INDEX. 



775 



272— mechanical inventions for it, 273 — 

 amount of it required, ib. — Hood on it, ib. — 

 Mr Williams' mode, 275 — importance of the 

 air being warmed, ib. — purposes for which 

 it is required, ib. — Moore's method, 276— 

 Leaf's, ib.— Atkinson's, ib. —Williams' self- 

 acting method, 277 — Mugliston's self-acting, 

 278— Dr Anderson's, &c, 279— Latour's and 

 Booth's methods, ib. — Tweedie's, 280 — Hur- 

 wood's, ib. — Fortune's, 281 — that of curvi- 

 linear houses, 282 — modes employed on the 

 Continent, 283 — Clive's method, ib. — various 

 modes, ib. et seq. — Fleming's at Trentham, 286 

 — that at Frogmore, 288 — that of houses with 

 curvilinear and ridge-and-furrow roofs, ib. — 

 that of span-roofed houses, 289, 291 — methods 

 selected from the Gardeners' Journal and 

 Magazine, 290— Nicol's method, 291— Tur- 

 ner's, 292 — Weeks', ib. — Sheringham's venti- 

 lator, 295 — Arnott's ventilating valve, ib. — 

 Moor's lever ventilator, ib. — Glendinning on 

 it, ib. — example of insufficient, in a large 

 house, 296 — Errington on it, 297 — peculiar, 

 for circular aquariums, 416 — plan of it for 

 pits, 465. 



Verandahs, construction of, in town gardens, 

 728. 



Vermin-traps for cisterns, 522. 



Versailles, the gardens of, 4 — height of the 



waterworks at, 636. 

 Vesta stove, the, 226. 



Victoria regia, house for the, at Dalkeith palace, 

 408. 



Villa garden, example of a, 22, and Plates i. ii. 

 — another, 23, and Plate iii.— another, 24. 



Villa gardens, small, laying out of, &c. 733 et seq. 



Vineries, the construction of, 299 — those com- 

 mon on the Continent, ib. — curvilinear ones 

 for early forcing, ib. — Speechly's early, 300 

 — Nicol's early, ib. — Aeon's early, 301 — Aeon's 

 late, ib. — Nicol's late, ib. — various forms used 

 on the Continent, 302 — the Danish, ib. — 

 French's, 303 — Atkinson's, ib. — Atkinson's, 

 with hot water, 304 — CrosskilPs, 305 — 

 Mushet's, 306, and Plate xviii. — those used in 

 Dalkeith gardens, 307— that at Malgwyn 

 castle, 308 — Henderson's, 309 — for vines in 

 pots, 310— Saul's, 311— Stafford's, for pot 

 culture, 312 — Burn's, for pot culture, ib. — 

 for two crops annually, 313 — Sanders', ib. — 

 those at Frogmore, 314 — White's, 315— Span- 

 roofed ones, 317 — curvilinear span-roofed 

 ones, 318 — formation of the borders, 320 — 

 chambered borders, 321 — concreted borders, 

 322 — aeration of them, 323 — subterranean 

 chambering the borders, 325— heating the 

 borders, 326— those at Yester, 328 — trellises 

 for them, 330 — Niven's, combined with pin- 

 ery, 340. 



Volutes, plans for drawing, on the ground, 719. 



Waistell, Mr, estimate of the annual fall of rain 

 by, 14 — filtering tank invented by, 513. 



Wakefield, heating bv steam first employed by, 

 228. 



Waldron's boiler, 177 — sash-bar, 547. 



Walks, formation of, in the gardenesque garden, 

 659— and in the picturesque, 696— geome- 

 trical diagrams for setting them off, 721, 722. 



Walker, Dr, on garden walls, 66. 



Walker, Mr, his system of hot-water heating, 

 171 — his method of forming radiators for 

 hot-water heating, 188 et seq. — on hot-air 

 stoves, 214— on the general principles of ven- 

 tilation, 271. 



Wall-plates, construction of, 549. 



Wall trees, arrangements for watering, 16. 



Walls, first introduction of heated, into Eng- 

 land, 5. 



Walls, garden, construction of — proper aspect 

 for them, 65 — their foundations, 66 — different 

 materials for them, 68— copings for them, 69 

 — trellised ones, 74— proper height for them, 

 75 — the arrangement of them to suit different 

 situations, 76 — most suitable colour for them, 

 77 — various ways of constructing them, 78 — 

 the solid, ib. — the solid brick and concrete, 

 79 — the hollow brick, ib. — hollow stone, 82 — 

 Hitche's, of rebated bricks, 84 — various others, 

 85 — Roberts', 86 — flued, ib. — Ewing's patent 

 glass, 88, and Plate xi.— Spencer's glass, 90 — 

 wooden ones, ib. — architectural ones, 92 — 

 piered ones, 93 — arched ones, ib. — sunk ones, 

 94— inclined ones, ib. — terraced ones, 95 — 

 those of slate, glass, &c, 96— brick, with iron 

 uprights, 97 — concrete ones, 98 — clay ones, 

 ib.— cob ones, ib. — flint ones, 99 — various 

 economical ones, ib. — on an inclined surface, 

 100— conservative ones, 101 — studs for them, 

 106 — explanation of terms used in relation to 

 the building of them, 106. 



Wallace, Mr, the mortice-cutting machine of, 549. 



Walpole, Horace, on fountains in gardens, 637. 



Walsh, Mr, circular flue invented by, 149. 



Walton, Mr, mode of ventilation employed by, 

 294. 



Ward, Mr, his method of growing plants in the 

 house, 420 — examples of his cases for the 

 purpose, 423, 424, 425. 



Warwick vase, the, 637. 



Water, the supply of, to the garden, and means 

 for providing it, 14— kind best adapted for 

 boilers, 237 — importance of it in the garden, 

 5 1 3 — tanks and cisterns for filtering and col- 

 lecting it, ib. et seq. — annual fall of rain, 514 

 —the supply of it to fountains, 632. 



Water cement, 566 — Dihl's, 567. 



Waterfalls, artificial, construction of, 716. 



Water plants, beauty of, 410 — their culture, see 

 Aquariums. 



Water tanks, construction of, 520. See also 



Tanks and Cisterns. 

 Waterproof canvass, preparation of, 554. 

 Watson, Mr, his system of hot-water heating, 



161. 



Watson's cucumber pit, 435. 



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

 156 — his improved boiler, 180 — his saddle- 

 shaped pipe-boiler, 181 — his mode of tank- 

 heating, 194 — his mode of ventilation, 292 — 

 his forcing frame, 429. 



Weeks and Day's pit, 441. 



W elbeck, subterranean chambered vine-borders 

 at, 325 — the orangery at, 400 — experiments 

 on kyanising timber at, 568. 



Wells, Mr, emplovment of circular flower-beds 

 by, 663. 



Welsh slates, qualities of, 572, 



