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GENERAL INDEX. 



Gourd, various culinary applications of the 

 herbage, flowers, and fruit of, 185. 494 ; size 

 of the fruit of some kinds of gourd in Italy, 

 495. 



Grafting, a new mode of, 540. 



Grape vine, hints on propagating it by branches 

 layed into pots, 178 ; a mode of propagating, 

 339 ; a rapid mode of raising excellent plants 

 of the grape vine, 577 ; a mode of substituting 

 good vines for bad ones with theleast possible 

 loss of time, 578 ; on cleft-grafting the grape 

 vine, 197 ; on the flowering of the grape vine, 

 197 ; grape vines trained on the outside of 

 the alternate sashes of a hot-house produced 

 excellent grapes, 322 ; the method of training 

 grape vines at Doneraile, 248 ; grape vines 

 grown on flued walls at Croxdale, 433 ; the 

 kinds of grape vine best suited to the hot walls 

 of Scotland, 184 ; can grape vines be forced un- 

 der the conditions described? 611; the degree 

 of hardihood of grape vines in Italy, 492 ; 

 the wood of the horsechestnut makes very 

 durable stakes for grape vines, 450 ; Lang- 

 ford's incomparable grape, preferably in- 

 creased by buds, 695 ; Mr. Pillans's expe- 

 ditious fruiting of grapes in pots, 695; a kind 

 of beetle destructive of grape vines, 737. 



Grapes, how can they be ripened without fires, 

 by the middle of September ? 95 ; grapes ri- 

 pened in the open air, a mode of preserving 

 for table, during the winter months, 447 ; a 

 mode of preserving ripe grapes, 339. 



Grass, species of, fitted, to repair lawns, 176 ; 

 grass land, improved by coverings of loam, 

 448. 



Groom's florist's garden noticed, 594. 



Grounds, on laying out and planting, 300. 



Grouping of plants, shrubs, and trees, 86. 



Grubworm, a, affects strawberry plants, 92. 



Gymn6cladus canadensis, noticed, 85. 272. 



Karbke, plantations made at, 445. 



Hatching chickens in the bark bed of a hot- 

 house, 688. 



Hawthorn, a new variety, with carmine crim- 

 son flowers, the Crataegus Oxyacantha ro- 

 sea superba, 362. 607 ; hedge of hawthorn 

 damaged by the parasitic fungus iEcidium 

 laceratum, 179; what plant is fitter for the 

 formation of hedges than hawthorn ? 738. 



Hay ward's remarks on training and physiology, 

 483. 653. 



Heartsease, the more general cultivation of, re- 

 commended, and some interesting varieties 

 of, described, 573; the Lady Bath heartsease 

 noticed, 94. 



Heaths, Cape, M'Nab's work on cultivating 

 them, 210; Rutger's mode of propagating 

 them expeditiously ; 681 ; query on preserv- 

 ing Cape heaths from mildew, 736. 



Heating of air and water by lenses, M. Gauen's 

 mode of, noticed, 497. 609 ; conservatory and 

 bath heated from one boiler, 90 ; wood pre- 

 ferable to coal for heating, 433. 



Heating. See Hothouses. 



Henderson, Mr. Walter, a brief biography of, 

 25a 



Herbarium, by Mr. Toward, 367. 



/fibiscus attenuatus of Bosse, the character and 

 the mode of cultivating, 447 ; H. fCigax Mart. 

 noticed, 338. 



Hinge, Howden's, for causing gates to close, 38. 



Hobson, Mr., deceased, his book on mosses, 94. 



Hoe, engraving and description of a newly in- 

 vented, 55S ; Lord Vernon's tillage hoe, 689. 



Hollows and knolls, remarks on planting, 486. 



Hops, a mode of supporting them in theVosges, 

 65; hop tops useful as a culinary vegetable, 

 184. 



Horseradish, a Danish and German mode of 

 cultivating, 436. 



Horticultural notes on a journey from Rome to 

 Naples, 266. See also Tour. 



Horticultural societies (provincial) of England 

 and Wales : Abergavenny and Crickhowel, 

 635; Beccles, 634; Bedfordshire, 115. 745; 

 Bristol and Clifton, 119. 633 ; Bury St. Ed- 



munds,119; Cambridgeshire, 626.745 ; Cireri* 

 cester, 629 ; Cornwall, 746 ; Devon and Corn- 

 wall, 627 ; North Devon, 748 ; Diss, 630 ; 

 Evesham, 121 ; Glamorgan and Monmouth, 

 252. 635 ; Gloucester,- 629 ; Hereford, 629. 

