CONTENTS. 



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FOREIGN NOTICES. 



France. 



Agriculture in the Vicinity of L'Orient, F. A. 



M'K, 39 ; The Artesian Well of Grenelle, lo5 ; 



Bore of the Artesian Well at Grenelle, 136. 



Russia. 

 Sudden Death of Trees in Russia, B. J., 233 ; 

 Riga, Fr. Wagner, fils, 136. 



Italy. 



Genus M6rus, Giuseppe Manetti, 231 ; Remedy 

 for the woolly Aphis, G. Manetti, 41 ; Oil from 

 the Seeds of the Negundo, G. Manetti, 40; 

 Seeds collected in 1840 by Professor Visiani of 

 Pavia, G. Manetti, 39. 



Germany. 



Quercus pedunculata fastigiata, 32S ; Railway of 

 the Nordbahn, C. R., 476; The edible Snail of 

 Germany, 512. 



China. 



Manure among the Chinese, 574. 



India. 

 The Fountain at Barrackpoor, J. Cooper, 41. 



West Indies. 

 Residence of Edward Otto at Cuba — continued, 

 136. 234. 285. 



Australia. 

 Timber Trees of Australia, 237- 



North America. 



Large Mahogany Logs, J. M., 429; Large Ame- 

 rican Red Oak, J. M., 188; Madura aurantlaca 

 Apple, J. M., 189; Venerable Cactus, J. M., 

 575; Strelitzta reglnce, J. M., 575; Jussieua 

 grandiflora, J. M., 188 ; Ag&ve americana, 

 J. M., 575. 



DOMESTIC NOTICES. 



England. 



Royal Botanic Garden, Kew, 189; The Exhi- 

 bition at the Horticultural Society's Garden, 

 381 ; A Botanic Garden in the Isle of Wight, 

 189 ; The Fountains in St. James's Park, and 

 in Kensington Gardens, 381 ; Kensington Gar- 

 dens, 382; Ashmolean Society, 330; Building 

 Villas on the Site of the Kitchen-Gardens at 

 Kensington, W., 139 ; Chatsworth Conser- 

 vatory, J. R., 331 ; Singular Instance of Ve- 

 getation, 189; Trees and Shrubs deserving to 

 be more generally cultivated, 329 ; Common 

 Laurel (Cerasus Laurocerasus), R. T., 239; 

 Hardy Plants in Epsom Nursery, T. C., 41 ; 

 Sycamore in Garstang Churchyard, M. Saul, 

 477; tfedera Helix, W. H. B., 576; Ipomce'a 

 Learw, W. H. B., 576 ; Clay Floors, W. T., 

 140; Artificial Ice for skating on, 42; The 

 Peasantry of France and Northumberland, 42; 

 Pine-apples at Branspeth Castle, G. Dale, 41 ; 

 Tomato Figs, G. Charlwood, 331; Candahar 

 Fruits, 331; Immense Shaddock, 383; The 

 Sweeney Nonpareil Apple, T. N. P., 41 ; Dart- 

 moor Granite as a building Material, 139 ; The 

 Wire- Worm, 140 ; Thunder Storm at Walton 

 Hall, Charles Waterton, 476. 



Scotland. 



Caledonian Horticultural Society, 140. 383; The 

 Botanic Society of Edinburgh, 383 ; The High- 

 land and Agricultural Society of Scotland, 142 ; 

 The Edinburgh Botanic Garden, 383; The 

 Gardens at William field, the Residence of Mrs. 

 Fairlie, 42 ; Br6wm'« coccfnea, &c, W. W. B., 

 239. 



Ireland. 

 A Farmer's Gazette and Journal of Practical 

 Horticulture, 383; Designs for Cottages and 

 Suburban Villas, N., 189. 



RETROSPECTIVE CRITICISM. 



