GENERAL INDEX. 



Agricultural improvement on the estates of 



the Marquess of Waterford, 89. 

 Agriculture, the stimulus of competition in, 137. 

 Air, to dry moist, 647. 

 America, state of, commented upon, 324. 

 American aloe, notice of one going to flower, 



649. 

 American plants, Waterer's exhibition of, in the 



King's Road, 378. 

 Ammonia, use of sulphate of, in agriculture, 82. 

 Araucaria Cunningham;, notice of one bearing 



cones, 85. 

 Arboricultural notices, 269. 442. 474. 637. 668. 

 Asparagus, culture of, 429. 



Beans, culture of, 544. 



Bees, reason of their sometimes dying while they 

 have plenty of food, 187. 



Besoms, method of making, for gardens, 178. 



Bicton Gardens, their culture and management; 

 — Letter IV. House for New Holland plants, 

 and list of plants it contains, 21 ;— Letter V. 

 Orange and camellia house, 23 ; list of camel- 

 lias grown at Bicton, 26; the back sheds, 

 vineries, and pineries, 27 ;— Letter VI. Culture 

 of chrysanthemums, manure- water, properties 

 of charcoal, 28 ;— Letter VII. The conserva- 

 tories, 29 ; list of plants in conservatories, 30 ; 

 orchideous houses and stoves, 30 ; list of stove 

 and orchidaceous plants at Bicton, 31 ;— Letter 

 VIII. Brooms used in the flower-garden, 46; 

 hardy trees and shrubs growing there, 47 ;— 

 Letter IX. Importance of cleanliness, 49; ma- 

 nure-water, charcoal, 51 ; — Letter X. The 

 Rockery and American garden, 111 ;— Letter 

 XI. Dimensions of a few trees in the Park, 

 113;— Letter XII. Reasons for following the 

 business of a market-gardener, 161 ;— Letter 

 XIII. Growing mushrooms, 234;— Letter XIV. 

 Growing, training, and general management of 

 ericas, 301 ;— Letter XV. On the rust in 

 grapes, 367 ;— Letter XVI. Culture of the 

 potato, 419; mismanagement it is subject to, 

 and cause of curl and dry rot, 424 ;— Letter 

 XVII. System of kitchcn.gardening, 427 ; cul 

 ture of the strawberry, 429 ; culture of aspara- 

 gus, 429 ; culture of sea-kale, 430 ; culture of 

 celery, 431; culture of cauliflowers, 433;— 

 Letter XVIII. Mode of destroying the goose- 

 berry caterpillar, 434 ;— Letter XIX. Crane- 

 necked short-handled hoes described and 

 figured, 495;— Letter XX. Objections to the 

 crane-necked hoes answered, 539 ; notice of 

 Mtisa Cavendishw, Dacca, and sapientum, 

 540;— Letter XXI. Culture of the cabbage, 

 540; culture of broccoli, 543; culture of peas, 

 513; culture of beans and onions, 544; culture 

 of carrots, 545; culture of parsneps, spinach, 

 and lettuce, 546 ;— Letter XXII. The principal 

 causes of canker in peaches, nectarines, and 

 apricots, 601 ;— Letter XXIII. Notes on the 

 one-shift system of potting, and on charcoal, 

 605;— Letter XXIV. System of cucumber, 

 growing, 653. 



Bicton Gardens, notice of a visit to, 546. 



Bicton, pine-apples noticed there by Thomas 



Bray, when on a visit, 606. 

 Birds, advantages of attending to habits of, 613. 

 Books reviewed or noticed. See p. v. 

 Botanical, Floricultural, and Arboricultural no- 

 tices, 445. 499. 614. 

 Bowood, notice of the scenery at, 680. 



Bread, an imperishable sort, 648. 



Broccoli, culture of, 543. 



Burying grounds, thoughts on modern, 90. 



Cabbage, culture of, 540. 



Camellias, their hardiness supposed to be in- 

 creased by raising them from seed in the open 

 air, 322. 



Carrot, culture of, 545. 



Caterpillar, mode of destroying the gooseberry, 

 434. 



Caterpillar, description of a curious one, 652. 



Cauliflowers, culture of, 433. 



Celery, culture of, 431. 



Cemeteries and churchyards, criticism on the 

 articles in the Magazine, relative to, 329. 379. 



Cemeteries, criticism on, 185. 



Cemeteries, uses of, 93; Laying out, building, 

 and planting of, 142; working and management 

 of, 215; innovations suggested relative to the 

 selection of ground for, and mode of perform- 

 ing funerals, 292 ; design for one of moderate 

 extent on level ground, 353 ; design for one on 

 hilly ground, 400; present state of those in 

 London, considered chiefly as cemetery gar- 

 dens, 400; the present state and means of 

 improving country churchyards, 475 ; list of 

 trees, shrubs, and perennial herbaceous plants 

 adapted for cemeteries and churchyards, 512 ; 

 appendix, 534; principal ones in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Philadelphia, 6H5. 



Charcoal and charcoal dust, first discovery of its 



. action on vegetation, 140. 



Charcoal, its use in the culture of plants, 185. 



Chiswick Villa, notice of the grounds, 453- 



Chrysanthemums, a list of the best sorts adapted 

 for cultivation in the colder parts of the coun- 

 try, 373. 



Chrysanthemums, culture of, 28. 



Clcer arietinum, an excellent vegetable, 316. 



Clematis azilrea grandifl6ra, one of the best 

 hardy climbers, 42- 



Clematis Vitalba, notice of one, 669. 



Clover, notice of the Bokhara, 187. 



Conservatory climbers, 679. 



Contributors. Seep. xv. 



Cottage, how to make the most of one having 

 only two rooms, 52. 



Criticism on the study of bees, chemistry, and 

 vegetable physiology, 508. 



Cucumbers, culture of, 653. 



Cucumbers, culture of, in cottage gardens, 86. 



Cytisus Adamj', notice of, 315. 



Dalvey, the seat of Norman M'Leod, Esq., notice 

 of, 416. 



Dammara orienttilis found to succeed when 

 grafted on the Araucaria imbricata, 184. 



Dinbur Castle, its gardens and its gardeners, 

 106. 413. 579. 



Disbudding shoots with the leaves on, 648. 



Doryinthes exc^lsa, notice of one in flower, 85. 



Draining and fencing on the lands of the Duke 

 of Hamilton, 327. 



Draining, price of, with tiles, in Northampton- 

 shire, 327. 



Draining-pipes made by a machine, 675. 



Drains, mode of making turf, 134. 



Duvaiia longifdlia, notice of, 669. 



Edging of Seysscl asiihalte noticed, 507. 

 Elm leaves, their nutritive properties, 332. 



