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by us, but we do not think any of them worth especial recom- 

 mendation. Wright's Kitchen- Range, which is now being ex- 

 hibited in Arthur Street, London Bridge, has the fireplace 

 enclosed in talc, so that no dust can possibly escape into the 

 room, and yet the heat passing through the talc is found suf- 

 ficient to roast meat. We mention inventions of this kind 

 merely to show the reader that we endeavour to see and ex- 

 amine every thing in domestic economy and architecture, as well 

 as in gardening, that pretends to be an improvement, though any 

 thing that is likely to prove permanently so is very rarely to be 

 met with. 



On Gardening and Rural Improvement in Foreign Countries 

 we have little to offer. We have noticed, under the head of 

 North America (p. 38. and 528.), and also in p. 625., the extra- 

 ordinary progress which gardening is making in that quarter of 

 the world. In France, agriculture seems to be advancing more 



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than horticulture ; but M. Tripet-Leblanc, whose visit toEng- 

 land, in company with that much respected botanist and vege- 

 table physiologist, M. Poiteau, we have noticed in p. 570., assures 

 us that there now exists a great taste in Paris for florist's flowers ; 

 and by letters from MM. Soulange-Bodin and Vilmorin, we 

 learn that the export of camellias from the ports of France to 

 North America has considerably increased, since the navigation 

 by steam was established between the Old and the New World. 

 In Germany, and more especially at Berlin and in Vienna, 

 botany and horticulture continue to be favourite pursuits. 

 We have noticed (p. 625.) that Count Harrach, an accom- 

 plished nobleman, one of the greatest patrons of gardening 

 in Germany, has lately been in England collecting rare plants, 

 and procuring a design for a palace which he is about to build 

 on one of his extensive estates in Bohemia. For the pro- 

 gress of gardening in the other countries of Europe and In- 

 dia, we must refer to our Table of Contents (p. vii.). Judging 

 from the exhibition of the Sydney Floral and Horticultural 

 Society (p. 473.), there is a considerable taste there for garden- 

 ing ; and that this will be the case in the new settlements of 

 South Australia and New Zealand there can be no doubt, since 

 the admirable principle on which these colonies are founded 

 combines all the advantages of an old country with the great 

 and almost unlimited resources of a new one. Of all the dif- 

 ferent parts of the world to which natives of Britain can emi- 

 grate, we know of none that presents advantages of climate, 

 soil, and political arrangements equal with those asserted to be 

 possessed by South Australia and New Zealand. The stream of 

 new plants which is annually pouring into Europe from Aus- 

 tralia does not appear to abate ; for we have lately been kindly 

 shown, by Captain Mangles, dried specimens of many new and 



