232 Revleiv of Loudon^ s Gardener^ s Magazine. 



T. Rutger. We hope during the season to give similar plans for 

 laying out small gardens. 



Art. 5. Description of some of the Magnolias groioyi at Harringay House. 



" Jlf. conspicna. — Tljis fine tree is 25 ft. liigh, and 1(3 ft. across ; the circum- 

 ference of tlie stem, at 1 ft. from tlie ground, is 2 ft. 8 in. ; its age is, also, 

 twenty years. In tiie spring of tlie year, it presents a most beautiful appear- 

 ance ; for I think we may calculate on having at least 2000 blooms on it this 

 next season. 



"Jlf. soulangehiMi. — This is a very fine tree, considering the short time it 

 has been in this country. About six years ago, it was inarched on a strong 

 plant of M. cordata, which was planted at the same time as the others. It 

 is now 20 ft. 6 in. high, and 16 ft. across. The circumference of the stem, 

 at ] ft. from the ground, is 1 ft. 1 in. 



"The situation of these trees is on the top of a hill, in an aspect nearly 

 south. The soil, which is a sandy loam, was trenched to the depth of 5 ft., 

 and nothing put among it, except a little bog earth roimd the roots of the 

 ])Iants when |)lanted. The subsoil on this spot we have not been able to 

 prove, never having gone down deeper than 20 ft. ; but to that depth it is all 

 sandy loam. All the rest of om- ground has a subsoil of strong clay. 



" Owing to the wall against which the trees are planted being rather short, 

 they have not room to s])read out as they otherwise would do. I should 

 think that M. conspicua and Soulangeana would extend, each of them, 3 ft. 

 more each way. The probable height, at ten years old, of all the trees was 

 rather more than one half the i)resent height." 



The remainder of the Fehruary nuniher is filled with reviews of 

 various works, among which are the Complete Farmer, a new edi- 

 tion of which has just been published. 



" Though this volume," says the reviewer, " is, for the greater part, com- 

 piled from British publications, yet there is enough in it to enable us to form 

 some idea of the state of agriculture in the Unitect States. The most remark- 

 able feature is, the great number and variety of the implements and machines 

 in use. This forms a very striking contrast to the infant state of agriculture 

 in Britain, where, a century ago, there was not tnore than one kind of plough, 

 cart, or harrow in use throughout the whole of Scotland, and only two or 

 three sorts in England. The cause of this diflTerence is easily accounted for; 

 the Americans are full of intelligence, and the high price of labor obliges 

 them to seek aid in improved machinery." 



The review of a '"'Journal of a recent Visit to the principal Vine- 

 yards of Spain and France, by Mr. James Bushby," occupies sev- 

 eral pages ; after detailing a variety of practices in the cultivation 

 of the grape in the southern part of Spain, he concludes with the 

 following excellent and truly valuable observations : 



"Having recorded with so much minuteness my observations on every 

 vineyard and district through which I passed, I will avoid adding to the 

 length of this journal by oflering many general remarks. I cannot, how- 

 ever, refrain fi-om observing, that, from the aibarizas of Xeres, the most 

 southern vineyards of any reputation in Europe, to those of the chalky hills 

 of Champagne, amongst the most northern, I met with no vineyard pro- 

 ducing dry wines of reputation which was not more or less calcareous. 

 Although it is acknowledged that two thirds of the vineyards of France are 

 situated upon soil more or less calcareous, by Chaptal, and other writers 

 upon the subject, they have stated that, provided the soil is porous, free, and 

 light, its component parts are of little consequence ; and they euiimerate 



