INDEX. 



757 



Artificial stone, employment of, for the con- 

 struction of fountains, 632. 



Arundel castle, Porte-fleurs at, 631. 



Ashburton, Lady, the Conservatory of, 361. 



Asparagus, pit for the forcing of, 454— improved 

 one, ib. 



Aspect of garden walls, different views with re- 

 gard to, 65. 



Asphalt, employment of, as a coping for garden 

 walls, 71 — employment of it as a covering for 

 glass houses to economise heat, 554 — as a 

 cement, 566 — construction of garden edgings 

 of it, 591. 



Assistant gardeners, accommodation for, 485 — 

 their duties, &c, 486. 



Astragals, the construction of, 545 — cast-iron 

 ones, 547 — Waldron's, ib. — Sir Joseph Pax- 

 ton's, 548 — machine for cutting them, ib. — 

 as made by the machine, 549. 



Atkinson, Mr, his system of heating by hot- 

 water pipes, 154 — the boiler originally used 

 by him, 178 — improvements introduced into 

 hothouse furnaces by him, 251 — on the man- 

 agement of furnaces, 261 — improvements in 

 ventilation introduced by him, 276 — the con- 

 struction and arrangement of his vineries, 

 303 — his vineries heated by hot water, 304 — 

 pinery designed by him, 331 — his peach- 

 houses, 348 — early forcing pit by him, 434 — 

 late forcing pit by him, ib. — his melon pit, 

 ib. — his succession pine pit, 437 — succession 

 pine pit by him, with hot water and dung 

 linings combined, 449. 



Atkinson's or Mulgrave cement, 565. 



Atmosphere, constitution of the, 755. 



Austin's stone-coloured cement, 566. 



Austin and Seeley, examples of balustrading 

 manufactured by, 646. 



Ayres, Mr W. P., on the angle of elevation for 

 hothouses, 135 — on hot-air stoves, 227 — his 

 cucumber-house, 464. 



Babington, Dr, his process for preventing in- 

 crustation in boilers, 237. 



Babylon, the hanging gardens of, 1. 



Bacon, Mr, his system of hot-water heating, 

 154. 



Bagshot park, the garden at, 627 — parterres 



from it, 629. 

 Bagster's beehive improved by J. D., description 



of, 526. 



Bailey, Messrs, their method of tank-heating de- 

 scribed, 194— conservatory at Bretton hall 

 erected by them, 364 — boilers invented by 

 them, 177, 179. 



Bailey's cement, 565. 



Baker, colonel, system of tank-heating in the 



garden of, 209. 

 Baldwin's pine-pit, description of, 432. 

 Ballahulish slate, qualities of, 572. 

 Balustrade, stone, at Dalkeith conservatory, 



366. 



Balustrading, examples of, suitable for the geo- 

 metrical style of gardening, 616, 646. 



Bamford Hall pine-stove, the, 340. 



Barberini palace, fountain from the, 627. 



Barchard's system of hot- water heating, descrip- 

 tion of, 171. 



Barratt's method of glazing, 540. 



Barron, Mr, covered peach borders used by, 323. 



Barry, C, Esq., the flower-garden at Trentham 

 designed by, 613. 



Basins of water, objections to, in gardens, 15. 



Basket-work, examples of, suited to the gar- 

 den esque style, 676 et seq. 



Baths and bath-rooms, arrangements of, for gar- 

 deners' houses, 477. 



Bayfordbury, the garden at, 663. 



Beaumanor park, mode of ventilation employed 

 at, 290. 



Beaumont, Mrs Colonel, the conservatory of, 

 363. 



Beck, Mr, mode of preparing slate edging by, 

 621. 



Beddington, the orange trees at, 402. 

 Bees, antiquity of the keeping of, 522. See 

 Apiaries. 



Belfast botanic garden, the, 10 — the orchid- 

 house in it, 410. 



Belgium, system of window- culture of flowers 

 in, 421 — treatment of liquid manure in, 519. 



Belstane, pinetum at, 587. 



Belton house, the flower-garden at, 656 — flower- 

 beds taken from it, 671. 



Belvoir Castle gardens, size of, 12 — the mauso- 

 leum at, 654. 



Bernan, Mr, description of Perkins' system of 

 heating by hot water by, 158 — on heating by 

 steam, 229 — on the circulation of hot water 

 in pipes, 250, 269. 



Bethell's preparation for the preservation of 

 timber, 570. 



Betts, E. L., Esq., fountain in the garden of, 634. 



Bevan, Dr, his storified hive, 530. 



Bicton, arboretum at, 586. 



Bicton pine stove, the, 335. 



Biel house, the conservatory at, 373. 



Birch, Mr, improvements on the sash-bar cut- 

 ting-machine by, 548. 



Black paint, disadvantages of, 563. 



Blenheim, the rock garden at, 701. 



Blinds for glass-houses, the preparation of, 555. 



Boerhaave on the angle of elevation for hot- 

 houses, 135. 



Boilers for hot- water heating, description of vari- 

 ous — Garton and Jarvis cylindrical and double 

 drum, 169 — Stephenson's double cylindrical, 

 ib. — Stephenson's conical, ib. — Wood's coni- 

 cal, ib — Neeves', 176 — Waldron's, 177— the 

 Scotch distillers', ib. — Bailey's, ib. — Cottam 

 and Hallen's, ib. — various shapes employed for 

 them, 178 — Atkinson's, ib. — Thomson's, ib. — 

 Burbidge and Healy's new, ib. — Dalkeith 

 wrought-iron, ib. — Fowler's, 179 — Bailey's 

 new, ib. — Williams', 180— Weeks', ib.— Kers- 

 lake's universal flue, 181— the Captain, ib. — 

 one for ordinary kitchen, 183 — general re- 

 marks on them, 231 — materials for them, ib. 

 — those constructed of iron, 232— earthen- 

 ware ones, ib. — their size, ib. — the proper 

 setting of them, 234 — best kind of water for 

 them, 237 — modes of preventing incrustation 

 in them, ib. — prices, &c, of them in different 

 localities, 743. 



Bond, what, in bricklaying, 1 07. 



Bonnemain, M., hatching of chickens by hot 



^ water by, 153— his system of heating by hot- 

 water pipes, 161. 



