and of Rural Improvement generally ^ during 1 84 1 . 585 



to the wall, espalier post, or rail, and to the rafter or trellis. The 

 mere circumstance of having the plants and fruit trees about a 

 place correctly named raises its character among gardeners, and 

 insures a better class both of master gardeners and their assistants. 

 It is also favourable to correctness and good habits generally. 

 A gardener, where there is a good collection of named articles, 

 not only commands apprentices of a superior school education, 

 but cuttings of many rare plants, which he would not receive if 

 he had not something adequate to give in return. Besides, it 

 generally happens that some members of the family of the pro- 

 prietor have a taste for botanical pursuits, and to them the 

 circumstance of the plants in the garden and pleasure-ground 

 being correctly named must be a very considerable assistance in 

 their studies. 



A few new trees and shrubs have been raised in the Horticul- 

 tural Society's Garden, of which a catalogue is given by Mr. 

 Gordon (p. 608.); and,whatit will be of immediate practical utility 

 to state, Messrs. Whitley and Osborn have added upwards of 

 30 species and varieties to their printed catalogue of last year. 

 We have obtained a list of between twenty and thirty new or rare 

 species recently introduced into the Tooting Nursery by Messrs. 

 Rollison, which will be given in our next Number; and, with 

 Mr. Gordon (p. 35.), we would strongly recommend nursery- 

 men and the curators of botanic gardens, in every part of the 

 country, to send us Annual Reports of the new or rare articles 

 which they have raised from seed, or otherwise added to their 

 collections. We conceive that the public is vmder great obliga- 

 tion to every nurseryman who maintains a good collection and 

 increases it; for, assuredly, rare trees and shrubs, which are only 

 sold now and then, do not pay him nearly so well as the cultivation 

 in large quantities of the common sorts. 



Various articles on the preservation of timber will be found 

 in the present volume, though we can scarcely as yet point to 

 any practical results which a gardener can imitate. Nothing can 

 be more beautiful in theory than the experiments of Dr. 

 Boucherie (p. 642.) ; and some of them, at least, might be 

 repeated by a gardener or forester, with a very little assistance 

 from a chemist. Sir W. Burnett's mode evei'y gardener might 

 put to the test, by trying it on bast mats. 



Floricidture. — Our Floricultural Notices exhibit, as usual, the 

 names of a great many new plants which have been figured 

 in the course of the year, and the whole are assembled in a 

 select list which forms part of the Contents. There is a va- 

 luable list of plants adapted for a conservatory wall, with several 

 instructive papers on the management of the Cacti, one of 

 considerable commercial importance on the cultivation of /rideae 

 in the Island of Jersey, and some interesting articles on the Dahl/a j 



