INDEX 



OF 



CONTENTS 





TO THE 



GARDENERS' CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE 



* 





For 



185L 



A. 





t 



affine, 

 virens, 



Accounts, farm, 9, 27, 153, 689, 765 

 Acer circinatum, 791 ; vilJosum, 791 

 Acineta Humbt Idti, 645 • Barkeri, 645 

 Acre, English and Irish, 268, 317; Scotch, 317, 

 349; Cheshire and Lancashire, 348; Wor- 

 cester, Stafford, and Shropshire, 429; 

 Cornish, 445 

 Adamia versicolor, 230 

 Advertisers, hints to, 358, 390 

 Aerides crispum, 612 ; odoratum, 612 ; 

 612 ; maculosum, 612 ; roseum, 612 • 

 612 ' 



J2sculus rubicunda, 406 



Agapanthus umbellaius, 694, 710 



Agriculture, experiments in, 9 ; Calvert's pam- 

 phlet on certain Laws Affecting, rev., 26; 

 improvement in, 43, 91,171,395; in North 

 E eV o n D> 3 90 5 English, 57, 74 ; Scotch, 11, 

 57, 89, 1<1 ; Irish, conoition of, 92, 187, 204, 

 235, 268, 300; Mr. P u , ej on, 89, 140, 171 • 

 Liebig's critique on ditto, 443 ; Tullian, 138! 

 141, 153, 186, 236, 267, 282, 362 ; improved, 

 170,238; use of salt in, 187; Prof. Way's 

 lecture en ditto, 365 ; on the employment of 

 gypsum in, 412 ; on lime in, 540, 589 ; John- 

 ston s Notes on North American, rev., 265, 

 aU' w steam P ower » 393 ; and protection, 

 ttV >TAK 0T V n ? ea8on respecting, 445, 669, 

 ££ ' £ ; Ru» 8l an, 523 ; examples of, 522, 

 538 ; French, 538, 572 ; in North Yorkshire 

 621 ; in Australia, 635, 700 ; in Canada. 699 

 ^Lancashire, W0; l r j sh , 729; Dr. Dau- 

 benyslecture on what chemistry has done 

 for, 730 ; systems of, 793 



Agricultural carriages. 13 ; height of 77 • in 

 the Crystal Palace, 458 ' * ' ' 



A 62r73M63 ChemiStrJr ' 425j U1 > 457 ' 474 ' 504 ' 



Ag £r£l* oL ed " c at i 0D ' 27 > 219 > 265 > 2(58 > 27S > 

 /si, jy7, v 62 ; Mr. Lawrence on, 73 



A | r f cu i^ ral labourers, 106, 364, 411, 428 444 

 505, 572, 604, 617, 652 cottage for 75 ;' plan 

 of stove for, 454, 518 ; beer for, 475, 522, 636 



Agncultural implements, grease for/l 3 ; chaff 

 ^k 'il ° at *™<?e«i 28 -/grubbers, 



4%°?l a ^JP 3 P r ^?^ 53 ', .Tennant's ditto, 



li> % " 333 » 3647373; 394,' 4 {(i; 42V; iffi 458,' 



t! 4 .' m ?JM, 509 ; list of prizemen for, at 



: subsoil ditto, 475 ; subooil ploughs, 221 ; 



330, 



ditto, 429, 



614 



a„ . ■„ , -. 477 > 4 , 90 » 559 ; Agricultural 

 Society s schedule of prizes for 1852, 573 

 Agricultural geology, 313 

 Agricultural Physiology, by Dr. Kemp, rev., 38 

 Agricultural statistics, 668 ; of Ireland, 537 

 Agricultural tour, 61 ; Mr. Mechi's to iiorth 

 Devon, 73, 90 



AUamandas, 534 ■ culture of, 71 

 Almanack Glenuy's Garden, rev., 759 

 ah£l a f dy « 518 I AH>«rican,l518 597, 

 «W%'JxT™ * 269 . ^9 1 rotation of 



w£!\ aCt i? n of > on ve !?etation, 283 



M7- Wl«i* ol, .? ,!0 / 1 " KotM on North, 265, 

 J 8 r C,1,0f ' *' 3 ; Pho'Phate of'lime 



A *J:> 551 ; ViWorik regia In' 743 ' ^ ° D ' 

 American blight, 56 ' 



