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the 1th of February. 
year 15 
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A copy of the Journal for the corea i 
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che Gardeners’ Chronicle. 
TUR DAT. JAN 1848. 
MEETINGS FOR THE TWO FOLLOWING aes 
TuESDAY, Feb. l- Linnean 
WEDNESDAY, 2—Society of Arts 8 hed 
Ferpay, — D „b 8 P.M 
Mog ex, 7—Entomologi call 8 r. xx 
— 12 - Royal Botanic 
SATURDAY 
N Erry has been 1 5 us more frequently 
“ What bo : 
ok o ING can 
— Tork 80 our N reply 
. is none that upon the whole w 
fair repute upon the sub- 
‘elt’ but in our view tien reputation exceeds their 
deserts. e the whole of s bad in 
one respect or another, so far as forest management 
are written in ignorance and 
defiance £ 165 plainest er of vegetable phy- 
is concerned ; some 
are . others 
are seems strange, dennis g t 
ou 
2 
and foresters than a other class of men: and it is 
the truth; but 
katber are oblige d 
with the nature of p 
men. A 
y 
Nen 0 the 
488088 4 is he 
which i 
ne the point that the 3 geek ‘to tend 
also 
siology ; other ety; are mere o these views all must 8 They exhibit 
l compilations, fit for nothing but the Sen one of the causes to disappointment 
shops of the butterman ‘and trunk maker. in obtaining from plantations the profit which they 
erer there was a department of S l in may be made to yield is to be attribut 
that profit is ion be a question = be it what it 
If any branch of any subject has been ruine rd by ma be no doubt that in general it is 
the useless routine of ignorant “practical” men it grievously ent down by 155 e of those 
is the dep nt of woods. If the advantages of who have o produce And if this is so in 
any branch of sal tivation have 
science a in no s 
mber- doc 
© 
_ oP 
tor, and i 
whatit really is —.— constitutes the féitidafion 
t 
the woodman’s science. Man 
bet ill a pla 
e work A he peat bya ma of intelligoneo j 
experienc s great] epi 
glad to say is at — before p 
Mr. James Brown, thè 
ted; and w 
a sensi d useful manner 
11 refer to 0 his volume as the book t 
s, yet that he may be taken 
experienced teacher of practice in all 
ia, . ver 0 : eaks from his 
ite copies the opinions of 
ahi or — speaking oft che quality of our twoBritish 
has ka st el he physiology of the matter, eq 
Pg ide eron the senkan which is required | t 
a gui 
m their planation to the 
i 55 üs is not d at present, except in 
interested in 
among them; and i 
as 
ng, wertig, ung 
Brown, e Mere t of Forest Treés, 
> pp. 215. 
eve xagge- 
rated or depreciated it is still the Tirah forest 
land, and it must e itted 
in expo sing coe 1 
Mr. for an er at Arniston, near 
Dalkeith, has published his views of the subject * in 
, a 
best account 
number. of places, is a Seitens fact, 
a 8 on it must appear evident 
S plantatio 
the natural 
ere is extremely little 
of 
AA 
Ing © 
Š the letter from “a Professor of Taste 
make n 
arden 
$ ihor doubtful meaning of this signature ; nor on 
the 
po it is still nom so in hedgerows, which 
might have become a most important part of the 
proper pac a landed estate instead of the value- 
less 1 — 55 whi ch has led to their extermination. 
r. Bro 
i pos to 
e had some judicious advice to offer. Hisvièėw 
with: respect to p 
ticular, wo the Jarger . e 
rows , pa * is first for 
well — Füth among all 
cl foresters, that when a young tree is in a 
ate of th pe: 15 wood full of sap, 
us 5 its having m any wood, any 
ranch may be taken olf when aol the least 
ft 
ti 
practica 
injury to itz $ 1 it is jus 
existence of a that it can with gpa fe — 
ade to ace pi or 2 — erwise, according as it 
be attended to, to give the top the lead in ah 
growth, to check the stronger branches, and to give 
the tree 
that shape it ae be intended it should 
have 4 — it attains full a 
Th estion of hedero timber 5 Ate Kem 
come of zuck 0 e are ansio 
* of t planta- 
tions ; for we quite -agree wit Mr. Vernon HAR- 
experienced writer in the -Olster 
um 
cannot be be rly allowed to forma 
part of 5 economical question, to e we shall 
turn 
Ir would be wrong for us to pass over in silence | 
pa 
We will i 
nin ae 
is parmesan ce It is quite 
that so much interest is manifested 
in 
purp 
hala n e of many ede and pe 
practical directions Sor the 
u 
in respect to this long aeglert ted question, and we 
shall be very happy if he write again and agai 
the sop 
at we have introduced humour 
that 
trative instances are well 2 d—and that, on 
in 5 or demo ig glaring bad Taste. It n completely vindicate the 
uld have as little effect as a ho ic dos ch we have —— wer : 
sede au attack which demands medicine the most 
and roused to right ee and right views niet 
Often 
eee make boite funii has fo g 
me 
th 
s look, wr idk at the charges brought 
° | opinions whi 
is 
the fair spirit of discussion, will be 
T | viction e our ee as we can SEAI sa 
2 
we cz 
by the very tests which he dislikes. For is not 
ridicule the test of tru . And what made SYDNEY 
SMITH a o marvellously effective ? Who 
n the | inim itable AME Pinrincrows 
own 
may we not faul as 
general question of its use 
tastes — differ; he if in this case they even 
be equally balanced, the scale is clearly turned by 
the good actually done. 
Our correspondent again hardly states our aroa 
views and principles with takap fairness. We hav 
no more advocated exclusively, than we hav 
demned eee any landscape E prin- 
ciples whatever. Our readers will bear in mind 
while we > abe oeate the curve as she’ Hap of 
beauty, and therefore as the prevailing feature in 
good landscape gardening — and while we have 
equally e the predominance of straight 
lines and angles—we have never said that all the 
lines dida be curves, or one there should be no 
E 
eee 
8 as a foil to heighten the graces and 
bis the former rites seem. — 
to a „ ou 
But our worthy friend charges us with being 
tehety. Be it so. There is no harm in that if 
the erotchet lead t d we may safely 
say ‘that our erotehet i in favour of Downing wil be 
ore nor less than just com- 
| Bande s Acer i man—a man of original 
powers of thirking, whatever his previous educa- 
tion may have been. 
may hav 
—our own selections 8 been e in 
perfect fairness, As to the language which he uses, 
ent even if it manifested extreme ignorance in the 
knowledge and application of words and phrases— 
this would only show the trium his Taste in 
brighter colours, seg Ww 
Taste hc e 3 
r fri rahe 
Pt i and phrases are pre- 
served in the vernacular "of colonies long after they 
585 = come nese in the mother e country. 
- | there is an Am f the E 
oo b Meya: ; tat hie 
s still ordinarily used in Aa rica. Its me 
be thought sri n inelegant expres 
or the re rest, we do not shrink 1 e from de fending i in 
full our Aarati concerning NING. e shall 
show that his is an priest ely instatice oP Taste 
ed i in his favour. And w 
are sure that 
rhen we 
our on 
ourselves are fro 
CAPE HEATIIS. NK HR. 
Po olting. —Vegetable chemistry revi eals t. us 
E - soil in 
meaning or 
course is obvious—although in a 1 it would 
ed and 
shall have 
in 
open to con- 
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