250 Transactions of the Prussia?i Gardening Society/. 



observes that no root is more impatient of a strong bottom 

 heat than that of the asparagus. The silver medal was 

 awarded for this essay. 



Such are these very useful Transactions. It is gra- 

 tifying to find that there are so many gardeners capable of 

 writing, and of writing well too, in a district, which com- 

 pared with others may be said to be remote, and not very 

 thickly studded with gentlemen's seats. The Society have, in 

 our opinion, shown much good sense in publishing their 

 Transactions in so portable and cheap a form, and without 

 copper-plate engravings. There is hardly any purpose within 

 the scope of a horticultural society, unless it be the delineating 

 of fruits and florist's flowers, that may not be attained by un- 

 coloured wood-cuts. Both the London and Caledonian Hor- 

 ticultural Societies have shown great want of judgment in re- 

 spect to the engravings in their Transactions. There is hardly 

 a country gentleman, we understand, in the three counties em- 

 braced by the Newcastle Society, who does not belong to it ; 

 and, as everyone of them will have these Transactio7is, and 

 lend them freely to their gardeners, we can conceive the vast 

 good which will be done in a few years. The test will be the 

 supplies sent to the markets of the different towns of the dis- 

 trict. As we have elsewhere shown [Encyc. of. Gard.^ § 7711.), 

 an improved supply will create an improved demand ; and, as 

 no extraordinary capital or skill is required for the ordinary 

 departments of garden culture, the markets of Newcastle and 

 Durham may, in a very few years hence, be better supplied than 

 those of London were a few years ago. We can recollect 

 when pine-apples and forced sea-kale were very rarely seen, and 

 forced rhubarb-stalks were unknown, in Covent Garden. We 

 would recommend to the Newcastle Society the subjects of 

 sauer-kraut and blanched chiccory. (Vol. IL p. 400., and 

 Vol. III. p. 342.) 



Art. III. Verhandlungen des Vereins zur Beforderung des Gar- 

 tenbaues in den Koniglich Preussischen Staaten. Tratisactions 

 of the Society Jor the Advancement of Gardening in the Royal 

 Prussian States. Vol.11. Berlin. 4to. 1826. 



1 — 4. Extract from the Meetings of the Society, and various 

 Opinions as to the Cause of, and Remedy for, Canker in Fruit 

 Trees, 



M. Wiederhold is of opinion that the canker is a disease 

 of the sap, or prepared juice, produced by unsuitable soils. 



