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Gardening In France during the empire, 80.
in Hindostán, 300.
in Holland and the Netherlands, 50.
in Ireland, 273.
in Italy, 25.
in Poland, 207.
in Russia, 190.
in Scotland. 267.
in Spain, 214.
in Sweden and Norway, 185.
in th e middle ages, 25.
in West Africa, 327.
th e a rt of, in the earlier ages, 513.
th e practice of, 513.
under different governments, 353.
Garden-levers, 515.
Garden-line, 530.
Garden-rake, 520.
Garden-sieves, 539.
Garden of Alcinoiis, 5.
of Eden, 3.
of Mahomet, 4.
Gardens a t Bruges, 58.
a t Brussels, 58.
a t Heidelberg, 139.
a t Rotterdam, 57.
in China, 312.
in Lapland, 190.
in North America, 330.
in Portugal, 224.
near Madrid, 215.
near W'arsaw, 209.
o f antiquity, 3.
of Assyria, 6.
of Babylon, 6.
of Caracalla and Geta, 19.
of Cyrus, 6.
of Egypt, 323.
of Hesperides, 4.
of instruction, 489.
of Laertes, 5.
of Loo, 51.
of Nero, 14.
of Nineveh, 7.
of the ancient Greeks, 9.
of the ancient Persians, 8.
o fth e Augustan age, 14.
of the Comte de Nassau, 53.
of the Mandarins in China, 316.
o f the Medici, 27.
o f the sultan a t Constantinople, 226.
of the sultan a t Tetuan, 324.
public, 488.
Garden syringes, 546.
walls, flued, 579.
Garlic, 855.
Garnier, the Misses, villa of, 1191.
Garrets for cleaning seeds, &c., 630.
Gates, 638.
Gathering and keeping grapes, 792.
cabbages, 822.
crops in a kitchen-garden, 763.
flowers, 1028.
fruits, 764.
mushrooms, 819.
orchard fruits, 767.
vegetables, fruits, and flowers, 714.
General principles for laying out villas, &c. 487.
Generic names of plants, 363.
Genoa, gardens of. 31.
Geographical distribution of vegetables, 387.
Geometrical figures, mode of tracing, on ground, 657-
Geometric style, planting in the, 463.
Geraniácese, 1100.
German arboriculture, 113.
botanic gardens, 159.
gardening, 113.
landscape gardening, 114.
mushroom-house, 626.
Germination of seeds, 379.
Ghent azaleas, 67.
botanic garden at, 65.
Ghost moth, 502.
Gibraltar, public walks at, 219.
Gladiolus, culture o fth e , 1063.
Glass bells, 549.
Glass-case, 671.
for forcing th e cherry, 797.
Glass-roof, use of. In plant-houses, 687.
Glazed frames, 670.
Glazed-roofed plant-houses, 594.
Glazing curvilinear houses, 602.
of plant-houses, 600.
Glazing with smalt panes of glass, CÖ2.
Glyptothek, garden of the, 129.
Gnat, 506.
Goat moth, 502,
Gobbo, 49.
Gooseberries, selection of sorts of, 751.
Gooseberry, culture of the, 938.
selection of the best kinds of, 937.
Gourds, culture of, 882.
Grafting clay, 680.
knifi
origin of, 12.
propagation by
th e orange trib
673.
Í, 978.
the pine and fir tribe, 678.
trees, 1168.
wax, 681.
Grafts, mode of preserving, 717.
Granada, gardens of, 218.
Granadilla, or passion-flower, 990.
Grape, culture of the, in vineries, 785.
different modes of cultivating the, 791.
Grapes in Italy, 45.
of Montmorency, 106.
of Thomery, 106.
selection of kinds of, for forcing, 786.
Grape-vine, culture and history o fth e, 956.
selection o fth e best sorts of, 958.
Grass-plots, 1027.
Grass walks, 664.
Gravel and tu rf characteristics of England, 360.
Gravel walks, how to make, 664.
