760 



Thermometer, a sentinel or regulating one, in- 

 vented by Mr. Lindley, 30; a self-acting ap- 

 paratus for regulating temperature, 30 ; ther- 

 mometer for steam-pits and hat-beds, figured 

 and described, 337. 



Thistle, the, of Scotland, 355, 



Thomson, Mr. Archibald, nurseryman, a brief 

 biography of, 256. 



Tivoli garden at Vienna described, 66. 



Tobacco, a mode of growing and curing for 

 smoking plants with, 42 ; queries on growing, 

 preparing, and applying tobacco, 499 ; re- 

 marks on cultivating and curing tobacco, 491 ; 

 on washing tobacco before burning it, 695. 



Tomato, a method of cultivating the, to make 

 sure of ripening its fruit without artificial 

 heat, 174 ; other remarks on the culture and 

 keeping of tomatoes, 53. 



Tour, horticultural, the Conductor's, in Scot- 

 land, from Dumfries, by Kirkcudbright, Ayr, 

 and Greenock, to Paisley, 1. 129. 257. 385. 

 513; Rivers's, through the Netherlands and 

 part of France, 392 ; Mallet's, on the Conti- 

 nent, 521 ; Spence's horticultural notes on a 

 journey from Rome to Naples, 266. 



Training : Hayward's remarks on tiaining and 

 physiology, 483. 653 ; Seymour's method of 

 training peach and nectarine trees, 51 ; Hay- 

 ward's method, 483. 653 ; a mode of training 

 pear trees described, 539. 



Transplanting of large trees, Mr. Howden's 

 remarks on the, 559 ; Stuart's mode of trans- 

 planting deciduous trees and evergreens, 439 ; 

 a mode of transferring a potted plant from 

 one pot to another without injuring the plant 

 or breaking its ball of earth, 43; Hurdis's 

 plant transplanter, 666 ; Jesse's apparatus for 

 transplanting trees and large shrubs, 731. 



Travelling, the equipment fittest for, on the 

 continent of Europe, 522. 



Trevirana coccinea, a mode of cultivating, 491. 



Tree guard, figured and described, 154. 



Trees newly transplanted supported by pegging 

 down their roots, 86 ; effects of shortening 

 the tap root of trees, 339 ; Stuart's mode of 

 transplanting deciduous trees and evergreens, 

 439 ; Mr. Howden's remarks on transplant- 

 ing and pruning large trees, 559 ; dimensions 

 and names of very large trees in the United 

 States, 152; kinds of tree worth importing 

 for cultivation in Britain, 366 ; shears for the 

 summer pruning of trees, 668. 



Triumphal arch at the end of Piccadilly, 472. 



Truffle, Tuber cibarium, its habits in West 

 Prussia, 443. 



Tub for measuring and weighing corn, 466. 



Tulips, an instrument for planting the bulbs 

 of, with, 45 ; a cheap awning and frame for 

 supporting the awning for beds of, 45. 



Turnip, a superior variety of the Swedish, 

 figured and described, 57 ; on the disease in 

 turnips called anbury, or fingers and toes, and 

 means of remedying it, 323. 498. 



GENERAL INDEX. 



Typha, its seed-down "proposed for stuffing -for 

 beds, 697. 



Vandes, Comtesse de, the death of, recorded, 

 256; a walk round the garden of the late, 

 476; a brief notice of the garden, 361 ; and 

 of the results of the sale of plants of, 593. 



Van Diemen's Land, notices on the condition 

 and capacities of that country, 77 ; introduc- 

 tion of goats into, 452. 



Vegetables, a " cooking alembic " for the cook, 

 ing of, 470 ; the Russian mode of preserving 

 culinary vegetables through the winter, 184. 



Venice, state of the horticulture of, 448. 



Vermin. See Mole, and Insects, and Crickets. 



Versailles, a notice of the public garden at, 

 525. 



Vinery, can one be forced under the conditions 

 stated ? 611. 



Walks, remarks on the edges of, 86. 



Wallet, leathern and bearing straps, 86. 370. 



Walls built to an angle of 10 degrees to the 

 earth's horizon render apple and pear trees 

 trained to them frugiferous, 183 ; flued walls 

 in the gardens at Erskine House, Renfrew, 

 shire, 670. 



Washing-machine for families, noticed, 354. 



Wasps, a means of destroying, 150. 



Water. See Hot water. 



Water, on preserving the purity of the water 

 of the Thames, 464 ; apian for filtering. the 

 water of the Thames, 465 ; water, heated by 

 the sun's rays passed through lenses, 609. 



Waterclosets, public, suggestions on, and forms 

 for, 389. 



Waterworks, Shaw's, at Greenock, 385. 



Wells, fountain, their useful agency, and 

 queries on the causes of their fountain pro- 

 perty, 500. 



Wellsinkers, an apparatus for, to explode their 

 blasts, when sinking wells in rocks, 590. 



West, Counsellor, his garden near Dublin, no- 

 ticed, 83. 482. 



Wheelbarrow, a Norman, figured and de- 

 scribed, 238. 



Whin (J7"lex europa^a), the origin of the 

 word whinstone, 369. See Furze. 



Wine, English champagne, a mode of making, 

 541 ; wines'from fruit, modes of making, 187. 



Wireworm, a query on, 499. 



Wood, the kinds of, which will last longest in ' 

 the ground without rotting, 196; the proper- 

 ties of various kinds of wood used for fuel, 

 488. 



Woodlouse, the, is exceedingly destructive to 

 all stove orchideous plants, 603 ; a means of 

 destroying, 148. 



Workhouses, and gardens to them, 96. 



Yucca gloribsa, the flowering of, 80. 745. 



Zinc, rolled in plants, a substitute for lead and 

 slates, 60. 



Zizania aquatica, a mode of cultivating, 190. 



Zoological Society's gardens noticed, 594. 



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