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Dresden, botanic garden of, 1G4.
Dried plants, modes of preserving, 374.
D rill hoe, 519.
D rip of trees,'flowers th a t will grow under the, 1082.
shrubs that wil! thrive under the, 1096.
Drive or riding, 482.
Drooping fountains, 642.
Dropmore, flower garden at, 1009.
Dry soils, n atu re of, 404.
D ry stove, 707.
D ry stove, and bark stove plants, list of, 1123.
Dry stove plants, 1113.
Dry stove, use of the, 1025.
Dwarfed trees of China, 315.
Dwarf-trees, various modes of training, 697.
Dwelling-house for the gardener, 628.
Dublin botanic gardens, 281.
Due d’Aremherg’s villa, near Enghien, 57.
Duddingston House, 269.
D u n g - b e d s , m o d e o f f o rm in g , 6 67.
Du n g of cattle and horses, 419.
of birds, 418.
Duration of th e life of insects, 493.
Durlach, garden of, 142.
Duties of gardeners, 1229.
Du tch botanic gardens, 61.
gardeners, 64.
gardening, 51.
pits, 576.
taste in gardens, origin of, 19.
writers on gardening, 72.
Earthen walls, 580.
Earth , expense of removing, 660.
E arths and soils, 397.
Earths, primitive, proportions of, 391.
quantity of, in fertile soils, 406.
Earth-worms, 507-
Earthy manures, 422.
matters in piants, 403.
Eastern Australia, 349.
Eastern garden, plan of an, 357.
Earwigs, 497.
Earwig trap, .549.
Echénilloir, use o fth e , 70.
Economical arrangements of gardens, 508.
buildings, 628.
Edging-irons, 521.
Edgings for beds, 563.
in flower gardens, 1004.
to heds in flower gardens, 1027.
to borders, flowers for, 1085.
Edible Fûci, 892.
Fung’, 890.
Fungi cultivated in Italy, 47.
wild plants, 887.
Edifices used in gardenmg, 628.
Edinburgh botanic garden, 280.
Edinburgh Castle, flrst gardens at, 268.
Education of gardeners, 1243.
Egg plant, culture of the, 886.
Eggs of insects, 491.
Egypt, gardening in, 323.
Egyptian gardens, 5.
Elba, Island of, 30.
Elder, culture of the, 935.
Elecampane, culture of the, 884.
Electricity, as regards plants, 430.
Elementary organs of plants, 377, 378.
Elevation, as it affects plants, 389.
Elevations, mode of representing, 652.
Elizabethan gardening, 239. .
Elm, culture and management of the, 1174.
Elsinore, gardens near, 180.
Elysée Bourbon, garden of the, 88.
Endive, 865.
Engiifh"^tists' in gardening in Scotland, 269.
English garden a t Munich, 128.
English gardening in France, 76.
in Germany, 115.
English gardens in Prussia, 121.
in Russia. 192.
English modern villa, 1199.
Entomology as applied to gardens, 491.
Entrance lodges, 486.
to hothouses, 623.
to kitchen-gardens, 725.
Ephém'eræ, 497.
Epinal, gardens at, 81.
Erfurth, horticulture at, 168.
Eridge Castle, fruit room at, 630.
pine pits at, 772.
Ermenonville, description of, 77.
Erythrinas, culture of, 1067.
Esculent roots, 835.
Espalier fruit trees in a kitchen-garden, 749.
rails, 583.
Estates, surface of, mode of pourtraying, 653. 655.
EttUngen, kitchen-garden at, 171.
Evelyn’s account of the French gardens, 73.
o fth e Italian gardens, 29.
Evelyn’s description of British gardens, 240.
Evelyn’s works on gardening, 283.
Evergreen plants for under-growths, 1085.
shrubs, list of, 1093.
trees, list of, 1089.
not resinous, 1176.
Example, imaginary, of landscape gardening. 4-59.
Excavating and transporting earth, 660.
Excavating, the operation of, 647.
