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CONTENTS. 



On the Effects of Fire and Water, as applied 

 to Plant Culture under Glass ; including 

 the Subject of covering Vine Borders ; the 

 different Systems of Heating by Klues and 

 by Hot Water; Remarks on managing 

 Hot-house Fires, &c. By Alex. Forsyth . 623 

 Insects and Birds. 

 A Series of Articles on the Insects most in- 

 jurious to Cultivators. By J. O. Westwood, 

 F.L.S. :_ 



No. 10. Caterpillar of the Apricot Bud 1 

 No. 11. Tiie Wire- Worm - - - 113 

 No. 12. The Apple, or Codling, Moth - 234 

 No. 13. The Elm-destroying Scolytus - 363 

 No. 14. Apple Insects - - - 464 



On the Benefits which Gardens derive from 



Woodpeckers. By I'hilopicus - - 322 



A Description of a very simple Kind of Trap 

 for catching Birds. By Robert Alexander, 

 under Gardener at Kiplin, near Catterick, 

 Yorkshire .... 505 



Instrument. 

 A new Turf-Racer and Verge-Cutter. By 

 Edward Bell, Landscape- Gardener - - 176 



LANDSCAPE-GARDENING AND 



GARDEN ARCHITECTURE. 



Landscape- Gardening. 



On the Formation of a Public Botanic Gar- 

 den. By C. C. - - - - 68 



A Competition Design for the proposed Leeds 

 Zoological and Botanical Garden. By 

 James Pringle, Gardener to W. R. C. 

 Stansfield, Esq. M.P., at Esholt Hall, near 

 Leeds - - - - - 239 



On the Management of Shrubberies. By G. 

 Geggie - - - - - 505 



A Series of Designs for laying out and plant, 

 ing Flower-Gardens, with Remarks on each. 

 By the Conductor. Design 6. By a Foreign 

 Gardener - - - - - 18 



Description of a Rustic Fountain and Rock- 

 work, lately erected in the Garden of 

 Mr. Thomas, at Peckham, by Mr. Benjamin 

 Andrews. Communicated by Mr. Andrews 463 



Garden Architecture. 

 Notice of some new Forcing-houses and Pits, 



lately erected at Pendarves, in Cornwall ; 



with a Plan and Section. Bv J. Mitchinson 418 

 On portable glazed Structures." By N. M. T. 122 

 Notice of a hollow Brick Wall for Gardens. 



By J. D. Parks, Nurseryman, Dartford - 126 

 On Glizing Hot-houses, Pits, Frames, &c. By 



A. Forsyth 127 



ARBORICULTURE. 



Report on the new Species and Varieties of 

 Hardy Trees and Shrubs, raised in the 

 Horticultural Society's Gardens since the 

 Completion of the MS. of the Arboretum 

 Britannicum. Drawn up for the Gar- 

 dener's Magazine,by Mr. Gordon, Foreman 

 of the Arboretum, by Permission of the 

 Council of the Hort. Soc. ... 531 



Remarks on the annual Layers of Trees ; with 

 the Measurement of tlie annual Rings of a 

 Larch planted in 1811. By A. Gorrie, P'.H.S., 

 C.H.S,, &c., Annat Gardens, Perthshire - 132 



On Propagating Trees and Shrubs by Ex- 

 tension. By C. B. - - . 32 



On Grafting the Cedrus Deodara on the Cedar 

 of Lebanon. By Wra. Barron, Gardener at 

 Elvaston Castle, Derbyshire - - - 80 



On Moving and Replanting large Trees, as 

 practised at Arlington Court, near Barn, 

 staple, Devonshire. By John Nash, Gar- 

 dener there - - - . 505 



Cursory Remarks on ornamental Planting. 

 By R. Glendinning - - . - 33 



On the Planting of Larch as a national Ob- 

 ject. By C. C. - - . - 249 



On the Treatment of the Scotch Pine in the 

 Plantations at Huntley Lodge, Banffshire. 

