756 



GENERAL INDEX. 



Gourd, various culinary applications of the 

 licrltage, flowers, and fruit of, 1S5. +94 ; size 

 of tlie fruit of some iiinds of gourd in Italy, 

 ii)5. 



Grafting, a new mode of, .')40. 



Grai>c vine, hints un propagating it by brandies 

 layed into i)ots, 178 ; a mode of propagating, 

 339; a rapid mode of raising excellent plants 

 of the gra|)c vine, 577 ; a mode of sulistituling 

 good vines for bad ones with thele.ist possible 

 losjt of time, 578; on clett-grafting the grape 

 vine, 1!I7 ; on the flowering of the grape vine, 

 197 ; grape vines trainetl on the outside of 

 the alternate sashes of a hot-house produced 

 excellent grains, :i'22 ; the method of training 

 grape vines at Doncraite, i.'+8 ; grape vines 

 grown oil flued walls at t'roxdale, 4J3 ; the 

 kinds of grape vine best suited to the hot walls 

 of Scotland, ISt ; c.in grape vines be forced un- 

 der the conditions described? fill ; the degree 

 of hardihood of grape vines in Italy, 4;ii.' ; 

 the wood of the liorsecliestnut makes very 

 durable stakes for grape vines, 450 ; Lang- 

 ford's incomparable grape, preferably in- 

 creased by buds, 093; Mr. Pillans's expe- 

 ditious fruiting of grapes in pots, t)95; a kind 

 of beetle destructive of grape vines, 737. 



Grapes, how can they be ripened without fires, 

 by the middle of September ? 95 ; grapes ri- 

 pened in the open air, a mode of preserving 

 for table, during the winter months, 447 ; a 

 mode of preserving ripe grapes, 339. 



Grass, species of, Htted, to repair lawns, 176 ; 

 grass land, improved by coverings of loam, 

 448. 



Groom's florist's garden noticetl, 594. 



Groun.ls, on laying out and planting, 300, 



Grouping of plant.s, shrubs, and trees, 86. 



Grubworm, a, aflVcts strawberry plants, 92. 



ijymnijcladus can;ideiisis, noticed, hj. 'Ii'2. 



llarbke, plantations made at, 415. 



Hatching chickens in the bark bed of a hot- 

 house, f)88. 



Hawthorn, a new variety, with carmine crim- 

 son flowers, the t'rata- gus Oxyacantha rb- 

 sea superba, 3(i2. ()07 ; hedge of hawthorn 

 damaged by the parasitic fungus .Kcidium 

 laceritum, 179; what plant is fitter for the 

 formation of hedges than hawthorn ? 738. 



Ilayward's remarks on training and physiology, 

 483. (i-'S. 



Heartsease, the more general cultivation of, re- 

 commended, and some interesting varieties 

 of, described, .573; the Lady Bath heartsease 

 noticed, 94. 



Heaths, Cape, M'Nab's work on cultivating 

 them, iill); Kutger's mode of propagating 

 them expeditiously ; 081 ; query on preserv- 

 ing Cay>c heaths from mildew, 73(>. 



Heating of air and water by lenses, M. Gauen's 

 mode of, noticed, 497. 69 ; conservatory and 

 bath heateil from one boiler, 9(1 ; wood pre- 

 ferable to coal for heating, 433. 



Heating. See Hothouses. 



Henderson, Mr. Walter, a brief biography of, 

 ii5(>. 



Herbarium, by Mr. Toward, 3fi7. 



//ibiscus attenulltus of Hosse, the character and 

 the nuKle of cultivating, 447 ; //. fiigax Mart. 

 noticed, .'538. 



Hinge, Howden's, for causing gates toclose, 38. 



Hobsoii, Mr., deceased, his liook on mos.scs, IH. 



Hoe, engraving and description of.a newly in- 

 vented, 558 ; Lord Vernon's tillage hoc, 089. 



Hollows and knolls, remarks on planting, 480. 



Hops, a m(Mle of sumwrting them in thcVosges, 

 (o ; hop tops uselul as a culinary vegetable, 

 184. 



Horseradish, a Danish and German mode of 

 cultivating. 4.;(>. 



Horticultural notes on a journey from Rome to 

 Naples, '200. See also 'iiiur. 



Horticultural societies (.provinci.il) of England 

 and Waes : Abergavenny and ('ricklu«wei, 

 0.35; Ilcccles, li-H ; IJcdfordshire, II.'). 745; 

 Bristol and nilton, 119. ty3 ; IJurv S(. i;,|. 



munds, 1 19 ; Cambridgeshire, 626. 745 ; Cireii- 

 cester, OiS); Cornwall, 746; I)evon and Corn- 

 wall, ()27 ; North Devon, 74S ; Diss, 630 ; 

 KvcAham, 1-21 ; Glamorgan and Monmouth, 

 'J:>2- 6i5; Gloucester, 029; Hereford, 629. 

