FeUon^s Gleanlmis on Gardens. 



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fi'om them. Any quantity that is necessary may be made at a time, as it 

 will be no worse for keeping, especially if kept air-tight. 



Sixteen recipes are given, one or other of which is capable of destroying all 

 the insects enumerated. The two principal ingredients in these recipes are 

 common soap and tobacco water ; in two or three of them quicklime is the 

 sole or principal ingredient, and in one or two alum or soot enters into the 

 composition. We like them the better for being simple, and because the 

 writer has used or seen used every one of them with success. The volume 

 is cheap, and we wish it a favourable reception. 



Felto7i, (S., Esq., Author of Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, &c. 

 (Vol. IV. p. 261.), Miscellanies on Ancient and Modern Gardening, 6zq. : 

 Gleanings on Gardens, chiefly respecting those of the ancient style in 

 England. London, 8vo. 5s. 



Our excellent friend has here collected a number of curious extracts 

 respecting old English gardens, Scotch gardens, conventual gardens, garden 

 burial, cottage gardens, the cultivation of the vine in Britain, Sherborne, 

 formerly the seat of Sir W. Raleigh, and Pope's Villa at Twickenham. 



Burial oftlieDuke of Saxe-Gotha, in 1804.' — " He forbade in his will, all 

 ceremony at his burial, except such as is usual for his lowest subjects. He 

 desired to be buried in his English garden, at the feet of the coffins con- 

 taining the bodies of two of his already deceased children. No speech nor 

 sermon to be pronounced, and no monument to be erected over him ; but 

 he desires his second son. Prince Frederick, to place a tree upon his grave. 

 To this prince he bequeaths his English garden, which is to be open, as 

 formed}^, to all visitors. The simple burial ceremony of this sovereign 

 took place on the night of the 25th, according to the wish expressed in his 

 will. The reigning duchess, with her child in her arms, had, the evening 

 before, strewed flowers round the grave. The midnight hour struck, when 

 the body entered the garden, carried by the servants of the late duke. The 

 walk to the island was laid with black cloth, with the boat that carried it 

 over. The ceremony was only interrupted by the sighs and tears of all 

 present." 



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Speaking of engravings of gardens, he says, " to sum up all, let nie again 

 refer to the most beautiful plates ever given of old Eug'ibh gardens, nameh, 

 to that at Oxneed Hall {fig- 43.), in the second volume of Mr. Britton's 

 Vol. v.— No. 19. o 