 By Alexander Murdoch - . . 368 



On Measuring growing Timber. By William 

 Blackadder, Land and Timber Surveyor, 

 Glammis, Forfarshire . . - . 257 



Valuation of the Woodlands upon the Es- 

 tates of Drummawhance and Culdees, 

 situated between Auchterarder and Crieff, 

 Perthshire. By William Blackadder . 266 



Remarks on an economical Use of the Cones 

 of the Pine and Fir Tribe ; and more par- 

 ticularly of those of the Pinus svlvestris, or 

 Scotch Pine. By William Howison, M.D., 

 Lecturer on Botany, Edinburgh - - 370 



Minutes on the Method adopted by Robert 

 Turner, Esq., Surveyor of the New Forest, 

 in raising and protecting Oak Plantations. 

 By T. Davies of Warminster, and Y. 

 Sturge of Bristol - - - - ' . 128 



A tabular View of the Species of ^bietinre 

 contained in the principal Pinetums and 

 Collections of ^bietinae in Great Britain, 

 and on the Continent of Europe - - 29 



List of the Species and Varieties of Coniferous 

 Plants in the Pinetum of Elvaston Castle, 

 the Seat of the Earl of Harringten, in Der- 

 byshire. Communicated by Mr. Barron, 

 Head Gardener there . - . - 76 



Notice of the principal Pinetums and Collec. 

 tions of ^bietinae in France. Drawn up 

 from Communications of various Corre- 

 spondents - - - - 28 



Some Account of the Growth of the Trees in J_; 

 the Park at Bowood, the Seat of the Mar- 

 quess of Lansdown. By J. Spencer, Gar- 

 doner there - _ _ . 326 



Remarks on a few ornamental Trees which 

 are at present growing in the Neighbour, 

 hood of Ripon, Yorkshire. By William 

 May, Nurseryman, Ripon . - - 133 



Descriptive and Historical Notice of the 

 .(4'bies cephal6nica. By the Conductor - 81 



Effects of the Winter 0/1831-8. 



An Account of the Effects of the last Winter 

 (lb37-8) on the Trees and Shrubs in the 

 Botanic Garden, Birmingham. By David 

 Cameron, the Curator there - . .421 



An Account of the Effects of the severe 

 Winter of 1837-8 on the Pinetum at Drop, 

 more. By Mr. Frost, Gardener there - 631 



List of Ligneous Plants which have stood the 

 Winter of 1837-8, at Highlands, near 

 Chelmsford, Essex. By J. A. Ferguson, 

 Gardener there ..... 333 



Notice of the Effects of the past Winter on 

 the Trees and Shrubs in the Grounds of a 

 Parsonage House in Berkshire, half way 

 between Reading and Windsor. By R. 

 Lowndes . - . . . 433 



On the Effects of the severe Winter of 1837-8, 

 at Bicton, Devonshire. By R. Glendinning, 

 Gardener there ..... 510 



Report on the Effects of the Winter of 1837-8 

 on the Exotic Trees and Shrubs in the Kil- 

 kenny Nursery, and in that Neighbourhood 

 generally. By John Robertson, F.H.S., &c. 512 



A List of the Ligneous and other Plants 

 which have stood the Winter in the Cesa. 

 rean Nursery, in the Island of Jersey. By 

 Bernard Saunders - - . . . 328 



Effects of the Cold of the Winter of 1837-8 

 on the Trees and Shrubs in the open Air in 

 the Botanic Garden, Berlin. By Frederic 

 Otto. From the Garten Zeitung of May 5. 

 1838 . - . . .634 



FLORICULTURE. 



Mode of propagating Green-house Plants. By 

 John Fyffe, Gardener at Milton Bryant - 8.')' 



Of the Pruning of forced Roses, and Plant- 

 ing out of forced Plants in Summer. By 

 James Cuthill - - _ . . 371 



On the Cultivation of Exotic Ferns. By J. 

 Henderson, Gardener to the Right Hon. 

 Lord Viscount Milton, M.P., at Milton, 

 near Peterborough - - - . . 252 



Remarks on the Propagation of the Dahlia. 



