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man or the market-gardener. Foreign employers are more fully 

 aware of the advantages of sending their gardeners to travel 

 than we are; for, while we can point to Mr. Forbes alone, as 

 the only English gardener of a private nobleman who has visited 

 the Continent during 1836 and 1837, there are the gardeners of 

 Prince INIetternich and Baron Hiigel of Austria, and of Baron 

 Rothschild of Frankfort, who have visited this country within 

 that period ; independently of various curators of public botanic 

 gardens, and of commercial gardeners. 



Botanical and Horticultural Societies and. Exhibitions still 

 continue to multiply and prosper, of which ample proof will be 

 found in our article in a subsequent page. We have already 

 noticed the commencement of a new society for holding exhibi- 

 tions and other purposes in the metropolis. 



Public Gardens. — Some improvements are going forward in 

 most of these. A new architectural palm-house is nearly com- 

 pleted at Kew, as is the extensive range of hot-houses in the 

 Manchester Botanic Garden. (See p. 376.) The Botanical and 

 Zoological Garden at Cheltenham, one at Manchester, and 

 another at Bath, all laid out by Mr. Forrest, ai'e in progress. 

 Ground for a garden of this kind has been obtained at Leeds, 

 and endeavours are making to establish one in the prosperous 

 town of Newcastle. We regret that wo cannot notice anything 

 of this kind as in contemplation for the metropolis ; nevertheless, 

 there is a proposal for establishing a botanic garden for the 

 county of Kent, on the banks of the Thames, near Gravesend ; 

 which, if carried into execution, will be within a convenient 

 distance of the botanists of the melro))olis. 



■ Private Gardens, — We have little to add to the information 

 given last year respecting the improvements going forward at 

 Chatsworth, Woburn Abbey, and Trentham, except that they 

 are all carried on with vigour. As we could only notice a ^ew of 

 the other private gardens which are undergoing improvement, we 

 think it better to be silent, lest we should appear partial or unjust. 



Commercial Gardening. — The number of foreign nursery- 

 men who come to this country on business is on the increase, 

 as is the commerce in Dutch bulbs, and in dahlia tubers, 

 camellias, and pelargoniums. 



Garden Literature. — On turning to our article Ilevicics, the 

 only work of importance to gardening generally, which has 

 appeared in the course of the year, is Herbert's Amaryilidacece, 

 extremely valuable for the experiments in cross-breeding which 

 it details. Two of the most remarkable works, which belong to 

 the division of systematic botany, that have been published in 

 the course of the year, are. Hooker's Icones Plantarum, and 

 Bateman's Orchidacece (see p. 507, 508.) ; but the most useful 

 work is, unquestionably, vol. ii. of Ladies' Botany^ by Dr. 

 Lindley. The British botanist, or the tyro desirous of beconi- 



