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PREFACE. 



The Contents of this Fourteenth Volume of the Gardener s Maga- 

 zine, which serve at the same time instead of an Index, are arranged 

 as follows ; — 



riginal Communications :— 



General Subject . - - - 



History, Description, and Statistics - 

 Science of Gardening 

 Insects and Birds . - - 



Instruments - _ - - 



Landscape- Gardening and Garden Archi- 



tecture - . - - 



Arboriculture . . . - 



Effects of the Winter of 1837-8 

 Floriculture . . . _ 



Horticulture _ . - - 



Bee Culture .... 



eviews . - - - 



Catalogue - - 



Literary Notices 

 'iscellaneous Intelligence : — 

 ^i General Notices . - - - 



Foreign Notices - - . - 



Domestic Notices . - . 



England - - - 



Scotland - ... 



Page 

 Ireland ... - vii 



Retrospective Criticism ... vii 

 Queries and Answers . - ■ vii 



London Horticultural Society - - vii 



West London Gardeners' Association - vii 

 Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society vii 

 Coveiit Garden Market - - - vii 



Obituary . - . - vii 



List of Plants included in the Floricultural 

 and Botanical Notices recorded since the 

 preparation of the Second Additional Sup- 

 plement to the Hortus Britannicus - . vii 

 List of Plants mentioned or treated of in the 



present volume, arranged alphabetically - x 

 List of Fruits ... - xiv 



List of Culinary Vegetables . - xv 



List of Horticultural, Botanical, and Flori. 



cultural Societies - - . - xv 



List of Gardens and Country Seats - . xvi 



List of Books reviewed or noticed . . xvii 



List of Engravings - . . xvii 



List of Contributors - • - xviii 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



GENERAL SUBJECT. 



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A Summary View of the Progress of Gar- 

 dening, and of Rural Improvement gene- 

 rally, in Britain, during the Year 1838 ; 

 with some Notices relative to the State of 

 both in Foreign Countries. By the Con- 

 ductor ... - - 545 



Provincial Horticultural, Botanical, and Flo« 

 ticultural Societies . . - 584f 



History, Description, and Statistics. 



An abridged List of Ornamental Plants in- 

 troduced into British Gardens during the 

 Year 1838 ; with References to the Works 

 in which they have been figured or de- 

 scribed, and to the Pages of the current 

 Volume of the Gardener's Magazine, in 

 which some Account is given of their Mode 

 of Culture, &c. - - - - 574 



Notes on the Brighton and Shoreham Gar- 

 dens ; and on the Garden and Grounds of 

 William Borrer, Esq., F.L.S., at Henfield: 

 with some preliminary Remarks on Tawd- 

 riness in Flower-Gardens. By the Con- 

 ductor - - - - - 497 



Descriptive Notice of Hendon Rectory, the 

 Residence of the Rev. Theodore Williams, 

 with a List of the Pinetum in Pots kept in 

 the Gardens there. By the Conductor . 220 



Descriptive Notice of the Villa of Mrs. Law- 

 rence, at Drayton Green. From the Sub- 

 urban Gardener - . . 305 



Descriptive Notice of Bedford Lodge, the 

 Suburban Villa of His Grace the Duke of 

 Bedford, at Camden Hill. By John Caie, 

 Gardener there . . - - 401 



Some Account of the Garden of Mr. Abel 

 Ingpen, A.L.S., ScC, Upper Manor Street, 

 Chelsea. By Mr. Ingpen ... 456 



Notes on Gardens and Country Seats. By 



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 the Conductor. — Hoole House, near Ches. 

 ter, the Residence of Lady Broughton . 353 



Some Account of the Gardens of Hereford- 

 shire. By J. B. W. . - . 209 



A slight Sketch of a Visit to Allanton, the 

 Seat of the late Sir Henry Steuart, and now 

 in Possession of his Daughter, Lady Mac- 

 donald Steuart. By W. A. Nesfield, Esq. 15 



Notice of the Gardens of Norman MacLeod, 

 Esq., Morayshire. By Thomas Reid -462 



The State of Gardening in the South of Ire- 

 land, as compared with England and Scot- 

 land. By John Jeffery, Nurseryman, Mit- 

 chelstown - . - - 65 



Descriptive Notice of the Country House of 

 Dr. Renton, in Madeira, called Quinta de 

 la Valle (Villa of the Valley), situated near 

 Funchal. By Dr. Lippold, Author of the 

 Wohlstandige Gartner, 8;c., Natural His. 

 tory Collector in Madeira and the Canaries 449 



On the Vegetation of Dalmatia. By Baron 

 Von Welden, General in the Austrian ser. 

 vice, and late Governor of Dalmatia. 

 Translated and communicated by Mrs. 

 Palliser . - . . 5 



Science of Gardening. 



Of the Analogy between Plants and Ani- 

 mals. By J. A. W. - - ■ - . 411 



Detail of Experiments on Vegetable Physi- 

 ology, and Observations thereon. By N. 

 Niven, Curator of the Glasnevin Botanic 

 Garden, Dublin . - . . 161 



On the Germination of Seeds - - - 71 



Conjectures respecting the Causes which pro- 

 duce double Flowers in Plants ; together 

 with the Results of some Experiments made 

 with a View to the same Object. By James 

 Munro, Forester to the Marquess of North- 

 ampton, at Castle Ashby, Northampton- 

 shire • • . . -lis 



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