Section der Frankfurtischen Gesells-
chaft zur Beförderung Nützlicher
Kunste und deren Hulfswissen shaften,
&c. Transactions of the Franfort So-
ciety for the Advancement of Garden
and Field Culture; being a Section of
the Frankfort Institution for the Ad-
vancement of the Useful Arts and their
subservient Sciences, &c.
Sechtes Preiss-Verseichniss der verschie-
denen feinen Tafels Obstsorten, Ge-
holze fur Garten-Anlagen, Gewächs-
hauz-Pflanzen, &c., fur 1837-8, welche
bei S. und J. Rinz. Kunst und Handels-
Gärtnerin Frankfurt am Main zu haben
sind; that is, The Sixth priced Cata.
logue of Fruit Trees, Ornamental and
Useful Plants, &c., propagated and sold
by S. and J. Rinz, Nurserymen, Frank-
fort on the Maine

611

612

Verzeichniss der Grünhaus-Pflanzen des

Freyherrn Carl von Hügel, No. IX.

Catalogue of Green-house Plants, cul-
tivated in the Garden of Baron Hügel
at Hietzing, near Vienna; with the
Prices indicated at which they will be
sold or exchanged

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- 513

New Works on Gardening, Agriculture,
&c., published in Italy, during the
Years 1835 and 1836

Literary Notices: - Bateman's Orchidaceæ

of Mexico and Guatemala, 224. Hand-

bibliothek für Gärtner und Liebhaber der

Gärtnerei; or, a Pocket Library for Gar-

deners and Amateurs of Gardening, 225.

Kollar's History of the Insects injurious to

Gardeners and Farmers, 612. Waterton's

Essays on Natural History, 612. Rivers's

Rose Amateur's Guide, 612. Gauen's

Treatise on the Concentration of the Sun's

Rays as applied to Horticulture and Agri.

culture, 612.

GENERAL NOTICES.

Malaria, 47; Ash at Moccas Court, J. Webster,

47; The Stumps of the Silver Fir (Picea pec-

tinata) increase in Diameter after the Tree is

felled, 142; Value of Specific Characters, 226;

Conservatory, 225; Budding's Grass-cutter,

227; A Stage for Green-house Plants on a new

Plan, 228; Trees and Shrubs of the Canary

Islands likely to prove hardy or half-hardy in

the Climate of London, 228; Management of

Plantations, 228; Tulips, 228; The Influence of

Vapour on Vegetation, 280; Connexion between

Meteorology and Vegetation, 281; Kyanising

Wood for Garden Purposes, 281; Anticorrosive

Paint, 282; An improved Mode of Land sur-

veying, 282; Pòa nemoralis var. nervosa, 282;

New Varieties of Potatoes, 283; Transmitting

Seeds from China, R. Mallet, 283; Plant

Markers, 283; A Hybrid between the Cabbage

and Horseradish, 283; Grapes ripened without

the Sun's Rays, 283; Equitable Rent for farm-

ing Land, 323; A simple Mouse-trap, 323; To

destroy the Larvæ of the Cockchafer, 323;

Flued Borders, 323; The Kyanising of Wood

for Garden Purposes, 365; Hints for a Botanical

Collector, 365; The Geography of Evergreen

Trees, 366; Effect of Forests on the Size of

River Currents, 356; Amber discovered to be

only an indurated Resin, 366; On the Relations

of Colour and Smell in the more important

Families of the Vegetable Kingdom, 367; En-

tomology, 369; New Silkworm, 370; On the

Use of Steam in the economising of Fuel, 570;

Washing by Steam, 371; Reid's new Hydraulic

Engine, 459; Mr. Gowan's Mode of grafting the

Vine, 460; Heracleum perénne, 460; Rhubarb

Jelly, 460; Rhubarb Wine, 460; Keeping of

Filberts, 460; The Wood of the Phillyrea, 461;

Fibre of the Pine-apple Plant, 461; To render

Fuci and Lichens edible, 461; Plants rich in

Potash can never be petrified, 461; Dry Rot,

516; Uses of Garlic, 517; New esculent Sea-

Weed, 517; Retaining and absorbing Heat in

the open Ground, 517; Powerful Antiseptic,

518; What is Science? 612; Anomalous Struc-

ture in Dicotyledones, 613; Transplanting

Seeds and Plants from abroad, 614; Buds pro-

duce Roots, 614; Carbon, Hydrogen, and Oxy-

gen, in different Kinds of Wood, 615; Effects

of different Kinds of Salt on Plants, 615; Salt

has a wonderful Influence in subduing Flame,

615; Coal, or Gas, Tar in the Formation of

Gravel Walks, 615; Cultivation of Potatoes,

615; Filberts preserved a Year and Upwards,

616; Brambleberry Jelly, 616.

