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Night-soil. 418.
Nimbus, 437.
Nitric acid, 426.
Nitrogen essential to vegetation, 433.
in plants, 402.
Nodes, 378.
Nomenclature of plants, 362.
of soils, 400.
Nonesuch, palace of, 238.
Norfolk Island, 351.
North America, gardeningin, 329.
Northern ice, extent o fth e , 441.
Notes of gardens round London in 1691 244
Numbering, modes of, 538,
Number sticks, 536.
Nurseries in France, 109.
in Germany and Prussia, 173.
in New Zealand, 351.
in Russia, 206.
Nursery for fruit trees, 746.
Nursery gardens, 491.
in England, 291.
in North America, 339.
to lay out, 1219.
to manage, 1236.
Nursery ground, formation o fa , 1160.
for trees, culture of, 1161.
Nurserymen iu Belgium, 71.
in ilolland, 71.
in Italy, 50,
Nurse-trees in plantations, 11.50.
Nursing-pit for the pine apple, 780.
Nut-bearing trees, 1164.
Nymphenburg, botanic garden at, 162.
"'“-"'"'.s and palace of, 123.
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Oak, culture and management o fth e , 1173.
Oak-Hill pine pits, 771.
Oaks, culture of, 1164.
Objects not beautiful in themselves, may become
so when combined, 452.
Oblong-headed trees, effect of, 1143.
Octants, meaning of, 446.
Odoriferous flowers, lists of, 1085.
Odours of plants, 385,
Offsets, propagating by, 669.
Oiled-paper frame, 562.
Oily substances used as manure, 416.
Olive, culture of the, 986.
Onion, culture of the, 852.
selection of kinds of, 851,
Operations of gardemng, 645.
of protection, 708.
of rearing and culture, 686.
Operative instruments, 523.
Orache, or mountain spinach, 849.
Orange, culture o fth e , 973.
selection of kinds of, 976.
Orangery at Heidelberg, 140.
plan for an, 981.
use of an, 1024.
with an opaque roof, 584.
Oranges in Italy, 45.
Orange-tree diable, 557.
Orange-trees, boxes for, 544.
Orchard, formation and planting of an, 752,
Orchards, management of, 765,
of Touraine, 111.
to k e e p ,1234.
Orchideous epiphytes, 1122.
mode of packing, 718.
Order and neatness in gardens, 1230.
in gardens, 721.
Organic manures,'414.
application of, 420.
Organised matter, to ascertain its presence in a
soil, 407.
Organ Mountains of Brazil, 345.
Organography of plants, 377.
Origin of culture, 395.
Ornamental hothouses, 1023.
shrubs, 1089.
Orthóptera, 496.
Osage orange, 993.
Osier grounds, cutting over, 1135.
Osier-holts, 1149.
in Holland, 69.
Outline of plantations, 1139.
Ovals, mode of transferring, to ground, S56.
on irregular surfaces, 659.
Oxford, botanic garden at, 276.
Oxygen in plants, 402.
In th e atmosphere, 432.
Packing cases, 540.
Packing fruit and vegetables, 764.
orchard fruits for carriage, 7 7 0 .
plants for Importation, &c., 7 1 8 .
Padua, botanic garden at, 42.
Pæonies, culture and list of, 1063.
Pain’s Hill, when laid out, 249.
Palais Royal, garden o fth e , 93.
Palm-house a t Rennwegg. 160.
Palm-houses, 1025.
Palms in Italy, 44.
Panning, muÌching, and staking, 689.
Panoramic view of an estate, 655.
Pansy, culture o fth e , 1057.
Paradise, 3.
of Cyrus, 8.
Paradises o fth e East, 358.
Parallel rods, 531.
Parapet wall, 603.
Parasitical plants, 392.
Parenchym, .377.
Paring and burning peat lands, 411.
P an s, fruit and vegetable markets of, 112.
Park, distant scenes o fa , 462.
meaning of the term, 482.
Parii tapl’SSYfe“ "“"
P arro t aviary, 637-
Parsley, 873.