 749; Ipswich, 120. 654; Lancashire, 115; 

 Lancaster, 7.'1 ; Manchester, 115; Norfolk 

 and Norwich, (iJO; Northamptonshire, 117. 

 6;i; Norlhuuiberland, 118; Oxford, 118 (i32; 

 Hoss, ti29. 74;i; Somersetshire, 118; Suffolk, 

 119; Taunton, 0>3 > Taunton and West 

 Somerset, 119; Whitehaven, 027. 747 ; WiltJ 

 and general, 034; Worcesershire, 121. 635; 

 Yorkshire, 122. 



Horticultural societies in Ireland. Horticultu- 

 ral society of Ireland, 039; of Belfast, 124. 

 252. 010. 



Horticultural Society of London and its garden, 

 Nov. 1st, 1831, to Jan. .°kj, 1832, 125 ; from Jan. 

 17th to March (ith, 252; (rom March 2(tth 

 to May 15th, 378; from June 5th to July 

 17th, .">U5; from July 17lh to August 7th, 

 614 ; from Oct. 2d to Nov. Otli, 742. A re- 

 P|ort on the state of the garden from inspect 

 tion, 471. 



Horticultural society of Prussia, 359. 



Horticultural societies of Scotland. Aberdeen- 

 shire, 122. 6.)iij Ayrshire, 122; Caledonian, 

 122. 252. 635; Cupar, 637; Dundee, 123; 

 Eiist Lothian, l'2.j. 630; Glasgow, (>37 ; Mid 

 Lothian, 123 ; North British Professional 

 Gardeners', 123. 037 ; Kenfrewshire, West, 

 637 ; Stirling, 114. 124. («8. 



Horticultural societies, the formation of, in the 

 suburbs of I^ondon, suggested, 82 ; horticul- 

 tural societies should otll-r prizes to young gar- 

 deners for the objects specified, 82. 



Horticultural societies. See Botanical and Hor- 

 ticultural society, rioral and Horticultural 

 society, and Florists' society. 



Udrtii.i 'Jiii/diiiticus, additions to the Additional 

 .Supplement of, 0O4 — 607. 



Hot-houses, remarks on the slopeof thereof of, 

 191 ; the mode, at Vienna, of constructing 

 double-roofeil hot. houses, 535; the state of 

 the practice of constructing hot-houses in 

 Scotland, .521 ; an improved mo<le of heating 

 of hot-houses, 452 ; dilicrent modes of heating 

 hot houses, 409; hatching chickens in the 

 bark bed of <» hot. house, (k^S ; Hay's method 

 of heating by steam, ,i'iO. 7.30. 



Hot WMter, as a means of heating, 221 ; Mr. 

 Perkins's mode of circulating in hermetically 

 sealed tubes of small diameter for heating hot- 

 houses,&:c.,2.j0. 292 — 297 ; Weeks's new ap|>a- 

 ratus for heating by, 5!i4 ; hot water apiiaratus 

 in a pinery at the Earl of Egremont s. Pet- 

 worth, Sussex, the details of its action, 147. 



House, glazed, one adapted for the culture of 

 peach trees, grape vines, and ornamental 

 plants, 321; transportable houses for forcing 

 recommended, .>j8 ; gardener's house, con- 

 taining five rooms and an oltice ; design for, 

 551 ; other designs for houses for gardeners, 

 059, (iOO. 



Howden's, ;\Ir., reply to Messrs. Muri)hy's and 

 Haycroft's criticisms on his remarks on Irish 

 cottages and labourers, 3(i!l : ftlr. Howden's 

 reply to Mr. Thomas Small's attack on him, 

 248. 



Hvbrid plants, the sterility of, instanced, ,500; 

 hybrid calceolarias, 48; hybrid melons, 52. 

 hybrid camellias named, 212; hybrid t'treus, 

 3)>I ; hybrid Digitalis, lienslow's examination 

 of a, 2()!); hybrids outaine<l lielween plants of 

 melon and of cucumlier, Oil; hybrid laburnum, 

 473 ; hybrid plum raised by Mr Knight, 433 ; 

 hybrid poppy, 35;) ; hybrid strawberry, 593. 



Insects, various, re<-ii)cs for destroying, 148 ; an- 

 nular pan as a defence against insects, 37 ; 

 destruction of insects by ainnii)ni,ical gas, 41 ; 

 insects infesting cucumbers, Oil ; insects pre- 

 vented asceiuling the stems of trees, ;>4<) ; in. 

 sects are enshrined in the leaves which remain 

 through the winter on trees habitually decido- 

 ous in autumn, 4!I8. 



