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was cleared away, and a collection of American peat earth- 

 plants received from Col. Carr, of the Burtram Botanic Gar- 

 den cultivated. In another small compartment, " 150 sorts of 

 tulipSj nearly that number of ranunculuses, anemonies, pinks, 

 carnations, primroses, (fee," and some dahlias were grown ; 

 and in 1831 these gave way to another representative system 

 of herbaceous plants. In a small border a complete collection 

 of strawberries, named agreeably to the Horticultural Socie- 

 ty's Catalogue of Fruits, was planted; but in 1826 these 

 were removed, and the border divided into 464 small divi- 

 sions, (by flints and vitrified bricks,) to contain that number 

 of orders and tribes, and consequently representing the whole 

 vegetable kingdom, hardy or tender, indigenous or exotic, in 

 Great Britain. In 1830, these were all removed, together with 

 the flints and bricks, and a universal representative system 

 substituted, limited to the representatives of the hardy trees 

 and shrubs cultivated in Britain, amounting to 58 species. 

 The stronger-growing trees and shrubs in this miniature arbo- 

 retum were taken up every other year, and their roots redu- 

 ced, to keep them of moderate dimensions. A stone shelf for 

 Alpines contained at one time 600 species in small pots, all 

 named. These are, however, but a very small portion of the 

 experiments, all of which are minutely detailed in the work 

 before alluded to. 



In closing his description of the garden, Mr. Loudon says, 

 " we might say a great deal more on the subject of the numer- 

 ous experiments we have tried in this small piece of ground, 

 in the course of twelve years ; one great object being, as far 

 as we could, to try every thing that could be tried in so small 

 a space. Owing to the liberal preparation we gave the soil, 

 and the liberal supply of water during the growing months, 

 (May, June, and July,) the growth of the trees and shrubs 

 was so rapid, that it would hardly be credited were we to 

 detail it ; and as we procured the trees in the London nurse- 

 ries, and planted them in the autumn, they produced some 

 fruit the first year, a tolerable crop the second and third, and 

 in 1828, '29, and '30, many bushels of apples and pears. So 

 large had these trees become, that there is scarcely one of them 

 now remaining (in 1S37)." After reading this, the most impa- 

 tient must perceive that six years are ample to give a good crop 



