THE 



GARDENER'S MAGAZINE, 



FEBRUARY, 1832. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. General Results of a Gardening Tour, during July, 

 August, and part of September, in the Year 1831, from Dum- 

 fries, by Kirkcudbright, Ayr, and Greenock, to Paisley. By the 

 Conductor. 



{Continued from Vol. VII. p. 649,) 



Gardening, as we have before observed, is not so much to 

 be improved from within itself, or by the experience of its 

 practitioners in their own departments, as by calling in, and 

 bringing to bear upon it, other sciences and arts. There are 

 some of our readers, no doubt, who would be much better 

 pleased to see our pages confined to short practical papers on 

 the culture of the different articles grown in kitchen and 

 flower gardens, than to read discussions on subjects of 

 general improvement contained in such articles as those of 

 which the present is a continuation, or to study the accounts 

 of inventions occasionally brought forward in our General 

 Notices, (p. 12.) We consider persons entertaining this 

 opinion as taking too confined a view of our duties ; because 

 we know that almost all the improvements of any consequence 

 which have been made in gardening have been drawn from 

 other arts and sciences. What improvements could have 

 been made in the construction or management of hot- 

 houses, for example, unless the gardener had extended his 

 enquiries to the manufacture of iron or other metals into 

 sashes ; and to the science of chemistry as applied to com- 

 bustion and the management of heat ? We have no doubt 

 that there are various readers who could see little connec- 

 Vol. VIII. — No. 36. b 



