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CONTENTS. 



Madeira. 

 Cinnamon and Tea Plantations, Honry Veitch, 

 358. 



India. 

 The Improvement of the Agriculture and Horti- 

 culture of IndiEj 42. 



North America, 

 Great Price for a Plant of ilfbrus multicaulis, 

 226 ; The largest Purple Beech and Cedar of 

 Lebanon, Alexander Gordon, 565 ; Architec- 

 ture and Gardening, 565; The Mascal Plant, 

 J. M., 226. 



Australia. 

 Gardening at Sydney, John Thompson, 42. 



DOMESTIC NOTICES. 

 England. 



General Si/bject.— Effects of the Winter of 

 1837-8, 667 ; Opening Public Gardens and Mu- 

 seums to all the Public, 351 ; Curtailing the 

 alleged Species of Herbaceous Plants, 668 ; 

 Gardener's Benevolent Association, 269 ; Pri- 

 son Gardening, 44 ; The Chester Nursery, 

 T. B., 44 ; The Horticultural Fete at Chiswick, 

 May, 310, June, 360 ; The South London Hor. 

 ticultural Society's Show, 361; An Addition 

 to the Regent's Park, 566 ; An additional 

 Park in London, 565; Kqw Gardens, 566; 

 Public Park at Liverpool, 566; The Leeds 

 Zoological and Botanical Gardens, 566 ; Gar- 

 dening in the Neighbourhood of Liverpool, 

 W. H., 269 ; Wreath of Flowers formed from 

 dried Specimens, 101 ; Artificial Flowers and 

 whole Plants made of Feathers, W. A. M., 

 312. 



Landscape- Gardening Mr. Nichols of Blun- 



derstone, as a Landscape-Gardener, T. Fenn, 

 44 ; Improvements at Bedgebury Park, Kent, 

 T. B., 311; Enville, the Seat of the Earl of 

 Stamford, in Worcestershire, L. P., 514. 



Implemejits and Machines. — A new Hedge- 

 Pruner, James Wright, 312; Mr. Read's Hy- 

 draulic Machines, J. R., 361. 



Arboriculture. — Specimens of Trees and Shrubs 

 received from the Sawbridgeworth Nursery, 

 100; Mr. Knight's Catalogue of ConSferae, 311 ; 

 Trees and Shrubs in Croome Park, W. Clarke, 

 45 ; Cedar of Lebanon, its Varieties, J. B. W., 

 172; ^'cer creticum, W. Clarke, 45; ^'cer 

 Lohelij, W. Clarke, 44 ; English Elms, 44 ; 

 Quercus pedunculata, 668 ; A transplanted 

 Mulberry Tree, which remained a Year dor- 

 mant, T. Rutger, 566; Folding Swine among 

 Oaks, Scott Portland, 101. 



Floriculture. — Rhododendron arbbreum hybri. 

 dum, B. B. Billington, 269; Wist^r/a sinensis, 

 W. Pamplin, jun., 311 ; The Caper, 46 ; Roses 

 in November, 45 ; Y-ucca gloribsa, 101 ; Rho- 

 dinthe MangleSH, 45; Victbrim rSgia izmrfif., 

 566 ; New Annuals raised in the Clapton Nur- 

 sery, H. li., 45; Works on the C&cti, 311; 

 Rhizom6rpha subterrknea, 173. 



Horticulture A Fine- Fruit Company, 312 ; 



Berries of Black Hamburg Grapes, T. C., jun., 

 101 ; The Vine at Valentines, J. J., 311 ; A new 

 Variety of Peach, 312; The Crop of Apples in 

 Berkshire, 672. 



Agriculture. — Pearson's Draining Plough, 

 C. M. B., 102 ; The Knepp Castle Kidney Po- 

 tatoe, 101 ; Cannabis sativa var. gigant^a, W. P. 

 Taunton, 609; The Bokhara Clover, 46; The 

 Bokhara Clover, Samuel Taylor, 567 ; The 

 Bokhara Clover, T. Taylor, 101 ; Hexa.A'kum 

 asperrimum, Bernard Saunders, 45 ; Naked 

 Barley, or Barley- Wheat, Charles Aldermann, 

 Kenbury, 312; The Rot in Sheep, J. D. C. 

 Sowerby, 313. 



Education State of Knowledge of the Mid- 

 dling Classes, in a Village in Suffolk, J., 174. 



Scotland. 



Improvements at the Earl of Stair's, Wigtonshire, 

 567 ; Improvements at Thirlestaine Castle, 



East Lothian, 567 ; The Ligneous Flora of the 

 Shetland Islands, 102 ; Queen Mary's Tree, 

 3G2 ; A Weeping common Oak, Patrick Ro- 

 bertson, 567 ; Gladiolus cardinalis, 567 ; iV/eli- 

 Ibtus, or Bokhara Clover, Archibald Gorrie, 

 610; Irrigating Meadows with Liquid Manure, 

 270; Sub-soil Ploughing, 102; Cottage Win- 

 dows, 270. 



