By J. C. LOUDON, F.L.S. H.S. &c.

AUTHOR OF THE ENCYCLOPEDIAS OF GARDENING, OF AGRICULTURE, AND OF COTTAGE, FARM,
AND VILLA ARCHITECTURE, AND OF THE ARBORETUM BRITANNICUM A

SUBURBAN GARDENER.

LONDON:

AND SOLD BY

LONGMAN, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS,

PATERNOSTER-ROW;
AND A, AND C. BLACK, EDINBURGH.

1839.

LONDON: Printed by A. SPOTTISWOODE,

New Street-Square.

The Contents of this Fifteenth Volume of the Gardener's Magazine are arranged as under:

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Page

Page Original Communications:

Miscellaneous Intelligence : General Subject iii General Notices

vi Historical and Statistical

Foreign Notices

vi Historical, Critical, and Descriptive iii

Domestic Notices
Effects of the Winter of 1837-8

iv
England

vii Science of Vegetable Culture

iv
Scotland

viii Birds and Insects relatively to

Ireland

viii Gardens

iv
Retrospective Criticism

viii Garden Structures, Tools, and in

Queries and Answers

viii struments

iv London Horticultural Society and GarSources of Artificial Heat

iv
den

viii Landscape-Gardening and Garden Ar.

West London Gardener's Association chitecture

iv
for mutual Instruction

viii Arboriculture

iv

Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society viii Effects of Kyanising Wood

Visits to Suburban Gardens

viii Floriculture

Botanical Expedition to Columbia Horticulture

Foreign Botanical and Horticultural Domestic Economy

Agency

viii Bee Culture

Covent Garden Market

viii Agriculture

Biography

viii Reviews :

Obituary General Subject

List of Engravings Arboriculture

V List of Plants included in the Floricultural Floriculture

V and Botanical Notices recorded as sup. Horticulture

plementary to the Second Additional SupAgriculture

vi
plement to the Hortus Britannicus

viii Horticultural and Agricultural Entomo- List of Plants mentioned or treated of in logy

vi the present Volume, arranged alphabeti. Catalogue :

cally

viii General Subject vi List of Fruits

viii Landscape-Gardening and Rural Archi- List of culinary Vegetables

viii tecture vi List of Agricultural Plants

viii Arboriculture

vi List of Provincial, Horticultural, BotaniFloriculture vi cal, and Floricultural Societies

viii Horticulture vi List of Gardens and Country Seats

viii Agriculture

vi List of Books reviewed or noticed, alphaBee Culture vi betically arranged

viii Miscellaneous vi | List of Contributors

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ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

Page

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Page GENERAL SUBJECT.

Recollections of a Tour chiefly between Historical and Statistical.

London and Sheffield, made during the last

Three Weeks of May, 1839. By the Con. A Summary View of the Progress of Gar

ductor dening, and of Rural Improvement gene- Some Account of Gardens, and the State of rally, in Britain, during the Year 1839;

Gardening in the North and West Ridings with some Notices relative to the state of

of Yorkshire. By J. B. W.

209 both in Foreign countries. By the Con- Notes on some Suburban Villas between ductor

704

Loudon and Cheshunt, made on July 24. Provincial, Horticultural, Botanical, and

and August 10. 1839, comprising Powis Floricultural Societies, &c.

- 674

Park, Culland's Grove, Arno's Grove, Min.

chenden House, Southgate Lodge, South Historical, Critical, and Descriptive.

Lodge, Theobald's Park, and Oakhill. By Design for the Leeds Zoological and Bota. the Conductor

509 nical Gardens, approved of by the Pro- Notes on Suburban Gardens. By the Con. 305 ductor

422 Remarks on Mr. Billington's Plan for the Notices of the Gardens and Nurseries in Leeds Zoological and Botanical Gardens - 306

Lyons and its Neighbourhood. From the Design for the Leeds Zoological and Bota

Annales d’dgriculture, &c. de Lyon, for nical Gardens, presented to the Provisional 1838

- 112 Committee by Joshua Major

316 Notes taken from the Narrative of a Horti. Remarks on the Gardens of the Royal Bo. cultural Journey in Greece, during the

tanic Society of London, Inner Circle, Summer of 1937. By Eugene Achille BauRegent's Park. By the Conductor 322 mann, of thc Bollwyller Nursery

97

204270

On the Use of a new Kind of Wire Netting,

for various Purposes in Gardening and
Planting, &c. By S. T.

222

Some Account of a Box for the Propagation

of Cape Heaths. By N. M. T.

21

Remarks on Garden Tallies; Kyanising for

Tallies; the Menogramme; Conservatory,

Greenhouse, and Stove Tallies for private

Collections ; Tallies for Alpine Rock

Plants, &c.; Tallies for general botanical

Garden Purposes in the open Garden;

Tallies for naming Trees, &c., against

Walls ; Tallies for Water-plants, 'in Ponds

or Margins of Lakes in Pleasure-grounds

Labels suited to receive Numbers, not

Names, of Plants, and the Mode of Num-

bering allowed to be most simple and dur-

able. By W. H. Baxter

512

Sources of Artificial Heat.

