







INDEX 



OF 



CONTENTS 





TO THE 





GARDENERS' CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE 



f 





For 



1851 



A. 



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



Acer circinatum, 791 ; villoeum, 791 

 Acineta Humbrldti, (145 ; 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 ; affine, 

 612 ; maculosum, 612 ; roseum, 612 ; virens, 



612 



.Esculus rubicunda, 406 



Agapanthus umbellatus, 694, 710 



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

 phlet on certain Laws Affecting, rev., 26- 

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

 Devon, 73, 90; English, 57, 74; Scotch, 11, 

 57, 89, 171 ; Irish, conoition of, 92, 187, 204 

 235, 268, 300; Mr. Pusey on, 89, 140, 171 • 

 r;f bl A'!! crit 'q ue ° n di »o, 443 ; Tullian, 138,' 



}£• IB 186 ' 236 » 267 > 282 > 362 ; improved 

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



lecture on ditto, 365 ; on the employment of 

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

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

 Ui } a » d s t«f m Power, 393; and protection, 

 «o«%Ji « ln ? eason respecting, 445, 669, 

 a?!' 'i '' ^ US8laD . 523 ; examples of, 522 

 638 ; French, 538, 572 ; in North Yorkshire 

 621 • m Australia, 635, 700 ; in Canada, 699 

 in Lancashire, M0 ; Irish, 729; Dr. Dan. 



SKo^SS^oJ 1 ^ chemi8try has done 



^SSSSl Pa r iS e 4 8 58 13 '> hCight <* 77 * to 

 A 627, U 7 t 3M 1 63 ChelUiStrJ^, ^~°' U1 ' * 57 ' i7i > 504 ' 



Ag 28l'" 1 q?hL ed !i 1 Cat j OD ' 27 « 219 « 265 ' 268 > 273, 

 mi, .J7, 3o2 ; Mr. Lawrence on, 73 



w^o ra .l labourer S 106, 364, 411, 428, 444 

 «05, 572 604, 617, 652 ; cottage for, 75 .'plan 

 AgriculturiTi^'t' 518 ! bee «- for, 475, 522, ^T 



w££ T *ift mP A e ? 6 K t9 '- grea8e for ' 13 I chaff 

 cutters, 28 ; Oat bruisers, 28 : erubbers 



f 6 c f ular : s ^proved, 53 ; Tennant'a ditto,' 



at \l! U n S ° 1 } V£°' 475 1 8ub80il Ploughs, 221 



& {^Wlf*' 8 **' 281 ' 297 ' 314, 315 330 

 345, 361, 3o3, 364. 373, 394, 410, 426, 441 458 



S& 49 %» 508 ' 5 "° ; H8t of Pr^emen for* at 



S^ft . 29, v V\' 49 "> 559 I Agricultural 

 society s schedule of prizes for 1852. 573 



Agricultural geology, 313 



AfrtSSi™*! Ph y? iolo «y. °y »r. Kemp, rev., 38 

 Agricultural statistics, 668 ; of Ireland, 537 



Devout) go "' 6I; Mr - Mechi ' s ^ Sorth 

 Allamandas, 534 ; culture of, 71 



AlotfS^'^'^Py' 8 Garden » reT -» 759 

 Alht^, a f dy ' 5 } S ' Am «ican,l518 597, 614 



iSc a ' h a n Ct ! on ?'• on T ^etation, 283 

 S ' 8 h 8 t V; U h ltural meetings in, 23 ; garden. 



