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GENERAL INDEX. 



Barking tlie'stems of fruit trees and vines, 6(32. 



Barley, tlie average quantity yielded per acre, 

 706; barley big, and winter barley, 731. 



Bartram's botanic garden on the Scliuylkill, near 

 Philadelphia, and memoir of John Bartram, 

 6G5. 



Basket or bed of spring flowers, a, described, 483. 



Bees, their importance to cottagers, 707. 747 ; a 

 method of hiving, and the Charlieshope hive 

 for, described, 669. 



Beet, large, 678. 



Belvoir Castle, park, and gardens, in Leicester- 

 shire, reported, 421. 



Benincasa cylindrica described, 719. 



Birberis dulcis expected to prove a new fruit 

 shrub, and particularly described, 474. 



Berberry, the stoneless, a distinct and perma- 

 nent variety, 241. 



Berlin botanic garden, Herr Otto's great im- 

 provements of, noticed, 91. 



Birmingham, small gardens at, and their excel- 

 lent effect, 409. 



Birmingham Botanical and Horticultural So- 

 ciety, report of, 97; its garden, 415. 



Birstall Hall, the gardens at, noticed, 426. 



Bletzo Ayaclnthiraa, hardihood of, 484. 



Bog earth, its ineligibility for American plants 

 and the /ihodor^ceze asserted, 285 ; confirmed, 

 706 ; its native localities and uses, 714. 



Bogs in Ireland, the fittest species of tree to 

 plant in, 24. 



Bois de Boulogne, 5. 



Books, old, on botany and gardening, collected 

 for sale and exchange at the Lavender Hill 

 nursery, 98. 217. 



Botanical and Horticultural Societies : 

 Bristol, April lyth. May 17th, and June 21st, 



631. 

 Devon and Exeter, Sept. 29th, 739. 

 Durham, 6.:9. 

 Hexham, Nov. 22d, 1830, 127 ; April 30th and 



July 2d, 630. 

 Newcastle, Nov. 5th and 22d, 1830, 127 ; April 

 8th, May 6th, June 3d, and July 8th and 

 12th, 630. 

 Northumberland and Durham, Sept. 15th, 745. 

 South Devon and East Cornwall, Feb. 3d and 

 July 21st, 739. 



Botanical Magazine, some errors relative to the 

 habitats of plants in, corrected, 236 ; use of 

 the, 416. 



Botanical Register, a criticism on the, 117 ; use 

 of the, 416. 



Botanic garden, a public one wanted near Lon- 

 don, 96; of Birmingham, 97; Bury St. Ed- 

 mund's, change in the site of that of, an- 

 nounced, 96 ; in the Isle of Bourbon, 664 ; of 

 Australia, 672; of Baltimore, 668; Bartram's, 

 664; that of Hull, reported, 97 ; that of Chel- 

 sea, 691 ;- tire south of England one, sketched, 

 220. 



Botanists, their amiable cooperation, 212. 



Botany, in North America, 94; its advancement 

 in Kussia, 489 ; physiological remarks on, 235 ; 

 the natural sy.stera of, its characteristics, 76; 

 its use, 77 ; Wakefield's Introduction to, eu- 

 logised, 481. 



Bouchier,, l!ev. B., his patronage of gardening 

 among cottagers, 673. 



Bouv&riim triphylla, a superior mode of culti- 

 vating, 48. 562, 563. 



Bdvey Tracey, Chudleigh, Devon, its climate as 

 to plants, 497. 



Bower, the Duchess of Buccleugh's, 554. 



Bowness, on Windermere, its beauty, and the 

 cause of that beauty, 525. 



Boxwood, a substitute for hops, 698. 



Brazil, the botany of, explored by Russia, 489. 

 Bretton Hall, the very ornamental iron gate at, 

 figured, 613. 



Brewin, Mr., his garden and collection of plants 

 at Leicester, 425 ; a notice of the late Mr. 

 Brewin, 426. 

 Brewing, useful hints on, 707. 



