GENERAL INDEX. 



Specimens, botanical, on preserving, 243. 



Spirit from grape-vines, distillation of, 249. 



Spongiole, a, defined, 586. 



Sportsmen, horticulture for, 219. 



Squirrels barking trees, 245. 



Stakes for supporting plants, iron ones, 284 ; 

 these remarked on, 715; stakes for supporting 

 recently removed trees, 451. 



Starkey, Mrs., her admirable patronage of flori- 

 culture instanced, 525. 



Stocks, paradise, a selection of varieties of apple 

 fittest for ingrafting upon, 589 ; the action, 

 and the reasons of it, of stocks on the scions 

 ingrafted on them, 583, 584. 



Stoughton Hall and gardens, in Leicestershire, 

 reported, 425. 



Stowe palace and gardens, noticed, 389. 



Straps, leathern, for bearing hand and vpheel- 

 barrows, &c., 613. 



Strathlyrum, Scotland, gardens at, noticed, 681. 



Strawlierries, Middleton's mode of cultivating, 

 468 ; the finest kinds of, 116 ; gardens of, at 

 Montmorency, 91. 



Strawberry wall, Byers's, adopted, 426; com- 

 mended, and tiles suggested for use in build- 

 ing it, 121; again commended, 429; annual 

 planting shown by Mr. Byers not to be indis- 

 pensable, 507. 



Stroud House and gardens reported, 365. 



Succulent plants, Mr. Hitchen's collection of,'at 

 Norwich, 223 ; hints on cultivating, 540. 



Supports and props to removed trees, 445. 



Sutton Place, near Ripley, noticed, 365. 



Sutton Wash embankment, 674. 



Swedish Royal Academyof Agriculture atStock- 

 holm, 91. 



Sweet's British Flower-Garden, its scope, 475 ; 

 criticised, 709. 



Syon gardens, Brentford, reported, 366. - 



Tally, a kind of, adopted in the Tooting nursery, 

 685 ; the white porcelain kind of, and its iron 

 shank, figured and described, and their price 

 stated, 362, 363; and the expense of inscribing 

 the tally stated, 362 ; detailed directions for 

 inscribing tallies, 243. 347 ; new kinds of tally 



i employed in the gardens at Brasted Park, 281 ; 

 Peake's semimetallic tallies, 94. 



Tamarisk, its patience of drought, prevalence in 

 Arabia and Nubia, where its foliage is food 

 for camels, 92. 



Tamponet's garden, Paris, noticed, 133. 



Tapioca, and its uses, described, 470. 



Tatton Park, house, and gardens, noticed, 549. 



Tea from the leaves of hawthorn and of sloe, 

 698 ; T/iea vi'ridis comparatively hardy, 677. 



Thermosiphon, Fowler's, its usefulness in- 

 stanced, 376. 612. 



ThunbergM aiata, the propagation of, 123. 246. 



Tiles, Peake's semi-metallic, 225 ; Grecian, 94. 



Tomato, utility of gathering unripe, and of ma- 

 turing them on the shelves of hot-houses, 195; 

 receipt for making tomato sauce, 698. 



Tombstones, numerous, elegant, and cheap at 

 Dumfries, 528 ; figures of two, 529. 



Tottenham Park, 136; a new flower garden 

 in, 138. 



Tour, Conductor's, in 1831, 385. 513. 641. 



Touraine, its gardens, vineyards, scenery, early 

 vegetation, and other characteristics 487. 



Tours, the town in France, the state of the 

 gardens at, in midwinter, 88 ; the soil of, 88 ; 

 the various circumstances of the occupation 

 of land at, 89. 



Training and pruning fruit trees physiologically 

 illustrated, 440 ; grape-vines in pots for forc- 

 ing, 602. 574; the Esparto rush, L^'geum 

 Spartum, occasionally used in training in 

 France, l5 ; effects of training on fruit trees, 

 and why, 583; Kennfedia rubici'inda, 483; 

 rosebushes, and Cyd5nia japonica trained up- 

 riglit, 192 ; a kind of ladder useful in train- 

 ing trees, 26. 



Transplanting, how to effect, successfully, 586; 

 the philosophy of this, 5S6. 



Transplanting large trees and shrubs. Thorn's 



759 



machine for, 29 ; criticised, 713 ; Saul's ma- 

 chine for, 655. 



