INDEX. 



Fig-tree, one still growing in the Archbishop's 

 garden at Lambeth, said to have been im- 

 ported by Cardinal Pole, 156. — Improved 

 method of training the tree, to cause it to 

 ripen its second crop of fruit, 252, 2,53, 254. 

 — Culture of, the grand support of the in- 

 habitants of Argenteuil, App. 6. —Their ma- 

 nagement, App. 7, 8. 



Filberds grown by the Romans, 153. 



Fire-places, Roman, how constructed, 148. 



Fire-screen, at Fontainbleau, said to have 

 been given by king Henry IV 7 . to the fair 

 Gabrjelle,349- 



Flax, common (Linum usitatissimum,) on the 

 cultivation of it as an ornamental plant, 71, 

 &c. — National advantages derivable from 

 its culture, 71. — Botanical description of it, 

 72. — The soil best suited for its growth, ib. 

 and 73. — Proper season for sowing the 

 seeds, 73. — How to 

 dresser, 74. — Error 

 ing and macerating the flax, ib. 



Florists of Haarlem, their meetings for the 

 purpose of naming their respective flowers, 

 231. 



Flues, used by the Romans under the floors of 

 their apartments, 148. — Might be super- 

 seded, in hot houses, by the introduction of 

 steam-tubes, 151. 



Forcing-houses, the construction of them ge- 

 nerally defective and dissimilar, 5 : 99- — 

 Observations on those of the Romans, 147, 

 &c. — The appellation misapplied to hot- 

 houses, 150. — Description of one for grapes, 

 99, &c. 



Fox's Seedling, an early variety of Potatoe, of 



little estimation, 213. 

 Frames for hot-beds, remarks on the proper 

 construction of, 142, to 144. — Reason of 

 the prevailing similarity in their make, 142 



inclined surfaces 



in adapting 

 , ib.— Meth 



in adapting their forms to 

 lod of training 

 Led, 143.— Di- 

 mensions ofthe frames, ib. and 144. 

 France, method adopted in that country for 

 bringing each variety of fruit to a high de- 

 gree of perfection, App. 4. 

 Fritillaria Obliqua, 334. 

 Frontignac, and Red Frontignac, Grape, 37. 

 Fruit, ameliorated varieties of, how produced 



originally, 2. — The finest varieties may be 

 raised in Britain, 4 — Every species requires 

 its peculiar soil and situation, SO. — The 

 fruit a repository for the seed ; how adapted 

 to fulfil that office, 221. 



Fruit-buds, how rendered more apt for fruc- 

 tification, App. 7> 



Fruits, new and early, observations on the 

 method of producing, SO, &c— Names of 

 several valuable Eastern fruits which may 

 hereafter be raised in this counlrj-, 151. — 

 List ofthe various fruits cultivated by the 

 Romans, 152, to 154 ; — and in the English 

 gardens in Tusser's time, 154, to 156. 



Fruit-trees, Mr. Knight's new method of 

 training them, 79, et seq.—Mr. Wilmot's 

 remarks on the present mode of budding 

 and grafting lhem,215, &c.-Denominated 

 annuals or biennials, in respect to their 

 mode of bearing, App. 5. n. 



Fuchsia Coccinea, inured to the climate of 

 Devonshire, 175. 



Gage, Sir Thomas, 328. 



Galanga Officinalis, 281. 



Galatea Vespertina, 310. 



Galaxia Graminea, Grandifiora, Mucronula- 

 ris, Obtusa, Versicolor, 315. 



Galaxies, vegetable, App. 21. 



Ganymede* Cernuus, Effusus, Pulchellus, 353, 

 354, 355. r , 



Garden, national; advantages of such an 

 establishment, 246. . 



Gardener, action against one, for a fraud in 

 the sale of Cauliflower seeds, l™, 11 *'"' 



Gardeners, English ; reason why they have 

 not brought any one kind of fruit to abso- 

 lute perfection, App. 4. 



Gentleman's Magazine, reference to, tor an 

 ingenious method of heating Melon-frames 

 by steam, 151. r 



Germination, description of the process ot, 

 217,218. 



Getht/ra Occidental, 282. 



Gissanthe Spiralis, 279- 



Gissorhiza Ctliaris, Secunda, 321. 



Gladiolus Cardinalis, Concolor, 325. 



