An Encyclopaedia of Gardening: Comprising the Theory and Practice of Horticulture, Floriculture, Arboriculture, and Landscape-gardening, Including All the Latest Improvements; a General History of Gardening in All Countries; and a Statistical View of Its Present State, with Suggestions for Its Future Progress in the British Isles

John Claudius Loudon

Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824 - Gardening - 1233 pages

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Contents

• GARDENING CONSIDERED IN RESPECT TO ITS ORIGIN PROGRESS AND PRESENT: 3
• CHAP II: 9
• Wild herbs are too rank for men to eat till they: 13
• Roman Gardening as a Science and as: 15
• Italian Gardening in respect to the Cul: 21
• t to the Cul: 39
• orway: 47
• Of the Rise Progress and present State: 53
• Russian Gardening in respect to the Cul: 60
• Russian Gardening as a Science and: 61
• Spanish and Portuguese Gardening in: 66
• British Gardening as an Art of Design: 69
• British Gardening in respect to the Cul: 83
• Gardening in Ireland in respect to its hor: 92
• Commercial Gardens: 95
• CIRCUMSTANCES: 110
• Of the Climate and Circumstances of Bri: 118
• Lily: 131
• CHAP VI: 142
• Wounds and Accidents: 148
• Natural Decay: 157
• Process of Vegetable Nutrition: 165
• Process of Vegetable Developement: 172
• Of the Sexuality of Vegetables: 181
• Evidence and Character of Vegetable: 187
• Characteristic or Picturesque Distribution: 197
• Amaryllideæ: 206
• Origin of Culture as derived from the Study: 214
• Of discovering the Qualities of Soils: 221
• BOOK III: 229
• Of Manures of Animal and Vegetable Origin: 235
• Of Manures of Mineral Origin: 243
• CHAP III: 249
• Of the Means of prognosticating the Weather: 264
• Utensils: 282
• Glazing of Hothouse Roofs: 319
• Steam Boilers and Tubes: 326
• Mushroomhouses: 332
• Anomalous Buildings: 339
• Of the Aviary and of Menageries Pisci: 346
• CHAP IV: 361
• Gardenlabors with Plants: 367
• Of transferring Designs from Paper: 373
• CHAP III: 384
• 387: 412
• Operations for inducing a State of Fruit: 415
• Water: 428
• 1xiæ and Gladioli: 439
• The Formation of a Kitchengarden: 441
• Exposure and Aspect: 456
• Cropping: 465
• Laying out the Area: 473
• Of tall Standard Fruittrees in a Kitchen: 480
• It remain: 486
• Weeding Stirring the Soil Protecting: 493
• Of packing Orchard and other Fruits: 501
• Construction of the Peachhouse: 508
• Culture of the Pinery: 514
• Of the Culture of the Cherryhouse: 523
• General Directions common to the Three: 531
• Compendium of a Course of Culture: 537
• Culture of the Peachhouse: 558
• Leguminous Plants: 618
• room the: 621
• out in many: 627
• the General: 635
• Asparaginous Plants: 643
• 4: 660
• Domestic Medicine: 673
• addition: 681
• Tansy: 686
• the names: 688
• which: 698
• 671: 710
• 676: 728
• SUPE: 738
• CHAP IX: 742
• 141: 776
• ourselves: 820
• Floricultural Catalogue Herbaceous Plants: 828
• Pæony: 844
• 606: 853
• Pink: 860
• 014: 861
• which tre refresh these plants in dry weather they took care: 864
• Mignonette: 866
• first yet it contains considerably more printed matter besides above: 874
• Species and Varieties of Halfhardy: 881
• Deciduous Trees with showy Flowers: 888
• Evergreen Shrubs: 899
• Geranium: 906
• Climbing Greenhouse Plants: 917
• Woody Drystove Plants: 920
• Climbing Barkstove Plants: 928
• Of the Uses of Trees and Plantations and: 935
• Of the Classification of Plantations: 942
• CHAP IV: 950
• CHAP VIII: 956
• CHAP VI: 967
• 950: 978
• CHAP I: 995
• 684: 1003
• Buildings: 1014
• 710: 1016
• CHAP IV: 1021
• Walnut: 1024
• Of the Practitioners of LandscapeGardening: 1036
• Garden Counsellers Artists or Professors: 1042
• Topographical Survey of the British Isles: 1060
• 739: 1063
• 747: 1076
• CHAP IV: 1097
• British Works on Gardening: 1107
• Of the Literature of Gardening in Foreign: 1115
• Works on Gardening published in: 1131
• Exotic Fruits well known but neglected: 1136
• Of the Intellectual Education which: 1138
• KALENDARIAL INDEX: 1147
• GENERAL INDEX: 1165
• Exotic Esculents not hitherto cultivated: 1189
• 1143: 1227

Bibliographic information

• Title: An Encyclopaedia of Gardening: Comprising the Theory and Practice of Horticulture, Floriculture, Arboriculture, and Landscape-gardening, Including All the Latest Improvements; a General History of Gardening in All Countries; and a Statistical View of Its Present State, with Suggestions for Its ...
• Author: John Claudius Loudon
• Illustrated by: Branston
• Edition: 2
• Publisher: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824
• Original from: Harvard University
• Digitized: Jun 1, 2007
• Length: 1233 pages