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atic acid I should recommend to be employed ; for, even if 

 decomposed, the results would be compounds that may be 

 applied to ulcerous affections with advantage. To the wound 

 it should be applied, after being mixed with twice its bulk of 

 water ; and to the roots, after an ounce has been mixed with a 

 gallon of water r applied twice a week. 



It must not be neglected to be observed, that if old trees 

 become affected with this disease, there is little chance of pre- 

 serving them ; for the sap of old trees always contains less of 

 vegetable, and more of saline, matter, than when they are 

 young and vigorous, consequently they are more prone to the 

 disease. 



" The old age of a tree," says Davy, " in this respect, is 

 faintly analogous to the old age of animals, in which the se- 

 cretions of bony matter are always in excess, and the tendency 

 to ossification great." 



It is a very mistaken idea of some gardeners, that trees 

 affected with canker are benefited by having the earth re- 

 moved from around their roots, and the space refilled with 

 sand : on the contrary, if the old soil is removed, it should be 

 replaced by that which is fresh and fertile ; at all events, a 

 little well putrefied dung should be pointed in round the 

 the stem, and the surface kept covered with mulch during the 

 summer, to prevent them being injured by drought. In short, 

 every thing should be done to keep them in vigour. 



(Tb be continued.) 



Art. V. Remarks on the English Taste and Practice in Landscape- 

 Gardening, as compared with the Taste of the Germans, with a 

 Plan and Description of the Gardens of Prince Metternich at 

 Johannisberg on the Rhine. By M. Jacob Rinz, Jun. 



Sir, 

 I think the English taste in landscape-gardening inferior 

 to that now rapidly spreading through Germany. In every 

 part of the world there are more bad works than good ; but in 

 England, where no expense is spared, I should have expected 

 better productions in the way of landscape-gardening. It 

 seems that the taste is by no means improving in this country, 

 but rather remains in its first or old principles, while we in 

 Germany endeavour to improve on them. My opinion is, 

 that you commit a great fault in dividing the park from the 

 pleasure-ground, and the pleasure-ground from the flower- 

 garden. Not to introduce shrubs and flowers in the park is 

 unnatural, because where they are produced in great variety 



