368 Rrfroxpcclivc Cri/ic/siii. 



to the two petals termiiuiting in a hag or pouch. It is hy mistake often 

 spelleil Dielytra." Your youtliiul correspondent. — C. T. W. Dcrhy- 

 shirr, Januari) 11. 1832. 



We have already alluded to this correction, Vol. VII. p. GO., at hottoni ; 

 but admit C. T. W.'s with thanks, because it is more in detail, and to evince 

 our respect for our " youthful correspondent's " lucid correction. — J. 1). 



SweeCs British Flower-Garden. — Sir, In the reply of F. (p. 87.) to my 

 observations on SwccCs Brilisli Fhwcr-Garden, inserted in Vol. VII. 

 p. 709., he appears to have wholly mistaken my object: it was certainly not 

 with a view of attacking the gentleman who conducts that work with so 

 much ability, that I animadverted upon it; but merely with the intention of 

 reconunending to your readers not to be too hasty in transferring to their 

 flower-borders new and scarce plants, until they had first obtained dupli- 

 cates. When the publication of the linlish Flower 'Garden was first 

 announced, it was proposed to figure only iiardy plants, or such as would 

 endure the winter in the open Hower-borders : this was its professed 

 object. Now, I will only a.sk F. camlidly to state, if all, or even many, of 

 the plants figured, are calculated for tliis pur]wse. That many of them arc 

 very beautiful, I am reaily to admit ; consequently, a great proportion of the 

 readers of the work would probabl}' be anxious to possess them ; but if 

 they were, on purchasing them, innnediutely to transfer them to their 

 flower-borders, would they not be doomed to disappointment and loss? 

 They must effectually keep the frost from some ; others would perish, by 

 being exposed to too much wet ; and there are some that wouUl never do 

 any good in open borders, under any circumstances. If, therefore, artificial 

 means are absolutely necessary to preserve them, is it not a misapplication 

 to call them hard}"? Would it be desirable to have the flower-garden 

 (which jou, Sir, very properly recommend to be, in every case, near the 

 rooms most immediately in use) studded with pots, mats, litter, &c., for 

 five or six months in the year ? I have no objection, individually, to the 

 plan of the work being changed ; but I do protest against tentler plants 

 being figured in a work professing to give only hanly flowers and shrubs ; 

 and at the same time recommending them as calculated for open flower- 

 borders. It is certainly very proper to attempt to acclimatise as many 

 exotics as possible, and it is an object worthy the attention of every cul- 

 tivator; because, in effecting it, you procure in many species far more beau- 

 tiful and splendid flowers than you can do by growing them in pots. It is, 

 therefore, not with any intention of dejirccating these experiments that 

 I have mooted the question, but solely with a view of reconunending caution 

 in the application. To the skilfid and experienced, this advice is unneces- 

 sarv; but to those who, like myself, only cultivate plants for anuisement, 

 it may be of some use. I need not take up your space in enumerating 

 such plants as I consider not calculated for the Hower-gardon, because it 

 must be obvious that my observations api)ly principally to the Cape bulhs, 

 &c., and to such herbaceous and alpine plants as are liable to be killed by 

 frost or wet ; also to some of those that are so exceeilingly diminutive, 

 that they are little calculated for the bonlers, although very necessary in a 

 collection as pot plants. Whether any of the above ought to have a 

 place in a work such as the publication in (juestion ])rofesscs to be, 1 have 

 great doubts; but I have none as to their unfitness for the flower-gi\rdcn. 

 E. London, Fehruftri/ 18. 1832. 



T/ic A^ririd/ural and Ilorlictdtiiral Exhihition held at Stirling (p. lU.), 

 atid pro/)fd)le Oiigin of lite Term " Wliinxtonc:' —These exhibitions, 

 juduing from first appearances, must, if persevered in, be attended 

 with the most beneficial results to that part of the country, and reflect 

 infinite credit on their promoters. Von mention that the Irish whin 

 was exhibited as an article of green food for cattle, anil properly re- 

 mark, that, owing to the difficulty of propagating it, it is not likely to 

 answer the end. The common variety of L'Mcx cnrop.nc'a is that used for 



