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of many changes in the hands of the proprietor, and must 

 essentially have been an experimental garden, in the true 

 sense of the vrord. The garden contains about quarter of an 

 acre, and was laid out in 1823. The whole ground was well 

 trenched, and before trenching the surface was limed and thick- 

 ly coated with the best London stable manure. The trenching 

 was done in the autumn, and in the spring the whole was 

 planted. In the Suburban Garden., the author has detailed all 

 his experim.ents in this garden from 1823 to 1837, and if we 

 had room we should copy the entire article here, but as it is 

 quite too long, (filling several pages,) we shall notice some of 

 the principal changes which were made, to show how much 

 can be accomplished on so small a spot of ground. 



In 1823, the garden was planted with a specimen of all the 

 trees and shrubs which could be procured in London, for the 

 purpose of studying their character, and also with "fifty pear 

 trees, nearly as many of apples, and a corresponding number of 

 plums, cherries, and other fruits." Many of these, as soon as 

 they began to bear, were cut down to make room for others, 

 and in 1837 only about tiventy-seven were remaining. 



In the hot-house, the first year, he grew melons ; the next 

 two years, pines. In 1830, it was wholly devoted to a repre- 

 sentative system of tropical plants, in pots ; and in 1837 was 

 only filled with grapes and figs. This house has been succes- 

 sively heated with flues and tan, flues without tan, and by 

 hot water in various modes. The greenhouse was first plant- 

 ed with peaches and nectarines ; subsequently with vines, 

 which bore enormous crops in 1829. In 1830, all were re- 

 moved, and a representative system of greenhouse plants 

 succeeded. In a pit, melons and cucumbers were first grown • 

 in 1826 it was filled with greenhouse plants, chiefly from Au- 

 stralia and the Cape : but in 1835 the sashes were given to a 

 friend, and the pit filled up with a collection of hyacinths and 

 pgeonies. 



In a small bed, culinary vegetables were grown the first 

 year ; then an arrangement of herbaceous plants was made 

 in it, so as to have an equal number in flower every month in 

 the year, except December and January. In 1830, the trees 

 overshadowed it, and the plants were removed. In a tank of 

 salt water a small collection of fuci were grown ; this tank 



