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Flower Book of 1826, reviewed, 73.
Flowers, art of cutting, so as not to injure the
plants, 484.

-, cut, how to preserve, 378.

double, observations upon the natural
laws which govern the production of, arising
out of a remarkable case of preternatural
formation in the flowers of an Amaryllis, by
John Lindley, Esq. F.L.S., 191.
Flower Market of Paris, notice of, 224.
Flower Show, Amateur, of Lancaster, 473.
Flower Shows, held in Lancashire, Cheshire,
Yorkshire, &c. in 1826, account of, by John
Winstanley and Joseph Clegg, reviewed, 73.

-, suggestions for reporting, 474.
Floy, Mr. M., C.M.H.S., American fruits sent
by him to the Hort. Soc. of London, 415.
Fontainebleau, pine and cedar trees grafted in,
by M. Larminat, 63.

Forcing Gardens at Potsdam, 85.
Forest Trees, a Memoir, &c. on the planting and
rearing of, by Wm. Withers, jun., Esq., re-
viewed, 75; details of four experiments on
their culture, 75.

Forrest, Mr. I., C. M. H.S., on the culture of the
. Mushroom in hot-house sheds, 406.
Forster's Perpetual Kalendar, (advertised), 384.
France, climate and products of, compared with
those of England, 222.

Fraser, Mr. James, on the present state of
gardening in Ireland, with hints for its future
improvement, continued from Vol. I. p. 265,

147.

French Gardening Instruments, notice of places
where they may be purchased, 66.

Fromont Nursery Establishment, notice of, 59.

218.

Frost, John, Esq., F.A.S., L.S., H.S., &c. &c.,
notice of his introductory lecture on botany,
345.

Fruits and Seeds, remarks on the general
principles of choosing and preserving, 317.
Fruits, cultivated in Europe in the order of
their affinities, 209.

cultivated in the garden of the Horticul-
tural Society, catalogue of, reviewed, 208.

list of those figured in Vol. II. of the
Gardener's Magazine, viii.

-, newly raised, observations on their qua-
lities exemplified in plums, by T. A. Knight,
Esq., F.R.S., and P.H.S., 428.

notice of new or remarkable varieties,
&c., 204.

on their classification, by Counsellor
Burckhardt, 444.

principles of raising new sorts from seeds,
laid down by M. Van Mons, 62.
Fruit-trees, notice of a wild speculation for per-
petuating good sorts from seed, 357.

on the good effects of protecting the
stems, by William Howe, Esq., 275.

-, on the importance of adopting and
pursuing a proper plan for pruning and train-
ing, by Mr. Alfred Kendall, 140.

recipe for washing the branches of

to destroy insects, 430.
Fuchsia cónica, 450.

Fuchsia gracilis, Erythrina Crista gálli, and
Salvia splendens, hints for cultivating, by
Mr. Robert Reid, 16.
Fuchsias, on the cultivation of, by Mr. James
Smith, 426.

Gacon-Dufour's, Manuel complet de la Maf-
tresse de Maison, 18.

Galardia bicolor, Asclepias tuberósa, and Enó-
thera cæspitósa, query by a constant reader,

254.

Galb's Anleitung für der Landmann, &c., no-
ticed, 81.

Garcinia mangostána, fruit produced by, in the
garden of M. Boursault, 223.
Gardeners and their Employers, on the relative
duties of, by G. P. R., 293.

Gardeners' Apprentices and Journeymen, on
the treatment which they receive from master
gardeners, by a nobleman's gardener, 266.
Gardener's House, excellent one at Worksop
Manor House, and at Syon, 108.
Gardeners, on the remuneration of, including
some remarks on their education and emi-
gration, by W. R. G., 27.

Gardeners out of place, on the treatment of by
nurserymen, in reply to the observations of
Sensitivus, by a nurseryman, 268.

-, on the treatment which
they generally receive from the nurserymen,
&c., by Sensitivus of Yorkshire, 36.
Gardening Amateurs of Paris, notices of some,

59.

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Garden, ancient painting of, described, 481.;
Garden and Park of Yelagen Island in the
Neva, 387.

