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CONTENTS. 



Jauhert and Spach's IUustrationes Plantarum 

 Orientalium ----- 466 



Parnell's Descriptive Treatise on the Scottish 



Grasses ... - 379. 642 



Agardh's Alga? Maris Mediterranei et Adria- 

 tic - - - - - - 470 



Lee's Botanical Looker-out among the Wild 

 Flowers of the Fields, Woods, and Moun- 

 tains of England and Wales - - 570 

 Gregory's Catalogue of Nursery Stock - 27 

 Hooker's Catalogue of Roses - - -636 

 Lane and Son's Catalogue of Roses - -636 

 Rivers's Selected Catalogue of Roses - 636 

 Wood and Son's Descriptive Catalogue of 



Roses .-.-- 636 



May's Catalogue of Select Plants - - 27 



Sir Uvedale Price on the Picturesque ; with 

 an Essay on the Origin of Taste, and much 

 original Matter, by Sir Thomas Dick Lau- 

 der, Bart. - - - - - 377 



Simm's Treatise on the principal Mathemati- 

 cal Drawing-Instruments employed by the 

 Engineer, Architect, and Surveyor - 471 



Pasley's complete Course of Practical Geo- 

 metry and Plan-Drawing - 510 

 The Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal - 129 

 The Surveyor, Engineer, and Architect - 129 

 First Additional Supplement to Loudon's 

 Encyclopaedia of Cottage, Farm, and Villa 

 Architecture and Furniture - -636 

 Downing's Cottage Residences - - 570 

 Gilly's Peasantry of the Border - - 31 

 Ricauti's Sketches for Rustic Work - - 323 

 North-Midland Railway Stations - - 322 

 Pugin's True Principles of Pointed or Chris- 

 tian Architecture - - - - 233 



Tattersall's Sporting Architecture - - 32 



Lewis's Illustrations and Descriptions of 

 Kilpeck Church, Herefordshire ; with an 

 Essay on Ecclesiastical Design - - 471 



Moxon's Grainer's Guide - - - 379 



First Annual Report of the Metropolitan Im- 

 provement Society - 509 



Hughes's Practice of making and repairing 

 Roads - - - - - 471 



West's Remarks on the Management, or 

 rather the Mis-management of Woods, 

 Plantations, and Hedge-row Timber - 470 



Loudon's Encyclopaedia of Trees and 

 Shrubs ; being the Arboretum et Frutice- 

 tum abridged ----- 321 



Loudon's Hortus Lignosus Londinensis 

 abridged - - - - - 321 



Selby's History of British Forest Trees, indi- 

 genous and introduced - 567 



The Amateur Florist, and Guide to the 

 Flower-Garden. By W. P. Ayres - - 379 



Monkhouse and Empson's Cowthorpe Oak, 



130. 223 



Bliss's Fruit-Grower's Instructor - - 28 



Kenrick's New American Orchardist - 30 



Sproule's Treatise on Agriculture, compre- 

 hending the Nature, Properties, and Im- 

 provement of Soils ; the Structure, Func- 

 tions and Cultivation of Plants ; and the 

 Husbandry of the domestic Animals of the 

 Farm - - - - - - 378 



Stephens's Book of the Farm - 125. 332. 636 



Greg's Scotch Farming in the Lothians - 569 



Wighton's History and Management of Bees, 

 with a notice of a newly constructed Hive - 322 



Jones's Lecture on Taste ... 129 



Francis's Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, and 

 Manufactures - 473 



Report from the Poor Law Commissioners, 

 on an Inquiry into the Sanitary Condition 

 of the Labouring Population of Great 

 Britain - - - - - 472 



The Ninth Annual Report of the Royal 

 Cornwall Polytechnic Society - - 471 



The British Almanack of the Society for the 

 Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, for 1842 - 33 



Companion to the Almanack, or Year-Book 

 of General Information, for 1842 - - 33 



Backhouse's Narrative of a Visit to the 

 Australian Colonies - - - - 379 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



GENERAL NOTICES. 



Scientific. — Theory, 324 ; Rooting of Leaves, 

 134; On the Existence of Sulphur in Plants, 

 571; Action of Salts on Living Plants, 510; 

 Effect of Light on Cuttings, 325 ; Effect of 

 Mercurial Vapour on Vegetation, 225; Pro- 

 gressive Increase of Temperature, N., 34. 