On the Employment of Arnott's Stove for

heating Green-houses. By T. Rivers, jun. 107

Account of a new Substitute for Tan and

Stable Manure, in forming Hot-beds.

Communicated by John Grigor

248

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CONTENTS.

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Effects of Kyanising Wood.

on their Culture, &c. By W. A. Masters,
Results of certain Experiments in Kyanising

late Subcurator of the Canterbury Mu-
different Species of Wood for being used

seum

402

as Garden Tallies; with Remarks on the

Effect of Kyanising Hop-poles. By W.

HORTICULTURE.

Masters, F.H.S., &c.

- 320

A Pine-apple Conservatory. By Alexander
On the injurious Effects of Kyan's Anti-Dry. Forsyth

404
Rot Solution, as regards the Destruction Remarks on the Cultivation of the Vine.
of vegetable Life in the Gardens at Thores-

By James Hutchinson

405
by, Nottinghamshire. Communicated by Historical Notices respecting the Training
the Right Hon. the Earl Manvers

and Pruning of the Peach Tree in France.

Notice respecting the Effects of Kyanised Extracted from a Report made to the Hor-

Wood on growing Plants, in the Hot- ticultural Society of Paris in July, 1836,

houses, Pits, and Frames of the Hackney and published in the Annales d'Horticul-

Nursery. By the Conductor

588 ture, vol. xix.

On the Kyanísing Process, and on other On the Peach. By Alexander Forsyth - 600

Modes of seasoning Timber. By James On shading Melon and Cucumber Plants.
Monro, Forester to the Marquess of North- By John Wighton

412

ampton

585 A Selection of Standard Pears and Apples suit-

able for small Gardens in the Climates of

FLORICULTURE.

London, Edinburgh, and Dublin. By Robert

Botanical, Floricultural, and Arboricul.

Thompson, of the Fruit and Kitchen Gar-

tural Notices on the Kinds of Plants newly

den Departments in the London Horticul-

introduced into British Gardens and Plant.

tural Society's Garden

138

ations,, or which have been originated in

Some Remarks on the Ripening of Pears, in

them; together with additional Informa-

the Years 1837, 1838, and 1839.

Ву

141

T. Rivers, jun.

tion respecting Plants (whether old or new)

already in Cultivation ; the whole in

On the Culture of the Mushroom. By Alex:

333

ander Forsyth

tended to serve as a perpetual Supplement

to the Encyclopædia of Plants, the Hortus

On the Culture of the Carrot. By Alex.

604

ander Forsyth

Britannicus, the Hortus Lignosus, and the

Arboretum et Fruticetum Britannicum,
68. 242. 394. 463. 520. 557. 596

DOMESTIC ECONOMY.
Notice of a remarkable Specimen of Cèreus On preserving Plums. By M. W. C. Bosse,
speciosíssimus, growing in the Stove of Nurseryman, Quedlinburg

- 602

Thomas Holman, Esq., at Folkstone, in

Kent. By N. M. T.

22

BEE CULTURE.

On the Culture of Cácteæ By Dr. Pfeiffer

of Cassel

83

On the Calling of the Queen Bees before

On the Extension and Use of the Cácti. Swarming. By John Wighton, Gardener

25

at Cossey Hall
By Professor Zuccarini, Subcurator of the
Royal Botanic Garden at Munich

153
On the Queen Bee that leaves the Hive with

605

the first Swarm. By J. Wighton

Observations on the geographical Extension

of the Cácti in Brazil. By Professor Von

Martius

389

AGRICULTURE.

On Cèreus senllis, the Old Man Cactus. By On the Cultivation of Madia sativa, as an

D. Beaton

549

Oil Plant, By W. Hertz, Nurseryman

On grafting Ipomæas, and more particularly and Seedsman, Stuttgard

142

Ipomoea Horsfálliæ. By D. Beaton 161 The Result of certain Experiments in culti.

Notice of Galphimia glauca, and of a new vating different Varieties of Wheat. By

Wistària. By D. Beaton

400 John Rivers

23

A Selection of Heaths, made with the View Notice of an Experiment made with Four

of having several Species in Flower during Seeds of Wheat, sown in June, 1836. By

every Month in the Year, with Remarks

A. Gorrie

.

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REVIEWS

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GENERAL SUBJECT.

Catalogue of Plants cultivated in the Bir.

Gardening and Agriculture of the ancient mingham Botanie Garden

• 413

Egyptians. By J. G. Wilkinson, F.R.S.,

&c.

ARBORICULTURE.

The Botanical Periodicals

90 Pinetum Woburnense; or a Catalogue of

Second Annual Report and Proceedings of the Coniferous Plants in the Collection of the

Edinburgh Botanical Society

257

Duke of Bedford at Woburn Abbey ; sys-

Fifth Annual Report of the Jersey Agricul. tematically arranged

263

tural and Horticultural Society for 1838 - 344

Annales des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles