Gardener'' s and Forester's Record. 4-55 



■much is charged for it as he receives for a week's labour. 

 The last time we were at Woburn Abbey, the wages of the 

 journeymen gardeners there were 95. a week ; and at the seat 

 of the Marquess of Chandos, Wooton, near Aylesbury, they 

 are at present only 7s. The cost of getting up such a work 

 is not nearly so much as that required to get up the present 

 Number of this Magazine, and yet the price asked is more than 

 double. 



We must not end our notice here, but, to our scientific 

 readers, must remark that Mr. Main, in striving to treat the 

 subject of his work in a popular manner, has not omitted to 

 infuse into it, besides a copious stock of original facts, certain 

 original and peculiar views on the vegetative principles them- 

 selves. He even propounds a new principle : it is, that 

 the life and vital processes of a plant, and the accretion to its 

 bulk, and expansion of the preexistent members resident 

 within it, are not instituted and carried on, in the first instance, 

 in the alburnum and liber, but in a '^ dislmci member " situ- 

 nate between these, " slightly attached to both, but united to 

 neither," to which Mr. Main has applied the terms " indu- 

 sium" and "vital envelope." Mr. Main offers, p. 8, 9. 134. 

 and onwards, a detail of facts in proof of this opinion. 



Other points, on which the views of Mr. Main will be 

 perused with interest by physiologists, are, the constitution of 

 bulbs, p. 45. &c. ; motion, &c. of the sap, p. 121.; origin 

 of buds, p. 143.; flowers not stunted branches, p. 169.; re- 

 marks on the idea that the new zone of alburnum is formed 

 by descending fibres, p. 212. ; which idea Mr. Main is de- 

 cidedly opposed to, and combats in several places. Foreshort- 

 ening, in pruning, does not give clear-grained timber, p. 233. 

 The propriety of decorticating trees considered, p. 287. 



Harrison, Joseph, Gardener to Lord Wharncliffe, at Wort- 

 ley Hall, Yorkshire : The Gardener's and Forester's Re- 

 cord. 8vo, in monthly numbers, 6d. each. 



We have already (p. 352.) noticed with approbation Mr. 

 Harrison's Floricidtural Cabinet, and have now to make our 

 readers acquainted with another component part of his Gar- 

 dener'' s Wagazine. A third part is to appear, to be exclusively 

 devoted to giving accounts of Provincial Horticultural So- 

 cieties, but of that we have not yet seen the first number. In 

 the first number of the Record there is a very excellent paper 

 on the spurring-in method of pruning the vine (see Enci/c. of 

 Gard. § 2984.), by our correspondent Mr. Appleby. Our 

 readers will see, by our literary notices, that we are threatened 

 with two other rival Gardener's Magazines, in all, eight ! So 



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