A men C Su B rro k f;r e e V v?, 2 66V Flora . *>P«lar He 

 35? CaD pUDt, » Mr - Caterer's exhibition of, 



i2ffi&*a.« JJ **» and English. 765 



Ealing-park, 23!* 39 » at ^rogmore, 167 ; at 

 Ammonia, abs?>r^n«_ «r v 

 . escape of, 80% fa i& *<Ms,:i6i, 195, 212 ; 



ashes, 170; o/e?ay .5u %•• \*V ° f Barley 



guano ; 381, 761". or Xiil- ; of Austr alasian 

 »P«um,4l2;o American^ ^ uano > 5 10; of 

 555; of peat \l* *"? an Phosphate 

 ^graWm b* obn^ ?L pm ^*>. 716 



^guloaRuckerni7 549; cau ***m. «« 



«^garin, 323 . p?/^ th * food of, 187 . 



**tion of gait' on 3>^ m n?? s ;. lect K Ure **he 

 **» 4 84 ; annai** / ' P e nodic phenomena 



Animal SSft^WR* 68 ^^ ^ 



^^als, length ^^ 23l » 723 » ™ 



9 '"8^ of hbroua roots of, 7o 



oflime, 



Anpellia Africans, 500 

 Antennaria Stephenfii, 563 

 Ants, to kill, 71, 293,424 



Aquatics, 5, 147. 197, 280, 310, 420,469, 485,501, 

 502, 517, 536, 6l4; stove, 197, 214, 2l5, 230 ; 



depth of vfater lor ditto, 502 ; for a pond, 728 



AquiJegia seed, to sow, 168 



Aponotfeton distachyon, 296 



Apples, for a sea-Bide garden, 24; to keep, 72 ; 



Blenheim Orange, 228 ; Normandy Pippin, 



344 ; singular bloom of, 4o6 ; Ribston Pippin, 



6l4 629 ; Redstrcak, 6l4 ; for espaliers, 648 ; 



table, 808 ; kitchen, 808 ; fungi on, 819 



Apricots for a sea-side garden, 24; disease in, 

 664 



Araucaria imbricata, 501 

 Arboriculture in Scotland, 692 

 Arctic voyage, by R. A. Goodsir, reT.> 23 

 Arprphyllum giganteum, 517 

 Art v. nature, 454 



Artificial manures, 10, 164, 331, 435 ; adultera- 

 tion of, and the means of detection, 477 

 Artichokes, globe, 117 

 Arums, 88 



Arunoica densa, 517 



Asparagus, 84, 391 ; to force, 134, 245, 277, 326, 



341. 373 ; to salt, 168 ; cutting of, 357, 440 ; to 



transplant, 712 

 Aspasia lunata, 480 



Association, BritiBh, 452, 468, 484, 516, 533, 518, 

 564 595,612 >,*>,, 



Astyages, Pear tree, 357, 373, 390 

 Atmosphere, 569 ; of plants, 403, 419 

 Atriplex hortensi*, 51 



Auckland Islands, vegetation and climate of, 

 103 



Auricula, properties of, 424 



Australia, guano of, 380, 686; analysis of ditto, 



381, 761 ; flora of, 503 ; emigration to, 550 ; 



agriculture in, 635, 700 

 Aviaries, tountains for, 22 

 Azalea gardens, Chinese, 5, 228 



B. 



Bailt's America, rev., 551 



Baily on the Dorking fowl, rev., 284 



Balsams, 376 ; from cuttings, 388 ; seed of, 390 

 Banaua, the, 805 



Banks, penny saving, 278, 310, 358 



Bantams and woodlice, 277 



Barkeria spectabilis, 693; Skinneri major, and 

 Skinneri. 693 



Barley, culture of, 169 ; analysis of ashes of, 



170 ; seed, 219 ; after Wheat, 827 

 Barometers, to place, 408 

 Bats and 6reflies t 789, 806 

 Beans, 100 ; culture of, 10, 138, 668 ; as food for 



cattle, 61 ; French, 68 ; drill culture of, in 



Belgium, 347 ; disease in, 531 

 Beech on an Oak, 757 

 Beech trees. 118 ; bleeding in, 740 

 Beer, 475, 522, 636 ; bitter, 733 

 Bees, 38, 87, 182; swarming of, 519; robber, 



533 ; wild, to remove, 568 ; gas-tar walks 



and, 822 



Beehives, 358^ 504 ; in the Crystal Palace, 755 ; 

 construction of, 755, 789 



Beet, expenses and returns of an acre of, 601 ' 

 sugar, 329, 332, 521, 539, 571, 587, 601, 620 - 

 field, 587 ' 



