W4} jLoudoiUs Suburban Gardener. 



applications, thinking that there may be a demand for such a 

 book, and feehng that we could produce such a one as would 

 answer the end in view, and would be truly useful, we have 

 planned, and begun to carry into execution 



The Suburban Gardener, containing : — 1 . Directions for 

 choosing a House and Garden in a town or its suburbs, with 

 some Plans for Street Houses, and Suburban Cottages and 

 Villas. — 2. Designs for Laying out Small Gardens, Cottage, 

 and Villa Grounds of from 1 perch to 10 acres or more in ex- 

 tent; including plans of some of the more interesting small gar- 

 dens in the suburbs of London, Edinburgh, Dublin, Paris, 

 Berlin, Munich, and Vienna. — 3. Directions for their Planting, 

 Culture, and General Management. — 4. Directions for the 

 Cultivation of all the Culinary Plants, Fruits, Flowers, Shrubs, 

 and Trees usually grown in small Gardens. — 5. Directions for 

 Building and Furnishing small Green-houses, Pits, and Frames; 

 for the Culture of such Plants as are usually grown in them in 

 small Gardens, and for the Management of Plants in Pots, in 

 Balconies, on House tops, and in Rooms. — 6. A Monthly Calen- 

 dar of Work to be done, including Directions respecting Poultry, 

 Pigs, Cows, Grass Fields, &c. — 7. A priced List of the Trees, 

 Shrubs, Plants, Tools, &c., usually required for small Gardens. 

 The whole intended as a complete gardening book for such 

 as are not professed gardeners. Illustrated by numerous en- 

 gravings on wood. 



Any of our readers who can suggest any improvement on the 

 above plan, or who will furnish us with any details for filling it 

 up, will greatly oblige us by doing so with as little delay as pos- 

 sible, as we are determined to have the work published in De- 

 cember next, if not before. We shall be happy to receive from 

 gardeners in different parts of the country, ground plans for 

 laying out small places of a perch or more in extent, up to ten 

 acres, together with directions and lists for planting them, &c. ; 

 provided always that we are allowed either to make such alter- 

 ations in the plans before sending them to the engraver, as we 

 shall think fit, or to criticise them in the manner in which we 

 have done the designs published in our Enci/clopadia of Cottage 

 Architecture. Every hint, paragraph, or design, used will be 

 duly acknowled<red in the work. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Art. I. General Notices. 



The Use and Abuse of Hybridisation. — In the Botanicat Register for Febru- 

 ary, 1835, Dr.Lindleyhas, in an article appended to his description of Calceo- 

 laria longiflora, cast a very unjustifiable reflection upon gardeners, which is no 



