758 



GENERAL INDEX. 



Nurscric*. English provincial, inrormation on, 

 solicitetf, 10+ ; an account of the liachc Pool 

 mirscry, near Chester, Messrs. F. and J. 

 Dickson's, 10:'> ; of Messrs. Conollvand Sons' 

 nursery, at I<ancastcr, 108 ; of Messrs. Skir- 

 ving ami L'o.'s Walton nursery, near Liver- 

 pool, KH.i ; of Messrs. John Pope and Sons' 

 llandsworth nursery, near liirminKham, 110; 

 Messrs. Keilnall and liirih.im's Holton nur- 

 sery, near Halcsworth, Sudiilk, £11 ; Came- 

 ron's nursery, Ucklickl, Sussex, 741 ; Carlisle 

 nursery, Messrs. William and Thomas Hutton, 

 741 ; Keswick nursery, Mr. Kerr, 74'2. 

 Nurseries, Scottish provincial, of Messrs. Smith 

 and Sons, at Ayr, Moiikvvood, and Colroy, 

 11.'5; of Messrs. W. Drummond and Sons, at 

 Stirling, 11.-5; Mr. Goldie's, at Wrightfield, 

 near Ayr, 474. 

 Nursery and gardening business, depressed state 



of, more especially in Scotland, 13-I-. 

 Oak, on the pruning of the, 243 ; oak timber, 

 what are best means of preventing the dry rot 

 in ? ;>01. See ^^uereu'^ 

 Ohio, the state of, rcroarks on the indigenous 



flowers and fruits of, oTi. 

 Olive tree, Italian means of propagating it, G8. 

 Onions, store, a mode of preventing their sprout- 

 ing or germinating during the winter, 55 ; on 

 the transplanting of onions, 180. 

 Orange trees, their degree of hardihood in Italy, 

 402 ; oranges and lemons, as cultivated in 

 Italy, and at Naples, 2(i9. '/71. 

 Orchideous epiphytes, on the propagation of, 

 88: Mr. Lindley's directions for cultivating, 

 318; his directions for the manner of collect- 

 ing and preserving on hoard a shi)), 603. 

 Cxalis rhsenjtic. (floribiiiida Lhi(//.\ a mode of 



cultivating, ")72; 0. Di'ppc/ noticed, fii)l. 

 Pxbnia Muutan, a magniliceiit plant of, 473; 

 the double-flowered variety ot P. othciuilis 

 produces seeds, 243. 

 Pain's Hill, near Cobliam, Surrey, noticed, 361. 

 Palms, Choco, noticed, 7!*. 

 Palo de vaco, seeds of, .';61. 

 Paris, the condition of the markets of, in rela- 

 tion to gardening on Dec. 'iOth, 183], 65. 

 Parmentier's garden, near Brooklyn, North 



America, described, 71. 

 Pea, Bishop's early dwarf, its merits compared 

 in detail with the merits of the early frame, 

 Knight's dwarf marrow, and the Spanish 

 dwarf, .')S4; Mr. Knight's mode of obtaining 

 very early crojis of green peas, 434; the white 

 flowered everlasting pea, queries and inform- 

 ation on, 610. 

 Peach trees, Hayward's system of training, 

 484. 6r)3 ; Seymour's system of training, 51 ; 

 a preventive of the curling up and dropping 

 ofi'of the leaves of peach trees, .W); a mode 

 of destroying the A phis on peach trees, .OKO ; 

 the Myrobal.in (ilum tree an eligible stock for 

 peach trees, :>1<); peach trees distinguishable 

 from nectarine trees, by a ditlerence in their 

 two germens, 46!t. 

 Pear, a description and outline figure of the 

 Pctrc pear in Carr's nursery, Philadelphia, 

 587 ; seedling kinds of pear raised by Mr. 

 Knight, 430 ; remarks on the relative value 

 for perry of the Barland and other kinds of 

 pear, .Wi ; monstrous jjcars noticed, 6i/7. 

 Pear trees, a mode of training pear trees dc- 

 Bcribcd and figured, .53!); pear trees trained 

 to a wall built to an angle of ten degrees to 

 the earth's surface, produced an abundance 

 of fine fruit, 183; a fungosc disease on the 

 leaves and fruit of the pear trees at Buscot 

 park gardens, 738. 

 Pearl moss, Irish, 04. 



Pelargbnium zonule var. Hltichcr/, a fine plant 

 of, noticed, 80 ; Mr. Weltje's collection of 

 pelargoniums, 473. 

