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John Newport, whose conservatories and green-houses have ever been dis- 

 tinguished by the rarest and choicest exotics. The high appreciation in which 

 these palms were held was testified by the award of an extra prize. An un- 

 commonly beautiful collection of pelargoniums was sent in by Richard Cooke, 

 Esq., and a most valuable group of green-house plants was exhibited by the 

 same gentleman. The balsams, from Curraghmore were uncommonly fine ; 

 and the coxcombs, from the same garden, were universally admired. {Water- 

 ford Mirror, Aug. 19. 1837.) 



Wexford Horticidtural Society. — Aug. 4. Numerous prizes were awarded ; 

 and, among others, one to Henry Cooper, Esq., for a needling pelargonium of 

 great merit. 



REVIEWS. 



Art. I. Lectures on Landscape-Gardening in Australia. By the 

 late Mr. Thomas Shepherd, of the Darling Nursery, Author of 

 " Lectures on the Horticulture of Australia." Small 8vo, 95 pages. 

 Sydney, 1836. 



Mr. Shepherd was upwards of twenty years a nurseryman 

 and landscape-gardener at Hackney, where he paid 20Z. an acre 

 for ground, nearly half that sum in addition for taxes, and yet 

 " worked hard " for many years for little more income, as he 

 informs us, than that of a labourer (p. 85.). He went to Syd- 

 ney in 1826, established the Darling Nursery there; in 1834 

 delivered lectures on horticulture ; and, in June, 1835, one 

 lecture on landscape-gardening ; and died in the August of 

 that year. He had prepared seven lectures on landscape- 

 gardening ; but was unable, from ill health, to deliver more 

 than the first. The whole of these lectures were, in 1836, 

 edited and published by Mr. John M'Garvie, Mr. Shepherd's 

 successor in the Darling Nursery ; and they are dedicated to A. 

 M'Leay, Esq., F.R.S., &c., late Colonial Secretary, one of Mr. 

 Shepherd's " first and most liberal friends." 



We have glanced over these lectures with considerable interest, 

 and marked a few passages as worth extracting. W^hat struck us 

 as most remarkable in them is, the author's calculation to show 

 that a gentleman, with 30,000/. capital, might establish himself 

 and family in the neighbourhood of Sydney, "in a style equal to 

 a gentleman in England or Scotland who can command 10,000/. 

 sterling a year." His income the first year would be 2137/., and 

 his annual expenditure 1180/.; leaving a balance of 957/. to 

 meet exigencies, and secure an independent fortune for his 

 six children. He next shows how a person possessing 20,000/. 

 (for which, at Sydney, he would receive 10/. per cent, or 2000/. 

 per annum, or, in Britain, 3 per cent, or 600/. per annum) 

 might lay it out in land at Sydne}', so as to have an annual 

 income of nearly 1500/, and lay by enough for a handsome 

 fortune for his children. " A capitalist with 5000/. sterling 

 might establish himself in New South Wales as a settler, along 



