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GENERAL INDEX. 



tnirably successful mbde of cultivating Ameri- 

 can plants, 305 ; hints on the culture of Ame- 

 rican plants, 285. 490. TOfi; directions for 

 Belecling and packing trees, shrubs, and 

 plants destined for America, 4il ; a selection 

 of plants for forming a representative system 

 of vegetables, 150 ; catalogues of acclimated 

 plants proposed, 722; bulbous plants, lost or 

 missing liardy kinds of, 247 ; a list of hardy 

 bulbous plants for a bed, 35 ; of many exotic 

 species of dioecious plants, but one sex exists 

 in Britain, 572 ; some instances, 573 ; Dr. 

 Goppert's work on the heat in plants, their 

 susceptibility of frost, and, the means of de- 

 fending.them from, mentioned, 91; green- 

 house kinds of plants fit for decorating open 



; borders during summer, 610 ; plants, indi- 

 genous, at the Cape of Good Hope, some of, 

 enumerated, 81 ; tiie species in New Hol- 

 land shown to be almost endless, 598; some 

 of the rarer plants of India and Asia, 207 ; 

 indigenous, seen from the road in the Con- 

 ductor's inland tour, 387; others seen between 

 Banbury and Dumfries, with remarks on the 

 relation borne by plants to soils and strata, 517 ; 

 plants in hot-houses need a season of rest, 541 ; 

 directory hints on potting plants, 540 ; a plan 

 for growing large liliaceous plants along 

 the in.side front of a green-house, 614 ; new, 

 rare, and beautiful plants, 60. 199. 337. 469. 

 593: see also Horticultural Societies, and the 

 plants exhibited at them ; new or rare plants 

 which have flowered in the neighbourhood ol 

 Edinburgh, 102 ; their affinity to particular 

 strata of the earth, 372 ; somewhat questioned, 

 517 ; the food of plants, 437. 706 ; the indivi- 

 duality of plants raised from seeds, as distin- 

 guished from the sameness of those raised 

 from layers, grafts, cuttings, or buds, 357 ; in- 

 stanced also in seedling mezereons, 353 ; and 

 in seedlings of Rlbes sangufneum, 359. 



Plimley, Mr., his merits, 238. 



Pliny's Tuscan villa, plan and description of, 723. 



Ploughs, Wilkie's, exported to Jamaica, and 

 there called banking ploughs, 104. 



Plums, the finest kinds of, 115. 



Polyanthus, George the Fourth, excellent, 27. 

 498 ; and packed excellently, 716. 



Polygala vulgaris, varieties of, 246. 380. 717. 



Polyp6dium vulgare growing on trees, 618. 



Pope's nursery, Handsworth, near Birmingham, 

 noticed, 237. 410. 



Poplar, Lombardy, when introduced, and the 

 excBllence of its wood, 716; the Athenian, its 

 uses, 234 ; poplars, their dissemination by their 

 winged seetis, 9. 



Population, agricultural, its condition in 1831, 

 419. 527 ; population in danger of surpassing the 

 productiveness of the soil, 499; that of Britain 

 not too large, 522. 



Posts, durability of those made of red cedar, 220. 



Pot carrier, an implement so called, 614. 



Potato-culture in fields in thenorthern counties 

 described, 532 ; the pink-eyed potato grown in 

 Wales, 249. 731 ; the large cattle potato, or 

 Surinam yam, 249; the sweet potato (Con- 

 v61vulus JBatcLtas), modes of cultivating and 

 preserving, 10. 



Potatoes, advantages from planting them whole, 

 715 ; instrument for facilitating the gathering 

 potatoes, 92 ; mode of boiling which renders 

 them excellent, 369 ; a new mode of cultivat. 

 ing, 40 ; a peculiar plan for forcing, 614. 



Pots, a mode of eking them, 354 ; thumb-pots, 

 why so called, 351 ; Pcake's, 94; with an in- 

 terior moveable bottom, 189. 



Potted plants should be potted high up their 

 pots, 540; and why, 541. 



Prairies, origin of, 670. 



Preston in Lancashire, notices relative to, 538. 



Prestwould Hall and gardens noticed, 426. 



Primula farini)sa succe.5sfully cultivated, .306. 



Priory gardens, St. Andrew's, Scotland, 679. 



Prizes, the unities which exhibited articles 

 should possess which compete for, 625; rules 

 for the adjudication of, 626; for desserts. 501. 



