264 Landscape-Gardeni/ig, 



seen iron tallies of various shapes, but their being so near the 

 ground, and their exposure to wet and frost, proved very in- 

 jurious to them. In the young-tree quarters of the nursery- 

 grounds, spokes of old wheels are made use of for this 

 purpose ; but in hard winters, we have known of some hun- 

 dreds of these sticks being carried oiF in a night for fire-wood. 

 In the botanic garden here, as every where else, the number- 

 ing sticks are liable to the injuries of frost and rain, and 

 although the wood may endure for ten or twelve years, the 

 tallies require painting every four or five years. 



To obviate these defects as far as possible, we consulted 

 with our potter, Mr. James Marshall, of Norwood, in Surrey, 

 who engaged to provide us with 5000 at l^d. each, in order 

 to renew the sticks of our herbarium department. These 

 tallies (jfi'g. 54.) are made of the same clay as garden pots, 

 and Mr. Marshall says he can make them at 8^. per 

 hundred, having procured the moulds, &c. The top 54 

 of the tally being bevelled off in the manner of a 

 writing desk to receive the number, and having had 

 four coats of good white lead paint, it will be washed 

 by every shower; and should we find that the wet 

 gets under the paint, we have only to continue the 

 paint down 3 or 4 in. Respecting the strength of 

 these tallies, 2600 came in the first cart load, and al- 

 though they were laid upon one another without pack- 

 age, there were only fifteen of them broken. They 

 are ft'om 11 to 12 in. in length, 2 in. in breadth, 

 11 in. thick, and the size of the bevelled part is 1^ in. 



I remain. Sir, yours, truly, 

 Botanic Garden, Chelsea, Feb. 4. 1829. W. Anderson 



Art. VIII. On Landscape-Gardening, as a Part of the Study and 

 Business of Practical Gardeners. By a Landscape-Gardener. 



{Concluded from p. 42.) 



With respect to the distribution of such plants for the pur- 

 pose of thickening the interior, or enriching the margins, of 

 woods, they should be disposed in very irregular parts, ta 

 produce not only a general screen, but also an intricacy 

 of outline of themselves ; sometimes advancing beyond the 

 exterior, or retiring back towards the middle, of the wood. 

 Views into the wood may be marked or bounded by the 