Garden Antiquities, 481.

Garden Basket for nailing trees, notice of, 66.
Garden in ruins, notice of, by Mr. Cameron, 32.
Garden Library, catalogue of books for, 108;
elementary books, 114; professional books,
118; professional periodicals, 118.

Garden Libraries established, 243; at Clapton,
244; Welbeck, 245; Walton, 246; Northwick
Park, 247. 373; Shobden Court, 373; Foxteth
Park, 373; Mistley Hall, 373; hints for their
formation and support, 377.

presents of books to, 247.
249; suitable books for the second class, 247;
for the third or lowest class, 247.
Garden of the Marble Palace at Potsdam, 85;
of the Prussian Gardening Society, Berlin,
by I. Taylor, 84.

Gardens of the Zoological Society in the Re-
gent's Park, 352.

Gardens, remarks on laying out, 254.
Gardens and Parks, plans of, list of those given
in Vol. II. of the Gardener's Magazine, viii.
Gardens, Botanical, see Botanic Gardens.

-, Imperial of Tzarsco Celo and Taurida,
some account of, 385.

121.

notices of those of Dunolie, Auchna->
calich, Auchadanach, Tobermory, Cole, Ben
Nevis, 32.
Gardens of cottagers, on improving, by Mr.
William Wilson, 271.
Gardens, small, laying out and planting, 253.
-, system of cropping, query respecting,
Garden walls, blocks of stone for building into,
composition for blacking, 421.
Garden wall, description of an improved, by
J.A.B., Esq., 7.
Garden walls, on blacking, by Mr. C. Harrison,
F.H.S., 421.

431.

Gauen's early cucumber, (advertised), 125.
Gaultheria Shallon, and other rare plants in the
Botanic Garden of Glasgow, 102.
Geel's Sertum Botanicum, notice of, 544.
Geological and historical observations on the

eastern vallies of Norfolk, by J. W. Robbards,
jun., reviewed, 211.

Geraniaceae, for December, 1826, review of, 72;
January and February, 1827, 206; for March
and April, 335; for May and June, 452.
Gibson, Mr. James, on the culture of Brugman
sia arbórea (cándida), 145.

Gilbert's, Traité des Prairies Artificielles, &c., 77.
Ginger, on the cultivation of, in a glazed pit,
by Mr. Christie Duff, C.M.H.S., 191.

Glass case, temporary, notice of blocks for, to | Hay, James, C.M.H.S., two letters addressed by,
be built into walls, 431.

Gledston, Mr. George, his improved method of
growing celery, 157.

Glycine sinensis, now Wistéria Consequána,
on its beauty, &c., by Joseph Sabine, Esq.,
F.R.S., &c., 422.

Glycyrrhiza glabra, common liquorice, culture
of, in Italy, 86.

Goldham, John, Esq., F.H.S., a distinguished
florist, 470.

Goldie, Mr. John, on the culture of North
American plants, including Ferns, 129.
Goldworth nursery of Mr. Donald, F.H.S., an
example of order and neatness, 171.
Gooseberries, new sorts of, made public and for
sale 74.; select sorts for a small garden, 253.
Gooseberry Book of 1826, reviewed, 73.
Gooseberry shows held in Lancashire, Cheshire,
&c., an account of, for 1826, by Wm. Dean,
reviewed, 73.

Gordon's Dictionary of Gardening, curious
statement on the subject of producing varie-
gation in plants, 46.

Gordon, Mr. Alexander, on the merits and
demerits of iron hot-houses for the culture of
the pine apple, 291.

Gormanston, in Meath, some account of, 148.
Gorrie, Mr. Arch., C.MH.S., his description of
a dendrometer, 8.

-, on the effects of
heat and moisture on vegetation, 418.
Gould, Mr. Wm., gardener to Prince Potemkin,
388.

Gourds, large, 92.

Grafting, dove-tail method, notice of, by Mr.
E. Malone, 430.

64.

herbaceous, by the Baron de Tschudy,

Grafting of roses, an improvement on, by Mr.
Calvert, of Rouen, 192.

