CONTENTS. 



Vll 



Months in the preceding Summer, 180 ; Hoar- 

 frost, 374. 



i:ducation. — Amount of Instruction worthy of 

 the Title of Education, 88 ; Music, as a Branch 

 of Popular Education, 88 ; Necessity of Amuse- 

 ment, 89. 



Miscellaneotis. — The Use of Sulphate of Lime, 

 mi ; Disinfecting Night-Soil and Stable-Dung, 

 37*; Nets dyed Blue, 378; The Landscape- 

 Painter, 373; The Solar Ray, 562; Derange- 

 ment of the Spinal Column, 330. 



FOREIGN NOTICES. 

 France. 

 New Herbaceous Peonies, 378. 



Germany. 



Culture of Hepatica triloba, 522 ; Notes of a Bo- 

 tanical Tour, Edward Otto, 379 ; Extracts from 

 the Epistolary Correspondence of Edward Otto, 

 during his Voyage to Cuba, and his Abode 

 there, 523; 549 ; Storm at Louisaine, near Des- 

 sau, 648. 



Italy. 



Gardening in Lombardy, Roses, Method of mul- 

 tiplying Camellias, Giuseppe Manetti, 565 ; Sa- 

 lisbilrza adiantifblia, and other Matters, G. 

 Manetti, 182. 



Russia. 



Climate and Culture of Cucumbers in Courland, 

 90 ; Winter of 18?.0-41, 525. 



Asia Minor. 

 Chips of Firewood for giving Light, 378. 



i.FRlCA. 



On the Malaria of ths Western Coast of Africa, 

 567. 



India. 



Education in Travaijcore, 379 ; The Roses of 

 Ghazeepore, 379. 



North America. 



Philadelphia' Improvemei.ts, 428 ; American ex- 

 ploring Squadron, |S69 ; Jussievla .grandiflijra, 

 91 ; Sweet and Sour AppU, 476 ; Maple Sugar, 

 379 ; New Cherry Tree frcm the far West, 330 ; 

 To secure good Fruit, 476; Mammoth Cabbage, 

 330 ; Supjiosed new Cheny, 569 ; Sourmilier 

 Potato, 331 ; Live Oak, 476; Aildntus glandu- 

 16sa, 569 ; Macliiro aurar.tiaca, 569 ; New 

 Edition of Michaux's Sylva, John Torrey, 569. 



South America. 

 Rio Janeiro, Dr. L. F. Lippold, VJ, 



DOMESTIC NOTICES. 

 England. 



Public Park in the East of London, 331 ; Ken- 

 sington Gardens, 331 ; Parks and Pleasure- 

 Grounds, 282; Presentation, by the Bath Royal 

 Horticultural and Botanical Society, of a Cup 

 to Mr. Baxter, 283 ; New or rare Plants lately 

 raised in tlw Botanic Garden, Liverpool, Henry 

 Shepherd. 38 ; The Exhibition at the Horticul- 

 tural Society's Gardens, 331 ; Churchyards at 

 Lancaster, D. Saul, 230 ; Margins of the great 

 Lines of Railway, 332 ; The Bokhara Clover, 

 R. rarest, 231 ; The EfFect of Under-draining, 

 477, -Pinus 'Lamhextidna, 429; The Green- 

 hpases in the Wakefield Nursery, 570 ; The 

 Great American Aloe, 525 ; BrugmSnsM bicolor, 

 W. H. B., 477 ; Cdreus Northumberland;a and 

 CypSrus longus, A. B. Lambert, 91 ; Ciiicus 

 tuberbsusi 92 ; Bad Effect of growing Peaches 

 and Grapes in the same House, J. Nash, 571 ; 

 Weight of Queen Pines cut at Presswold in 

 1840, W. Brown, 231 ; Immense Mushroom, 

 526; The Gigantic Flax, 184; Cotton Plant, 

 38 ; Jelly from the Berries of Ribes san- 

 guineum, 231 ; ' Geese destroyed by eating 

 Monk's-hood, 651 ; Instinct of Pigeons, 652 ; 

 Habit of the Virginian Nightingale, 652; Effects 

 of the Winter of 1837-8, W. Godsall, 571. 



Scotland. 

 Glasgow Botanic Garden, 231 ; General Cemetery 

 near Edinburgh, 332; The " King's Knote" at 

 Stirling, 652; The Douglas Monument, 477; 

 Sir John Robison's Plant Case, 333 ; White's 

 Patent Heating Apparatus, 332 ; Improvements 

 in Cottage Buildings and Cottage Gardens, 

 .572 ; Timber Bridges, 38 ; Names of African 

 Plants, 231 ; ijhodod^ndron anthopbgon, 652 ; 

 Agricultural Museum at Glasgow, 652. 