Executing designs in landscape gardening, 661.
Exhibition of flowers in Holland, 65.
Exotic ferns, 1123.
fruits which are little known, 987.
heaths, lists of, 1102.
plants, 1099.
trees and shrubs in Italy, 31.
Exposed seats, 640.
Exposure of a kitchen-garden, 726.
Expression of design in landscape gardenmg, 453.
Ex ten t of a kitchen-garden, 727.
Eye-traps, 643.
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Fallowing, chemical operation of, 409.
Fancy geraniums, 1101.
Fan training, 695.
Farmers’ gardens, 1227.
Farm in Zealand, 181.
Farm, meaning of the term, 482.
Fa-tee gardens a t Canton, 3l2.
Favorite, palace of, 142.
Features of plants, 394.
Felling timber, 1157.
Fences, 465.
for parks and garden scenery, 638.
for single trees, 1146.
of rustic work, 1000.
Fence to a shrubbery, 1015.
Fennel, 874.
Ferme ornée, 483.
Ferney, description of, 175.
Ferns, exotic, 1123.
to raise, from seed, 1086.
F ertility of soils, mode of ascertaining the, 401.
Fig, culture and history of the, 968.
F ig gardens a t Argenteuil, 110.
Fig-house, construction of the, 776.
management of the, 797.
Filbert, culture o fth e , and selection of sorts, 951.
Finochio, 49. 874.
Fire-places of hothouses, 603.
Firs, culture and selection of, 1170.
Fish used as manure, 416. , . ^ »
Fitness and beauty of style in gardening, dependent
on th e climate, 357-
Fitness, doctrine of, in landscape gardenmg, 455.
Fixed roofs, 598.
structures, 578.
Flagstone walks, 665.
Flemish garden, an example of a, 58.
gardeners, 67.
gardening, 51.
pears, 68.
Flesh fly, 506.
Flies, 503.
Flint-houses, 639.
Floating gardens of Mexico, 342.
Floral play, Rhodon and Iris, 275.
Floras, meaning of, 365.
Florence, gardens of, 35.
Floricultural catalogue, 1032.
hothouses, 1023.
hothouses, management of, 1029.
Floriculture, 998.
a t Montreal, 340.
in France, 101.
in Russia, 204.
in Spain, 222.
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Floriculture in Sweden, 186.
Florimanists in Holland, 66.
Florists’ flowers in England, 274.
in Holland, 65. 70.
in Italy, 44.
in Scotland, 280.
in th e Netherlands, 70.
packing-case for, 541.
their characteristics, 1032.
Florists’ gardens, 491. 1221.
in England, 291.
in France, 109.
to manage, 1236.
Flower-garden, formation of a, 998.
Flower-gardening in Turkey, 232.
Flower gatherers, 530.
Flowering plants, monthly ....
shrubs for forcing, 1032.
trees, list of, 1088.
Flower market-gardens, 1235.
Flower-markets of Paris, 112.
Flower-nursery, and pits for forcing flowers, 1003.
Flower-pots of various kinds, 542.
Flowers cultivated by th e ancients, 11.
cultivated by th e ancient Romans, 21.
cultivated by th e modern Italians, 42, 43.
for a small garden from February to May, 1087.
from May to August, 1087.
for particular purposes, 1082.
for th e church, 44.
in China, 322.
in France, 98.
in Mexico, 343.
in North America, 334.
in Poland, 213.
in Russia, 202.
mode of preserving, 714.
o f Borneo, 309.
of South America, 344.
taste for, in Holland, 60.
use of, 384.
Flued mushroom-house, 626.
Flued walls, 579. 738.
Flues, 603.
F lute-grafting, 678.
Fly-trap, 549.
Fogs, effect of, in arresting heat, 427.
Folding chairs, 640.
Fontainebleau built by Francis I., 72.
Food of plants, 379. 402.
Forced fruits and vegetables among the ancient
Romans, 22.
Forcing asparagus, 807. 859.
