VI 



CONTENTS. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



GENERAL NOTICES. 



New Method of potting Plants, or One-Shift 

 System, 318 ; Disbudding Shoots with the 

 Leaves on, 648 ; A new Plough for raising Pota- 

 toes, 137 ; Stephens's Plant.protecting Flower- 

 pot, with double Rim, 136 ; Saul's Fountain 

 Flower-pot, 136 ; Brown's Pot with hollow 

 Sides, 135 ; Garden Pots, 646; Hunt's improved 

 Garden Pots and Saucers, 317 ; Improvements 

 in Garden Pots, 316; Covered Garden in Paris, 

 64-7; Articles of Cream-coloured Clay : Paving 

 Tiles for Walks, and Edgings for Beds in 

 Flower-Gardens, 507 ; Johnston's improved 

 Portable Garden Engine, 316 ; A Pocket 

 Plant Case for Ladies, 134 ; Welch's Bricks 

 for forming circular Flues, 134 ; Draining- 

 Pipes, 675 ; Edging of Seyssel Asphalte, 507 ; 

 Parchment Labels, 646 ; Baillie's rounded 

 enamelled Case Locks, 453 ; Kendle's Tank 

 System of heating by hot Water, 505 ; To dry 

 moist Air, 647; Asphalte Walks, 452; Turf 

 Drains, 134 ; Wooden Houses, 647 ; Scott's 

 Patent Improvements in Cast-Iron, Wrought- 

 Iron,and Soft-Metal Pipes, 321 ; Juckes's Smoke- 

 consuming Furnace, 314; The Oropholithe, 

 83 ; Wirework, 83 ; Consuming the Smoke 

 of Hothouse Furnaces, 451 ; Distribution of 

 Sea Water all over the Country, 675 ; Distribu- 

 tion of filtered Sewer Water, 675 ; Application 

 of the Principle of the Balloon to Landscape- 

 Gardening, 646; Rockwork in the Walton 

 Nursery, Liverpool, 452 ; Forcing Hyacinths so 

 as to bloom at Christmas, 676; Conservatory 

 Climbers, 676 ; Ddmmara orientalis, 184 ; The 

 Scotch Pine, a Substitute for Candles. Distil- 

 lation of Oil of Turpentine from its Roots, 137 ; 

 Grafting and Budding the Rhododendron, 647; 

 Clematis azClrea grandifl6ra,42 ; Cytisus Adam? 

 (purple Laburnum), 315 ; Best Time for eating 

 Pears, 649; Manuring Vines, 619; The most 

 economical Mode of dividing a square Plot of 

 Ground, 321 ; Gregson's Green-Flesh Melon, 

 84; Trap for the Wireworm, 646; Palmer's 

 Universal Steamer, 507; To prevent Mice from 

 Destroying early sown Peas, 184 ; Destroying 

 Wasps, 42 ; Wireworm destroyed by the Mole, 

 315; The Tree-Creeper (Certhia familiJiris) 

 and the green Fly that infests Geraniums, 315 ; 

 Verbenas and Petunias, 649; The Stimulus of 

 Competition in Agriculture, 137 ; Use of Sul- 

 phate of Ammonia in Agriculture, 62; Agri- 

 cultural Implements, 82; Palmer's Imjiroved 

 Economical American Oven, 507 ; Cicer ariet'i- 

 num7y.,316; A Statesman become a Farmer, 

 676; Imperishable Bread, 648; The "Rule" 

 and the " Rea'^on," 647 ; How a young Gar- 

 dener should travel by Railroad, 646; Ap- 

 proaching Similarity of Manners all over the 

 World, 647. 



FOREIGN NOTICES. 

 France. 

 Grafting the Vine, 322 ; Camellias, 322. 



Italy. 



l/'lmus fiilva, 84 ; Nelumbiiim tibetianum, 84 ; 

 Exotic Trees and Shrubs at Monza, 322. 



NoaTH America. 



Indigenous Trees of North America not yet in- 

 troduced, 324 ; State of the Country, 324 ; 

 Culture of American Vines in Germany, 325. 

 Shephcrd/« argentca Nictt., 42; Philadelphia 

 Horticultural Society, 85 ; Dory&nthes excels-a, 

 85. 



New Zealand. 



New Zealand Horticultural Society, 3'i5 ; Wel- 

 lington Horticultural and Botanical Society, 



DOMESTIC NOTICES. 



England. 