Parsnep, culture and selection of kinds of, 844.
Parsonage, 483.
to lay out the, 1194.
P arte rre of orange trees at Heidelberg, 1010.
Parterres, to trace, on ground, 657.
Parts of the flower, 368.
Paths in hothouses, 623.
Patrons of botany in th e eighteenth century, 277.
of gardening, 1225.
Peaches and nectarines, best soil for, 744,
culture of. 912,
selection of, for forcing, 793.
selection of kinds of, 914—918.
Peach gardens at Montreuil, 111.
Peach-house, construction o fth e , 775
culture o fth e , 793.
Peacock Island, 121.
Pea, culture and selection of kinds of, 830.
Pear, culture o fth e , 904.
selection of sorts of, 905.
Pears grown in Flanders, 68.
mode of preserving, 716.
to store and keep, 768.
Peas, to force, 810.
Peat-lands, paring and burning, 411.
Peat-soil, 401.
Peg-grafting, 678.
Peircefield, when laid out, 249.
Pelargoniums, list of old kinds of, and hybrid 1101.
Penn’s mode of heating by hot air, 615.
Pera, gardens at, 227.
Père la Chaise, cemetery of, 96.
Perennial border flowers, lists of, 1068.
100™^^*®’ list of, for a massed flower garden.
Perforator, 516.
Perkins’s hermetically sealed tubes, 6 1 4 .
Perpendicular to any line, mode o f finding a 655.
Persia, gardens of, 296.
Persian cemeteries, 9.
gardens, 8.
Perspective, errors in, 473.
Pesth, botanic garden of, 161.
Peterhoff, gardens of, 191.
P etit Trianon, description o f the, 79.
P etrarch ’s house a t Arquà, 35.
Petrovskoyé near Moscow, 196.
Petrowka near Moscow, 196.
Petùnia, culture of the, 1058.
Pfauen Insel, garden at, 1208.
Phænogamous plants, 371.
Philadelphia, neighbourhood of, 330.
Phosphate of lime, 425.
Physical distribution of vegetables, 388.
properties of soils, 406.
p ç o g r a p h y , or th e description of plants, 365.
Pickaxe, 517.
Picking, operation of, 647.
Picturesque style, planting in the, 463.
Piers for fruit walls, 736.
Pigeons’ dung, 419.
Pinaster, or Cluster-pine, 1169.
Pinasters, plantations of, on the Landes of France,
107.
Pincers, garden, 529.
Pine apple, culture and history, and selection of
sorts o fth e, 9-54,955.
in Italy, 46,
mode of growing the, without fire-heat, 781.
Pine barrens in North America, 337.
Pine-pits, 577, 578.
heating, by steam, 607-
Pinery, construction of the, 771.
mode of cleansing the, 784.
Pines and firs, culture and selection o f kinds of,
1169.
plantations of, in France, 107.
Pink, culture of the, 1051.
Pipings of pinks and carnations, 685.
Piscinary, 637.
P ith in plants, 383.
P its for forcing fruits and culinary vegetables, 776.
in plant-houses, 624.
of various kinds, 572.
P itted tissue, 377.
Pleasure ground, meaning o fth e term, 481.
P la n for the improvement of grounds, m aking of a,
1179.
for the improvement of grounds, mode of carrying
into execution, 1180.
Plans, mode of taking, 651.
Plantain tree, 992.
Plantations, ciassification of, 1131.
culture and management of, 1146.
for profit, 1126.
for use, 1127.
joined to natural woods, 464.
mode of forming, 1135.
mode of valuing, 1159.
Plant basket, 540.
boxes, 544.
cases, 640.
Plant-houses, forms of, 688.
ventilation of, 618.
P lanting bulbs, 686.
edgings, 689.
for ornament, 1138.
for timber, &c., in Denmark, 177.
in England, 287.
in France, 107.
in Germany and Prussia, 171.
in Holland, 69.
in Scotland, 289.
fruit trees in an orchard, 753.
in th e picturesque and in the geometric styles,
463.
modes of performing the operation of. 1137.
of various kinds, 688.
out pine-apple plants, 783.
profits of, 1129.
th e cherry house, 796.
the flower garden, 1004.
th e shrubbery, 1015.
th e vine in a vinery, 787.
with a view to natural beauty, 465.
