Review of Loudon's Gardener'' s Magazine. 297 



REVIEWS. 



Art. I. The Gardenerh Magazine and Register of Rural 

 and Domestic Improvement. Conducted by J. C. Loudon, 

 F. L. S., H. S., &c. In Monthly 8vo Numbers ; Is. Qd. 

 each. No. LXXIV, for May. 



This number is full of valuable information, from which we 

 shall make large extracts. It contains twelve excellent original 

 communications, from various scientific and practical men. 



Art. 1. — " Gardening Notices suggested by a tour in France, 

 in August and September, 1835." By T. Rivers, Jr., the 

 well-known nurseryman at Sawbridgeworth, at which place is 

 one of the finest collections of roses in England. The article 

 is full of interest, being amusingly as well as instructively writ- 

 ten. The following extracts include the most useful parts of the 

 paper. 



" Forcing the Rose. — At Lisle, in one of the numerous small nursery 

 gardens, I was interested with what might be called a most eligible 

 mode of forcing the rose. In this instance a small span-roofed house 

 w as used. A boi'der on each side of the central path was planted Avith 

 roses budded on dog-rose stems of different heights ; the shortest stems 

 being put next the path, so as to make their heads form a sloping bank. 

 The surface of these borders was covered with manure, to keep them in 

 a constantly moist state. The common smoke flues were used for heat- 

 ing this house; and the owner informed me that, by beginning to force 

 in December, roses were gathered from it plentifully for the market in 

 March and April. 



" After the crop of flowers was gathered, the lights were taken off in 

 May, and the plants exposed till the period for forcing again arrived. 

 This method appeared so simple and economical, that I took a memo- 

 randum merely for the purpose of suggesting it to your readers; and, 

 for growing moss and other roses for bouquets near Loudon, it might, I 

 think, with some little modification, be carried extensively and profitably 

 into practice. In this way, also, with but very little trouble, a rose 

 garden in full bloom and luxuriance might be created as early as the 

 end of February ; and, by selecting some of the ever-blooming varie- 

 ties, continued nearly through the whole year. And what a delightful 

 sheltered promenade might thus be formed by those who, regardless of 

 expense, would build an elegant span-roofed house, with movable lights, 

 so as to form an agreable resort, not only in early spring, ))ut also at the 

 end of summer and autumn! for in September and October, and even in 

 November, the Noisette, China and perpetual roses, regardless of having 

 been forced, would bloom again as luxuriantly as ever." 



The following is given as the "Mode of Cultivating Pear 

 Trees in Pots, where the object is economy of space." 



" A Frenchman's town garden is often a model of economy of space. 

 You will find a choice collection of roses, budded on short stems ; a col- 



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