584* Summary View of the Progress of GardeJiifig 



trees as examples. Mr. Cree's principal employment is as a professional pruner, 

 and he goes out at the very low terms of half-a-guinea a day, and his travelling 

 expenses. (^Gard. Gaz. for 1841, p. 300.) 



An economical mode of procuring single trees has been 

 pointed out in this Magazine (p. 509.), and enlarged on in the 

 Ga7'dener's Gazette for Oct. 23.; and, in a subsequent number of 

 the same Journal (Oct. 30.), we have shown the advantage, 

 when large masses are to be planted, of preparing the soil by 

 the use of a four-horse plough, followed by the subsoil plough. 

 The advantage of heading down stunted single trees of consider- 

 able size, and of cutting over by the ground young trees that 

 stole after they have been three or four years planted ; of using the 

 pruning-shears much more extensively than has hitherto been 

 done by foresters; and of cleaning hedges early in the season, 

 before the side shoots have been protruded from the lower part 

 of the hedge, have been pointed out and enlarged on in leading 

 articles in the Gardener^s Gazette, not as new practices, but as 

 practices which deserve to be more generally resorted to. 



We were happy to see, during our tour, considerable progress 

 made in different places towards planting collections of trees 

 and shrubs, or, as they are technically called, arboretums. We 

 may refer to Corehouse near Lanark, Posso near Peebles, 

 Dalkeith Park, Hopeton House, and some other places about 

 Edinburgh, Ravensworth in Durham, and Moreby Hall 

 and Bramham Hall in Yorkshire. Pinetums are also being 

 commenced in various places. In furtherance of one object to 

 be obtained by collections, that of creating an interest in trees 

 and shrubs by attaching the names to them, which may serve 

 as indexes to their history in books, we are happy in being able 

 to state that permanent labels of iron and lead, or of lead alone, 

 are prepared by Messrs. Lucombe and Co. of Exeter, and Messrs. 

 Whitley and Osborn of Fulham, and sent out along with the 

 plants when desired, at very moderate prices. The lead labels 

 of the smallest size are 2 in. by 4< in., with the name and the 

 native countr}' stamped on them with steel types, in such a manner 

 that they cannot be obliterated for many years, and they cost 

 only 125. per hundred. These labels have holes at the angles 

 by which they may be nailed to larch or other stakes, 3 ft. in 

 length, with the bark on ; or they may be of larger size, and 

 attached to such shanks as we have figured in p. 230. : lead 

 labels of the size proper for these shanks will cost 2d. each. 

 We would strongly recommend gardeners and their employers 

 to have named by these, or by some other equally durable means, 

 all the trees and shrubs which are not universally known among 

 gardeners ; and also all the fruit trees, vines, and even one plant 

 of each of the more rare kind of ananas. In the case of wall 

 trees and espaliers, and also of vines, the label can be nailed 



