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society, would rather purchase cuttings than have the trouble of applying 

 for them, or the feeling of receiving them as a favour. Besides, nine tenths 

 of those who would be happy to have good sorts of fruits grafted on 

 trees of bad or indifferent kinds are not F.H.S.s, and therefore not 

 entitled to apply to any horticultural society for scions or cuttings ; and 

 to these it would be highly acceptable to be able to purchase them from 

 nurserymen. 



Why not sell cuttings of every kind, as well as seeds, bulbs, and tubers ? 

 Depend on it, as horticultural skill increases, this will be done ; and the 

 wisest nurserymen will be those who fall into the practice, instead of inef- 

 fectually attempting to oppose it. 



Requesting our readers to favour us with whatever they think will con- 

 tribute to the value of this portion of our work, and also to that of the 

 article on Provincial Nurseries, we proceed to lay before them such notices 

 as we have received, or have ourselves had time to prepare. 



Brown's Bedford Nursery, Hampstead Road. — Nov. 19.1831. Mr. Brown, 

 a pupil of the late Mr. Don of Forfar, occupied, for several years, the 

 Bedford Nursery in the New Road, now no longer in existence. A few- 

 years ago, he commenced this establishment, and has built a number of 

 very excellent green-houses and pits, and one or two forcing-houses. In 

 a bark-stove for pines and exotics, with grapes under the rafters, he has 

 introduced a very good method of withdrawing the vines for the purpose 

 of wintering them. The front glass is in sashes, about 3 ft. long and 2 ft. 

 high. The uprights which support the rafters are alternately fixed and 

 movable ; and when it is desired to take out the vines, the movable upright 

 is knocked out, the sashes and the sill removed, and thus a space, 6 ft. 

 6 in. long, and 3 ft. 4 in. wide, is cleared, through which each particular 

 vine may be withdrawn. The advantage of the plan is the abundance of 

 room, by which the oldest and most rigid-stemmed vines may be taken out 

 with ease, and without injury. Mr. Brown has built himself an excellent 

 house, with a detached seed-shop. His business is chiefly local; and, being a 

 man of considerable taste, he is much employed in laying out and keeping 

 in order suburban gardens. In his seed-shop we observed a few gardening 

 and botanical books for sale, which we think highly commendable. 



The Maryland Point Nursery, Stratford, Essex, lately occupied by Mr. 

 Garraway, has recently been taken possession of by our friend and corre- 

 spondent Mr. Thomas Corbett, who is devoted to botany and gardening, 

 and, we have no doubt, will raise the character of this or any other esta- 

 blishment which he may take in hand. As soon as we can find leisure, 

 we shall call and report on it. 



Epsom Nursery. — New or rare plants which have flowered last year 

 in the nursery of Messrs. Young, at Epsom. 



I adopt Professor Lindley's arrangement of the natural orders, ad- 

 mirably illustrated in his Introduction to the Natural System of Botany ; a 

 work which will amply repay the careful perusal and attentive study of 

 every gardener. 



Hybrid plants will henceforth stand at the end of the systematic list, 

 in order to point out the propriety of distinguishing between legitimate 

 species and " artificially created forms." I retain, however, the Latin 

 specific appellations for the present, as the most efficient means for dis- 

 tinguishing the particular kinds, or until a preferable mode may be pro- 

 posed. See Lindley's observations, in Botanical Register, t. 1387 [For 

 the amount of the observations alluded to, see p. 12.] 



DICOTYLEDONOUS. 



UmbellifercE Juss., Lindl. Introd. p. 4. Trachymene Rudg. linearis 

 Spreng. A neat green-house shrub, with white flowers in August and 

 September; strikes readily in a cold frame. 