Traps for catching larks, 98 ; excellent mouse, 

 trap, 219 ; traps for mice, 608. 



Trees, a hand-engine for watering, 612 ; barked 

 by squirrels, 245 ; fruit-trees, when barren, 

 made productive, by the means enumerated, 

 583 ; drawings of full grown trees suggested 

 for the projected Arboretum Britdnnicum, 

 374 ; varieties of British trees, 374 ; unusual 

 weeping kinds of, 375 ; undescribed kinds of, 

 in the nurseries named, 375 ; directory sug- 

 gestions on planting trees, 542 ; they enrich, 

 not impoverish, soils, 702 ; exotic ones which 

 are tender when young, should , have nurses 

 of their own genus, 413. 616 ; extensive de- 

 struction of forest-trees by the short-tailed 

 fieldmouse, 608 ; mode of destroying the 

 mice, 608; trees in nursery rows, a narrow 

 spade for thinning them out, figured and de- 

 scribed, 612; large trees, Lombardy poplar, 

 716; deciduous cypress trees near Mexico, 

 670 ; large trees successfully transplanted, 

 296, 297 ; propped, 445 ; Saul's machine for 

 transplanting, 655 ; trees protected from the 

 erosions of hares and rabbits, by Mr. Wal- 

 dron's balsam, 282 ; trees the friends of man. 

 372. ' 



Trentham gardens, noticed, 390. 



Trevirana coccinea, a successful method of 

 blooming, 605 ; hints on cultivating, 570. 



Trianon, Grand and Petit, remarks on, 11. 



Tulip bulbs, the destruction of, by the fungus 

 Sclerbtium Tuliparmn Schedl., 91 ; tulips and 

 auriculas destroyed, 100 ; tulips for borders, 

 366; Laurence's La Joie tulip described, 601. 



Turnips, field ones, Agronome's mode of hus- 



5"- banding, 88 ; a large turnip, 678. 



[/""lex curopEe"'a contains salt, and is good for 

 horses and cattle, 375 ; U. nilna abounds be- 

 tween High Hesketh and Wetherall, 519. 



Umbelliferous plants, remarks on the whole- 

 someness of some kinds, and poisonousness of 

 others, 594. 



Ura.nia specibsa, a query on, 246. 



Van Diemen's Land, fruit trees sent to, 9i. 



Vandes, Comte de, the stoke-holes good, and 

 men made comfortable in garden, 414. 616. 



Varieties, cross-bred ones, or hybrids, the means 

 of procuring, 581. 583. See also Hybrids, and 

 Hybridising. 



Vases, Peake's, noticed, 94; Falcke's, 689; Se- 

 lene's, 693 ; Jones's, 693. 



Vegetables, qualities in, entitling to prizes, 627. 



Ventilation, the great importance of, in dwell- 

 ings, 214 ; in manufactories, and hints on ef- 

 fecting, 418 ; hot-houses, 83. 



Ferbt!na chamaedrifolia eulogised, 204 ; its hardi- 

 ness remarked, 204. 620. 



Ver blanc, its ravages in France, 16. 



Vermin and insects destroyed by applying the 

 ammoniacal liquor of coal gas, 557 ; by steam, 

 508. 



Versailles, the pleasure-gardens of the palace at, 

 criticised, 7; the kitchen-garden of, 8. 



Vibert's nursery at St. Denis, 16. 



Villa residences, remarks on, 399 ; rules for lay. 

 ing out the grounds of, 400. 551. 



Villages, remarks on the improvement of which 

 they are capable, instanced by what has been 

 effected at Bowness, on Windermere, by Mrs. 

 Starkey, 525 ; and at Slyne, near Lancaster, 

 by Mr. and Mrs. Greene Bradley, 526 ; naming, 



Vilmorin and Co.'s niirseries, reported, 17; 

 their seed business noticed, 19 ; their gar- 

 dener, M. Courtois, at Verriferes, 659. 



Vines, the fittest kinds for open walls, 116 ; the 

 fittest kinds for vineries, 116 ; the young 

 shoots, leaves, and tendrilsof the vine contain 

 chemical substances precisely similar to those 

 in the crude fruit, 250. For additional refer- 

 ences, see Grape vines. 



Vineyards of Touraine, and in other parts of 

 France, 487. 657 ; of America, 318. 



