GENERAL INDEX. 



757 



Oak, culture and management of the, 465 ; 

 query on a blight amongst the, 502. 



Oaks farm, May 12th, 380. 



Obituary of Robert Austin, Esq., 384; of Wil- 

 liam French, 639; of Mr. Rigg, his family 

 and friends, 640 ; of Mr. Edward Hobson, 748. 



ffinoth^ra deci'imbens, hint respecting, 354. 



Ogilvy, Sir George, his garden at Banff, 344. 



Old Adam's Lodge of Free Gardeners, Sept. 6th, 



» 738. 



Olive, hardy varieties of, in the Crimea, 322. 



Onions, culture of, 175. 



Orange tree blossoms, use of, in Paris, 530. 



Orchard fruit, deterioration of, 220. 



Orchards, miniature, 340; of the Ochill Hills, 

 343 ; on insects in, by Mr. D. Anderson, 551. 



Owen's plan of reformation, opinion respecting, 

 481. 



Packing fruit trees for exportation, account of, 

 by M. Saul, 311. 



Psebnia Muittan, new mode of propagating, 102. 



Palaces, remarks respecting, 531. 



Palais Royal, garden of the, 642. 



Paris and London, natural circumstances of the 

 neighbourhood of, compared, 1 ; artificial cir. 

 cumstances of, compared, 2 ; agriculture of, 9. 



Paris, city of, compared with London, 5 ; archi- 

 tecture of, 6; improvements in, 11 ; effects of 

 the winter in, by T. Blaikie, 4S2 ; public gar- 

 dens of recreation in and around, 529. 



Parsneps, culture of, 176. 



Passiflbra, a new one, 317. 



Pathology, vegetable, 395. 



Peach, the noblesse, 83; the spring grove, 83; 

 the George IV.,, 84; the Royal George, 288. . 



Peach and nectarine, on the treatment of, dur- 

 ing the summer season, by Mr. William Sey- 

 mour, of Howsham, 434; on a method of 

 training on low walls, by Mr. William Sey- 

 mour of Weddington, 436 ; identity of the, 

 596 ; farther remarks on training the, by Mr. 

 R. Errington, 695. 



Peach-houses, plan and sections for two, 671. 



Peach tree, on the management of, by Mr. H. 

 John Newington, 55. 



Peach trees, Newington's observations respect- 



' ing, remarks on, by Mr. James Craig, 430. 



Peake's vases and flower pots, figured and de- 

 scribed, 308. 



Pear, the early Bergamot, 84 ; the summer 

 rose, 84 ; the summer Francreal, 84 ; the Jar- 

 gonelle, 84; the Forelle, 287; the Brown 

 Beurree, 288 ; the Belle et Bonne, 288 ; the 

 autumn Bergamot, 288 ; the Marie Louise, 

 289; seedling of Lord Dunmore, 343; the 

 winter Nelis, 471 ; the Flemish beauty, 472 ; 

 the Beurre Die!, 472 ; the Aston Town, 575. 



Pear trees, on the culture of, by Mr. B. Saun- 

 ders, 53. 



Pears and apples on the same tree, 596. 



Peas, early Charlton, failure of, 233 ; accounted 

 for, by Mr. D. French, 503 ; on raising 

 an early crop of, by Mr. Main, A.L.S., 555; 

 Bishop's dwarf and early frame, critical re- 

 mark respecting, 723. 



Pelargbnium pallidulum, 569. 



Pelargoniums, M. A. Stcettner's collection of, 

 482. 



Penn, J. C, object of cooperative societies, 478. 



Pepper plant, the, 573. 



Perry, for the cottager, 151. 



Perspective, isometrical, explained, 351. 



Petersburgh botanic garden, rare plants from 



~ Persia to, 321. 



Petersen, M. J. P., letter from Denmark, 212 ; 

 gardening news from Copenhagen, 321 ; trans- 

 lation of an account of a method of making 

 bass for binding plants, by M. P. Lindegaard, 

 656; translation of an account of the forcing 

 of cabbage lettuce in Holland, by M. P. Lin- 

 degaard, 689. 



Philips, Mr. Solomon, on a six-year broccoli 

 plant, 492. 



Physiology of plants, critical, respecting, 553. 



Pinaster, query respecting the, 227. 



