748 



GENERAL INDEX. 



Barking the'stems of fruit trees and vines, 6()-2. 

 Barley, tlie average quantity yielded per acre, 



W6; barley big, and winter barley, 7.31. 

 Bartram's botanic garden on the Schuylkill, near 

 Philadelphia, and memoir of John Bartram, 

 665. 

 Basket or bed of spring flowcr.s, a, described, 483 

 Bees, their importance to cottagers, 7u7. 74.7 ; a 

 method of hiving, and the Charlieshope hive 

 for, described, 669. 

 Beet, large, 678. 

 Belvoir Castle, park, and TP/dens, in Leicester. 



shire, reported, 421. 

 Benincasrt cylindrica described, 719. 

 Berberis diilcis expected to prove a new fruit 



shrub, and particularly described, 474. 

 Berberry, the stoneless, a distinct and perma- 

 nent variety, 241. 

 Berlin botanic garden, Herr Otto's great im- 

 provements of, noticed, 91. 

 Birmingham, small gardens at, and their excel- 

 lent effect, 409. 

 Birmingham Botanical and Horticultural So- 



ciety, report of, 97 ; its garden, 415. 

 Birstall Hall, the gardens at, noticed, 426. 

 Blet?a hyachithina, hardihood of, 484. 

 Bog earth, its ineligibility for American plants 

 and the Rhodorhcex asserted, 285 ; confirmed, 

 706 ; its native localities and uses, 714. 

 Bogs in Ireland, the fittest species of tree to 



plant in, 24. 

 Bois de Boulogne, 5. 



Books, old, on botany and gardening, collected 

 for sale and exchange at the Lavender Hill 

 nursery, 98. 217. 

 Botanical and Horticultural Societies : 

 Bristol, April lyth. May 17th, and June 21st, 



631. 

 Devon and Exeter, Sept. 29th, 739 

 Durham, 6.'9. 

 Hexham, Nov. £2d, 1830, 127 ; April 30th and 



July 2d, 630. 

 Newcastle, Nov. 5th and 22d, 1830, 127 • April 

 8th, May 6th, June 3d, and July 8th and 

 12th, 6.30. 

 Northumberland and Durham, Sept. 15th, 745 

 South Devon and East Cornwall, Feb. 3d and 

 July 21st, 739. 

 Sotanical Magazine, some errors relative to the 

 habitats of plants in, corrected, 236 ; use of 

 the, 416. 

 Botanical Register, a criticism on the, 117 : use 



of the, 416. 

 Botanic garden, a public one wanted near Lon- 

 don, 96; of Birmingham, 97; Bury St Ed- 

 mund's, change in the site of that of, an- 

 nounced, 96 ; in the Isle of Bourbon, 6G4 ; ot 

 Australia, 672; of Baltimore, 668; Bartram's 

 664; that of Hull, reported, 97 ; thatofChell 

 sea, 691 ; the south of England one, sketched. 



Botanists, their amiable cooperation, 212. 

 Botany, in North America, 94; its advancement 

 in Russia, 4S9 ; physiological remarks on, 235 ■ 

 the natural system of. Its characteristics, 7e' 

 its use, 77 ; Wakefield's Introduction to. eu- 

 logised, 481. ' 



Bouchier, Kev. B., his patronage of gardening 

 among cottagers, 673. 



Bouvard/n triphylla, a superior mode of culti 

 vating, 48. 562, !i6o. 



Bovey Tracey, Chudleigh, Devon, its climate as 

 to plants, 497. 



Bower, the Duchess of Buccleugh's, 554. 



Bowncss, on Windermere, its beauty, and the 

 cause of that beauty, 525. 



Boxwood, a substitute for hops, 698. 



Brazil, the botany of, explored by Ku.ssia, 489. 



Bretton Hall, the very ornamental iron gate at, 

 figured, 613. 



Brewin, Mr., his garden and collection of plants 

 at Leicester, 425 ; a notice of the late Mr. 

 Brewin, 426. 



Brewing, useful hints on, 707. 



