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GENERAL INDEX.
The numbers refer to tlie pages, and not to the paragraphs.
A.
Accelerating vegetation, 702.
Accidents and diseases of plants, 713.
Acclimatising, 393.
trees and shrubs, 102.
Acorn-bearing trees, 1164.
Acrogens, 378.
Actinism, 430.
Adansbnia in the Bot. Gard. a t Calcutta, 303.
Adjutages of fountains, 642.
Adrian’s villa, 18.
Aeration, importance of, 618.
modes of, 619.
Aeration of soils, 409.
African cemeteries, 326.
African gardening, 323.
African islands, gardening in, 328.
Air, how supplied to plants in houses, 588.
Air in hothouses, mode of changing, 625.
Alton’s method of raising the cucumber, 801.
Aix la Chapelle, gardens at, 123.
Alameda, 219.
Alarum thermometer, 559.
Alcoves, 639.
Alexandria, gardens in, 323.
A 'lg s , 378.
Alisander or Alexanders, 863.
Alleghany mountains, 332.
Alleys, 665.
Alluvial soils, 400.
Almond, culture o fth e , 926.
Alpine plants, 1086.
Alstrcemérzo, culture of, 10C7.
Alton Towers, gardens at, 254.
Araarjllis, culture of, 1062.
Amateurs of botany in France, 102.
Amateurs of gardening, 1228.
Ambulacrum, 27.
Amelioration of climate, 395.
American blight, 503.
American cress, 871.
American fence, 338.
American garden, 1011.
American nurseries, 339.
American shrubs, list of, 1089.
Amsterdam, gardens at, 57.
Analysis, use of, 406.
Anchovy pear, 988.
Ancient gardening in Ireland, 273.
Ancient style of landscape-gardening. 451.
Ancient style of managing water, 466.
Anemone, culture of the, 1059.
Angelica, culture of, 882.
Angle of glass xoofs, 587.
Angles, instrument for transferring, 530.
Anhalt, gardens in, 152.
Animals injurious to gardens, 710.
Animal substances used as manure, 414. 416.
Anise, or aniseed, 883.
Annual border floivers, 1078.
Annual hothouse plants, 1120.
Anomalous buildmgs, 634.
Anspach, palace of, 123.
Antiquities, 643.
Antwerp, botanic garden at, 62.
villas at, 60.
Aphides, 502.
Apiary, 636.
Apple, culture of the, 893.
selection of sorts, 896.
Apples, to store and keep, 768.
Application of lime as a manure, 423.
Approach roads, 472.
Appropriation of surrounding objects in landscape-
gardening, 455.
Apricot, culture of the, and selection of sorts, 924.
training the, 925.
Aquarium, 1026.
Aquariums, flowers for planting, 1083.
Aquatic hothouse plants, 1120.
Aquatic plants, cistern for, heated by steam, 608.
Aquatics, habits of, 390.
Aqueous vapour existing in the atmosphere, 4.32.
Arabian gardening, 300.
Araucària, or Chili pine, 1173.
Arboricultural catalogue, 1168.
Arboriculture in Germany, 113.
Arboriculture, or the planting of trees, 1125.
Arbours, 639.
Architecture, origin of, 470.
Am-acàcha, 995.
Artesian well, 632.
Artichoke, culture of the, 861.
Artificial climates for plants, 393.
Artificial rain, mode of producing, 625.
Artificial systems of classification, 366.
Artist gardeners, 1224.
Artists in gardening, 645.
Ash, cuUure and management o fth e, 1174.
Ashes of plants, 425.
component parts of, 406.
Ashes, use of, for manure, 667.
Asia Minor, gardening in, 294.
Asiatic gardening, 294.
Asparagus, culture of, in the open air, 856.
Asparagus knife, 524.
Asparagus, to force, 807.
Asphalte walks, 665.
Aspect of kitchen-gardens, 726.
of principal rooms, 480.
Assyrian gardens, 6.
Astanina, near Moscow, 197.
Asters of various kinds, 1065.
Athenian horticulture, 234.
Atmosphere, action o fth e , on plants, 433.
action o fth e , on soils, 409.
agency of the, in vegetation, 431.
quantity of water suspended in the, 432.
what composed of, 432.
Atmospheric air, component parts of, 402.
Atmospherical changes, 444.
Atmospheric heat and moisture, 784.
Augarten a t Vienna, 119.
Augsburg, gardens at, 126.
Auricula, culture o fth e , 1042.
Australia, gardening in, 348.
Austrian gardening, 115.
Authors, Italian, on gardening, 25.
Authors on gardening, ancient ones, 13.
Authors on gardening in America, 339.
in Brussels, 72.
in China, 322.
in England, 250.
in France, 104.
in Germany and Prussia, 174.
in Italy, 50.
Authors on landscape-gardening, 451.
Authors, Roman, who wrote on gardening, 24.
Automaton gardener, 560.
Autumnal colouring of trees in North America,
338.
Averruncator, 526,
Aviary, 478. 636.
Axis o f a plant, 378.
Azores, plants of the, 329.
B.
Babylonish gardens, 6.
Baden, burial-ground at, 151.
gardens at, 138. 150.
Bad weather, effect o fth e moon on, 446.
Bagatelle, gardens of, 78.
Bailiff’s cottage, 486.
Baldwin’s pine pits, 771.
Balm, culture of, 885.
Balsam, culture o fth e , 1065.
Banana tree, 992.
Banks, sloping, for growmg melons, 805.