P la n t packing-cases, 540.
Plants, arrangement of, in a conservatory, 1029.
how to acquire a knowledge of, 377.
indicators of th e nature of soils, 404.
in pots, mode of arranging, 1029.
list of, in the flower-garden a t Dropmore,
1009.
nomenclature of, 362.
Plant-stoves, 1025.
Plashing hedge-rows, 1151.
Plate glass, uneven surface of, 601.
Platforms of various kinds, 554.
Pleurenchjnn, 377.
Pliny’s villas, 15, 16. 18.
Plum, culture of the, 927-
selection of kinds of, 928.
Po in t of sight in perspective, 473.
Poisonous wild plants, 889.
Polish authors on gardening, 214.
gardens, 207.
horticulture, 213.
Pollard trees, 1157.
Polmaise heating, 585.
Polmaise system of heating, 616.
Polyanthus, culture o fth e , 1046.
Pomegranate, choice of sorts, and culture of the,
985.
Ponds, 633.
having different levels, objections to, 466.
mode of forming, 661.
Porches, 639.
Portable structures, .570.
Portici, gardens of, 37.
Porticoes, 639.
Port Philip, 350.
Portuguese botanic gardens, 225.
gardens, 224.
Potato, culture and selection of sorts of the, 837.
history of the, 835.
Potatoes, to force, 809.
Pot-carrier, 540.
Potemkin’s gardens, 193.
Potherbs and gamishings, 873.
Potting,, operation of, 690.
plants, 1032.
the pine-apple, 780.
Practical details on laying out grounds, 1181.
Practical doctrines relative to manures, 421.
Practice of arboriculture, 1125.
of floriculture, 998.
of horticulture, 724.
of landscape gardening, 1178.
P ra te r at Vienna, 119.
Preserving cabbages, 822.
esculents, 764.
gathered flowers, 1028.
vegetables, 397.
vegetables, fruits, and flowers, 714.
Price’s works on landscape gardening, 252.
Prickly pear, culture of the, 986.
Primary groups of insects, 494.
Primrose and its allies, 1063.
Princess Isabella Czartoryska, garden of the, 208.
Private gardens, 1226.
Produce book, 510.
Productions of each month, 996.
Products oftre es, 1155.
Professors of botany in Italy, 50.
Profits of planting, 1129.
Progress of gardemng in Britain, 1241.
Projecting buttresses to fruit walls, 736.
Promenades in Belgium, 70.
in Holland, 69, 70.
Pronged hoes, 519.
Propagating plants, modes of, 669.
the vine by cuttings and eyes, 786.
Propagation-house, 1026.
of the pine-apple, 779.
p it for exotic plants, 1032.
Proportion of the ingredients of soils, 406.
Prospect-tower, 639.
Protecting plants, various means of, 708.
tender plants in flower-gardens, 1027.
Protection, utensils for, 547.
Pruning and training th e vine, 787.
bill, 524.
for beauty, ornament, or use, 1147.
fruit trees, 769.
knife, 623.
of various kinds, 691.
orchard trees, 766.
origin of, 12.
roots, 650.
saw, 524.
seasons for, 1149.
shears, 526.
th e orange tribe, 984.
the pear tree, 910.
the roots of fruit trees, 744.
Prussia, gardens in, 120.
Prussian botanic gardens, 162.
gardeners, school of, 114.
Public gardens, 488.
a t Carlsruhe, 148.
a t Frankfort and Bremen, 157.
at Stuttgard, 137.
at Vienna, 119.
at Warsaw, 212.
in Bavaria, 128.
in Denmark, 181.
in Flanders, 60.
in Ireland, 274.
in North America, 332.
in Prussia, 122.
in Russia 201.
in Scotland, 271.
of France, 93.