FOREIGN NOTICES.

France. The exotic Trees blown down in the

Park at Versailles, 82; Singular Phenomena in

the Vegetation of Trees, 82; A Lime Tree in

Lorraine, 82; Parish Libraries, 82; The Cli-

mate of Montpelier as compared with that of

Toulouse, 229; The Formation of Cork, 229;

A Hybrid Apple, 230; The beautiful Hot-

houses of M. Tassin, 324; Artesian Wells, 371,

372; Colossal Elin Tree at Brignoles, 372; Mo-

nograph on the Genus Caméllia, Soulange-Bo-

din, 461; Summary of Subjects proposed for

Prizes by the Agricultural Society of France at

their Meeting in July, 1837, 462; Insects de-

structive to the Vine, 462; Acclimatising Plants

at Hières, in the south of France, 462; Nepén-

thes distillatòria, 464; Improvement of Agri-

culture, 518; Remarkable Oak and Beech, 518;

Baumann's priced Catalogue of hardy Trees

and Shrubs at Bolwyller, 518; Pinus monterey-

énsis, and keeping Pines clear of Insects, 616;

Holland. Prizes offered by the Academy of
Sciences at Haarlem, 465.

Belgium. - New Local for the Exhibition of
Plants at Ghent, 82; New Plants, &S; Hybrid
Fern, 372.

Germany. A Flora Excursoria Exotica Germa-
nica, 83; The Pfauen Insel at Potsdam, 84;
Palms for Sale at Hamburg, 230; The Loran-
thus europaeus, 284; Kerner's Hortus semper-
virens, 284; Kollar's History of Insects injurious
to Cultivators, and to the Proprietors of Forests
and Plantations, 464; Botanic Garden, Berlin,
519; Frankfort Flower Show, 519.

Spain. Thuja articulata, 324; Gardens of Spain,
325; Andna Cherimòlia, 326; The Botanic Gar-
den of Madrid, 327; The Appearance of the
Country, S27; Agriculture, 328; Cochineal
Culture, 329; The Roads of Spain, 330; General
Improvement of Spain, 332.

Switzerland. - Lausanne, Difference of Climate

and Production, 573.

Sweden and Norway. - Zones of Vegetation ob-
served in the Scandinavian Peninsula, $73.
Denmark. M. Petersen's Stay in this Country,
466; Agave americana, 84.

India. - Singular Form which many of the Trees

assume in the Island of Little Carimon, near

Singapore, 374; extraordinary Plant in the Se-

chang Islands, 374; The Melon of Bokhara,

375; Vegetation of the Mountains of Nill-

gherry, 375; The Madras Agricultural and

Horticultural Society, 617.

China. The Botany and Gardening of China,

332.

incana, 143; Presents to the Public Parks, 184;

Open Spaces for Exercise and Recreation for

the People, 184; The Flora of Britain, 184;

Departure of a Botanical Collector for Madeira

and the Canary Isles, 184; Pope and Sons' Ca-

talogue of Herbaceous Plants, 185; Manchester

Zoological Gardens, R. Forrest, 185; A Horti-

cultural and Botanical Garden at Bath, 135;

Clapham Common made a Public Pleasure-

Ground and Arboretum, 186; List of Pines

and other Coniferæ in Boyton House Garden,

186; A large Fig Tree in Jersey, 186; The

Canterbury Mulberry, 187; The largest Yew

Tree in England, 187; Eucalyptus robusta, 187;

The Jersey Cabbage, 187; the Black Bigarreau

Cherry, 187; The Lombardy Poplar, W. Mas-

ters, 188; Echevèria gibbiflora, 188; Saul's

Seedling Apple, 188; A novel Method of making

young Trees of the Swan Egg Pear bear Fruit,

188; Gourds in Sussex, 188; The Tunstall

White Wheat, 188; The Pópulus viridis Hort.,

230; Acàcia and Eucalyptus in the Norwich

Nursery, 231; Growing Grapes in the open Air

in Herefordshire, 231; Trimestrian, or Three-

month, Wheats, 231; Mimulus Hódsoni, 333;

Owen's Animalised Carbon, 376; The South

London Floricultural Society, $76; A Collec-

tion of Cactæ and Orchideæ, 376; A new Hy.

brid Rhododendron, $76; The Manchester

Botanic Garden, 376; Zoological and Botanical

Garden at Leeds, 519; A proposed Botanic

Garden at Newcastle on Tyne, 519; Pisum sp.,

by a Gentleman residing in Beskshire, 520;

Cowania plicata, 521; Agàve americana, 521;

Improvements in the Gardens of Buckingham

Palace, 469; Kew Gardens, 469; Vicinity of

Trees to Highways, 470; New Plant-Houses at

Woburn Abbey and Trentham Hall, 470;

Black Grub of the Turnip Saw-fly, J. O. W.,

470; Victòria regàlis, 471; Eucalyptus alpina,

471; Pàvia macrostachys at the Vicarage,

Rickmansworth, 471; Baron Hügel's new Aus-
tralian Plants, 619; Amhérstia nóbilis, 620;
Malva Fulleriana, Agàve americàna, 621; The
Four heaviest Gooseberries grown in England
in 1837, 621; A Mushroom, 621.