Granadilla, fruit of, ripened in a common green-
house, 232.

Granite rock, improvement in blasting, 467.
Grape, black Damascus, mode of setting the
fruit of, 98.

black raisin, description of, &c., by
Mr. Isaac Oldaker, F.H.S., 174.
Grapes and peaches, Mr. Haythorn's structure
for, described and figured, 281.

Grapes, observations on a disease to which they
are liable, and on the means of preventing it,
by Mr. Daniel Judd, F.H.S., 190.

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Grapes on an open wall in Dublin, 102; ripened
in the open air, 92. 100; ripening in the open
air in Scotland, 100.

Grass-banks, how formed by the Belgians, 227.
Grass lands, best mixture of seeds for, 69.
Green-house Companion, (advertised), $84.
Green Market of Edinburgh, 465.

Green, Mr., of Bear Park, near Lancaster, an
extensive grower of early potatoes, 47.
Griffin, Wm., Esq., F.L.S., notice of his life and
death, 255,

Grognier's Recherches historiques et statistiques
sur le Murier, &c., 78.

Groom, Mr. H., F.H.S., description of a tulip
case and its uses, 307.

Groom's florist's flowers, (advertised), 126.
Gunnersbury House, Major Morrison, some
account of, 362.

Halésia tetraptera, recommended, 34.
Hampton, near Drogheda, some account of,

146.

Harding's Agricultural Library, (advertised),

382.

Harding, Mr. John, agricultural bookseller,
St. James's Street, life and death of, 381.
Harrison, Mr. C., F.H.S., on blacking garden
walls, 421.; on obtaining a second crop of
melons, 414.

Harrison, Mr. Joseph, on the application of to-
bacco-water in the destruction of insects, 428.

to Joseph Sabine, Esq., F.R.S., &c., reviewed,

338.

Hayne's Treatise on the Strawberry, Raspberry,
&c., (advertised), 157.

Haythorn, Mr. John, C.M.H.S., description of
a flued pit for growing cucumbers and melons,
&c., 279.

Hazzi's Vomdünger, &c., notice of, 79.
Hedges, trees, &c., their management in the
Netherlands, 226.

Hedychiums, on the cultivation of, by Mr.
Joseph Cooper, C.M.H.S., 420.

Henderson, Alexander, Esq., notice of his life
and death, 255.

Henri Quatre, Urbaniste, and other new pears,
by Mr. Braddick, 39.

Hilbert, George, Esq., remark respecting, 423.
Highland Society of Scotland, notice of their
meeting in January, 1827, 239.

Hodson, N. S., Esq. A.L.S., on the botanic gar-
den of Bury St. Edmunds, 236.
Hoe-fork, description and figure of, 65.
Hoeing in straight lines, advantages of, 274.
Hoe, Spanish, 233; recommended, 275.
Hogg's Carnations, Picotees, Auriculas, &c.,
(advertised), 126.

Hogg, Thomas, his catalogue of carnations, &c.,
reviewed, 75; (advertised), 384; his ideas for a
new plan of breaking tulips, 44; criticisms on,
379; his opinion on the uses of salt, 3.
Hollis, Thomas, Esq., his burial in a ploughed
field, 481.

Honey Bee, by Dr. Bevan, reviewed, 453.
Hooker, Dr., and Mr. Lindley, query to, 448.
Hookéria lúcens, 228.

Hop shoots, use of, as asparagus, in Flanders, 461.
Horticultural fancies of the Belgians, 227.
Horticultural Library of Ayrshire, notice of, 100.
Horticultural Memorandum Book, description
and use of, by a country clergyman, 319.
Horticultural and Botanical Society of Durham,
Northumberland, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
prizes awarded by, from August 1825 to August
1826, 91.

Horticultural Society of Aberdeen, prizes pro-
posed for 1827, 353; meeting of May 1st, 1827,
465.

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Caledonian, meetings
from June to September, 1826, 97; October,
1826, 236; prize subjects for 1827, 957; meet-
ing for March, 1827, 352; April,

of Dumfries and Gallo-
way, meeting for December, 1826, 99.

objects, 98.

