IV 



CONTENTS. 



Notice of a Visit to Blcton Gardens in Au- 

 gust, 1843, with Remarks on the Culture 

 practised there, and on the State of some of 

 the Plants - - - - - 546 



Notice of a Visit to Bieton Gardens, in Oc- 

 tober, 1843 - - - - - 606 

 Report on rare or select Articles in certain 

 British Nurseries and private Gardens. 

 Drawn up from personal Inspection, or 

 from communications received : — 



Cornwall : Carclew. Devonshire: Exeter 

 Nursery ; Mount Radford Nursery ; Sum- 

 merland and City Nursery, Exeter. Dor- 

 setshire : Merriott Nurseries, near Crew- 

 kerne. Gloucestershire : Durdham Down 

 Nursery, Bristol ; Cirencester Nursery. 

 Hampshire : Rogers's Nursery, Southamp- 

 ton. By the Conductor - - - 34 



Hertfordshire: Sawbridgeworth Nursery. 

 Kent : Dartford Nursery. IMiddlesex : Hor. 

 ticultural Society's Garden ; Abney Park 

 Cemetery, Stoke Newington ; Fulham Nur- 

 sery ; Exotic Nursery, King's Road, Chel- 

 sea. Norfolk : Great Yarmouth Nursery. 

 Somersetshire : Taunton Nursery. Stafford- 

 shire : Cliff Vale and Prospect Nurseries, 

 near Leek. Surrey: Clapham Rise Nur- 

 sery ; New Cross Nursery ; The Deepdene, 

 near Dorking. Warwickshire : Birming- 

 ham Botanic Garden ; Stoneleigh Abbey, 

 near Coventry. Yorkshire : Hope Nursery, 

 I.eetning Lane, Bedale ; St. John's Nursery, 

 Wakefield ; Beverley Is'ursery. Island of 



Jersey : St. Heller's Nursery Scotland. 



Edinburghshire : Lawson's Nursery, Edin. 

 burgh. Roy's Nursery, Aberdeen. — Ire- 

 land. Glasnevin Botanic Garden, Dublin ; 

 Carton, the Seat of the Duke of Leinster - 55 

 Phrenology for Gardeners and their Patrons 662 

 Notice of a Snow-Plough for Walks and 



Footpaths - - - - - 116 



On making Garden Besoms - - . 178 



On pulverising Soil - - - - 115 



Notice of a heating Apparatus in the Gardens 

 of His Grace the Duke of Wellington at 

 Strath fieldsaye - - - - 177 



Description of a Propagating-House heated 



by hot Water circulated in Brick Troughs 266 

 On the Squirrel - - - - - 117 



The Squirrel - - - - - 179 



The Roller called Pica marina in Italy - 18 



What Gardeners might learn by attending to 



the Habits of Birds - - - - 613 



On the Hornet . . - - - 409 



Some Account of the Insects which attack 

 the Raspberry - - - - 411 



LANDSCAPE-GARDENING, AND GAR- 

 DEN ARCHITECTURE. 



The Principles of Landscape-Gardening and 

 of Landscape- Architecture applied to the 

 Laying out of Public Cemeteries and the 

 Improvement of Churchjards; including 

 Observations on the Working and General 

 Management of Cemeteries and Burial- 

 Grounds: — 



I. The Uses of Cemeteries. By the Con- 

 ductor - - - - - - 93 



II. The Laying out, Euildirjg, and Plant- 

 ing of Cemeteries ; Situation ; Soil ; Extent ; 

 Boundary Fence; Laying out the Interior; 



■ Situations of Graves ; Roads, Walks, and 

 Green Paths ; Chapels ; Yard and Sheds ; 

 Trees and Shrubs; Flowers; Buildings; 



■ Entrance Lodge ; Vaults ; Catacombs ; 

 Brick Graves ; Earth Graves ; Sepulchral 

 Monuments ; Cenotaphs ; Walls ; Drains ; 