Scotland.-General Improvement, 188; The

Highland Society, 189; Agricultural Museum

in Dundee, 189; Acàcia dealbàta, 189; Onion

Crops of 1833 and 1836, 189; Improved Modes

of building Corn-ricks, 189. Botanical Society

of Edinburgh, 231; Flora Perthensis, 232; Fes-

tùca U`ri, 333; Early-mowing Grass, 377; Al-

lanton Park, 471; The Marriage Beech at

Inverary, 472; Singular Oak in the Western

Highlands, 472; Gardener's Lodge, 521; Heat-
ing by Hot Water at Altyre, near Forres, in
Elginsbire, 521; New Seedling Potato, 521
The Royal Highland and Agricultural Society
of Scotland, 621; A Sweedish Turnip, 621; Á
Globe Turnip, 621; A white Globe Turnip,
621; Two immense Cabbages, 621.
Ireland. - Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, 87; An
Experimental Horticultural Garden, and Na-

tional Arboretum, 88; A Root of Horseradish,
143; Yucca aloefòlia, 622.

Retrospective Criticism. - Errata, 93. 377. 476.

622.; Johnson's Willow, 94; Destroying the

Thrips, 94; The Deanston Plough and reaping

Machine, 94; The Principle, that no Soil will

continue fertile which wants calcareous Matter,

made public Thirty Years ago, 189; Increase of

the Stump of the Silver Fir, without the Aid of

Leaves, 234; Introducing of the better Sorts of

Vegetables to Cottages, 234; Destroying the

Thrips, &c., 235; Sir Henry Steuart's Mode of

transplanting Trees, and relative Subjects 285;

Forming Plantations with a View to facilitate

their after-management, 236; Quercus peduncu-

lata and Q. sessiliflora, with their Varieties, 237;

The Black Irish Elm, 237; Cytisus scoparius

Link, Spartium scopàrium L., 238; Mr. Ander-

son's Mode of protecting Seeds from the Attack

of Birds, 284; Grafting the Mistletoe, 285; Epi-

phyllum truncatum on Peréskia aculeàta, 285;

Grafting Oranges on the Pomegranate, 476;

Grafting the Plum on the Fig, &c., 476; Ency-

clopædia of Agriculture, 477; The Man-

chester Botanic Garden, 477; The Yew and the

Small-leaved Elm, 477; The Fúngi of the Oak,

477; Sweet's British Flower-Garden, 522;

Thuja articulata, 522; Jasminum odoratissi-

mum, 523; Catálpa syringaïdlia, 524.

Queries and Answers. - Cèreus heptagonus, 47;

Effects of Soap Ashes, 47; Choice of Soil from

a Common, 94; The Black Irish Elm, 94; A

Hedge of Furse and Privet, 95; Fletcher's

Mode of training and managing the black Ham-

burgh Grape, 95; The Dry Scale on Apple and

Pear Trees, 238; The Theory of the Rise and

Fall of the Sap in Acer sacchárinum when

tapped for its Juice, 285; Why are Chaffinches

deterred by a Line of black Thread, when they

do not dread a Thread with Bits of Rag attached

to it? 286; The Italian Mode of excluding the

common House Fly (Músca doméstica L.) from

Apartments, 286; Otiorýnchus sulcatus, 286;

Bruchus pisi, 287; Question respecting the Flow

of the Juice of Acer sacchárinum, 378;

Horticultural Societies, 379; The Villas at

Stanmore, 477; A fine Elm, 478; Insects inju-

rious to Pear Trees, 524; Trees at Fawley

Hall, 526; Watering Vegetables with a Solution

of Soda, 526; Fúngi on Vine Leaves, 526; An

Insect on the Scotch Pine, 622; Pinus cebenén-

sis, 622; Making a Peach taste of Wormwood,

624.

London Horticultural Society and Garden, 48. 96,

191. 240. 333. 379. 478. 526.

The West London Gardeners' Association for Mu-

tual Instruction, 88, 232. 472.

Covent Garden Market, 95. 190. 239. 287. 335. 383.
432. 480.

Provincial Horticultural Societies, 90.

Second Additional Supplement to the“ Hortus Bri-
tannicus," 528.
Obituary. M. Persoon, 96; C. M. Fischer, 96;
Mr. John Hay, 96; Joseph Sabine, Esq., 144.

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