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PART IE 



REVIEWS. 



Art. I. Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London, 

 Vol. VII. Part I. 



The present Part of these Transactions contains twenty- 

 three papers, fourteen of which are by officers or servants of 

 the Society, and the remaining nine by practical British 

 gardeners. The plates are H6y« PottszY, a plant very much 

 resembling the common H6y<z carnosa; a Meteorological 

 Diagram, three Pears, and the Plan of a Vinery. There are 

 besides several wood-cuts, which we consider to be an im- 

 provement in the getting up of the work, convinced as we are 

 that science would gain by the substitution of local cuts for 

 isolated engravings on copper, in every case in which orna- 

 ment, or aerial perspective, is not the chief object. 



1. Observations on the Growth of early and late Grapes under Glass. 

 In a Letter to the Secretary. By Mr. James Aeon, C.M.H.S. 

 Gardener to the Earl of Surrey, F.H.S. at Worksop Manor. 



Mr. Aeon provides a regular supply of grapes in a perfect 

 state for the table, throughout the year, in the following man- 

 ner : — " The late house crop lasts from the middle of 

 January to the end of March ; this is succeeded by the first 

 crop in the early house, which carries on the supply into 

 May, and it is continued by the grapes on the rafters in the 

 same house, until the pine-stoves, which are forced early in 

 January and February, produce their crops. These keep in 

 bearing through the summer, when a vinery, which I begin to 

 force about the end of March, furnishes the supply till the 

 late house fruit is ready in January. This completes the 

 succession." 



Early crops of grapes are generally grown under the roof 

 near the glass, as in the houses of Shepherd, Andrews, and 

 the forcing-gardens of the king, about London ; or against 

 the back wall of small houses with front glass nearly perpen- 

 dicular, as in the forcing-houses of the Dutch. Both these 