 Grave-Boards ; Grave-Box ; Grave-Plat- 

 form ; Grave-Cover ; Grave- Mould ; Clergy- 

 man's Shelter ; Roots and Plants - - 141 



III. The Working and Management of 

 Cemeteries ----- 215 



IV. Certain Innovations suggested re- 

 lative to the Selection of Ground for Ce- 

 meteries, Mode of performing Funerals, &c. 292 



V. Design for a Cemetery of moderate 



Extent, on level Ground, exemplified in 

 one now being formed at Cambridge - 353 



VI. Design for a Cemetery on Hilly 

 Ground 400 



VII. The present State of the London 

 Cemeteries, considered chiefly as Cemetery 

 Gardens; Turkish Burying-grounds ; Per- 

 sian Cemeteries ; Chinese Cemeteries - 400 



VIII. Country Churchyards; their pre- 

 sent State and Means of Improvement : 

 Want of Order ; Want of Perpendicularity 

 in the Monuments and Gravestones; slo- 

 venly State of the Grass and Herbage ; De- 

 secration; Want of Trees and Shrubs; 

 Want of Monuments ; Laying out and 

 planting a new Churchyard; Situation and 

 Soil ; Size of the Church, and Extent of the 

 Churchyard ; Site of the Church ; Ground 

 Plan of the Church; Boundary Fence; 

 Walks of a Churchyard ; Grassy Surface of 

 a Churchyard; Trees in Churchyards; 

 System of Interments in Churchyards ; 

 Church ; Parsonage House and Grounds - 475 



IX. Lists of Trees, Shrubs, and Perennial 

 herbaceous Plants, adapted for Cemeteries 

 and Churchyards ; Supplementary Engrav- 

 ings ; Appendix - . - - . 512 



Some Account of the principal Cemeteries 

 in the United States, particularly those in 

 the Neighbourhood of Philadelphia - 665 



Hints for the Improvement of Kensington 

 Gardens and Hyde Park. By the Con- 

 ductor ... - - 285 



Ground Plan and Per.spective Elevation of a 

 Portion of improved Landscape Scenery, 

 intended to point out the Errors which are 

 frequently committed by Persons who have 

 little Knowledge of Landscape Composi- 

 tion ------ 657 



On Layingout and Planting the Lawn, Shrub- 

 bery, and Flower-Garden. By the Con- 

 ductor 166. 258. 306. 371. 442. 497. 547. 634. 667 



Remarks on one of the Designs in the Article 

 " On Laying out and Planting the Lawn, 

 Shrubbery, and Flower-Garden " - - 636 



On Grouping Trees in Parks and Pleasure- 

 Grounds - - - - - 118 



Hints to Proprietors who intend planting 

 Pleasure. Grounds, Shrubberies, or other 

 ornamental Plantations. By the Conductor 553 



Remarks on a Design for a Flower-Garden 

 on Gravel, with Hints for the Grouping of 

 Plants in Flower- Gardens - - - 70 



On the Superiority of Span-roofed Green- 

 houses ----- 268 



Design for Five Suburban Dwellings, form- 

 ing a continuous Range, with their Gar- 

 dens 607 



How to make the most of a Cottage of only 

 Two Rooms - - - - - 52 



ARBORICULTURE. 



Notice of a Collection of Spirseas, North Ame- 

 rican Oaks, ..^biiitinae, and Cupressins, 

 made in the Spring of 1843. By the Con- 

 ductor - - - - - 439 



On the white Oak of the United States (Quer- 

 cus alba L.) ----- 123 



The Holly 119 



Dimensions of large Trees and Shrubs, col- 

 lected with a view to a Supplement to the 

 A)boretu7n Brilannicum, : — Large Trees 

 at Strath fieldsaye, the Seat of His Grace 

 the Duke of Wellington - - - 125 



Arboricultural Notices 181. 269. 442. 474, 637. 668 



FLORICULTURE. 



Botanical, Floricultural, and Arboricultural 

 Notices of the Kinds of Plants newly intro- 

 duced into British Gardens and Plantations, 

 or which have been originated in them 



445. 499. 614 



On the Culture of the Chinese Primrose - 126 



