GENERAL INDEX. 



759 



Protecting tenderish shrubs from severe frosts, 

 a mode of, 189. 



Pruning of forest trees, Mr. Main on, 303 ; Mr. 

 Howden's opinions on pruning large trees, 

 559 ; pruning and thinning of plantation, 

 373 ; a pair of shears for summer pruning, 668. 



Prussia, state of gardening in, 187. 442 ; horti- 

 cultural society of Prussia, 359. 



Suercus, the species of, named, which are de- 

 sirable for thesize andform and colourof their 

 leaves, and for useful timber, 195 ; fiuercus 

 coccinea and rubra, notices on, 444 ; a variety, 

 with narrow and occasionally entire leaves, of 

 Quereus TJobur, 740. 



Rafflesia Arnold^' Brown and R. Patma Blume 

 contrasted, 708. 



Railroads in North America, 72 ; railway, one 

 suggested for conveying ships overland, 354. 



Ranunculus, the Asiatic, remarks on cultivat- 

 ing the, 570; Mr. George Thurtell's show of 

 ranunculuses briefly noticed, 631. 



Banilnculus parnassifolius, a mode of cultivat- 

 ing, 572. 



Rats and mice, a mode of poisoning, 239. 



Regent's Park, botanical and ornamental gar- 

 den in, 470. 



Residences : choice of situation for a residence, 

 372; a work on laying out villa and other 

 small residences, 373 ; in the formation of a 

 residence, should the architect or landscape- 

 gardener be first employed? 673. 



.fllieum austrlacum, its esculent properties, 693. 



./ihododendron, a method of protecting the 

 tenderish kinds of, from severe frosts, 189. 



Ribes sanguineum, a very fine plant of, 635 ; 

 the Ribes specibsum described, 455. 



Rice, Canadian, Zizania aquatica, a mode of 

 cultivating, 190. 



Riga, a short account of the gardens at, 197. 



Rio de Janeiro, remarks on the vegetation of, 

 188. 



Roads in Van Diemen's Land, 78. 



Robinz'a Pseud-.icacia grows any where, and 

 its wood applicable to various economical 

 purposes, 191. 



Rocks, an apparatus for rending by gunpowder, 

 591. 



Rods, parallel, for graduating beds, 669. 



Rome, notes on the gardens of, 267. 



Roofs and floors formed of earthen tubes, and 

 thereby fire-proof, 60. 



Root, tap, of trees, effects of shortening, 339. 



.flbsa turbinata, the Frankfort rose, is very free 

 of growth and blossom, 189 ; rose bushes, 

 and other shrubs, a mode of protecting them 

 from severe frosts, 189; Lawrence's stakes 

 for, and mode of training standard rose trees, 

 679. 



Salisbury adiantifolia ingraftable, 445. 



Salm-Dyck, a notice of the botanic garden of 

 the Prince de, 446. 



Salpigl6ssis, sportiveness in the species of, 47. 



Salt as a destroyer of weeds, 372 ; salt as a ma- 

 nure, 373 ; salt invigorates leeks, 373. 



Sands, shifting, on the culture of, 444. 



Sap vessels, or the circulating system of plants, 

 facts and arguments on the, 142 ; the circu- 

 lation of the sap in Chara, 482 ; a question on 

 the organisable property of sap, 652. 



Scarlet runner bean, a perennial, 53. 



Scotland, notices relative to, 474; agriculture 

 in the West of Scotland, 513 ; field and road- 

 side hedges in, 514; plantations in, 515; 

 edgings of walks in, 518 ; kitchen-gardens in, 

 519 ; grass lawns in, 519; Menteath's remarks 

 on inspiring a taste for gardening among the 

 labouring classes of Scotland, 532; a notice 

 of Auchincruive, 595; of Castle Semple, 596; 

 notices on the towns and villages of Scotland, 

 S85 ; their waterworks, waterclosets, sewer- 

 age, and churchyards, 389 ; the plan of a 

 general cemetery for Edinburgh described, 

 362; the thistle of Scotland, 355; flued walls 

 and kitchen-garden at Erskine House, Ren- 



; frewshire, 670; agricultural and horticultural 

 exhibition at Stirling, 113. 



