496 



INDEX. 



Zactuca, the lettuce, its poisonous and medical 

 qualities, 455. 



La Gasca, Professor, Hortus Siccus by, de- 

 scribed and recommended, 220 ; on the gar- 

 dening and botany of Spain, 393. 



Lamp, for keeping the frost out of small green- 

 houses, 123. 



Landscapes, list of those engraved in Vol. II. 

 of the Gardener's Magazine, viii. 



Land steward, advertisement for a situation, 126. 



Larminat, his experience in grafting the pine 

 tribe, 63. ..'"', 



Latham, Mr. John, his mode of training and 

 fastening the shoots of vines on the roofs of 

 cottages, 43. 



Lathrop's Farmer's Library, &c, 344. 



Latour, Mr., notice of his villa at Craven Hill, 



369. „ , 



iaurustinus, notice of one grafted on the way- 

 faring tree, 60. 



Laying out and planting small gardens, 253. 



Le Bon Jardinier for 1826, by A. Poiteau and 

 Vilmorin, reviewed, 58. ' 



Leek, proliferous, 436. 



Lemna, or duck's meat, in flower in Scotland, 

 101. _ . 



Lemon, M., a noted geranium grower at Pans, 

 59. 



Lemon tree, some account of a remarkable one 

 in the garden of C. Hoare, Esq., at Luscombe, 

 Devonshire, by Mr. Richard Saunders, 29. 



Le6ntodon taraxacum, its medical qualities, 337. 



Lepinois, Petit Cours d' Agriculture, &c, 77. 



Lettuce, cabbage, the Perpignan and Montre, 

 447. 



' union cabbage, 436; black-seeded 



Gotte, 436 ; ice, of the United States, 436. 

 -, sorts of, for small salad, or to be used 



as spinach, 437. 



-, substitute for, in Picridium vulgare, 



437. 



Libraries, garden, see Garden Libraries. 



, village, see Village Libraries. 



Lichtervelde's Beche, ou la mine d'or de la 

 Fiandre Orientale, 344. 



Lime-kilns, 399; Booker's, 400; Menteath's, 

 at Closeburn, 400 ; Heathorn's, 402 ; York- 

 shire, 403. . • 



., comparative remarks on, by J. C. 



Stuart Menteath, Esq. 399. 



Lindegaard's culture of the vine in Denmark, 

 344 



Lindley, John, Esq., F.L.S., Assist. Sec. Hort. 

 Soc, observations upon the natural laws which 

 govern the production of double flowers, 

 arising out of a remarkable case of preter- 

 natural formation in the flowers of an ama- 

 ryllis, 191. 

 , on Persian melons, 433. 



, on the effect of frost on 



plants in the garden of the H. S., &c, 421. 



•, report upon the new or 



rare plants which have flowered in the garden 

 of the Horticultural Society at Chiswick from 

 March, 1824, to March, 1825, 186. 



Linnean Botanic Garden, Flushing, near New 

 York, account of, 90. 



Linnean Society of London, general report on, 

 470 ; Transactions of, Vol. XV., Part I., re- 

 viewed, 338. 



Linnean Society of Paris, 84. 



Liquid manure, on the importance ot, by Mr. 

 John Robinson, F.H.S., 18. 



Lochnile, gardens, 32. , 



Loddiges' Botanical Cabinet, for December, 

 1826 reviewed, 72 ; for January and Febru- 

 ary, 1827, 206 ; for March and April, 334, 335 ; 

 for May and June, 451. 



Loddiges, Messrs., of Hackney, origin and date 

 of their nursery, 386. 



iodoicea, (A name of Commerson's, supposed 

 to be in memory of Laodice, a Trojan lady, 

 who first was made happy by Acamas ; after- 

 wards married Helicaon," son of Antenor; 



next, Telephus, king of Mysia ; and finally 

 threw herself down from the top of a tower, 

 and was killed, when Troy was sacked by the 

 Greeks. Commerson named various plants 

 after remarkable females ; among others, the 

 Hortensz'a, after his own mistress, who, in the 

 disguise of a sailor, saved his life.) the double 

 cocoa nut, its description and uses, 448. 



Z61ium temulentum, its poisonous qualities, and 

 supposed mixture with malt, 211. 



Lombards, Manuel des proprietaries d'abeilles, 

 &c, 78. 



Loquat, Eriob6trya Jap6nica, treatment of, 234. 



Lot's wife, explanation of the allegory respect- 

 ing, by Agronome, 305. 



Loudon's Encyclopadie des Garten wesens, 79. 



Landwirthschaft, 79, 



Lowe, Mr. Hugh, his description of a propa- 

 gation shelf in the Clapton nursery, with the 

 mode of using it, &c, 25. 



Lyne Grove, near Chertsey, Surrey, notice re- 

 specting, 366. 



Machines, list of those figured in Vol. II. of the 

 Gardener's Magazine, viii. 



Maclfira aurantiaca, criticisms on the conduct- 

 or's remarks on, 486. 



-, male plant of, at New 



York, 350. 



MacMurtrie, Mr., C.M.H.S., on a pit and stoves 

 heated by fire and steam jointly, 419. 



Madras school, suitableness of, for country vil- 

 lages, 25. 



Magn6U"a grandifl6ra, mode of preserving from 

 the frost, in Mr. Boursault's garden, 63. 



Magnolia Yt'ilan (conspicua Salisb.), notice of its 

 introduction, 334; superb specimen in the 

 Kensington Nursery figured and described, 

 370. 



Main, Mr., observations on Chinese scenery, 

 plants, and gardening, .135 ; note on winter 

 pruning the vine, 413. 



Malmaison, gardens of, 223. 



Manger's system of classing fruits, 445. 



Mango, account of two varieties ripened in the 

 garden of the Earl of Powis, by Joseph Sabine, 

 Esq., F.RS., &c, 432. 



Mangosteen, see Garcinwz, 223. 



Mangold Wurzel, remarkable field of, 231, 



Manuel du Jardinier,, &c, 78. 



Manure, a cheap and efficacious mode of procur- 

 ing, 233. , 



Manuring, by turning in green crops in bloom, 

 123. 



Marriage tree in Italy, 226. 



Masey, Mr. J. P., notice of a present to garden 

 libraries from, 247. 



Matthews, Mr. Andrew, A. L. S., description of 

 the different varieties of Parsnips, cultivated 

 in the garden of the Horticultural Society of 

 London, 190. 



Maund's Botanic Garden, for December, 1826, 

 reviewed, 73; for January and February, 

 1827, 207 ; for March and April, 336 ; for May 

 and June, 443 ; (advertised), 128. 



M'Dougal, his mode of destroying worms and 

 slugs, 466. 



Mealy Bug, Coccus lanigera, on vines and plants 

 in pots, on the destruction of, by Mr. James 

 Strachan, 166. 



Medals given by Horticultural Societies, re- 

 marks as to the persons and subjects to and for 

 which they are given, 237. 



Medical Botany, &c, by John Stevenson and 

 James Morss Churchill, Esq., Surgeon, re- 

 viewed, No. I. for January, p. 111.: No. II. 

 for Feb., 327 ; for March, April, and June, 454. 



Meloncito de olor, 95 



Melon Compost, on collecting, by W. R. Y, 404. 



Melon, treatise on the, noticed, 74: 



, Winter, description of one of extraordi- 

 nary dimensions, 229. 



Melons and cucumbers, description of stoves for 

 the growth of, by Mr. John Haythorn, 

 'C.M.H.S.,425. 



