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Introduction, 1.
Iron-railing as a substitute for walls, 738.
Irregular surfaces, marking figures on, 658.
Irrigation, chemical action of, 412.
mechanical effects of, 411.
use of, to meadows, 403.
Iris, culture o fth e , 1040.
of various kinds, th eir culture, 1060.
Isle of Bourbon, gardens in the, 328.
Isola Bella, gardens o fth e , 32.
Ispahan, gardens of, 297.
Italian arbour, 639.
authors on gardening, 25.
botanic gardens, 42.
castles of the middle ages, 26.
cemeteries, 40.
culinary vegetables, 46. 49.
forest trees, 47.
fruits, 45.
gardening, 25.
gardens described by Evelyn, Eustace, and
Volckamer, 29.
promenades, 40.
taste in gardening, 41.
villas, 30.
writers on gardening, 50.
J 'x ia , culture o fth e , 1063.
J.
Jamaica, botanic garden of, 346.
Japan, gardens of, 311.
Jard in des Plantes, 99.
d ’ H iv e ra tP a ris ,9 4 . 1212.
Ja rs of earthenware for keeping fruit, 769.
Java, plants of, 309.
Jerusalem artichoke, 841.
Jets d ’eaux, requisites for, 642.
Jewish gardens, 7.
Johannisberg, gardens at, 158.
Johnston’s portable garden-engine, 547.
Keeping orchard fruits, 768.
Kensington Gardens, when laid out, 245.
Kent’s style of landscape-gardening, 248.
Kerim Khan, gardens of, 297.
Kernel fruits, 893.
in Italy, 45.
Kew botanic garden, 277.
Kewley’s mode of heating by hot-water, 613.
Kidney-bean, culture and selection of kinds of the,
Kidney-beans, to force, 808.
Kiln for drying cones, 1162.
King George’s Sound, 3-50.
Kiosque, 639.
Kitchen-garden, as to its proper situation, 481.
culture and management of the, 754.
formation o fth e , 724.
Knight’s theory of a ir not being necessary to
plants, 706.
Knight’s works on landscape-gardening, 252.
Knives, garden, 523.
L.
Labels ofdifferent kinds, 537.
Labourer’s cottage, 484.
Labours on plants, 649.
on th e soil, 646.
Ladders for gardens, 554.
Lady-bird, 503.
Lake, effect of, in scenery, 467.
Luke of Como, 35.
Land breezes, 442.
Landes in France, plantations on the, 107.
Landscape, effect o ftre e s in, 1131.
Landscape gardener and painter, difference between,
467.
Landscape gardeners, 1225.
in England 249.
Landscape gardening as an imitative art, 456.
a t th e present day, 253.
executing designs in, 661.
in Canada, 340.
in China, 314.
in England, 248.
in France, 98.
in Germany, 114.
Landscape gardening in North America, 329.
in Prussia, 121.
in Russia, 191.
in the ancient style, 451.
in the modern style, 454.
n atu re of, 359.
practice of, 1178.
principles of, 4-50.
Lapland, gardens of, 190.
Larch, 1170.
culture and use of the, II70.
I>arian villa, 18.
Laricio, or Corsican pine, 1169.
Larvæ of insects, 492.
Laticiferous tissue, 378.
Lausanne, gardens at, 176.
Lavender, culture o fth e , 880.
Lawn, 481.
Laws respecting gardens, 1240.
Laxenburg, gardens of, 116.
Layering trees, 1167.
Layers, propagating by, 669.
Laying out residences, 482.
the area o f a kitchen-garden, 741.
the grounds of private residences, 1181.
Leaden tallies, 537.
Leaf-bud, 378.
Leasowes, the, 249.
Leathern wallet and straps, 564.
Leather used as manure, 417.
Leaves, 383.
Lee-chee, 989.
Leek, culture o fth e , 854.
Leguminous plants, 830.
trees, 1166.
wild plants, 888.
Leicestershire hoe, 518.
Lemon, culture o fth e , 976.