Bridges, Mr. Thomas, collector and vender of 

 the natural productions of Snuih America re 

 fliJont at Valparaiso, 95. o-lO 



public garden at, projected, 651. 



Bristol, 



673. 

 Broccoli, Sicilian, noticed, 590. 

 Bromhead, Sir E. F., his improvements In the 



condition of labourers, 6;j7. 

 Brookhouse, Joseph, Esq , an obituary of 512 

 Brown, Robert, Esq., of Markle, obituary, 2.56 

 Brugmansjj suavfeolens, modes of treatment 



productive of blossoms, !,S, 37. 

 B^y.n.v root employed in destroying woodlice. 



Bud, every, is a distinct system of life, 584- 

 every bud asserted to have roots of its own or 

 the power of forming them, .584. ' 



Budding and grafting defined, 586. 



Bulbs from Chile, a hint on the management of 

 Jo9; instructions on planting bulbs, 541 •' 

 Cape bulbs, an instance of satisfactory culture,' 



Burbridge, Jlr., his garden at Leicester, 426 

 Burton Woulds, the grounds and gardens at ' 



noticed. 427. ' 



Bury St. Edmund's botanic garden, change in 



the site of, announced, 96; mausoleum at 



described, 221. ' 



Biiscot Park, the peach. houses, and the mode of 



forcing peaches at, described, 573. 

 I Cabbage, red, an enormous, 677 ; the cow-cab- 

 bage, or Cesarean kale, not identical with the 



Anjou cabbage, 121. 

 Cabbage tribe, prevention of the ravages of the 



larva; of Tipula oleracea, and of those of An- 



thomyia brassicse on the, 91; caterpillars on 



the, 121. 

 CactejE, much cultivated by Mr. Dennis, twenty 



kinds grafted upon one, 351 ; great ace of 



some, 593. & ■ 



Cadet de Mars, M., his field market-garden at 



Aubervilliers, 259. 

 Calls. See Nurseries. 

 Camellia, and Thia, a paper on the history and 



description of the species of, noticed, 52. 

 CamiWia jap6nica, comparative hardiness of 



196. * 



Camellias, a hint on the culture of, 349 540 



Tiib ; information respecting, 72. 205. 343. 477^ 



Campanula pyramidMis, the varieties and oro- 



pagation of, 477. 

 Campanulaca^E, eatable by man and animals. 



Canals, remarks on, 524. 



Canker, a mode of preventing and curing it in 

 fruit trees, 55 ; its causes, 194. 219. 591. 



Canna, a supposed new species of, 226. 



Cape of Good Hope, its eligibleness for emi- 

 grants, with much information on various 

 subjects appertaining to the, 81 490 



*^ dof"" curlew, in Leicestershire, remarks on, 



Carlisle, condition of gardening about, .538 

 Carnation or picotee, qualities in, deservine a 



prize, 626. ^ 



Carrots, ajmode of preserving them good for kit. 

 Chen use through two winters, 191 ; preparing 

 a light garden soil for a crop of, 191 ; how to 

 grow free from maggots, 3i6 ; devoured bv a 

 sraallgrey grub, 721. 



Cassava, or Cassada, and its uses, described 470 

 Caterpillars, in France, collected and destroyed 

 by government authority, 535. 



Caterpillars of P6ntifl bniasicie injurious to cab- 

 bages, but destroyed by the larva; of ichneu- 

 mon flies, 121 ; the destruction of caterpillars 

 by heat, 197; the possibility of their sexual 

 union, 199. 



Catesby, the plants he discovered sent to the 

 Fulham nursery, 354. 



Cauliflower, extraordinarily Kirge, 678 • soot de 

 stroys the grub at the root of plants of, 87. 



Cedar of Lebanon, age and dimensions of an 

 early-planted specimen of, 423. 



Cedar, red, durability of posts made of, 220. 



Cedrus Deodara, at Hopetoun House, reported 

 375. * 



Celery, perhaps rendered unwholesome by wa. 

 ter trenches, 595. 