Pine-apples, introduction of, in Ireland, 26; 

 best sorts of, for cultivation, 232 ; the Riplev, 

 574 ; the Enville, Mr. C. Hale Jessop's mode of 

 cultivating the, 704; on growing in moss by 

 M. Jacob Seimel, 705. 



Pine, the Anson or Otaheite, critique respect- 

 ing, 111; by C. F. Webster, 112; Scotch, 227; 

 Scotch, supposed spurious variety of, 449. 



Pine plants at Castle Semple, farther notice of, 

 by John Hay, Esq., 437. 602. 



Pines, Mr. Knight's remarks concerning, 11. 



Plnus, on propagating, by cuttings, by Mr. W. 

 Baillie, 210. 



Plnus resinosa Alton, 212. 



Pits, cucumber and melon, for a kitchen-garden, 

 ground-plan and sections of the, 671. 



Pitting system of planting, 462. 



Plantain, notice of one which has ripened fruit, 

 by Mr. Henry Dalgleish, 429. 



Plantations at West Dean, on the management 

 of the, by Mr. John Bowers, 543. 



Planting trees and shrubs in masses of one spe- 

 cies, by W. Spence, Esq. F.L.S., 408. 



Planting, errors in, 410 ; use of, for preparing for 

 uncultivated land for agriculture, 453. 



Plants, diseases of, 28 ; medicinal, for the cot- 

 tage, 153 ; remarks respecting the chemical 

 elections of, 216 ; American, query on pur- 

 chasing a collection of, 224 ; hardy, treated as 

 green-house, 330 ; sent from England to Te- 

 neriffe in 1829, account of, by W. Young, 

 330 ; new or rare, flowered near Edinburgh, 

 March 10. 1830, 343; chemical and geological 

 collections of, corrected, by Mr. A. Gordon, 

 360 ; hardy bulbous, query respecting, by A. H 

 Haworth, Esq., 368 ; the diseases of, 396 ; ten- 

 der, on preserving in winter, by Mr. A. Gor- 

 rie, F.H.S., 402; for a flower-garden, during 

 the year, 423 ; British varieties of, cultivated 

 and sold by Mr. James Smith and Son, at 

 Monkwood Green, near Ayr, by Mr. Smith, 

 713 to 718; rare, flowered near Edinburgh, 

 493. 



Pleurothallis prolifera, 277. 



Plough-hoe, newly invented one, 208. 



Ploughing match of the West Kent Agricul- 

 tural Association, 106. 



Plough, steam, 476. 



Plum, Kirke's, 287 ; Lucombe's Nonsuch, 83 ; 

 the Morocco, 84 ; the Purple Gage, 472. 



Podolbbium trilobatum, 561. 



Politics, advantage of a knowledge of, 395. 



Pollen of plants, remark concerning, by J. New- 

 man, 613. 



Pontey 's " Forest Pruner " versus Cruickshank's 

 " Practical Planter," on the subject of prun- 

 ing fir trees, 675. 



Poor laws, 346. 



Poplar, Athenian, query respecting, 368; the 

 Lombardyor Turin, on the sexes and history 

 of, by Mr. John Denson, 419. 



Population, education as a check to, critical 

 remarks respecting, 609. 



Potato, on the, by Mr. J. Elles, 58 ; the Ever- 

 lasting, and the late Red Roger, 482. 



Potatoes, for a late crop of, 58; for an early 

 crop, 59 ; list for a succession of, 60 ; early for 

 cottagers, 178 ; late, 179 ; necessity of plant- 

 ing early, 263; considered as the sole food of 

 man, 316; new kinds of, Blacartney's method 

 of obtaining from seed, 440 ; setting by the 

 acre, 590 ; American, query respecting, 727. 



Pot-barley, for the cottager, 148. 



Pots, garden, standard sizes for, proposed, by R. 

 Errington, 354. 



Primrose, double-flowered, 601. 



Prize essays on cottage gardening and husband- 

 ry, 167. 185. 198. 



Produce of fourteen acres of garden land, from 

 1815 to 1830, 624. 



Promenade in the Caledonian Horticultural 

 Society's garden, 600. 



Property, advantages of the division of, 540 ; 

 the right of, 592. 



Prosperity of a nation, the true, 511. 