«eu C s ur r k f ; r r rv.',6 8 6 v Flora ' Fopuiar No " 



Amencan plants, Mr. Watered exhibition of, 



iSSg,*^" i .""to and English. 765 

 a Ealing-patk 231* 9 ; at Fr °gmore, 167 ; at 



aHS ^r^«s& soi,8 ' :ie *' i95 « 2i2 * 



TSGSgii ? tew*' 8 ' 43 » of c -« 



«hes,170; O f' c °ay ^,^3 ™i of Barley 



^uloaRuckeH^i 7 5l9; cawUt *». 645 

 S^^i^ M 5^^ l*:«d plants, 



Affirm .i . » r rot. Svmonr.a> i*<w„..- ' 7. » 



Aneellia Africana, 500 | 



Antennaria Stepbensii, 563 



Ants, to kill, 71, 293, 424 



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

 502, 517, 536, 614; stove, 197, 2l4, 2l5, 230; 

 depth of water tor ditto, 502 ; for a pond, 728 



Aquilegia seed, to sovf, 168 



Aponogeton distachyon, 296 



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



Blenheim Orange, 228 ; Normandy Pippin, 



344 ; singular bloom of, 406 ; Ribston Pippin, 



614 629 ; Redstreak, 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, rev., 23 

 Arpcpbyllum 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 



Arunoina 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, British, 452, 468, 484, 516, 533, 518, 

 564 595,612 



Astyages, Pear tree, 357, 373, 390 

 Atmosphere, 569 ; of plants, 403, 419 

 Atriplex hortensis, 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, fountains for, 22 

 Azalea gardens, Chinese, 5, 228 



B 



283 : incrusta- 



action of salt 



on, 379 



Symonds' lecture on thi 



, period* 

 milking, 





*— «. &3SSSS K5; 2 



Bailt's America, rev., 551 



Baily on the Dorking fowl, rev., 284 



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



Banana, 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 fireflies, 789, 806 

 Beans, 1C0 ; 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 ; cinna- 

 barina, 760 



Belgium, drill culture of Beans in, 347 



Bement's American Poulterer's Companion, 

 rev., 236 



Berberis aquifolium, to sow, C96 ; nepalensis 



807 

 Berberry wine, to make, 197 

 Bermuda, Oranges, <fcc, in, 339 

 Binns' Notes on Lancashire Agriculture, rev., 



700 



Birds, British song, 392, 405, 422, 438, 502, 596, 

 612, 629 645, 660, 677, 692, 708, 724, 739, 756. 

 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 ; wbire-throat, 564 ; babillard, 581 ; why- 

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

 for, 22 ; sk>lark, 203, 219, 268, 283, 300, 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 



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

 lows, 501 ; parrots, 822 ; disease m ditto, 

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

 shire, 566, 597; mocking, 610, 661, 6/8; 

 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 A 



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



Peach tree, 4S6 

 Boilers, Cornish steam engine, 



tionsin, 327 

 Bones as manure, 650, 715 

 Bone dust as ditto, 430 



Books beviewed : Townshend's Rambles ana 

 Observations in New South Wales, 6 ; Dick- 

 son on the Breeding and Management ot 

 Animals, 13; Goodhir's Arctic Voyage, 2o ; 

 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 ; 

 Lawrence on Agricultural Education, 73 ; 

 Robin on the Reproductive Organs of Plants, 

 103- Fresenius* Contributions to Mycology, 

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

 what ought Landlords and Farmers to do ? 

 140- Ehrenberg on the Dust carried by the 

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

 Rhododendrons of Sikkim Himalaya, 163, 

 787 : Richardson on Domestic Fowl and Orna- 

 mental Poultry, 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 Koses in Pots, 391 ; Dixon s 

 Dovecote and Aviary, 407; Brown's Pam- 

 phlet on Fumigation, 413; Irmiseh 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 ; Huat's and Jerrold's Hand 

 Books to the Great Exhibition, 503, 597 ; 

 Bingham's Photogenic Manipulation, 503; 

 Murray's Modern London, 519; Colonial 

 Maaazme, 08ft; Wight's Indian Orchids, 

 534 • Baily's America, 551 ; 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 ; Floricui- 

 tural Cabinet 599,727 ; Gardeners' Magazine 

 of Botanv, 599. 727 ; Hogg's British Pomology, 

 614 ; Turner on Training Horses, 622 ; 

