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GENERAL INDEX. 



and equal in America, fi71 ; the olyects and 

 blessings of, 530 ; the state of, at the Cape of 

 Good Hope, 496. 

 Egypt, ancient agriculture and horticulture in, 



93. 

 Elcot Place, noticed, 135. 



EUeray, Professor Wilson's villa at, noticed, 553. 

 Elm, notice of a new American species of, 490 ; 

 seeds produce plants without a covering of 

 soil, 659 ; trees removed when large, 451. 

 Embankment at Sutton Wash, 674. 

 Emigrants to the Cape of Good Hope, directory 



information for, 490. 

 Enclosure acts, their effects, 531. 

 Engine, a hand one for watering trees, 612. 

 England, remarks on the changes in the climate 

 of, 53 ; requisites for a country residence in 

 the south of, 244. 

 England and America contrasted in climate, oil. 

 Entailed estates, their impeding effect on human 



improvement, 409. 415. 534. 

 Epinal hats, for lady gardeners, 220; the En- 

 glish manufactory of, noticed, 365. 

 Epiphytes, notice of one mode of propagating 

 them, 471 ; of another mode, 541 ; hints on 

 the culture of, 355. 541 ; on the flowering of, 

 540; propagation, 541. 

 Er&nthis hyemalis eulogised, and hints on its 



culture, 562. 564. 

 .Erica, remarks on the genus and species, 246 ; 



culture of, 540; E. Paters6ni eulogi.sed, 598. 

 Eilcse, indigenous kinds enumerated, and re- 

 marked on, 246. 379. 717,718. 

 Erythrlna /aurifolia, and Crista g&Ui, excellent 

 directions for the propagation and culture of, 

 456 ; their superiority among flowers, 6'2n ; 

 the general culture of erythrinas in pots, 4.07. 

 Eschsch61tz«acalif<rniea, how to cultivate most 



successfully, 342. 620. 

 Evaporation, its abundance and its influence on 

 transplanted vegetable bodies, 586 ; tlie means 

 of counteracting its bad effects, 587. 

 Evergreens, hardy, useful observations on the 

 nature, culture, and transplantation of, 79; 

 distribution and effect of, 358. 

 Excise,;the, its odious prohibitions, 707. 

 Falcon Cottage and its garden noticed, 553. 

 Farm, an experimental one suggested, 110 ; and 



remarked on. 111. 

 Farmers, small, in sandy districts in the northern 

 counties, raise large quantities of vegetables 

 . for sale, .556. 



Farming ; in New South Wales, 671 ; the philoso- 

 phy of, 702 ; Drewery's New System of, 334. 

 Fernie Castle, some account of, 23. 

 Ferns, their prevalence and places of growth in 



the northern counties, 519. 

 Fifeshire, some gardens and country seats in, an 



account of, 21. 

 Fig, a most successful mode of cultivating the, 

 325; a mode of expediting the ripening of, 

 263 ; the blue Ischia variety very productive, 

 678. 

 Fig trees in France, mode of protecting through 

 the winter, 11.262; fig-gardensat Argenteuli, 

 262. 

 Fion's garden, Paris, noticed, 132. 

 Fir or pine, remarks on various species of, 699; 

 disease and shortness of life in the balm of 

 Gilead, 725 : see Pine. 

 Flavours of fruits, the agents producing the, 

 584 ; thence the means of improving the, 584. 

 Fldra Dunica, its history, (;62. 

 Floral and Horticultural Societies : 

 Bolton, May 27th, July 6th, and August 5th, 



743. 

 Chelmsford and Essex, May 10th, 740. 

 . Hull, 126; May 23d and June 20th,' 633 ; 

 July 4th and 2Sth, 634. 

 Lincaster, July 26th, 743 ; annual gooseberry 



show, 744. 

 Manchester, May 23:1, 744; June 27th, 416. 

 Rochdale, July 7th and August 18th, 18.30, 

 627 ; April 27th and May 2.5th, 1831, C2S. 

 Floriculture, an elegant manual on, recom- 

 mended to k'.dies, 4S1 ; babes in, replied to, 



245 ; green-house plants eligible for the sum 

 mer decoration of gardens in the open air 



610. 

