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LIST OF ENGRAVINGS. 



No. IMPLEMENTS. Page 



13. The underfoot spade . - §6 



97. A hand-engine for watering trees 612 



4. Ijadder for gathering fruit - - 26 



98. A narrow-bladed spade for thinning 



out trees - - - 612 



102. Orchardist's crook - - 614 



INSTRUMENTS. 



30. Indian polesaw - .. 194 



31. Indian handsaw ... 195 



32. Knife used in grafting by approach 218 



TALLIES. 



120. A tally for plants, in use at Tooting 685 

 42. to 47. Specimens of taUies . 281,282 

 66, 67. White porcelain tally and iron 



shank - - - 363 

 UTENSILS. 



14. Money's inverted rose watering-pot 87 



33. The aquarian or waterer . - 219 

 118. The Charlieshope beehive - 669 

 127. Packing box for florists' flowers - 717 

 105. Pot carrier - - 614 



103. Large pot for liliaceous plants - 614 



113. Saul's watering despatcher . . 654 



MACHINES. 



5, 6. Machine for transplanting large 



trees - - - 29, 30 



48. Garden hand-drill . - 283 



114. Saul's machine for transplanting large 



trees or shrubs - - 655 



APPARATUS FOR HEATING BY HOT 



WATER. 



. 9. Weekes's apparatus . - 82 



17. to 20. Oslar's improved hot water boiler 



141. to 143 

 21. to 29. Tredgold's apparatus for heating 



by hot water . . 179. to 185 



51, 52. Alcock's apparatus for heating the 



centre bed of a hot-house - 287, 288 



95. Cottam and Hallen's cast-iron vertical 



tubes for circulating hot water . 612 



96. Fowler's thermosiphon . - 612 



121. Mr. Westland's models for compar. 

 ■ ing the siphon and the level modes 



of circulation - - 686 



109. Anderson's apparatus for using the 



waste heat of domestic fires - 652 



STRUCTURES. 

 11. Projecting boards to protect the blos- 

 soms of wall trees - 85 



15. Pine-pits for linings of dung - 137 

 53. to 55. Neeve's meridian pits, ground 



plan of - - 290 



59, 60. Span-roofed green-house, ca- 

 pacious and of cheap construction, 

 at Chandler's nursery - - 348 



61. Span-roofed green-house at Russell's 



nursery - - 350 



82. to 85. Improved frame for cucumbers 



or melons - - 459, 460 



88. Witty's furnace for burning waste 



coal - . 482 



90. Structures and their arrangement for 



the shows of provincial horticul- 

 tural societies - - 500 



91, 92. Tombstones of Messrs. Hood, 



sen. and jun., nurserymen, Dum- 

 fries - .529 

 101. Iron gate at Britton Hall - 613 

 74, 75. and 93. Front glass of pineries, 

 arranged so as to admit of wintering 

 the vines on the rafters - 412. 539 

 ' 39. Stage in the Bedford conservatories 270 

 40. Fountain on the terrace in the Bed- 

 ford conservatories - . 270 

 104. Stage for early forcing - - 614 

 129. A fountain of artificial stone - 724 

 107. Front elevation of a conservatory - 651 



EDIFICES. 

 36. Perspective view of the new market, 



Covent Garden - - 266 



- 273 



- 294 



693 

 650 



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37. Elevation of the quadruple colonnade 



in Covent Garden Market . 267 



38. a and b. Ground plan of the new mar. 



ket, Covent Garden - 268, 269 



41. Perspective view of the east front of 



Covent Garden Market 

 56, 57. Elevation and ground-plan of a 



double cottage 

 122, 123. Grand curvilinear menagerie in 



the Surrey Zoological Garden 

 106. Section of an ice-house 

 110. Plan of a forcing-house to be heated 



by the breath of cows . . 653 



FRUIT. 

 131. A pear from an orchard near Glouces- 

 ter - - 730 



PLANS OF GARDENS AND PARKS. 



1. Garden of Sceaux . - 2 



7. A flower-garden . - 33 



8. A bed for the above garden . 34 

 16. New flower-garden at Tottenham 



Park . . 138 



58. A flower-garden in the ancient style 299 

 64. The arboretum in the Goldworth 



nursery - . 360 



05. Order of the trees in the arboretum 361 

 72, 73. Sketches illustrative of errors in 

 laying out flower-gardens and plea- 



sure -grounds - . 401 



119. The priory near St. Andrew's . 679 



128. Phny's Tuscan villa . - 723 

 130. Plan of a pleasure-ground . 726, 727 



LANDSCAPES. 



116. Petrowskoy, near Moscow . 66^ 



117. Scenery in the park at Jjegersborg . 66 

 3. Garbally House and Park . 2 



PLANTS. 



2. Yew trees cut architecturally . 8 



62. Cypripfedium venustum 



63. Cistus Cupa.nia.nus 

 87. Gaulth^rz'a Shdllon 



124. Aspidium Bdromez 



125. EutiSrpe globosa 



126. Chimonanthus fragrans 



INSECT. 

 71. Larva of an insect which ravages the 

 leaves of pear trees 



DIAGRAMS. 

 80, 81. Angles at which props should 

 be applied to a newly planted large 

 tree ... 447, 



OPERATIONS, 

 to 79. Modes of training and pruning 

 fruit trees . . 440. 



Mode of training Kennfedza rubicinida 

 and other slender climbing plants - 

 Training vines in potS 

 Mode of growing large liliaceous plants 



in the front of a green-house 

 Mode of growing early potatoes, ra. 

 dishes, &c. on stages like green.house 



76. 



89. 



94. 

 103. 



104. 



34. 

 35. 

 49, 



353 

 354 

 472 

 694 

 695 

 696 



- 378 



441 



483 

 574 



. 614 



MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES. 

 Watchmaker's skewer of Guelder rose 



wood 

 Skewer for cooks from hawthorn 



spines 

 50. Iron stakes for supporting plants 

 to 70. Improved clothes pegs 

 Peg for training branches of cucum. 



ber plants 

 Leathern bearing straps 

 Leathern wallet used in nailing wall 



trees 

 Siebe's newly-invented self-pressure 



cock 

 Straw protectors for wall trees in 



blossom 

 A seed-cloth for light seeds 

 Seeds of the royal dwarf kidneybean 



235 

 284 

 370 



463 

 613 



651 



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