GENERAL INDEX. 



757 



Ipomoe^a Batatas Poir., the batata, the results 

 of its cultivation in Italy, 495; thoughts on its 

 success in Britain, 613. 



Ipomoe^a purpurea and Calystegia sepium, the 

 corollas of, di ffer in the mode of withering, 736. 



Ireland, notices relative to, 364 ; rural improve- 

 ment in, 365 ; improvement of the condition 

 of the labouring class in, 365 ; Lambert's ru- 

 ral affairs of, and Elles's remarks on them, 

 215 ; the condition of gardening in Ireland, 

 248. 474; a list of green-house and hot-house 

 plants which are comparatively hardy at 

 Drumcondra, near Lublin, 568 ; gardens in 

 Ireland noticed, 81. 83. 371. 482. 



/Vis, the peacock, the exquisite beauty of its 



_ blossoms, 469 ; /Vis tuberosa, a native of Bri- 

 tain, and a mode of cultivating it productive 

 of blossoms, 235. 



Irish cottages, &c, 85. 369; Irish labourers 

 369 ; a certain Irish mansion, 372; Irish pearl 

 moss, 94. 



Italy, remarks on the gardening of, 69 ; climate 

 of Italy, in relation to orange trees, lemon 

 trees, grape vines, &c, 492 ; certain kinds of 

 melon grown in Italy, 613; Italian gardening 

 and landscape reported on, 267. 



Jenkins, Mr., nurseryman, his death recorded, 

 384. 



Kensington Gardens reported on, 473. 



Kentucky coffee tree noticed, 85. 272. 



Kew, the pleasure-ground at, 473. 



Kilkenny, a notice of the climate of, orchards 

 of, and the kinds of apple and pear which 

 thrive in the orchards of, 165. 



Kino, gum, noticed, 77. 



Kirschwasser, a method of making, 182. 



Knolls and hollows, remarks on planting, 486. 



Labourers and their condition, 200; instances 

 of letting land to labourers in Cambridge- 

 shire and Suffolk, 98 ; the condition of la- 

 bourers in a village in Nottinghamshire, 529 ; 

 strictures on the kind of labourers to whom 

 land for gardens is most eligible, 529 ; the 

 good and evil of letting land to labourers, 377 ; 

 of the improvement of the condition of la- 

 bourers in Ireland, 365; the means of inspir- 

 ing a taste for gardening among the labouring 

 classes of Scotland, 532 ; condition of the 

 labouring classes in the south of France, 62. 



Laburnum, a hybrid, with lilac flowers, 473. 



Lachenalias, hints on the culture of, 234. 



Ladder with appurtenances for gathering ap- 

 ples, &c. from trees, without allowing the lad- 

 der to rest on the tree, 581. 



Larch, the wood of, full of sap, will resist fire, 

 488 ; facts on the timber of larch, 93. 



Xathyrus grandiflbrus, seeds from, obtained by 

 artificial impregnation, and other remarks on, 

 50. 733. ■•< 



Lawns, fit species of grass for repairing, 176. 



Leaves persistent through the winter on trees, 

 habitually deciduous in autumn, enshrine in- 

 sects, 498. 



Lectures on botany applied to horticulture, by 

 Professor Lindley, 380. 507. 615. 



Leguminous plants of Australia and the Cape 

 of Good Hope, Bowie's hints on cultivating 

 them, 5. 



Lemon and orange trees, as cultivated in Italy 

 and at Naples, 269. 271 ; their degree of hardi- 

 ness in Italy, 492. 



Lenses, M. Gauen's mode of heating air or 

 water by, 497 ; Mr. Mallet's remarks on, 609. 



Lettuce, cabbage, Mr. Rutger's method of forc- 

 ing, at Shortgrove, Essex, 172. 



Lichens on fruit trees destroyed by fire, 357, 

 358. 



Lilium Mdrtagon, queries on, 501. 



Lime, chloride of, in agriculture, 445. 



Limekilms, and burning of lime, 741. 



Limerick, hanging gardens, 81. 



Lindley's (Professor) publ ications, a retrospec- 

 tive criticism on, 728. 



Liqueurs, various, modes of making, 180. 