Books on Gardening, &c, R. T., 239 ; The 

 " Suburban Horticulturist " : Analogy between 

 Plants and Animals ; Purple Laburnum ; 

 Growth ; Causing Plants to produce Flowers 

 sooner than they would do naturally ; Mag- 

 nesia; Iron; Hair, Wool, Feathers, Leather, 

 Horn, Rags, &c. ; Bones; Inorganic or Mineral 

 Manures ; Hygrometers ; Effect on the Feel- 

 ings produced by an Atmosphere heated ac- 

 cording to Mr. Penn's Principle ; Light through 

 a transparent Medium ; Canvass Coverings ; 

 Blackened Walls ; Inclination of Heating- 

 Pipes ; Motion of heated Air producing a Sen- 

 sation of Coolness ; Rogers's conical Boiler and 

 Hot- Water Apparatus ; Experiments made to 

 accelerate Germination ; Sowing Seeds in 

 powdered Charcoal ; Sowing Seeds in Snow ; 

 Selecting the Shoot; Time of taking off Cut- 

 tings ; Leaves left upon the Cutting ; Stout 

 Cuttings difficult to strike ; Cuttings of under- 

 ground Stems and Roots ; Uses of Grafting ; 

 Grafting by detached Scions; Bud-Grafting; 

 Budding ; After-Care of Grafts by Budding ; 

 Whether deciduous Trees and Shrubs ought 

 to be transplanted in Autumn or Spring ; 

 Planting with the Dibber; Watering, mulch- 

 ing, and staking newly planted Plants ; Dis- 

 advantages of growing Plants in Pots; Specific 

 Principles of Pruning; Close Pruning ; Stopping 

 and pinching out ; Spurring-in ; Cutting down 

 of the Stem or Trunk of a Tree to the Ground, 

 &c. ; Disbarking ; Ringing ; Disbudding ; Dis- 

 leafing ; Root-Pruning ; Stirring the Soil ; 

 Manuring; Selection of Seedlings, &c. ; Pro- 

 duction of double Flowers; Duration of Va- 

 rieties; Culture of the Soil; Potatoes when 

 grown in Gardens seldom found so mealy and 

 high- flavoured as when grown in Fields ; Mode 

 of Bearing, Pruning, and Training of the Pear; 

 Diseases, Insects, Casualties, &c, of the Ap- 

 ple, R. Lymburn, 512; The Suburban Hor- 

 ticulturist and Suburban Gardener, H. J. 

 Denny, 44 ; Cemeteries of Edinburgh and 

 Leith, 288; Mode of preserving Seeds for a 

 Number of Years, W. H. Baxter, 144 ; Virgin 

 Soil, J. Wighton, 576; Calendars for Cottage 

 Gardens, R. T., 240 ; Different Modes of 

 glazing Hot-houses, &c, James Seymour, 44; 

 Mr. Niven's Stove for various Purposes, W. 

 Hutchinson, 190. 332; Pinus palustris, Philip 

 Frost, 46 ; Fruit Corridors, Robert Erring- 

 ton, 478 ; Standard Pear Trees suitable for 

 the Climate of Inverness, D. M., 192; The 

 Banana Plantain, G. M.-Elliot, 191 ; A new 

 Description of Indian Corn, G. Charlwood, 

 335; Cuckoo's Eggs in the Nest of a Hedge- 

 Sparrow, Geo. Matcham, 431; On the Use 

 of Quassia in destroying the Scale Insect, 

 W. H. B.,430; The Squirrel in Gardens and 

 Woods, James Munro, 335 ; On Worming in 

 Corn, R. Lymburn, 430; The Subscribers to 

 Douglas's Monument, 384. 431 ; The Difference 

 in apparent Magnitude between the Rising and 

 Setting Sun, by T. Torbron, 191 ; by L. Ste- 

 phenson, 288. Transplanting large and small 

 Trees, 643 ; Bicton Gardens, 645. 



QUERIES AND ANSWERS. 



Bridgeman, Kent, Wright, Lappidge, Eames, 

 Meikle, Parkyns, the Author of " Monastic 

 Remains," and the Authors of the " Epistle to 

 Lord Lowther " and the " Elements of Modern 

 Gardening," 384 ; Mode of preserving Seeds 

 for a Number of Years, W. H. Baxter, 47 ; 

 The Weather of 1841, N. M. T., 144 ; The 

 Twining of Plants, D. B., 384 ; The Dwarf 

 Oak of Australia, W. H. B., and James Back- 

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