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Hetrospect ive Crit icism . 



White Damson. Standard ; end of September ; preserving. 



Shropshire Damson. Standard; September and October; preservuig; 



great bearer. 

 BuUace. Standard ; October, November ; kitchen ; great bearer. 

 Winesour. Standard ; October ; preserving. 



XII. Raspberries. 



Barnet. 8. 

 Bromley Hill. 



Red Antwerp. 24. 

 Double bearing. 



Yellow Antwerp. 



XIII. Strawberries. 



Downton. 52. 

 Keen's Seedling. 91. 

 Black Roseberry. 20. 

 Grove End Scarlet. 7. 

 Old Pine. 47. 

 Sweet Cone. 4. 

 Roseberry. 

 Elton Seedling. 135. 



Black July. 

 Miller's Burgundy. 56. 

 White Sweetwater. 

 Grove End Sweetwater. 

 Common Muscadine. 18. 

 Pitmaston White Cluster. 



Duke of Kent's Scarlet. Earliest of 

 all. 



Old Scarlet. Valuable only for pre- 

 serving. 



Alpine, Red and White. 



Prolific Hautbois. 31. 



Large flat Hautbois. 



XIV. Vines. 

 For the open Wall. 



Cambridge Botanic Garden. 21. [This 

 kind will also not be out of place 

 in a vinery.] 



Esperione. Sometimes ripens pretty 

 well. 



Chasselas Musque. 



For a Vinery. 



Black Hamburgh. 



White Frontignac. 



Black Frontignac. 



Muscat of Alexandria, White. 



Verdelho, White. 



West's St. Peter's, Black. 



Horsforth Seedling, Black. 149. 



Black, or Morocco. 



Poonah, Black. 



Royal Muscadine, White. 



Black Damascus. 



White Sweetwater. 



Grove End Sweetwater, White. 



Art. VI. Retrospective Criticism. 



Errata. — In Vol. V. p. 680. for "Parfoite" read " Birthwaite."- 

 A. G. Near Barnsley, Nov. 1830. 



In Vol. VI. you announce the death of Mr. Rigg and family. Mr. 

 was not of the party. — ./. W. H. Wooler, Nov. 18. 1830. 



A Lecture to the Conductor. — Sii', The singularly liberal and candid man- 

 ner in which you not only receive but promulgate reflections and criticisms on 

 your public capacity as Conductor of the Gai'dener's Magazine, encourages 

 me to hope that you will pardon me if I suggest one or two improvements, 

 which I think might be made in that valuable work. Napoleon designated 

 us, you well remember, as a " nation of shopkeepers : " had he called us a 

 " nation of gardeners," he had probably characterised us with much greater 

 truth. The avidity with which we cultivate every yard of ground contiguous 

 to our cities and large towns appears to justify the assertion ; even the 

 flower-pots which decorate the upper windov/s in " our good city of Lon- 



