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PREFACE. 



The Contents of the Gardener's Magazine for 1842 are ana- 

 lytically arranged in the following Table, and the principal 

 matters are indexed Alphabetically at the end of the Volume. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS, 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



GENERAL SUBJECT. 

 listorical, Statistical, and Critical. 



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aary View of the Progress of Garden- 

 u md of Rural Improvement generally, 

 it ritain, during the Year 1842, with some 

 n ices relative to the State of both in 

 17 ■-eign Countries. By the Conductor - 

 .. Ilections of a Gardening Tour in the 

 1 .rth of England and Part of Scotland, 

 w ie from June 22. to Sept. 30. 1841 : — 



'he Buildings at the Railway Stations ; 

 P .sgow, Necropolis. By the Conductor - 

 farscube ; Glasgow New Botanic Gar- 

 ' l ; Glasgow ; the Climate - - 115 



Glasgow to Uddingstone ; Bothwell 

 Castle - - - - - 193 



Hamilton Palace ; Cadzow Castle ; Barn- 

 •leugh - 337 



Hamilton to Allanton ; Village of Al- 

 lanton; Allanton Park ; Milton Lockhart ; 

 Milton Lockhart to Lanark ; Cartland 

 Crags ; Lee - - - - - 385 



Corehouse ; Corehouse to Peebles ; Big- 

 gar ; New Posso ; Peebles to Melrose ; 

 Traquair ; Abbotsford ... 433 



Melrose to Dalkeith, by Dryburgh Abbey 

 and Thirlstane Castle; Dryburgh Abbey; 

 , Thirlstane Castle; Oxenford Castle; Pres- 

 ton Hall ; Newbattle Abbey ; Dalkeith 

 Palace; Dalkeith and Dalhousie Castle to 

 Edinburgh; Dalhousie Castle ; Edinburgh 

 to Kinross ; Blair- Adam ; Lochleven Cas- 

 tle; Kinross House; Kinross to Kincar- 

 dine ; Blair Hill ; the Botanic Garden at 

 Dollar; the Villa of Dr. Walker; Tully- 

 allan Castle ; Kincardine, by Culross and 

 Valleyfield, to Stirling ; Valleyfield ; Valley- 

 field Cottage Garden ; Culross Abbey ; Cas- 

 tle Hill, or Dunimarle; Alva ; Stirling to 

 Airthrie Castle, Deanston, and Blair- 

 Drummond ; Airthrie Castle ; Deanston ; 

 Keir ; Blair-Drummond ; Stirling ; Messrs. 

 Drummonds' Agricultural Museum ; Ar. 

 tides noted in the Agricultural Museum, 

 by Mr. Loudon ; the Bowling-Green at 

 Stirling; Notices of the King's Knot at 

 Stirling Castle; the King's Gardens; an 

 Arboretum at Stirling - 593 



Notices of some Gardens and Country Seats 

 in Somersetshire, Devonshire, and Part of 

 Cornwall : — 



London to Nettlecombe Court ; Bridge- 

 water ; Nettlecombe Court ; Fattening 

 Swine with Fern or Brake (Pteiris aqui- 

 lina) ; large Trees at Nettlecombe ; Cedar 

 of Lebanon ; Oak Trees ; Elm Trees ; Old 

 Cleeve Abbey ; Dunster Castle ; Nettle- 

 combe to Exeter, through Tiverton ; Cowley 

 Bank ; Mamhead. By the Conductor 



Cowley House; Mamhead ; Oxton House; 

 Powderham Castle ; from Exeter, by Lus- 

 combe, Dawlish, Teignmouth, and Babbi- 



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combe, to Torquay ; Luscombe Castle ; 

 Babbicombe ; Torquay ; Woodbine Cot- 

 tage ; Torquay to Paington, Totness, and 

 Kingsbridge ; Tor Abbey ; Paington ; Berry 

 Pomeroy Castle ; Sharpham ; Sharpham to 

 Kingsbridge ; Kingsbridge to Combe Royal, 

 and by the Moult, Woodville, Salcombe, 

 and Marlborough, to Modbury; Combe 

 Royal ; the Moult ; Woodville ; Salcombe ; 

 Modbury to Fleet House, Kitley, Saltram, 

 and Plymouth ; Fleet House ; Kitley ; Sal- 

 tram ; Plymouth ; Athenaeum Cottage ; 

 Mr. Pontey's Nurseries ; Rendle's Nursery; 

 Plymouth Bone-Manure Manufactory ; 

 Tor House ; Monadon House ; Penny- 

 cross Chapel ; Mount Edgecumbe ; Ply- 

 mouth to Saltash, TrematonCastle, Pentillie 

 Castle, and Callington ; Trematon Castle ; 

 Pentillie Castle ; Callington to Whitford 

 House, Endsleigh, and Tavistock ; Whit- 

 ford House; Endsleigh; Milton Abbey 

 Free School ; Tavistock ; Tavistock to 

 Buckland Abbey and Moreton Hampstead ; 

 Buckland Abbey ; from Buckland Abbey 

 to Moreton Hampstead ; Moreton Hamp- 

 stead to Ugbrook and Exeter ; Ugbrook ; 

 Exeter ; Bicton - 



Notice of some Gardens and Country Seats in 

 Sussex, visited in October 1842 : — 



London to Wadhurst Castle ; Wadhurst 

 Castle ; Wadhurst to Battle Abbey, Beau- 

 port, and Rose Hill ; Battle Abbey ; Beau- 

 port ; Rose Hill ; Eridge Castle. By the 

 Conductor ----- 610 



Bicton Gardens, their Culture and Ma- 

 nagement. In a Series of Letters to the 

 Conductor. By James Barnes, Gardener 

 to the Right Honourable Lady Rolle. 



Letter I. Bicton Kitchen-Garden ; Goose- 

 necked short-handled Hoes ; Kitchen- 

 garden Rules ; Vegetable and Fruit List ; 

 Onion Loft ; Use of Charcoal in the Cul- 

 ture of Plants ; to make a rough Sort of 

 Charcoal for Kitchen-gardening ; Devon- 

 shire Farming ; Preparing Ground for 

 Cabbages, Winter Salading, &c. ; Early and 

 late Cauliflower ; Tallies to Kitchen-Garden 

 Crops ; Improvements ; State of the Men 

 and Labourers in Bicton Gardens - 



Letter IT. Potting-Bench ; Painting 

 Strings for tying Plants ; Garden Rules ; the 

 Palm-house 



Letter III. The Heath-house ; Potting 

 in rough Soil, and Training ; Use of Frag- 

 ments of Freestone and Pebbles ; List of 

 Heaths 617 



Descriptive Notice of Blair- Adam. By Alex- 

 ander Mackenzie, Gardener there - - 357 



Dinbur Castle, its Gardens and its Gar- 

 deners. By Peter Mackenzie - 443. 495. 606 



A few Hours at Mount Vernon, formerly 

 the Country Residence of General Wash- 

 ington. By C. W. Elliott - - - 249 



A Description of the Garden and Collection 

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