106 Review of Loudoii's Gardener's Magazine. 



REVIEWS. 



Art. I. The Gardener's Magazine, and Register of Rural and Do- 

 mestic Improvement. Conducted by J. C. Loudon, Esq., F. L. S. 

 H. S. &c. In Monthly Numbers, 8vo. Is. 6d. each. Nos. LVI. 

 LVII. for November and December. 



In our future Reviews of this excellent Magazine, we shall endeavor 

 to give an account of every original article, extracting such useful 

 information from each, as will be likely to prove valuable and interest- 

 ing to our readers. In this manner our pages will contain the es- 

 sence of all that appears each month, and which, from the extensive- 

 ness of its correspondents, contains all the improvements in horti- 

 culture, floriculture, &tc. 



Art. 1. Observations made during a Horticultural Tour through 

 the Eastern Part of the County of Fife. By Wm. Smith. 



This article contains an account of several residences in the 

 County of Fife. Mr. Ingram, gardener to Lord Pitmally, is stated 

 as very successful in raising the Primula praenitens from seed, 

 " which he attributes to his method of distributing the pollen, and 

 effecting the proper impregnation of the flowers, which is merely to 

 blow occasionally on the flowers of the plants while they remain ex- 

 panded." 



On the seat of the Hon. W. Keith Douglas are a page of remarks. " Here 

 we observed," says the writer, in speaking of the grape, "as well as at other 

 places, that incurable disease, called the damping or shrivelling of the foot- 

 stalks of the berries and bunchrs, notwithstanding what has lately been written 

 in this Magazine. Mr. J. D. P. says that the cause is cold damp air, and the 

 cure plenty of lire heat. We are also strong advocates for plenty of heat, air, 

 and water : our opinion, however, is, that the evil is not contained in the atmos- 

 phere of the house at all; but is a defect of the roots of the vine, and a want of 

 proj)er nourishment; for every gardener knows that the disease first shows 

 itself when the greatest demand is made upon the roots by the crop ; and if it 

 be a heavy one, the greater is the disease. In our opinion, the best way to 

 cure the disease, or at least, to lessen the evil, is to keep the vine border well 

 mulched until the fruit is fully swelled, and then lightly to fork up the surface 

 of the border. We would also thin well the bunches; give plenty of heat, 

 air and water ; and not allow the vine to bear too large a crop." 



Art. 2. A Description of the Moss House in the Flower-Garden at 

 Bagshot Park. Designed and executed by Mr. Andrew Toward, 

 Gardener to Her Royal Highness, the Duchess of Gloucester. Com- 

 municated by Mr. Toward. 



This article contains an account of building a house of moss, ac- 

 companied with several wood cuts, descriptive of the method and 

 style of building. 



" The ceiling of the portico is inlaid with moss of various colors, repre- 

 senting a star and <liamonds, with a cornice of pinaster cones. Tlie floor 

 under the portico is a copy of the ceiling in different colored elliptical-shaped 



