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CONTENTS. 



Historical Notice of the Botanic Garden of 

 Padua. Communicated by Signor Giu- 

 seppe Manctti, of Monza - - - 310 



The ancient History of the Rose. By 

 Ramllc Wilbraham Falconer, Esq., M.D. 379 



Some Inquiry concerning the Ouercus and 

 Fagus of the Ancients. By H. L. Long, 

 Esq. - 9 



On inoculating the Rose on the Orange, 

 and similar Practices ; and on Mr. Long's 

 Paper on the Quercus and Fagus of the 

 Ancients. In a Letter to Major Webb 

 from his brother, P. B.Webb - - 589 



On the Olive and Date Plantations in New 

 South Wales. By Dr. Lhotsky - - 595 



Some Remarks on Brazilian Esculents and 

 Fruits. Bv Dr. Lhotsky - - - 329 



Note on the Jalap Plant of Commerce. By 

 D. Beaton 328 



Notes, horticultural and agricultural, on the 

 Brazils and New Holland. By Dr. Lhotsky 249 



Effects of the Winter 0/1837-8. 



An Account of the Trees and Shrubs which 

 were killed or otherwise injured, with a 

 few of those which were uninjured, by the 

 Severity of the Winter of 1837-8, in the 

 Botanic Garden, &c, Oxford. By W. H. 

 Baxter - - - - - 57 



On the Influence of the Winter of 1837-8 on 

 certain half-hardy Shrubs in the Glazen- 

 wood Nursery. By Samuel Curtis, F.H.S. 233 



Notice of the Effects of the Winter of 1837-8 

 on certain Trees, Shrubs, and Plants, hardy 

 and half-hardy, cultivated in the Hands- 

 worth Nursery, near Birmingham. By 

 Alexander Pope - - - - 231 



The Winter of 1837-8 at Munich, and its 

 Effect on the Plants there. By M. L. C. 

 Seitz, Royal Court and Botanic Gardener 

 at Munich, from the Garten Zeitung for 

 August 1838 - - - - 61 



Science of Vegetable Culture. 



Remarks on Mirbel's Nouvelles Notes sur le 

 Cambium, extracted from a Work on the 

 Root of the Date Palm. By James Main, 

 A.L.S.,&c. - - . - 592 



On the Means of ascertaining the Degree of 

 Humidity most suitable for the Atmo- 

 sphere of Hot-houses. By George Wailes 506 



On the atmospheric Moisture of Hot-houses ; 

 on the Management of Orchidaceous 

 Plants ; and on gathering and packing Or- 

 chidea; for long Voyages. By D. Beaton 552 



On acclimatising Plants in British Gardens. 

 By N. M. T. - - - - 219 



Description of a Plant Case, or Portable Con- 

 servatory, for growing Plants without fresh 

 Supplies of Water and Air, according to 

 the Method of N.B.Ward, Esq.; with 

 Physiological Remarks. By Daniel Ellis, 

 F.R.S.E. 481 



Birds and Insects relatively to Gardens. 



Remarks on the Usefulness of Birds in Agri- 

 culture and Gardening. By G. Ord - - 327 



A Series of Articles on the Insects most 

 injurious to Cultivators. By J. O. West- 

 wood, F.L.S., Secretary to the Entomolo- 

 gical Society of London. No. 15.. Celery 

 and Chrysanthemum Leaf-Miners - - 103 



Garden Structures, Tools, and Instruments. 



On rustic Doors swung on Pivots, with 

 rustic Porches. By Alexander Forsyth - 539 



Design for a Trellis for Fruit Trees erected 

 in the Gardens of Sir James Carnegie, 

 Bart., Kinnaird Castle, Forfarshire. By 

 Robert Gardiner, Gardener there - -599 



Notice of a light Folding Ladder, adapted 

 for various Purposes in Gardening and 

 domestic Economy. Drawn up from 

 Notes and a Model communicated by D. 

