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INDEX. 



Flowers, cut, means for the preservation of, 

 425. 



Flues, heating by, 145 — earthenware or can 

 ones, 141, 145 — brick ones, 141, 146— those 

 of iron, flagstone, &c, 147 — the detached, ib. 

 — chamber ones, 148— circular ones, 149 — 

 the cleaning of them, 150, 151 — precaution 

 against their bursting, 151 — modes for secur- 

 ing all their heat, 152 — their heating capabili- 

 ties, ib. 



Flued walls, construction of, 86. 

 Folkstone, inclined walls at, 95. 

 Footpaths, construction of, for Conservatories, 

 &c, 560. 



Forcing garden, plan and description of a, 49. 



Forrest, Mr, mode of covering glass-houses in- 

 vented by, 555. 



Forrest's new white paint, 564. 



Forsyth, Mr, on the disadvantages, &c. of low- 

 lying gardens, 20 — on soil, 26 — on fruit-tree 

 borders, 29 — on shelter, 35 — on the propor- 

 tion of pipe requisite for heating, 241— early 

 forcing pit designed by him, 436 — his mush- 

 room-house, 470 — method employed by him 

 for the preservation of fruit after gathering, 

 493 — plans for drawing volutes, &c. on the 

 ground designed by him, 719. 



Fortune, Mr, his mode of ventilation, 281 — his 

 plant pit, 452. 



Fortune, Mr, account of a Chinese ice-house by, 

 504. 



Foundations, kinds of, for garden-walls, 66. 



Fountains, examples of, suited to geometrical 

 gardens, 627 — Triton from the Barberini 

 palace, ib. — defence of their introduction into 

 the flower-garden, 631 — their suitability to 

 the geometrical style, ib. — materials now em- 

 ployed for their construction, 632 — the sup- 

 ply of water to them, ib. — the size and 

 arrangement of the pipes for them, 633 — one 

 by Dxicel in iron, ib— the Acis and Galatea, 

 634— those in Nut-hill garden, 635, 636— 

 heights to which the water is thrown by 

 various ones, 636 — kinds of them adapted to 

 the gardenesque style, 674— one by M. Andre 

 in iron, ib. 



Fowler, C, Esq., conservatory at Sion house 



designed by, 368, and Plate xvi. 

 Fowler, Mr, his system of heating by hot water, 



156— his boiler, 179. 

 Fragment mode of glazing, the, 540. 

 Frames, see Pits. 



France, construction of the first hothouses, &c. 

 in, 4 — modes of heating employed in, 141 — 

 mode of preserving fruit after gathering in, 

 486. 



Freezing mixtures, list of, 513. 



French, Mr, the vinery of, 303. 



French beans, pit for forcing, 403. 



French style in flower-gardening, origin and 

 characteristics of the, 4, 573, 574 — its pecu- 

 liarities, 608 — example of one, 610 — one in 

 the modern style, 611. 



Frogmore gardens, size of, 11 — style in which 

 arranged, 36 — description of them and of the 

 forcing -houses, &c, 60, and Plates ix. and 

 x. — mode of ventilation employed at, 288 — 

 vineries, 314 — cherry-house, 356 — asparagus 

 pits, 454 — plant pits, 456— cucumber-houses, 



464 — mode of constructing the sashes at, 545 

 — curvilinear espaliers used at, 560 — the her- 

 mitage at, 706. 

 Frost's cement, 565. 



Fruit, on the preservation of, after gathering, 

 486 — causes of its decay,'491. 



Fruit-gardens, see Gardens. 



Fruit-houses, comparative advantages, &c. of 

 narrow and broad, 132 — the construction of 

 them — vineries, 299 — pineries, 330 — peach- 

 houses, 346— cherry, fig, plum, and apricot 

 houses, 355 — tropical-fruit house, 358. 



Fruit - room, construction of the, 486 — Mi- 

 Thompson on them, 487 — Duro on them, 489 

 — the Gardeners' Chronicle on them, 490 — 

 Deslongchamps on them, 491 — Mr Knight on 

 them, 492 — Maher on them, ib. — that of the 

 Chiswick Horticultural Society, 493 — Justice, 

 Hitt, and others on them, ib. — proper situa- 

 tion for them, 495 — Mr Moorman's, 496. 



Fruit-trees, kinds of, suited to the suburban 

 garden, 734. 



Fruit-tree borders, formation of, 27 — aeration 

 of them, ib. — paving of them, 29 — depth they 

 should be for different fruits, ib. 



Fuel, on regularity of supply of, to furnaces, 

 258 — waste of it caused by opaque smoke, 

 259. 



Furnaces, hothouse, on the construction of, 251 

 — the first improvers of them, ib. — their gene- 

 ral defects, ib. — one constructed entirely of 

 fireclay, 253 — Williams' improved or argand, 

 254 — the admission of air into them, ib. — 

 another by Williams, 255 — Witty s or Chant- 

 er's smoke- consuming, ib. — various forms of 

 smoke-consuming ones, 256 — Joseph Wil- 

 liams', 257 — Jucke's, ib. — Galloway's, ib. — 

 causes of the production of smoke from them, 

 258— the effects of it, 259 — loss of heat caused 

 by it, ib. — the proper management of them, 

 261 — stoke-holes, doors, &c. for them, 262. 



Gala water, wire bridge over the, 679. 



Galloway's patent boilers, furnace, &c. 257. 



Garden, the culinary or kitchen and fruit, gene- 

 ral plan of, 11 — proper extent for it, ib. — 

 sizes of various ones, 12 — different forms 

 given to it, and respective advantages of these, 

 ib. — advantages of its being of regular form, 

 13 — the supply of water to it, 14 — importance 

 of irrigation to it, 15 — various modes of pro- 

 curing water to it, 16 et seq. — the proper situ- 

 ation for it, 1 9 — best slope for it, and direc- 

 tion of this, 21 — example of a suburban one, 

 22, and Plate i. — the same with certain 

 improvements, 23, and Plate ii. — example 

 showing the connection between it and the 

 house, 23, and Plate hi. — another villa or 

 suburban one, 24 — soil suitable to it, 25 — 

 formation of fruit-tree borders in it, 27 — the 

 principal entrance to it, 32 — production, &c. 

 of shelter to it, 34 — style in which to be laid 

 out, 36 — that at Dalkeith palace, 38, and 

 Plates iv. v. — exnmple of one on the largest 

 scale, 40 — plan, &c. of one in Ireland, 45 — 

 one in the mixed style, ib. — that at Dalhousie 

 castle, 47 — that at Woburn abbey, 48 — for- 

 cing one on a limited scale, 49 — one by Hay, 

 50 — that at Poltalloch, 51, and Plates vi. 



