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INDEX. 



Booth, Messrs, mode of ventilation used by, 279 

 — the orchid-house of, 409 —mode of covering 

 their glass-houses used by, 552. 



Borders, disposal and laying out of, in the gar- 

 denesque style of flower-garden, 656, 673 — 

 edgings for them, 678. 



Borders for vines, formation of, 320 — system of 

 ventilating them, ib. — chambering them, 321 

 — concreting them, 322 — the subterranean 

 chambering of them, 325 — heating them, 326. 



Borghese family, advancement of Italian gar- 

 dening by the, 574. 



Borghese vase, the, 637. 



Borrowstownness cement, the, 567- 



Boucherie, Dr, his method of preserving timber, 

 570. 



Bowers, construction of, 707. 



Bowling-green, introduction of the, in the gar- 



denesque style, 658, 659. 

 Bowood, system of aerating vineries followed 



at, 323 — the pinetum at, 588. 

 Box edgings, management of, in flower-gardens, 



590. 



Boyd and Miller's antiseptic paint, 570. 

 Braithwaite, Mr, his mode of heating by hot 



water, 153. 

 Bran, the falls of the, hermitage at, 706. 

 Bretton hall, the large conservatory at, 129, 363. 

 Brewster, Sir David, on colours, 595. 

 Brick, remarks on, as a material for garden 



walls, 68 — as a material for hot-water tanks, 



197. 



Brick drains, specifications as to expense of, 740. 



Brick flues, introduction of, for heating, 141 — 

 various modes of constructing them, 146. 



Brick paving, prices of, 751. 



Brick walls, the durability of, 572 — construc- 

 tion of them solid, 78— hollow, 79— heated, 80. 



Brick and concrete walls, construction of, 79. 



Brick and stone walls, construction of, 79. 



Bricks, employment of, for coping garden walls, 

 71 — inferiority of those made in Scotland, 

 571 —employment of them for constructing 

 edgings in gardens, 590 — their sizes, prices, 

 &c, in various places, 739. 



Brickwork, explanation of terms used in, 106 — 

 specifications regarding it, modes of measur- 

 ing, estimates, &c, in different localities, 738 

 et seq. 



Bridgeman, changes introduced into gardening 

 by, 8. 



Bridges, kinds of, suited to the gardenesque 

 style of flower-gardening, 679 — various kinds 

 of wire and suspension, ib. — tension and sus- 

 pension, 681 — rustic, ib. et seq. — Remming- 

 ton's, 682 — construction of those suited to 

 the picturesque style, 713. 



British sheet-glass, prices, &c. of, 532 — its 

 alleged defects, &c, 536. 



Brockelsby, the mausoleum at, 654. 



Bi-ookes, S. H., designs for garden temples by, 

 652, 



Broughton, Lady, the flower-garden of, at Hoole 

 house, 662, 663— description of the rockery 

 in it, 702. 



Brown, Mr, remodelling of the grounds at 

 . Claremont by, 92— on the arrangement, &c. 

 of the gardenesque garden, 657 — on the pic- 

 turesque style of gardening, 699. 



Brown, Mr, design for a geometrical flower- 

 garden by, 611. 



Brownlow, Earl, the flower-garden at the seat 

 of, 656, 671. 



Broxburn cement, quality of, 567. 



Bruce, Lord E., parapet constructed by, 646. 



Bruce, O. Tyndal, Esq., of Falkland, the house 

 and flower-garden of, at Nuthill, 10, 618, and 

 Plate xxix. — fountains at it, 635. 



Buchanan, Mr, his work on heating by steam, 

 229. 



Buffon, experiments on colours by, 595. 



Bulb-garden, laying out of the, 669. 



Burbidge and Healy, Messrs, their boiler and 

 furnace for hot water heating, 168 — their new 

 boiler, 178 — their method of tank-heating, 

 211— their hot-air stove, 223. 



Burn, Mr, Tottenham Park, his vinery for pot- 

 culture, 312 — his pinery, 333. 



Burn, W., Esq., the circular conservatory at 

 Dalkeith designed by, 364. 



Burnettised canvass, employment of, for cover- 

 ing hothouses, 555. 



Burnettising timber, on, as a preventive of dry 

 rot, 569. 



Burnhead, range of hothouses at, 118. 

 Burton, Mr,the Kew palm-stove designed by, 119. 

 Busts, introduction of, into the flower-garden, 

 650. 



Butler, Mr, his mode of heating by steam, 229. 

 Butt, J. P. W., Esq., conservatory designed for, 

 378 — and flower-garden, 621, and Plate xxiii. 



Caimies, pinetum at the, 587. 



Caithness pavement, the merits of, 70 — con- 

 struction of walls of it, 96 — construction of 

 hot-air flues of it, 147. 



Calderwood cement, 567. 



Callander, W. B., Esq., arboretum formed by, 

 586. 



Cambridgeshire, mode of constructing clay walls 

 in, 98. 



Camden hill, flower-garden at, 615. 



Cameron, Mr, his mode of tank- heating, 194. 



Can flues, various forms of, 145. 



Canvass, employment of, as a covering for glass- 

 houses, 554 — various forms of rendering it 

 waterproof, ib. 



Cape of Good Hope, the heaths at the, 403. 



Captain boiler, the, 181. 



Carlisle, Rev. Mr, a claimant of the invention of 



ridge-and- furrow roofs, 109. 

 Carpenter- work, specifications as to expense of, 



in different localities, 742. 

 Carson's original anti-corrosion paint, 562. 

 Cascades, construction, &c, of artificial, 71 5. 

 Cast-iron, construction of vases in, 642. See 



also Iron. 



Castle Howard, the mausoleum at, 654. 



Caus, Solomon, Gothic flower-garden designed 



by, 615 — design for a fountain by, 632. 

 Caves, artificial, construction of, 706. 

 Cellars, employment of, for the preservation of 



fruit, 495. 



Cements, various kinds of — Parker's, 565 — At- 

 kinson's or Mulgrave, ib. — Bailey's, ib. — Frost's, 

 ib. — Puzzolano earth, ib. — Tarras,*6. — gypsum, 

 ib. — mastic, ib. — metallic, ib. — Dr Ure's as- 

 phalt, 566— asphalt, ib, — the Portland, 