Beetle, scarlet-backed cowled, 85 

 Beetle traps, 680 



Begonia fuchsioides, 87, 118, 134, 166 ; cinn 



barina, 760 

 Belgium, drill culture of Beans in, 347 



Bement's American Poulterer's Companion, 

 rev., 236 



Berberis aquifolium, to sow, 696 ; nepalensis 



807 



Berberry wine, to make, 197 

 Bermuda, Oranges, <fcc, in, 339 



Binns'Noteson Lancashire Agriculture, rev,, 



700 ' 



Birds, British song, 

 612, 629 



772, 788, 820; management of, 4, 20, 36. 53, 

 68 ; canaries, 85, 100, 116, 149, 165, 181, 196,212, 

 228, 244, 260, 308; nightingales, 275, 292, 

 325, 341, 356, 388, 404, 421, 436, 469,486, 501, 

 517, 534, 759; Virginia ditto, 566; black, 

 caps, 452, 468, 500, 517, 532; garden warbler, 

 548 ; white-throat, 564 ; babiilard, 581 ; why- 

 dak, 8, 24 ; and white fruits, 70 ; fountaius 

 for, 22 ; skjlark, 203, 219, 268, 283, 800, 317. 

 332; longevity of ditto, 87; to keep from 

 fruit, 134; migratory, 277; canaries in the 

 open air, 534 ; cuckoo, 309, 454, 469, 485, 741, 



770 ; to keep off Gooseberry and Currant tree 



isb song, 392, 405, 422, 438, 502, 596, 

 645, 6C0, 677. 692, 708, 724, 739, 756, 



buds, 438, 806; hedge pparrow, 502; swal- 

 lows, 501 ; parrots, 822 ; dif ease in ditto, 

 438, 454, 469 ; swifts and bornetB in York- 

 shire, 566, 597; mocking, 610, 661, 678; 

 rooks, habits of, 629, 646 ; thrush, per- 

 formances of a, 742 ; Knox on Game, &c, 

 rev.. 774 ; singing hens, 790 : robin, audacity 

 of, 822 

 Birds' nests, 455 



Biscuit, Borden's meat, 629, 662 

 Black-caps, 452, 468, 500, 517, 532 

 Blaine's Canine Pathology, rev., 637 

 Bletia patula, 693 



Blight, 501; American, 56; in Wheat, 92; 

 Peach tree, 466 



Boilers, Cornish steam engine, 283 ; incrusta- 

 tions in, 327 

 Bones as manure, 650, 715 

 Bone dust as ditto, 430 



Books beviewed : Townshend's Rambles and 

 Observations in New South Wales, 6; Dick- 

 son on the Breeding and Management of 

 Animals, 13 ; Goodfcir's Arctic Voyage, 23 ; 

 Kemp's Agricultural Physiology, 28 ; Cal- 

 vert's Pamphlet on certain Laws affecting 

 Agriculture, 26; Rivers' Orchard House, or 

 Cultivation of Fruit Trees under Glass, 35 ; 

 Laurence on Agricultural Education, 73 ; 

 Robin on the Reproductive Organs of Plants, 

 103 ; Fresenius' Contributions to Mycob-gy, 

 119 ; Linne's Nemesis Divina, 135 ; Pvsey on 

 what ought Landlords and Farmers to do ? 

 140; Ehrenberg on the Bust carried by the 

 Trade Winds, 151 ; on Sugar, 168 ; Hooker's 

 Rhododendrons of Sikkim Himalaya, 163, 

 787 : Richardson on Domestic Fowl and Orna- 

 mental Poultrv, 173 ; Payer on Cryptogams, 

 183 ; Deman on the Cultivation of Flax, 205 ; 

