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have attained a considerable size, and the ground afterwards 

 sown with grass ; or, what is preferable, merely kept free of 

 weeds, by hoeing, forking, or slight digging. 



The Construction of Hot-houses of every description is by no 

 means so far advanced in the west of Scotland as it is in Eng- 

 land, and still less the mode of heating them by hot water. 

 By far too much labour is bestowed on the woodwork, in 

 forming mouldings, panels, and other ornamental surfaces, 

 which serve little purpose but that of harbouring dii't and 

 moisture and vermin, rotting the materials, and darkening 

 the house. 



( To be concluded in our next.) 



Anx. II. Horlicidtural Jottanda of a recent Continental Tour. 

 By Robert Mallet, Jun. Esq. 



Every young gardener of the present day ought to travel 

 abroad; and if two or three join company, so much the better. 

 There are useful hints as to the ho'w a young gardener of small 

 means is to manage this, in the Encyclopcsdia of Gardening ; 

 but pecuniary difficulties are not so great as may be imagined. 

 An attentive and careful young man could and ought to have 

 saved 80Z. by the time he is 24 years of age ; and with that 

 sum he may remain three months on the Continent ; and in 

 that time have been a week in Paris (long enough to see 

 carefully all that is useful to a gardener there), have seen 

 some of the South of France, the best of the Alps, most of 

 Italy, and returned through Germany, Belgium, and Holland. 



From nearly such a tour I have just arrived ; and although 

 it was not made with any particular view to horticulture or 

 natural history, I beg to offer a few scattered observations, 

 made at the time, on those subjects ; conceiving, that, although 

 not very valuable, they may elicit better from others, or excite 

 a desire to travel in those who have never before felt it. 



To premise from my own experience, I think the following 

 hints of equipment may not be unserviceable : — 



A traveller on the Continent should be as expeditious as 

 possible : he should have no trunks or portmanteaus at all ; 

 as, by these means, he will escape almost all the troublesome 

 examination of the douaniers, or customhouse officers, and 

 be enabled to go to places that he never could, if loaded with 

 a huge baggage. Instead of all this, he should have one lai'ge 

 carpet bag, much larger than usual ; consisting of carpet out- 

 side, varnished linen next, and lined with strong ticken or 