L e Nôtre, a celebrated French gardener, 73.
Lepidóptera, 499.
Lettuce, culture of, and selection of kinds, 864.
Levelling, 647.
Levels, mode of taking, 659.
Levels of various kinds, 534.
Leyden, botanic garden at, 61.
gardens at, 67.
Liebig, the writings of, 421.
Life, vegetable, circle of, 379.
Lifting, 646.
Light, nature of, 429.
necessary in plant-houses, -586.
properties of, as defined by Mr. Hunt, 430.
regulation of, 396.
Lightning, nature of, 444.
Lights, sash-frames of, 602.
Lilies of various kinds, culture of, 1061,
Lima, gardens of, 343.
Lime as a manure, use of, 423.
compounds of, 425.
Lime, culture of the, 977.
Lime-duster, 549.
Line and plummet, 447.
Linings of hotbeds, 800.
Linnæan arrangement, 367.
Linnæan classes and orders, 362.
Linnæan system, how to acquire a knowledge of
the, 376.
Liquid manure, 420.
manures, 668.
Liquorice, culture of, 884.
Lisbon gardens, 224.
List for wall-trees, 666.
Lists of annuals for various purposes, 1080.
Lithuania, gardens in, 210.
Liverpool botanic garden, 279.
Lobelias, culture of, 1066.
Locust, migratory, 496.
Lodge for under-gardeners, 631.
Lombardy, villas of, 31.
Long-pruning the vine, 789.
Loo, description of, 51.
Loquat-tree, 989.
Loudon, Marshal, château of, 117.
Love-apple, culture o fth e , 885.
Ludwigshurg in Wirtemberg, 131.
Lund, botanic garden at, 187.
Lunistice, explanation o fth e , 445.
M.
Maclùro, 993.
M’P hail’s pit, 572.
frame for the cucumber, 801.
Madeira, gardens in, 328.
Madrid, gardens at, 216.
Magdeburg, park and gardens of, 1202.
Magnesia, compounds of, 425.
Magnesian lime-stone, 424.
Magnitude of vegetables, how increased, 396.
Maison Rustique, first edition of, 72.
Malacca, plants of, 310.
Malaga, gardens of, 217.
Malting barley, process of, 379.
Management o f a botanic garden, 490.
of a kitchen-garden, 764.
of orchards, 765.
of organic manures, 420.
Mandarins’ gardens in China, 316.
Mandrakes, II.
Mangostan, 990.
Mango-tree, 990.
Mansion and demesne, 482.
to keep, 1231.
to lay out, 1181.
Man-trap, 557.
Manual labour in gardening, 646.
Manure bad for fruit-tree borders, 744.
Manures, 666.
for a kitchen-garden, 755.
nature of, 413.
Manuring orchards, 765.
the soil o fth e fiower-garden, 1026.
Marché St. Honoré, 112.
Marginal banks of water, 467.
Margins ofwater, how to plant, 662.
Marigold, 876.
Marine villa, 483.
Marjoram, culture of, 879.
Market-gardens, 491. 1221.
at Copenhagen, 185.
bv whom and how kept, 1233.
in England, 291.
in France, 110.
in Germany and Prussia, 172.
in Italy, 49.
in North America, 339.
Marking with the line, 647.
Marsh hothouse plants, 1121.
Marsh plants with showy flowers, 1083.
Massed flower-garden, 1006.
planting in a shrubbery, 1017.
Materials for fruit-walls, 737.
of landscape gardening, 460.
Mauritius, gardens in the, 328.
May-flies, 497.
Measuring land, 660.
standing timber, 1159.
Mechanical agents of gardening, improvement ot
the, 644.
use of, in gardening, 513.
Mechanical consolidation of soils, 409.
means of dividing the soil, 408.
nature of soils, 403.
Medlar, cuUure of the, 911.
Medullary rays, 383.
Meikle’s hand threshing-machine, 631.
Melon, culture ofthe, 802. 972.
selection o fth e best kinds of. 971.
Melon-ground, situation o fth e , 740.