 Beaton, Gardener to Thomas Harris, Esq., 

 F.H.S., &c., of Kingsbury - - - 56 



On the Use of a new Kind of Wire Netting, 

 for various Purposes in Gardening and 

 Planting, &c. ByS.T. - - -222 



Some Account of a Box for the Propagation 

 of Cape Heaths. By N. M. T. - - 21 



Remarks on Garden Tallies ; Kyanising for 

 Tallies ; the Menogramme ; Conservatory, 

 Greenhouse, and Stove Tallies for private 

 Collections ; Tallies for Alpine Rock 

 Plants, &c. ; Tallies for general botanical 

 Garden Purposes in the open Garden ; 

 Tallies for naming Trees, &c, against 

 Walls ; Tallies for Water-plants, in Ponds 

 or Margins of Lakes in Pleasure-grounds ; 

 Labels suited to receive Numbers, not 

 Names, of Plants, and the Mode of Num- 

 bering allowed to be most simple and dur- 

 able. By W. H. Baxter - - - 542 



Sources of Artificial Heat. 



On the Employment of Arnott's Stove for 

 heating Green-houses. By T. Rivers, jun. 107 



Account of a new Substitute for Tan and 

 Stable Manure, in forming Hot-beds. 

 Communicated by John Grigor - - 248 



LANDSCAPE-GARDENING AND GAR- 

 DEN ARCHITECTURE. 



Descriptive Notices of select Suburban Re- 

 sidences, with Remarks on each ; intended 

 to illustrate the Principles and Practice of 

 Landscape-Gardening. By the Conductor. 

 No. 10. Mount Grove, Hampstead - 1 

 No. 11. The Rock-Garden of Thomas 

 Millie, Esq., in St. Clairtown, near 

 Kirkaldv, Fifeshire - - -49 



No. 12. Redleaf, the Seat of William 



Wells, Esq., F.H.S. - - - 353 



No. 13. Garden Cottage, Cheshunt, the 

 Country Residence of William Harri- 

 son, Esq., F.L.S., &c. - - - 633 

 Remarks on the Charges made by Landscape. 

 Gardeners and Garden- Architects. By the 

 Conductor - 213 



ARBORICULTURE. 



Arboricultural Notices, collected from vari- 

 ous Sources, intended as supplementary to, 

 or corrective of, the Information contained 

 in the Arboretum et Fruticelum Britanni- 

 cum - 118. 236 



The Arboriculture of the Voyage of Captains 

 King and Fitzroy to the Straits of Ma- 

 gellan and Terra del Fuego. By Capt. S.E. 

 Cook, R.N. 692 



An Account of the preparatory Operations 

 made in the Birmingham Botanic Garden 

 previously to planting the Arboretum 

 there ; with the Dimensions which some of 

 the Trees have attained in Seven Years. 

 By D. Cameron, Curator there - - 537 



Pines found in the Taurian Caucasus. By 

 C. Stevens - - - - - 224 



Description of the Picea Pins&po, a new 

 Species, discovered in Spain by M. E. Bois- 

 sier, in 1837. By Charles Lawson, Esq. 109 



List of Coniferous Trees in the Pinetum of 

 Baron de Serret, at Beernem, near Bruges. 

 By Baron de Serret - 325 



Notice of a new hybrid Mahonia, or Ever- 

 green Berberry. By T. Rivers, jun., 

 F.H.S., &c. 235 



A Proposal to name Collections of Trees and 

 Shrubs in Public Gardens and Nurseries, 

 under certain Circumstances, and on cer- 

 tain Conditions. By the Conductor . 617 



The recent Plantations in Kensington Gar- 

 dens and Hyde Park. By the Conductor, 131 



An Account of a new Weeping Larch. By 

 W. Godsall - - - - 547 



On the Cypress of Mistra. By the Earl of 

 Aberdeen ----- 697 



On different Modes of securing newly planted 

 Trees against high Winds, with a new 

 Plan for that Purpose. By Samuel Taylor 545 



