753 



GENERAL INDEX. 



AcA y ciAjulibrissin, 35 ft. high, near Philadel- 

 phia, 272. 



Acclimatising half-hardy exotics to the sea- 

 sons of Britain, 45; Bowie's directions for 

 acclimatising, in the gardens of Britain, the 

 plants of Australia and the Cape of Good 

 Hope, 5 ; a list of the plants which have stood 

 out at Drumcondra, near Dublin, during one 

 or more winters, 568 ; list of exotics which 

 have lived for several years in the gardens of 

 Charles Hoare, Esq. at Luscombe, Devon, 

 566; Nerine humihs and undulata, nearly 

 hardy, 81. 



A\er, the species of, whose sap is used in 

 America for the formation of sugar, 503. 



Admirable, a drink, a method of making, 182. 



JEcidium laceratum, a fungus parasitic on haw- 

 thorn, 179; iEcidium, a species of, parasitic 

 on the leaves and fruit of pear trees, 738. 



Agriculture, remarks appertaining to, 220; on 

 chloride of lime in, 445 ; British Society of 

 Agriculture, 89. 



Alder, common in light sandy soil, grows more 

 rapidly than birch, 456. 



Almond, tree, double flowered, 737. 



Amaryllis, M. Otto's remarks on the culture of 

 the genus, 188; Amaryllis gigantea, and its 

 culture, 189 ; fbrmosi'ssima seeds in the open 

 air, in England, 94. 



America, North, notices on, 70 ; wild shrubs of, 

 75; geology of l'hilipsburgh in Pennsylvania, 

 76; the treatment received in the United 

 States by a young British gardener, .360 ; 

 Mrs. Trollope's book on America noticed, 

 360 ; sugar procured in America from the sap 

 of species of maple, 502; critical notice of 

 Mrs. Trollope's account of the indigenous 

 flowers and fruits of the state of Ohio, 374. 



America. See Nurseries. 



American blight. See A^phis. 



Ammoniacal liquor of coal gas, destroys insects 

 and vermin, 41 ; a mode of applying it, 656. 



Andromedm arbbrea, 75 ft. high, near Phil- 

 adelphia, 272. 



Angles, an instrument for laying off or trans- 

 ferring them, in practical gardening, 30. 



Annual flowering plants, the seeds of some 

 species of, should be sown in autumn, 570. 



Ants, a means of destroying, 148. 



A^phis lain'gera, on apple and other trees, a 

 means of destroying, 53. 149; the A^phis, on 

 peach and nectarine trees, a mode of destroy- 

 ing the, 580. 



Apple, the kinds of, which thrive in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Kilkenny, and their character- 

 istics, 165 ; early kinds of, 167 ; middle season 

 binds of, 168; late keeping kinds of, 179; 

 kinds of apple eligible for making cider, 244 ; 

 information and a query on the Shustoke 

 pippin apple, 610; a ladder held up by ropes 

 for gathering apples, &C..581 ; remarks on the 

 relative value for cider of the golden pippin, 

 Chaseley Harvey, Flanders pippin, and other 

 kinds of apple, 583. 



Apple powder, the Chelsea, enquiry on, 610. 



Apple trees, on raising them from pips, 317 ; 

 apple trees trained to a wall built at an angle 

 of 10 deg. to the earth's horizon, produced an 

 abundance of fruit, 183 ; a mode of destroying 

 the bug, or A^phis lanigera, on apple trees, 

 52. 357 ; Kirke's emperor apple tree, sported 

 with double lowers, 737. 



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Apricot, Mr.Thompson's report on the varieties 

 of, 433. 



Aquarium, a mode of forming an, 8$. . 



Aralia spinosa, 25 ft. high, near Philadelphia, 

 272. 



Architecture, notices on, 205 ; Loudon's Ency- 

 clopedia of Architecture, its plan and scope, 

 221 ; architecture about London, criticisms 

 on, 473. 



Armagh palace, gardens at, 81. 



Arrow-root, the method, by which the inha- 

 bitants of Otaheite prepare, 585 ; queries on 

 the quantity of tubers in relation to the space 

 the plants occupy, and on the quantity of 

 fecula in proportion to that of tubers, 736 



Artichoke, a variety of, its blanched leafstalks 

 are much eaten at Rome and Naples, 267. 271. 



Asparagus, hints on cultivating, 180 ; at Berlin, 

 green asparagus is preferred in winter, 

 blanched asparagus during spring, 450 ; Prus- 

 sian asparagus, Ornithogalum pyrenaicum, 

 described, 613. 



Auchincruive, its charms and features sketched, 

 595. 



Auriculas, the management of, and soil for, in 

 low situations, queried 736. 



Australia, notices on, 77; Bowie's hints on 

 cultivating and acclimatising, in England, 

 the leguminous plants of Australia, 15. 



Awning and frame, cheap, for shading florists' 

 flowers grown in beds, 45. 



Bagnoles Wells, some account of, 63 ; the vege- 

 table productions of the neighbourhood of, 

 356. 



Balsam, JSalsam'ina hortensis Desportes, an in- 

 vestigation of its structure, 403. 



Bark of trees, a recipe for promoting its growth 

 over barkless places, 150. 



Barley, information and queries respecting agri- 

 cultural horses fed on, 613; barley big, its 

 history and uses, 95. 



Batata. See Ipomee^a Batatas. 



Bean, field (.Faba vulgaris), a very vigorous 

 plant of, 187. 



Bee, the honey bee has the power to generate 

 a queen, 498. 



Beech, purple-leaved, the seeds of, produce 

 some purple-leaved. seedlings, 445. 



Beehive, Huish's, corrections to the printed 

 dimensions of, 375; Young's description of 

 two kinds of beehive, 664. 



Beer from sugar mixed with inferior malt or 

 Uiimalted barley, 95 ; cheap beer for gar- 

 deners and their workmen, modes of pro. 

 ducing, 61 ; ale, how to make, from the man- 

 gold wurzel, 697. 



Beetles, black, a means of destroying, 148. 



Berries, some wild white and red in Norway, 

 of what plants? 611. 



Beulah Spa, its gardens noticed, 594. 



Birch, .Betula alba, economical properties of, 

 93; grows not so fast as alder on light sandy 

 soil, 456. . 



Birmingham botanical and horticultural gar- 

 den, Mr. Loudon's plans for, 407 ; gardens of 

 the workmen at Birmingham, 79. 



Boiler, Neeve's improved forms fo'r boilers, at- 

 tached to apparatus for heating bv hot water, 

 28. 



Botanical and horticultural society : Bristol, 

 118 ; Bristol and Clifton, 119 ; Devon and 

 Exeter, 627. 748; Hexham, 632; Manchester, 



