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INDEX, 
Magnolia tee. attraction of, for blackbirds, &c,, 646; to sow 
seeds of, 
Main’s Telia Gardening, adv., 12! 
Maize, constituents of, 845; ae extracted from, 139; analysis 
of, 633; its treatment in Ameri 76 
Malacca, correspondence from, 2 67 
Malaria of cesspools, is destroy, 25 
Malloo, account of, 3 
Maltese cross, blue, elo; white, and scarlet plants for, 272 
Malt, to destroy insects in, 433; dust, as a manure, 133; comb, 
as a manure, 
Mapebester; ees poe for judging florists’ flowers, adv., 260 ; 
remar! 
Manettia icclon 3195 glabra, 848 ; recat treatment of, 825 
Mangel Wurzel, as food for ca ttle, it, 216; cause of its 
running to seed, 528; leaves, to salt, sai 
Manures, for Turnips, 314, 845; refuse lime from gas-works; 
ed tar as a, 528, 805; saline, experiment with, on Oats, 
&c., 677; gypsum, ‘quantity per con 8255 on experimenting 
with, ee sulphate refuse for ley, 11; their use, 67, 205; 
mmonia in, 697; speculative, an As of potash, 
netesEs on, 737; their treatment, 9, 25, 40, 144, 205; strong 
kinds, 464; Count Hompesch’s, 517; experiments with, 
5, 22, 189, 526; vegetable matter for, 
7 brewers’ grains, 105, 131 
howtaken up by plants, 67; cheap way for cottagers tee erates 
83,117, 121, 144, 172, teat Pep for peers 88; Das waste of, 
aa ee Q su ned on, ady. 
sa rventables their arth 1153 efficacy of wees over 
simple kinds, 243; heap, to prepare 205; liquid, to apply to 
plants, 121, 416, ee pumps for, adv., Fowler, 204; to fix am- 
monia in, 248, 44 adv., Fothergill, 151; povce 151; sable 
259; for Cartations, 843; Lawe’s, 442 ; for a stiff s 
low cla: lay, 720; bog earth for, 177; BOGAN MSELAE, 16; bones, 
boiled superior to unboiled, for, 318; contents of cesspools as 
a, 72; to disinfect, 1925 Cocoa. nuts for, 862; Cranberries for, 
78 ; Hen-roost, manure from. ; Ho op-refuse a illest 
for stable-dung, 158; as a, 216, 417; experiments with, 876 
pigeon-dung for ines, 881; for clayey soil, 913 
Maple, to propagate, 
Marcetia excoriata, 4 
Marcet (Mrs.), her eronce a 260 
rae early and i aeheNile bad effects of, 675; in Prussia, 
parti land, to reclaim, 9; salt, to drain, 302 
Martagon, its derivation, 6, 156 
Martin’s Thames and ‘Metropolis Improvement Plan, rev., 176 
Masters’ nursery, noticed, 7 
Maund’s Botanic Re Caviten, adv., 538 
Maw-seed, 272, 545 
May’s nursery, remarks on, 373 
MclIntosh’s Practical ate adv., 128 
McNab’s testimonial, 790 
Meadow-land, its treatment, 56, 459; hints on manuring, 459 
lows, containing peaty- tg to improve, 633 
Seatac to destroy, 649, 7: 
earn’s Treatise on the Vine 1 in ots, adv.. 5 . 
