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Public gardens of Italy, 40.
to liiy out, 1202.
to manage, 1238.
Public parks and gardens in London, 203.
Public pleasure grounds in England, 264.
Public squares, 489.
Public walks in Germany and Prussia, 171.
in Poland, 214.
in Portugal, 224.
in South America, 344.
in Spain, 219.
in Turkey, 228.
Puddling-in trees, 1138.
Pulhawa in Poland, 2 0 8 .
Pulverisation of soils, 407.
uses of, 408.
Pumps, 633.
Pupæ of insects, 492.
Purslane, 873.
Pushing or thrusting, 646.
Putty, kinds of, 602.
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Qualities of soils, mode of discovering the, 404.
Quebec, gardens in, 340.
Quince, culture and selection of sorts o fth e , 910.
Quincunx, mode of planting in, 686.
Quirmal Palace, gardens o fth e , 36.
R.
Radish, culture and selection of sorts of the, 840.
847.
Rakes, 520.
Raking, 648.
Rail for espaliers in a kitchen-garden, 749.
Rails for parks and garden scenery, 638.
Rain, artificial, mode of producing, 625.
cause of, 439.
n atu re of, 438.
quantity of, 439.
Rain-gauge, 447.
Raising water, buildings for, 632.
Rampion, 862.
/faiiunculus, culture o fth e , 1038.
Rapid-growing trees and shrubs, 1096.
Rarities and curiosities, th eir value in gardens,
643.
Raspberry, culture and selection of kinds of the,
Ratisbon, botanic garden of, 162.
Rat-trap, 557.
Reading library, works for a gardener’s, 512.
Rearing the pine-apple, 780.
Records o fth e growth of plants, 512.
Recrc,ation, public gardens for, 488. 1202.
Red beet, culture and selection of sorts of, 845.
Rcd cabbage, culture and selection of kinds of, 823.
Red currant, 941.
Register of the temperature of hothouses, 511.
Regular figures, mode of transferring, to even
gro u n d ,655.
Regular forms are satisfactory in landscape-gardening,
4.53.
Removal of large trees, 1144.
Removing earth, expense of, 661.
Renewal of air in plant-houses, 625.
Rennwegg, palm-house at, 160.
Repton’s works on landscape gardening, 252.
Reserve ground for a shrubbery, 1015.
to a kitchen-garden, 746.
Reservoirs for water, 633.
of water in plant-houses, 624.
Residences, to Ity out, 482.
Resting garden-ground, 7-57.
Retarding vegetation, 702.
Revolutions injurious to gardening, 353.
Rhubarb, selection of kinds and culture of, 8 8 1 .
Riceborough, village of, in North America, 332.
Riders and dwarfs in fruit trees, 748.
Ridge and furrow roof, 598.
Ridges for mushrooms, 816.
Ridging, 648.
up soil in a kitchen-garden, 730.
Riding or drive, 482.
Ring-fence to a kitchen garden, 739.
Ringing-shears, 527.
Ringing trees, to make them bear, 700.
Rio, botanic garden of, 345.
gardens of, 343.
Ripening the wood of the vine. 791.
Rivers nnd rills, 467.
Roads, to form, 666.
Rocambole, 856.
Roccoco garden of Baron Hügel, 118-
Rocket, double, culture o fth e , 1065.
Rocks, as decorations in gardens, 642.
Rockwork, 643.
plants for, 1084.
Rockworks, 1002.
Rolling, 649.
Roman authors on gardening, 13.
cemeteries, 20.
gardening as a science, 23.
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taste in gardening, 20.
town-gurdens, 15.
villas, 15.
Roofed scats, 639, 640.
Roofs of hothouses, fixed and moveable, 598.
Root collar, 630.
Root, functions o fth e , 378. 382.
Root-grafting, 677.
Rooting portions of leaves, 685.
Roots as a vegetable product, 719.
of trees, treatment of, to induce fruitfulnoss,
700.
of wild plants eaten as food, 888.
Rose-apple, 989.
Rose, culture o fth e , 10.53.
Rose-fields of India, 304.
Rosemary, culture of, 880.
Rosenstein, palace and gardens of, 13.5.
Roses, list of, 1053.
Rotation of crops, 413.
in kitchen-gardens, 757.