 Considerations for extending the Cultivation 

 of ditto, 205 ; Warnes on ditto, 205; Brown 

 on ditto, 589; Cotton, 205 ; Bement's Ame- 

 rican Poulterer's Companion, 236 ; John- 

 ston's Notes on North American Agriculture, 

 265 ; Donald on Land Draining, 269 ; Baily 

 on the Dorking Fowl, 884 ; Cook's American 

 Poultry-book, 284 ; Sanders on the Vine, 

 327 ; Dean's Land Steward, 361 ; Paul on 

 the Culture of Roses in Pots, 391; Dixon's 

 Dovecote and Aviary, 407; Brown's Pam- 

 phlet on Fumigation, 413 ; Irmisch on the 

 Classification of Bulbs and Tubers, 423; [ 

 Vasey on the Delineation of the Ox Tribe, 

 429 ; Morris's Naturalist, 439 ; Eyton's Herd 

 Book of Hereford Cattle, 461; Boswell's 

 Poultry Yard, 471 ; Reid on the Steam En- 

 gine, 487; Latham's Ethnology of British 

 Colonies, 503; Traveller's Library, 503; 

 Knight's Curiosities of Industry, Historical 

 and Pictorial Half Hours, 503 ; Miss Cat- 

 low's Drops of Water, 503 ; Gilbert's Guide 

 to London, 503; Hunt's and Jerrold's Hand 1 

 Books to the Great Exhibition, 503, 597; 

 Bingham's Photogenic Manipulation, 503 ; 

 Murray's Modern London, 519 ; Colonial 

 Magazine, 5;»5 ; Wight's Indian Orchids, 

 534 ; Baily's America, 55l ; Cuthill's Market 

 Gardening, 551 ; ditto, Instructions on the 

 Potato, 606 ; Manchester Agricultural 

 Society's Journal, 573; Ward's World and 

 its Workshops, 598; Midland Florist, 599, 

 727; Beck's Florist, 39, 599, 727; Floricul- 

 tural Cabinet. 599, 727 ; Gardeners' Magazine 

 of Botany, 599, 727 ; Hogg's British Pomology, 

 614 ; Turner on Training Horses, 622 ; 

 Blaine's Canine Pathology, 637 ; De la 

 Beche's Geological Observer, 646 ; Seeman's I 



Botanic gardens, Edinburgh, 6, 56 ; Cam* 



bridge, Mr, Strat ton's appointment to, 71 ; 



Swedish, 307; Chelsea, 391 

 Botanical geography of part of the Himalaya 



and Thibet, 612 

 Botanical names, 309 ; old, 502 

 Bouquet trade in New York, 118, 150, 182 

 Box-feeding of cattle, 221 

 Brassia Wrayaj, 500 ; caudata, 500 ; verrucosa 



major, 500 ; Lanceana, 500 \ macrostachya 3 



500 ; maculata major, 645 



Bread, to obviate the bitter taste in, 526 



Brewing, 43, 139, 636 



Bridges, moveable, 557 



Bricks, embossed, 685 



Brick makers, hint to, 54 



Britain, climate of, 323, 339 



British Association, 452, 468, 484, 516, 533, 548, 



564, 595, 612 

 British Pomology (Hogg's), rev,, C14 

 Broccoli, 117, 132, 694, 742; Snow's, 118, 214; 



fungi on, 379 ; sekct, 710, 726 

 Brownea coccinea, 70 

 Broughtonia sanguined, 580 

 Brussels Sprouts, 117 

 Buckwheat, culture of, 363, 422 

 Buds, growth of, 259 

 Budding, Foulstone's new instrument for, 32B 



Plums and Cherries, 406 

 Buildings, farm, 284, 285, 300,667; paint for 



ditto, 170, 187; new mode of ventilating 



public, 781 

 Bulbs, Cape, 184 ; garden, 229 ; and tubers 



classification of, 423 ; common hardy, 742 

 Bullocks, to clip, 748, 779 

 Bunny's (Mr.) nursery noticed, 519 

 Butter, Turnipy, 827 



C. 



