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CONTENiS. 



Polyanthuses, Tulips, Dahlias, Heartsease, 

 &c. &c. The whole arranged on a Plan dif- 

 ferent from any Work hitherto published. 

 By Tliomas Willats, Esq., Amateur Culti. 

 vator. Small 8vo. London, 1835 - -155 



An Essay on Calcareous Manures. By Ed- 

 mund Ruffin. Small 8vo, 242 pages. Pe- 

 tersburg, Lower Virginia, 1832 - . 156 



Catalogues of Roses. 1. A descriptive Cata- 

 logue of Roses, cultivated and sold by T. 

 Rivers and Son, for 1835-6. 2. A Catalogue 

 of Roses, cultivated by Mr. Hooper, at his 

 Nursery Gardens, Brenchley, near Lam- 

 berhurst, Kent - . . 260 



AGRICULTURE. 



The Agriculturist's Manual. By Peter Law- 

 son and Son . . - - 438 • 



Literary Notices: Flora Hibernica, 193. Ge- 

 raniacea^, 193. Zur Geschiclite, Kultur, 

 und Klassifikation der Georginen und 

 Dahlien, 193. The Suburban Gardener, 

 193. The Flora Domestica or History of 

 Medicinal Plants indigenous to Great 

 Britain, 263. Illustrations, with a Topo- 

 graphical and Descriptive Account, of Cas- 

 siobury Park, Hertfordshire, 263. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



General Notices. 



Notice of the Coccus bromelise, 92 ; Forcing of 

 Cherries' in England in 1755,; 92 ; Extraor- 

 dinary Produce of single Grains of Wheat, 92 ; 

 Sugar, extracted from Beet Root and Skir- 

 rets, 92; Cooling Liquors in hot Weather, 93; 

 Use and Abuse of Hybridisation, 194 ; Heating 

 Stoves by Steam not a new Invention, 195 ; 

 Transplanting, 196 ; Symmetry, 196 ; The In- 

 Suence of Lightning Conductors on Vegetation, 

 196 ; Plants grown in Moss, 196 ; Potash, 196 ; 

 Tulip Roots, 196; The Genus Bambusa, 197 ; 

 Lohel/a splendens and fulgens, 198; Method of 

 preserving Plants during a long Voyage, 263 ; 

 The House Fly, 251 ; A clieaj) and durable 

 Netting for Garden Purposes, 264 ; Rowland's 

 Metallic Wire and Metallic Nails, 264 ; Water- 

 proof Strands of Bast for tying Trees, and 

 Waterproof Bast Mats, 265 ; A Measuring 

 Chain, 322 ; A Pruning Hook for Vines, 322 ; 

 The common Bramble of our Hedges effective 

 in tanning leather, 323 ; A new Portable Flour- 

 Mill, 323 ; Glass Tubes for circulating hot 

 Water, instead of Cast-iron ones, 323 ; Conti- 

 nental travelling, 323 ; A newly recommended 

 Remedy for destroying the Red Spider on 

 Plants, 485 ; Three Crops a Year of Wheat, 

 485 ; School Education, 676 ; Effects of Educa- 

 tion on Society, 677 ; The Present has no Ene- 

 my like the Past, 678 ; Cruelty to Animals, 

 678; British Association for the Improvement 

 of Science, 678 : On the Action of Light upon 

 Plants, and of Plants upon the Atmosphere, 

 678 ; On the Colours of Flowers, 679 ; On the 

 Selecting Power of the Roots of Plants, G80 ; 

 The Effects of Arsenic on Vegetation, 673 ; Elec- 

 tric Property of Plants, 684 ; Accelerating the 

 Growth of Seeds by Sc-alding them, 684; Ar- 

 tesian Wells, 685 ; Heating by hot Water 

 drawn up from the Bowels of the Earth, 685; 

 The Structure of Pit Coal, 685 ; Earwigs, 687 ; 

 The Wireworm, 687 ; Botanist's Spud, 687 ; To 

 preserve Botanical Specimens, Insects, &c.,'688 ; 

 Tigridia Pavbnia, 688 ; Age of Yew Trees, 688 ; 

 Grafting the Celtis on the common Thorn, 688; 

 Xanthorrhoe^a arburea, 689 ; The most extraor- 

 ordinary agricultural Improvement of modern 

 Times, 689 ; Acceleration of the Growth of 

 Wheat, 689. 



Foreign Notices. 



France. — The deciduous Cypress, 198; The Red 

 Oak, 198; L'Institut Horticole de Fremont, 

 198 ; Cultivation of the Bamboo in France, 

 199 ; Seeds,2199 ; Paris, Female Salisbdr/a, 266 ; 

 SalisbiirM, |690 ; Improvements in the Jardin 

 des Plantes, 692 ; Soulange-Bodin, 693. 



