INDEX. 



765 



ing plants in, 392 — various kinds of stages for 

 them, 393 — different forms of plant tables 

 and shelves for them, 394 — a ridge-and-furrow 

 roofed one, 395— that at Poltalloch, 397 — 

 the superiority of span-roofed over lean-to 

 ones, 398. 



Grenville, lady, the garden at the seat of, 670 



— the root-garden, 705. 

 Grillet, M., the first fountain at Chatsworth 



erected by, 636. 

 Grissell and Redwood, Messrs, the process of, 



for coating metals, 128. 

 Grottoes, the construction of, 706. 

 Grout, what, in bricklaying, 107. 

 Grovefield, the Conservatory and projected 



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

 Gunnersbury house, span-roofed vinery at, 



317. 



Gutters, the construction of, 548 — peculiar, 



used at Poltalloch, 58, 116, and Plate viii. 

 Gutter-heating, see Tank-heating. 

 Gypsum as a cement, 565. 



Ha-ha, employment of, in the picturesque gar- 

 den, 685. 



Hamilton, Mr, pine-stove by, 336. 



Hamilton palace, the mausoleum at, 654. 



Hampton Court garden, the origin of, 7 — the 

 vine at, 323 — the orangeries at, 400. 



Hankin's mushroom-house, 469. 



Hardy, M., the rose-garden at the Luxembourg 

 designed by, 666. 



Harmony of colours, on the, in relation to 

 flower-gardening, 593 — designs illustrating it, 

 601, 603, Plates xxvii. xxviii. 



Harrison, Mr, on fruit-tree borders, 30. 



Hartley's patent rough plate-glass, 534. 



Hay, D. R., on taste in colours, 594 — on the 

 combinations of them, 595. 



Hay, J., his arrangements regarding water in 

 Dalmeny garden, 15 — example of kitchen 

 garden designed by him, 50 — employment of 

 heating by steam by him, 229 — the peach- 

 houses of, 348. 



Haycroft's mode of tank-heating, 203. 



Hazard's hot-air stove, description of, 224. 



Headers, what, in bricklaying, 106. 



Heat, means of securing in a moist state, 185 — 

 various modes of economising it in hothouses 

 by external coverings, 551. 



Heath garden, laying out, &c. of the, 670. 



Heath-houses, advantages of the span-roof for, 

 402— conditions requisite for them, 403— ex- 

 amples of them, ib. 404 — that at Woburn 

 abbey, 405. » 



Heaths, the proper culture of the, 403. 



Heating of glass-houses, preliminary remarks on, 

 140— by flues, 145 — by hot-water pipes, 153 

 — by tanks or gutters, 192— by hot-air stoves, 

 213 — by steam, 228— boilers and pipes for it, 

 231 — furnaces for it, 251 — means of it in 

 small town-gardens, 729. 



Heckfield melon pit, the, 433. 



Hedges, styles of flower-garden into which ad- 

 missible, 579. 



Heidelberg, the gardens at, 615. 



Heideloff, professor, garden seats from work by, 

 650. 



Henderson, Mr, his system of heating, 192 — 



mode of ventilation employed by him, 293 — 

 the vineries of, 309, 312— pinery by, 334. 



Herbs, kinds of, for the suburban garden, 735. 



Herbaceous plants, garden for the cultivation of, 

 669. 



Hermitages, construction of, in the picturesque 

 style, 705, 706. 



Hexagon, laying down on the ground of a, 720. 



Hexagon box-hive, the, 530. 



Hirsel, the ice-house at the, 509. 



Hitche's rebated brick wall, 84. 



Hitt, Mr, form of garden recommended by, 13 

 — on garden walls, 65 — mode employed by 

 him for the preservation of fruit after gather- 

 ing, 493. 



Hives, see Apiaries. 



Holland, modes of heating employed in, 140, 

 141. 



Holland house, the garden at, 576, and Plate 

 xxiv. 



Hollow brick walls, on the construction of, 79 — 

 heated ones, 80 — Dearns', 81 — Silverlock's, 

 83 — others, ib. — those at Woburn abbey, 84 

 — Hitche's patent rebated, ib. — another, 85. 



Hood, Mr, remarks on heating by, 144 — experi- 

 ments, &c. by him on heating, 191 — on the 

 conduction, &c. of heat, 213 — method of set- 

 ting boilers employed by him, 234 — on re- 

 moving incrustations from boilers, 237— on 

 the quantity of hot-water pipe needed to 

 heat a given surface, 239 — on the construc- 

 tion of furnaces, 252 — remarks on ventilation 

 by him, 273 — on the circulation of hot water, 

 264 et seq. passim. 



Hoogvorst, the baron Joseph von, the mushroom - 

 houses of, 470 — the gardens of, 650. 



Hoole house, the flower-garden at, 662, 663 — the 

 rockwork at, 702. 



Hopean apparatus for cut-flowers, the, 425. 



Hopeton house, the garden at, 47 — its slope, 

 21. 



Horizontal hot-water system, the, 154. 

 Horticultural society of Chiswick, fruit-room of 



the, 493. 

 Hot-air stoves, see Stoves. 

 Hotbeds, see Pits. 



Hothouses, comparative absence of, in southern 

 Europe, 3 — the first introduction of them, 4 — ■ 

 general principles of the building of them, 108 

 — want of improvements in it, ib. — the ridge- 

 and-furrow roof, and the different claimants 

 to its invention, 109 — one showing the cover- 

 ing in a whole garden, 110, and Plate xii. — 

 the advantages of ridge-and-furrow roofs, 1 14 — 

 Sir Joseph Paxton on these, ib. — mode of con- 

 structing these, 115 — description of a range 

 with these, 4 1 — suspension roofs, 1 1 4 — Loudon 

 on» ridge-and-furrow roofs, 116 — a series of 

 them, 117, and Plate xiii. — those at Burnhead, 

 118 — the palm-stove at Kew, 119, and Plate 

 xiv. — curvilinear ones, and their construction, 

 123 — examples of these, 124 — metallic ones, 

 their advantages and disadvantages, 125— 

 Loudon on these, 126 — the Gardeners' Chro- 

 nicle on these, 128 — disadvantages of too 

 lofty ones, 129 — the domical one at Bretton 

 hall, ib. — the new one at Trentham, 131 — the 

 domical form, and its disadvantages, ib. — the 

 Anthseum, ib. — importance of height of base 



