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INDEX. 



Wenham Lake ice company, the, 497. . 

 Westmoreland slates, qualities of, 572. 

 White's patent hot-air stove, 216. 

 White's vinery, 315. 

 White, Mr, sash-bar used by, 544. 

 White Knights, the aquarium at, 417. 

 White lead paint, 563. 

 White zinc paint, 564. 



Whytehead, W. K., on the production of opaque 

 smoke, 258. 



Wicket gates, style of, in the gardenesque gar- 

 den, 685. 



Wighton's improved Polish hive, 527. 



Wilhelm fountain, the, 636. 



Wilkinson, Mr, on the angle of elevation for 



hothouses, 137. 

 William III., introduction of the Dutch style of 



gardening by, 61 1. 

 Williams, Mr, mode of ventilation employed by, 



275. 



Williams, Joseph, smoke-consuming furnace by, 

 257. 



Williams, Mr Wye, smoke-consuming furnace 



by, 255. 

 Williams' argand furnace, 254. 

 Williams' boiler, 180. 

 Williams' self-acting ventilator, 277. 

 Williamson, Mr, on the angle of elevation for 



hothouses, 135. 

 Wind, force of the, 755. 

 Winds, the prevalent, 35. 



Window gardening, general remarks on, 420 — 

 Mr Ward's plan, ib. et seq. — the kind of it pre- 

 valent on the Continent, with examples, 420 

 — examples of Wardian cases, 423 et seq. — the 

 Hopean apparatus for the preservation of cut 

 flowers, 425 — specimens of flower -baskets, 

 flower-tables, &c. 426 — the amateur's propa- 

 gating-box, 428. 



Windsor, the orangery at, 400 — vases in the 

 gardens of, 637. 



Winter, pits for preserving vegetables during, 

 473. 



Winter garden, laying out, &c. of the, 668. 



Winter garden, the Taurida, 5. 



Wintering vines, Mr Sanders' method of, 313 — 



the method employed at Frogmore, 315 — 



that practised at Dalkeith, 339. 

 Wire bridges, examples of, 679 et seq. 

 Wire espalier, a, 558. 



Wire fences, remarks on, for flower-gardens, 

 579 — introduction of it into the gardenesque 

 garden, 685— the invention of it by the 

 Chinese, and mode of its employment by 

 them, 696 — its suitability to the picturesque 

 style of flower-garden, ib. 



Wire-work, formation of live fences with the aid 

 of, 580 — employment of it for border edgings 

 in flower-gardens, 591— specimens of these, 

 678— prices of it, 749. 



Wise, changes introduced into gardening by, 8. 



Witty's smoke-consuming furnace, 255. 



Woburn abbey gardens, entrance to, 32— de- 

 scription of them, 48 — walls heated by hot 

 water at, 84 — pinery at, 331— the peach- 

 houses at, 348— the heath-house at, 405 — cast- 

 iron rafters used at, 546 — the heath-garden 

 at, 670. 



Wolsey, cardinal, Hampton Court garden laid 

 out by, 7. 



Wood's copper conical boiler, 170. 



Wood, on, as a material for constructing hot- 

 water tanks, 197 — construction of cisterns of, 

 521 — employment of, for the construction of 

 sashes, 545 — and for that of rafters and astra- 

 gals, ib. 



Wooden bridges, Sir Uvedale Price on, 680 — 

 examples of them suited to the gardenesque 

 style, 681 — and to the picturesque, 713. 



Wooden espaliers, construction of, 556, 557. 



Wooden hothouses, comparison between, and 

 metallic ones, 127. 



Wooden walls, construction of, 91. 



Worsley pit, the, 440. 



Wright's quarries, employment of, for footpaths, 

 561. 



Yester house gardens, proposed application of 

 water in, 19— chambered fruit-tree border at, 

 31 — vinery at, 315 — heated vine-borders, &c, 

 at, 328. 



Young's beehive, 528. 



Zeno's anti-corrosion paint, 563. 

 Zigzag wall, the, 1 00. 



Zinc, pipes made of, 242— employment of, for 

 the construction of sashes, 545 — and of astra- 

 gals, ib. 



Zinc paint, 564. 



Zubow, count, his mode of tank-heating, 194. 



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