Ghent, 88.

of Glasgow, 'origin of, and
Highlands of Scotland,

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Horticultural Society, London, remarks on the
mode of application for grafts, cuttings, &c.,
106; on their designation of gardeners as la.
bourers, 106.
notices of com-
munications to, not published in their Trans-
actions, 429.
garden, 105.

notices on their
remarks on their
garden at Chiswick, 440; rare plants added to,
from Columbia, 442; rules and regulations
respecting the sale of fruit and vegetables, 442;
rules as to the privileges of subscribers to the
garden, 443; list of garden committee, 443;
list of garden reports published, 443.

-, report of the
garden committee on the progress of the gar-
den, reviewed, 441.
garden regulations, 105.

remarks on their

suggestion as to
the form in which their Transactions should
be published, 360.
Transactions of,
remarks on the Preface to Vol. VI.; compari-
son of, with the Gardener's Magazine, 438;
review of Vol. VI., Parts IV. and V., 352. 414.
Horticultural Society's garden, catalogue of the
fruits cultivated in, reviewed, 208.
formation of, 359.

-, plan for the re-
remarks on, by
A Nurseryman, 469.
Horticultural Society, Montrose, origin and ob-
jects, 99.

Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
see Horticultural and Botanical Society of
Durham, Northumberland, &c., 229.

sional, 465.

North British Profes-
Perth, 466.

April and May, 1827, 473.

Preston, meetings for
Prussian, meeting, June
1, 1823, 446; of June, 23, 1823, 447.
Transactions

May, 1827, 472.

of, reviewed, 444; prizes proposed for the year
1824, 447.
-, Ross, 91; meeting for
Yorkshire, meeting for
May, 1826, 471.
Horticulture and botany of France and England
compared, by Mr. Arnott, 353.
Horticulture in France, some account of, by Le
Chevalier Soulange Bodin, 222.
Horticulturists, Chinese, hint respecting, 422.
Horticulturist's cottage, (advertised), 382.
Hortulanus, on the garden regulations of the
Horticultural Society, 105.

Hortulanus's observations on Mr. Anderson's
experiments with peaches and apricots budded
on almond stocks, 168.

Hortus Berlinensis, notice respecting, 85.
Hortus Britannicus Americanus, sketches to-
wards a, by W. J., M.D., Titford, noticed,

75.

Hortus Britannicus, &c., by Robert Sweet, F. L.S.
&c., reviewed, 207.

Hortus Gramineus Woburnensis, by Mr. George
Sinclair, F.L.S, H.S., &c. reviewed, 67.
Hortus Siccus, by Prof. La Gasca, account of,
220.

Hot-houses, curvilinear metallic, by Messrs.
Jones and Clark, (advertised), 382.
in regard to humidity, 201.
curvilinear, on the management of,

200.

in Syon Gardens, 107.

Hothouses, model of a cast-iron plate for the
steaming of, 352.

on the plan of closing the smoke
flues of, that are heated only in the daytime,
for the purpose of preserving a warm tem-
perature during the night, &c., by Mr. Wil
fiam Flavell, 154.

235.

-, plan for the absorption of heat in,

House, bad arrangement of, with reference to
the approaches and walks, exemplified, 366.
situation for, importance of natural fea-
tures illustrated, 368.
Hyacinths, on the culture of, by Mr. Alexander
Campbell, 411.

to improve the size and health of,
232; strong and beautiful, grown at Drum, in
Scotland, 464.

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Hybrid currants, query respecting, 120.
Hydrangea hortensis, experiment on changing
the colour of the flower, by W. R. Y., 405.
Hyoscyamus, its poisonous qualities, 454.
Jardinier Agronome, notice of, 215.
Illustrations of ornithology, (advertised), 126.
128.
Implements, list of those figured in Vol. II, of
the Gardener's Magazine, viii.
Improvements, hints for, 480.
Insects, black, on cherry trees, to destroy, 121.
proposed plan for destroying, 122. See
A'phis lanigera.
Instruments, list of those figured in Vol. II. of
the Gardener's Magazine, viii.
Joanneum de Gratz, 15th report, notice of, 79.
Johnson, Mr. Cuthbert William, essay on the
uses of salt, &c., reviewed, 339; letter on the
same subject, 339.

