INDEX. 



547 



Vigour of a tree, signs announcing, 390. 



Villa residence, plan for laying out four acres 

 as one, by Mr. Joshua Major, landscape-gar- 

 dener, 9. 



Vine, cultivation of, by Mr. James Tindall, 249 ; 

 culture of in tlie Crimea, 393 ; on training on 

 wires downwards, by Mr. John Haycroft, 

 237. 



Vines in peach-Iiouses, query on, 320 ; on grow- 

 ing in pots, 249; on protecting from spring 

 frost, 114; to prevent the bleeding of, in an- 

 swer to A. B., 187. 



Vinery, description of a portable one, by Mr. 

 James Rollins, 225. 



Violet, cultivation of the garden sort, 9P. 



Ulra, gardeners in the neighbourhood of, 493. 



Umbratus, answer to query of, 83. 



Underwood, on the holly and hazel as, by Mr. 

 James Fraser, 96, 



United States of America, on the horticulture 

 of, by Jesse Buel, Esq. C.M.H.S., 193 ; rapid 

 vegetation in the, 396 ; remarks made during 

 a visit to, by Mr. A. Gordon, 463. 



University of Copenhagen, account of the bota- 

 nic garden of, by Prof. J. W. Hornemann, 

 196. 



Volks-garten, description of the, 272. 



Wages of journeymen gardeners, &c., on the 

 custom of paying on the Saturday night or 

 Sunday morning, 85. 



Wallingford ranunculus show of June 9th, 

 431. 



Wall trees, on fastening with wire and matting 



, instead of nails and shreds, by Mr. A. Calde- 

 cott, F.H.S., 355. 



Washington, tempest at, 397. 



Watercresses, necessity of washing, 308. 



Water in landscape-gardening, 473 ; on filtering 

 on a large scale, by the late John Braddick, 

 Esq., 307. 



Watering-pots, improvements in, 240. 



Watering Ihe interior of the mould in hot-beds, 

 machine for, by Mr. James Stephens, 357. 



Wax, vegetable, notice of some, 51. 



Wearside Florists' meeting of July 5th, 416. 



Weeding and sweeping, on the employment of 

 women and boys for, 53. 



Welbeck garden, description of the cucumber, 

 melon, and other forcing-pits, generally in 



; use there, by Mr. H. T. Thompson, 452. 



West, Lieut., on the culture of potatoes, 248, 



Wheat, Chinese, 274. 



Wheat, gout in, 280 ; on the diseases of, 36 ' 



Wheat fly, notice of, 405. 



White Knights, call at, 176. 



White's Treatise on Agriculture and the -■irt of 



Baking, 261. 

 Whittingham Vale Florists' Society, show of 



August Sth, 417. 

 Wickham Crown flower show of July 21st, 



529. 

 Wild mint for preserving stacks from mice, 280. 

 Wilford Hall, plan of the gardens and grounds 



at, by Mr. William Smith, 90. 

 Williamson, the Kev. R. H., on the method of 



warming horticultural stoves, 24 ; details of a 



trial to grow the pine-apple without bottom- 

 heat, 27. 

 Wilson, Mr. Robert, on expelling damp air from 



early hot-beds, 238. 

 Wilson, Mr. William, on the formation of kit- 

 chen-gardens, 353. 

 Wimbledon House, notice of, 303. 

 Winch's Essay on the Geographical Distribution 



of Plants, &c. &c. &c., 258. 

 Wines, British, 438. 

 Winter's rest for extra-tropical plants, critique 



respecting, by W. Hamilton, Esq. M.D., 443; 



necessity of, for vines, 314. 

 Wire-netting for protecting trees, &c., 402, 

 Wire-worm, success in the destruction of, 317. 

 Withering, Dr., biography of, 536. 

 Withers's Letter to Sir Walter Scott, Bart., 



reviewed, 43. 

 Woburn Abbey, notice of, 304. 

 Woodbridge flower show of July 21st, 529. ' 

 Wood in landscape-gardening, 474. 

 Woodlice in frames, mode of destroy ing, 189. ' 

 Woolly Aphis, 277. 

 Yew, Irish, 341. 

 Yew trees, leafy growths proceeding from the 



points of the shoots of, 177. 

 Young, Mr. Thomas, on cultivating LobSIjn 



fulgens, 223. 

 Young's H6rtus Epsomensis noticed, 260. 

 Yucca filamentbsa, method of flowering, by 



Mr. J. Runciman, 223. 

 Yuen-Ming, gardens of, 64. 

 Zfimia integrif blia, nutritive properties of, 391. 

 Zoological Society's Garden, addition to, 52. 



