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by nurserymen, who generally propagate it by cuttings of the roots, or by 

 layers. There can be no doubt that many plants, more especially climbers and 

 trailers, may be similarly propagated. We would suggest to nurserymen who 

 have arboretums, to try pots of buds of every species whatever, deciduous or 

 evergreen, resinous or non-resinous ; burying the bud from a fourth of an inch 

 to one inch, according to the diameter of the shoot to which it is attached. 

 Some buds ought to be put in during the autumn, others in the spring ; some 

 in young wood, others in old wood ; some, such as those from the young 

 wood, forwarded, immediately after they are put in, by artificial heat ; others, 

 kept several weeks or months in the cold, and afterwards so forwarded; 

 others, and, perhaps, the greater number, might be put in under hand-glasses, 

 and left to the influence of the seasons. We are still in the infancy of our 

 knowledge as to the extent to which propagation by buds and cuttings may be 

 carried by art. We have always recommended the young gardener to adopt 

 it as a principle, that every bud may be rendered a plant ; and that all plants, 

 whether originated from buds, cuttings, or seeds, are essentially the same in 

 point of natural properties, susceptibility of duration, propagation, &c. We 

 know that, in this opinion, we differ from high authorities, and we acknow- 

 ledge that there are numerous anomalies and exceptions ; but we have almost 

 all the Continental physiologists on our side, and also some of the first botanists 

 and cultivators in this country. 



Among the green-house plants we found a large specimen of Lamberts 

 formosa, in flower ; a new Hakea, 47 sorts of Sempervivum, numerous me- 

 sembryanthemums, aloes ; and, altogether, we believe, the best collection of 

 succulents in England. Many of these Mr. M'Intosh collected during the 

 eight months which he lately spent at the palace of Lacken, near Brussels. 

 While there, he (by the kind permission of King Leopold) visited all the 

 principal private and public gardens in the Netherlands ; and we only wish that 

 we could persuade him to give us some account of them. 



Among a fine collection of alpines, we found Azalea procumbens, Linnse v a 

 borealis, Cornus suecica, and such like rarities, in great vigour ; and Sarracenz'a 

 purpurea finely in bloom. 



Leaving the kitchen-garden, after having inspected the recent addition to Mr. 

 M'Intosh' s garden library of a considerable number of French books (several of 

 which he has most obligingly lent us to review in this Magazine), we proceeded 

 to the mansion by the regular approach. Looking up to the portico, the effect 

 is very fine ; and we recollect the impression it made upon us, from the same 

 point of view, and at the same season of the year, exactly thirty years ago. 

 Looking from the portico over the park, Mr. M'Intosh pointed out a number 

 of vistas which he had opened to the distant country ; and also the rings of 

 whitewash on the trunks of certain trees, which he had put on to enable him 

 to see and distinguish them from different points of view, so as to determine 

 whether or not they ought to be felled,, It appears to us that the whole of 

 the low part of the park at Claremont may be compared to a pond, and the 

 trees to weeds in that pond. The moisture, which has evaporated from all 

 the undrained rising grounds, descends, by its gravity, into this basin ; and the 

 trees, by their number and magnitude, prevent it from being emptied by the 

 sun and wind. There is, we believe, but one very small natural outlet to this 

 basin, on the east of the village of Esher. This outlet belongs to another 

 proprietor, and is also choked up with trees ; so that there is no hope of 

 removing the malaria from Claremont but by removing the trees from the 

 lower part of the park, so as to admit the full influence of the sun and wind. 



The views of the grounds, and of the distant country from all the four 

 fronts of the house, have been opened up, altered, and greatly improved, by 

 Mr. M'Intosh ; who has given, at Claremont, as striking proofs of his taste 

 and judgment in landscape-gardening, as he has of his skill in horticulture. 

 The formation of an underwood of laurels, by laying down the long straggling 

 branches of the old plants, so that they now completely cover the surface, is 

 one of the moat masterly things of the kind that has been done anywhere. 



