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most delightfiil treat to visit the tulip beds, the gooseberry gardens, or the 

 auricula and polyanthus sheds of some of these intelligent and ingenious 

 men. Of late years many have turned then- attention to the culture of 

 apple trees ; and, wretched as the situation of the whole of this class of use- 

 ful men now is, there is still a marked difference in the circumstances and 

 appearance of those who love their gardens. But some there are who- do 

 love them, without being able to possess them ; many houses being now built 

 in this, as well as other districts, without a garden. This is wretched policy. 

 I find among the few cottage tenants I have here, those with a garden pay the 

 best and the most rent, and seem to live in the greatest comfort. I am glad 

 to find you are going to publish a Manual of Cottage-Gardening, with the 

 model of a cottage, at the moderate price of Is. 6d. I shall direct my book- 

 sellers, Messrs. Longman and Co., to send me a few copies when published, 

 and I have no doubt of its being perfectly adapted to insure the end de- 

 signed, improvement in cottage building. On some future occasion I will, 

 if not intruding too much on your pages, present you with the description 

 of several cottages in the village of Hadnal, near Shrewsbury, with remarks 

 on the advantage of a plot of land being attached to the dwellings of the 

 labouring classes. I am, Sir, &c. — Charles Hulbert. High Street, Shrews- 

 bury, Feb. 24. 



Wistaria Comequdna. — Sir, In my botanical rounds and researches, I 

 find that beautiful climber the Glycine sinensis [Wistan'« Consequarca] in 

 many green-houses, and in some hot or forcing houses. Now, Sir, as this 

 plant is worthy of every gentleman's garden, for the information of those 

 friends of yours who may, or who may wish to, possess it, I here give them 

 my experience in the treatment of it. Loam and peat I find suit it better 

 than any thing else. The one I have has been with me three or four years ; 

 it flowers twice in the year ; I have it in a very large pot, and it is from 10 

 to 15 ft. high. I have kept it out in the most severe frost, nearly unpro- 

 tected ; and that intense frost which we had this spring, after some very 

 warm days, it was out under a south wall, and not at all injured. I have 

 increased it, by layers, with little or no difficulty. It is a plant of such 

 beauty as a climber for a veranda, or any warm situation out of doors, that 

 I would recommend it to every lover of plants, especially of climbers, among 

 which it holds the highest station. I am, Sir, &c. — G. G. Edgbaston, 

 near Birmingham, Aug., 1830. 



The Rhodes Grape. — Sir, I send you a specimen of the Rhodes Grape, 

 a seedling, raised at Horsforth Hall, near Leeds, a 

 few years ago. It is, as you will see, a fine large black 

 grape, but rather a shy bearer. It is also a bad setter ; 

 the specimen sent was set with Black Hamburgh. I do 

 not consider the bunch sent as the best specimen that 

 could be produced, owing to the wet season and a wet 

 border. In more favourable circumstances, I have no 

 hesitation in saying, that for size of bunch and berry 

 (fig. 1 16.) it bids fail- to be amongst the finest of black 

 grapes. The flavour is not particularly remarkable. I 

 remain, Sir, &c. — Thos. Appleby, Gardener at Hors- 

 forth. Horsforth Hall, Aug. 4. 



The bunch contained 84 berries, and weighed 1 lb. 

 7 oz.; and the flavour was very nearly as good as that 

 of the Black Hamburgh. — Cond. 



Large Puirtpkins. — Sir, Seeing in your Magazine of December last, 

 No. 23., an account of a pumpkin grown by Mr. Thomson, which 

 weighed, when ripe, half a hundred, I beg to inform you that I grew one in 

 the garden at Broomhall, near Oswestry, the seat of H. P. T. Aubrey, Esq., 

 in 1819, weighing 92 lbs.; in 1820, one weighing 1 13 lbs. ; and in 1821, one 

 weighing 136 lbs. lam, Sir, &c. — Geo. Davenport, Gardener. June, 1830. 



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