Meat preserved by Sere Pe ec 
Medlars, to propagate, 9, 2 
Melocactus sete treatment of, 777 
Melons, cause of canker in, 777; to grow under oiled canvas, 
744; muddy state of soil good for rowed f, 644 ; Persian, to 
grow in baskets of earth, in an open tank, experiment with, 643; 
Pigeon-dung used for, in Persia, 645; remarks on, 697 ; sn- 
periority of, 571; one from Syria described, 589 ; adv., White, 
707; young, cause of fruit being small on, 709; effect 
produced when deprived of foliage, 709; seeds, to test 
the quality of, 737; adv., Cuthill, 1, Carter, 170; Hardy’s 
Cantaloupe, 37; to grow in leaf mould, 528; ‘Beech- wood, 
a good cate. 89; distance of the fruit from the glass, 
429; seeds, temarkabie instances of vitality in, 102; ancient 
directions for planting, 231; Persian, their culture, 284, 315, 
321, directions for leaving fruit, 361; for gathering, 483; cause 
of fail ‘ilure, 376, th pit for, "461; manure for, $42 ; seeds, 
pivey’s ady., 8: s 
Mesembtyanthemurn, uses of, 360 
Meteorological Ephemeris, HH Doxat’s, rev., 807 
Meteors, 91 
Mice, to destre 
Microucsoert tor botanical purposes, 144, 43: 
Mignonette, treatment of, in winter, 720; ae: of its losing its 
iragrance, 72; tree, to grow, 528; to bloom in pots, 556 
Mildew, doubts Bast its origin, 823; to cure, 144, 377; on Peas, 
33; on Cucumbers, 505; on Rose: 8, 377 
Milford Nae) sale at, 369 
Mill’s improved pit, 3; 
Miller’s eae Dictionary, best edition of, 249; Don’s edi- 
tion, 3: 
Milton 3 mee gardens, noticed, 776 
Milton’s Practical Bookkeeper, ' Tev., 375 
Miltonia Clowesii, ee 
Mimuli, good sorts, 1 
Mistletoe, trees on ‘which iti i found, 105 
Mock Scorpion, to destroy, 649 
Mohl (Prof.) his critique on Liebig’s Theory of the Mites of 
Plants, noticed, 333, 543, 559, 576, 591, 614, 631, B47, » 679 
Moisture in stoves, i injuries arising por 
ooo flowers, remarks on, 488, 
Moredun, noticed, 87 
Mormodes luxatum, 575; aromaticum, 844 
mn, 861 
ae of, 1 
Morphology, remarks o 
Moss (Mr), his garden, noticed, 4 
Moss, to preserve, 843, to destroy on Iawns, 761; to destroy on 
tee aye adv., Gardiner, 96; from fruit-trees, to eradicate, 
a eatreete ermine, to destroy, 545; yellow underwing, to 
Mott’s Flora odorata, adv., 371 
Mount Edgecumbe gardens, tetie » 672 
Mowing, remarks on, 233; mai 410 
Mud from pondsetae pee chine, value of, 433; adv., 
Mugwort, as a green manure, pe 
Mulberry, pee! of, 677, 175 to 
pruning, 105, 3 to graft, 305; grow i 519, 557 $ 
rapid growth of, 300; singular instance of in, 388 
Mules, remarks on, 577 sporting in, 38 
Mummy Wheat, 305, 787 ; produce of, 822; to si 
Muriate of lime, for fixing 
woe 519; beneficial to Cucumbers, 
3 New Chemical Fertilizers, adv., 170; Trials and Effects 
of New Chemical Fertilizers, rev., 231 o 
Musa Cavendishii, its treatment, 73; adv., 
Mushrooms, as a green manure, 116; ahs on 694; to grow in 
the open air, 272; properties of in different countries, 559; to 
prepare a bed for, 561 ; culture of, 591 ; remarks on growth of, 
pee 9, hs 3 effect of 
Myrtle, remarks on, 142; to keep in winter, 825, 792 
NAmine plants in the eae etshetitn on, 317 
‘Names of plants, remarks o: mn, 299 
Narcissus, to sow seed of, 483 
Narcissi, to force, : 
uminous in, 691 ; 
officinale, iodine in, 
759 
Nature, yemark of Anaxagoras on the observation of, 359 
Natural oy Rone on, ady., 128; a Branch of School Educa- 
tion, revie 
Naturali ist’?s Corner 864, 84 3 23, 87, 142, 760, 830 
Neapolitan Violet, to force, 7 
Nectarine tree, singular ethae of one shedding its fruit, 561; 
list of, 665 
Neill, Dr., his garden noticed, Ms ema to, 103, 447 
Nelumbium speciosum in ‘Astracan, 
Nemophila discoidalis, ady., 426; black variety, remarks on its 
origin, 445 
Nepenthes ai treatment of, 665 
Nerine, its treatm: 
