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rors at the sight of this new implement, reluctantly consented 

 to try it in the garden ; and, at last, liked it so well, as to 

 order several for general use. Should you wish to have one, 

 I shall have great pleasure in sending it to you. 



I am, Sir, yours, &c. 

 Cronstadt, Russia, June 4. 1832. John Booker. 



We shall be happy to receive a hoe, which we will send to 

 Messrs. Cottani and Hallen's, to be manufactured for general 

 use. We shall be still more obliged by the various articles 

 mentioned by our liberal and benevolent correspondent, as 

 suitable for our Encyclopcedia of Cottage, Farm, and Villa 

 Architecture. — Co7id. 



Art. XIII. On Transplatititig large Trees, Pruning, Sfc. 

 By Mr. Howden. 



Sir, 

 I AM sorry to see, in a late Number of the Gardener's 

 Magazine, that the art of gardening is falling into decay ; 

 that many respectable nursery and seedsmen have become, 

 or are becoming, insolvent; and that more head-gardenei's 

 are out of employ than the nurserymen can find work for. 

 This, I should think, will have a good effect in making all 

 upstart gardeners humble and submissive. I also find, by 

 the review of Mr. ElHs, that there has been a Sir Henry 

 Steuart, who has written a book, wherein he stigmatises the 

 generality of gardeners as a set of self-sufficient ignoramuses. 

 This is indeed " the unkindest cut of all." The gardener, 

 who has all his life studied the nature of the vegetable king- 

 dom, who can call ten thousand plants by their proper names, 

 and who knows their nature, can no more bean ignorant man 

 than the officer in an army of soldiers who can call on every 

 one of his army by name to do his duty. But up starts a 

 Sir Henry Steuart, who, like a Sir Hew Dalrymple, snatches 

 the victory out of die hands of the poor operative. Allow me 

 to lend a helping hand to retrieve the falling fortunes of the 

 poor defenceless gardeners, and to show that we are not so 

 very ignorant as he supposes us to be. Sir Henry Steuart has 

 written a book in a fair legible hand ; for this reason, he 

 has had a better, or rather a more expensive, education than 

 most gardeners : but, as to his inventing the machine he talks 

 of, the thought is quite laughable ; the machine was invented 

 before I was born, and any practical gardener could invent a 



