176 INDEX. 



Flemish mode of cutting grain, 117. 



Floating off the surface of peat bogs, 162 ; remarkable instance of at 



Blair Drummond, ib. 



Flooding, how it differs from irrigation, its advantages, 283 ; manner 

 of, and mode in which it operates, 284< ; waters calculated for, 285 ; 

 seasons fittest for the operation, ib. ; advantages and disadvantages 

 of the process, ib. 



the most striking instance known in Great Britain, that of 



Loch Ken in Scotland, 283. 

 Floods from rivers, lakes or the sea, 291. 

 Florist society at Paisley, 452. 



Flour, when it may be improved by soda, 360 ; or advantageously 

 made into cakes or biscuit, or flour-scones, ib. ; when properly 

 packed easily preserved, 363 ; instance of the preservation of, for 

 several years, ib. 



Flow, fluid or spongy mosses, when they may be successfully culti- 

 vated, 152. 

 Flues for hot-houses, best mode of constructing, 444 ; heating walls 



by, ib. 



Fly, hints for preventing the, in turnips, Add. 132 ; modes of de- 

 stroying it, Add. 133. 



wheat, its ravages, and modes of preventing them, Add. 73. 



fogging grass lands, 442. 



Fogs, or mists, the cause of diseases in grain, Add. 53. 



Folding, arguments for and against, 208, 431. 



Forests, 478 ; of pine in Scotland, ib. ; of Glenmore, ib. ; value of 



several compared, ib. 



Forest-trees, how to be raised, 479 ; kinds suited for elevated lands, 

 480 ; for steep banks, 485 ; low and moorish tracts, ib. ; swampy 

 grounds, 486 ; for the sea-coast, ib. ; for land of good quality, 488. 



and fruit trees, how raised near the sea, 488. 



Form of cattle, 86 ; particulars in the, agreed to by the most expe- 

 rienced breeders, ib. ; Mr Cline's doctrines regarding the, 87. 

 Frames and hand-glasses, expense of cultivating ten acres of garden 



ground when covered with, 448. 



Frederick the Great, why the most celebrated statesman of modern 

 times, 519 ; his practice for encouraging agricultural improvements, 

 ib. 



Free-martins, Add. 132. 



Fresh-water marshes how drained and improved, 153. 

 Frosts, grain injured by, Add. 53. 

 Fruit-gardens divided into two classes, 443 ; hot-houses and fences 



for, ib. 444. 

 Fruit-trees, advantages of pruning, 444 ; use of peeling the outer 



bark from, ib. ; useless in hedge-rows, 179. 

 Fruits improved by crossing, 455. 

 Fuel, coal preferable to every species of, 40. 

 Furriers 9 clippings, use of, as manures, 211. 

 Furrow-slice, manner of laying, 302. 

 Furze, what land it prefers, 155. 



