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are continually changing their situations, both to the disad- 

 vantage of themselves and their employers. 



On the other hand, the advantages of not changing to the 

 owners of gardens are so great, that a few remarks will con- 

 vince them how ruinous a change is to their garden, some- 

 times to the total destruction of it. That changes are some- 

 times necessary I allow, but they might in many cases be 

 dispensed with. A gardener possessed of general knowledge, 

 honesty, sobriety, and perseverance ought not to be changed, 

 as it is a well known fact, that the proprietor cannot find out 

 the merits of his gardener in less than four or five years ; and 

 experience has proved that it is better to keep a bad gardener 

 than be often changing. By changing, as some do every three 

 or four months, they totally destroy their gardens ; for how can 

 so many gardeners, having different methods and intentions, 

 and entering at every stageof the cultivation, avoid entirely to 

 do so ? Every new gardener must make a change, seeing that 

 his predecessor was discharged for not making something or 

 another grow or thrive to which the soil was unfavourable ; 

 and hence these repeated innovations, carried on by a succes- 

 sion of gardeners, shortly present to the owner the total de- 

 struction of his garden, and which destruction, on taking a 

 retrospect, he can only attribute to his own imprudence in so 

 often changing his gardener. John Cameron. 



Grove Lane, Cambernsuell, April, 1827. 



Art. XIV. On the Culture of Hyperanthera Moringa, or 

 Horseradish Tree, in the West Indies. By W. Hamilton, 

 Esq. M.D., Fareham, near Plymouth. 



Sir, 

 The object of your valuable and widely circulating Maga- 

 zine being general utility, without restriction to any particular 

 part of the British dominions, and as I think much good might 

 be effected by directing, through the medium of its pages, the 

 attention of such of your readers as may be connected directly 

 or indirectly with our colonies in the West Indies, as well as 

 of our merchants trading to Colombia, to such productions of 

 the tropics as, though hitherto neglected or overlooked, pro- 

 mise to afford a rich harvest for speculative enterprise, I pro- 

 pose, with your consent, commencing a series of letters for 

 occasional insertion, on the subject of the commercial, econo- 

 mical, and medical properties of some of the more valuable ; 