Grecian cemeteries, 10.
gardens, 9.
Greek writers on gardening, 13.
Greffe étouffée, 678.
Greffe par approche, 671.
Greenhouse, 707.
in the flower-garden, 1003.
plants, 1100.
plants for a, 1031.
plants, propagation of, 1108.
use o fa , 1024.
Greenhouses, 583.
and plant-houses, 276.
in China, 322.
ventilating, 619.
Green plants used as manure, 415.
Grindstone, 555.
Grottoes, 639.
Ground-compasses, 533.
Ground-measure, 530.
Ground, natural beauty of, 461.
operating upon, 460.
Groups of shrubs in a shrubbery, 1017.
oftre es, 1141.
primary, of insects, 494.
Growing mushrooms in boxes, 816.
Guano, 988.
mode of using for kitchen crops, 756.
used as manure, 418.
Guernsey lily and other bulbs, 1063.
Gutta percha produced in Borneo, 308.
Gypsum as a manure, 424.
H.
Haarlem, mode o f growing th e hyacmth at, 65.
palace garden at, 57.
Habits of plants, 395.
Hackney nursery, 1220.
Hadersdorf, 117.
Hagley, when laid out, 249.
Hague, description o fth e , 54.
Hail, nature of, 440.
Half-hardy annuals, lists of, 1081.
Hamilton’s pine-pits, 774.
plan of cultivating th e pine-apple, 778.
Hamlet’s garden near Elsinore, 180.
Hammer, garden, 529.
Hampton Court, when laid out, 239.
Hand-glasses, 548.
Handspoke, 515.
Hand threshing-machine, 631.
Hanging gardens of Babylon, 7.
Hanover, gardens in, 131.
Hard-wooded non-resinous trees, 1173.
Hardy annuals, 1078.
fruits in France, 103.
trees, catalogue of, 1087-
Hartley’s rough plate-glass, 602.
Havanna, gardens at the, 347.
Hawk moths, 501.
Head gardener, duties o fth e , 507.
Heat and light in forcing, 706.
mode of obtaining, in plant-houses, 586.
n atu re of, 427.
necessary for th e pine-apple, 779.
produced by walls, 428.
Heaths, culture of, 1104.
exotic, catalogue of, 1102.
Heating by fires and smoke flues, 603.
by hot-air, 615.
by hot-water, 610.
by steam, 605.
Hedge-bill, 524.
Hedge-rows, 1149.
to improve, 1151.
Hedges for gardens, 739.
in England, 288.
in France, 108.
in Italy, 48.
in Scotland, 289.
o fth e ancient Romans, 23.
Hedge-shears, 527.
Heidelberg, botanic garden at, 165.
castle at, 138.
Height of walls for training fruit-trees, 734.
Hellespont, gardens on the shores of the, 228.
Herbaceous flowering plants, 1032.
grafting, 673. 678.
greenhouse plants, 1112.
hothouse plants, 1119.
plants for forcing, 1032.
plants, time of planting, 1013.
Herb-gardens, by whom and how kept, 1235.
Herb-patience, 851.
Herbs in France, 103.
Hermetically sealed tubes, circulation of hot-water
in, 614.
Hermitage near St. Petersburgh, 191.
Hilly country, residences in, 479.
Hindoo villa, 301.
History of gardening, 3—360.
Hoeing, 648.
Hoe-rake, 520.
Hoes of various kinds, 517.
Hole planting, 687.
Holes for vine stems, 603.
Holland, state of gardemng in, .50.
Hollow walls, 580.
for gardens, 735.
Holyrood house, gardens at, 268.
Hop, culture of the, 863.
Hopetoun house, 270.
Horizontal training, 696.
Horns and hoofs used as manure, 417.
Horse-dung, 419.
Horse-flies, 604.
Horse-radish, 875.
Horticultural catalogue, 819.
Horticultural skill o fth e ancients, 13.
