GENERAL INDEX. 



Aoardh^ Algae Mans Mcditerranci et Adriatic*, 



47t). 



Agave americana, !>':>. 



Age in trees, effect of, on the qualitv of the fruit, 

 134. 



Agricultural chemistry, Johnston's lecture on, 

 96; experiments at Barrochan, 96 ; at Uoselle, 

 96; at F.rskme, 97 ; at Aske Hull, 97. 



Agriculture, importance of discovering new fer- 

 tilising substances, 142. 



Agriculture, Sproule's treatise on, 378. 



Aig.e Maris Mediterranei et Adriatici, 470, 



American ever-bearing raspberry, On an, 218. 



Ammonia, composition of, 7. 



Annat Lodge, Perth, plans and description of, 155. 



Aphis, WOOlly, remedy for, 41. 



Apple, grafting the, on the willow, 43°. ; the 

 Sweeney Nonpareil, 41. 



Apple tree, how to plant and prune, so as to have 

 good crops on unpropitious soils, 85. 



yJristol^chia trilobula, on the culture of, 23. 



Artesian well of Crenelle, 135 ; bore of, 13vi. 



Artesian wells, 36. 



Ash-leaved kidney potato, excellence of, 188. 



Ashinolean Society, 830. 



Atmosphere in plant houses, 366. 



Australia, the timber trees of, 237, 



Ayre»'s Amateur Florist, and Guide to the Flower. 



Garden, 379. 

 Azote, decomposition of, by plants, 58. 



B. 



Backhouse's Narrative of a Visit to the Australian 

 Colonies, 379. 



Banana, different kinds of, in the Royal Botanic 

 Garden, Edinburgh, notes on, 605; at Leigh 

 Vark, the seat of Sir G, T. Staunton, Bart., 

 506 ; at Williamsfleld, 42. 191. 



I5.isket.work edgings in flower-gardens, construc- 

 tion of, 271. 



Bedstead for cottages, 144. 



Bees, history and management of, 322 ; instinct 

 of, 422. 



Bell, alarm, for a cot'age, notice of, 401. 



Bells, musical, the idea of hanging them on trees, 

 432. 



Bicton Gardens, their culture and management, 

 555; — Letter I. Bicton kitchen-garden, 555; 

 goose-necked short handled hoes, 555: kitchen- 

 garden rule<, 562 ; vegetable and fruit list, 

 557 ; onion loft, 558 ; use of charcoal in the 

 culture of plants, 558 ; to make u rough sort of 

 charcoal for kitchen-gardening, 558 ; Devon- 

 - shire farming, 559 ; preparing ground for cab- 

 bages, winter salading, &c, 560 ; early and late 

 cauliflower , 560 ; tallies to kitchen-garden 

 crops, 5MI ; improvements, 561 ; state of the men 

 and labourers in Bicton Gardens, 561 ; — 

 Letter II. The potting-bench, 563; painting 

 strings for tying plants, 564 ; garden rules for 

 the flower-garden department, 567; the palm- 

 house, 564. — Letter 111. The heath-house, 017 ; 

 potting rough soil and training, 618; use of 

 fragments of freestone and pebbles, 618 ; list of 

 heaths, 620. 



Billingtonon Planting, &c, 19. 



Birds, to prevent from attacking peas, 119. 

 Blair Adam, description of, 357. 



Bliss's Fruit. Grower's Instructor, 28. 



Bokhara clover, notes on, 320. 



Bones, their value as manure, 82. 



Book of the Farm, by Stephens, 125. 322. 636. 



Booth of Hamburg, notice of trees and shrubs 

 introduced by, 110. 



Botanic Garden at Edinburgh, 383. 



Botanical, Floricultnral, and Arboricultural No- 

 tices, 412. 



Botanical Looker-out among the Wild Flowers 

 of the Fields, Woods, and Mountains of Eng- 

 land and Wales, 57U. 



Botanical Society of Edinburgh, 383. 



Botanical Text -Bonk for Colleges, Schools, and 

 private Students, 634. 



Botany, being part of a popular Cyclopadia of 

 Natural Science, 371. 



Botany for Ladies, (i.34. 



Branspeth Castle, pine-apples at, 41. 



British Almanack, and Companion to, 33. 



British Ferns and their Allies, Francis's Analysis 

 of, 2d ed., CAi. 



Biownm coccinea, &c, 239. 



Burying-grounds, modem, thoughts on, 616. 



Cabbage, spring, sowing cabbage seed for, 328. 

 Cabbage tribe and turnips, clubbing of the roots 



of, 480. 

 Cacti, strong bottom-heat for, 133. 

 Cactus, venerable, 575. 

 Caledonian Horticultural Society's new hall, 140. 



383. 

 Calves and horses, training of, by breathing in 



their nostrils, 328. 573. 

 Candahar fruits, 331. 

 Cap, new slate, as a substitute for ridge tiles, 



429. 

 Carbon, decomposition of, by plants, 55. 

 Carbonic acid, composition of, 7. 

 1'a.rica Papdjfa. 43. 



Carrier for seeds and other garden purposes, 300. 

 Carrot, wild, improvement of, 122. 

 Cauliflowers, simple method ol producing early, 



Cemeteries of Edinburgh and Leith, 199. 288. 



Cemeteries, generally, 666. 



Centaurea moseh&ta, sensitive? 432. 



Chapman's early spring potatoes, 48. 



Chatsworth, 331. 



Chemical Statics of Organised Beings, 1. 55. 



Chinese, manure among the, 574. 



Chopper, for the potting-bench, 474. 



Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal, for 1S41, 

 129. 



Clay floors, to form, 140. 



Coke and anthracite as fuel in hothouses, com- 

 parative value of, 225. 



Coniferous plants, on raising from seed, 121, 



Corn, on the disease called worming in, 430. 



Cornwall Polytechnic Society, ninth annual He- 

 port of, 471. 



Corson, the late Mr. James, biographical notice 

 of, 368 ; new plants discovered by him, 370 ; 

 shells collected by, 371. 



Cottages and suburban villas, designs for, 189. 



Cottages, composition floors for, 38; rendering 

 them Hre and water-proof, 39. 



Cottage-gardens, calendars for, criticised, 240. 



Cottage-gardening adapted to Scotland, 315. 



