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manures, portable, compressed, crystalline, liquid, 

 desiccated, disinfected, and the rest of them, we are 

 by no means sure that this most necessary but rather 

 disagreeable portion of horticulture may not soon be 

 performed by the same delicate nerves that have 

 hitherto fainted at the mention of it. 



Ten years ago, when our authoress married Mr. 

 Loudon, " it was impossible," she says, " to imagine 

 any person more completely ignorant of everything 

 relating to plants and gardening " than herself. She 

 has been certainly an apt scholar, and no expert 

 reviewer can doubt there is some truth in her remark, 

 that her very recent ignorance makes her a better 

 instructor of beginners, from the recollection of her 

 own wants in a similar situation. One wrinkle of 

 hers we recommend strongly to our fair readers, the 

 gardening gauntlet,* described and pictured in page 

 10. We have seen this in use, and can assure them 

 that it is far from an inelegant, and certainly a most 

 comfortable assistant in all the operations of the gar- 

 den. Let us also add a contrivance of our own, a 

 close- woven wicker-basket, on two very low wheels, 

 similar to those used at the Euston Square and most 

 railway stations for moving luggage, only on a smaller 

 scale : it is much more useful than a wheelbarrow 

 for carrying away cuttings, dead leaves, and rubbish 

 of all kinds. 



* Here, again, our old friend Laertes meets us. Truly there is 

 nothing new under the sun. He had his gardening gloves before 

 " Miss Perry of Stroud," celebrated by Mrs. Loudon as the inventor 

 of them : 



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