GENERAL INDEX. 



759 



by planting whole tubevs at wide distances, 

 344; facts and considerations in relation to 

 the cutting and planting of seed potatoes, as 

 practised in the neighbourhood of Dublin, 

 589, 590 ; facts adduced to prove the useless. 

 ness of earthing up growing crops of potatoes, 

 322 ; instances of the proliticness of the early 

 shore potato, and of the great size of its tu 

 bers, 446. 



Pots, double, for marsh plants, or for shading 

 the roots of tender plants, 576 ; a mode of 

 watering plants in the open soil by sinking a 

 flower-pot in the soil at the root of each, 577. 



Press, a, for preparing dried specimens of plants, 

 473. 



Primrose Hill botanic garden, 463. 



Prospect Hill, notes on, 669. 



Pruning : physiological and practical remarks 

 on the pruning of forest trees, by Mr. Taylor, 

 48 ; by Mr. Billington, 50 ; by Mr. Howden 

 in reply to Mr. Billington, 370 ; by Scienti^ 

 et Justitiae Amator, in review, 711 ; pruning 

 is injurious to timber and trees, 687 ; it im- 

 proves them, 688 ; fertility induced by spur 

 pruning, 317 ; disbudding prevents pruning, 

 671. 



Prussia, notes on the imperial garden at Nikita, 

 593 ; extract from the history of tlie gardens 

 at Worlitz, 594 ; of Dreienbrunnen, near Er- 

 furth, 594. 



Queensberry House. See Drumlanrig. 



Quebec, notes on the state of gardening in, 161. 



Radiation, terrestrial, the effects of, on the pro- 

 cesses of vegetation, 287; additional facts, 

 considerations, and queries on, 499. 



Raehills, noticed, 4. 



Ranunculuses, on raising seedling Asiatic, 66. 



Ratisbon, notes on the botanic garden at, 405. 



Reading : notes on Mr. Myles Priest's nursery 

 at, 662 ; on the market at, 663 ; on the garden 

 of the gaol at, 663 ; the structure of a certain 

 kind of tomb adopted in a churchyard at, 

 669 ; notes on the reservoir, made of cast 

 iron, for water for the town of, 669 ; notes 

 on objects seen in passing from Reading to 

 Bearwood, 678. 



Richmond Park, noticed, 477. 



Robinia, a notice of various species of, 471. 



Rockworks, Mr. Mallet's strictures, sugges- 

 tions, and episode, upon, 272. 



Rocket, the white, and the purple, double 

 flowered, a mode of propagating, 300. 



Roads, notes on, of stated parts of England, 514. 



Rohault's, M., object in visiting England, 699. 



Rook, a mode of preventing the ravages of the 

 rook and other birds, on newly-sown corn, 

 569; the services of the rook to the farmer, 

 570. 718. 



Rose trees and bushes, M. Stichler on the pro- 

 pagation and culture of, 94 ; T. Rivers, jun., 

 on the culture of, 458 ; Chinese roses may be 

 propagated from single buds, 698 ; inform- 

 ation on cultivating the yellow double- 

 flowered rose tree to the production of its 

 flowers perfectly, 508; plans of arched frames 

 for bestriding walks and for training rose trees 

 over, 466 ; a notice of Mr. Lee's, Hammer- 

 smith, collection of rose tcees, 471 ; notes on 

 some kinds of rose trees' cultivated in the 

 Epsom nursery, 482 ; the, and varieties of the, 

 double-flowered Ayrshire rose, 565. Lbwea 

 berberifblia has been engrafted on Eraser's 

 Noisette rose tree, and has grown, 725. 



Rousseau's tomb, aTid Lamaison du Philosophe, 

 noticed, 132. 



Salads in the winter, v/hat is the best method of 

 rearing? 378. 



Salisbury, ste Baker's. 



Salt-hill^ notes on the inn at, 655 ; on Stewart's 

 nursery at, 655. 



Sawmills, Swiss, noticed, 270; a movable saw 

 mill in the Duke of Athol's woods, 375. 



Sceaux, villas in the neighbourhood of, 142. 153. 



Schlnus Molle, an explanation of the pheno. 

 mena exhibited on water by fragments of the 

 live leaves of, 377. 



