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INDEX. 

Essex Lunatic Asylum, 255 
very Thing has its Use, 16 
Excitement and its Charms, 15 
Faith and Friendship, 60 
‘‘ Fashion's” Devilries, 190, 318 
Female Figure, The, 246, 368 
Ferns, The Cultivation of, 303 
Fish, Artificial Production of, 182, 875 
Affection of, 126 
Florists’ Flowers, 53 
Flowers and their Influences, 33, 62, 78. 
How to make them Bloom, 121 
Fly-Catchers, A Pair of Remarkable, 220 
Forced Fruits and Vegetables, 88 
Fossil Turtle, A, 252 
Frog, The, 119 
Fruit, Its Use and Abuse, 279 


Fruits and Flowers, Degeneracy in Races of, 125 
Gentleman, Definition of A, 273 
Glove-Making Machine, 61 
Gnats, To Destroy, 118 
Goats in Switzerland, 341 
Goldfinch, A Tame, 220 
—— Mules, 53 
Gold Fish, 376 
Gossamer, The, 130 
Grass Lawns, 61 
Gravel Walks, Advantages of, 256 
Great Cedar of Hammersmith, 11 
Ground-Fish, The, of Bootan, 57 
Habit, Thoughts on, 72 
Hackney Carriage Act, 59 
Haddock, The, 61 
Hawking,—The Heron, 42, 94 
Heated Vessels, A Paradox, 110 
Herring, The, 252 

Hints to Amateur Gardeners, 48, 111, 174, 238, 
251, 252, 254, 256, 304, 346 
Home Birds in Foreign Lands, 213, 289, 318 
Horse, The, 317 
Horse-hair Eel, The, 58 
House-Marten, 273 
Howqua’s Own Tea-Garden, 242 
Human Frame, The, 355 
Hyacinths, and Early Tulips, 224 
Hybridising of Plants, 152 
Innocence of Childhood, 335 
Insanity, 248 
Insects,—Deilephila Elpenor, 128, 189 
Insect Life, 44 
— Strength, 117 
Instinct and Reason, 139, 284 
Interrogative, An Awful, 223 
Intoxication in India, 135 
Jealous People, 22 
Jeannette, The Amiable Monkey, 132 
Judgment applied to Education, 90 
King-fisher, The, 57 
Leaves of Trees, Impressions from, 125, 189 
Life and Beauty in Damascus, 75 
—— in an Oyster, 125 
Light and Air, Importance of, 32 
Lightning, Importance of, 251 
Literary Labor,—Drudgery, 374 
Live and Let Live, 136 
Lobster, Notes on The, 339 
Love and Jealousy, 22, 60 
Lunacy, 56 
Masculine and Feminine, 62 
Medical Quackery, 123 

Men and Monkeys, 154, 273 
Mesmerism, 313, 374 
Mignonette Trees, 123 
Minuteness of Matter, 62 
MISCELLANEOUS PARAGRAPHS. 
Absence, 223; Action, 27; Affection, 227; Bash- 
fulness, 117; Begin Well and End Well, 128 ; 
Botanical Gardens, Manchester, 189; Candor, 
311; Charity, 852, 357; Cheerfulness, 32; 
Childhood, 268, 315, 384; Clouds and Sun- 
shine, 88; Cold, To guard against, 317 ; Com- 
panions, 47 ; Confiding Hearts of Women, 253 ; 
Cure for Burns, 315; Cure for Cramp, 313 ; 
Cure for Gout, 374; Cure for Lumbago, 316; 
Cure for Scalds, 315; Cure for Tender Feet, 
188; Curious Petrifaction, 248; Cypress, a 
Large, 317; Dust, Value of, 319; Employment, 
374; Hpitaph on an Infant, 262; Fallacies, 16; 
Folly and Wisdom, 312; First Love, 71; Force, 
Doctrine of, 311; Forgiveness, 317 ; Frankness, 
371; Full Purses and Hard Hearts, 368; Fur, 
Warmth of, 313 ; Game, Directions for Packing, 
247; Gold Fish, 376; Golden Sun, The, 357; 
Good Actions, 36; Goodness, 67, 228; Hap- 
piness, 330; Hearts must be Won not Forced, 
242; Human Sorrow, 72, 84 ; Humility, 339 ; 
Immorality of the Age, 243 ; Justice and Mercy, 
52; Language of Nature, 314 ; Love, 112, 
123 ; Marvellously-Proper Man, A, 25; Mis- 
seltoe, The, 295, 315, 319, 320; Modesty, 117 ; 
Nature’s Eloquence, 82 ; New Planet, 313 ; 
“Odd,” but True, 325; Odor of Flowers, 371; 
Optical Appearance, 181 ; Our Old English 
Writers, 135; Poetry and Its Influences, 318; 
Preaching, Object of, 318; Prudence, 43; 
Prudery, 117; Putrefaction, 187; Religion, 16, 
22 ; Remembrance, 202; Revenge, 208; Science 
and Revelation, 375; Sea Soundings, 317 ; 
Selfishness and Brutality, 106; Self-Interest, 
50, Singular Epitaph, 55; “ Spinsters,” 190; 
Stirrup-Cup, 314; Strife, 44; Suggestions by 
Steam, 295; Summer and Winter, 269, 318 ; 
Sweet Melancholy, 83 ; Tact, 231; Taste, 7; 
Tears and Laughter, 323; Titmouse, Nest of the 
Great, 317; True Greatness, 89; True Ladder 
of Knowledge, 355; Use, Second Nature, 153 ; 
Variegated Leaves, 188, 252; Vice, 134, 333 ; 
Wet Clothes, 288 ; Who is the Most Unhappy? 
224; Who shall Decide? 185; Worldly 
Pleasure, 96. 
Mistaken Charity, 337, 351 
Mock Modesty, 124 
Mocking Bird, The, 371 
Mole, The, 56 
Mont Blane, 150, 246, 375 
Morning Air, The, 2 
Moths, To Drive away, 55 
Mount Vesuvius, 24 
Mountains of the Moon, 93 
Mulberry Tree, The, 60, 188 
Music, Its Effect in Insanity, 248 
Nature’s Gift to Man and Beast, 354 
‘“ Naturalists,’’-—Improperly so called, 283, 340 
New Year’s Dinner, A, 376 
Niagara, Scene at, 90 
Notes on the Season, Nov. and Dec., 372 
Nuthatch, Nest of The, 149 
Oak, The Evergreen, 128 
Obituary,—Professor Adrien de Jussieu, 58 