Bridges, Mr. Thomas, collector and vender of 

 the natural productions of South America, re- 

 sident at Valparaiso, 95. 340 



Bristol, a public garden at, projected, twl. 

 673. 



Broccoli, Sicilian, noticed, 590. 



Bromhead, Sir E. F., his improvements in the 

 condition of labourers, 6^7. 



Brookhouse, Joseph, E.sq., an obituary of, 512. 



Brown, Robert, Esq., of Markle, obituary, 256. 



Brugmans<.i suavfenlens, modes of treatment 

 productive of blossoms, 36, 37. 



Bryony root employed in destroying woodlice, 

 486. 



Bud, every, is a distinct system of life, 5S4; 

 every bud asserted to have roots of its own, or 

 the power of forming them, BSk 



Budding and grafting defined, 586. 



Bulbs from Chile, a hint on the management of, 

 339; instructions on planting bulbs, 541 ; 

 Cape bulbs, an instance of satisfactory culture, 

 3u7. 



Burbridge, Mr., his garden at Leicester, 426. 



Burton Woulds, the grounds and gardens at, 

 noticed, 427. 



Bury St. Edmund's botanic garden, change in 

 the site of, announced, 96; mausoleum at, 

 described, 221. 

 "Buscot Park, the peach-houses, and the mode of 

 forcing peaches at, described, 573. 



Cabbage, red, an enormous, 677 ; the cow-cab- 

 bage, or Cesarean kale, not identical with the 

 Anjou cabbage, 121. 



Cabbage tribe, prevention of the ravages of the 

 larvaa of Tipula oleracea, and of those of An- 

 thom^ia brassicEe on the, 91; caterpillars on 

 the, 121. 



C'actese, much cultivated by Mr. Dennis, twenty 

 kinds grafted upon one, 351 ; great age of 

 some, 593. 



Cadet de Mars, M., his field market-garden at 

 Aubervilliers, 259. 



Calls. See Nurseries. 



Camellia, and TItia, a paper on the history and 

 description of the species of, noticed, 52. 



Camellz« japunica, comparative hardiness of, 

 196. 



Camellias, a hint on the culture of, 349. 540. 

 728 ; information respecting, 72. 203. 343. 477. 

 600. 



Campanula pyramidtilis, the varieties and pro. 

 pagation of, 477. 



Campanulacate, eatable by man and animals, 

 100. 



Canals, remarks on, 524. 



Canker, a mode of preventing and curing it in 

 fruit trees, 55 ; its causes, 194. 219. 591. 



Canna, a supposed new species of, 226. 



Cape tif Good Hope, its eligibleness for emi- 

 grants, with much information on various 

 subjects appertaining to the, 81. 490. 



Carleton curlew, in Leicestershire, remarks on, 

 424. 



Carlisle, condition of gardening about, 538. 



Carnation or picotee, qualities in, deserving a 

 prize, 626. 



Carrots, a;mode of preserving them good for kit- 

 chen use through two winters, 191 ; preparing 

 a light garden soil for a crop of, 191 ; how to 

 grow free from maggots, 3'i6 ; devoured by a 

 small grey grub, 721. 



Cassava, or Cassada, and its uses, described, 470. 



Caterpillars, in France, collected and destroyed 

 by government authority, 535. 



Caterpillars of Pontia brassiCEB injurious to cab- 

 bages, but destroyed by the larvEE of ichneu- 

 mon flies, 121 ; the destruction of caterpillars 

 by heat, 197 ; the possibility of their sexual 

 union, 199. 



Catesby, the plants he discovered sent to the 

 I'ulham nursery, 354. 



Cauliflower, extraordinarily large, 678 ; soot de- 

 stroys the grub at the root of plants of, 87. 



Cedar of Lebanon, age and dimensions of an 

 early-planted specimen of, 423. 



Cedar, red, durability of posts made of, 220. 



CMrus Deodara, at Hopetoun House, reported, 

 375. 



Celery, perhaps rendered unwholesome by wa. 

 tcr trenches, 593. 