Forcing-houses, 771.
a t Frogmore, mode of ventilating, 619.
in Holland, 69.
Forcing in France, 104.
kidney beans, 808.
peas, 810.
potatoes, 809.
pits, 575.
salads, &c., 811.
th e cherry, 795.
th e cherry in pots, 797.
th e cucumber, 798.
th e fig in pots, 798.
theory of, 705.
th e peach, 795.
th e strawberry, 806.
Foreign trees in France, 108.
vegetables seldom used in England, 890.
F orest axe, 525.
Forest book, 508.
Forests in America, 336.
in England, 287.
in Russia, 204.
of Spain, 224.
Forest-trees grow
by th e Romans, 23.
in Hindostán,
in Italy, 47.
of Switzerland, 177.
Fork, 516.
Forking, 648.
Formation of plantations for utility, 1132.
Form o fa kitchen-garden, 732.
Forms of plant-houses, 588.
Fossiliferous rocks, 399.
Fountains in Holland, 56.
in Greece, 236.
of various kinds, 642.
Fowler’s thermosiphon, 613.
Frame exotics, 1098.
Frame for exotic plants, 1031.
Frames for hotbeds, 571.
Frankfort, public garden at, 157. 1209.
Frascati, villa of Prince Borghese at, 36.
Free states, their effect on gardening, 353.
French arbour, 639.
authors on gardening, 104.
fruits, 103.
gardening, 72.
gardens after the revolution, 80.
described by Evelyn, 73.
to lay out, 1202.
market gardens, 110.
nurseries, 109.
pruning shears, 527.
seedsmen, 110.
Friability of soils, 407.
Fritillary, or chequered lily, 1061.
Frog-hopper, 502.
Frogmore, mode of ventilating the forcing-houses
at, 619.
royal gardens at, 255.
Fromont, garden at, 84.
Fronds, 378.
Frost, nature of, 440.
F ruit-cellar, 6.30.
F ruit, formation of, 384.
F ru it gatherers, 529.
F ruiting bed for cucumbers, 799.
Fruiting department, culture o fth e , 781.
F ru it markets of Paris, 112.
Fruit-room, 629.
a t Eridge Castle, 630.
F ruits, best climate for, 355.
cultivated by the ancient Romans, 22.
cultivated b y th e ancients, 10.
effects of culture on, 393.
grown in Holland, 67.
in China, 320.
in modern Italy, 45.
mode of preserving, 716.
of ancient Egypt, 5.
of France, 103.
of Sweden, 189.
Fruit-shrubs, 751.
F ruit, shrubs ornamental in their, 1097.
F ruit-tree borders, mode of preparing, 742.
F ruit-trees adapted for an orchard, 752.
adapted for walls, 747.
in shrubberies, 1020.
mode of planting against a wall, 749.
selection and arrangement of, in a kitchen-
garden, 747.
suitable for espaliers, 760.
Fruit-walls with piers, 736.
Fdchsm, culture o fth e , 1057.
Fùci, edible, 892.
Fumigating bellows, 549.
Fungi, 378.
edible, 890.
modes of drying, 375.
Furnaces, 603.
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Gad-flies, 504.
Gallicia, gardens in, 209.
Gallinaceous aviary. 637.
Gall-nuts, 498.
Galvanic plant-protector, 543.
Garden buildings, when first introduced, 240.
cress, 870.
edifices, 628.
Gardener, character of a good, 724.
Gardeners, advice to, 722.
Gardener’s dwelling-house, 628.
house, 486.
office, 629.
Gardeners in Italy, 49.
various kinds of, 1222.
Gardening among the ancient Romans, 13.
among the Egyptians, 5.
as a science, 361.
authors among the ancients, 13.
authors among the Romans, 23.
in Africa, 323.
in Arabia, 300.
in Asia, 294.
in Austria, 115.
in Bavaria, 123.
in England as a science, 292.
in France, 72.
in France during the reign of Louis XVIH.,
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