 7# ; Ipswich, 120. 634; Lancashire, 115; 

 Lancaster, 751; Manchester, 115; Norfolk 

 and Norwich, 630; Northamptonshire, 117. 

 631; Northumberland, 118; Oxford, 118 632; 

 Boss, 629. 749; Somersetshire, 118; Suffolk, 

 119 ; Taunton, 633 j Taunton and West 

 Somerset, 119 ; Whitehaven, 627. 747 ; Wilts 

 and general, 634; Worcesershire, 121. 635; 

 Yorkshire, 122. 



Horticultural societies in Ireland. Horticultu- 

 ral society of Ireland, 639; of Belfast, 124, 

 252. 640. 



Horticultural Society of London and its garden, 

 Nov. 1st, 1831, to Jan. 3d,1832, 125; from Jan. 

 17th to March 6th, 252; from Mareh 20th 

 to May 15th, 378; from June 5th to July 

 17th, 505 ; from July 17th to August 7tli, 

 614 ; from Oct. 2d to Nov. 6th, 742. A re- 

 port on the state of the garden from inspec- 

 tion, 471. 



Horticiiltural society of Prussia, 359; 



Horticultural societies of Scotland. Aberdeen- 

 shire, 122. 636; Ayrshire, 122; Caledonian, 

 122. 252. 635; Cupar, 637; Dundee, 123; 

 East Lothian, 123. 636; Glasgow, 637; Mid 

 Lothian, 123 ; North British Professional 

 Gardeners', 1-23. 637 ; Renfrewshire, West, 

 637 ; Stirling, 114. 124. 638. 



Horticultural societies, the formation of, in the 

 suburbs of London, suggested, 82 ; horticul- 

 tural societies should offer prizes to young gar- 

 deners for the objects specified, 82. 



Horticultural societies. See Botanicaland Hor- 

 ticultural society, Floral and Horticultural 

 society, and Florists' society. 



Hdrtus Britannicus, additions to the Additional 

 Supplement of, 604 — 607. 



Hot-houses, remarks on the slope of the roof of, 

 191 ; the mode, at Vienna, of constructing 

 double-roofed hot-houses, 535 ; the state of 

 the practice of constructing hot-houses in 

 Scotland, 521 ; an improved mode of heating 

 of hot-houses, 452 ; different modes of heating 

 hot houses, 469; hatching chickens in the 

 bark bed of a hot-house, 688 ; Hay's method 

 of heating by steam, 330. 730. 



Hot water, as a means of heating, 221 ; Mr. 

 Perkins's mode of circulating in hermetically 

 sealed tubes of small diameter for heating hot- 

 houses,&c.,236. 292 — 297 ; Weeks's new appa- 

 ratus for heating by, 594 ; hot water apparatus 

 in a pinery at the Earl of Egremont's, Pet- 

 worth, Sussex, the details of its action, 147. 



House, glazed, one adapted for the culture of 

 peach trees, grape vines, and ornamental 

 plants, 321 ; transportable houses for forcing 

 recommended, 338 ; gardener's house, con- 

 taining five rooms and an office ; design for, 

 551 ; other designs for houses for gardeners, 

 659, 660. 



Howden's, Mr., reply to Messrs. Murphy's and 

 Haycroft's criticisms on his remarks on Irish 

 cottages and labourers, 369 : Mr. Howden's 

 reply to Mr. Thomas Small's attack on him, 

 248. 



Hybrid plants, the sterility of, instanced, 500 ; 

 hybrid calceolarias, 48; hybrid melons, 52. 

 hybrid camellias named, 212; hybrid Cereus, 

 361 ; hybrid Digitalis, Henslow's examination 

 of a, 209; hybrids obtained between plants o/ 

 melon and of cucumber, 611 ; hybrid laburnum, 

 473 ; hybrid plum raised by Mr. Knight, 433 ; 

 hybrid poppy, 355 ; hybrid strawberry, 593. 



Insects, various, recipes for destroying, 148 ; an- 

 nular pan as a defence against insects, 37 ; 

 destruction of insects by ammoniacal gas, 41 ; 

 insects infesting cucumbers, 611 ; insects pre- 

 vented ascending the stems of trees, 340 ; in- 

 sects are enshrined in thele.aves which remain 

 through the winter on trees habitually decidu- 

 ous in autumn, 498. 



