116 



Retrospective Criticism. 



White Damson. Standanl ; end of September ; preserving. 

 Shropshire Damson. Standard; September and October; preserving 



great bearer. 

 Bullace. Standard ; October, November ; kitchen ; great bearer. 

 Wine.sour. Standard ; October ; preserving. 



XII. Raspberries. 



Barnet. 8. 

 Bromley Hill. 



Red Antwerp. 24. 

 Donble bearing. 



Yellow Antwerp. 



XIII. Strawberries. 



Downton. 52. 

 Keen's Seedling. 91. 

 Black Roseberry. 20. 

 Grove End Scarlet. 7. 

 Old Pine. 47. 

 Sweet Cone. 4. 

 Roseberry. 

 Elton Seedling. 135. 



Black July. 

 Miller's Burgundy. 56. 

 White Sweetwater. 

 Grove End Sweetwater. 

 Common Muscadine. 18. 

 Pitmaston White Cluster. 



Duke of Kent's Scarlet. Earliest of 

 all. 



Old Scarlet. Valuable only for pre- 

 serving. 



Alpine, Red and White. 



Prolific Hautbois. 31. 



Large flat Hautbois. 



XIV. Vines. 

 For the npen Wall. 



Cambridge Botanic Garden. 21. [This 

 kind will also not be out of place 

 in a vinery.] 



Esperione. Sometimes ripens pretty 

 well. 



Chasselas Musque. 



Fur a Vinery. 



Black Hamburgh. 



White Frontignac. 



Black Frontignac. 



Muscat of Alexandria, White. 



Verdelho, White. 



West's St. Peter's, Black. 



Horsforth Seedling, Black. 149. 



Black, or Morocco. 



Poonah, Black. 



Royal Muscadine, White. 



Black Damascus. 



White Sweetwater. 



(itrove End Sweetwater, White. 



Art. VI. Retrospective Criticism. 



Errata. — \\\ Vol. V. p. 680. for "Parfiiite" read " Birthwaite."— 

 A. G. Near Bnrmhij, Nov. 1830. 



In Vol. VI. you announce the death of Mr. Rigg and family. Mr. Rigg 

 was not of the party. — ./. W. H. Waaler, Nav. 18. 1830. 



A Lecture to the Conductor. — Sir, The singularly liberal and candid man- 

 ner in whicii you not only receive but promulgate reflections and criticisms on 

 your public caiiacity as Conductor of the (ilardener's Magazine, encourages 

 me to hojjc that you will pardon me if I suggest one or two improvements, 

 which I think might be made in that valuable work. Napoleon designated 

 us, 3'ou well remember, as a " nation of shopkeepers : " had he called us a 

 " nation of gardeners," he had probably characterised us with much greater 

 truth. The avidity with which we cultivate every yard of ground contiguous 

 to our cities and large towns appears to justify the assertion ; even the 

 flower-pots which decorate the upper windows in " our good city of Lon- 



