 

 continue fertile which wants calcareous Matter, 

 made public Thirty Years ago, 189 ; Increase of 

 the Stump of the Silver Fir, without the Aid of 

 Leaves, 2.54; Introducing of the better Sorts of 

 Vegetables to Cottages, 234; Destroying the 

 Thrips, &c., £35 ; Sir Henry Steuart's Mode of 

 transplanting Trees, and relative Subjects 235 ; 

 Forming Plantations with a View to facilitate 

 their after-management, 236; Qu^rcuspeduncu- 

 lataand Q. sessiliflbra, with their Varieties, 237 ; 

 The Black Irish Elm, 237 ; C.ytisus icoparius 

 Link, Sp&rtium scop;\rium /,., 238; Mr. Ander- 

 son's Mode of protecting Seeds from the Attack 

 of Birds, 284 ; Grafting the Mistletoe, 285 ; Epi- 

 ph^llum truncatum on Pereskm aculeSlta, 285 ; 

 Grafting Oranges on the Pomegranate, 476; 

 Grafting the Plum on the Fig, &c., 476 ; Ency- 

 clopaedia of Agriculture, 477; The Man- 

 chester Botanic Garden, 477 ; The Yew and the 

 Small-leaved Elm, 477 ; The iniiigi of the Oak, 

 477 ; Sweet's British Flower-Garden, 522 ; 

 Th&ja articul&ta, 522 ; Jasminum odoratissi- 

 mum, 523 ; Catalpa s!/ring<sibVia, 524. 



Queries and Answers. — Cereus heptagftnus, 47 ; 

 Eft'ects of Soap Ashes, 47 ; Choice of Soil from 

 a Common, 94 ; The Black Irish Elm, 94 ; A 

 Hedge of Furse and Privet, 95; Fletcher's 

 Mode of training and managing the black Ham- 

 burgh Grape, 95 ; The Dry Scale on Apple and 

 Pear Trees, 238 ; The Theory of the Rise and 

 Fall of the Sap in A\er saccharinum when 

 tapped for its Juice, 285 ; Why are Chaffinches 

 deterred by a Line of black Thread, when they 

 do not dread a Thread with Bits of Rag attached 

 to it? 286; The Italian Mode of excluding the 

 common House Fly (.Vusca domestica L.) from 

 Apartments, 2S6 ; Otiorynchus sulcatus, 286; 

 .BrOchus pisi, 287; Question respecting the Flow 

 of the Juice of ^'cer saccharinum, 378; 

 Horticultural Societies, 379; The Villas at 

 Stanmore, 477; A fine Elm, 478; Insects inju- 

 rious to Pear Trees, 524; Trees at Fawley 

 Hall, 526 ; Watering Vegetables with a Solution 

 of Soda, 526 ; i^ungi on Vine Leaves, .526; An 

 Insect on the Scotch Pine, 622 ; Pinus cebenen- 

 sis, 622 ; Making a Peach taste of Wormwood, 

 624. 



London Horticultural Society and Garden, 48. 96. 

 191. 240. 333. 379. 478. 526. 



The West London Gardeners' Association/or Mu- 

 tual Instruction, 88. 232. 472. 



Covcnt Garden Market, 95. 190. 239. 287. 335. 383. 

 432. 480. 



Provincial Horticultural Societies, 90. 



Second Additional Supplement to the " Hortus Bri. 

 tannicus," 528. 



Obituary. — M. Persoon, 96 ; C. M. Fischer, 96 ; 

 Mr. John Hay, 96 ; Joseph Sabine, Esq., 144. 



LIST OF PLANTS. 



Those marked with a * are not registered in the last edition of the Hortus Britannicus, but have 

 been introduced into Britain ; those marked with a + have been already registered, either ni the 

 Hortus Britamiicus or this Magazine, but with less perfect details ; and those with a % prefixed 

 have not been introduced, or, if introduced, have since become extinct. 



^^bies - - 169. 351., cult. 444 

 exc(51sa, at the Whim, 



figs. 249 

 Morinda 



A. SmiihW 

 nlgra,^g. 

 nobilis - 

 Picea 

 scandens 

 fpectabilis 



- 32 



- 255 



- ,S2 

 142. :3;>T 



- 348 



- 31 



Vinus U'cbbiana. Wall. 



Ah\kt\n!& .... 350 



Acac\a • - - - 231 



affinis - - - 170 



afTinis,/^. - - - 135 



A. dealbata Arb. Brit 



armata 



dealbata . 



farnesiana 



floribunda 



heterophylla 



Julibrissin 



556 

 - 189. 229 

 . 229. 463 



- 463 



- 229 

 . i29 



Acacia latifftlia - - 463 



lophantha - - - 463 



A\cr - - - - 169 



;)latanoides LobtliV - - 19 



Pseitdo-Platanus, at Po- 



loc - - - - 163 



saccharinum - - 285. .378 



* Acropcra * LoddigdSK - 512,, 



./?. 218 



Maxillctria galeiita 



Bot. Cab. 



A 4 