Mr. G. W., on salt as a manure, 1.
Jones and Clark, Messrs. description of the
conservatory at the Grange, 170.
Irish Farmer's Journal, notice of its discon-
tinuance, 240.

Irish furze, broom, and yew, 241; where to be
purchased, 356,

Iron hot-houses, Mr. Macmurtrie's opinion on,
on their merits and demerits,

242.

by Mr. A. Gordon, 291.
Island of Peacocks, at Potsdam, 85.
Itinerating, juvenile, and village libraries, 376;
of East Lothian, 376; of Mid Lothian, 376.
Judd, Mr. Daniel, F.H.S., observations on a dis-
ease to which grapes are liable, and on the
means of preventing it, 190.

Kalendar, gardener's, remarks on, 488.
Kalendarial index, remarks on, 488, 502.
Keen's fruit garden, Isleworth, notice of, 365.
Kendall, Mr. Alfred, his method of destroying
the red spider, 38.

on the importance of
adopting and pursuing a proper plan for
pruning and training fruit trees, 140.
Kensington Nursery, Messrs. Malcolm and Gray,
notice of, 369.

Kew Gardens, hints for establishing a library
there, 248; remarks on, 313.

King's Botanic Garden at Kew, remarks on the

policy pursued in the management of, by J. P.
Burnard, Esq., 313.

Kirschewasser, an imitation of, in Scotland,
98.

Knight, T. A., Esq., F.R.S., L.S., Pres. H.S.,
&c., on some new seedling pears, 419.
-, on the bitter-sweet apple,

432.

on the culture of straw-
berries, 184; on the cultivation of the Ama-
ryllis Sarniénsis, or Guernsey lily, 185; on
the transplantation of plants with spindle-
shaped roots, 199.
on the qualities of newly
raised fruits, exemplified in plums, 428,

-, iron, for the culture of the pine
apple, on the merits and demerits of, by Mr.
Alexander Gordon, 291; unfavourable opi-Labourers' institutions, 373.
Laburnum seeds, poisonous to cows, 255.
nion of, by Mr. Macmurtrie, 242.

Lactuca, the lettuce, its poisonous and medical
qualities, 455.

La Gasca, Professor, Hortus Siccus by, de-
scribed and recommended, 220; on the gar-
dening and botany of Spain, 393.

Lamp, for keeping the frost out of small green-
houses, 123.

Landscapes, list of those engraved in Vol. II.
of the Gardener's Magazine, viii.
Land steward, advertisement for a situation, 126.
Larminat, his experience in grafting the pine
tribe, 63.

Latham, Mr. John, his mode of training and
fastening the shoots of vines on the roofs of
cottages, 43.

Lathrop's Farmer's Library, &c., 344.
Latour, Mr., notice of his villa at Craven Hill,
369.

Laurustinus, notice of one grafted on the way-
faring tree, 60.

Laying out and planting small gardens, 253.
Le Bon Jardinier for 1826, by A. Poiteau and
Vilmorin, reviewed, 58.

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union cabbage, 436; black-seeded
Gotte, 436; ice, of the United States, 436.
sorts of, for small salad, or to be used
as spinach, 437.

437.

substitute for, in Picrídium vulgáre,

Libraries, garden, see Garden Libraries.
village, see Village Libraries.
Lichtervelde's Beche, ou la mine d'or de la
Flandre Orientale, 344.
Lime-kilns, 399; Booker's, 400; Menteath's,
at Closeburn, 400; Heathorn's, 402; York-
shire, 403.

comparative remarks on, by J. C.
Stuart Menteath, Esq. 399.
Lindegaard's culture of the vine in Denmark,
344.