Non, as ee of the blood, 505 
Nets, to preserve, 57; , Richardson, 50; woollen, injurious 
to Ne setting of fruit, 1925 hints to purchasers of, 301; of no 
ie in the prevention of blight on Wall trees, 374 
w Plymouth, letter from, 318 
Nee Zealand, emigration ts Boon’ 
nd Plant $ é, 7 
pack, 247, 790; plants, sa aster ns, 457; as an A 
colony, remarks on, 478, 603; eeracth from letters respecting, 
605, 606; remarks on soil of, 627; burning, best mode of 
clearing Fern, &c. on, 628; climate of, 663; Flax, remarks 
; letters from, 190, 
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on, 697 
Niger, vegetation at the confluence of, 7, 286 
Night-scented flowers, remarks on, 445, 488 
Niphea oblonga, treatment of, 697 
Nitric acid, as manure, 
Christmas and Easter, 7443 for espaliers, 25 ; to summer» 
Peas, adv., Comace, 1; Prince Albert, 574; Farnes’ Early, r 
marks on, 630; 
arly taste for, in France, 71 ; 
not influenced by eee nh on the largest, 89; remarks 
on Cormack’s Prince Albert, 559; Early May, 662; Farnes’ 
62; spirits of tar, to preserve from pheasants, 7375 
as a manure, 244 
parreoninatst list of, 2 pr coe ne winter, 681, 711; select, 
25, 233, 433, 465, 545, 7, edding out, 572, 336; manure 
for, 25; soil for, 161, ae ; ae ea for seedlings, remarks on, 542, 
556 , 573; mode of exhibiting -cemalinent 41; Lyne’s seedlings, 
790; as Standards, 773 ; for forcing, 25, 377; to propagate, 
to obtain asuccession, 500; treatment ‘of, 84, 465, 500, 501, 
0,865; to stop the shoots of, 121; treatment of seedlings, 
3 of scarlet, 262, 317, 337, 373, 505; good scarlet, 556; to keep 
in winter, aot ters of various kinds, 190, 447; new, ib.; 
nitrate of pe 
toria, 805; sete on exhil i, 286; cause of leaves spotting, 
616; to prevent the leaves spotting, 361, 389,400, 417, 428, 541; 
with nitro-muriatic acid, 541; Mayday, ‘adv., 3143 Lynes’ , 425; 
Pluto, 409; to move to a distance, 633; ady., Hodges, 885 
i 129; Ash, 186; Masters, 
201; Hancock, 297; White, 473 
Penang, the great tree of China, 55 
Nitro-muriatic acid, for checking the spot in P i 54 
Nitrogen of plants, ce is it derived? 35 
Nitrate of soda, experiments WE 22, 191; petty: to apply 
in the kitchen earaaiy 2 72; its effect on Pinus Webbiana, 
25; on Beans, 72; on a Rupdodendtons 119; Rosey 1913 on 
Potatoes, 227; on Onions, 461; on various 
Camellias, 41; Asparagus, 41; Strawberries, 121; garden 
: Litas oe ‘Cucumbers, ib.; for various plants 
216; for Wher’ to destroy Grubs, 445; adv., Rounth- 
waite, 369 ; 1 Botask, for Pelargoniums, 24: 
Norfolie Taacey Cabbage, palm of, 142 
Norman’s Picotees a sCsarRHONG§ noticed, 543 
Notices to Correspondents, remarks on, 243 
eae minima, Suey respecting, 301 
uthatchs, habits 
Nuts, to preserve, oe 
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Oak, jeavers for pits, 25 ; 3 stools, to renovate, 40; great age of, 
823; Fulham, 41; evergreen, to prune, 41, 89; soil for, 73; 
spangles, covered be uaeey its value for timber, 67; ex 
eee ty. grow ; Baloot, 85; tender kinds, 89; to 
BUA i ieee of, 908; ua hardy, 911 
Oats, Tulip “root i in, 773; straw as a manure, 229; Hopeton, 
gigantic, 359 ; consequence of stacking, when wet, 560 
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Oncidium bicallosum, 212; suave, 212; microchilum, 341; uni- 
florum, 647 
Onions, great weight of, 773; DRDaUC Cees Or 806; Tripoli, its 
treatment, 9; liquid manure rks on, 670; glo a 
to sow, 249; eee CEs to destroy, 22, 102, 233; by charcoal, 
161; by rolling, 102; by nitrate of soda, 4615 by soot, Ge 
‘ood kinds, 105, 144 ; nitrate of soda oe 272; disease in, 649 
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Flanagan, 298 ; pets 4265 cause of leaves dropping, 192 ; 
seedlings to graft, 216; improved by a top-dressing of rotten 
