GENERAL INDEX. 



754 



115; Newcastle, 252; Northumberland and 

 Durham, 118. 631. 749. 

 Bourne, Frederick, Esq., his garden near Dub- 

 lin, noticed, 83. 371.482. 

 Brandy, home, a mode of making, 180 ; a kind 

 ofbrandy called maroschino is made from the 

 fruit of Primus bis-flbrens, 188. 

 .Brassica, an alternative for avoiding the club in 

 the roots of the different species of, 55. See 

 also Cabbage. 

 Bretton Hall, the green-houses and hot-houses 



at, remarks on, 361 > counter remarks, 607. 

 Bridge-building, 59. 



Broccoli, Portsmouth, the cause of its superi- 

 ority sought, 612. 

 Brugmanswt suaveolens, noticed, 47 ; on the 

 cultivation of, in a conservatory, 159 ; M. 

 Sinning's mode of cultivating, 195. 

 Brussels botanic garden, 400. 

 Buckwheat, a blue colour obtainable from, 42. 

 Bury St. Edmunds, new botanic garden at, 



briefly noticed, 79. 

 Button wood trees, Platanus occidentals, ,of 



very large size in the United States, 153. 

 Cabbage, sea or wild, its excellence as a sauce, 

 54 ; an alternative for avoiding the club in the 

 foots of the cabbage tribe, 55 ; the Jersey cow 

 cabbage, complaints on the exaggerated ac- 

 count of its capabilities, 608. 

 Cactea, increased introduction of, into our 



collections, 47. Cactus, see Cereus. 

 Caladium bicolor and viviparum, M. Sinning's 



method of cultivating, 195. 

 Calceolaria, additional hybrid kinds of, 48 ; C. 

 Atkins^na, noticed, 473. 724; C. Martineau^, 

 noticed, 723. 

 Calystegia sepium and Ipomce a, their corollas 



differ in the mode of withering, 736. 

 Camellias, interesting kinds of, named, 211 ; 

 the management proper to camellias when 

 forced, 435 ; the flowers of camellias are rare 

 and dear at New York, 360. 

 Camera lucida, its efficient service in drawing, 



237. 

 Camphor useful to revive withered plants, 



339. 

 Canker in fruit trees, the effect of a bad sub- 

 soil ; a mode of preventing it, 326 ; a mode of 

 curing it when not the effect of soil, 696. 

 Caoutchouc dissolved in pyrolignous ether 

 preserves twine or cord boiled in it, 554 ; what 

 is the mode of dissolving it ? 735. 

 Cape of Good Hope, Bowie's hints on cultivat- 

 ing in England the leguminous plants of, 5. 

 Carnation, history and culture of, 428; Mr. 

 Hogg's carnation bloomed very satisfactorily 

 in 1832, 593 ; the eminent growers of the car- 

 nation named, 432. 

 Carrots may be grown in soil from a morass, 



56. 

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

 Castle Semple, its grounds, gardens, &c, no- 

 ticed, 596. 

 Caterpillars, a mode of destroying, 323 ; cater- 

 pillars on gooseberry trees, a mode of checking 

 their ravages, 370. 694. 

 Cedar, white. See Cupressus. 

 Celeriac, turnip-rooted celery, hints on culti- 

 vating, 443. 

 Cement, Mr. Frost's, how formed, 60. 

 Cemetery, the plan of a general one for Edin- 

 burgh, sketched, 362. 

 Ceratbnia Siliqua, its frequency and uses in 



Italy, 269. 

 Cereus speciosissimus, magnificent specimen of, 

 at Dropmore, 593; another fine plant of, 80 ; 

 a new seedling Cereus, 361. 

 Chara, the circulation of the sap in, 143. 482. 

 Chemistry, gardening, technical terms in, re- 

 quire explanation, 735. 

 Cherries, Law's method of forcing, 439. 

 Chrysanthemum, Chinese, the, a sketch of its 



history, 692. 

 Cider, valuable information on the manufacture 

 of, 583 ; cider from the French bitter scale 

 apple, 244 ; the favourite kinds of apple for 



making cider In Butleigh, and the adjoining 

 parishes, 244 ; cider made in France, 357. 