Selgmm. — Ghent, 199; Horticultural Notices, 

 266 ; Different varieties of Indian, Bengal, and 

 Noisette Roses, 267; Some of the principal 

 Gardens and Gardeners in Belgium, 324 ; 

 Trees in the Botanic Garden, Leyden, 692 ; 

 Park at Lacken, 547 ; Park of the Due 

 d'Aremberg, at Enghien, 517. 



German!/. — The Lake Zirknitz, in Carniola, 199 ; 

 Notes on the Trees, Gardens, Gardeners, Gar- 

 den Artists, and Garden Authors of Germany, 

 200; The English Garden at Munich, 693. 



Itali/. — Monza Gardens, 267 ; Plants which stand 

 in the open Air at Como, 263 ; Genoa, 548 ; 



Naples, 548; Monza, 548; Salisbury! adianti- 

 fblia, 549. 



Spain. — Information on, 201. 263 ; Gibraltar, 693. 



Norway, 548. 



Russia. — Isle of Cronstadt, near St. Petersburg, 93. 



Turkey.— The great Plane Tree at Buykdere, 549. 



Syria. — Dahlias, &c., 208. 



India. — Botanic Garden, Calcutta, 209; Seeds 

 of the Prangos Hay Plant, 269. 



North America. — Lemon Hill, Philadelphia, 

 209; Exhibition of Cheeses at Albany, 326; 

 Su^rcus alba, 693 ; Platanus occidentalis, 

 693; Endicct Pear Tree, 694; Large Pears, 

 694 ; Large Virginian Apples, 694 ; The Ma. 

 clfirfl!, 694; The Tea Plant, 694. 



SoutA America. — 'I'he Timber Trees which grow 

 in the Neighbourhood of Caraccas, 210. 



West Indies. — Practicability of cultivating Wheat 

 and other Articles of Agricultural Produce, at 

 certain Elevations, in the West Indies, 211. 



Australia. — Death of ; Mr. Richard Cunning- 

 ham, 326. 



Domestic Notices. 



England. — Ashwell in Hertfordshire, 97 ; Public 

 Gardens and Literary Institutions, 9'^ ; The 

 Bristol, CUfton, and West of England Zoological 

 Society," 99; Building at Northfleet, 100; 

 Booker's Hoe. 100 ; The Palo de Vaca, or Cow 

 Tree, 100; Linna;an Society, 157; Society of 

 Arts, 157; The Stamford Hill Horticultural 

 Reading Society, 157 ; The Stratford Nursery, 

 157; Sterculia'platanifblia, 157; The Milford 

 Nursery, 157 ; Hickling Wheat, 158 ; Golden 

 Drop Wheat, 158 ; Ticia villbsa, 159 ; List of 

 Melon and Gourd Seeds, 159 ; Plant of Brug- 

 mansM suavdolens, 213 ; Chimonanthus fra- 

 grans 213 ; Alstroemerias in the open! Air in 

 Devonshire, 213; iathyrus rotundif olius, 213; 

 Ipomoe^a rClbro-csrillea, 214 ; Strelitzia augusta , 

 214; Entomological Society 214 ; Turnip Fly, 

 215 ; Silkworms, 215 ; Subject of Prize Essay for 

 1836, 215 ; Professorship of Botany at King's 

 College, 367 ; South London Floricultural So- 

 ciety, 368 ; Botanical Collector sent to South 

 America, 368 ; Weeping Oak at Moccas Court, 

 Herefordshire, 368 ; Common Oak at Moccas 

 Court, 368; Planting at Moccas Court, 369; 

 The Alpine Laburnum, 369 ; Cytisus purpCl- 

 reus appearing on the hybrid Laburnum, 

 369; Choice Plants at Sheppy Hall, Leicester- 

 shire, 369 ; Fiichsi« arbori5scens, 370; Plants in 

 Flower on March 1. in the Neighbourhood of 

 Falmouth, 370 ; Plants in full Flower at Pen- 

 zance, Cornwall, on Nov. 12. 1835,370; ieu- 

 cojum vernum, 371 ; Twickenham Botanic Gar. 

 den Apple, 371 ; Horticultural Fetes, 485: A 

 Public Pleasure-Garden at Lichfield, 486; C6- 

 reus speciosjssimus, 466 ; Heraclctcm asperum, 

 the Siberian Cow Parsnep, 487 ; The Grapery 

 at Kinmel Park, 487 ; Forming Meadows, by 

 Inoculation, in One Year, 487 ; English Gar- 

 dens visited by Foreigners, 550 ; Kensington 

 Gardens, 5.50 ; New and rare Plants lately 

 introduced into the Liverpool Botanic Gar- 

 den, 551 ; Horticulture in Jersey, .551 ; Pe- 

 tits Pois Anglais, 552; Maclilr« aurantiaca, 

 552 ; Shrubby Calceolarias, .552 ; Large YUcca 

 gloribsa, 552; Gigantic Thistle, 553; Large 

 White Currant Tree, 5:yo ; A new Species of 

 A'phis, 553; The old Vinery and Peach-Houses 