Soils and Manures. — Soils, 572 ; Trenching stiff 

 Soils, 572; The Effects of Lime on Soil, R. T., 

 324 ; Gas-Lime applied to Horticultural Pur- 

 poses, W. H. B., 379 ; Nitrate of Soda as a 

 Top-Dressing, 326 ; Bran as Manure, W. H. B. 

 227 ; Kiln-dust as Manure, W. H. B. 380 ; The 

 vital Membrane of a dicotyledonous Stem, 474; 

 Species and Varieties, 224; Poittevin's disin- 

 fected Manure, 132 ; Oyster-Shell Manure, 

 W. H. B., 227. 

 Vermin. — To destroy Moles, 326; Whittaker's 

 Composition for destroying Worms, 188 , To 

 destrov Worms, 326 ; To destroy the Turnip 

 Fly, 429 ; Traps for Woodlice, 326 ; Utility of 

 the Rook, 573 ; Incubation : the Thrush, the 

 Redstart, and the Cuckoo, John Wighton, 

 474; Beast poisoned by eating Yew, 511. 



Implements, Instruments, SfC — A simple and 

 good Mode of packing the Pistons of Hand- 

 Syringes, W. H. B., 381 ; Godsall's Label for 

 Fruit Trees, W. G., 34 ; New Watering-pot, 

 134 ; A Potting-Bench Chopper, 474 ; Yew 

 Branches for protecting Wall Trees, 326; Im- 

 proved Draining-Tiles, James Munro, 37. 

 Cottage Architecture, S;c. — Ainslie's Tile-making 

 Machine, J. K., 230; The new French Tiles, 

 J. R., 230 ; New Slate Cap, as a Substitute for 

 Ridge Tiles, &c, 429 ; Composition Floors for 

 Cottages, S. T., 38 ; Rendering Cottages Fire 

 and Water-proof, S. T., 39 ; Repairing wet 

 Roads, S. T, 38 ; Artesian Wells, 36 : Com- 



parative Value of Coke and Anthracite as Fuel 

 in Hothouses, 225 ; Fences, 327 ; Brinsden's 

 Self-acting River- Valve, J. B., 230 ; The ra- 

 diating Power of Hot-water Pipes, 325 ; Charred 

 Peat as Fuel, J. R., 230 ; Neatness in Turf 

 Edgings, 326 ; Merthyr Coal, 37. 



Arboriculture Single Trees in Park Scenery, 



130; Packing the iarix Godsalltf, T. B., 34; 

 Thinning and pruning young Plantations, 475 ; 

 Mr. Cree's Mode of pruning Timber Trees, 

 J. M., 326; Mr. Cree's Mode of pruning Forest 

 Trees, 34 ; The Canadian and Black Italian 

 Poplars, William Masters, 35 ; Strong Bottom- 

 heat for Cacti, 133; Torreya raxifblia, William 

 Masters, 36 ; Hedges, D., 228. 



Floriculture. — Means of producing Flowers of 

 /Rhododendron arbbreum soon after Christmas, 

 228; Cultivation of the Nelumbium speci&sum, 

 133; .Delphinium sibiricum pleno and D. Bar- 

 \bwii, A. X., 429. 



Horticulture Grape-Growing, P. F. M., 573 ; 



Grapes in Pots, 327 ; Effects of Age in Trees on 

 the Quality of the Fruit, 134 ; Plums on cal- 

 careous Soils, P. F. M., 573 ; Pears grafted on 

 the Stock of the Mountain Ash (Fogel-Beer, 

 Pyrus aucuparia), 228 ; Treatment of Pear 

 Trees, 229 ; Stock for Filberts and Cosford 

 Nuts, 327 ; Gooseberry Cuttings, 327 ; Packing 

 of Fruit, 229; A simple Method of producing 

 early Cauliflowers, 327; A new Description of 

 Indian Corn, W. H. B., 229; Ripening Po- 

 tatoes, 511 ; A Substitute for early Potatoes, 36 ; 

 Sowing Cabbage Seed for Spring Cabbage, 328; 

 Ripe Grapes from Boston, U. S., 655. 



Miscellaneous. — Want of Moral Courage in 

 Architects and Landscape Gardeners, 135 ; 

 Fire at the Tower, 37 ; Taming and training 

 Horses, 573 ; Training Calves and Horses, 328 ; 

 Potato Salad, 573 ; Orange Syrup, 573. 