Melon-pit, construction o fth e , 776.
Melon-pits combined with other pits, 577.
heating by steam, 608.
Melons in Italy, 46.
Menageries, 637.
Metallic oxides in soils, 407.
Metallic roofs, objections to, 599.
Metamorphoses of plants, 386.
Meteorological machines, 559.
phenomena, 433.
Meudon, château of, 79.
pine-pits at, 773.
Mexico, gardenmg in, 341.
Mignonette, culture of, 1065.
Mineral manures in kitchen-gardens, 756.
Mineral substances, use of, to plants, 402.
necessary to plants, 403.
Mint, culture of the, 878.
Miscellaneous fiowers, 1058.
Mixed flower-garden, 1004.
Mixed planting in a shrubbery, 1016.
Models of estates, how fonned, 655.
Modern Italian gardens, 30.
Modern style of gardenmg, corruption of the, in
England, 251.
of gardening in England, 247.
of gardening in Ireland, 273.
Modern style of gardening not adapted to halfcivilised
countries, 359.
of gardening, when mtroduced into Scotland,
269.
of landscape gardening, 451. 454.
of managing water, 466.
Modern system of treating the pine-apple, 782.
Moist, or bark-stove, 707.
Moisture, regulation of, 396.
Mole-traps, 558.
Monceau, gardens and park at, 79.
Monkish gardening, 25.
Monocotyledonous plants, 371.
Monographs, meaning of, 365.
Mon Repos, 134.
Monthly catalogue of flowering plants, 1123.
Months, which the coldest, and which the warmest,
449.
Montreal in Canada, gardens at, 340.
Monumental objects, 643.
Monza, gardens of, 33.
Moon, influence of the, on weather, 445.
Moorish gardens in Spain, 215.
Morea, gardens o fth e , 236.
Morel, 891.
Moreton Bay, 349.
Morocco, gardening in, 324.
Morphology, 386.
Moscow, botanic garden of, 203.
gardens near, 196.
Mosses, to raise, from seed, 1086,
Moss houses, 639.
scraper, 528.
Moth-flies, 498.
Moths, 501.
Mould-scuttle, 540.
Mount Lebanon, th e cedars of, 295.
Mount of Olives in the cemetery at Baden, 151,
Mount Vernon, North America, 331.
Mount Washington in Morocco, 325.
Mouse-trap, 1166.
Moveable roofs, 599.
Mowing, 651.
machine, 555.
Mud-walls for gardens, 738.
Mulberry, black, 933.
Mulching, 689.
Mule plants, sterility of, 385.
Munich, botanic garden at, 162.
gardens at, 1208.
gardens near, 126.
Mushroom and its allied edible species, 890.
culture of the, 811.
Mushroom-houses, 626.
Mushrooms in the neighbourhood of Paris, 106.
mode of growiug on shelves, 626.
Mustard, black, 870.
for salads, 869.
Mutual improvement, 107.
N.
Nails for wall-trees, 566.
Naming trees, mode of, 539.
Naples, gardens of, 37.
Narcissus, culture of the, and list of kinds, 1060.
Native countries of plants, how to discover, by their
appearance,395.
Na tural arrangement of trees and shrubs, 1019.
Na tural style of gardening in France, 97-
Natural style of gardening, planting in the, 1145.
Natural system of botany, how to study the,
376.
modifications of the, 362.
principles o fth e , 366.
Nature, imitation of, 457.
Na ture of soils, 400.
Neapolitan violet, culture of the, 1058.
Neatness in flower-gardens, 1029.
in gardens, 721.
Neeve’s meridian pits, 576.
Neglected plantations, to improve, 1161.
Netherlands, gardening in the, 50.
Netting-screen, 561.
Neuilly, park of, 79-
Neuróptera, 497.
New’ Holland scenery, 348.
New moon, its influence on the weather, 445.
New Zealand, gardens in, 351.
New' Zealand spinach, 85Ó.
Niagara, falls of, 340.
Nigger caterpillar, 498.