fruit, 246; their treatment in France ving the last three cen- 
turies, 263 ; soil for, 321; temperature for in winter, 64: 
Organisable substance, explanation of the term, 681; history of, 
As organic matter, origin of, effect of on soils, 755; in water, 
sslonton obovatum, 575 
Orchard, heavy crops Hf late fruit in, consequences resulting 
from, reason of, 709 
Orchidaceze, some kinds delight in a low temperature, 39; treat- 
ment of, 777; Lyons’ remarks on their management, rev., 
34: v., Stevens, 240, 258 ; sale of, 503; Holmes’, 441, 457 ; 
» adv. for exchange, 407 ; terrestrial, their treatment, 
423; new stand for, 413; for a pit, 528; support for, 557; of 
una and Guatemala, by J. Bateman, Esq., rev. 719: of 
uito, 911 
Otiorynchus notatus, ie GED 345 
Owen’s Lectures on An my, rev., 879 
Owl, useful in Fae T18 eggs of, found amongst the comb 
of bees, 391 
Oxalis Bowei, its ‘treatment, 89 
Oxylobium capitatum, 263 
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Packine flowers, 792 ; plants, for uy eee) 247, 790 ; fruit, 433 
Paint, made of Potatoes, 86; ty 
Palestine, productiveness of, 3 
Palm-house of the King of jth 69 
Pansies, select, 73, 105, 777; manure for, 57; disease in, 573, 646, 
809; cure for disease in, 589; soil for, 345; adv., Henchman, 
113; Earl, 154; Hart, 202; Pearson, 5 double, 5053 proper- 
ties of, 301; to strike cuttings of, 361 ; treatise on, rev., 104 
Preonies, remarks on, 23; tree, to propagate, 289 ; new variety 
of, 432; to grow in pots, 4 
Paper, adhesive, for dried BIMAta 7 
Paradise stocks, remarks on, 249 
weather near, 519 
Parks, strictures on etait plants in the, 317; diagrams of, 271 
Parsley, t 0 grow fine, 335 
Passiflora Vieldii, adv., 553 
Pasture, old, for Potatoes, 144, 161 
Paulovnia imperialis, adv., Smith, 81; noticed, 212; to propagate, 
285; hardy, 345, 825 
Paving below fruit-trees, 322 
Peach-trees, list of, 655; cause of leaves blistering on, 697; aphis 
on, to destroy, 607; to shed their flowers, cause of, 726 ; to train 
a few inches from the wall, 121; to train, a ai cause of bloom 
not setting, 144; Smith’s treatise on, adv., 2 ; to force, 267; 
remarks on the diseases of their leaves,-239 ; CHORE treatment in 
dry weather, 361, 400; cause of disease in, 400, 526 ; Walburton 
Admirable, adv., 553; border to cro DP, 863; ti ‘0 root-prune, 5 
old trees, objection to viele of, 61; to aoely aie! heat to, 681 
Peat-bogs, gardening on, 75: 
Peat, to convert into manure, 40,72; aise: wit eee ; toobtain, 
678; substitute for, 216; good annuals to in, 2725 drains, 
durability of, 519, 841 5 non- Conduct propettient of }29, 
ears, for a N.. aspect, 721; coreless, described, 737 ; Vicar 
of We described, 205 Jargonelle, a8 a standard, 744 5 
92; Barnadiston,j192; for standards, 89, 681; 
135 1 
late for a Soke wall, 25, 177} varieties to come in between 
observations on, 809 
Pepys (Mr, H.), his experiments on ae 543, 
Perennials, good, 73, 105, 245, 248. r pot-culture, 89 
Peristerias, remarks on ‘habits of, re ae its treatment, 573 
yay 268 
eedlin ngs of different colours raised irom ane called 
arle’ vithont hybridisation, 678 ; ady., Cattell, 25: 
Phaius albus, 1 
Pheasants, to drive from seeds, 33 
Philibertia. grandiflora, 212 
‘hilosophy, practical, 157 
Phlox, Van Houtte’s, 55; ad 457; suaveolens var., 679; 
Drummondi, to sow ile seed os 744; an annual, 121; its 
treatment, 244; adv., 
Phormium tenax, fine ne of, «, a oodville, 487 
Physalis edulis, its treatment, 
Physianthus, albicans, 190 
Picotees, select, 25, 545, 616, 809; ady., creaiay 33; Youell, 114; 
treatment, 100; 
Wood’s description of, 134, 155, 206, 243 MEU n’s paper on 
the properties of, 191; remarks On, 230 5 “to tne: 878 
Picture-cleaning, directions for, 
eine feed with Horse-chesnuts, 6; wash of, as manure, 321; 
