106 OU THE STUDY OF BOTANY AND ENTOMOLOGY, 



sandy soil, and well drain the pot with potsherds, broken small, 

 and keep them in a cold frame through the winter : they require 

 but little water in winter, as their roots are very tender, but pro- 

 tection from frost. William King. 

 July, 1835. 



ARTICLE IV .—Observations on the Study of Botany 

 and Entomology. By Mr. Joshua Majoe, Land- 

 scape Gardener, Knowsthorpe, near Leeds. 



Some time ago I visited a large town, in which a very respecta- 

 ble Horticultural Society had for some time been established. My 

 visits happened to be at the time the Managing Committee was 

 sitting to arrange plans for the exhibitions that were shortly after 

 to take place. The Chairman of the Committee very kindly in- 

 vited me to attend. I was much pleased with the meeting, every* 

 thing being pleasantly and properly discussed. It struck me 

 at the time, that, as the great object of Horticultural Societies 

 is to promote the science of gardening, two most important 

 branches of that science particularly claim the attention of such 

 Societies, viz. Botany and Entomology/ — which are so little at- 

 tended to by Gardeners generally, that we might suppose they 

 were quite unconnected with the profession ; when, at the same 

 time, I think it requires no argument to show the Gardener, who 

 is ignorant of them, that he is much beneath his profession. Per- 

 haps, when I say Botany and Entomology, I am imposing a task 

 upon some Gardeners which neither their time nor education will 

 allow them to acquire; but every Gardener who can read and write 

 (without a knowledge of which he has no business to be a Gar- 

 dener), ought at least to inform himself of the names of plants, 

 their native place, time of their introduction and flowering, and 

 proper mode of culture. The same may be said of Entomology : 

 although he may fancy himself unable to acquire that science, 

 there is no excuse why he should not acquaint himself with the 

 habits of those insects which prove injurious to vegetation gene- 

 rally. In order that he may know the best time and season for 

 their destruction, and of such other insects and inscctiforous birds 

 which Providence has appointed for their extermination, that he 



