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Art. III. A Series of Designs for laying out Kitchen-Gardens. By 

 Mr. T. Rutger. Design 6., Containing Three Acres and a Half 

 within the Walls, and Two Acres and a Half in the Slips. 



The accompanying plan (fg. 95.) includes, -with the forcing 

 department, nearly three acres and a half, and the slips nearly 

 two acres and a half more. The principal entrance to the 

 garden may be either from the south or from the east or west 

 sides. The forcing-houses are left for arrangement, as they may 

 be wanted ; as are also the ranges for framing, &c. The scale 

 being smaller than those to the foregoing; plans, the bordering- 

 tor gooseberries and currants, or for espaliers, is omitted in 

 the plan, but can be introduced in laying out the ground. 



S/iortgrove, Essex, 1834. 



Art. IV. On Pruning Forest Trees; and on Planting and Managing 

 Belts of Trees. By Mr. T. Rutger. 



There is something peculiarly satisfactory and gratifying to 

 the mind, when the opinions of men of acknowledged merit and 

 experience coincide with our own; but, when instances of the 

 reverse happen, we are led to enquire into the reasons, and are 

 not always willing to bend, even to the truth. 



I must confess that I felt quite satisfied with what you have 

 advanced in your Encyclopedia of Gardening, and with what has 

 appeared in your Magazine, upon the subject of adjusting, in 

 large transplanted trees, the proportion between the branches 

 and the roots, and it was not until the other day, when I 

 was turning over the volumes of your Magazine in search of 

 the articles upon pruning, that Mr. Elles's paper (VI. 5±5.) 

 arrested my attention. His arguments go to deny the ne- 

 cessity of adjusting the proportion of the branches to the 

 roots, and your own observations at the close of that article 

 countenance this opinion. Mr. Main, also, in his review of Sir 

 H. Steuart's Planter's Guide (IV. 115.), strongly advocates the 

 above principle ; but it seems that Sir H. Steuart's system is 

 of such a conservative nature, both in the preparation and in 

 the after-treatment of large transplanted trees, that it renders 

 success certain ; and, as such, it deserves admiration, and to be 

 applied to its utmost extent. It is only against the indiscriminate 

 application of the system that I stand opposed ; and thus I am 

 led to agree with what Mr. Main says, at p. 123. of the review, 

 that, " in cases where the roots are curtailed, and broken, our 

 physiological tenets may be neutralised by the urgent calls of the 

 mutilated plant, which may seem loudly to demand a provisional 