 Blaine's Canine Pathology, 637; De la 

 Beche's Geological Observer, 6iQ ; Seeman's 

 Popular Nomenclature of the American 

 Flora, 662 ; Paul on the Holljhock, 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' Librarv, 679 ; Wheatley, on the Rod and 

 the Line, 695 ; Binn's Notes on Lancashire 

 Agriculture, 7t>0 ; Prince Albert's Portrait, 

 710 • Hooker's Species FUicum, 711 ; Pulman 

 on 'Trout Fisbirjg, 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, &c, 774 ; Country House 

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

 Ferns, 823; Family Economist, 823; Pax- 

 ton's Flower Garden, 823 ; Birmingham 

 Magazine, 823 

 Borders, fruit tree, 5.4 

 Borneo, vegetation off, 695 

 Bostrichus capucinr x, S5 



Boswell's Poultry Y ard, rev., 471 



Botanic gardens, Edinburgh, 6, 56; Cam- 

 bridge, Mr. Stratton'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, 18i 



Box-feeding of cattle, 221 



Brassia Wrayse, 500 ; caudata, 500 ; verrucosa 

 major, 500; Lanceana, 500 ; macrostacbya, 

 500 ; maculata major, 645 



Bread, to obviate the bitter taste in, 526 



Brewing, 43, 139, 636 



Bridges, moveable, 557 



Bficks, embossed, 685 



Brickmakere, hint to, 54 



Britain, climate of, 323, 339 



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



564, 595, 612 

 British Pomology (Hogg's), rev., 614 

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



fungi on, 379 ; seb ct, 710, 726 

 Brownea coccinea, 70 

 Broughtonia sanguinea, 580 

 Brussels Sprouts, 117 

 Buckwheat, culture of, 363, 4i2 



Buds, growth of, 259 



Budding, Foulstone's new instrument for, Mb 



Plums and Cherries, 406 

 Buildings, farm, 284, 285, 300, 6C< ; paint for 

 ditto, 170, 187; new mode of ventilating 



BulbsJ'cape,!^; garden, 229 ; and tubers 



classification of, 423 ; common hardy, 74- 

 Bullocks, to clip, 748, 779 . 

 Bunny's (Mr.) nursery noticed, 519 



Butter, Turnipy, 827 



C. 



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

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



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



Calanthe veratrifolia, 532 ; flava, 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 (Mr.) pamph'et on the Laws Affecting 



Agriculture, rev., 25 

 Caroarotis purpurea, 645 

 Cambridge Botanic Garden, Mr, Strattons 



appointment to, 71 . 



Camellias, culture of, 21 ; method of compelling 



the buds 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, 10* 



Cape bulbs, 184 



Cape Pelargoniums, select, 565 



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 ; 



Carro7s,°53 ; Siamese, 67 ; culture of, 202, 218; 

 winter, 645, 661 ; fatting early lambs on, 63J 



Caterpillars, to kill, 71 



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

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

 spring, 253 ; best method of storing Turn ps 

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

 onWded floors, 'l54 682, 748 1; shor£ 

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

 feed, 109, 221, 348, 444, 602, 748; J^ortf 

 the Agricultural Society's meeting of, 458 .47% 

 492 ; analyses of, 461 ; ditto from 184- to 

 1851, 476 ; fat and imperfect, 572 ; Ejrton J 

 Herd Book of Hereford, w. f 461 ; Wg« 

 Highland, 523 ; Birmingham .show of, ** 

 701; report of ditto, 797, 812 \ M. &>> 

 Smithfield, 37; report of ditto 7*. Ml. 8i5 

 summer feeding of, 590 ; marketing of, 60* , 

 paving for stall of, 829 ; cUpjnjft J* '« 



Ca P ttleyf Skinneri, «jj£-# J^SR 



; Harrisonias, 403 ; riolacw, 

 «„ - ku.w.-, --*; Candida, 4M ; intermedia, 

 J53 ;' 8 g«nuiosa, 453; Walkeriana, 581; 



citrina, 693 



