and of Rural Improvement generally^ during 1842. 667 



On the Progress of Gardening in Foreign Countries wc have 

 this year little to record. We arc gratified to find that though 

 our hints repeatedly given in this Magazine, for planting trees 

 along th r ; railroads, have not been adopted here, yet at Vienna 

 our idea has been entertained (see p. 476.). In the British 

 dominions in India great progress appears to be making in 

 the introduction of European fruits and culinary vegetables, 

 and this is also the ease in Southern Australia. (Sec Gard. 

 Chron. Index.) 



Garden Literature. — Few publications on gardening subjects 

 have appeared in the course of the year. We have completed 

 the Suburban Horticulturist. Gardening for I. ('dies and The 

 Companion to the Ladies' 1 Flower- Garden (of both which works, 

 and Botany for Ladies, we are more proud than of any of our 

 own) have come, the former to a fourth, and the latter to a 

 second, edition. The two Gardening Newspapers continue to 

 prosper; the Chronicle goes on with its accustomed vigour, and 

 lias deservedly attained a very extensive sale. The Gardeners'' 

 Gazette is now edited by our much esteemed friend Mr. Main 

 (who, if any good and venerable gardening author deserves a 

 pension from government, is the man), and we are happy to 

 learn that it also has increased in sale. There is surely abun- 

 dance of room for both papers. A rigidly analytical Table of 

 Contents, in addition to the Alphabetical Index now given, 

 would be a great improvement to both works. A Gardening 

 and Agricultural Newspaper has been commenced in Dublin, 

 under the editorship of our friend Mr. Murphy, who conducts 

 it with the greatest ability (see p. 383.). 



Obituary. — To the names of those enumerated in our Table of 

 Contents is to be added that of the venerable Mr. John Rogers, 

 who died Nov. 9. at his residence, Southampton, in the ninety- 

 first year of his age. Throughout the course of a long 

 life, he enjoyed uninterrupted health, and he retained unim- 

 paired all his faculties to the last. He was one of the oldest 

 and most experienced of gardeners and nurserymen, having 

 commenced his career in the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, 

 in the year 1768, under the patronage of the late John Aiton, 

 Esq. He had the advantage of a personal acquaintance with 

 the celebrated Philip Miller, and was probably the last indi- 

 vidual living wdio had enjoyed the friendship of that eminent 

 character. Mr. Rogers was the author of many treatises on 

 gawlcning; and towards the decline of his life he published the 

 result of bis experience in two separate works, the Fruit and 

 Vegetable Cultivators, which contain much practical and useful 

 information. lie was the father of Mr. William Hogcrs of the 

 Southampton Nursery, and assisted in the forming and con- 

 ducting of that extensive establishment. 



