Landed proprietor, conduct towards his tenants,417.Landscape gardening,210.Larder,119.Laughing goose,368.Lawns, mixture of grass seeds for,225.Layers, how to make,272.Leaven, to make,58.Lemonade,109.Lemon cream,109.Lemons, how to pickle,112.Lettuces, kinds of and mode of growing,238.Liaison of eggs,87.Library,18.Loaf cheese,142.M.Macaroni, mode of preparing,96.Macaroons,68.Macaws, treatment of,24.Magnonnaise, to make a,84.Making bread,57.Manures, different kinds and use of,279.Marinade, to make a,88.Marjoram,240.Marmozets, treatment of,26.Meat, curing of122.——, pickling of,121.Medlar, best situation for,262.Melons, mode of growing,240.Milk, management of,127.Milk cakes,62.Milking cows,318.Milking, times for,127.Mill for pepper,39.——, mode of cleaning,40.Mint,240.Mixture for cooling wine and freezing ice-creams,149.Mole,395.Monkeys, treatment of,26.Morning sitting-room,18.Muffins,65.Mulberry trees, best situation for,262.Mules, for drawing carriages,301.——, their value,304.Muscovy duck,368.Mushrooms, how to gather,242.——, mode of growing,241.Mutton hams,125.N.Naples biscuits,67.National cookery,95.Nectarine trees, forcing of,259.——, management of,246.Nidulària campanulàta,395,398.O.Oat cakes,64.Offsets,272.Olla podrida,101.Omelettes,88.Omelettes aux fines herbes,89.Omelette soufflée,90.Onion sauce,86.Onions, mode of growing,238.Operations of gardening,268.Orangery,199,207.Orchidaceous plants, culture of,195.Orchideous house,190.Ornamental aquatic fowls,363.Oven for baking bread,55.——, to heat with coal,57.P.Park,210.——, scenes in,217.Parliament, to make,69.Parmesan cheese,142.Parrots, treatment of,24.Parsley,240.Parsnep,237.Partridges,377.——, how to cook,83.Patte d'oie,222.Peach trees, forcing of,259.——, management of,246.Peacocks, management of,347.Pea-hens,347.Pear trees, management of,201.Peas, mode of growing,231.Peat, as fuel,13.Pencils for sketching,410.Perch,362.Perdrix aux choux,83.Perennials,177.Permanent crops,230.Perry, how to make,55.Pheasants, how to cook,83.—— in parks,374.Pickle, mode of making the mixture for,120.Pickling meat,121.Pigeon-house,352.Pigeons à la crapaudine,82.—— aux petits pois,82.——, management of,353.——, modes of cooking,81.Pigs, management of,321.Pike,362.Pine-apple cheese,142.Pine-apples, mode of growing,258.Pine cones, good for lighting fires,12.Pinetum,224.Pintail duck,371.Pipings,273.Plaiting coarse straw, or bulrushes,422.Plans, how to transfer, from the paper to the ground,160.Plantations near the house, use of,211.Plant houses, use of,187.Planting a shrubbery,215.Plants in windows, treatment of,19.——, lists of, for a regular geometric flower-garden,157.——, mode of keeping them in a growing state,281.——, modes of propagating, by seeds,270.——, modes of propagating, by division,271.Plant stoves,188.Pleasure-boats,412.Pleasure-grounds,211.Plum pudding,105.Plum-trees, management of,247,262.Pochard,373.Poland, national dish of,99.Pomegranate, management of,248.Ponds, inhabitants of,359.Pony-carriage,297.Pork pies,115.Potatoes, mode of growing,236.Potato flour,111.—— omelette,89.—— starch,111.Pot-au-feu,95.Potherbs,240.Pot-marjoram,240.Poultry, diseases of, and their cure,355.——, how to cook,78.——, management of,332.Poultry-houses,333.Poultry-yard, inhabitants of the,330.——, management of the,332.Pound cake,68.Propagation, different modes of,270.Pruning,278.Pruning-shears,270.Pruning the vine,253.Puchero, to make a,101.Pudding, an excellent Yorkshire,105.——, cabinet,108.——, French apple,107.——, Mr. Sopwith's almond,108.——, Mr. Sopwith's Victoria,106.——, parsnep,108.——, plum,105.——, Sir Joseph Brookes's,106.Puff paste, to make,93.Q.Quadrupeds kept for amusement,284.—— supplying food,309.Quagga,302.Quince, best situation for,262.Quiver for carrying arrows in,408.R.Rabbits, diseases of,324.——, management of,323.Radishes, times for sowing,237.Raisins, mode of keeping,40.Raking,269.Raspberries, mode of growing,265.Ratafia drops,68.Red beet, mode of cultivating and cooking,237.Red-crested duck,373.Red deer,327.Red goose,368.Red-legged partridge,378.Red spider, description of, and remedy for the,193.Refrigerator,147.——, the American,148.Reins, directions for holding,295.Relieving the poor,418.Renovating gravel walks,229.—— turf,225.Repotting, mode of performing,202.Reserve-garden, situation for, and use of,170.Rhubarb,231.——, mode of growing,267.Rice cream,111.—— flummery,109.Riding,284.Ripe gooseberry wine,53.Roe,327.Rolls,61.Roosting-houses for poultry,336.Rose-garden,224,225.Rotation of crops,231.Ruddy goose,369.Runners,272.Rural seats,393.