Ireland. 

 Belfast Botanical Society, 363 ; The Belfast Bo- 

 tanic Garden, 567 ; National Education in Ire- 

 land, 567. 



RETROSPECTIVE CRITICISM. 



Erratum, 272 ; Mr. Main's Theory of Vegetable 

 Developement, R. Lymburn, 325 ; Mr. Main's 

 Theory of Vegetable Developement, J. Main, 

 518 ; Moistening the Air of Hot-houses by 

 Steam, John Lyons, 373 ; Constitutional 

 Changes in Plants by being grown in Cli- 

 mates not natural to them, D. Beaton, 326 ; 

 Anomalous Productions of Hybrids, Surrey- 

 ensis, 568; The Construction of Mr. Penn's 

 Hot-houses, 375 ; Bartram's Botanic Garden, 

 J. M., 180 ; New Plants raised in the Birming- 

 ham Botanic Garden, David Cameron, 102; 

 Disadvantage of a Gardener boarding with the 

 House Servants of a Family, W. B., 180; Mr. 

 Penn's Mode of Ventilating, &c., D. Beaton, 

 229; Remarks on Mr. Penn's Modeof Warming 

 and Ventilating, J. R., 272; Mr. Penn's Mode of 

 Warming and Ventilating, Benjamin Fowler, 

 323 ; On Mr. Penn's Method of Ventilation, and 

 Mr. Rogers's Conical Boilers, William Ander- 

 son, 273; The Advantage of placing Hot-water 

 Pipes higher than the Boiler, J. R., 322 ; Mr. 

 Rogers's Boiler, and Mr. Beaton's Remarks, 

 W., 227 ; The Conical Boiler of Mr. Rogers, W., 

 519 ; Proportion of Hot- Water Pipe required 

 for heating, Alexander Forsyth, 103 ; The 

 Grand Conservatory at Chatsworth, Alexander 

 Forsyth, 103; The Grand Conservatory at 

 Chatsworth, 180; The Conservatory at Chats- 

 worth, Alexander Forsytb, 229; The Grand 

 Conservatory at Chatsworth, Amicus, 275 ; 

 Joyce's Stove, D. Beaton, 276 ; Glazing with 

 Lead Lap instead of Putty, Veritas, 424 ; Sir 

 John Robison's Plant Case, Sir John Robison, 

 230 ; The Plates to Prince Puckler Muskau's 

 Hints on Landscape- Gardening, John Adey 

 Repton, 615 ; An Attempt to build in Lincoln's 

 Inn Fields, J. Main, 518 ; Paring the Verges of 

 Walks, Alexander Forsytli, 103; Ricauti's 

 Rustic Architecture, reviewed, S. J. Ricauti, 

 519; Large Trees, 181 ; 7'inus Pinsapo and P. 

 cephalbnica, D. B., 277 ; Pinsapo, Vilmorin, 

 568; Populus grae'ca, J. Mease, 231 ; L''lmus 

 fulva, J. Mease, 231 ; Native Scotch Pine, R. 

 Lymburn, 104 ; Mr. Rivers's Roses, 47 ; Graft- 

 ing the Orange on the Pomegranate, J. M., 

 180 ; Inaccm-acies in the Names of Fruit Trees, 

 &-C., E. B., 278 ; The Black Eagle Cherry, 

 J. B. W., 520 ; The Elton and Black Eagle 

 Cherries, T. R., 375; The Van Mons Leon 

 Leclerc Pear, L. Leclerc, 616 ; Mr. Lymburn 

 on the Culture and Preservation of the Po- 

 tato, J. Main, 278 ; Mr. Lymburn on the Po- 

 tato, D. B., 277 ; Storing Carrots for Winter 

 Use, John Pearson, 47 ; Mr. Gorrie's Horse- 

 hoe, 48 ; Naked Barley, 672 ; Yellow Clover 

 and Black Nonsuch, 278 ; The Calling of the 

 Queen Bee, W. Dunbar, 181 ; Habits of the 

 Jackdaw, John Wighton, 275 ; Braithwaite's 

 Kitchen-Range, G. M. Braithwaite, 231. 



ilr. Main's Remarks on a Review of some of his 

 Works which appeared iu the " AthencEum," 

 511. 



Regulations for the internal Administration of 

 the Garden of the Hort. Soc. of London, 318. 



The Royal Botanic Garden at Kew, 183. 232. £90. 



Botanical Garden (Kew). Copy of the Report 

 made to the Com??iittee appointed by the Lords 

 of the Treasury in January, 1838, 365. 



The West London Gardeners' Association fm- 

 mutual Instruction, 175. 177. 313. 371. 420. 611. 



