

PREFACE. 



I he Contents of this Fifteenth Volume of the Gardener s Magazine 

 are arranged as under : — 



■nmunications: — 

 Subject ..... 



iorical and Statistical 



oOrical, Critical, and Descriptive 



*ts of the Winter of 1837-8 



■nee of Vegetable Culture 



*& and Insects relatively to 



ardens . 



den Structures, Tools, and In- 

 i'ruments .... 



1 -I'ces of Artificial Heat 



■pe-Gardening and Garden Ar- 



ecture - - . 



ulture .... 



:cts of Kyanising Wood 



ture . - 



iture - 



ic Economy .... 



•ture ... 



l ure - 



. Subject . - - 



ailture - - - - 



tture - 



Horticulture - 



Agriculture .... 



Horticultural and Agricultural Entomo- 

 logy - 

 Catalogue : — 



General Subject .... 



Landscape-Gardening ;and Rural Archi- 

 tecture - - - 

 Arboriculture ... 

 Floriculture . 



Horticulture - .... 



Agriculture - . 



Bee Culture ... . . 



Miscellaneous . 



Miscellaneous Intelligence : — 



General Notices .... 



Foreign Notices - 

 Domestic Notices . . - 



England - - - 



Scotland . - - - 



Ireland ..... 

 Retrospective Criticism 

 Queries and Answers - - - 



London Horticultural Society and Gar- 

 den - . . _ - . 

 West London Gardener's Association 

 for mutual Instruction ... 

 Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society 

 Visits to Suburban Gardens 

 Botanical Expedition to Columbia 

 Foreign Botanical and Horticultural 



Agency - 

 Covent Garden Market - _ - 



Biography .... 

 Obituary - - - ... 

 List of Engravings - 



List of Plants included in the Floricultural 

 and Botanical Notices recorded as sup. 

 plementary to the Second Additional Sup- 

 plement to the Hortus Britannicus - 

 List of Plants mentioned or treated of in 

 the present Volume, arranged alphabeti- 

 cally - ... . . 

 List of Fruits ... 

 List of culinary Vegetables - 

 List of Agricultural Plants 

 List of Provincial, Horticultural, Botani- 

 cal, and Floricultural Societies 

 List of Gardens and Country Seats - 

 List of Books reviewed or noticed, alpha- 

 betically arranged - - _ . 

 List of Contributors ... 



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ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



GENERAL SUBJECT. 



Historical and Statistical. 



A Summary View of the Progress of Gar- 

 dening, and of Rural Improvement gene- 

 rally, in Britain, during the Year 1839; 

 with some Notices relative to the state of 

 both in Foreign countries. By the Con- 

 ductor - - - - - 704 



Provincial, Horticultural, Botanical, and 

 Floricultural Societies, &c. - - 674 



Historical, Critical, and Descriptive. 



Design for the Leeds Zoological and Bota- 

 nical Gardens, approved of by the Pro- 

 visional Committee ... 305 



Remarks on Mr. Billington's Plan for the 

 Leeds Zoological and Botanical Gardens - 306 



Design for the Leeds Zoological and Bota- 

 nical Gardens, presented to the Provisional 

 Committee by Joshua Major - - 316 



Remarks on the Gardens of the Royal Bo- 

 tanic Society of London, Inner Circle, 

 Regent's Park. By the Conductor - - 322 



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Recollections of a Tour chiefly between 

 London and Sheffield, made during the last 

 Three Weeks of May, 1839. By the Con- 

 ductor ..... 433 



Some Account of Gardens, and the State of 

 Gardening in the North and West Ridings 

 of Yorkshire. By J. B.W. - -209 



Notes on some Suburban Villas between 

 London and Cheshunt, made on July 24. 

 and August 10. 1839, comprising Powis 

 Park, Culland's Grove, Arno's Grove, Min- 

 chenden House, Southgate Lodge, South 

 Lodge, Theobald's Park, and Oakhill. By 

 the Conductor .... 509 



Notes on Suburban Gardens. By the Con- 

 ductor ..... 422 



Notices of the Gardens and Nurseries in 

 Lyons and its Neighbourhood. From the 

 Annates d' Agriculture, Sfc. de Lyon, for 

 1838 ... . . 



Notes taken from the Narrative of a Horti. 

 cultural Journey in Greece, during the 

 Summer of 1S37. By Eugene Achille Bau- 

 mann, of the Bollwyller Nursery 

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