580 Summary View of the Progress of Gardening, 



A fruit-room is one of those garden structures which have not 

 hitherto been brought to that degree of perfection of which they 

 are susceptible, witii very Httle increased expense. The scien- 

 tific principles on which they ought to be constructed are laid 

 down in the Gardener^s Chrojiicle, as well as the application of 

 these principles, and we have given the essence of both (p. 635.). 

 As connected with this subject, it may be observed, that an 

 admirable mode for packing fruit has been published in the 

 Gardener's Chronicle, and which we have quoted (p. G'i?.). This 

 article is by Mr. Ross, a mathematical instrument-maker, and is 

 one of the many instances of the advantages that may be gained 

 by bringing other arts to bear on the art of gardening. 



Landscape-Gar dening. — In the Gardener'' s Gazette of the past 

 year, while the Horticultural Department of that paper was under 

 our management, we gave a translation of the more important 

 parts of Piickler Muskau's work on this subject, and of the whole of 

 the treatise of M. Viart, entitled JLe Jardinist ; and in this Maga- 

 zine we have made considerable progress with the landscape- 

 gardening of Sckell. The latter is by far the most eminent 

 name, as a landscape-gardener, which Germany affords, whether 

 as a practical man in laying out grounds, or as an author. There 

 is little in any of the works mentioned that can be of direct ap- 

 plication in Britain ; but, by knowing the systems of other authors 

 and other countries, the British gardener will be the better 

 enabled to generalise on this department of his art. 



In the course of a tour in Scotland and the North of 

 England, the details of which will be found in our ensuing 

 volume, we could not help remarking, in the grounds of country 

 residences, the general want, not of high keeping, for that we 

 did not expect, but of what we shall call appropriate keeping. 

 Thus, suppose two shrubberies, one old and abounding in large 

 shrubs and trees, and the other comparatively new and con- 

 taining only young trees and shrubs, with roses and herbaceous 

 flowers : the mode of keeping both these shrubberies is ge- 

 nerally the same ; that is, the ground is dug in the winter season, 

 and kept hoed and raked during summer. Now, this may be 

 very suitable for the young shrubbery, in which there is still 

 abundance of room and of light and air to admit of roses and 

 herbaceous plants flowering freely ; but in old shrubberies, where 

 these plants are so far choked as to be in a sickly unhealthy 

 state, digging the few portions of surface that remain uncovered 

 with branches can be of no use to either the large shrubs or 

 the stifled low plants. It ought, therefore, to be discontinued; 

 all the low and unthriving plants removed ; and the surface of 

 the bays and recesses, which will occur along the front, turfed 

 over, or sown down with proper grass seeds, and afterwards kept 

 mown. It ought, we think, to be received as a general rule in the 