—— walks,390,393.Rusks,63.S.Saddles,296.Safes, for uncooked and cooked meat,126.Sage,240.—— cheese,136.St. Cuthbert's duck,373.Salad, of cold game,84.Sally Luns,62.Sand-bath for fowls,334.Sauce à la Bechamel,87.—— à la Tartare,87.—— blanche,85.——, kinds of,86.——, velouté,87.Sauer kraut, mode of making,97.Savory,240.Savoys, mode of growing,233.Scarlet runners,236.Schools, establishment of,419.Scotch barley broth,103.—— greens, mode of growing,232.—— haggis,102.—— hotch-potch,104.—— national dishes,102.Scullery,45,127.Sea-kale, cultivation of,231.Sea pheasant,371.Seats of rustic work,393.Seeds, propagating by,270.Self bows,404.Servants' offices,37,119.Sheds for poultry,333.Sheep,324.Shelter for aquatic fowls in winter,365.Shieldrake,369.Shoes for walking,392.Shooting-glove,407.Short paste, to make,94.Shoveller,370.Shrike,396.Shrubberies, mode of planting,166.——, effect of, in harmonising a flower-garden with a park,215.——, openings in, to admit distant prospects,216.Shrubbery,215.Silk of a piano, mode of saving from flies,21.Silk-worms, management of,385.Siller cups,398.Silver fish, treatment of, in glass globes,27.—— pheasants,380.Single Gloucester cheese,133.Sirop de Cerises,115.Sitting-box for hens,335.Sitting hens,341.Situation of ancient houses,212.Skating,413.Skeeling goose,369.Sketching in the open air,408.Slate, use of a, in the housekeeper's room,41.Snow goose,368.Soap, keeping of,40.Soup made in a minute,75.—— made in an hour,74.—— of France,95.——, stock for,72.——, white,75.Soups, various kinds of,74.Spain, national dish of,101.Spinach, mode of growing,237.Sponge-cake,67.Sporting terms,415.Squirrel, food for,23.Stable, management of,285.Stamped biscuits,66.Standard fruit trees, management of,260.Stew, an Irish,104.Stews for fish,363.Sticklebacks, how they prevent the stocking of a pond,362.Stilton cheese,132.Stock for soup,72.Stone fruits,246,262.Store closet,37.Stoves, objections to,13.Strawberries, management of,265.Style of gardens,221.Succory, how blanched,239.Suckers, propagating by,271.Sugar, moist and lump, mode of keeping,39.Sugar paste, to make,94.Summer savory,240.Surf scoter,373.Swan,363.Sweet chestnuts, mode of cooking,282.——, mode of growing,263.Sweet-marjoram,240.Swinging,411.Syllabubs,92.T.Table ale, to brew,46.Target,404.Tart-rhubarb,231.——, management of,267.Tassel, used in archery,407.Teaching the poor,420.Teal,371.Tea, mode of keeping,39.Temporary crops,231.Tench,361.Tender annuals,175.Terms used by sportsmen,415.Terrace, use of,221.Terrine, a,88.Thinning-out trees in a shrubbery,215.Throwing off of the hounds,414.Thrust-hoe,269.Thyme,240.Tomatoes, mode of growing,241.Tomatoes, Spanish mode of keeping,114.Tomato sauce,113.——, the Spanish way,114.Tops and bottoms,63.Training,278.—— standard fruit-trees,260.—— the vine,254.Transplanter, use of,270.Trees, difference in the foliage of,213.——, reasons for cutting down,14.——, the probable reason why they are planted in front of a dwelling,8.——, touch of the different kinds of, to be attended to in sketching,411.——, why clipped into formal shapes,220.Trout,362.Trowel, use of,270.Turf, how to renovate,225.Turkeys, management of,344.Turnip,237.Turnips, to remove the unpleasant taste they give to milk,130.V.Vegetables, crops of culinary,230.Ventilating close carriages, mode of,298.Ventilation, importance of,15.Vine, principal points to be attended to in its culture,258.——, pruning the,253.——, training the,254.Vinery, construction, preparation, and management of,249.Vines, management of,249.——, time to force,254.W.Walking, apparatus for,392.Walks, mode of forming,228.Walnut catsup, excellent,113.Walnut, mode of growing the,263.Walnuts, mode of keeping,282.Warming rooms,10.Water-fowl,363.Water-ices, mode of making,151.Water near a house,211.Water plants,191.Weeds on gravel-walks, mode of destroying,229.Western duck,373.Whistling duck,372.White soup,75.Wicker-work, coverings of, for preserving plants,185.Widgeon,372.Wiltshire cheeses,141.Wine cakes,67.Wine, freezing mixture for cooling,149.——, mode of cooling, by ice,148.Winter marjoram,240.Winter savory,240.Wood fires,11.Wood, kinds of, best suited for fuel,11.Woods, inhabitants of,374.Woundwort,399.Y.Yeast, artificial, how to make,58.——, best way of keeping,60.——, mode of recovering, when sour or putrid,59.York cream cheese,144.Yorkshire cakes,62.—— pudding, to make an excellent,105.Z.Zebra,302.