CONTENTS. 



Introduction 



Page 1. 



Part I. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



On the present State of Gardening in Ireland, 

 with Hints for its future Improvement. By 

 Mr. James Fraser, Gardener, Author of a 

 Letter to the President and Vice President of 

 the Horticultural Society of Ireland 



Page 10. 261 



Upon the Method of setting the Fruit of the 

 Granadilla. By an Amateur - 15 



Remarks on the Effect of the Lombardy Poplar 

 in Park Scenery. By Mr. John Thompson, 

 Land Surveyor and Pictorial Draughtsman 16 



Observations on an Hypothesis concerning the 

 Effects of Green Vegetable Manure. By An- 

 thony Todd Thomson, M.I). F.L.S. &c. Au- 

 thor of Lectures on Botany - - 20 



On the Life of a Jobbing Gardener. By Mr. 

 Archibald M'Naughton, New Ground Work- 

 man, Hackney - - - 24 



On cultivating a Collection of Grasses in Plea- 

 sure Grounds or Flower Gardens. By Mr. 

 George Sinclair, F.L.S. H.S. &c Author of 

 Hortus Gramineus Woburnensis 26. 112 



Of the best Mode of washing Water Cresse3 and 

 other Salads, so as to free them from the 

 Larvae of Insects and Worms. By Mr. James 

 Simson, Gardener, Musselburgh, near Edin- 

 burgh - - - - - 29 



On the Cultivation of Hothouse bulbous-rooted 

 Plants. By Mr. Robert Sweet, F.L.S., Au- 

 thor of the Botanical Cultivator, Cistineae, 

 and other Works - - - 31 



Historical Notice of the Present de Malines 

 Pear. By John Braddick, Esq. F.H.S. of 

 Boughton Mount, Kent - - 33 



On the Cultivation of the Grape known as 

 West's St. Peter, as practised at Spring Grove. 

 By Mr. Isaac Oldacre, F.H.S., Gardener to 

 the Emperor of Russia - - - 36 



On the Relations of Heat, Moisture, and Eva- 

 poration, in natural and artificial Atmo- 

 spheres. By Thomas Tredgold, Esq. Civil 

 Engineer - - - - 37 



On the Cultivation of Vines in the open Air in 

 Great Britain. By R. A. Salisbury, Esq. 

 F.R.S. L.S. HS. &c. - - -43 



On the Culture of the Huntingdon Willow, Salix 

 alba, as a Timber Tree. By Mr. Arch. Gor- 

 rie, C.H.S. &c. of Annat Garden, Perth- 

 shire - -. - - - 44 



On the Benefits to be derived by the Country 

 Labourer from a Garden, and the Means of 

 teaching him how to acquire those Benefits. 

 By William Stevenson, Esq. Author of the 

 Agricultural Surveys of Surrey and Dorset- 

 shire, &c. - - - - 101 



Some Account of a Conservatory lately erected 

 at the Grange, the Seat of Alexander Baring, 

 Esq. M.P Hampshire. By Mr. Peter M' Ar- 

 thur, F.H.S. Gardener there, with a prelimi- 

 nary Notice respecting the Architecture of 

 the Mansion, by an anon. Contributor 105 



Remarks on Mr. Thompson's Observations. on 

 the Effect of the Lombardy Poplar in Park 

 Scenery. By Richard Morris, Esq. F.L.S, 

 Surveyor and Landscape Gardener - 116 



Remarks on the Effects of the Cedar of Lebanon 

 in Landscape. By John Thompson, Esq. 

 Pictorial Draughtsman, and Student of Land- 

 scape Gardening - . - - - 118 



On forcing Roses. By R. A. Salisbury, Esq. 

 F.R.S.&C - - - 122 



History, Description, and Mode of Treatment 

 of Bishop's Early Dwarf Pea. By Mr. David 

 Bishop ... . page 126 



On a new Mode of training the Peach-tree, in 

 vented by Mr. J. Seymour, and communicated 

 by Mr. William Seymour, Gardener at Wed 

 dington, and Mr. Duff, Gardener to the Earl 

 of Grosvenor, at Eton Hall - . 128 



A Catalogue of Erica;, in the Collection of 

 George Dunbar, Esq. F.RS.E. &c. Professor 

 of Greek in the University of Edinburgh. 

 Communicated by the Professor - - 131 



On the evil Effects of a Head Gardener being 

 lodged any where else than in his Garden. 

 By a Common Sense reforming Gardener 135 



Catalogue of the different Species of Palm culti- 

 vated in the Stoves of the Hackney Garden. 

 Communicated by Messrs. Loddiges . 136 



On a new Verge Cutter and Orange Tub, in- 

 vented by Mr. Charles Mac Intosh, Gardener 

 to Sir Thomas Baring, Bart, and also on a 

 new Mode of preserving Cauliflowers by the 

 same, in a Letter to Mr. Mackay, of the Bel- 

 grave and Clapton Nurseries - . 139 



On the Remuneration of Gardeners. By P. 

 Burnard, Esq. of Eden Grove, Holloway 141 



On the Beurre Spence and other new Pears, and 

 on the Art of keeping Fruit. By W. Brad- 

 dick, Esq. F.H.S. of Boughton Mt. Kent 144 



Remarks on the Constitution and Adminis- 

 tration of the London Horticultural Society. 

 By a Fellow of the Society - -146 



On the Cultivation of Gourds and Pompions. 

 By Mr Henry Gray, Gardener, Camberwell. 

 Dated December 12. 1825 - -150 



On the Cultivation of the English and Ame- 

 rican Cranberry, and the Water Cress, at 

 Bretton Hall. By Mr. Christie Duff, late 

 Gardener there. Dated December 20. 1825. 151 



On the Management of newly imported Orange 

 and Lemon Trees. By Mr. William Moore, 

 Gardener at East Ham, Surrey. Dated Ja- 

 nuary 25. - - - - - 152 



An Account of an Experiment, which serves 

 to show that Hot-house Flues may draw 

 very well without terminating in an up- 

 right Shaft or Chimney. By Mr. Matthias 

 Saul, of Lancaster, Inventor of Saul's Fruit 

 Gatherer (Encyc. of Gard. \ 1347.) and other 

 Machines. Dated February 7. - - 152 



On the Winter Management of Bees, by a 

 Clergyman, in Morayshire. Communicated 

 by Miss Ann Dingwall. Dated Feb. 9. 153 



Historical Notice of Two Varieties of the 

 GardenPea. By Mr.T H. Masters, Eden Nur- 

 sery, Stoke Newington. Dated Feb. 25. 153 



On the Cultivation of Pear Trees for Perry. 

 By Rusticus, of Kent. Dated February 25. 



153 



Remarkable Specimens of Poeonia Papaveracea, 

 Madras Citron, and Magnolia Conspicua, in 

 the Gardens of Wormleybury, in Hertford- 

 shire. Communicated by Sir AbrahamHume, 

 Bart. F.R.S. H.S. &c. the Proprietor. Dated 

 March 18. - - - - - 154 



Sketches of the Botanical, Horticultural, and 

 Agricultural Circumstances of Spain. By Don 

 Mariano La Gasca, Professor of Botany in the 

 University of Madrid - 235 



Notices of Three New Keeping Pears. By John 

 Braddick, Esq. F.H.S. - - ' 249 



