116 Hetrospective Criticism. 



NicotiaH« undulata. ^edunn red var. 



O'xalis floribunda, carnosa, and ro- iSenecio elegans and albus. 



sacea. iSoIlyw heterophylla. 



CEnothera speciosa, vimlnea, Lind- Tournefortia /iseliotropioides. 



\eydna, serotina, Romanz6v«, ma- Trachymene caerulea. 



crocarpa, and missouriensis. Tradescantiavirginicaalba, v.albida. 



Phlox procumbens, autumnalis, and and 3 other kinds. 



nivalis. TagHes liicida and florida. 



Papaver nudicaule. Tcucriiivt Chamge'drys. 



Potentilla alba, formosa, and Hop- Tropse^olum peregrinum majus. 



woodiawrt. Trachelinm cceruleum. 



Prunella alba and grandiflora. Tritoma Uvaria. 



Pyrethrum coronopifolium, Parthe- Ferbena Aubletza, bonariensis, pul- 



niiim flore pleno, inodorum flori- chella, and chamaedrifolia. 



bus plenis, and Matricaria grandi- Tiola calcarata, odorata 4 var., tri- 



flora. color 16 var. 



Phalangium Liliago. Ximenesia encelioides, 



Physalis Alkekengi. iJosa Champneya?«ffl, moschata flore 



Peseda odorata. pleno, and indica 20 var. 



Rudbeckia fulgida. ^ieracium glutinosum. 



Salpiglossis Barclayajzor. iotas, sp. 



Scabiosa atropurpurea. riburnum Tlnus. 



i^lvia Grahamz, coccinea, fulgens, Ferbascum rubiginosum. 



eolorata, angustifolia, and chamae- 



dryoides. Total number of species and va- 



Stevirt £upat6ria, and purpurea. rieties, 333. 



The above list reminds us that, on the 7th of June, 1829, we visited the 

 gardens at Wimbledon, with a view of giving some description of them in 

 this Magazine. The account we prepared immediately on our return, as 

 far as we could, without certain sketches, which we neglected to make on 

 the spot ; and, going soon afterwards to the Continent, the subject escaped 

 our memory. As the only apology which we can make, we shall probably 

 give the article exactly as we prepared it at the time, in our next Number. 

 — Cond, 



Akt. V. Retrospective Criticism. 



On the fraudulent Practices of Gardening Authors. — Sir, I observed a 

 communication from a correspondent of yours in this Magazine (Vol. VIII. 

 p. 289.), signed " An Enemy to Deceit," animadverting, with a considerable 

 degree of asperity, against several fraudulent writers in the Horticultural 

 Transactions and Gai'dener's Magazine, and more particularly against 

 Mr. Alexander Stewart, late gardener at Valleyfield. It is a matter of no 

 ordinary moment, surely, that could bring your worthy correspondent 

 before the public : he seems to be very much afraid lest the uncharitable 

 world should think him of a cavilling disposition, or that he had any 

 ostentatious motive to gratify by the appearance of his paper. Granting 

 that he is free from either of these charges, still there is one thing that the 

 public will be apt to charge him with, namely, ingratitude. He says, that 

 he could give several instances where deceit had been practised ; but it 

 would have looked more charitable and consistent in the eyes of the public, 

 had he selected some other example than that of his former and much 

 respected master, then deceased, and who could not defend his character 

 from the vile and ungrateful aspersions thus cast upon it. Although I agree 

 with your correspondent in some of his statements, and do not wish to 

 advance an opinion on the merit or demerit of the theory in question, 



