iv PREFACE. 



Sup])lemc)it to our Hortus Brilannicus ; and in this form we mean to continue 

 these lists in future. Our Gardening Tour on the Continent is continued in this 

 Volume, as is also our Tour in the nortli of England and west of Scotland. 



Tlie Ninth Volume, that for 1 8355 (just completed), contains accounts of some of 

 tlie finest Gardens of France, Bavaria, and Baden; some valuable papers on 

 Arboriculture and Landscape- Gardening ; part of our Tour in tlie west and south 

 of England ; Mr. Mallet's Tour on the Continent ; the modes of Heating by 

 Hot Water or other fluids, of Perkins, Weekes, Holmes, Ure, Kewley, and others ; 

 and several very interesting papers on Vegetable Physiology, 



In tlie above rapid glance, we iiave only noticed one or two subjects in each 

 Volume, as features by which to characterise it; but, viewing the series of 

 volumes as a whole, they will be found to contain all the accessions that have 

 been made to the Science and Practice of Gardening throughout the temperate 

 regions of both hemispheres, and more especially in Britain, since the commence- 

 ment of the Maga2ine, in January, 1826. The facts and reasonings contained in 

 these volumes are the more valuable, from having stood the test of retrospective 

 criticism from their various readers and contributors. The liability to this test 

 renders statements communicated to the public through a scientific periodical, of 

 much greater value than such as are published in a work which, from its plan, 

 admits of no discussion. The Gardener's Magazine has been from its coinmence- 

 ment, and will continue to be, open to the most rigid criticism of whatever 

 appears in it, whether by Contributors or the Conductor ; the only condition being, 

 that such criticism shall be concise, and in language free from personal abuse. 



With the Tenth Volume, that for 1 834, will commence a reduction 

 of the price of the Gardener's Magazine to Is. 6d. a Number, or 155. 

 for the Annual Volume : a reduction which has been made in 

 compliance with the suggestions of various Gardeners, and in con- 

 formity with the spirit of the times. In this New Series, as it may 

 be considered, so bulky an annual volume will not be produced ; 

 but the size of the page will be increased, so as to enable us to 

 insert a nearly equal quantity of matter; and, what will be of great 

 advantage to young gardeners, to enlarge the size of the engravings, 

 more especially when these contain plans of gardens^ or of pleasure- 

 grounds. 



We are happy to state, that, notwithstanding the publication ot 

 no fewer than six Gardener's Magazines in England, besides one in 

 Ireland, since this (the first Gardener's Magazine which ever ap- 

 peared in the English language) was commenced, the contributors 

 to our work, so far from falling off, either in their numbers or in the 

 interest of their communications, have steadily increased in both. 

 These circumstances afford a gratifying proof of the widely spread- 

 ing taste for our art, and confirm us in the sentiments we have 

 expressed in reviewing in this work the first numbers of the different 

 periodicals alluded to. 



In returning our Contributors and our Readers our sincere 

 thanks, we can assure them that no exertion whatever on our part, 

 or on that of the publishers, shall be wanting to insure the con- 

 tinuance of this Magazine in the same superior style in which it has 

 hitherto been produced ; and to render it, in all respects, what it 

 originally professed to be, and has hitherto been, a perpetual sup- 

 plement to our EncyclopcEdias of Gardening, of Agriculture, and of 

 Plants, and to our Hortus JBritannicus. 



J. C. L 



Bayswater, Nov. 20- 1833. 