Rotterdam, gardens near, .57.
Rotting ground for preparing seeds, 1161. 1165.
Rough plate-glass, 602.
Rough-potting pine-apple plants, 7«3.
Royal Botanic Garden in tlie Regent’s Park 1213
Royal Botanic Society of London, 279.
Royal gardens at Windsor and Frogmore, 253.
of Mexico, 342.
Royal palaces in England, gardens o fth e , 1232.
Rue, culture of, 883.
Ruins as decorations in gardens, 643.
Runners, propagating by, 669.
Rural objects, mode of representing, 653.
Russian botanic gardens, 203.
gardens, 193.
hothouses, .588.
manner of heating hothouses, 591.
villas, 196. 199.
Rustic fences, 1000.
S.
Saddle-grafting, 677.
Sage, culture of, 877.
St. Cloud, gardens of, 75.
Sri Petersburgh, hothouses in th e botanic garden
St. Vincent’s, botanic garden of, 346.
Salads from wild plants, 889.
Saline manures, 422.
Saline particles in the soil, 406.
Sallust’s villa, 14.
Salsify, or purple goat’s-beard, 846.
Salts, how formed, 422.
use of, as manure, 426.
Salvias, culture of, 1067.
Samphire, culture of, 887.
Sand, flowers preserved in, 714.
for walks, 664.
Sandy downs, mode of planting, 107.
Sans Souci near Potsdam, 120.
Sap in plants, 382.
Sardinia, island of, 30.
Sash-frames of lights, 602.
Saucers for flower-pots, 643.
Savory, winter and summer, culture of, 879.
Savoy, culture and selection of kinds of, 823.
Saw-flies, 498.
Sawing, 649.
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, gardens of, 1.56.
Saxe-Weimar, gardens of, 137-
Saxony, botanic gardens in, 164.
gardens in, 130.
Scale insects, 503.
Scallop-budding, 682.
Scarifiers, 528.
Scattered trees, deformity of, in the grounds of
country residences, 1141.
Sceaux, gardens of, 92. 95.
Scenery improved by trees, 1128.
Schonbrunn, botanic garden at, 159.
gardens of, 115.
School of gardeners in Prussia, 114.
Schwezingen, gardens at, 143.
Science of gardening, 361.
in Germany, 174.
Scions, choice of, 680.
nature of, 673.
Sckell, Louis, gardens laid out by, 124.
Scorching the leaves of plants, 601.
Scorzonera, or viper’s grass, 846.
Scotch gardener in Russia, 198.
Scotch pine, culture o fth e , 1169.
Scraping, operation of, 649.
Screens for protection, 561.
for sifting gravel, &c., 539.
Sculptures in gardens, 643.
Scythe, 527.
Sea breezes, 442.
Sea-k.ale, culture of, 859.
Seasons for pruning trees, 694.
Seats, 639, 640.
Sea-weed used as manure, 415.
Sécateur, 527.
Sedimentary rocks, 398.
Seed-bed for cucumbers, 799.
Seed-cloth for light seeds, .565.
Seed-gardens, size of, and by whom kept, 1233.
to manage, 1237.
Seed of cabbages, to sow, 822.
Seed-rooms, 629, 630.
Seeds, 378, 379. 384.
as a vegetable product, 719.
modes of keeping, 717.
ordering, for a kitchen-garden, 758.
Seedsmen in France, 109.
Selections of hothouse plants, 1121.
of trees and shrubs for particular purposes,
1096.
Select shrubs, American and peat-earth, 1089.
Sepulchral structures, 638.
Seton’s tally, 535.
Setting the fruit of cucumbers, 800.
Seville, gardens of, 217.
Shaddock, culture of the, 977.
Shades of various kinds, 547, 548.
Shading land, 412.
Shallot, 855.
Shears, 526.
Sheds. 631.
Sheet-glass, uneven surface of, 601.
Sheet-lead, mode of cutting into tallies, 536.
Shelter, 412.
Shelter and shade for a kitchen-garden, 728.
Shelves in plant-houses, 624.
Shield-budding, 682.
Shifting-bhide hoe, 518.
Shoe-scraper, 5G3.
Shooting-box, 483.
Shovel, 516.
Shreds, preparation of, for training, 699.
