618 Summary View of the Progress qf Gardening, 



fruited oak, and the sessile-fruited oak, as painters' trees, has 

 been shown, for the first time, we believe, by the Rev. W. T. 

 Bree. The establishment of the pine and fir tribe, in situations 

 where they are liable to be blown down by high winds, may be 

 effected by increasing the number and strength of their roots ; 

 and this, it is said, is to be done by pinching off the leading shoot 

 of the tree for several years in succession, A paper illustrating 

 this theory was read by Mr. Nuttall at the British Association ; 

 and we expect to be able to give the essence of it, together with 

 some other interesting particulars respecting the pine and fir 

 tribe, in our succeeding Volume. A number of papers on the 

 study of trees, on their culture, on the dimensions which they 

 have obtained in different parts of the country, and on the com- 

 parative progress which they have made in different soils and 

 situations, are distributed throughout this Volume ; and some of 

 them, we think, are extremely interesting. No new trees have 

 been introduced from foreign countries during the past year; 

 but some old trees, and some new shrubs, will be mentioned in 

 our Arboricultural Notices for January, 1837. 



Floriculture^ as a branch of cultivation, may be considered as 

 advancing, both in the ordinary and in the higher departments. 

 Great progress is yearly making in raising new sorts of roses, 

 dahlias, pansies, &c., from the seeds produced by flowers which 

 have been cross-fecundated ; and great progress, also, is making 

 m the difficult culture of the tropical Orchidese. New orchideous 

 plants are being continually introduced, chiefly from South 

 America; and hardy herbaceous plants, which have been raised 

 from seeds sent home by Douglas, Drummond, and other col- 

 lectors, or brought to England by travellers, are coming into 

 flower from time to time, and are thus added to our collections, 

 and recorded in our catalogues. All of these which have been 

 figured in the botanical periodicals in the course of the year 

 will be found enumerated in our Floricultural and Botanical 

 Notices. The most beautiful hardy annual of the year is Phlox 

 Drummond/; and the most beautiful new dahha Dod's Mary. 

 The most interesting modes of cultivating flowering plants given 

 in the present Volume are, those applied to the brugmansia by 

 Mr. Spence, and to the solandra by Mr. Symonds. 



Horticulture. — A notice by Mr. Thompson, the fruit-gardener 

 in the London Horticultural Society's Gardens, of the new fruits 

 which have been lately proved, and deserve culture, will be found 

 in a succeeding article, followed by one on the new culinary 

 vegetables of the past year. By far the most remarkable tropical 

 fruit which has been brought into notice for many years is the 

 Musa Cavendish//, which produces abundance of highly flavoured 

 fruit, at an early age, with less care and attention than either 

 the pine-apple or the melon. From the difficulty of procuring 