Horticultural societies, gardens of, 1240.
in Germany and Prussia, 174.
of Canada, 340.
Horticultural society of India, 304.
of London, 279.
of Sweden, 189.
Horticulture in Baden and Wirtemberg, 170.
in Bavaria and Prussia, 167.
in China, 320.
in Denmark, 184.
in England, 282.
in France, 103.
in Germany and Hungary, 166.
in Greece, 235.
in Holland and the Netherlands, 71.
in Ireland. 287.
in Italy, 47.
in No rth Africa, 327.
in North America, 335.
in Poland, 213.
in Russia, 204.
in Scotland, 286.
in Spain, 223.
in Sweden, 189.
in Switzerland, 176.
in Turkey, 236.
o fth e ancient Jews, 8.
practice of, 724.
Hortus, or garden, 365.
Hot-air, heating by, 615.
Hot and cold as applied to toils, 403.
Hotbed frame, 571.
Hotbeds, 666.
Hothouse plants, 1114.
Hothouses, heating, by furnaces and flues, 603.
heating, by hot water, 610.
heating, by steam, 605.
imitation of warm climates by, 706.
in the flower-garden, 1023.
in kitchen-gardens, 740.
renewal of air in, 625.
theory of, 706.
Hothouse walls, 602.
Hot-water apparatus, how it acts, 611.
Hot-water for heating hothouses, 585.
heating by, 610,
to circulate, on the siphon principle, 613.
House with covered entrance, 1201.
Hügel, Baron, garden of, 117.
Humic acid, 421.
Humus, nature of, 401.
Hungary, gardens in, 120.
Hunting-box, 483.
Hu n t’s definition of the properties of light, 430.
experiments with glass, 601.
flower-pot, 543.
Hurdles, 563.
Hyacinth, culture o fth e, 1033.
year’s culture of the, a t Haarlem, 65.
Hybrid plants, 385.
Hybrids, names of, .365.
Hyde P a rk on the Hudson, 329.
Hydrangea, cuUure o fth e , 1064.
Hydrogen in plants, 402.
Hygrometer, use of the, 447.
Hymenóptera, 498.
Hyssop, culture of, 883.
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Ice-cellar, 636.
Ice-cold chamber, uses of an, 636.
Ice-house, management of the, 634, 635.
Ice-houses, 107.
in Italy, 47.
Ice in North America, 336.
n atu re of, 441.
to keep, in th e open air in sacks, 634.
Ice-well, 634.
Ice, when first used for cooling liquors, 23.
Igneous rocks, 398.
Illustration of th e principles of landscape gardening,
458.
Imago of insects, 493.
Imperial gardens of China, 311.
Implements of gardening, 514.
used by the ancients, 11.
used in gardening by the Romans, 24.
Improvement in grounds, making a plan for, 1179.
of soils, 407.
which an English gardener may derive from
studying gardening in France, 103.
Improving clayey soils by burning, 410.
Inarching, 671.
Incineration of soils, 410.
Inclined fruit-walls, 581.
Inconveniences of the Linnæan system of botany,
373.
Indian cress, 876.
Indian fig, culture o fth e , 986.
Indian gardening, 300.
Inorganic manures, 422.
Inorganic substances in plants, 402.
Inscriptions, when admissible in gardens, 643.
Insects and diseases of the cucumber, 802.
o fth e peach, 794.
of the vine, 793.
Insects and vermin in flower-gardens, 1028.
Insects, history of, 491.
infesting orchideous epiphytes, 1122.
infesting the gooseberry, 940.
modes of destroying, 711.
th a t attack leguminous plants, 835.
th a t attack the melon, 806.
th a t attack the pine-apple, 784.
th a t infest the cabbage tribe, 829.
that infest the orange tribe, 985.
that infest the rose, 1057.
th a t infest the vine, 966.
that infest trees, 1154.
Instruction, public gardens for, 489. 1213.
Instruments, 523.
of designation, 535.
of direction, 530.
of operation, 525.
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