GENERAL INDEX. 



071 



♦50 ; young vine shoots, rose shoots, and olhor 

 sorts of shrubs, 451 ; for grafting apricots and 

 peaches, 4M ; for round-headed (or parasol) 

 acacias, 451. 



Mount Vernon, a few hours .it, 219. 



Moxon's Gralner's Guide, 370. 



Monro, James, on transplanting large trees, 102. 



Mushrooms, forcing of, .'ill; how to make the 

 bed, 314; how to use the mushroom spawn, 

 ;il I ; management of the bed, 314. 



Musical bells, idea of hanging them in trees, 432. 



N. 



Neapolitan violet, on the culture of the, 212. 

 Negundo, extracting oil from the seeds of, 40. 

 Neldmhium speciosum, cultivation of the, 133. 

 Nitrate of soda, o'.'ti. 

 Nitrates, value of, PS manures, 75. 

 Nitrogen, great value of, 73. 

 Niven's stove for various purposes, 190. 332. 

 Notices, Botanical, Floricultural, and Arbori- 

 cultural, 41*. 



O. 



Oak, large American red, 188; of Australia, 17. 

 Ogle, on securely fastening mats on pits and 



frames, 1(11). 

 Orange, wild. 480. 

 Orchidea\ culture of native, 411. 

 Ornamental forestry, remarks on, 11-. 

 Ornamental trees and shrubs recently sent to 



Britain by Messrs. liooth of Hamburg, 1)0. 

 Otto, Edward, residence of, at Cuba, 136. 234. 285. 

 Owl, the civelta, or little Italian, 301. 



Parnell's Grasses of Scotland, 379. 642. 



l'asley's complete Course of Practical Geometry 



and Plan- Drawing, 510, 

 Peach tree, to force, 122. 

 Pears, a select list of, suitable for a garden of 



limited extent, £'-'0. 

 Pears grafted on the stock of the mountain ash, 



238. 

 Pear trees, cultivation and management of, 118; 



treatment of, 229. 

 Pear trees, standard, suitable for the climate of 



Inverness, 192. 

 Peas, to preserve from birds, 119. 

 Peasantry of Prance and Northumberland com- 

 pared, 42. 

 Peat, carbonisation of, 30S. 

 Physospormum curnubiensc Dec, 528. 

 Pine-growing at Versailles, 2+4. 

 Pine-apple, growing the, without bottom-heat, 



4.32. 528. 

 Pine-apples at Brancepcth Castle, 41. 

 Pine-apples, producing four on the same plant in 



four successive years, 186. 

 Plnus palustris, 46. 



Pit erected for the growth of the pine-apple, de- 

 scribed, 242. 

 Pits and frames, coverings for, a superior mode of 



securing, ll>9. 

 Pits, melon, (line, and plant, construction of, 457. 

 Plantations, premature decay of, 211 ; thinning 



of, 626 ; in Queen's Street and the Nor' Loch, 



Edinburgh, 627 ; young, thinning and pruning, 



475. 

 Planting, Irish, observations on, 172. 

 Planting so as to combine utility and ornament, 



on, 19. 

 Plant-houses, atmosphere in, 366. 

 Plants, growth of, in closely glazed cases, 376 ; 



living, action of salts on, 510 ; existence of 



sulphur in, 571 ; twining, 384. 

 Plants, new, discovered in the South Sea Islands 



by the late Mr. James Corson, 369. 

 Plants newly introduced into liritish gardens and 

 plantations, or which have been originated in 

 ' them, 177. 

 Plums on calcareous soil, 573. 



Poplars, the Canadian and Illack Italian, 33, 



Potato, ash-leaved kidney, 1SS ; Chapman's early 

 spring, 48. 



Potatoes, a substitute for early, 30; ripening, 511. 



Practical Geometry and I'lan-Drawing, complete 

 Course of, 510. 



Practice of making and repairing Roads, 471 . 



Price on the Picturesque, Sir Thomas Dick Lau- 

 der's edition, noticed, 377. 



Protecting peas, and other early crops, 187. 



Pruning forest trees, Mr. Croc's mode of, 34. 

 326. 



Q. 



Quassia, use of, as a substitute for tobacco In 



destroying aphides, &c , 3n7. 430. 

 Quercus- pedunculate fastigiata, :i'M. 



R, 



Railway stations, noticed, 322. 



Raspberry grub, 131. 



/ihodod&ndron arboreum, means of producing 

 (lowers of, soon after Christmas, -"28. 



Hicuuti's Sketches for Rustic-work, noticed, 323. 



Riga, a flower-show, at 136. 



Rising and setting sun, difference in the apparent 

 magnitude of, 191. 



Rivers's selected Catalogue of Roses for 1842-3 

 636. 



River-valve, Brinsden's self-acting, 230. 



Roads, repairing wet, 38. 



Roliison, Mr. William, his death, 330. 



Hoses, catalogues of, 636 ; labels for, 113. 



Hooting tiles, new, 143. 



Hook, utility of the, 573. 



Hoyle's Illustrations of the Botany and other 

 Branches of the Natural History of the Hima- 

 layan Mountains, and of the i'lora of Cash- 

 mere, re-issue of, 571. 



S. 



Salad, potato, to prepare, 573. 



Sanitary Hcport of the Poor- Law Commissioners, 



472. 661. 

 Scotch farming in the Lothians, 5C9. 

 Scraper for gardens, 403. 

 .S'edum Sicbold/, culture of, 029. 

 Seeds collected in 1840 by Professor Visiani of 



Pavia, 39. 

 Seeds, grass, result of an experiment with, 508. 

 Seeds, mode of preserving for a number of years, 



47. 144. 

 Selby's history of liritish forest trees, 567. 

 Shaddock, immense, 383. 

 Shells, lit,t of, discovered by the late Mr. Corson, 



371. 

 Simms's Treatise on the principal Mathcinatica 



and Drawing Instruments, 4/ 1. 

 Single trees in park scenery, 130. 

 Sketches for Hustic Work, noticed, 323. 

 Snail, edible, of Germany, 511. 

 Snails on wall fruit, preventive against, 47. 

 Soil, effects of lime on, 324; maiden, or virgin , 



396, 576. 

 Soils, 572 ; trenching stiff, 572. 

 Sowerby's Illustrated Catalogue of British Plants, 



473. 

 Species and varieties, 224. 



Spring cabbages, time for sowing the seed of, 328 

 Sproule's Treatise on Agriculture, 378. 

 S<|iiarcy's Agricultural Chemistry, 33. 

 Squirrel in gardens and woods, 335. 

 Stem, dicotyledonous, the vital membrane of, 474. 

 Stephens's Book of the Farm, 125. 3-22. 03G. 

 Stirring the 6oil, 100. 

 St. James's Park, remarks on the fountain in, 



381. 

 Stove, Niven's, for various purposes, 332. 

 Strelitz/'<i rcglnse, . r 75. 



Suburban Horticulturist, and Suburban Gar- 

 dener, Ret. Crit. on, 44. 

 Suburban Horticulturist, contents of, 631 ; notes 

 ' on, by Mr. Lymburn, 512. 



