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GENERAL INDEX. 



Sicily, information on the classical plants of, 391. 

 Sinclair, Mr. George, F.L.S. F.H.S., author of 

 Hortus GramineusWobiirnensis, the fact of the 

 death of, and traits in the character of, 192. 

 Slate employed in forming several of the fixtures 



of a house, 471. 

 Slugs and snails are prevented by lime, 123, and 

 by soot, 186, from eating of the objects sur- 

 rounded by these. 

 Soils, their influence upon the plants transplanted 

 into them, 541 ; remarks relative to the analys- 

 ing of soils, 74. 

 Spongioles, see Physiology. 

 Stamford Hill Horticultural Reading Society, the, 



its objects, 160. 

 Stems of plants, query on the temperature of the 



interior of the, 181. 

 Sterctilia alata, information on, 517. 

 Strathtyrum, the seat of Mrs. Cheape, notes on 



the gardens at, 531. 

 Strawberry, information on the, 397. 590 ; a mode 

 of packing strawberries to send to a distance, 84. 

 Summer, the prolonged, of 1834, a notice of the 



effects of, 573. 

 Tala plant, the, used to form hedges in Buenos 

 Ayres, identified withCoulten'm horrida.K^A.,466. 

 Tacsbnia, a species of, comparatively hardy, 452 ; 

 • the charms of T. pinnatistipula, 342. 

 Tally : figures of earthenware tallies, of new 

 forms, 164 ; a description of them, 163. 165 ; an 

 opinion on modes of inscribing tallies, 157. 

 Tanning : the proportion of tanning matter con- 

 tained in substances experimented upon, 404 ; 

 the use of larch bark in tanning, and on its 

 value of price, 290. 466 ; the leaves of the privet 

 have a tanning property, 445. 

 Tea, the meaning of the names of certain kinds 



of, 321. 

 Telfair, Mr., the fact of his death noticed, 63. 

 Temperature: considerations on the scientific 

 management of hot-houses relative to the regu- 

 lation of temperature, 18. On temperature, see, 

 also, Colour. Questions on the temperature of 

 the interior of the stems of plants, 181. 

 Thanet, Isle of, the state of gardening in, 119. 

 Tidworth, notes on, 470. ' 



Tobacco, information :on cultivating and prepar- 

 ing the Sheeraz tobacco, 500 ; details on a course 

 of cultivating and curing tobacco for horticul- 

 tural purposes, 501 ; the cultivation of tobacco 

 in Ireland is discontinued, 575. 

 Tomato : a notice of a simple mode of preserving 

 the fruit, 445 ; a notice of a mode of ingrafting 

 a branch of the tomato plant upon the stem of 

 the potato, 312. 

 Toronto Horticultural Society, 571. 

 Tottenham Park, and the gardens, grounds, and 



mansion at, 413. 

 Tottenham Park Wharf, notes on, 469. 

 Tour : notes on objects observed in a tour, by 

 l the Conductor, through part of Middlesex, 

 Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire, 

 Wiltshire, Dorsetshire, Hampshire, Sussex, and 

 Kent, 1. 97. 245. 301. 413. 469. 

 Trained trees : instructions for estimating the re- 

 lative superiority of condition in trained trees, 

 318. 

 Training : the ends and objects of training in 

 fruit trees, and the mode of performing it, 265 ; 

 of some modes of training wall-fruit trees, prac- 

 tised in the gardens of Hopetoun House, 267,'; 

 queries on the effect of training the branches of 

 espalier trees downwards, 242 ; training trees on 

 trelliswork over the principal walks of a gar- 

 den, 242 ; a description of a construction of 

 rails adapted to the purposes of training, 334. 

 Transplanting: transplanting plants is much in- 

 fluenced by the nature of the soil, 541 ; should 

 not branches be reduced relatively to roots ? in 

 what proportion ? 539. 



Trees, see Arboriculture, Landscape-gardening, 



Physiology, Pruning, Transplanting. 

 Trichonema (7'xia) Bulbocbdium grows wild in 

 » Devonshire, 593. 



jTrifolium incarnatum, the scarlet-corollaed clo- 

 ver, facts on the culture of, 332. 

 Tulips, hints on the culture of, 180. 

 Turnip, the qualities of Dale's hybrid, 6 ; the 

 weight of produce of it, 505 ; a fact in the his- 

 tory of cultivating the turnip in 'fields, 290. 

 note * ; conditions under which crops of plants 

 of turnip have been, and have not been, ravaged 

 f by the beetle, 78. 154. 

 Tyso, Rev. J., notes on the garden of, 5. 

 United States of America : facts 'relative to the 

 state of horticulture and architecture in the 

 United States, 570 ; a magazine of gardening 

 and botany has recently appeared in Baltimore, 

 570 ; effects of intemperance on a gardener who 

 had emigrated to, 571 ; a notice of the Colum- 

 bian Horticultural Society's first annual' exhi- 

 bition of plants and fruits, 569. 



Van Diemen's Land, notices relative to, 273. 457. 



Variegated leaves, how are they produced ? what 

 would be the effect of variegated-leafed plants 

 in ornamental scenery? 80; an answer to the 

 latter question, 184. 



Vases : strictures on the employment of vases as 

 receptacles for plants in town gardens, with 

 some remarks on their use in garden scenery in 

 the country, 489 ; plinths indispensable to vases 

 placed on the ground, 326. 

 -Vegetable products, of certain kinds named, in 

 p. 353., which yields the greatest quantity of 

 food for live stock ? 353. 



Ferbascum, a, with a stem 12 ft. high, 453. 



Ticia tricolor as a forage plant, 338. 



Wakefield Subscription Botanic Garden, the, 324. 



Walnut tree, Mr Knight's method of ingrafting 

 the, 503 ; the uses of the walnut tree of Cash- 

 mere, 442. 



Walls : a notice of the effect in temperature of 

 the action of the sun's rays upon walls con- 

 structed at different angles in relation to the 

 horizon, and of different materials, 396 ; the re- 

 sults in temperature of white walls and black 

 walls, 445 ; the names of several kinds of walls 

 of cheap cost, 470 ; walls, as boundary fences to 

 fields, are preferred in Fifeshire to hedges, 525. 



Walks : an instance of the employment of Fin- 

 layson's harrow to stir the gravel in a broad 

 walk, 277. 



Wallingford, notes on gardens in, 5. 



Walton, the residence of Lady Tankerville, notes 

 on the gardens at, 335. 



Wasps, remarks enjoining the importance of the 

 destruction of, in early spring, 123. 



West Indies, information on some of the fruits of 

 the, 576, 577. 



Wheat, the Victoria, information on, 454. 457 ; it 

 is a bearded wheat, 595 ; on other varieties of 

 wheat, 155. 465. 519. 



White Hill, notes on, 195. 



Wicken, tree is the Pyrus aucuparia, 185. 296. 



Willow, the species of, of the wood of which the 

 Dutch make hoops, is probably Salix triandra, 

 354. 



Wilson, see Greenhithe. 



Wimbledon House, park and gardens, 337. 



Wireworm, the, queries respecting, 295. 



Woburn Farm residence, notes on the condition 

 of the ornamental plantations about, 334. 



Woodhall Gardens, Renfrewshire, accommodation 

 for the young gardeners at, 236. 



Worms, a mode of destroying, 123. 



Yew tree, should its berries be interred for a year 

 before sowing ? 84. 



Yucca starch, information on, 454. 



Zoological Gardens, Regent's Park, 235 ; the 

 Surrey, notes on, 279. 516. 597. 



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