CONTENTS. 



Part I. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



GENERAL SUBJECT. 



Notes and Reflections made during a Tour 

 through France and Germany, in the Autumn 

 of the year 1828. By the Conductor 1.113. 



_ . 241. 369. 497. 642 



Remarks on some Gardens and Country Resi- 

 dences in Surrey. By J. Gale, Esq. - 9 



Outlines of Horticultural Chemistry. By G.W. 



Johnson, Esq., of Great Totham, Essex 11. 



127. 404 



On the Tendency to Prejudice among Gar- 

 deners ; and on the Importance of the Study 

 of Botany for every Class of Cultivators. By 

 W.D. . . . .15 



Remarks on the Conduct of some Master-Gar- 

 deners to their Journeymen. By R. S. E. 18 



On some Recent Improvements in the Methods 

 of heating Hot-houses and Hot-beds by Hot 

 Water. By R. W. Byers, Esq. - 20. 260 



On a Winter Garden. By T. Rivire - 23 



Remarks on the Education and Amusements of 

 the Lower Classes. By William Spence, 

 Esq. F.L.S. . - .125 



Vegetable Physiology, with a View to Vegetable 

 Culture. By M. W. Hertz of Stuttgard, now 

 in Kew Gardens - . - 132 



On the judicious Division and Employment of 

 Time, especially addressed to Young Gar- 

 deners. ByJuvenis Olitor - - 135 



On Parochial Museums and Public Gardens, and 

 on Dancing and Music, as Means of educating 

 the Feelings of the Laborious Classes. By 

 Variegata ... 248 



Some Account of the Public Orangeries, or 

 Public Winter Gardens, of Berlin. By M. 

 G. A. Fintelmann of Potsdam - - 251 



An Account of some Experiments in Physiolo- 

 gical Botany, undertaken at Welbeck in 1823- 

 24, and repeated in 1825, with a view to ascer. 

 tain the probable Cause of Failure in Early 

 Forced Grapes. By Mr. Joseph Thompson, 



. Gardener to His Grace the Duke of Portland 



253 



An Essay on Physiological Botany, in Continu- 

 ation of the Experiments described in the 

 preceding Paper. By Mr. Jos. Thompson 257 



Notice of a durable Number Tally of Earthen- 

 ware. By Mr. William Anderson, F.L.S. H.S. 

 Curator of the Chelsea Botanic Garden - 263 



Remarks on various Gardens about London, 

 and in other Parts of England, visited in April 

 and May, 1829. By M. Jacob Rinz, jun.. Nur- 

 seryman, Frankfort on the Main - - 379 



Historical Notices of the Rise and Progress of 

 Gardening in Bavaria ; with a Description of 

 the Royal Nurseries at Munich and Weyhen- 

 Stephan. By William Hinkert, Royal Bava- 

 rian Court. Gardener, and Director of the 

 Royal Central Fruit Tree Nursery at Weyhen- 

 stephan. Member of the Agricultural Society 

 of Bavaria and of the Deputation for the Cul. 

 ture of the Silkworm there - -384 



On Practical Cooperative Societies as a means 

 of ameliorating the Condition of the Labo- 

 rious Classes, with some Account of the 

 Brighton Cooperative Society. By Philan- 

 thropist - - . . 387 



On the Introduction of Botany into the System 



of Education in Village Schools. By Y. 390 



Hints with regard to the Drying of Botanical 



Specimens. By W. D. - . . 391 



On the Necessity and Advantage of enquiring 



. scientifically into the Practices and Results of 

 Horticulture. By Joseph Hay ward, Esq., Au- 

 thor of The Science of Horticulture^ and other 

 Works . . . . 394 



On the Climate of the Eastern and Middle States 

 of North America, with reference to Horticul- 

 ture. By Mr. W. Wilson of New York 409 



Some Account of the Botanic Garden at Lisbon 

 By W. Churchill, Esq., Royal Marines - 412 



On Straw or Reed Mats, as a Covering for Hot- 

 houses and Hot-beds. By Peter Lindegaard 

 Esq. C.M.H.S., Court-Gardener to the King 

 of Denmark 414 



Some Account of the Duke of Northumberland's 

 Improvements in the Kitchen-Garden and 

 Forcmg-Department at Syon. By the Con- 

 ductor . . - . 502 



GARDEN ARCHITECTURE AND LAND- 

 SCAPE-GARDENING. 



On the Laying out and Planting of Burying. 

 Grounds. By John H. Moggridge, Esq. 26 



Plan of the Kitchen- Garden at Annat. By Mr 

 Archibald Gorrie, CM. H.S. . .as 



On Landscape- Gardening as a Part of the Study 

 and Business of Practical Gardeners. By a 

 Landscape-Gardener . . 30. 264 



On forming Artificial Seas in Ornamental Land, 

 scape, and on a New Sluice for regulating the 

 Rise and Fall of the Tide in such Seas. By 

 Mr. W. Aitken, Nurseryman, Castle Douglas, 

 Author of 'Navarino, a Poem - . 137 



Description of an ornamental Conservatory, in 

 the Grecian Style of Architecture, built by 

 Mr. Robert Roberts, Plumber, Glazier, and 

 Gas Proprietor, Oswestry, Salop. By Mr. 

 Roberts, and J. P. - . . 268 



Remarks on Metallic Hot-houses. By Mr. 

 George M'Leish ... 415 



Description of a Hot-house, combining a Pi- 

 nery, Vinery, Succession Pit, and Winter 

 Green-house, all heated by one Fire. By 

 Abraham Caldicott, Esq., F.H.S. . 418 



ARBORICULTURE. 



On a Method of facilitating the Growth of 

 Thorn Hedges on high and exposed Situa- 

 tions. By Mr. D. Anderson - - 42 



On the Common Whin (t/^lex europse'"us), as a 

 Hedge Plant. By T. H. - 43 



A brief Description of the Timber Trees abound, 

 ing in the Province of Choc6. By W. Hamil- 

 ton, Esq. M.D. . . .44 



On the Scotch Pine. By Agronome - 139 



Some Observations on the Rearing of Gorse 

 Hedges ( f/Nex europse^us). By Spinosa 270 



On the Natural Succession of Forest Trees in 

 North America. By J. M. Philadelphia 421 



Notice of a Machine for transplanting large 

 Trees, in Use in Thoresby Park, Nottingham- 

 shire. In a Letter to Mr. Mackay, of the 

 Clapton Nursery. By Mr. Bennet. C.M.H.S., 

 Gardener at Thoresby. Communicated by 

 Mr. Mackay, F.L.S. H.S. . .422 



Method of cultivating the Mulberry in the Go- 

 vernment Mulberry Plantation at Nymphen- 

 burg, with a List of the different Species and 

 Varieties grown there. By M. Bischof, Nur- 

 sery-Gardener to the King of Bavaria - 424 



FLORICULTURE. 

 On the Propagation of Cape Heaths. By C.L.B. 



47 



Observations on the Improvement of Flower. 



Gardens. By Mr. George M'Leish - 48 



Observations on the Cultivation of Ferns. By 



Mr. James Housman . -49 



Historical and Descriptive Notice of a Plant of 



1 _ the Sabal BlackbiiniMj now in the Gardens at 