Barcelona, gardens of, 218.
Bark, functions o fth e , 383.
Bark huts. 639.
Barking irons, 528.
Barking trees, 1156.
Bark, or moist stove, use of, 1025.
Bark removed from one tree to another, 967.
Bark-stove, 707.
Bark-stove plants, 1114.
Barley, process of malting, 379.
Barometer, use of che, 446.
variations in the, 434.
Barrows of various kinds, 551.
Basil, culture of, 879.
Basins, 633.
Basket edgings, 563. 1004.
Baskets, 540.
Bast mats, 563.
Bavarian botanic gardens, 162.
Bavarian gardening, 123.
Bean, culture o fth e , and selection of kinds, 832.
Beating, 649.
Beauties of landscape gardening, 452.
Beauty, natura l, mode of heightening, 461.
Beds m hot-houses, 624.
Beech, culture and m anagement of the, 1174.
Bee-house, 636.
Bees, 498.
in France, 106.
in Hindostán, 304.
in Mexico, 343.
in th e Canary Islands, 328.
kept in Italy, 47.
management of, 636.
Beetles, 495.
Beetle trap, 549.
Beet, red, 845.
white, 849
Belfast botanic garden, 282.
Bell glasses, 548.
Bellows of various kinds, 549.
Bel Respiro, description of, 89.
Bengal, orchards of, 302.
Berberry, 935.
Berlin, gardens near, 121.
Berne, public walks at, 175.
Berries, 933.
Berry-bearing trees, 1165.
B ertrand’s villa a t Bruges, 58.
Besoms, 523.
Bicton crane-necked hoe, 518.
Biennial border fiowers, 1077.
Birds beneficial to gardens, 710. •
Birds, dung of, used as manure, 418.
Bird’s-eye view, 653. 655.
Birds which attack th e cherry, 790.
Bird trap cage, 549.
Birman Empire, gardening in the, 307.
Black beetles, 496.
Black currant, 941.
Black jack, or Nigger, 498.
Blanching, 699.
Blanching pots, 548.
Bleeding of the vine, 790.
Blood used as manure, 417.
Blubber used as manure, 416.
Boat-houses, 639.
Boboli gardens, 35.
Boiler, Burbidge and Healy’s, 614.
Boilers for hot water, 612.
steam, 605.
Bones used as manure, 416.
Books for a garden library, 512.
Book-keepiug, 607.
Borage, 876.
Border flowers, 1067.
Borders in hothouses, 624.
of a kitchen garden, 742.
Borecole, culture of, and selection of kinds, 824.
Boring for water, process of, 632.
Borneo, native plants of, 307.
Borning-picce, 533.
Borromeo, statue of, 33.
Bosphorus, gardens on the shores of the, 228.
Bosquet, thicket, or wood, 1014.
Botanic amateurs in France, 102.
Botanical collections of plants, 1085.
Botanic arrangement of plants in hothouses, 1030.
Botanic flower garden, 1012.
Botanic garden at Birmingham, 1020. 1216.
a t Calcutta, 303.
at Ceylon, 307.
at Glasgow, 1217.
at Lisbon, 225.
at Madrid, 220.
at Moscow, 203.
at St. Petersburgh, 202.
at th e University, Copenhagen, 183.
at Warsaw, 212.
in St. Petersburgh, hothouses in, 588
of Dublin, 281.
of Edinburgh, 280.
of Mexico, 342.
Botanic gardens, 489.
in Canada, 341.
in England, 275.
in France, 101. 103.
in Germany, 159.
in Holland and Flanders, Cl.
in Italy, 42.
in North America, 334.
in Prussia and Bavaria, 162.
in South America, 345.
in Spain, 220.
in Sweden, 186.
in Switzerland, 176.
to manage, 1239.
Botanic hothouses, management of, 1029.
Botany, first writers on, 366.
in England, 276.
in France, 99.
in Germany, 158.
in Russia, 202.
in Turkey, 232.
Bothrenchym, 377-
Bottom watering, 784.
Boulevards, 488.
Boursault, M., garden of, 85.
Bouvardfo, culture of, 1066.
Bowling-greens in England, 266.
Boxes for orange trees, 544.
Brazil, gardens of, 343.
Bread-fruit, 992.
Breakage of glass, 599.
Breezes, land and sea, 442.
Brick tallies, 538.
Bridges, 638.
Bridgeman’s style of landscape gardening, 248.
Bremen, public garden at, 157.
British climate, 449.
British gardening from th e time of Henry V III. to
th a t of George IIL , 238—246.
in the time of the Romans, 230.
presi
iresent state of, 1222.
■ sheet glass, 600.
British s
Broccoli, culture of, 827.
Bruck, on the Leytha, 117.
Bruges, gardens at, 58.
Brussels, botanic garden at, 62.
gardens at, 58.
Brussels sprouts, 823.
Budding knife, 524.
Budding, propagation by, 681.
Buenos Ayres, botanic garden at, 345.
Buildings, anomalous, 634.
decorative, 637.
economical, 628.
effect of, in rural scenery, 471.
for raising water, 632.
Bulbous greenhouse plants, 1112.
Bulbous hothouse plants, 1119.
Bulbous-rooted border flowers, lists of, 1074.
Bulbs, exotic, 1099.
mode of packing, 718.
mode of planting, 669.
Burbidge and Healy’s boiler, 614.
Burnet, 872.
Burning soils, 410.
Butterflies, 499.
Buttresses to fruit walls, 736.