Lindley, John, Esq., F.L.S., Assist. Sec. Hort.
Soc., observations upon the natural laws which
govern the production of double flowers,
arising out of a remarkable case of preter-
natural formation in the flowers of an ama-
rýllis, 191.

on Persian melons, 433,
on the effect of frost on
plants in the garden of the H. S., &c., 421.
report upon the new or
rare plants which have flowered in the garden
of the Horticultural Society at Chiswick from
March, 1824, to March, 1825, 186.
Linnean Botanic Garden, Flushing, near New
York, account of, 90.

Linnean Society of London, general report on,
470; Transactions of, Vol. XV., Part I., re-
viewed, 338.

Linnean Society of Paris, 84.

Liquid manure, on the importance of, by Mr.
John Robinson, F. H.S., 18.
Lochnile, gardens, 32.

Loddiges' Botanical Cabinet, for December,
1826, reviewed, 72; for January and Febru-
ary, 1827, 206; for March and April, 334, 335;
for May and June, 451.
Loddiges, Messrs., of Hackney, origin and date
of their nursery, 386.
Lodoicea, (A name of Commerson's, supposed
to be in memory of Laodice, a Trojan lady,
who first was made happy by Acamas; after-
wards married Helicaon, son of 'Antenor

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next, Telephus, king of Mysia; and finally
threw herself down from the top of a tower,
and was killed, when Troy was sacked by the
Greeks. Commerson named various plants
after remarkable females; among others, the
Hortensia, after his own mistress, who, in the
disguise of a sailor, saved his life.) the double
cocoa nut, its description and uses, 448.
Lólium temulentum, its poisonous qualities, and
supposed mixture with malt, 211.
Lombards, Manuel des propriétaires d'abeilles,
&c., 78.

Loquat, Eriobotrya Japónica, treatment of, 234.
Lot's wife, explanation of the allegory respect-
ing, by Agronome, 305.
Loudon's Encyclopädie des Gartenwesens, 79.
Landwirthschaft, 79.
Lowe, Mr. Hugh, his description of a propa.
gation shelf in the Clapton nursery, with the
mode of using it, &c., 25.

Lyne Grove, near Chertsey, Surrey, notice re-
specting, 366.

Machines, list of those figured in Vol. II. of the
Gardener's Magazine, viii.

Maclúra aurantiaca, criticisms on the conduct-
or's remarks on, 486.

male plant of, at New

York, 350.
MacMurtrie, Mr., C.M. H.S., on a pit and stoves
heated by fire and steam jointly, 419.
Madras school, suitableness of, for country vil-
lages, 25.

Magnólia grandiflóra, mode of preserving from
the frost, in Mr. Boursault's garden, 63.
Magnólia Yulan (conspicua Salisb.), notice of its
introduction, 334; superb specimen in the
Kensington Nursery figured and described,
$70.

Main, Mr., observations on Chinese scenery,
plants, and gardening, 135; note on winter
pruning the vine, 413.

Malmaison, gardens of, 225.

Manger's system of classing fruits, 445.
Mango, account of two varieties ripened in the
garden of the Earl of Powis, by Joseph Sabine,
Esq., F.R.S., &c., 432.
Mangosteen, see Garcinia, 223.
Mangold Wurzel, remarkable field of, 231,
Manuel du Jardinier,, &c., 78.
Manure, a cheap and efficacious mode of procur-
ing, 233.

Manuring, by turning in green crops in bloom,

123.

Marriage tree in Italy, 226.
Masey, Mr. J. P., notice of a present to garden
libraries from, 247.

Matthews, Mr. Andrew, A. L. S., description of
the different varieties of Parsnips, cultivated
in the garden of the Horticultural Society of
London, 190.

Maund's Botanic Garden, for December, 1826,
reviewed, 73; for January and February,
1827, 207; for March and April, 336; for May
and June, 443; (advertised), 128.
M'Dougal, his mode of destroying worms and
slugs, 466,

Mealy Bug, Cócous lanigera, on vines and plants
in pots, on the destruction of, by Mr. James
Strachan, 166.

Medals given by Horticultural Societies, re-
marks as to the persons and subjects to and for
which they are given, 237.