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Biquateted nt, 
Bs oil, ay kill bight, sey 
of, 807 ; eae of, 118, 306; to ns on, 7, 449, eet 
for several Sear, 100; adv., Teste, 114; to exchange, 332, 
3 nder, 457; Dungate, 563; mode of growing, 
3 5 Hamilton’ s treatise on, ady., 517; culture of, in France, 
toa; cause of leaves spotting, 192; imported from tl 
Indies, 575; soot, as a manure for, 209, 266 ; suckers, cause of 
fruiting, 417, 4383 nuebek to put A a bed, 26 feet by 8, 616 ; 
remarks on, 87, m-heat for, 8 
Pine-pit, at Hewell, eect id, 772 
Pine-: Ove at Bamf ord Hall, ane 139 
inks, to have in bloom nearly all rhe Rey through, 72; to pro- 
pagate, 460; to fertilize, pie selec’ 
Pinus, laricio, [destroyed by rabbits, Bae seedling, shrinking of, 
649; to plant out, e005 Mexican species of, nearly hardy, 190; 
ekha: rk, 575; Douglasii, producing seeds of, 
dy., 354; remarks a 913 
Pip, in fowls, to cure, 3 
Bie earthen, for heating, 737) 693 ; to joint, $42, 862 
Pipings of Carnations, treatment of, 543 
Pits, peat walls for, 793; to "gonstrdct, 849; for Hee eeee 
plants in winter, 693; to protect from frost, 4,20; M‘Phail’s 
recommended, 544; Mills’ improved, 22, 37; for eames 189 5 
remarks on covering, 633; height of, 192; ridge and furrow, 
208; for Melons, 461; hints on building, 505; at Capesthorne, 
Baas with peat walls, 633; ridge and furrow, 208; at Hewell, 
Piteairnia macrantha, 52: 
Planks, ate sippeniesin of, 335, 355; to kyanise, as a preven- 
tive, 3. 
Binnteines dried, a confection, 55; or abe grass, to destroy, 232 
Plantations, young, soelr treatment, 2 
Planting, rem: 84, 136, 736 ; to ransplant 819; precipitous 
places, 161; Rejuvenescence of, bein, a Key to explaining their 
ering, &c., with REO SHIA eRtOn to Culture, 
by Dr. C, H. Schultz, rev. , 614 
Pia vegetable monster, 140; trailing evergreen for rockwork, 
f, 616 ; importance of knowing the structure and natural 
habits of, 755 luminous appearances in, 691, 711, 758; in pots 
to apply liquia manure 
205, 263, 283, 433, 444; to hybri 460;  out-door, 
n their decomposing: 
roots, 5; of, 
5, obo; for Pena 27, 399; to ules: 345, 528; kinds to 
flower in winter, 621 select, 7; herbace 681 
for flower- beds, 6s; not eaten ey rabbits, 9 9; to preserve in 
pits, 20, 85 in cellars, 465; to pack, 247 ;“out-door, to protect, 
light necessary to, 36, 54, 73; to tie, wes for, 41; 
to ary, , 488; to keep green in drying, 415 of Affghanistan, 
53, 110 herbaceous, 57, 245 ; yellow, 216, 248; white, 248; for 
growing under Fir-trees, 57, 89, 376; locomotion of, 57, 89; to 
winter, 400; action of manure on, 67; frozen, to recover, 84, 
118, 137, 210, 285, 317, 399; stove, select, 88, Bias perennial for 
pot-culture, 895 conservatory, 89, 104, 216; two essentially- 
distinct parts in, of importance for avtondie to consider, 709; 
in-door, 105 ; for windows,.144 ; hardening of their tener, 995 
packages of, eet ae at the Custom-house, 115; sulphur in, 
159; to propagate, 116,. 487 ; Poeun: 245 3 to Fae liquid 
manure to, 121,144; to ‘Send abroad, otection for, 789 ; 
remarks on potting, 135, 171, 187, ute ran! tropical, their 
treatment, 155 ; for clumpsi imsummer, 161 ; composition of, 875; 
remarks on, 9 7 
lant-guards, 908 
Platylobium Murrayanum, 289 
Pleasures and advantages of rural life, 912 
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Pleurothallis Smithiana, 674 
Plums, for espaliers, 25; good kinds, 89; cause of cracking, 665 ; 
new disease in 319 ; Sa remarks on, 462 
Pocket Almanack 
Sea treatment i in cacery 100; of seed, 2! 
Polyanthus Narcissus (yellow), cause ofits tae aswerne 
Polianthes tuberosa, its ae "4 1, 449 
Polytechnic Review, rev., 2: 
Pomegranate, its entice 3 03 "ed bloom, 192; to preserve 
in winter, 793 
