GENERAL INDEX. 



625 



field, 610 ; Warwickshire, 324.360 ; Whitby, 609; 

 Whitehaven, 591 ; Wiltshire, 605 ; Worcester- 

 shire, 605 ; York, 610; York florists', 609; York- 

 shire, East Riding, 610 ; Yorkshire, West 

 Riding, 608 ; Yorkshire, North Riding, 608. 



Horticultural Societies, Ireland : that of Ireland, 

 618; Balljnasloe, 95; Belfast, 620; Connaught, 

 95.619; Cork, county and city, 95; Kilkenny, 

 96. 619; Limerick, 620; Meath, 620; Water- 

 ford, 620; Wexford, 620. 



Horticultural Societies, Scotland : Caledonian, 94, 

 95.613; Collingsburgh, 616 ; Dumfermline, 94 ; 

 Dumfries and Galloway, 615; Falkirk, 617; 

 Glasgow, 94. 616; Kilmarnock, 614; Kirkaldy, 

 94. 616; Perth, 95. 504; St. Andrews, 615; 

 Stirling, 95. 617. 



Horticultural Societies, Wales : Glamorgan and 

 Monmouthshire, 93. 611; Swansea and Neath, 

 93. 610. 



Horticultural Societies, the Channel Islands : 

 Guernsey, 611 ; Jersey, 612. 



House, see Gardener's House. 



Houseman, Mr. James, a notice of the fact of the 

 death of, and of the qualities of, 300. 



Houst6nz'a cajrulea, information on cultivating 

 it, 83. 185. 



Hovea Celsj, a fine plant of, 235. 350. 597. 



Hungerford Market, information on, 89. 



Hydrocotyle vulgaris is available to the covering 

 of the surface of moist beds of heath mould, 

 cupied by shrubs, 331. 



Ice, views on a theory of the formation of 

 ground ice, 393. 



Icehouse, one in which ice melts, 294.3 



7'lices, see Oak. 



Impostor, an, travelling as a commercial florist, 

 his tricks of imposition, 56, 455, 456. 



India, a notice of the recent state of farming and 

 gardening in, 440 ; facts and remarks relative 

 to the desired institution of a communication 

 between India and England by means of steam, 

 272 ; a notice of seeds received from the Calcutta 

 botanic garden, of certain Indian plants,' 517 ; a 

 notice of the importation of trees of tropical 

 fruits imported to England from India, 517 ; i n 



i the Island of Penang, a botanic garden was 

 extant from 1822 to 1828, 516 ; a plant-house 

 was built at Calcutta by the Marchioness Has- 

 tings, wife of Governor Hastings, for excluding 

 heat, that British plants might be cultivated in 

 it, 516. 



Insects: improper culture induces disease, and 

 disease induces the attacks of insects, 223 ; the 

 mode recommended by Mr. Mearns for freeing 

 fruit-trees from insects, 142 ; the composition of 

 the wash Mr. Mearns approves, 143 ; the com- 

 position of another wash, 553; a complaint of 

 the great difficulty of destroying or of expelling 

 the red spider (/4'carus telarius), and a state- 

 ment of the insufficiency of the application of 

 moisture for effecting this purpose, 289 ; a mode 

 of destroying the red spider prescribed, 408; a 

 query on the effect of a decoction of the flowers 

 of chamomile in destroying insects, 182. 



Ireland, a few brief notices on things appertain- 

 ing to, 520. 



JVis persica, a notice of the fragrance of the 

 flowers of, 187. 



Ivy tends to protect the walls covered by it, 

 from both rain and heat, 221. note * ; ivy is 

 thought to grow with superior rapidity and 

 vigour in the Isle of Thanet, 120. 



Z'xia?, a note on the culture of, 134. 



■/asione perennis, an enquiry on the culture of, 83. 



Kennet, Vale of, notes on, 118. 



Kensington Gardens, notes on, 234. 277. 



Kerner, Professor, the late, the titles and price of 

 some of his works, 322. 



Kidneybean : notice of a method of expediting 

 the fruiting of kidneybeans in the open air, and 

 of a mode of obtaining a second crop from those 

 forced in the stove, 438 ; notices of the results 

 of treating the scarlet-runner kidneybean as a 

 perennial plant, and recommendations of the 

 practice of this treatment, 315. 407. 



