INDEX. 



773 



Stewart's pit, construction of, 438. 



Stewart, Mr, of Valleyfield, his pits for preserv- 

 ing vegetables, 473. 



Stewart, Mr, mode employed by, for the preser- 

 vation of fruit after gathering, 493. 



Stink traps, construction of, for liquid-manure 

 tanks, 518. 



Stoke park, the gardens at, 650. 



Stoke place, mushroom-houses at, 469— rustic 

 vase from, 675. 



Stoke-holes, importance of the drainage of, 262. 



Stone, on, as a material for walls, 68— durability 

 of different kinds of it, 572 — employment of 

 it for garden seats, 651 — prices, &c. of differ- 

 ent kinds of, 744 et seq. 



Stone walls, comparative durability of, 572 — 

 hollow, 82. 



Stopcocks, kinds of, for tank-heating, 195 — con- 

 struction of, for hot-water pipes, 244. 



Storch, description of the Taurida winter garden 

 by, 5. 



Stoves, hot-air, heating by, 213 — objections to 

 it, ib. — Rivers' improved Arnott's, 215 — 

 Allen's Archimedean, 216 — White's, ib. — 

 Lawe's, 217 — one from Dr Ure's Dictionary, 

 218, 219 — the Polmaise system, 219— Bur- 

 bidge and Healy's, 223 — Hazard's, 224 — 

 Kendall's, 225 — general remarks on them, 

 226 et seq. 



Stratton park, the orangery at, 400. 



Strawberries, pit for forcing, 453— another, 454. 



Stretchers, what, in bricklaying, 106. 



Strutt, Mr, his mode of heating, 215. 



Stuart style of flower-gardening, the, 576. 



Studs, kinds of, for wall trellises, 74 — perma- 

 nent, for garden walls, 106. 



Styles, classification of, in laying out the flower- 

 garden, 573. 



Suburban villa garden, example of a, 22, and 

 Plates i. ii. — another, 23, and Plate iii. — 

 another, 24. 



Suburban villa gardens, small, laying out, &c. 

 of, 733— fruit trees for them, 734— herbs, 735 

 — trees, ib. — deciduous shrubs, ib. — evergreen 

 shrubs, ib. — coniferse, 736 — hardy herbaceous 

 plants, ib. 



Sulphate of copper, employment of, for pre- 

 serving timber, 569. 



Summer-houses, designs for, 710 — remarks on, 

 712. 



Sunderland- Wick, vinery at, 305— greenhouse at, 

 391. 



Sun-dials, introduction of, into the geometrical 

 flower-garden, 645 — those at Newbattle 

 abbey, &c, ib. — another, ib. 



Sunk walks, formation of, 684. 



Sunk walls, construction of, 94. 



Suspension bridges, various kinds of, 679 et seq. 



Suspension principle, proposed application of 

 the, to the roofs of conservatories, 114, 382. 



Swinton park, the conservatory at, 371. 



Switzer, Mr, on garden walls, 65 — on the pro- 

 portions, &c. of the parterre, 609. 



Sylvester's furnace-doors, 262. 



Syphon system of hot-water pipes, the, 155. 



Tan, pipes heated by, see Pits heated by fermen- 

 tation. 



Tank, melon pit heated by, 450. 



Tank-heating, origin, &c. of, 1 92 — Rendle's 

 system of it, 193 — Cameron's system, 194 — 

 Weeks', ib. — the Hon. Robert Olive's, ib. — 

 Bailey's, ib. — Green's, ib. — that used at Dal- 

 keith palace, 195 — stopcocks and sluices for 

 it, ib. — Rendle's improved system of it, 196, 

 198 — on the use of a large or a small body 

 of water in it, 196 — materials for the tanks, 

 197 — Corbett's system, 199 — Huyshe's sys- 

 tem, 200— Clive's improved, 201— Mitchell's, 

 ib. — Glendinning's, 202 — Fleming's, ib. — Hay- 

 croft's, 203 — one from the Gardeners' Jour- 

 nal, 204 — Toy's, 205 — Lawrence's, 206— 

 Tinker's, 207 — Lyon's, 208— Baker's, 209— 

 general remarks on it, 210 — Burbidge and 

 Healy's system, 211 — Fenn's, ib. — Dr Lind- 

 ley on it, 212. 



Tanks, specifications as to prices of, 752. 



Tanks, cast-iron, for heating, 211. 



Tanks and cisterns for water, construction of, 

 513 — filtering tanks, with examples, ib. — 

 another, 515 — Mallet's, ib. — calculation of the 

 pressure, &c. on them, 516 — amount of fric- 

 tion, &c. in the conducting pipes, 517 — con- 

 struction of liquid-manure ones and traps 

 for them, 518 et seq. — common rain-water 

 ones, 520— cast and wrought iron ones, 521 

 — brick ones, ib. — air and vermin traps for 

 them, 522. 



Tarras cement, 565. 



Taurida palace, the winter garden of the, 5. 

 Taylor's improved collateral ventilating hive, 

 523. 



Taymouth, entrance to gardens at, 32. 

 Teddington grove, the garden at, 663. 

 Tedworth park, hothouse at, 128 — vinery at, 

 313. 



Temperature, the proper, for the preservation 



of fruit, 487. 

 Temple, Sir William, on the proportions of the 



parterre, 609. 

 Temples, introduction of, into the geometrical 



flower-garden, 651. 

 Tension and suspension bridge, a, 681. 

 Terra-cotta, vases in, 643. 

 Terrace gardens, what, 611. 

 Terrace walk, the, 695. 



Terraces, laying out of gardens in, 21 — con- 

 struction of them in flower-gardens, 593 — 

 various kinds of them, ib. — construction of 

 them in the gardenesque style of flower- 

 garden, 655. 



Terraced walls, on, 95. 



Terracing the ground in flower-gardening, on, 

 593. 



Tertiary colours, what, 596. 



Tesselated pavement, imitation of, with com- 

 mon bricks, 480. 



Thatch, employment of, for coping walls, 71. 



Thimble joint for hot-water pipes, the, 246, 247. 



Thomas, Mr, the Acis and Galatea fountain by, 

 634. 



Thompson, Mr, mode of ventilation employed 

 by, 293 — on the preservation of fruit and the 

 construction of fruit-rooms, 487. 



Thompson's pit, 435. 



Thomson's boiler, 178. 



Thorsby hall, experiments at, on kyanising tim- 

 ber, 568. 