Medical Botany, &c., by John Stevenson and
James Morss Churchill, Esq., Surgeon, re-
viewed, No. I. for January, p. 111.; No. II.
for Feb., $27; for March, April, and June, 454.
Meloncito de olor, 95

Melon Compost, on collecting, by W. R. Y, 404.
Melon, treatise on the, noticed, 74.

Winter, description of one of extraordi-
nary dimensions, 229.
Melons and cucumbers, description of stoves for
the growth of, by Mr. John Haythorn,
C.M.H.S., 425.

Melons, Persian, account of ten varieties, by
Mr. John Lindley, F.L.S., 433.
Melons, plan for obtaining a second crop of, by
Mr. Charles Harrison, F. H.S., 414; to propa-
gate by cuttings, 414.

Menteath, C. I. S., Esq., on lime-kilns, 399; his
lime-kiln described and figured, 400.
Mentor, on the Spanish hoe, 233; remarks by,
on the mode of application for grafts, cuttings,
&c. to the H.S., 106.

Merinos, Troupeaux de, &c., 78.
Meteorological observations made in the garden
of the Horticultural Society, during the year
1825, report upon, 204.

Metropolitan garden and agricultural library,
hint for establishing, 248.
Metrosidéros lanceolata, on a garden wall at
Edinburgh, 239.

Metrosidéros Lophánta, hardy in France, 459.
Metzger's cereal grasses of Europe, some account
of, 343; Weinbau, 343.

Mice and rats, notices of modes for destroying,

61.

Mice, simple garden trap for, 278.
Michie, Mr. James, on setting the blossoms of
the more shy-bearing kinds of pears, 320.
Misletoe, its propagation by Mr. Keen, 366.
Mitcheson, Mr. William, on the cultivation of
the Passiflóra quadranguláris, 203; on a mode
of preparing strawberries for early forcing,
$90.

Mitchinson, Mr. James, on the culture of early
potatoes in Cornwall, 174.

Mixture and variety, principles of, explained,
310.

Models of estates, by Mr. Crowe, notice of, 232.
Modern style of laying out grounds in Russia,
history of the first introduction of, by one of
the imperial gardeners, 385.

Moggridge, John H. Esq., remarks on his cot-
tage system, as applied to Ireland, 240; an
account of a successful experiment, made with
a view to ameliorate the condition of country
labourers, 19,

Mons, Jean Baptiste Van, M.D., notes on graft-
ing, budding, and cultivating garden roses,
191.

Montgomery, Mr. Duncan, C.M. H.S., on the cul-
tivation of an early and a late variety of the
pear on the same tree, 199.
Mont-Rouge Nursery, history of, 59.
Morretti's Biblioteca Agraria, 344.
Morris's Botanist's Manual, (advertised), 127.
Morris, Richard, Esq., F.L.S., his elegant work
on plants, 35; observations on water as re-
gards ornamental Scenery, 286.
Morton, Mr. Andrew, on forcing strawberries,
393.

Muir, Messrs. J. & A. of Greenock, their pro-
gress in the imitation of Leghorn bonnets,
239; on the growth and manufacture of straw
plait for hats, 456.

Mulberry leaves, substitute for, 346.
Mulberry plantation at Slough, account of, 235.
Munro, Mr. Donald, F.L.S., account of the cul-
tivation of Chinese Chrysanthemums in the
garden of the Horticultural Society, 187.
Murray, John, Esq., F.A.S., L.S., H.S., G.S.,
&c., on the establishment of M. Fellenberg, at
Hofroyl, 347.

Murray, Mr. Stewart, C.M. H.S., on cultivating
North American orchideous plants, 332.
Mushroom, a large, 94; on the culture of, in hot-
house sheds, by Mr. T. Forrest, C. M. H.S., 406.
Mushrooms, cast-iron shelves for, 406; descrip-
tion of a mode of growing in a green-house in
the neighbourhood of Vienna, by Mr. Na-
poleon Bauman, 407; force of vegetation in,
94; large crops of, 94; in arable land, 94; Mr.
Haythorn's pit for, described and figured, 280;
short directions for raising according to Old-
aker's plan, 251.

