CONTENTS; XV 



The materials of the volume being necessarily multifa- 

 rious, and the same suhjeet sometimes repeatedly ad- 

 verted to, a copious alphabetical index has been sub- 

 joined. 

 INDEX, 559-568. 



ENGRAVINGS. 



I. Sketch of an ancient Mulberry-tree at Canterbury, 



described p. 14. 

 II. Ground-plan of the suite of Hot-houses, and eye- 

 sketch of part of the pleasure-grounds, at the seat 

 of Madame Vilain-Quatorze near Ghent ; p. 80. 

 III. Section of the west end of the same hot-houses ; p. 81. 

 IV. Plan of an ornamental Bridge in the pleasure-grounds 



at Wetteren ; p. 82. 

 V. Sketch of the Palm-tree of Clusius, still growing in 

 Botanical Garden at Ley den; p. 156. 

 VI. Plan of the large Hot-houses at La Malmaison; 



p. 399. 

 VII. Section of the same ; p. 400, 



