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I wish either recalled or concealed; I will die as I have lived, in the com- 

 mission of the only crime with which I can be charged during my whole 

 life, the crime of speaking plainly the plai?i truth.' In the early part of 

 the life of this friendly and kind man, when he resided at Brentford, as a 

 clergyman, no one was more beloved by his parishioners ; he administered 

 every possible comfort to the poor; his sermons zealously enforced the 

 excellence of that faith in which he had been educated." 



Our readers will see, from the last extract, that Mr. Felton has a just 

 feeling for grand and generous sentiments, as well as a taste for gardens. 

 The whole indeed of his excellent little work breathes the spirit of kind- 

 ness and philanthropy. We should like to give him the use of Mr. 

 Forsyth's library for two years, in order that he might find materials for 

 two thick 8vo volumes instead of this fragment, the shortness of which 

 every reader will regret. Wherever it is wished to create an enthusiasm 

 for gardening pursuits, this little book should be thrown in the way. 



Moggridge, J. H., Esq., one of the Vice-Presidents of the Glamorgan and 

 Monmouthshire Horticultural Society : An Introductory or Inaugural 

 Address, delivered at the First Meeting of the Glamorgan and Mon- 

 mouthshire Horticultural Society in the Town Hall, Cardiff^ on Monday 

 the 22d of September, 1828. Cardiff! Pamph. pp. 20, 2 pis. 



The Address points out the enjoyments and advantages procured by the 

 knowledge and practice of gardening, and states the objects of the institu- 

 tion. These are, " not only to disseminate more widely the improved prin- 

 ciples of the art of ornamental and landscape gardening, as applicable to 

 the park, the pleasure-ground, and the pleasure-garden ; and to incite and 

 encourage the better cultivation of the gardens of the labouring poor, as 

 well as the better management of the kitchen-garden, the conservatory, 

 and the hot-house of the rich ; but such a share of its attention as may be 

 called for will be bestowed upon the production and cultivation of forest 

 and fruit trees, shrubs of all kinds, flowers, and herbaceous plants, even the 

 different kinds of grasses which ought to form important portions of the 

 improved herbage of our meadow and pasture lands. To effect these pur- 

 poses, at once so useful and gratifying, written communications on any of 

 these subjects will be welcomed by the Committee of the Institution, and 

 selections made for reading at its periodical meetings. The proceedings of 

 similar Societies will also enter largely into the consideration of this Society, 

 and occasional lectures be obtained when practicable, both in the theory 

 and practice of horticulture, in the most enlarged sense contemplated; and 

 such shows be established, and premiums given, as will direct the public 

 attention to the subject, stimulate to useful emulation, and excite that kind 

 of competition, which, whilst its success benefits and gratifies the individual, 

 must be useful to society. Of the utility of such pursuits, the country in 

 which we live affords abundant proof .... In this country, and perhaps in 

 the world, the Horticultural Society of London takes the lead in this 

 career of general beneficence and universal good : it has agents ransack- 

 ing distant regions for floral treasures ; its garden to rear, cultivate, and 

 protect them ; its members to disseminate them ; its corresponding societies 

 to exchange with ; its splendid Transactiotis to record and describe them ; 



and its country and the world to benefit by them But greatly as the 



world, and this country in particular, is indebted, for the present advanced 

 state of its knowledge and practice of horticulture in its different branches, 

 to the patronage and exertions of useful societies and of distinguished 

 individuals, it is to the attention which has in modern times been bestowed 

 upon the first principles of the art, and the discoveries which have been 

 made in the arrangement and classification of plants, and, above all, to the 

 more intimate acquaintance with their structure, functions, and properties, 



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