By J. C. LOUDON, F.L.S. H.S. &c. AUTHOR OF THE ENCYCLOPEDIAS OF GARDENING AND OF AGRICULTURE, AND LONDON: PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, REES, ORME, BROWN, AND GREEN, PATERNOSTER-ROW. THE Fourth Volume of the Gardener's Magazine contains a number of additional facts on the important subject of heating hothouses by hot water, and a various and extended correspondence on all the subjects which the work embraces. In the list of authors of this and the three preceding Volumes, will be found above a hundred and fifty names of practical gardeners who have never before written in any publication. Independently of the useful facts which these writers have communicated to their professional brethren, the circumstance of having excited so many individuals to write for the first time, must, we think, be considered as attesting the utility of the Gardener's Magazine; because to induce gardeners to think and to write, is to open up to them new exercises for the mind, a higher class of wishes to be gratified, and, in consequence, a degree of happiness increased in proportion to the exertions necessary for the gratification of these wishes. It will be seen also, that in this Fourth Volume the number of foreign correspondents has increased, a fact which cannot but be gratifying to every reader and every writer; to the former, because the universality of any taste or pursuit is a proof of its congeniality to the human mind; and to the latter, because whatever may have been the motive for coming before the public, the end will be answered in proportion as that public is numerous and extended. Writing this preface during our progress on a Continental tour, we can assure our correspondents, from personal observation, that they are not without readers either in France or Germany; and that, besides here and there amateurs and practical gardeners who peruse the Magazine regularly as published, many of the articles it contains have been translated and circulated in the French and German languages. The notes which we are now taking will appear in our succeeding Volume, and from these it will be found that the gardeners of the Continent can, in return, give some useful lessons to those of Britain. Our part is to be the herald and recorder of gardening improvements, whatever may be the country which has given them birth, and to promote the interest of gardeners and amateurs of the art, first in Britain as our home, and next throughout the world as the abode of our friends. J. C. L. Munich, Nov. 2. 1828. 102. Breadfruit tree 103. Primula verticillata 227, 228 104. Combretum comòsum 349 359 84, 85, 86. Heating a hot-house by steam 331, 90, 91, 92, 93. Cultivationof the carnation 125. Frederiksdal and picotee 394 500 |