Promenade gardens, public, one at Liverpool, 



557 ; are general on the Continent, and should 



be in Britain, 5.57. 



Propagation, various modes and means of, 189", 



584 ; and the physiology of them, 584. to 687. 



Property, the nature of the tenure of, afFecta 



improvem.ents, 410; makes a man houestj 



223. 



Props and supports to recently removed trees, 



445 ; criticisms on, 713. 

 Protecting the blossoms of wall trees from inju- 

 rious weather, by projecting boards, 85 ; by 

 straw protectors, 85, 86 ; by branches or spray 

 of birch, 322 ; by canvass screens, 681 ; by 

 oiled paper frames, l92. 

 Prussia, state of gardening in, 90. 660. 

 Public-houses, improvements and defects in, 530. 

 Quenby Hall and gardens, in Leicestershire, re- 

 ported, 423 ; old cedar of Lebanon at, 423. 

 Quentin's nursery reported, 17. 

 Queries and Answers, 121. 242. 378. 507. 720. 

 Queries and Answers. 

 Acclimated plants, list of, asked, 722. Ama- 

 ryllis liitea, cause of its not blossoming, q., 

 124; ans., 124. Amateur gardeners, and 

 babes in floriculture, their q.,245; ans., 245. 

 American blight, its cause and cure, q., 319 ; 

 ans., 721. Aphides, destroying all species of, 

 q., vi. 403. 553 ; ans., vii. 244. Armagh, 

 public walks of, q., 123. Asparagus, Prus- 

 sian, Ornithogalum pyrenaicum, how to 

 dress for table, q., 249. 

 Balm of G dead fir fails in England, why ? 725, 

 Barley big, or winter, its fitness for certain 

 soils, culture, and uses, q., 731; ans., 731. 

 Bulbous plants, lost or missing hardy kinds 

 of, q., vi. 368 ; three species found, 247 ; 

 the remainder still missing, 

 Camellias, the culture and propagation of, 

 q., 728. The Lady Bath heartsease, where 

 obtainable, q., 723. Carrots, queries on the 

 name, and mode of destroying a grey grub 

 which devours, q., 721 ; partly ans., 336. 

 Caterpillars, greenish black marked ones, on 

 cabbages, q., Magazine of Natural History, 

 iii. 476 ; under the head of flies and butter. 

 flies, ans.. Gardener's Magazine, vii. 121. 

 Chloride of lime, its effects on plants, q., 



378. Chrysanthemum sim^nse, how best to 

 secure the blooming, of, without a green- 

 house, q., 123. Cider, can it be obtained 

 from the young shoots of the apple tree ? q., 

 250. Country residence in the south of Eng- 

 land, requisites for, 244 ; ans., 508. Cowslip, 

 rosaceous, double, not hose in hose, q., iv. 

 446 ;.ans., vii. 123. 247. Cropping a new gar- 

 den, q., 245. 



Dandelion, how to destroy, q., 722. Doryan- 

 thes exc^lsa, culture of, to cause to blossom, 

 q., 728, Dumfries sandstone, its fitness for 

 vases, fountains, and other garden orna- 

 ments, q., 724. 



.Erics, indigenous, hov/ man v,q., vii. 246; ans., 



379. 717. Erica, the genus, i. 88. 131. 363. 

 366. ; q. vii. 246. 



Flower-garden, plan of, given, 726 ; opinions 

 of gardeners on, asked, 725. Fruit-wall, 

 heathig a hollow one, 84 ft. long, by hot 

 water, how best effected, q , 124. Fruits, 

 choice, where can plants of, be procured 

 true ? q., 244. 



Gardens and residences of note in Scotland, 

 descriptions and sketches of, for the statis- 

 tics of Scotland, in the Encyclopccdia of Gar- 

 dening, q. 242. Garden, small, how to cul- 

 tivate, q., 244. Gardening, the best plain 

 short treatise on, q., 243; ans., 243. Gar- 

 dens, suburban, management of, and culture 

 of plants in, q., 720. Geni\d.na acaiilis, cul- 

 ture of, q,728. Georgi«a, late struck'cuttings 

 of, how best to keep through the winter, 

 q., 123. Grapes, how to preserve best and 

 longest after they are cut, q., 248; partly 

 ans., 248. Grapes, Frontignac, fail fre- 

 quently of a crop, cause, q., 730. Grub, 

 grey, which devours carrots, its name and 