Shrubbery, meaning of the term, 481.
to form the, 1013.
Shrubs, ornamental, lists of, 1089.
I Sicilian villas, 39.
Sicily, gardens of, 39.
Sieves, garden, 539.
Sifting and screening, 649.
Silberburg, garden of, 137.
Silver fir, 1171.
Singapore, gardens at, 310.
Singing-bird aviary, 6.37.
Single trees, transplanted, 1143.
Siphon sluice, how to make, 663.
Situation, best, for a kitchen-garden, 724.
of garden doors in walls, 735.
of hothouses in a kitchen-garden, 740.
o fth e k itchen-garden,725.
of the melon ground, 740.
suitable for an orchard, 752.
Skilful operations of gardening, 651.
Skill in gardening, best climate for, 356.
Skirret, culture of, 845.
Slate-walls, 737.
Slight coverings to keep out cold, 428.
Slips, propagating by, 669.
Slip to the kitcben-garden, 739.
Slit phmting, 688.
Slope o fa kitchen-garden, 726.
Slopes, to make, into terraces, 660.
Slugs, mode of destroying, 712.
Sluice, how to form, 663.
Small salads, 872.
Smoke-consuming furnace, 605.
Snails and slugs in flower-gardens, 1028.
Snow, nature and use of, 440.
p lo u g h ,521.
used for cooling liquors, 23.
M’armth of a covering of, 429.
Soda, 425.
Soft-wooded deciduous trees, 1176.
Soil for a conservatory, 1029.
fo r a shrubbery, 1015.
for the pine-apple, 778.
for vineries, 7,86.
management bf, in a kitchen-garden, 754.
mode of preparing, for trees, 1161.
of a kitchen-garden, 729.
uses of, to vegetables, 401.
Soils, chemical analysis of, 406.
composition of, 397.
formation of, 399.
improvement of, by burning, 410.
mechanical n atu re of, 403.
nature and nomenclature of, 400.
of various kinds, 391.
Solar influence, 412.
Solar rays, effect of, on vegetation, 430.
Solitude, palace of, in Wirtemberg, 131.
Solomon de Caus, greenhouse of, 584.
Solomon’s garden, 7.
Soot, 419. 426.
Sorrel, 8.50.
South Africa, gardening in, 327.
South America, gardens of, 343.
Southern Australia, 3.50.
Sowing, operation of, 686.
seeds, 669.
seeds of coniferous plants, 1162.
Spade, 515.
Spanish gardens, 215.
hoe, .518.
Span-roofed greenhouse, .594.
Spawn for mushrooms, 812.
Specific gravity of a soil, how to ascertain the, 407.
Specific names of plants, 363.
Sphinx, 601.
Spinach, cuUure and selection of kinds of, 848.
Spiral line or volute, transferring to the ground, 6.56.
Spirit-level, 534.
Spiry-topped trees, effect of, iu plantations, 1142.
Splitting, 651.
Springs, 411.
Spurring in the vine, 788.
Staff for levelling, 534.
Stage for florists’ flowers, 570.
Stages in planthouses, 624.
Stagnant water, effect of, on plants, 411.
Stakes, iron, 567.
Staking, 689.
out plans, 655.
Standard fruit-trees in a kitchen-garden, 750.
Statues and urns in gardens, origin of the taste
for, 28.
Statues, urns, busts, and other ornaments, 1022.
Steam, disadv.antages of heating bv, 605.
first application of, to th e iieating of hothouses,
585.
heating by, 605.
Stem of a plant, 378.
S tirring the ground among crops in a kitchcn-
garden, 761.
Stocking a tree-nursery with plants, 1161.
Stock, or gillyflower, 1065.
Stocks, choice of, 679.
n a tu re of, 674.
Stone-fruits, 912.
in Italy, 45.
Stone-pine, 1169.
Stools, management of, 671.
Storing winter pears and apples, 768.
S tothert’s mode of heating by steam, 607.
Stove, management of the, 1031.
Stowe, when laid out, 248.
S traight edge, 535.
Straight linos on irregular surfaces, 658.
Stratus, 437.
Str.awberry, culture and history of the, 946-—U4'i.
mode of forcing the, 806.
plantations, 757.
selection of kinds of, 046.