 Horticultural Society of London's Show, 378 ; 

 Exhibitions in the Horticultural Society's 

 Garden, 453 ; The new Royal Gardens at 

 Frogmore, 138 ; Royal Botanic Society of 

 London's Exhibition, 378; Second Exhibition 

 of the Royal Botanic Society, 454 ; Waterer's 

 Exhibition of American Plants, 378 ; Botanical 

 Section of the Tower Street Mutual Instruction 

 Society, 326 ; The Lane-End Horticultural 

 Society, 139 ; The Chislehurst Horticultural 

 Society for Cottagers, 139 ; Kew Gardens, 

 454 ; Naming of the Trees and Shrubs in Ken- 

 sington Gardens, 649 ; Grounds of the Chis- 

 wick Villa, 453; Bowood, Wiltshire, 677; 

 Bicton Gardens in February, 1843, 138 ; Lea- 

 mington Spa, Warwickshire, 32S; Metropolitan 

 Model Institution for improving the Dwellings 

 of the Industrious Classes, 85; Smoke given 

 off from the Chimneys of manufacturing Esta- 

 blishments in the Neighbourhood of the Metro- 

 polis, 327 ; Pinus Sabin/anff, 86 ; Picea spec- 

 t^bilis, 86 ; Arauckria Cunningham?, 85 ; Mag- 

 nolia conapicua at Wormleybury, 85 ; Oak at 

 Hazel Grove, Castle Cary, Somersetshire, 86; 

 Missletoe on the Oak, 86 ; Paulfiwnzn impe- 

 ri&lis, 649 ; Ferbena Melindres and V. Tweedie- 

 ana, 8G ; American Aloe, 649 ; Melons grown 

 in Leaves, 86 ; Cucumbers, 86 ; Gigantic Rasp- 

 berries, 328; Victoria Rhubarb, 328; Mush- 

 rooms, 86 ; Practical and Scientific Associa- 

 tion for the Promotion of improved Street 

 Paving, 327; Royal Agricultural Society of 

 England, 455 ; Warping Lands on the Thames, 

 326 ; Draining, 326 ; Tile-Draining in North- 

 amptonshire, 327. 



Scotland. 



Testimonial to Dr. Neill, 455 ; Bust of Dr. 

 Neill, 87 ; Sir Walter Scott's Monument, 649 ; 

 Tablet for the Indication of the Name of a 

 Street, or a Guide-Post to a Cross Road, 88 ; 

 Kirkintilloch and Campsie Horticultural So. 

 ciety, 328 ; New Public Cemetery at Edin- 

 burgh, 459; Pine Cones a valuable" Fuel, 328; 

 Remarkable Moimtain Ash, 329; Foreign 

 Trees which thrive in Shetland, 88 ; YUcca 

 gloribsa, 556 ; Glasgow Cathedral saved by a 

 Gardener, 077 ; Highland and Agricultural 

 Society of Scotland, 459. 



Ireland. 

 Agricultural Improvement, 89. 



RETROSPECTIVE CRITICISM. 



Cemeteries, 379; The Volume on Cemeteries, 

 329; Thoughts on modern Burying Grounds, 

 90; Cemeteries and Churchyards, 380; Ceme- 

 teries, 185 ; Improving Churchyards, 3^9 ; 

 Improvements in Kensington Gardens, 650 ; 

 Study of Bees, and of Chemistry and Vegetable 

 Physiology, 508 ; Charcoal and Charcoal Dust, 

 140 ; Use of Charcoal in the Culture of Plants, 

 185; Professor Henslow's Lecture on Ma- 

 nures, 139; Garden Walks, 331; Double 

 Flower-Pots, 187 ; Yellow Glass suggested for 

 Plant-houses, 332 ; Saul's Potato Planter, &c., 

 91; Lime-water for killing Worms, 90; Ha- 

 bitations for the Poor, 44; Nutritive Proper- 

 ties of Elm Leaves, 332; Transplanting large 

 Trees, 43 ; Roots and Tops of Trees, 90 ; The 

 Bokhara Clover, and Physosp^rmum cornu- 

 biense, 187; Preservation of Grapes, 186; 

 Preservation of Fruits, 330 ; Cato's Method of 

 preserving Grapes, 331 ; The River Delaware, 

 459 ; Errata, 89, 90, 459, 677. 



QUERIES AND ANSWERS. 

 Kent, the Landscape-Gardenor, 91 ; Larch Plan- 

 tations at Linley, 332; V/hcther the Larch 

 can be propagated by Cuttings, 92; Evergreen 



