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STATISTICS OF GARDENING. 



Part I 



nected with the vegetable world will be found in our Encyclopedia of Plants, and in the Encyclopcedu 

 Agriculture. 



7739. The study of systematic and physiological botany must go hand in hand with pr; 

 tical acquirements ; for which, and also for forming an herbarium, he will find gene 

 information in Part II. Book I., and for more minute details, he may consult the auth< 

 there referred to. Some idea of vegetable chemistry and geologyhe will obtain frc 

 Books I., II., and IV. of Part II. ; and also of the different insects and vermin whi 

 are enemies to gardens and garden-productions., The study of landscape-gardening, 

 being the highest part of the profession, should not be attempted till the apprentice 1 

 made himself master of the three departments which precede it. 



7740. A knowledge of the weather and the seasons, so as, in some degree, to be able 

 predict them from signs, is an important part of a gardener's acquirements. Our obsei 

 ations in Part II. Book II. will aid him in this study, and he should also keep a weath( 

 book, or naturalist's journal, such as we have already suggested. (2349.) 



7741. A pocket memorandum-book, for taking notes of everything interesting, whether professional 

 general, is a useful help to the young gardener. He should begin this sort of memorandum-book with 

 leaving school ; and he will probably find it useful to continue it all his life after. Its size should be sm 

 octavo, to suit the pocket ; it requires no ruling, but a line across the page half an inch from the top. 

 writing on one page, the opposite one should always be left blank for corrections and additions, for sketch 

 or for taking down temporary memorandums in pencil. The following may be considered as a specimi 

 in which it is to be particularly observed, that a margin is left on the written page, on which margin ea 

 article is begun with a word written or printed in large letters. These words, thus conspicuously plao 

 serve as an index to each article, and in future reference will be found of material use, as they can 

 glanced over like the words in a dictionary. Any thing to be inserted, should always be done instantly, 

 never later than the same day. If it is done out of doors, it may be written on the blank page in peni 

 and afterwards copied on the opposite page in ink. 



Pocket Memorandum-Book of J. Gott, Apprentice, at Aubrey Hall. January ilth and 28<A, 1821. 



27th. 



PEAS. Last night's frost and this day's sun have killed 

 the peas in the south border : but those sown in the 

 north side of the wattled hurdles escaped, being 

 shaded from the sun. 



LIZARD. Caught a new species, and took it to Twigg. 

 It had no tail, which convinced him it must be a 

 distinct species. 



28th. 



ROSES. Idea of a conic iron tree, covered with any of 

 the climbing roses, all over inoculated with monthly 

 roses. 



PARSNEPS. Gurkin O'Doolittle caught distilling par- 

 snep whiskey in the tan-shed: discharged without a 

 character. His still two watering pots placed top 

 to top, and closed with a wet cloth; the top kept 

 cool by pouring water on it. 



NEW IDEAS. Torriel Joss, the parson, called; says 

 there are two ways of getting new ideas; by shuf- 

 fling what ideas we have together, like a pack of 

 cards, (which is to be done by a ftee glass of wine, 

 opium, or tobacco.) when new combinations may 

 occur to the mind accidentally : or by a studied 

 selection of ideas suitable to the subject" on which it 

 is desired to invent, which can only be done by 

 scientific persons, as Sir H. Davy in his invention of 

 the safety-lamp. 



These were covered with drill hand-glasses, and the rro] 

 is now, June 2d, fit to gather. 



N.B. It turned out to be only the common lizarc 

 (Laceria rul^aris, Linn.) which had lost its tail by som< 

 accident, and the wound had healed over. 



M em. Cobbler's name White, lives two doors from th* 

 Cat and Fiddle. 



7742. Apprentices are often required to keep a written journal of work done in the garden for their o< 

 use, and this may be advisable in cases where no regular books are kept by the master ; but where su 

 books and tables are kept as we have recommended (2338. to 2350.), the apprentice performing his part 

 making entries in, and daily seeing them, need keep no other books for his own improvement than a i 

 turalist's kalendar (2349.) and the journal or memorandum-book just described. In the last he can em 

 such facts belonging to gardening as are commonly entered in gardeners' journals. 



7743. Progress when a journeyman. An apprentice, besides studying his art in t 

 garden of his master, should, as often as may be, visit those of his neighbors, and obser 

 what is going on there. His apprenticeship completed, he should move to a different pj 

 of the country, performing the journey leisurely on foot ; botanising and collecting inse< 

 and minerals, and visiting every distinguished garden on his way. When he settles, 

 should be in a different kind of garden to that in which he was before, and there he shou 

 continue a year, and then remove and travel to another part of the country, and settle tfu 

 a year, and so on as already suggested (7380.), till he attains his twenty-fifth year, wli 

 he may undertake the situation of master. During the whole period in which he is joi 

 neyman, he should be steadily and unceasingly employed in improving himself, first in 1 

 own art, and the branches of knowledge, as botany, natural history, chemistry, weathi 

 &c. on which it more immediately depends ; and next, if his ambition permits, on genei 

 subjects of literature, arts, and sciences. 



Sect. III. Of the Intellectual Education which a Gardener may give himself, ihdependen 



of acquiring his Pnfession. 



7744. Self-education may be carried to a greater extent by a gardener than by aim* 



any other artisan No gardener, in our opinion, ought to be employed as a masl 



under the age of twenty-five years. Suppose him, therefore, to be put an apprentice 



