GENERAL INDEX. 



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Young's, at Mitford, April 7th, 365. Young's,! 

 Epsom, Oct. 22d, 685. 

 Nursery trade in France, 1 1. 659. 

 Nurserymen and seedsmen, remarks on procur- 

 ing novelties and varieties from, 617 ; nur- 

 serymen's catalogues may convey scientitic 

 and popular as well as commercial inform- 

 ation, 609; the liberality of the London nur- 

 serymen instanced, S6il ; hints toniirserymen 

 on selecting and packing plants destined for 

 America, 411. 

 Nuts, remarks on the preservation of, 617; the 

 kinds most worthy culture, according to the 

 PoJnological Magaxiiie, 114. 

 Nymphenburg, the columns ofwater at, 7. 

 Oak, remarks on a sketch of the natural history 

 of, 233 ; supports very numerous insects, 231- ; 

 its loots and wood are eaten by rats, 235 ; the 

 two British species of, and their synonymes 

 asserted, 24-1 ; variableness of foliage in oaks, 

 .374 ; critical remarks on various species, 699. 

 CEnotheras, annual, poor gravelly soil suits, 340. 

 Oil as a substitute for putty between the laps of 



panes of glass recommended, 84. 

 Oil from seeds of Helianthusannuus, 671 ; ONea 

 europK^'a, 663; i^rassica campestris oleifera, 

 658 ; train oil, its efficiency in destroying in 

 sects, 378, 379. 

 O^ea exc<;lsa, at Kilkenny, 683. 

 Olive, the propagation of the, and mode of ob. 



taining oil from the berries of the, 663. 

 Onions, while growing, ravaged by the larvae of 

 the fly ( Anthomyia ccparum), 91 ; ravages 

 prevented, 91 ; onion-seed improved by ma- 

 nuring the soil with charcoal, 91 ; observations 

 on theculture of onions, 188; preserving them 

 from the maggot and rot, 192 ; the cultiva. 

 tion of onions, oSii ; the transplantation of, 

 591 ; very large ones, 678. 682. 

 Orange, excellence of, and fittest time to gather 

 the China variety, 225; seeds of the bitter 

 orange, Arancia forte, received from Florence, 

 and distributed to English gardeners, 225, 

 226; orange trees might be cultivated in the 

 manner of peach trees, 356 ; the cultivation of 

 the bitter and sweet- fruited varieties in Italy, 

 308 ; grafting of orange trees, 189 ; qualities 

 in oranges of British growth deserving a prize, 

 626. 

 Orchardist's crook figured and described, 614. 

 Orchards, the fittest kinds of apple for, 588. 

 Orchideous plants, a mode of propagating the 

 stove rhizomatose species of, noticed, 471. 541 ; 

 remarkable native manner of growth in Bra- 

 savula (^legans, and others, 595 ; a successful 

 mode of cultivating the hardy kinds of orchi. 

 deous plants, 306. 

 O'rchis bifblia, its powerful and exquisite fra- 

 grance, 203. 

 O'xalis D^ppe?', floribfinda, &c., how to culti- 

 vate, 474. 

 Pceonies, information on, 477. 596. 

 Palace residences, English, noticed, 98. 389. 547. 

 Palms at Berlin, 91. 



Paris, gardens of the commercial florists of, 129; 



flower market of, 130 ; M. Otto's notice of the 



^ cheapness of plants at, and of the state of the 



horticulture of, 91 ; state of gardening about, 



in 1830 and 1831, 659; market-gardens of, 257. 



Pea, Bishop's dwarf, its merits questioned, 609; 



a new variety of merit cultivated by Mr. 



Groom, florist, Walworth, 366 ; a new species 



of, recommended for agriculture, 88; a mode 



of raising an early crop of peas, 463J; new plan 



of sticking, 103; the cause of peas boiling 



hard, 125. 249. 



Peach gardens at Montreuil, several miles of 



espalier walls for peach trees in the, 91. 

 Peach houses, and the mode of forcing peaches, 



at Buscot Park, 573. 

 Peach and nectarine trees grown on flued walls, 

 Irving's mode of treating, detailed, 592 ; his 

 mode of screening their blossoms from in- 

 jurious weather, ,592 ; Mr Knight's mode of 

 planting, in his nursery, 357; the prevention 

 of mildew on, 87 ; strictures on Mr. Erring- 



ton's mode of managing plethoric ones, 241 ; 

 Mr. Sejinour's trees, and culture, 242. 218. 