 FtorisVs Guide, Sweet's, its proposed discon- 

 tinuance regretted, 237 ; a new work on roses 

 proposed to follow, 500. 

 Florists, commercial, of Paris, their gardens, 



129. 

 Florists' flowers, a mode of packing and of im- 

 proving the colours of, 498. 716 ; grown in 

 perfection about Lancaster, 555 ; information 

 respecting various kinds of, 66. 205. 343. 478. 

 600 ; should be figured several on a page, 501. 



Florists' Societies : 

 Cambridge, May 16th and June 14th, 736. 

 Ipswich, July 31st, 632. 

 Morpeth, May 30th, 630. 

 Sunderland, June Sth, 630. 

 Whiteliill Point, July 9th, 630. 



Flower-garden, green house kinds of plants fit 

 for the summer decoration of the hardy, 610; 

 in the ancient style, a plan of, and a list of 

 plants for, £98 ; plan of one in Tottenham 

 Park, 138; plan of one, with a list of plants 

 for a full display of flowers from Marcli to 

 November, 33; plan of a, sent foropinions on, 

 725. 727. 



Flower-market of Paris, 130. 



Flowers, moral effect of the study of, 599 ; of 

 spring, 358 ; spring, for a bed or basket of, the 

 kinds and efiect of, stated, 483 ; tlie properties 

 they should possess to win prizes, 626. See 

 Plants, new, rare, and beautiful. 



Food of plants, remarks on the, 437. 



Forcing, a peculiar plan of, applied to potatoes, 

 radishes, &c., and applicable to fruit trees, 

 614; cucumbers or melons, an improved frame 

 for forcing of, 459; houses for the forcing of 

 peaches, at Buscct Park, 573 ; state of, at Ver- 

 sailles, 9. See Hot water. 



Forest trees, Howden's remarks on pruning 

 them, 27, in reply to Mr. Elles's remarks, vi. 

 545. 



Fountain, Austin's, of artificial stone, 724. 



Frame, an improved one for forcing cucumbers 

 or melons, 459 ; of oiled paper, for protecting 

 the blossoms of wall trees, 192. 



France, festive gardens in, 3; land occupied in 

 small portions in, 488 ; laws of inheritance in, 

 4>8; education in, 4S8; state of gardening, 

 and the condition of the occupation of land at 

 Tours in, 88 ; country between Tours and 

 Bagnoles Wells, 656; tour through p3rt of, 

 1. 129. 2.57. 277. See Paris and Touraine. 



Fremont, the garden of, notes on, 15. 



Frost on May 7th, 1831, attempted estimate of the 

 injuries of the, 383. 511. 624; its effects in the 

 counties, similar ones produced in 1819, 388. 



Fruit, a ladder forgathering, 26; modes of pre- 

 serving fruit, 368; modes of rendering trees 

 prone to be barren of, productive of fruit, 583 ; 

 frame for jireserving fruit on walls from wasps, 

 468 ; some kinds of, eligible for culture, de- 

 scribed, t)9; modes of ameliorating fruit, 581 ; 

 remarks on the preservation of fruit, 196; 

 physiological remarks on the preservation of, 

 617 ; the flavours of fruits, how produced and 

 affected, 581; the progressive amelioration of, 

 fruits in successive generations of trees, 51G. 



Fruit trees, a list of the hardy kind, copied from 

 the Pomolofiical Magazine, HI; a n;nde of 

 planting and cultivating, to prevent canker in, 

 55; projecting boards for protecting the blos- 

 soms of, 85 ; blossoms protected by spray of 

 birch, 322; by straw protectors, 86; barking 

 of the stems of,6(i2; British fruit trees should 

 be exported as recommended, 6G4 ; diseases 

 of, in America, 319; mode of making barren 

 ones bear, 5S3 ; on walls and in hedges, IJO; 

 physiology ajjplied to the training and pruning 

 of fruit trees, 440 ; fruit trees recommended to 

 be planted on poor soil and bleak situations, 

 323; Shepherdia (//ipixiphaii) argentea, des- 

 cribed and recommended as a new one for 

 garden culture, 570 ; the borders for fruit trees 

 should never be cither dug or cropped, 542 ; 