 Citrus, how can the leaves and fruit of plants 

 of this genus be kept from falling prema- 

 turely ? 736. 

 Cloyne, bishop of, his garden, 475. 

 Cock, Siebe's, 370. 

 Colosseum, the conservatories and other ap- 



purtenances of, noticed, 594. 

 Colvill, Mr. James, his death noticed, 256. 

 Cooking alembic, a, for cooking vegetables, 470. 

 Corn, a tub for weighing and measuring, 466; 

 Indian corn, Cobbett's, and a kind grown in 

 Lombardy, 497. 750. 

 Cottages, allotments of land to, remarks on, 

 529; cottages and gardens to them, 96; cot- 

 tages in Scotland, their condition in 1831, 

 258. 474 ; directive hints for the effective cul- 

 tivation ,of, cottage gardens, 647 ; industry 

 and independence promoted by cottage gar- 

 dens, 650. 

 Covent-garden market, January 17th, 1832, 127 ; 

 March 20th, 254 ; May 21st, 384 ; July 19th, 

 504 ; Sept. 17th, 624 ; Nov. 22d, 744 ; weights 

 and measures in Covent-garden market, 374. 

 Creme de Moka, a method of making, 182 ; 



creme de rose, a method of making, 181. 

 Crickets, a means of destroying, 14S. 

 Cucumber, abundant produce of a plant, 81 ; on 

 the advantages of M'Phail's pits for early 

 cucumbers, 38 ; the Russian mode of salting 

 cucumber, 183; a query on growing cucum- 

 bers by steam, 612 ; "queries on a species of 

 caterpillar devouring the foliage of cucum- 

 bers, 611 ; Mr. Oliver's hybrid from a cucum- 

 ber impregnated by the Maltese melon, 611 ; 

 other cross impregnations, 740. 

 Cycas revoluta, female, has flowered in the 

 garden of Count Harrach, at Bruck, on 

 Leilhe, and that of Wentworth House, 

 Yorkshire, England, 448. 

 Cyclamen pi=rsicum, a notice of varieties of, 



94. 

 Cypress, deciduous, American specimens of, 



described, 272. 276. 

 Cupressus ihyoides, the white cedar, its habits 



noticed, 447. 

 DiiHytra, a correction to, 368. 

 Diospyros virginiana 80 ft. high, near Phil- 

 adelphia, and the Americans distil an excel- 

 lent brandy from its fruit, C 2T2. 

 Dividivi, the CeesalpinzVi Coriaria, speculations 

 on its extraordinary usefulness and fitness 

 for appropriation in commerce, 46. 

 Dotting with plants, 86. 

 Droseras, Mallet on cultivating, 684. 

 Dry rot in oak timber, what is the best pre- 

 ventive of? 501. 

 Dublin, the mildness of climate at, 364. 

 Dumfries stone, the price of garden ornaments 



made of, 91. 

 Earwigs, a means of destroying, 149. 

 Education, remarks on, 198. 

 Egg plant, the purple-fruited, the only variety 



eaten abroad, 53. 

 Electricity, its agency in vegetation, and a 



query on, 500. 740. 

 Elms, extremely large ones in the United 



States, 152. 

 Emigration, hints to gardeners wishing to emi- 

 grate to the United States, 272; works which 

 treat on emigration to America indicated, 

 464 ; emigration to Van Diemen's Land, 78. 

 Encyclopedia of Gardening, corrections to the, 



83. 482, 483. 

 Encyclopedia of Plants, corrections to the, 



85. 244. 368. 

 Eranthis hyemMis, its showiness when in large 



quantities, 89. 

 Erp^tion renifnrmis nearly hardy, 87. 

 Eugenz'a australis, its beauty when planted in 



a bed of soil in a conservatory, 160. 

 Eutaxia myrtifMia, on propagating, 160. 

 Evergreens, Stuart's mode of transplanting, 



430. 

 Fennel is much cultivated at Home and Naples 



