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Art. VI. The Fruit Cultivator ; being a practical and accurate De- 

 scription of all the most esteemed Species and Varieties of Fruit 

 cultivated in the Gardens and Orchards of Britain ; tvith Directions 

 for the Raising, Choosing, and Management of the proper Stocks ; 

 Modes of Planting, Training, Forcing, and Pruning the Trees or 

 Plants ; together with Directions for forming Fruit Borders, <^c. 

 By John Rogers, Nurseryman, formerly of the Royal Gardens. 

 12rao. London, 1834. 65. 



The author " has, during a long life of varied and active 

 employment, made and kept notes of the results of his practice ; 

 which he now, in his eighty-third year, is induced to offer to the 

 young gardener and nurseryman as a fund of information which, 

 he trusts, will not be found unworthy of their notice." (p. vii.) 

 The work may be described as an amplified catalogue of fruits ; 

 including, as a commencement to each particular list, general 

 remarks on soil, situation, planting, management, &c. It is, 

 therefore, fully entitled to the denomination of a Fruit Culti- 

 vator ; and there cannot be a doubt but that every part is strictly 

 practical. The principal question that it occurs to us to ask is, 

 are the names used by Mr. Rogers applied by him to the same 

 fruits as they are in the Fruit Catalogue of the Florticultural So- 

 ciett/, Lindlefs Guide^ and the Pyrus Malus Brentfordiensis ? 

 Perhaps, in numerous instances, it was not in the power of Mr. 

 Rogers to state whether this was the case or not; but still, in 

 the greater number of cases, he might, and, we think, ought, to 

 have done so. He would thus have brought his book into har- 

 mony with other works of the same kind ; and more effectually 

 have conduced to the spread and application of the knowledge 

 which he has contributed to the common stock. For this reason, 

 in a new edition, we would recommend Mr. Rogers to place as 

 many synonymes after his names as he can do with certainty. 



There are a few very trifling errors, which might be corrected 

 in a second edition. Such as " Braddick of Bury Hill," p. 4. 

 and 293., for " Braddick of Thames Ditton ; " Lancelot Brown, 

 the gardener at Hampton Court, is confounded with Lancelot 

 Brown, the celebrated landscape-gardener, p. 84. : and Loudon 

 and Wise is printed instead of London and Wise in several 

 places ; a mistake which was also committed, some years ago, in 

 the duarterly Review, in an article on planting and gardening, by 

 Sir Walter Scott. 



Having pointed out these few mistakes, it remains only to say, 

 that we think Mr. Rogers has here produced a most valuable 

 practical work, which deserves to be in universal use ; and 

 which adds to its other recommendations that of cheapness. 