 Pelargoniums, a method of cultivating them, 

 practised by Mr. Appleby, 161 ; another mode 

 practised by Mr. Hobert Klliot, 1(>2 ; on pro- 

 longing the flowering season of pelargoniums 

 in beds in the open air, 46, 



Pepper, black, a history of, 228. 



Perry, valuable information of thequalitictand 



manufacture of, 582. 

 Phaiocoma proUfera, on propagating, ItiO. 

 Philadelphia, nursery gardens and state of hor- 

 ticulture at, 272. 

 Philipsburg in Pennsylvania, North America, 

 its capacities as to soil and climate described. 

 73. 

 Physiology, vegetable, questions in, 652, 653. 

 I'iinlico palace and gardens noticeil, 472. 

 Pinc-apple, Mr. Munro's enumeration of varic- 

 ties of, with bints on cultivating them, 177. 

 Mr. Smith's mode of cultivating pine-apple 

 plants at Cunnoquhie, 328 ; the mode and re- 

 suits of cultivating plants of the pinc-apple 

 out of pots, 576 ; a means of destroying the 

 scale on plants of the pineapple, 149; pine- 

 apples are plentiful and cheap at New York, 

 S60; for the reason, sec p 275; pineapples 

 as cultivated in the stoves of Italy, 494; in 

 the open ground of Italy, 493. 

 Pine timber, while full of sap, will resist fire, 

 488 ; an account of the common Scotch and 

 Highland pines as found in Scotland, 10 ; 

 enquiries for farther information on them, 

 4S9 ; pine of very' large size in the Unite<l 

 States, 154; /"inus Strobus, the Weymouth 

 pine, its habits in Prussia, 447. 

 Pinguiculas, Mallet on cultivating, 684. 

 Pita de Guataca supplies a fibre valuable for 



cordage, itc, 240. 3(r7 ; pita de Tolu, 242. 

 Pits planned and constructed by Sir. Hay, for 

 the securing a steady and uniform bottom 

 heat, 330; pit described, and the steam appa- 

 ratus by which it is heated, as both used at 

 Cunnoquhie, by Mr. Smith, in the culture of 

 pine apple and nulon plants, 328; the ad- 

 vantages of M'l'hail's pits, 38. 

 Plantations, thinning and pruning of, 373; 



plantations made at Harbkc, 445. 

 Planting and laying out grounds, on, SOO; 

 planting knolls in preference to hollows, 486; 

 planting ministers to wealth, 2 '>9. 

 Plants, new, or interesting old ones, noticed, 

 12. 224. 345. 454. 596. 721 ; plants which thrive 

 in the smoky atmo:>phcre of the London 

 neighbourhood, 24.3 ; a plan for removing 

 a potted plant from one pot to another with- 

 out injury, or breaking the ball of earth, 43; 

 plants worth importing for cultivation in 

 Britain, Stiii ; on the sap vessels or circulat- 

 ing system of plants, 142. 

 Pleasure-grounils, detects in, and the means to 



avoiil these delects, 151.677. 

 Pluin, a new variety of, raised by Mr. Knight, 

 433; a mode of preserving ripe plums, 3,>9; 

 the Myrobalan plum tree, a (it stock for 

 plum tree, peacli tree, and nectarine tree, 

 3K). 

 /'olygala cordi(J>lia, on propagating, 160. 

 /'olygala vulgaris of different colours, 93. 503. 

 Poplar, Lombardy, facts in the history of, 9J. 

 I'oppy, hybrid, lietween i'ap^ver ciudicaiile, 



aiui /'. alplnum, 355. 

 Posts or pales, a mode of detecting the stealers 



of, 42. 

 Potato, a means of preventing the curl in, 180 ; 

 a method of obtaining very early crops of 

 new potatoes, 315; a mode of producing 

 ^'oung potatoes for the table during winter, 

 in the open air, 54; Mr. Knight's remarks 

 on the fitness and value of potatoes as food 

 for animals and man, and his descri|>tion of 

 his method of speedily ascertaining the qua- 

 lities of seedling potatoes, 4;;6 ; frozen pota- 

 toes not rendered eatable by being thawed in 

 the dark as apples are, 356 ; a " cooking 

 alembic" for cooking potatoes and other 

 vegetable.^ 470; a mode of obtaining two 

 crops of the ash-leaved kidney, in one year, 

 off the same ground, t)86 ; jiotato, sweet, see 

 Ipomce'a HiiliUas. 

 Press for crushing fruit, .514. 

 I'rimrose Hill botanic garden, .594. 

 Prisons and gardens to them, <.>8. 



