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to be effected, for the public good at, 157 ; notice 

 i of the shows of the Agricultural Society at, 158 ; 

 notice of the English garden at, and of the 

 : . monarch's intention to erect a temple in it, 158 ; 

 facts in the history of heating at Munich, by the 

 circulating of hot water, 180. 

 Mushroom : a description of the method of cul- 

 tivating the mushroom practised at Stoke Place, 

 with a plan of the mushroom-house there, 554 ; 

 views and practices relative to the culture of 

 mushrooms, 320 ; a testimony of the excellence 

 of Smith's mode of cultivating the mushroom, 

 as this is prescribed in his Treatise, 575. 

 Nectarine tree, a description of an apparatus of 

 curtains and frames for sheltering the, from the 

 opening of its first flowers to the middle or end 

 of May, 552; seven kinds of nectarine have 

 been raised from seeds at Cambo, 527. For clews 

 to additional information applicable to the nec- 

 tarine tree, see Peach tree ; and see Insects. 

 'Neliimbium specibsum, white-corollaed, facts on 

 the, 278 ; a notice of receiving seeds of the red- 

 corollaed, 452. 

 Nets, a notice of means of promoting the duration 



of, 353. 

 Nisbet, Mr. James, the fact of the death of, and a 



brief biography of, 468. 

 Nuneham Courtenay, notes on, 97. 

 Nurseries Jin Belgium and part of France, see 



Belgium, and see France. 

 Nurseries, Provincial, notes on : Addlestone, Mr. 

 Cree, 334; Bagshot, Mr. Waterer, 332; Co- 

 ventry, that of the late Mr. Weare's successors, 

 165. 574; and that of Mr. Kirke, 165. 574; 

 Goldworth, Mr. Donald, 330 ; Knap Hill, Mr. 

 Waterer, 331 ; Milford, Messrs. W. Young and 

 I G. Penny, 165. 236. 331. 462; Ramsgate, Mr. 



Frascr, 120. 

 Nurseries, suburban, notes on: 'Chandler and 

 Sons', 279; Colvill's, 279; Cormack and Son's, 

 i 167. 192; Dennis's, 281; Fulham, the, 168; 



Groom's, 279 ; Knight's, 167. 280 ; Lee's, 168. 

 Nurserymen, facts and views relative to the pre- 

 sent condition of the interests of, 258. 318. 350. 

 520 ; remarks on the relations of nurserymen's 

 interests, positive and negative, to the price and 

 condition of the articles they have for sale, 318. 

 Oak tree : remarks on the leafing of oak trees, 

 and the tints of the early foliage of, 200 ; a no- 

 tice and remarks on the excess in proportion 

 ; which the roots of seedling oak trees bear to 

 their branches, 439 ; are the roots of decayed 

 oak trees injurious to other trees planted in the 

 ' same soil? 296; the planting of young oak trees 

 !_ a year or two before the trees of another kind 

 intended to nurse them, suggested, 295 ; re- 

 ! marks upon this subject, 405. 465 ; a notice of the 

 advantage of cutting off young oak plants close 

 to the ground, two or more years after they are 

 planted, 465. 475 ; the heads of oak trees, in spe- 

 cified places, have their branches but little ex- 

 tended on the south-west side, 241 ; Mr. Munro's 

 defence of his proposed mode of training the 

 oak for the production of kneed, or curved, 

 timber for naval purposes, 76; this defence 

 dissented from by one, 180 ; the Turkey oak 

 (Quercus Cerris) stated to grow faster, and to 

 i make a taller and straighter tree, than other 

 kinds of oak, 336 ; information on the charac- 

 teristics and properties of the new, evergreen, 

 Lueombe's oak, 185. 296. 452 ; the numerous 

 fine evergreen oaks (Jlices) at Mamhead, near 

 Exeter, 452; the evergreen,available in protect- 

 ing other trees to be reared near the coast, 498 ; 

 it is available for the constitution of hedges in 

 gardens, 188 ; a notice of a specimen of the ses- 

 sile-flowered oak, finely in fruit, 572. 

 Oat, a species of, devoid of husk, imported from 



Japan, a mention of, 597. 

 Oatlands, a mention of, 335. 

 Odours of flowers, observations on, 187. 

 Onion, modes of cultivating the, 77. 268 ; a men- 

 tion of the weight of certain fifty onions, 612 ; a 

 mention of extraordinarily fine onions, 594. 

 Orange trees, the, in the garden at Coombe Royal, 

 Devonshire, information on the state of, and 

 the treatment of, 36 ; a figure and a description 

 of a machine for removing orange trees, &c, 

 growing in large tubs or boxes, 136. 