Kirke, Mr., nurseryman, Coven try,and his nursery 

 business, remarks respecting, 165. 574. 



Kitchen-garden, see Garden, Kitchen. 



Labourers, notices of means adopted for improv- 

 ing the condition of, at Lindfield, Sussex, 236; 



at Trimley, Surrey, 277 ; mentions of instances 

 of the award of prizes to labourers for the merit 

 of vegetables, fruit, &c, produced under their 

 cultivation, 588. 620 ; a mention Jof instances 

 of the award of prizes to labourers for good cha- 

 racter, 595 ; Main's Catechism, of Gardening for 

 labourers or cottagers, noticed, 319. 



Lambton Castle, and thegardens at, notes on, 12J. 



Landscape-gardening, a variety of information 

 appertaining to, 121. 197. 325. 328, 329. 334—337. 

 370. 372. 455. 479. 



Larch tree : remarks on the rot in the larch tree, 

 with information on the dimensions of the 

 layers of woe ; produced in the annual growth 

 of the larch tree, in a series of years, in connec- 

 tion with a statement of the quantity of rain 

 which fell in each of those years, 544; a few 

 particulars relative to these remarks, 507; con- 

 siderations on the relative efficiency of bark of 

 larch in tanning, and relative price of it, see 

 Tanning. 



Lawns, artificial, the names of the kinds of grass 

 and clover eligible for constituting, 184. 



Leaves of plants, clews to directions for taking 

 impressions from the, 181. 



Lemon tree, the, and lime tree, the, in a garden 

 at Coombe Royal, Devonshire, information on 

 the state of, and on the treatment of, 36 ; how 

 long will lemon seeds retain their power of ger. 

 minating ? and by what means is this best pre- 

 served? 84. 



Lime trees (rilia), the uses to which various 

 parts of the, are applicable, 446 ; a mention of 

 a grove of lime trees at Walton, Lady Tanker, 

 ville's, 336. 



Littlecot Park, and the mansion in it, notes on, 

 195. 



London, a speculation on the future extent of, 

 336. 



Lubinm atropurpurea, its flowers, magnified, are 

 very beautiful, 460. 



Lumley Castle, notes on, 196. 



Macliiro aurantlaca, information on, 61. 



MagnbU'a conspicua, Messrs. Chandler possess a 

 large stock of plants of, 166. 



Maize, or Indian corn, a notice of a mode of cul- 

 tivating for use as an edible vegetable, and of 

 the mode of using it, 338 ; a head of Baron 

 Louis's variety of maize has contained 360 

 grains, 612. 



Malaria, views on the cause'of, 450. 



Mango, information on the, 443. 466. 577. 



Manure may be considered as the food of plants, 

 and lime and salts as the correctives of that 

 food, 499 ; manures of several kinds, a notice 

 of the effect of each upon the crop of vegetables 

 which it contributed to sustain, 182; the effi- 

 ciency of green vegetables as manure, in- 

 stanced, 184; information on the agency of 

 manure from seaweed in promoting the growth 

 of various vegetables, 42 ; a notice of the con- 

 sequences, to fruit trees trained to walls, of the 

 action of manure upon them, 265. 



Masses, strictures on disposing of plants in, 263. 



Melianthus major, a fine plant of, 592. 



Melon, modes of cultivating the, 227. 312. 443. 

 532. 550. 572. 



Metropolitan Gardeners' Society and Benevolent 

 Fund, strictures on a scheme for a, 160. 



Metropolitan Society of Florists and Amateurs, a 

 notification of some of the objects of the, 89 ; 

 reports of the Society's exhibitions of floricul- 

 tural productions, 235. 323. 516. 



Michael's Mount, St., Cornwall, facts on the his- 

 tory and natural history of, 351. 



Mignonette, on cultivating the, into a tree, 83. 



Mongewell, notes on, 4. ...-, 



Mole, a mode of catching the, 163; modes of 

 poisoning the, 234. 445. 



Moss : the mode and results of employing living 

 moss as the material of drainage to plants in 

 pots, 369; on emploving it for this purpose, 

 living or dead, 572 ; plants will grow in moss as 

 soil, 369. 572. 



Moss-house in the flower-garden at Bagshot Park, 

 an illustrated description of, 532. 



Mulberry, the many-stemmed, has leaves more 

 numerous and nutritive than those of other 

 kinds, 272. 



Munich, information of improvements effected, or 



