230 Review of Loudon'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 8vo. numbers, Is. 6d. each. Nos. LIX. 

 and LX. for February and March. 



These numbers do not contain quite as much useful information 

 to our readers, as several of the previous ones. The February num- 

 ber contains reviews of several works. The original articles in the 

 March number, are chiefly upon collecting and cultivating the tropi- 

 cal orchideae, which are now attracting great attention among the 

 English Botanical amateurs. Splendid collections have been made 

 by the London Horticultural Society, Messrs. Loddiges, Mr. Knight, 

 H. Lowe & Co., and others. The various species are held at high 

 prices, yet w-e hope their cultivation will, before long, be tried by 

 some of our enthusiastic amateurs, some of whom are well able to 

 introduce them, and to expend much in adding such a curious and 

 highly interesting tribe of plants to cur gardens. We have, our- 

 selves, been exceedingly gratified in reading the accounts of excur- 

 sions to collect plants, and in a review of a previous number of 

 this w^ork we made one or two extracts from jMr. Colley's Botanical 

 researches in Guiana (p. 147). 



The first article in the February number is the continuation of 

 " Notes on Gardens and Country Seats," by the Conductor. The 

 following account of the seat of Alexander Baring, Esq. M. P., we 

 are sure will be read with great interest. The excellent hints in 

 regard to the formation of avenues through parks, and approach 

 roads to a mansion, should be read and remembered by those who 

 are the fortunate possessors of a country seat, and would beautify it 

 in a superior style. We are but in the infancy of Landscape gar- 

 dening ; and if we would progress rapidly, particular attention should 

 be given to every thing which will tend to advance the science. 



" The Grange, Alexander Baring, Esq. — August 19. The road to this 

 place, over a country of downs, is dreary, and very uninteresting to a stran- 

 ger. Andover, like an oasis in a desert, is a neat and clean town, afTording 

 a good and cheap inn (White Hart) ; but there are several miserable heart- 

 less-looking villages between that place and the long approach which leads 

 to the Grange. The house here, however, repays all the trouble ; and we 

 have not seen a mansion the external elevation of which fdeased us so much, 

 since we commenced our tour. The beauties of this place lie in a narrow 

 winding valley, with a small stream in the bottom, which spreads into a 

 broad expanse of water near the house. The latter is proudly situated on a 

 steep bank, supported by a grand architectural terrace, and that again by a 

 massive terrace of gravel and turf, with a third smaller terrace, of the same 

 materials, below. The main body of the house is in the Doric style, with a 



