INDEX. 177 



Gaiting or toppling, a mode of making hay, 428. 



Galloway dike, its superiority, how and of what materials made, 174. 



Garden, advantages of a, to a cottager, App. 46. 



Gardener, Robert, his mode of making watering ponds, App. 42. 



Gardening, the most advantageous mode of occupying the soil, 440 ; 

 societies for improving, 454. 



Gardens, general advantages of, 440 ; articles reared in, ib. ; acres em- 

 ployed in for the supply of the metropolis, 441 ; extent of, near 

 Edinburgh, 442 ; near Aberdeen, ib. ; different kinds of, 443 ; 

 private fruit-gardens, ib. ; private kitchen, 445; market gardens, 

 447 ; great expense of cultivating those near London, 448 ; ave- 

 rage produce of, 449 ; field gardens, 450 ; farmers' gardens, 451 ; 

 village gardens, 453 ; rent of, value of land increased by ; rent of 

 near London and Edinburgh, ib. 



Gates, desirable properties in, 180; position of, ib. ; mode of fixing, 

 ib. ; width, ib. ; height, ib. ; construction, ib. ; should be made to 

 shut and open readily, 181 ; best materials for, ib. ; a source of ex- 

 pense and vexation, ib. 



General statements of produce and expense, App. 25. 



deductions respecting rotations, 388. 



German ocean, copious evaporation of the, 13. 



Germination promoted by steeping, 329. 



Glass, expense of, in artificial gardening, 447, 448. 



Gleaning, origin of, 375 ; ancient mode of, ib. ; abuses of, ib. ; de- 

 cided against in the courts, 376. 



Gorse, hedges of, in Sussex, 178. 



Goul-courts in Scotland, when held for enforcing the extirpation of 

 weeds, 268. 



Grafting, observations on, 497. 



Grain, practice of giving, to labourers, 82 ; period of sowing different 

 kinds of, 330 ; mode of preserving, 163 ; Flemish mode of reap- 

 ing, 117; improving the quality of, 359 ; on dressing and winnow- 

 ing, 358 ; on thrashing, 357 ; on reaping, 350 ; mode of trans- 

 planting, 342 ; observations on the row culture for crops of, 335 ; 

 of thrashing, 357 ; dressing of, an important object to a farmer, 358 ; 

 why the whole stock of, should correspond with the sample produ- 

 ced at market, 359. 



and flour, means for improving the quality of, 359 ; musty, 



how to recover, 360 ; infected by smut, how to be cleaned, ib. ; 

 barrels and vessels for, 363 ; accidents to which it is liable, Add. 

 53. 



Granaries should be constructed on every farm, 163. 



Grass, various particulars respecting, 400 ; dried into hay, how much 

 reduced by heat and evaporation, App. 34 ; natural, Mr Middle- 

 ton's account of the mode of converting it into hay, App. 31. 



Grasses occurring in pastures, Add. 82 ; habits and comparative value 

 of, 85 ; mode of culture in stocking permanent pastures with, 95 ; 

 cultivated, 423 ; best adapted for permanent pastures, Add. 82, 

 85 ; best fitted for water-meadows, 279. 



Grass-land improved by drying flax or hemp upon it, 199 ; improved 

 by digging, 393. 



