IV PREFACE. 



hence the necessity and advantage of their having magazines 

 especially devoted to their professional pursuits and social inte- 

 rests. A Magazine for the common country labourer remains a 

 desideratum ; but, though no class of society would be more 

 benefited by such a medium of communication, the time does not 

 seem yet arrived for producing it. 



Gardeners, from the nature of their profession, and from 

 coming more in contact with cultivated minds and with books, 

 have always been in advance of the working farmer and common 

 country labourer; but their progress, since the general establish- 

 ment of horticultural societies, and of a Magazine expressly 

 devoted to the advancement of their art and their personal inte- 

 rest, has been greatly accelerated ; and this improvement, we 

 have no doubt, will continue to increase far beyond what the 

 most sanguine of us can at present anticipate. 



We have left ourselves too little room to point out all those 

 parts of the present Volume which, in a more especial manner, 

 deserve attention ; but we cannot help noticing the circumstance 

 of its containing a number of well written articles by young 

 journeymen gardeners, in different parts of the country ; who, 

 having begun life with very little education, and without ever 

 having had higher wages than 10s. or 12s. a week, owe their 

 improvement entirely to their own exertions, to which they have 

 been chiefly stimulated by the perusal of this Magazine. It also 

 gives us pleasure to observe, by the contents of this Volume, 

 that an increased attention has been paid to gardening, as an art 

 of design and taste, by various of our contributors. The best 

 cultivator of fruits and vegetables that ever existed is, in our 

 eyes, unfit for the care of a gentleman's garden, if he be without 

 a taste for order and neatness, and for that species of beauty in 

 garden scenery which we have elsewhere (p. 701.) shown might 

 be appropiately denominated the gardenesque. 



J. C. L. 

 Bays water, Nov. 21. 1832. 



CORRECTIONS. 



Errors are corrected in the first occurrence of 

 the head " Retrospective Criticism," after they 

 have been observed : in the present volume see 

 pp. 244. 367. 607. Besides these, the following 

 errors require correcting : — 



In p. 174. for " Longleat " read •' Shortgrove, 



Essex." 

 In p. 255. line 33. for "1831 " read " 1832." 

 In p. 483. line 3. from the bottom, for " Vol. 



VIII." read "Vol. VII." 