Lisieux, Normandy, an account of the subscrip- 

 tion garden at, 66. 



Lock, wooden, in use in Lapland, 468. 



London, the plants which thrive in the smoky 

 atmosphere of, 243. 



Machine, Budding's mowing, figured and de- 

 scribed, 34; machine for hewing stone by 

 steam, 92; machine for preparing flax and 

 hemp by a new and improved process, for 

 manufacturing into canvass, cordage, &c, 96 ; 

 filtering machine, 370. 



M'Naughton, Mr. Archibald, a notice of his 

 death, 384. 



Magdeburgh public garden described and illus- 

 trated by a plan, 191. 



Magnolias, their great size in America, 272. 



Maize in North America, 75 ; a hardy variety 

 of, 693; culture of, in England, 750. 



Mangles, portable, spoken of, 354. 



Mangold wurzel, the mode of brewing ale 

 from, 697. 



Manure, useful to fruit trees when applied in 

 moderation, 446; furze tops used as a manure, 

 239 ; tar used as a manure, 239. 



Maroschino, a kind of cherry brandy, is made 

 from the fruit of the Primus bis-florens, 188. 



Melianthus major is almost hardy, 94. 



Melons, two sorts described, 191 ; Mr. Knight 

 on the cultivation of the Persian varieties of 

 melon, 435 ; M. Ebers's mode of cultivating 

 melons, 450; Mr. Smith's mode of cultivating 

 melon plants at Cunnoquhie,329 ; certain kind 

 of melon grown in Italy, 613 ; Mr. Oliver's 

 hybrid, obtained from a cucumber impreg- 

 nated by the Maltese melon, 611 ; M. Sageret's 

 experience on hybrid melons, 741 ; hardihood 

 of hybrid kinds of melons, 52 ; Jacquin's work 

 on the melon, 453. . .;,«...,. 



Mice and rats, a mode of poisoning, 239. 



Mignonette, what species is that which Jesse 

 calls the tre'e ? 374. 



Mildew, a mode of preventing the recurrence 

 of, 40. 



Moles, an efficient trap for catching, 298 ; mole 

 trap, a French one figured and described, 36; 

 a kind invented by A. F., figured and de- 

 scribed, 299. 



Mowing. See Machine. 



Mulberry tree, the, as cultivated in Italy, to 

 sustain silkworms for supplying silk, 496. 



Munich, notices on gardening at, 67. 358. 



Mushrooms, Mr. Callow's, noticed, 244 ; his 

 work on producing, 214 ; Elles's hints on pro- 

 ducing, 214 ; the culture of mushrooms in 

 melon beds, 312. 



Nails, a mode of cleaning wall nails, 40. 



Naples, notes on the gardens of, 271. 



Narcissinean plants, the names of some rarer 

 kinds, and hints on cultivating them, 50. 



Nectarine and peach trees, Seymour's system 

 of training, 51; nectarine trees distinguish- 

 able from peach trees by a difference in their 

 two germens, 4(i9 ; a mode of destroying the 

 aphis on nectarine trees, 580; Hayward's 

 mode of training peach and nectarine trees, 

 653. 



NeilPs, Patrick, Esq. garden at Canonmills 

 noticed, 364. 



Nelumbiums, on the culture of, 157 ; M. LiH 

 beck's mode of cultivating NeHmbium spe- 

 cibsum, 197. 



Nerine humilis and undulata, nearly hardy, 81." 



Netherlands and part of France, a horticultural 

 tour through, 392. 



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



Normandy, an account of the subscription gar- 



t den at Lisieux in, 66 ; some account of Lower 

 Normandy, 63. 



Numbering stick, on an improved application 

 of the notch principle, 32. 



Nurseries in the United States described, 272 — 

 289 ; nurseries in the Netherlands and part of 

 ' the south of France, 392. 



Nurseries, metropolitan, 101 ; Brown's Bedford 

 nursery, Hampstead Road, 102; the Mary- 

 land Point, Stratford, Essex, 102 ; Epsom 

 Nursery, new or rare plants which have flow- 

 ered in, 102 ; the Mile-end nursery, 249. 



