CONTENTS 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



GENERAL SUBJECT. 



A Retrospective View of the Progress of 

 Horticulture in the United States, dur- 

 ing the year ]844. By the Editor . 1 

 Notes and Recollections of a Tour through 

 part of England, Scotland and France, 

 in the autumn of 1844. By the Editor — 



Objects of the Tour; and General Re- 

 marks 15 



Places "Visited; Climate of England; 

 Liverpool; St. James' Walk and Public 

 Cemetery; Liverpool Botanic Garden; 

 Chester; Eaton Hall . . . .41 



Manchester; Sheffield; Sheffield Bo- 

 tanic Garden ; Baslow ; Chatsworth, 

 Duke of Devonshire . . . .81 



Matlock; Derby Arboretum; London; 

 Garden of the London Horticultural 

 Society 121 



Chiswick, Mr. Glendenning ; Clap- 

 ham, Mr. Groom; Regent's Park Bo- 

 tanic Garden; The Parks of London; 

 Sawbridgeworth, Nursery of Mr. Riv- 

 ers ..*..... 161 



Brighton; Dieppe; Rouen; Rouen to 

 Paris; Paris; Nursery of M. Jamin . 201 



Jardin des Plants; Gardens of the 

 Luxembourg; Nursery of V. Verdler; 

 Garden of M. Laffay at Meudon; The 

 Chateau of Meudon . . . .241 



Vitry Sur Seine; Nursery of M. Chat- 

 enay; Fromont on the Seine, Villa of 

 M. Soulange Bodiu ; Versailles ; The 

 Gardens of the Tuilleries; The Gardens 

 of the Palais Royal; The Champs Ely- 

 sees; Pere la Chaise .... 281 



London; Tooting, Messrs. Rollison 

 . & Son; Clapham, Messrs. Fairburn; 

 Mr. Wilmot's Fruit Garden, Isleworth; 

 Nursery of Messrs. Ronalds; Houns- 

 low. Nursery of Mr. Chapman; Chand- 

 ler's Nursery, Vauxhall; Fruit Garden 

 of Mr. Chapman, South Lambeth . 321 



Hackney, Messrs. Loddiges; Ham- 

 mersmith Nursery, Messrs. Lee; Chis- 

 wick Villa, Duke of Devonshire . . 361 



Kew Gardens ; Wimbledon House, 



Mrs. Marryatt 401 



Plan and Description of a Cucumber or 

 Melon Pit, heated on the Gutter Sys- 

 tem. By R. Glendenning, F. H. S., 

 &c., and author of various treatises on 

 gnrdening sulijects .... 18 



Progress of Horticulture in Indiana. By 

 the Rev. H. W. Beecher, Indianapolis, 

 Indiana ....... 50 



Some observations on the Climate and 

 Soil, and the State of Horticulture in 

 Wisconsin Territory. By F. K. Phce 

 nix, Delavan, Walworth Co., VV. T. . 56 



Remarks upon Heating Horticultural 

 Buildings. By a Practical Gardener in 

 the neighborhood of London . . 96 



Notice of the State of Horticulture in 

 Italy. By S. B. Parsons, of the Com- 

 mercial Garden and Nursery at Flush- 

 ing, L. 1 206 



A few Remarks on the Management of 

 Horticultural Exhibitions, with Sugges- 

 tions for their Improvement, &c. By 

 William W. Valk, M. D. and F. H. S., 

 of London 407 



HORTICULTURE. 



On the Cultivation of Lettuce, so as to 

 produce Successive Crops the year 

 through. By J. W. Russell, Newton, 

 Mass 20 



Figure and Description of the Jefferson 

 Plum. By A. J. Downing, Newburg, 

 New York 23 



On the Production of Hardy Seedling 

 Grapes, by hybridizing the native with 

 the foreign grape. By W. W. V. . 134 



Notices of Culinary Vegetables, new or 

 recently introduced, worthy of general 

 cultivation in private gardens or for the 

 market. By the Editor . . .136 



Remarks on Re-establishing Grafted Fruit 

 Trees on their own Roots, especially 

 applicable to Apples and Pears. Trans- 

 lated from the Revue Ilorticole, Tom. 

 v.. No. 30. By A. J. Downing, Botan- 

 ic Garden and Nursery, Newburg, N. Y. 133 



Pomological Notices; or notices resj)ect- 

 ing new and superior Fruits, worthy of 

 general cultivation: — 



Descriptions of twelve varieties of 

 Pears, new or recently introduced. By 

 the Editor, — viz.. 



1. Beurr6 de Cstpiaumont, Frederic 

 of Wurtemberg, Duchesse de Mars, 

 Golden Beurr6 of Bilhoa, St. Ghislain, 

 Duchesse d'Angoulcme . . . 1*'3 



