Desigti for a Cemetery at Bristol. 34-1 



It thus appears that the total flora of Canonmills Cottage ex- 

 ceeds 3000 species ; an immense number, when we consider the 

 limited area in which they are grown, and the considerable size 

 which some of the specimens have attained. 



Dr. Neill's present gardener is Mr. Wm. Lawson : his prede- 

 cessor was Mr. Brackenridge, now in the Berlin Botanic Gar- 

 den, and the author of the description of that garden in p. 295. 

 Mr. Brackenridge succeeded Mr. Scott, now in the Exeter Nur- 

 sery; an excellent botanist, and one of the best cultivators of 

 Orchidacese in England. 



Of Dr. Neill himself we shall only say that he is one of the 

 best friends that gardeners and practical botanists ever had in 

 Scotland. To his love of gardening and plants, his urbanity 

 and conciliating manners, and to the great respect in which he 

 is held by all classes of society in Scotland, is to be attributed 

 the establishment of the Caledonian Horticultural Society ; and 

 to the same cause, and his exertions as secretary, its present 

 flourishing state. Dr. Neill is the author of A Tour through the 

 Islands of Orkney and Shetland, "with a View chiefly to Objects of 

 Natu7~al History, but including also Husbandry and Political and 

 General Economy : 8vo, 1806. He is also the author of papers 

 on the Fishes of the Frith of Forth, on the Siren, on the extinct 

 Beaver of Scotland, on the Whale, and on other subjects, in the 

 Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, in Nicholson's Journaly 

 the Magazine of Natural History, the Gardener s Magazine, 

 &c. He drew up the Journal of a Horticultural Tour, &c., by a 

 deputation of the Caledonian Horticultural Society; a most 

 interesting work, published in 1823 ; and he is the translator of 

 Daubuisson on Basalt, to which he added notes. Dr. Neill is 

 also author of various articles in the works published by Sir 

 John Sinclair, and in the Edinburgh EncyclopcBdias ; and he 

 has the merit of having been the first to treat horticulture in 

 a scientific manner, in the article on that subject published in the 

 seventh edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, in 1818. This 

 article, and another by Dr. Neill on Scottish Gardens and 

 Orchards, suggested to us the mode of treating subjects his- 

 torically, theoretically, practically, and statistically, adopted in 

 our Encyclopcedia of Gardening, and in subsequent works. 



Art. II. Design for a Cemetery proposed to be formed at Bristol. 

 By Mr. P." Masey, jun. 



The advantages of public cemeteries are now too generally admitted to 

 require any comment ; and, as most of the churchyards in Bristol are closely 

 surrounded by houses, and so full as to have become dangerous masses of 



