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INDEX. 



Continent, modes of heating on the, 141 — and 

 of ventilation, 272 — form of vinery common 

 on the, 299, 302 — construction of orangeries 

 on the, 400 — treatment of the orange on the, 

 401 — means employed on the, for the preser- 

 vation of fruit after gathering, 495. 



Contrasting colours, what, 596. 



Cooper's pit for forcing grapes, 437. 



Copeland, Mr, the Dove Tazza executed by, 642. 



Copeland's tiles, employment of, for footpaths, 

 560. 



Copings, various kinds of, for garden walls, 69 



— forms of them, 72. 

 Copper, employment of, for sashes, 545 — for 



astragals, ib. 547. 

 Corbett, Mr, on ice-houses, 503, 512. 

 Corbett's system, pit on, 444. 

 Corbett's system of tank-heating, 199. 

 Cornwall slates, the qualities of, 572. 

 Corridors, formation of, to conservatories, 360. 

 Corroborated glass, 537. 



Cottam and Hallen, Messrs, their system of hot- 

 water pipes, 167 — their boiler, 177 — their 

 stink-traps, 518. 



Courses, what, in bricklaying, 107. 



Covered garden, proposed, at Dalkeith palace, 

 1 1 0, and Plate xii. — uses to which such a 

 structure might be turned, 113. 



Covered walks, various modes of forming, 684. 



Cramps, employment of, 572. 



Creelman, Mr, inclined walls constructed by, 95. 



Crosskill, Mr, vineries constructed by, 305 — 

 peach-houses, 352 — conservatory at Evering- 

 ham, 391 — his mode of constructing sashes, 

 545. 



Crown glass, remarks on, 532 — prices of, ib. 

 Cruikshanks, Mr, his system of heating by hot 

 water, 162. 



Cucumber and melon houses, general remarks 

 on, 458 — example of one, 459 — those at Pol- 

 talloch, 461 — those at Chatsworth, 462 — 

 Davidson's, 463 — Ayre's, 464 — those at Frog- 

 more, ib. — plan for ventilating them, 465. 



Cucumber pit, a span-roofed, 449 — Dawson's, 

 453. 



Culinary gardens, see Gardens. 



Curtis and Harrison's mode of glazing, 540. 



Curvilinear espaliers, various forms of, 559. 



Curvilinear form, advantages of, for the green- 

 house, 385. ► 



Curvilinear hothouses, origin of, 108 — advan- 

 tages and disadvantages of them, 123 — their 

 construction, ib. et seq. — mode of ventilating 

 them, 281, 288. 



Curvilinear lines, mode of drawing, on the 

 ground, 719. 



Curvilinear mode of glazing, the, 540. 



Curvilinear vinery, a, 318. 



Cyrus, the gardens of, 1. 



D. T. P., mode of tank-heating by, 204. 



Dalhousie castle, the garden at, described, 47. 



Dalkeith palace, size of the gardens at, 11 — 

 provisions for collecting rain-water in them, 

 14 — their situation, 20 — direction, &c. of 

 their slope, 21 — formation of artificial soil in 

 them, 26 — the various entrances of them, 32 

 ■ — style in which they are laid out, 37 — de- 

 scription of them, and of the various plant 



and fruit houses, 38, and Plates iv. and v. — 

 mode of coping the walls in them, 70 — con- 

 struction of hollow brick walls in them, 79 — 

 description of proposed covered garden in 

 them, 110, and Plate xii. — furnace constructed 

 entirely of fire-clay at, 253— description, &c. 

 of the vineries in, 307— the pineries, 337 — 

 mode of wintering the vines in them, 339 — the 

 peach-houses, 349 — the circular conservatory, 

 364, and Plate xv.— the orchid-houses, 406— 

 propagating pit, 446 — bulb pit, 447 — cucum- 

 ber pit, ib. — nursing pine pit, ib. — succession 

 pine pit, 448 — tanks at, 519— various forms 

 of rafters used in the glass houses, 546, 547 — 

 experiences with regard to kyanised timber 

 in, 568— chain-pattern flower-border at, 673 

 — wire bridge at, 679 — Remmington's Ameri- 

 can bridge at, 682— moss-house at, 711. 



Dalkeith chamber flue, 148. 



Dalkeith wrought-iron boiler, the, 178. 



Dalmeny garden, arrangements for the supply 

 of water in, 15. 



Daniell, professor, on the temperature, &c. of 

 hothouses, 126. 



Danish vinery, the, 302. 



Darwin on low-lying gardens, 20. 



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



Davidson's cucumber-house, 463. 



Davy, Sir H., on insensible combustion, 259. 



Dawson's cucumber-pit, 453. 



Deacon's Eolian machine for ventilation, 279. 



Dead plate, the, in the hothouse furnace, 251, 

 252. 



Dearns' hollow brick wall, 81. 

 Deepdene, the, the conservatory at, 371, 373. 

 Dench, Mr, improvements in hothouse building 

 by, 108. 



Denmark, form of forcing-house for peaches 

 used in, 347 — amateur's propagating-box used 

 in, 428. 



Dennybole slates, qualities of, 572. 

 Desaguliers, Dr, mode of heating invented by, 

 219. 



Deslongchamps, M., on the preservation of fruit, 

 491. 



Detached flue, construction of the, 147. 



Devonshire, the duke of, the large conservatory 

 built by, 374 — his Italian flower-garden at 

 Chiswick, 619, and Plate xxvi. 



Devonshire, the cob walls of, 98. 



Devonshire slates, qualities of, 572. 



D'Hoogvorst, the baron von, the mushroom- 

 house of, 470' — statuary, &c. in the gardens 

 of, 650. 



Dick's protecting frame, 104. 



Dihl's water-cement, 566. 



Dome-shaped espalier, a, 560. 



Domical conservatory, a, 377, and Plate xxi. 



Domical conservatories, disadvantages of, 129, 

 130. 



Doors, peculiar, for hothouses, 54. 

 Douillier, inclined walls introduced by, 94. 

 Doulton & Watt, Messrs., vases executed by, 643. 

 Dove Tazza, the, 642. 



Downing, Mr, remarks on his work on land- 

 scape gardening, 6 — on planting in relation 

 to the different styles, and the distinction be- 

 tween grouping and clumping, 581 — on the 

 disposal of garden ground, 592. 



