133 THE GARDENER. [March 



ferent kinds of work so as to give a return at a certain given time. A correct 

 and methodical note-book ow^ht to be the constant companion of every young 

 gardener, noting the dates of sowing of the ditlereut kinds of vegetables and 

 seeds, their produce, and their time of maturity for the kitchen. The same 

 attention should be paid to both fruits and flowers, so as to insure the required 

 result at a certain time. While it was not absolutely necessary for the horti- 

 culturist to be either a chemist or a botanist, a knowledge of these sciences 

 would be much to his advantage, and he advised every young man to make 

 himself conversant at least with the rudiments of them. Mr Johnstone con- 

 cluded by suggesting that the Dundee Horticultural Association should devise 

 some plan whereby young gardeners could be examined in the various branches 

 of horticulture, and certiticates granted according to their respective merits. 



Mr W. S. Watt, landscape-gardener, Broughty Ferry, followed with his 

 first paper on "Style in Suburban Landscape-Gardening." Mr Watt said he 

 had been for upwards of thirty years an anxious student of nature, and he w^s 

 confessedly au admirer of the picturesque. Under certain circumstances, 

 however, nature required assistance from art ere she could assume that beauty 

 of form, harmony of dress, or sweetness of face which captivate and add ad- 

 ditional charms to the landscape. Mr Watt then briefly described the various 

 styles carried out in different European countries from the earliest period of 

 history to the present day. He recognised only three styles as being really 

 pure and distinct from each other in their details of arrangement. These were 

 the architectural, as applied to flower-gardens in the vicinity of the mansion ; 

 the gardenesque, geometric-picturesque, and the purely picturesque, as 

 adapted to lawns, shrubberies, and parks. The gardenesque was a favourite 

 style with some; it admitted of pleasing outline in curved walks and boundary- 

 lines, and in clumps in beds on the lawn. The style was very suitable for 

 villa grounds of from one to four acres in extent. The geometric-picturesque 

 style, where it could be carried out in grounds of from four acres and upwards, 

 he believed to be the perfection of modern English landscape-gardening A 

 favourable locality admitting of hill and dale, cascades, rivulet, lake, rockery 

 grottos, &c., would enable the clever landscape-gardener to produce effects at 

 once diversified and attractive. Although an'admirer of this particular style 

 he thought that landscape-gardeners should try to produce originality of 

 designs. He ridiculed attempts to imitate natural scenery on a small scale 

 when the landscape-gardener should have called to his aid artistic design, 

 and mentioned that there were no less than thirty-six landscape-gardeners, so 

 called, in Dundee. He regretted that some aspired to practise the art who 

 had not learned even its rudiments ; and he condemned the building archi- 

 tect's interference, as he considered his proper sphere lay in an opposite 

 direction. 



Mr Watt concluded his very able and interesting paper with an appeal to 

 young gardeners who might desire to make landscape-gardening a branch of 

 their profession, to begin its study early. 



Mr M' Arthur, Kinbrae Gardens, Newport, exhibited splended specimens of 

 Welch's Giant Brussels Sprouts, Williams's Magnum Bonum and Blood Eed 

 Onion, which he recommended for their keeping qualities, splendid Leeks, and 

 six exceedingly handsome fruits of "Warner's King" Apple, grown on a west 

 wall. The Brussels Sprouts were exceptionally fine, and were pronounced by 

 he entire meeting to be second to none that had ever come under their notice. 



Mr M'Arthur stated he got the seed originally from Messrs Cutbush & Sons, 

 London, about six years ago, and that he had selected the best stocks for seed 