 Peach trees, the best kinds of, 114; surprising 

 fecundity of four trees, 678 ; peach trees 

 budded upon apricots, 195 ; early forced peach 

 trees injured by ants, and the mode of destroy- 

 ing the ants, 314 ; a machine for distributing 

 the pollen of peach blossoms in houses, 252. 

 Puake's various gardening articles, 94 ; his semi- 

 metallic tiles, 225. 

 Pear, can cider be procured from the vernal 

 herbage off 250 ; pear from a tree in an old 

 orcliard near Gloucester, 7 XI; pears bearing 

 leaves, 722; pear 41b in weight, and without 

 either core or seed, 101 ; Mr. Saunders's ob- 

 servations on the culture of pears, and his re- 

 marks on Mr. Hiver's practice, 327 ; the best 

 kinds of pears, 114; for summer, autumn, 

 winter, and baking, 329. 

 Pear trees in Scotland more than 200 years old, 

 227 ; genealogy of the Monteath pear, 620 ; 

 Marie Louise pear succeeds as a standard, 730 ; 

 pear trees, large ones successfully transplanted, 

 451 ; pears and pear trees infested with an in- 

 sect resembling a brown scale, 378. 721. • 

 Peat, peat earth, or bog earth, distinguished 

 from heath mould, 285; this distinction criti- 

 cised, 714. 

 Pelargonium, twelve early kinds of, and twelve 

 late kinds of, 352 ; a gigantic plant of, from a 

 seed, 677. 

 Penruddock, tremendous hail storm at, ou July 



15th, 1831, 517. 

 Petrowskoy, near Moscow, described, 661. 

 Phloxes, useful remarks on the appropriation 



and culture of, 477. 

 Physic nut, eatable-rooted, and its uses, de- 

 scribed, 470. 

 Physiological botany, remarks on, 57. 120. 233. 



235. 507. 

 Picotees, rare German kinds of, and improve- 

 ments in picotees generally, 601 ; qualities in^ 

 deserving a prize, 626. 

 Pimlico palace and gardens, 98. 

 Pine, or (ir, remarks on various species of, 699 ; 

 some siJecies engrafted successfully, 375 ; P. 

 i-'inea, forests of, in Italy, the use of thecones 

 and seeds there, 311 ; pine nuts, or Pinocchio 

 of the Italians, the sale and use of, 311. See Fir. 

 Pine-apple, its culture in the palace gardens at 

 Versailles, 9 ; grown in beds of earth at Castle 

 Semple, 248; the best dormant season for, 

 540; pine-apples thrive in coal smoke, 408; 

 under grape vines, 550; a pit for fruiting 

 pines, 137 ; numerous queries on various me- 

 thods of cultivating, 728 ; the finest kinds of 

 pines, 115. 

 Pineries, a mode of wintering grape vines in, 

 described, 411; better shown, 539; pine pit, 

 with a steam chamber, its efficiency, 22. 

 Pinks, a new method of propagating, hv layers, 



458. 

 Pit, one for fruiting pines figured and described, 

 Jjl 37 ; meridian pits for horticulture or floricul- 

 ture, 289; criticised, 715; steam pits for the 

 culture of melons, 194. 

 Plantain (Musn paradislaca), excellent direc- 

 tions for cultivating and fruiting, 676. 

 Plantations and shrubberies, critical remarks on, 

 537. 544 ; plantations destroyed by the short- 

 tailed field-mouse, 608 ; a mode of destroying 

 the mice in, 608. 

 Planting, a knowledgeoftlie geological affinities 

 of plants of great value in, 372, 373 ; M. Klyn- 

 ton on planting and laying out grounds, 559 ; 

 planting for posterity at Craigmillar Castle, 

 227 ; progress and eftect of planting in the 

 northern counties, 536; pruning trees in their 

 branches and roots at the time of planting, 13; 

 hints on the mode of planting trees and fruit 

 trees, 542; Nature's mode of planting no- 

 ticed, 512. 

 Plants not in Hdrfus Briidnnicus, 344. 503. 615. 

 Plants, air, the cultivation of them in stoves, 47 j 

 plants, lists of, for flower-gardens, 34. 300; 

 plants alleged to be hardy, not so, 709 ; an ad- 

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