Seeds, Mr. Murray on the germination and sub- 

 sequent vegetation of, 326 ; the germination 

 ot seeds is expedited by applying to them 

 malic acid, or the rotten pulp of apples, 445- 

 M. Otto's remarks on the germination of 

 seeds, 196 ; hints on raising seeds, 5. 25 ; seeds 

 of annual plants, an improved mode of rais- 

 ing, 434 ; the mode and results of sowing 

 seeds of annual flowering plants in autumn 

 570 ; seeds remain for many years in the 

 earth, and vegetate on meeting with air and 

 light, 359, 374 j on the preservation of seeds,, 



Sewerage, suggestions on, 387. 



Shalder's fountain pump, 729. 



Shears for summer pruning, 668. 



Sheds for breakers of stone suggested, 238 



Shennan, William Johnstone, a brief bioeraDhv 

 of, 751. s v ' 



Shrubberies, defects in the forms of, and means 

 of avoiding such defects, 152. 



Silk, and Silkworm. See Mulberry. 



Slugs and snails, Martin's mode of decovins 

 149. 370. } s ' 



Snails, Mr. Martin's mode of decoying, 149. 370 • 

 Mr. Corbett's mode of destroying, 434. ' 



Spjder, red, remarks on, 499 ; counter remarks, 

 735. 



Stakes, cast-iron flower-stakes, .and some small 

 wrought-iron stakes for peas or annual plants, 

 554. 557 ; stakes for standard rose trees, 679 



Starkey, Mrs., her floral decoration of the vil- 

 lage of Bowness, 527. 



Steam from dung linings, a mode of preventing 

 its injuring plants in frames, 314 ; the steam 

 apparatus applied by Mr. Smith to his pits at 

 Cunnoquhie, described, 328; steam carriages, 

 their applicability to the improvement of 

 land, 30 ; Hay's method of heating by steam 

 330.730. 



Still, a figure and description of one used in 

 making liqueurs from fruits, 183. 



Stirling agricultural and horticultural exhi- 

 bition, 113. 



Stone, artificial, Austin's works in, 237. 



Stonebreakers, sheds for, suggested, 238. 



Straps, leathern bearing, and wallet, 86. 



Strawberry, tiles made to accelerate the ripen- 

 ing of strawberries, and to keep the berries 

 clean, 435 ; a new kind of strawberry raised 

 by Mr. Darke, at Bordesley, near Birming- 

 ham, 593 ; a grub-worm infests plants of the 

 strawberry, 92. 



Stuttgardt, a notice on, 358. 



Sublime de variete, a drink, a method of 

 making, 183. 



Suburban gardens, on the management of, 92. 



Succulent plants, the structure and physiology 

 of, noticed, 234 ; Mr. Hitchen's collection of 

 succulent plants, noticed, 244. 



Sugar, American, obtained from the sap of 

 species of maple, 502. 



Surrey Zoological Gardens, noticed, 594. 



Sutton Wash embankment, 589. 



Swan River settlement, some account of, 78. 



Sweet's Flower-Garden, controversy on plants 

 not hardy being figured and described in it, 

 87. 368. 



Sydney, some notice of its condition, 78. 



Syringes figured and described, Warner's, 353 ; 

 Siebe's, 354. 



Tallies, brick ones, 33 ; a numbering-stick on 

 an improved application of the notch princi- 

 ple, 32; brick tallies, printed upon before they 

 are baked, 175 ; directions for preparing 

 Murray's tallies, 374. 



Tar used as manure, 239. 



Tea plant, contributions to the history of, 89. 

 490. 



Tictona grandis, on the germination of the 

 seeds of, 191. 



Telescope, Varley's graphic, noticed, 238. 



Temperance societies, remarks on, 43. 



Temperature. See Thermometer. 



Temple Newsham, briefly noticed, 361. 



Thames. See Water. 



