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INDEX. 



Pineries, construction of, 330— Speechly's form, 

 331 — Nicol's, ib. — Atkinson's, ib. — Burns', 

 333— Henderson's, 334— the Bicton, 335— 

 Hamilton's, 336 — the Dalkeith, 337 — the 

 Bamford hall, 340 — Nivens' combined with a 

 vinery, ib. — a span -roofed one, 343 — Flem- 

 ing's, at Trentham, 344— the Poltalloch, 345. 



Pinetum, formation and general arrangement of 

 the, 587— that at Bowood, 588. 



Pipes, size, arrangement, &c. of, for fountains, 

 633. 



Pipes, hot-water, proportion between them and 

 the boiler, 232 — their proper arrangement, 

 size, &c, 233 — modes of protecting them when 

 carried to great distances, ib. — form best 

 suited to them, 234— quantity required to 

 heat certain surfaces, 238 — tables of this, 240 

 — best material for them, 241 — means of pre- 

 venting oxidation in them when of iron, ib. 

 — earthenware ones, 242 — various forms of 

 stopcocks for them, 244 — different kinds of 

 connecting joints for them, 246 — composition 

 for joining them, ib.— with troughs attached 

 to them, 249 — glass and enamelled ones, ib. 

 — prices of iron ones, in different localities, 

 743 — of leaden ones, 748 — of fireclay ones, 

 751. 



Pishobury, apiary at, 530. 



Pits, on covering the roofs of, to economise 

 heat, 465 — plan for ventilating them, 551. 



Pits and frames, various kinds of — those heated 

 by fermentation, 429— by hot- water pipes, 

 flues, &c, 438 — cucumber and melon houses, 

 459 — mushroom-houses, 466 — conservative 

 pits, 471. 



Pits heated by fermentation, general remarks 

 on, 429 — Knight's, 430 — Neeves', ib. — the 

 revolving, ib. — the German hotbed, ib. — the 

 Alderstone, 431 — M'Phail's, ib. — Mearns', ib. 

 — the arched, 432 — Baldwin's pine, ib. — the 

 Edmonstone, 433 — Knight's melon, ib. — the 

 Heckfield melon, ib. — Atkinson's early for- 

 cing, 434 — Atkinson's late forcing, ib. — Atkin- 

 son's melon, ib. — Thompson's, 435 — Ken- 

 dall's, ib. — Watson's cucumber, ib. — Glendin- 

 ning's pine, 436— Forsyth's early forcing, ib. 

 — Atkinson's succession pine, 437 — Cooper's, 

 for grapes, ib. 



Pits heated by smoke flues, hot water, &c, 

 remarks on, 438 — the Valleyfield, ib. — one 

 for plants, 439 — Niven's pine one, ib. — Glen- 

 dinning's melon, ib. — Glendinning's fruiting 

 pine, 440 — the Worsley, ib. — Weeks and 

 Day's, for hot-water bottom heat, 441 — Mill's 

 cucumber, ib. — Reid's propagating, ib. — Ro- 

 gers', 442 — Glendinning's, heated on Corbett's 

 system, 444 — Mitchell's forcing, ib. — the Dal- 

 keith propagating, ib. — the Dalkeith bulb, 447 

 — the Dalkeith cucumber, ib. — the Dalkeith 

 nursing pine, ib. — the Dalkeith succession 

 pine, 448 — Pelvilain's pine, ib. — Atkinson's 

 succession pine, with hot water and dung 

 linings combined, 449 — a melon or cucumber 

 one, ib.— a tank-heated one, 450 — a span- 

 roofed one, 451 — Fortune's plant one, 452 — 

 Dawson's cucumber, 453 — German, for forcing 

 French beans, &c, ib. — another for the same 

 purpose, 454 — one for forcing strawberries, 

 ib. — one for forcing asparagus, ib. — improved 



asparagus one, ib. — Trentham melon and pine 

 one, 455— Glendinning's melon one, ib. — 

 plant ones at Frogmore, 456 — ridge-and- 

 furrow roofed ones, 457— pine or melon one, 

 458. 



Pits, conservative, different kinds of, 471— with 

 solid walls, ib.— with hollow walls, ib.~ with 

 bottom ventilation, 472— a span-roofed cold 

 one, ib. — a cold one for preserving vegetables 

 during winter, 473— a span-roofed vegetable 

 one, ib. 



Pitmaston, mode of ventilation employed at, 

 293. 



Plan, importance of, in forming a garden, 11. 



Plants, importance of aeration to, 272 — method, 

 &c, of their perspiration, 273— the growing 

 and arrangement of them in conservatories, 

 362, 380 — kinds of, suitable for growing in 

 vases, 640. 



Plant cases, house, examples of, 423. 



Plant-houses, erection, &c. of— conservatories, 

 360 — greenhouses, 385 — orangeries, 399 — 

 heath-houses, 402 — orchid-houses, 405 — 

 aquariums, 412 — window gardening, 420. 



Plant pit, Fortune's, 452 — the Frogmore one, 

 456. 



Plant stage, peculiar, for greenhouses, 393. 



Plant tables for greenhouses, forms for, 394. 



Planting to produce effect, remarks on, and the 

 styles suited to each style of flower garden, 

 580— style of it suited to the gardenesque 

 garden, 657— and to the picturesque, 698. 



Plastering, specifications of expense of, in dif- 

 ferent localities, 743. 



Plate glass, employment of, for hothouses, 537. 



Piatt, Sir H., suggestion by, regarding heatiner, 

 153, 228. 



Pleasure-ground, the, as distinguished from the 



flower-garden, 579. 

 Pliny, the garden of, 2. 



Plumberwork, specifications of expense of, in 

 different localities, 748. 



Plums, forcing of, and houses for it, 355. 



Polish bee-hive, the, 525 — improved one, 527 — 

 variety of it, 528. 



Polmaise hot-air stove, the, 219 et seq. 



Poltalloch, average fall of rain at, and quality of 

 the soil, 27 — entrance to the garden at, 34 — 

 description of the garden, 51, and Plate vi. — 

 peculiar gutter used in the hothouses, 116, 

 and Plate viii. — stopcocks for hot-water pipes 

 used at, 244— pineries at, 345— the green- 

 house at, 397— cucumber and melon-houses 

 at, 461. 



Polyprosopic houses, ventilation of, 288. 



Ponds, objections to, in gardens, 15. 



Pope, the garden of, at Twickenham, 8. 



Porte-fleurs, designs for, 630. 



Portland cement, 566. 



Pressure, amount of, on boilers, 265. 



Preston hall, the arboretum at, 586. 



Price, Sir Uvedale, on geometrical flower-gar- 

 dens, &c, 605, 607— on fountains, 631, 637— 

 on the introduction of vases into gardens, 641 

 — on the introduction of artificial decoration 

 into the flower-garden, 647 — on wooden 

 bridges, 680— on the meaning of the term 

 picturesque, 693 — on the picturesque style 

 of gardening, ib. 695. 



