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in the Chiswick Garden,) while one of the garden regulations 

 (reg. 2. Vol. I. p. 314.) is, that no persons can be admitted to 

 work there, who have not previously been " educated as 

 gardeners ; " yet we are not again informed that " the com- 

 mittee have again to repeat, what they have once before ob- 

 served, that if the plan of the garden were again to be arranged, 

 the present would probably be adopted by all who are 

 acquainted with its details ;" that is to say, by those who made 

 it, and those who work in it. Had the plan been generally 

 satisfactory, the idea of making such an observation would 

 never have occurred. 



Art. III. Verhandlungen des Vereins, fyc Transactions qf the 

 Society for the Advancement qf Gardening in the Prussian States. 

 Parti. 



{Continued from Vol. I. p. 312.) 



A pressure of other matter, and particularly our protracted 

 review of Slaney on Rural Expenditure, has prevented us 

 from going on regularly with this work, which will in future 

 occupy a part of every Number. 



27« Proposal qf Dr. Crantz for the general Culture of Berry-bear- 

 ing Trees, and Apple Trees, uoith an Account of some Experiments 

 made tvith their Fruit in respect to their affording Spirituous 

 Liquors. 



28. Opinion qf the Committee on these Proposals. 



The berry-bearing fruits alluded to by Dr. Crantz are 

 the cherry, gean, and the different species of sorbus ; these 

 and different species of jprunus he would plant in all such 

 situations as would not produce productive apple trees ; the 

 latter he would plant in all good soils. 



Six experiments are related, showing the comparative 

 quantities of spirit obtained from apples, cherries, morbus 

 various species, malt, and potatoes ; from which the Committee 

 conclude, that it can never be worth while to grow either 

 berries or apples with a view to the distillation of spirit, but 

 that potatoes may be very profitably grown for that purpose, 

 and often more so than corn ; and that the principal drink to 

 which apples are applicable is cider. 



29. On the Classification qf Fruits. By Mr. Counsellor Burckhardt. 



When it is considered that the fruits of no two seedling 



fruit-bearing trees ever were, or ever will be, exactly alike; 



and that new sorts raised from seed are continually being 



