Hardy Plants. Gardener there 420 4-40 By Mr. William Duncan, | On a Method of obtaining new Kinds of Pots- Plan of a Flower-Garden, with a List of Plants 423 On raising Auriculas from Seed, and on a new Notice of a Plant of Misa paradisiaca (the Plantain), which has flowered and ripened Fruit in the Garden of John Milford, Esq., Conver, near Exeter. Abridged from Three Communications by Mr. Henry Dalgleish, Gardener to Mr. Milford, dated July 25., No. On the Culture of Seedling Ranunculuses. 548 By J. On the Genus A'ster. By T. Rivère, Esq. Some Remarks on the Culture of Pines, and other Plants, useful or ornamental, in Beds heated by Steam acting on a Mass of loose Stones. By John Hay, Esq., Garden Archi- Remarks on the Culture of Pear Trees. By Mr. 52 On the Evil Effects of planting Fruit Trees in too rich a Soil. By Mr. Robert Errington 54 On the Management of the Peach Tree. By Recipe for a Composition for destroying and guarding against Insects on Wall Trees. By Mr. James Burge, Gardener to the Rev. Rí. chard Lane of Coffleet, Devonshire 57 On the Culture of the Potato, both in the Field and Garden, and for early as well as main and late Crops. By Mr. J. Elles, late Gardener to the Marquess of Bath, at Longleat Notice of the Culture and Produce of a Patch of Maize, or Cobbett's Corn, grown by Mr. The Result of some Experiments with Ten Varieties of Indian Corn, with a comparative Estimate of the Merits of this Corn, as com. pared with those Corns commonly grown by the Farmers of Britain. By G. C. Remarks on Mr. Newington's Observations on the Management of Peach Trees. By Mr. James Craig, Gardener to G. Cholmely, Esq., On the Treatment of the Peach and Nectarine during the Summer Season. By Mr. William On raising an early Crop of Peas, as formerly practised in Tynningham Gardens, East Lo On the visible Cause, and easy and effectual Cure, of the bad Setting of some Sorts of Grapes. By Mr. James Craig, Gardener to G. Cholmeley, Esq., Howsham, York On the Forcing of Cabbage Lettuce in Holland. By M. P. Lindegaard. Translated from the Danish by M. Jens Peter Petersen of the On the Culture of the Newtown Pippin Apple. Notice of a Citron Tree in the Gardens of Castle Mr. C. Hale Jessop's Mode of cultivating the Enville Pine. Communicated by him to the Vale of Evesham Horticultural Society, at a Meeting of which on Sept. 25. 1828 it was read; and sent by the President of that So- ciety to the Gardener's Magazine On growing Pine-apples in Moss. By M. Jacob Seimel, Head Gardener to the Count Mont- gelas, at Bogenhausen, near Munich - 705 Observations on the Management of Vines in the Pinery. By Mr. Geo. Fulton, Gardener to Lord Northwick. Read at the Vale of Eve- sham Horticultural Society, Sept. 25. 1828 707 On keeping a fine Bloom on Cucumbers. By Mr. Geo. Fulton, Gardener to Lord North- wick. Read at the Meeting of the Vale of Evesham Horticultural Society, June 24. 1828 On the Culture of the Strawberry on a light sandy Soil. By Thomas Fleetwood, Gardener at Donnington. Read at the Meeting of the Vale of Evesham Horticultural Society, July REVIEWS. Isles is made familiar to every Capacity, as deduced from the Observations of the Author in the United States of America, and his Prac- 718 PART III. MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 100. 209. 295, 476, 583 | Arborétum Britannicum 103, 211. 316. 482. 592 Retrospective Criticism 110. 214. 354, 498. 604. 720 Remarks on the Gender and Accentuation of Varieties of British Plants cultivated and sold 349 | A Countryman - 176. 180, 1811 A Constant Reader 111. 368. 502 - - GARDENER'S MAGAZINE, FEBRUARY, 1830. PART I. ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE. ART. I. Notes and Reflections made during a Tour through Part of France and Germany, in the Autumn of the Year 1828. By the CONDUCTor. (Continued from Vol. V. p. 649.) PARIS, Sept. 6. 1828. We were in Paris and its neighbourhood till October 10., when we left that city for Germany; we returned on December 10., and remained till the middle of January, 1829. After some general remarks on the vicinity of Paris, as compared with the vicinity of London, we shall arrange our notes under the heads of Public Gardens; Royal Gardens; Commercial Gardens; Villa Gardens and Country Residences; Agricultural Establishments and Manufactories connected with Agriculture; Architectural Improvements; and Garden Societies, Institutions, and Literature. The natural circumstances of the vale of London and the plain of Paris differ in various particulars. The surface of the country and the soil in the vicinity of Paris are more favourable to gardening than they are in the neighbourhood of London; but the climate and almost every other circumstance are less favourable. This is speaking of gardening as including all its branches, and with particular reference to landscape-gardening. The surface of the country in the neighbourhood of Paris is more irregular than that around London; and those irregularities have more character, because they are for the most part produced by masses more or less stony or rocky. The hills at Montmartre and Montmorency are less like heaps of alluvial soil or gravel than the hills at VOL. VI. Highgate and Greenwich. The soil is more favourable around Paris, because it is every where calcareous, and on a dry bottom. The climate is better adapted for ripening fruits and blossoming fine flowers than that of London; but, from the heat and dryness of the air in summer, and the severity of the winter, greatly inferior to it in the production of culinary vegetables, and indeed in the growth of plants of nearly every kind throughout the whole year. It is particularly unfavourable to the culture of herbage grasses; and hence the difficulty, amounting almost to an impossibility, of producing close green turf. In respect to water, as far as landscapegardening is concerned, London and Paris may be considered on a par; for, though the Thames is broader than the Seine, the banks of the latter river are more varied in natural cha racter than those of the Thames. With regard to culture, the climate of London renders watering comparatively unnecessary in the neighbourhood of Paris, the watering of crops in the open air is one of the principal summer labours of the gardener. The scenery around Paris has an advantage over that round London, in possessing a number of natural woods of considerable extent, and a greater proportion of open lands and waste, surrounded by high cultivation; round London very little of nature remains. Thus much as to the natural circumstances of the vicinity of Paris, compared with those of the vicinity of London. In artificial circumstances the two districts are strikingly different. The vicinity of Paris is all nakedness and long lines; that of London all clothing and accumulations of houses and trees, with abrupt or circuitous lines. The approaches to Paris on every side are characterised by straight roads, straight rows of trees, straight avenues and alleys, and straight lines in almost every thing. The approaches to London are not characterised by lines; the roads, fences, trees, and alleys in woods, are irregular, and neither strikingly crooked or curved, nor always straight. In the neighbourhood of Paris every thing bears the marks of legislative influence: the dwellings of every village and every detached house are numbered; the city has a marked boundary, is only to be entered through certain public gates, and, on leaving it, you are at once in the country. Round London it is on every side difficult to say where the city ends and the country begins; the one passing insensibly into the other for miles of distance, and green fields, gardens, villas, streets, and churches blending together, till at last the traveller finds himself in the heart of the city. There is, unquestionably, much more of art round London than round Paris, because there is much more wealth: |