GENERAL INDEX, 



liistory, and therabde of destroying stasked, 

 721 ; partly ans., 336. 

 Hed^ to be useful and ornamental, fittest 

 plants for, q., 725. Hobson's Musci Britdit^ 

 nici, or Specimens of British Mosses, vi. 

 749 ; is there a second volume ? q. vii. 124. 

 Illustrations of Landscape-Gardening, q., va- 

 rious, on ; ans., 720. Insect like a brown 

 scale infests pears and pear trees ; how can 

 it be destroyed or prevented ? 721 ; partly 

 ans., 721. Ivy on timber, its effects, q., 223. 

 7215. 

 Kidneybeans, haricots verts, how best to keep 



green through the winter, q., 249. 

 Labels, porcelain, most permanent mode of 

 inscribing, q., 243; one mode described, 

 243; another, 362. Leaves growing out of 

 pears, q., 722 ; ans., 722. Lilac, a very beau- 

 tiful, and perhaps rare, variety of, which, 

 q., 379. Lilac, &c., retarding the flowering 

 of, till August and September, q., vi. 229, 

 vii. 247. Lily, Jacobsean, does it frequently 

 produce seeds? 728. 

 Macli>r« aurantlaca, uses, properties, and na- 

 tive ^character of, q., vi. 104; ans., vii. 508. 

 Machine for sweeping street, invented in 

 America, information on, asked, 723. Mush- 

 rooms, prodigious, culture producing, q., 

 731. 

 Peas, hard boiling ones, q., 125; ans., 249. 

 Peach trees, Mr. Seymour's, the soil in which 

 they grow, q., vi. 696 ; ans., vii. 248. Pear 

 from a tree in an old orchard nearGloucester, 

 kind and its name, q., 730. Pear, Marie 

 Louise, its fitness to grow as a standard, q., 

 730 ; partly ans., 730. Pears and pear trees, 

 infested with an insect resembling a brown 

 f-; scale ; how can it be destroyed ? 721 ; partly 

 ans., 721. Pear trees, a larva which devours 

 tlie leaves of, and an insect like a scale 

 which adheres to the bark of, their names, 

 q., 378. Perry, can it be obtained from the 

 young shoots of the pear tree ? q. 250. Pine 

 apple, numerous queries on various methods 

 of cultivating the, 729. Pine apples, grown 

 in beds of earth at Castle Semple, their suc- 

 cess,';q., 248. Plants, culture of, in suburban 

 gardens, q., 720. Polygala vulgaris, varie- 

 ties of, with different colours, q., 246 ; ans., 

 380. 717, Potato, pink-eyed variety of 

 Wales, q., 249 ; ans., 731. Preserving bo. 

 tanical specimens, q., 243. Pump, the best 

 for raising cow urine from a tank into carts, 

 q., 243 ; ans., 244. 

 Residence, a classical or a suburban, laying 

 out, q., vi.'226; ans., 723. Roses, Scottish, 

 fit for a garden hedge, q., 728. 

 Sand on the inner surface of glasses used in 

 propagating, how comes it there ? q., 379. 

 Specific gravity of fruits and roots, q., 243. 

 Spirits distilled from grasses, and other ve- 

 getables, q., 249. Squirrels barking trees, 

 q., 245. Steam, its application to the de- 

 struction of the white bug in hot-houses, 

 q.,5L'8; ans., 508. Surinam yam, or large 

 cattle potato, where obtainable, q., 249 ; 

 ans., 249. r. 



Thunb^rgia alkta, the best means of multiply, 

 ing, q., 123 ; ans., 246. Trees, various, 

 queries on the principle of pruning at the 

 time, and on account of, transplanting them, 

 q., 507; noticed, 714. 

 Urania specibsa, has any English botanist seen, 



in a state of nature ? q., 245, 

 Vegetable physiology, on the practical applica- 

 tion of a knowledge of,q. 507; noticed, 714. 

 Rabbits eat Campanula Mfedium, 100. See Hares. 

 Radishes, plan for obtaining them early, 614. 

 Railroads, remarks descriptive, commendatory, 



and admonitory, on, 523. 

 iJantlnculus amplexicaiilis and^arnassisfdlius, 



599. 

 Ranunculuses, Reid's remarks on Tyso's me- 

 thod of raising seedlings, 121 ; Rev. Jos. Tyso's 

 reply, and farther developement of his me- 

 thod, 565; Mr. Reid's mode of cultivation. 



757 



■'' 567 ; Mr. Sweet's plan of originating hew va- 

 rieties from seeds, 205. 

