GENERAL INDEX. 



627 



Petunia Willmore«»«, one, thus named, stated to 



i be a hybrid, and partly characterised, 603. 



Pheasant, the plantations made for the shelter of 

 the, and of other game, should also afford them 

 food ; a notice of kinds of trees, shrubs, and 

 plants which would, 432. 



Physiology of plants : a notice of the subjects em- 

 braced in this science, and information upon 

 some of them, 269 ; arguments in relation to 

 the question, Do roots absorb the material of 

 sap from the soil by means of their spongioles 

 only, or by their whole surface? 295. 462 ; the 

 spongioles of plants excrete fecal matter, and 

 this necessitates a rotation of crops, 12 ; a state- 

 ment of the effect of the action of tannin and 

 some other substances upon the roots of plants, 

 516 ; certain species of plants found of a feeble 

 habit of growth under culture, have been in- 

 vigorated by watering them with a decoction of 

 the herbage of kindred species of a freer habit 

 of growth, 347. See, also, Manure. Subjects re- 

 ferable to physiology, 140, 141. 539 ; the property 

 of drooping in the drooping ash is not here- 

 ditary, 408 ; views on the effect of the stock 

 upon the cion, 406. 



Piermont House, or Broadstairs, notes on, 119. 



Pigsties, a contrivance for preventing sows crush- 

 ing their pigs in, 332. 



Pine-apple plant, a description of a mode of heat- 

 ing pits by steam to facilitate the cultivation of 

 the, 226 ; increase of size in the fruit of the pine- 

 apple by supplying extra water and heat, 296 ; a 

 notice of pine-apples ripe on March 28. 1834, 235 ; 

 a mention of a pine-apple in weight 5f lb., 610 ; 

 of another, 81b. 3 oz., 610; some notice of two 

 pine-apples off seedling plants, 599. 



Plnus, information on species of, 155. 353. 517. 588. 



Pitmilly, Lord, garden and grounds of, 525. 



Planting and plantations : on adopting a regular 

 plan in forming plantations, with a view to 

 facilitating their after management, 26 ; the 

 desirableness and the mode of so forming 

 and rearing plantations as to cause them to 

 contribute an agreeable effect in scenery, as 

 as well as the effects of shelter and profit, 202; 

 the thinning and pruning of plantations and 



j belts enforced, by a notice of the ill effects of 



I omitting to do these, and by other remarks, 291, 

 292. 543 ; remarks condemnatory of planting in 

 what is termed a " cheap" manner, 292; direc- 

 tions for forming and rearing plantations near 

 the sea, 495 ; see also Arboriculture, Oak, and 

 Belts : excellent suggestions on the mode of 

 planting shrubberies, and on the mode of plant- 

 ing for purposes of decoration generally, 479 ; 

 strictures on disposing plants in masses, 263. 



Plants : the mode and results of cultivating cer- 



E tain species of ferns and other plants in closed 

 glass cases in the midst of the smoke of London, 

 207; the same mode might be advantageously 

 applied to the importation of plants from dis- 

 tant regions, 209 ; a mode of protecting alpine 

 plants through the winter, 133 ; the names of 

 plants and shrubs in flower on Nov. 15. 1833, at 

 Easthwaite Lodge, Lancashire, 60 ; the names 

 of certain plants in flower on Jan. 31. 1834, at 

 Shortgrove, in Essex, 165; the names of others 

 in flower early in December, 1833, in Suffolk, 

 Kent, and Warwickshire, 165, 166 ; the names 

 of certain plants which flourished through part 

 of the winter about Paris, 157; instances of 

 plants flowering a second time in 1834. 519 ; a 

 list of selected kinds of shrubs and plants cul- 

 tivated in the garden at Bisliopstoke Vicarage, 

 125—127. 130, 131 ; a query on variegated-leafed 



! plants, 80; information on them, 184; certain 

 species of plants whose leaves will strike root, 

 80 ; an enquiry on the temperature of the in- 

 terior of the stems of plants, 181.. 



Plumbago j-bsea, a query on, 296. 



Plum tree, the, a hint on the culture of, 317. 



P6a nemoralis, a notice of a variety of the, 398. 



Poplar, the Canadian, eligible for the constituting 

 of hedges ; the Turin, eligible for planting 

 closely in lines to shade and shelter plants in 

 nurseries, 185. 



Potato, information appertaining to the culture 

 of, 78. 157. 290. 433. 435. 437. 499. 506. 575. 



Prince Edward Island, see Emigration. 