Schleissheim Palace, park, and gardens, noticed, 

 386; the nursery at, noticed, 408. 



Schizanthus, a white flowered kind of, 465. 603. 



Schwezingen, notes on the gardens at, 257. 



Scotland, notes oi) residences, &c., observed in 

 the west of, 1 ; facts on the state of gardening 

 and farming in, 447 ; facts on cottage gar- 

 dens in the west of Scotland, 15. 



Sea- kale, a frame constructed for forcing it, 

 described, 346 ; another, 695 ; Mr. Forbes's 

 course of cultivating sea-kale, 605. 



Seeds, facts and questions on the length of time 

 which seeds retain their vitality, 377. 



Service tree, two varieties of the true, 700. 



Sheds, Mr. Mallet's mode of building, 193. 



Sheffield, suggestions on the formation of a 

 botanic garden at, 4S4. 700. 



Shrubberies, restoration of half ruined, 231. 



Sinclair, Mr., sen., the death, and facts in the 

 life of, noticed, 512. 



Slougli, notes on Brown's nursery at, 523 ; on 

 the garden at the Crown Inn at, 524. 



Smithfield Club, Messrs. Cormack, and Sin- 

 clair's exhibition of seeds and roots at, 98. 



Snuff', see Tobacco. 



Soils, a formulary for detecting the presence of 

 oxide of iron in, 376. 502 ; wild plants declare 

 the quality of the soils in which they flourish, 

 502 ; instances of the effect of soils upon an- 

 nual plants, 597. 



Southall, notes on the inn at, 648. 



Spring Grove, notes on, 649. 



Stakes of various kinds of wood, their relative 

 resistance of rotting, 596. 



Stoke Farm, notes on, 641. 



Stoke Park, notes on, 528. 



Stoke Place, notes on, 525 : on a house on a site 

 called Stoke Cottage, 527. 



Stourhead, the seat of Sir R. C. Hoare, 426. 



Strathfieldsaye, the park and gardens at, 673. 



Strawberry, the qualities of Knevett's seedling 

 pine, 503 ; the fruit of strawberries preserved 

 free from grit, and the attacks of slugs, by 

 covering the soil under the fruit with a layer 

 of the short grass mown off lawns, 587. 



Sulhampstead, noticed, 672. 



Swallowtield Place, notes on, 677. 



Swallows, see Martins. 



Sweden, Professor Agardh's notices of the pre- 

 sent state of gardening in, 415 ; plan of the 

 botanic garden at Lund, 418. 



Switzerland, Mr. Mallet's tour in, 270. 



Surrey Zoological Garden, noticed, 343. 



Syringe, what maker's, in the best ? 380. 



Tag^tcs ICicida, its herbage flavours vinegar, 

 591. 



Taplow Court, notes on the residence, 657. 



Taplow Lodge, and the gardens at, 656. 



Tchitchagoff, admiral, the villa of, 142. 



Tea, see Chinese. 



Temperature, a mode of obtaining uniformity 

 of, 39 ; instances of the influence of tempera- 

 ture on vegetation, 436. 



Temple, a rural, devised by Mr. Mathews, for 

 parks and pleasure grounds, 615. 678. 



Terragles, noticed, 4. 



Ternaux, M., residence of, at St. Ouen, 153. 



Theale, strictures on the architecture of a 

 church newly erected at, 670. 



Thompson, Mr,, late of the Welbeck gardens, 

 now practises landscape-gardening. Sec, 98. 



Thorburn, Grant, his visit to England 700. 



Timber, notes on the lag in, 629. 720 ; descrip- 

 tion of a battering axe for felling timber, 297. 

 See, besides, Stakes. 



Tobacco, modes of growing and curing, in Bri. 

 tain, for gardening purposes, 121. 243 ; the 

 process of cultivating the nicotianas, for 

 manufacturing into tobacco and snuff, 587 ; 

 snuff and tobacco made from English grown 

 plants of Nicot«>«a rugbsa and Tabucum, 586. ■ 

 718; burnt tobacco stronger than unburnt, 

 122. 



T6rtrix viridana, the ravages of, 380. 



Tour, horticultural jottanda of a recent tour on 

 the Continent, by Robert Mallet, esq., 18. 270 ; 