Ireland. 

 Bequest of Books to the Botanic Garden, Glas- 

 nevin,'284; Pinus pumilio, 184. 



RETROSPECTIVE CRITICISM. 

 The Derby Arboretum, 381 ; Chatsworth, Alton 

 Towers, and Trentham, 40 ; The Conservative 

 Wall at Chatsworth, 45 ; The Glazing of the 

 Chatsworth Conservatory, 45 ; Chatsworth Con. 

 servatory, 92 ; The Pleasure Grounds at Theo- 

 balds, 92 ; The Monument to the Memory of 

 Mr. Douglas, 184 ; Burning of Soils, as a Means 

 of Improving them, '478 ; Transmission of Cut- 

 tings by Post, 237 ; Rooting Cuttings in Charcoal, 

 and rooting Seeds in Snow, 653 ; Semicylindrical 

 Draining-Tiles, 44 ; Architectural Objects in 

 Gardens, 235 ; Mr. Niven's Stove for various 

 Purposes, 234. 334. 429. 478 ; Mr. Forsyth's 

 Plant Structures, 285; Mr. Penn's Mode of 

 ,:' heating Hothouses, 42; Mr. Penn's Mode of 

 Heating, as contrasted with other Modes, 43 ; 

 Mr. Penn's Practice in Heating, See, 231 ; Mr. 

 Penn's Mode of heating and ventilating Hot- 

 houses, 232 ; Mr. Penn's Mode of Heating and 

 Ventilating, 285 ; Mr. Penn's Mode of Heating, 

 185 ; Mr. Penn's Mode of Heating at Chats- 

 worth, 234. 333 ; Mr. Rogers's Conical Boiler, 

 43 ; On the Natural Succession of Forest Trees 

 in the United States, .,93 ; American Button 

 Wood, or Plane Tree, 93 ; Quercus virens, 

 Phellos, and pubescens, and Z/'lmus efFilsa, 93 ; 

 Calling of the Queen Bee, 94 ; Plants adapted 

 for a Conservative Wall, 334. 382 ; Propagation 

 of the Dahlia, 573 ; D&phne Cnebrum, and D. 

 Dauphinn', 654 ; The Orange Groves of East 

 Florida, 93 ; Rust on Vines, 46 ; Shriveling and 

 Shrinking of Grapes, 45 ; Shriveling of Grapes, 

 235. S34 ; Mr. Mackenzie's Mode of cultivating 

 the Gooseberry and Currant, 573 ; Recent 

 Urine of Sheep, 572 ; Comparative Temperature 

 of different Years, 235. 284. 



QUERIES AND ANSWERS. 

 Mr. Parkyns, the Author of " Monastic Re- 

 mains, &c., 654; To protect Forest Trees from 

 the Ravages of Hares and Rabbits, 96 ; Pre- 

 venting Hares and Rabbits from injuring the 

 Bark of Trees, 237. 286 ; To prevent the Ra- 

 vages of Hares and Rabbits on Forest Trees, 

 237 ; Propagating the Mistletoe, 47 ; White 

 Scale, Brown Scale, Woodlice, Singing-Birds, 

 185; The small Stag-Beetle, 186; The Onion 

 Maggot, 185 ; Preventive against the Depreda- 

 dations of Snails on Wall-Fruit, 574; Felling 

 Resinous Trees, 237; The best Plan for manag- 

 ing an old Orchard, 574; Milsa Ca'vendish«, 

 334 ; Miis« Cavendish^' as a substitute for 

 Pines, 430 ; Painting Vines with Clay, 237 ; 

 The Curl in the Leaves of Vines, 96 ; Curling 

 of Vine Leaves, 48; The Curl in Vine Leaves, 

 48 ; Shanking of Grapes, 47 ; Shanking and 

 premature Shriveling of Grapes, 47 ; Oak Span- 

 gles, 186. 

 The West London Gardeners' Association for 

 vmtual . Instruction : — Forcing and general 

 Cultivation of the Strawberry - - 39 



BIOGRAPHY. 



Mr. William Beattie, F.H.S., 237; Daniel Ellis, 

 Esq., F.R.S,E., &c., 188. ; Francis Bauer, Esq., 

 186 ; John Cowhara Parker, Esq., W.S., 190. 



OBITUARY. 

 M. Augustus Pyramus DeCandoUe, G54 ; Prince 

 Butera, 654 ; Lord Monson, 593. 

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