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account of its culture. Indeed, what Mr. Sweet has said 

 on the culture of bulbs and epiphites, in the last edition of 

 his Botanical Cultivator, may be considered as the ultimatum 

 on this subject, for the British gardener. 



24. On the Culture and Use of the Sea or Shore-Cale, Crambe 

 Maritima. By Mr. Brash, Royal Gardener at Bellevue ; with 

 an Appendix, by Mr. Voss, Royal Gardener at Sans-Souci. 



This vegetable is cultivated in the open garden, in the same 

 way as in Britain, and also forced by covering with pots of 

 earthen-ware, or frames of boards, surrounded by fresh 

 horse-dung. The appendix consists chiefly of extracts from 

 the pamphlet of Curtis on Crambe. 



(To be continued.) 



Art. VI. Recit dune Excursion Horticultural Jaite a Londres, 

 dans le mois d'Avril, 1824, par M. Soulange Boudin, Membre de 

 la SocieteLinneenne de Paris, et de la Societe d'Encouragement 

 pour l'lndustrie Nationale, &c. &c. (Extrait des Annales de 

 1' Agriculture Frangoise, 2d serie, tome xxviii.) 



M. Soulange Boudin is not exactly a nurseryman, but one 

 of those gentlemen or proprietor cultivators, common on the 

 continent, who are fond of gardening, keep up a collection of 

 plants, and propagate them for sale with a view of paying the 

 expences of the establishment. We have no parallel de- 

 scription of cultivators in this country, unless we except a 

 number of the merchants of Liverpool, who have villas in the 

 vicinity, and send their extra fruit and vegetables to market. 

 There are few descriptions of books more entertaining to the 

 horticulturist than Mr. S. Boudin's pamphlet; and we only 

 wish it had embraced a more extensive account of the sub- 

 urban gardens of the metropolis ; but our author only visited 

 the Horticultural Society's Garden, and a few of the principal 

 nurseries, and these only with the eye of a cultivator, or 

 rather nurseryman. 



He sets out by expressing his warm approbation of the 

 extreme neatness, cleanliness, and order 1 , displayed in English 

 hot-houses in general ; and admires our plan of setting plants 

 on open stages, elevated so as to bring them near the glass ; a 

 practice not common in France, where they are for the most 

 part set on the level floor. In Lee's nursery, he was much struck 

 with the heaths, and seems to consider the collection there as 

 the best in the neighbourhood* of London, and in the most 