Privet, common, uses of various parts of, 445 ; 



the evergreen privet is fit for supplying shelter 

 and food for game, 432. 

 Pruning : in transplanting trees, and large 

 shrubs, should not the branches be reduced 

 relatively to the roots ? in what proportion ? 

 Arguments, queries, and facts, upon these 

 questions, 539 ; the effect of pruning of trees for 

 timber upon the quantity and quality of their 

 timber, 542 ; the effects in the timber of the 

 j4bi<Hina5 (fir, pine, larch, &c), both of pruning 

 the growing trees, and of leaving them un- 

 pruned, 293 ; see, besides, Arboriculture. 



Pubescence upon plants, the quantity of, is in 

 some degree determined by the conditions of the 

 atmosphere, 169. 



Pyroligneous ether, facts on, and remarks re- 

 lative to the dissolution of caoutchouc, 241. 



Pyrus crenkta D. Don, information on, 169. 



Quex, near Ramsgate, notes on, 119. 



Ranunculus, Asiatic, hints on the culture of, 

 181. 604 ; a flower of, 4 in. over, 599, 600. 



Ravensworth Castle, the park and garden, 363.3 ! 



Reading, on the enjoyment derivable from, 53. 



Rhododendrons and other American plants, a 

 notice of certain conditions in connection with 

 which they have grown and flowered very satis- 

 factorily, 33. 337. note* ; facts on the rhododen- 

 drons cuitivated and originated in the gardens at 

 Highclere, 251. 452 ; notices of seedling varieties 

 of rhododendron, 593. 603. 



Roads, public, are susceptible of much increase 

 of interest to ,the traveller ; modes of producing 

 this interest suggested, 336; ParneU's.Telford's 

 Treatise on Roads, recommended, 319. 



Ronalds.Mr. Hugh, the fact of the death of, 96. 



Roots of plants, do they absorb from the soil the 

 material of sap by their whole surface, or by the 

 spongioles at their extremities only ? 295 ; facts 

 in relation to the position that the root is never 

 wholly denuded of its fibrils or spongioles, as 

 the branches are denuded of their leaves, 568 ; 

 a statement of the'effects of the action of tannin 

 and other substances upon the roots of plants, 

 516 ; remarks on the relation of proportion 

 borne by the roots of a tree to its branches, 439. 



Rose plants, hints on the culture of, 131 ; on 

 forming pillars of roses, 132 ; on the best stocks 

 for, 132 ; Rivers's classification of roses, and 

 his remarks on the properties and habits of many 

 of them, 509;:- Mr. Wood's collection of roses, 51 ; 

 the Village Maid rose, 458 ; kinds of rose which 

 constitute a lovely hedge of roses, 186. 453; an 

 enquiry and information on the grafting and bud. 

 ding of rose plants, 83 ; notices of the caterpillar 

 which ravages the buds of flowers of roses, 213. 

 and note*; notes on other insects which attack 

 the foliage of rose plants, 186. 



Russia, notices to gardeners emigrating to, 162. 



Rustic-work, wooden, in application to the deco- 

 ration of gardens, 485. 



Sap of plants, see Physiology. 



Schizanthus, white-corollaed, a mention of, 131. 



Scotland: observations made during a horticul. 

 tural tour through the eastern part.of the county 

 of Fife, 525 ; notice of damage done by wind 

 to certain plantations in the western counties of 

 Scotland, 62. 



Sea kale, a mode of cultivating, practised by the 

 Bath gardeners, 45. 



Seeds, a notice of modes of preserving, 442; the 

 insufficiency of the modes applied by Dr. Wal- 

 lich to seeds of Abi&tinx, 278. 452 ; an inci- 

 dental notice of means of promoting the ger- 

 mination of unpromising seeds, 453. 



Shaddock, information on the, 466. 576. 



Sherare, Mr., the fact of the death of, 96. 



Sheffield Botanical and Horticultural Garden, 

 the, suggestions on the election of a curator 

 of, 59 ; Mr. Robert Marnock has been elected 

 the curator of, 235 ; notices on three plans for 

 laying out the ground engaged for the garden, 

 Mr. Marnock 's, 276; Mr. Taylor's, 276; Mr. 

 Billinton's, 395. 



Shrubbery, excellent suggestions on the selection 

 of shrubs for, and on the mode of disposing 

 them, 479. 



Shrubs : remarks on the unfitness of the kinds of 

 trees and shrubs found planted in small plots 

 of pleasure-ground, in many instances, for 6uch 

 plots, 477. See, also, Plants. 