Popular Nomenclature of the American 

 Flora, 662 ; Paul on the Hollyhock, 663 ; 

 Word in Season, or a pamphlet on Corn 

 Growing, 445, 669. 698, 745 ; Lady Clutter, 

 buck's Cookery Book, 679 ; Murray's Rail- 

 way Literature, 679, 743 ; Longman's Travel- 

 lers' Library, 679 ; Wheatley, on the Rod and 

 the Line, 695 ; Binn's Notes on Lancashire 

 Agriculture, 7i0 ; Prince Albert's Portrait, 

 710 ; Hooker's Species Filicum, 711 ; Pulman 

 on Trout Fishing, 711 ; Crabb's Technical 

 Dictionary, 711 ; Book of the Salmon, 726 ; 

 Ferguson and Vance, on the Tenure and 

 ! Improvement of Land in Ireland, 729 ; Ivory 

 on the Chrysanthemum, 742 ; Fly Fishing in 

 Salt and Fresh Water, 743; Layard's 

 Nineveh, 743 ; Sir Joseph Paxton's Portrait, 

 775; Glenny's Garden Almanac, 759; Knox 

 on Game Birds, «fcc, 774 ; Country House 

 (the Poultry -yard), 807 ; Moore's Historv of 

 Ferns, 823; Family Economist, 823; Pax- 

 ton's Flower Garden, 823 ; Birmingham 



Magazine, 823 

 Borders, fruit tree, 5,4 

 Borneo, vegetation oif, 695 

 Bostrichus capucinr^, 85 

 Boswell's Poultry Y ard, rev., 47l 



Cabbages, 37, 44 : Enfield, 69 ; Shantung, 87 



Drumhead, 93, 398 ; club in, 136 ; crops of 



314 

 Cacti, 134, 454 ; to graft, 22, 70 

 Calanthe veratrifoiia, 532 ; fiava, 532 ; bicolor, 



693 

 Calceolarias, 262, 278, 293, 310, 328, 341, 358, 



373 ; bedding, 200, 232, 661, 709 

 Calico, glaze for, 184 



California, Pine and Cedar forests of, 103 



Calla athiopica, 822 



Calves, slipping, 140 ; drop after, 334 



Calvert's i,Mr.) pamph'et on the Laws Affecting 



Agriculture, rev., 25 

 Camarotis purpurea, 645 

 Cambridge Botanic Garden, Mr. Stratton'a 



appointment to, 71 

 Camellias, culture of, 21 ; method of compelling 



the hurts of reticulata to develop, 71 ; Messrs. 



Chandler's, noticed, 151 

 Campanula vidalii, 136, 150 

 Canada, horticulture in, 535; agriculture in, 



694 

 Canaries, management of, 85, 100, 116, 149, 



165, 181, 196, 212, 228, 244, 260, 308 ; in the 



open air, 534 

 Canna, to grow in water, 551 

 Canvas, composition for waterproofing, 104 

 Cape bulbs, 184 

 Cape Pelargoniums, select, 536 

 Carbonic acid, 403, 419 

 Carriages, agricultural, 13; grease for, 14; 



height of, 77 ; in the Crystal Palace, 458 







Carnations, in pots, 166 ; duration of, 440 ; 

 show of, 502 



Carrots, 53 ; Siamese, 67 ; culture of, 202, 218; 

 winter, 645, 661 ; fatting early lambs on, 652 



Caterpillars, to kill, 71 



Cattle, Dickson on Breeding of, rev., 13 ; lin- 

 seed as food for, 28; Beans as, 61; early 

 spring, 253 ; best method of storing Turnips 

 for, 61 ; hides of, 73 ; qualities of ditto, 106 ; 

 on boarded floors, 154, 682, 748; short- 

 horned, 173; use of salt in food of, 187; to 

 feed, 109, 221, 348, 444, 602, 748 ; report of 

 the Agricultural Society's meeting of, 459, 475, 

 492 ; analyses of, 461 ; ditto from 1847 to 

 1851, 476 ; fat and imperfect, 572 ; Eyton** 

 Herd Book of Hereford, rev,, 461 ; West 

 Highland, 523; Birmingham show o£ 286* 

 701 ; report of ditto, 797, 812, 825, «7 ; 

 Smithfieid, *7; report of ditto, 796, 811, 825 ; 

 summer feeding of, 590 ; marketing of, $02 ; 

 paving for stall of, 829 ; clipping, of, 748 



Cattleya Skinneri, 453; Mossms, 453; crispa, 

 453 ; superba, 453 ; laMata,*53 ; pumila,453; 

 Loddigesii, 453; Harrisoniae, 453; vioiacaa, 

 453 ; guttata, 453; Candida, 453 ; intermedia, 

 453; granulosa, 453; Walkeriana, 381; 

 citrina, 693 





