FEBRUARY. 51 



exotic trees in the neighbouring gardens growing in similar soil. In 

 addition to the grand architectural terrace gardens, which will enclose 

 the palace on all sides, the rest of the grounds are to be laid out in the 

 natural style, and will include some 40 or 50 acres laid out as a park, to 

 be stocked with deer and other animals, and also ample spaces of ground 

 for every species of recreation. A broad carriage drive is to be carried 

 entirely round the grounds, which will be a great boon to invalids and 

 equestrians. A lake of 30 acres will occupy the low ground facing the 

 terrace front of the Palace, and will prove a great feature, as seen from 

 the higher grounds. The introduction of ornamental trees and shrubs 

 is intended to be on a most extensive scale, and it is expected will 

 add greatly to the interest and novelty of the gardens, admirably 

 adapted as the features of the ground already are for carrying out the 

 natural style of landscape gardening. The above are the principal 

 features connected with English gardening which the promoters of this 

 undertaking contemplate introducing into their scheme. There can be no 

 question that the idea of making British gardening popular as well as 

 instructive is a step in the right direction ; and that there is no reason 

 why the highest attainment of the landscape gardener's art, and the most 

 successful examples of cultivation, may not be made subservient for 

 imparting a knowledge of plants under every form of employment and 

 combination, — a beautiful and suggestive idea, worthy of the age. 

 Notwithstanding the great popularity of Kew — maintained by national 

 resources — we think much remains to be accomplished before all the 

 instructive lessons which may be taught through the medium of the 

 vegetable kingdom, and the various uses and objects to which plants 

 can be applied, are fully comprehended by the masses. We can 

 therefore most heartily wish success to a company who, it appears, 

 are endeavouring to carry out such ideas, and who seem desirous of 

 making the grounds belonging to the " Palace for the People " not only 

 as interesting and beautiful as Art can make them, but, by embodying 

 the educational principle in their scheme, they will create thereby a 

 school for studying an important department of natural history, as well 

 as the principles of cultivation applicable to the garden and the farm. 



BRITISH POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



At a late meeting of this society, R. Hogg, Esq., in the chair, a 

 large collection of Apples, Pears, and Grapes, was exhibited. 



Grapes. — Mr. Wighton, of Cossey Hall, Norfolk, again sent his 

 seedling, observing, that he had cut the first bunch from the same 

 Vine on August 5, when the crop was first ripe, showing that the 

 bunch now sent had been kept over four months. He also stated, that 

 he began forcing the house in which they had grown in December last, 

 and that it had stood open for some time past, and, in two instances, 

 exposed to several degrees of frost. On the former occasion, the 

 meeting expressed a very favourable opinion of it, desiring to see it 

 again at this season, to test its keeping properties. Doubts, however, 



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