 Orchard in pots, and irections for forming, 317. 



Orchideous plants, information on, 165. 396. 444. 

 514. 571. 



Oxalic acid, facts on its agency in accelerating 

 the germination of seeds, 368. 



O'xalis cren&ta Jacquin, information on, 60. 66. 

 271. 453. 590. 603. 606. 



Oxford, notes on the building, college-gardens, 

 &c, at, 104; on Tagg's Paradise Nursery at, 

 107.289; on Penson's Nursery at, 108; on 

 Bates's Nursery at, 108 ; on Fairbairn's nursery 

 at, 108 ; on Humphrys's Nursery near, 109 ; on 

 JefFery's Nursery at, 109; on the botanic garden 

 at, 110. 165. 273. 289. 



Oxford Botanical and Natural History Society, 

 the scope of the, 271. 



Packing, the, of fruit trees, plants, and fruits, to 

 be sent to distant places, modes of performing : 

 to fruit trees, 451 ; plants, 208. 451 ; fruits, 84, 

 and,Tor'thenoticeofusingthedried male catkins 

 of .the beech as package for them, 329. 



Paint, a, which combines colour with durabilit3 r , 

 the constituents of, asked, 353. 



Palmer, Horsley, Esq., a notice of his villa at 

 Parsons Green, Fulham, 168. 



Papyrus of the ancients, some of the uses to which 

 it was applied, 390. 



Paris, facts appertaining to the practice of hor- 

 ticulture in the neighbourhood of, 157 ; a notice 

 of a public exhibition of flowering plants in 

 Paris, on March 2. 1834, 322 ; the mildness of 

 the winter of 1833-4 in the neighbourhood of 

 Paris, instanced by the state of certain plants, 

 157. 



Parsnep, a, 21 in. in circumference, 612. 



Passiflbra [? Cockburni], a description of, 573; 

 P. edulis was flowering upon a wall in Ireland 

 in Nov. 1832, 62. 



Peach tree : a review of certain not unusual prac- 

 tices in the culture of fruit trees against walls, 

 to the end of showing the unfitness and incon- 

 sistency of them, 264 ; a description of a prac- 

 tised mode of training, illustrated by a sketch, 

 and treating the peach tree and nectarine tree, 

 which has been found inductive of fine crops of 

 fruit and a healthy state of the trees, 37 ; a no- 

 tice of certain conditions of soil and culture in 

 which the peach tree has thriven satisfactorily, 

 222 ; notes on the culture of peach trees at 

 Montreuil, 11 ; a description of the structure of 

 an apparatus of curtains and frames applied in 

 one instance, and with effect, to the shelter of 

 peach trees and nectarine trees, from the time 

 of the opening of the first flowers to the middle 

 or end of May, 552 ; a notice of some of the 

 properties of the Bellegarde, or Galande, peach, 

 518; a mode of packing peaches to send to a 

 distance, 84. For some notice of insects' in- 

 juries to the peach tree, and of modes of miti- 

 gating them, see Insects. 



Peach house, a short notice of a costly, recently 

 erected for Lord Yarborough, at Brocklesby, in 

 Lincolnshire, 395. 



Pear tree: the lessening the number of the 

 flowers of pear trees, either before or after their 

 expansion, advised, to the end of increasing the 

 likelihood of fruit being produced from those 

 which are left ; a notice of modes of lessening 

 the number of flowers, 40 ; remarks on the 

 desirableness of a discovery of a mode of so 

 treating young pear trees in nurseries as to have 

 them ready to bear a crop of fruit shortly after 

 j transplanting them from nurseries, 318; certain 

 kinds of Flemish and other new kinds of pears 

 recommended, and a mode of cultivating them 

 advised, 316 ; a notice of the practice and the 

 effects of ingrafting cions of pear trees upon the 

 extremities of the shoots of old pear trees 

 trained on walls, 61 ; the characteristics of the 

 Saracen pear, 61 ; some particulars on the Uve- 

 dale's St. Germain pear, 61 ; a statement of the 

 weight of certain pears produced in Guernsey, 

 612; Haydon's seedling, 236 ; the beurre ranee is 

 a misnomer for the beurre' de Rans, a reason 

 shown, 157 ; cions offered for sale of the most 

 esteemed varieties of pear, 235; the names of 

 certain varieties of pear of which trees have been 

 received from Boston, United States, 451. 

 Pelargoniums planted in moss, only, have grown 



successfully, 572 ; frozen pelargoniums, 296. 

 Perth, see Agricultural objects. 