Musk Plant, A'ster argophyllus, in the open
ground, $78.

Nagel's Vollständige Uebersicht, &c., 81.

VOL. II. No. 8.

Nanny-Water, near Drogheda, some account
of, 147.

Nasturtium, small, 427.

National Forests of Germany, 86.

Natural system of plants, the study of by means
of a Hortus Siccus, recommended, 221.
Natural system, prevalence of papers on, in the
Transactions of the Linnean Society, 470; opi-
nion respecting in Van Dieman's Land, 470.
Nelumbiums, idea of producing hybrids, with
Nymphæ'a and Nuphar, 429; on the cultiv
ation of in Italy, by Joseph Clare, Esq., 428.
Nelumbium speciosum, on the culture of, by Mr.
A. Stewart, F.H.S., 416.
Nepaul Silver Fir described, 462.
New South Wales, notice of its agriculture, 229.
cultivation of sugar in, 229.

New Zealand flax, culture of in France, 63.
Nicotiana, now Petunia nyctaginiflóra, 446.
Niven, Mr. James, a distinguished botanical
collector, notice of his life and death, 255.
Noël, a French florist, notice of, 59.
Nott, Mr. Wm., on forcing strawberries, 392.
Noisette's Nursery, history of, 59.
Nurseries of Paris, notices of, 59.
Nurserymen of Paris, notices of the principal, 59.
Nursery gardens, advantage of employing com-
mon labourers in, rather than professed gar-
deners, 271.

Nuts, mode of keeping, by A. B. Lambert, Esq.,
F.R.S., Pres. L.S., &c., 431.

Oak bark, Mimosa of New South Wales, as a
substitute for, 277.

Oak from the acorn, on raising plantations of,
by Mr. Thomas Allen, F. H.S., 277.
Oberlin, Jean-Frideric, a benevolent Protestant
pastor, notice of his life, 85.
Observations on the Corn Laws, by Sir Claude
Scott, (advertised), 127.

Enothera biennis, roots of, as Rampion, 457.
cæspitósa and Galárdia bícolor, culti
vation of, 379.

Oil as a manure in France, 84.
Oldaker, Mr. Isaac, F.H.S., description of the
Black Raisin Grape, &c., 174; list of goose-
berries by, for a small garden, 253.

Olive, its culture in the South of Europe, 455.
Oliver, Mr. J., on the Wyken Pippin, 487; no-
tice of the late Mr. John Whitlock, 487.
Onions, some remarkable ones noticed, 241.
Orange and Lemon trees, treatment of in Italy,
by Mr. Shea, 430.

Orchards in Argyle and Inverness, some ac-
count of, 32.

Orchideous plants of N. America, method of
cultivating by Mr. Stewart Murray, C.M.H.S.,
332.
on the culture of, by A. X.,

385.

Outlines of Botany reviewed, 338.
Oxális carnósa, 450.

Oxen, working of, opinion on, 488.
Packing seeds, query as to the best method, by
a Constant Reader, 254.

Pæónia Moutan, on its varieties, by Jos. Sabine,

Esq., F.R.S., &c. 423; remarks respecting
their introduction from China, by J. M., 423;
figure of the word Moutan in the Chinese cha-
racter, 424; varieties enumerated, 424.
Pæony, the tree, sce Pæónia Moútan.
Palace and gardens for the King, in the manner
of those of Babylon, hints for, 372.
Pánicum germánicum, its description and uses,
by Mr. G. Sinclair, F.L.S., H.S., 224.
Paragrêles, Rapport sur l'Utilité des, 78.
Park at Brussels, 87.

Parkin, Mr. Thomas, cultivation of the cucum-
ber at Thoresby Gardens, Nottinghamshire,
$20.

Parsnips, description of the different varieties
cultivated in the garden of the Horticultural
Society in London, by Mr. Andrew Mathews,
A.L.S., 190.

Passiflóra édulis, fruit of, ripened in a common
green-house, 32.

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