 Raspberries, the finest kinds of, 116, 

 Rats eat tlie roots and wood of oak, 235. * 

 Reaping machine. Bell's, a report on, 103. 

 Red spider destroyed by clear water, 279 ; uses 

 and benefits of a red spider, Trombidium se. 

 riceum, 218. 

 Representative system of vegetables, 150. 375. 



674. 

 Retrospective Criticism, 116. 235. 376. 505. 616. 

 699. 



Anemometer proposed for use, 231 ; criticised, 

 618. Aphides, destroying of, vi. 553, vii. 

 244. Apples, method of keeping a winter 

 stock of, 368. 617. 

 Botanic names, literal translation of, 118; 

 specific names should not be named after 

 men, 118. Botanical Magazine, remarks on, 

 117. Botanical Register, ^remarks on, vi. 

 721, vii. 117. Berberry, the stoneless, 241. 

 Conductor, a lecture to, 117; principles and 

 conduct of, vi. 720; defended, vii. 699. 701. 

 Comte de Vandes, stoke-holes in his garden ' 

 at Bayswater, 414. 616. Cottage gardening, 

 vi. 139. to 208 ; criticised, vii. 706. 708. Cow- 

 cabbage, or Cesarean kale (v. 64. fig. 14, vi. 

 104.) deemed identical with the Anjou cab- 

 bage, vi. 366; denied to be so, vii. 121. 

 Cruickshank's theory, that trees enrich soils, 

 vi. 453; confirmed, vii. 702. Cucurbitaceous 

 plants, facts and criticisms on hybridising, 

 iv. 514 ; vi. 502. 727 ; vii. 622. 718. Cycla- 

 mens, their culture recommended, 561. 563 ; 

 criticised and intensified, 717. 

 £r3ca3, indigenous, query on, 246; reply, 379; 

 criticism on, 717. Eschsch61tZM! californica, 

 remarks on, 342 ; confirmed and extended, 

 620. 

 Fowler's mode of heating by hot water, v. 453, 

 vi. 334. 377, vii. 376. 378. Fruits, preserv- 

 ation of, 368. 617. 

 Georgiwa, as a name for Da.hMa, criticised, 

 and Ge6rgia proposed, 716. Grafting in the 

 dovetail mode, its first discovery ^claimed by 

 Mr. Diack, vi. 698; that claim disproved, 

 vii. 711. Grape vines grown under rafters 

 in pineries, 412. 539 ; shown not to be a new 

 practice, 718. Grevillea concinna of Broiun, 

 and Grevillea concinna of tindley, 201. 506. 

 Heating by hot water, as practised by Juvenis 

 Olitor, vi. 671 ; criticised and amended, vii. 

 238. Heath mould, peat or bog earth, dis- 

 criminated, 285 ; criticised, 714. Houst6n/a 

 purpurea, habitat of, in North America, 

 237. Houstbnifl! serpyllifblia, its North 

 American habitat, 236. Hop culture in cot- 

 tage gardens, vi. 148, vii. 707. Horticul- 

 tural Society's award of prizes for fruit at 

 the fete, 1831, criticised, 716. >s»: 

 Inutility of the meagre Report of the London 

 Horticultural Society usually given in this 

 Magazine, 117. Irish cottage or cabin, 

 Howden's description of an, vi. 657 ; criti- 

 cised, vii. 505. Irish peasantry, Howden's 

 strictures on, vi. 657 ; replied to, vii. 505. 

 711. Iron stakes suggested, 234 ; criticisms 

 and farther suggestions on, 715. 

 Lindley's remarks on Linnaeus, under the 

 genus Valantza, Encyclopcedia of Plants, 862 ; 

 criticised, Gard. Mag., vii. 119. 

 Malt making, vi. 148 ; criticised, vii. 706. Malt, 

 its increase under malting stated, vi. 147 ; 

 statement criticised, vii. 706. Manchester 

 botanic garden, 413. 557. 616. Manual of 

 Cottage Gardening, vi. 139. to 203 ; criticised 

 vii. 706. to 709. Melons, hybrid ones, iv 

 514, vi. 502. 727, vii. 622. Monteath pear 

 tree at Ormiston HaU, vi. 495; criticised, 

 vii. 239 ; replied to, 620. MenziesM cajrulea. 

 North American habitat of, 236. Meteoro- 

 logical Journal, Gorrie's proposed formu- 

 lary and anemometer for, 231 ; criticised 

 618. ' 



Neeve's meridian pits, 289; criticised, and 

 slightly censured, 715. Norman cress, uses 



