194 INDEX. 



Soil, what most productive in a wet climate, 11 ; importance of a 

 favourable, 14 ; best means of improving a sandy, 18. 



surface, or outer coating of land, what, 16. 



modes of applying manure to the, 197 ; mixing manures with the, 



ib. ; manuring it in drills, 198; top-dressing, ib. ; application of 

 liquid manures to, 199. 



Soils, general remarks on, 31 ; colours of, 32; modes of improving, 

 33 ; modes of draining, 193 ; crops cultivated on different, 378. 



considered under general heads, 17, 18 ; rules necessary in the 



management of sandy, 18 ; difference between gravelly and sandy, 

 21 ; the stone-brash or combrash of Gloucestershire, and the mid- 

 land counties, 22 ; gravelly, how improved, ib. ; superior manage- 

 ment of clayey, in the Lothians, 23 ; peat, 25 ; chalk, 27 ; alluvial, 

 29 ; the means of ascertaining their composition, ib. ; a plan sug- 

 gested for that purpose, ib. ; mould, an essential ingredient in, ib. ; 

 principal colours of, 31 ; what kinds heated with difficulty or other- 

 wise, ib. ; red colour of, to what owing, 32 ; which the most favour- 

 able, ib. ; various modes of improving, 33 ; labour and expense of 

 improving, how repaid, 33, 34. 



light and dry, spade husbandry peculiarly calculated for, 390 ; 



wet, stony, or gravelly, spade husbandry not calculated for, 391. 



fertile, not to be pared, 239 ; sandy not to be pared, ib. 



mixture of, advantageous, 200. 



Soot, an excellent manure, 232. 



Sorts of trees cultivated in orchards, 458. 



Solving corn, implements for, 115. 



preparing the seed for, 328 ; late and early, 330 ; comparison 



between the various modes of, and the practice of transplanting 

 grain, 331. 



broadcast, 331 ; ploughing in, 332 ; drilling, 333. 



Spade, a top-draining, and a breast- draining, 192; used in hollow 

 draining, ib. 



husbandry, 389 ; its advantages, 390 ; soils to which it is ap- 

 plicable, ib. ; to what soils inapplicable, 391 ; improvement of waste 

 lands by, ib. ; improvement of grass land by, 393 : improvement of 

 plantations by, 394 ; advantages and improvements of trenching, 

 ib. ; to what occupations of land applicable, 395; arable land cul- 

 tivated by the spade, 397; beneficial effects on the population, 

 398. 



culture better for orchards than that of the plough, 460. 



Spray of the sea, effects of, on vegetation, 13. 



Spruce, the, recommended for a nurse in preference to every other 

 tree, 483. 



Square fields, advantages of, 1 46. 



Stacks, how constructed, 355 ; with bosses, ib. 



Stacking hay, 429. 



Standard trees to be as carefully treated as wall-trees, 465. 



Statesmen, British, unfavourable idea of, as to the ability of this coun- 

 try to raise grain for its consumption, App. 28. 



Steep banks, plantations on, 485. 



Steeping, effects of, 329 ; what used for by the Romans, ib. 



