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STATISTICS OF GARDENING. 



Part IV. 



gays, and those who deal chiefly in exotics or green-house plants to be sold in pots. The 

 other subspecies is the select Jiorist, who confines himself to the culture of bulbous-rooted 

 and other select or florists' flowers, who has annual flower-shows, and who disposes of the 

 plants, bulbs, tubers, or seeds. 



7398. Botanic gardeners are such as devote themselves exclusively to the culture of an 

 extensive collection of species for sale ; these may be either limited to indigenous kinds, 

 as was the botanic garden of the late Don of Forfar, embracing all hardy plants, or ex- 

 tending to tender exotics. Botanic gardeners also collect and dry specimens of plants, 

 and also of mosses, fungi, algae, &c. for sale : to this they often join the collecting of in- 

 sects, birds, and other animals. 



7399. NxLrsery-gardeners, or nurserymen. This is the highest species of tradesman- 

 gardener. Their business is to originate from seed, or by other modes of propagation, 

 every species of vegetable, hardy or exotic, grown in gardens, to rear and train them 

 for sale, and to pack or encase them, so as they may be sent with safety to distant places. 

 The nurseryman is commonly also to a certain extent a seed-grower, and is generally a 

 seed-merchant, supplying his customers annually with what seeds they require for crop- 

 ping their gardens as well as with the trees they use in stocking them. The simplest 

 variety of nursery-gardener is he who confines himself to the rearing of hedge plants and 

 forest trees ; the highest, he who in addition to all the hardy trees and plants maintains at 

 the same time a collection of tender exotics. 



Sect. III. Garden Counsellors, Artists, or Professors. 



7400. The first species of this genus of gardeners, is the garden surveyor, or valuator. 

 His business is to estimate the value of garden labor and produce, and of garden struc- 

 tures, edifices, and gardens themselves. When a proprietor lets his house and garden 

 to a tenant for a certain number of years, the stock of the garden is valued, and either 

 entirely paid for by the tenant, or it is again valued when the latter quits the premises, 

 and the difference in value paid either by the tenant to the landlord, or by the latter to 

 the former, as th^ case may be. It is the business of the garden-surveyor to estimate 

 the value of the stock, crop, and business o^ nurserymen, and other tradesmen-gardeners, 

 quitting or entering on premises, or purchasmg or disposing of their establishments. The 

 garden-surveyor is sometimes also a garden-auctioneer ; but generally his business is con- 

 fined to valuing, and practised by nurserymen or other tradesmen-gardeners. 



7401. The tree-surveyor, or timber-surveyor, limits his occupation to arboriculture : he 

 measures and values standing timber or copsewood; estimates the value of young plant- 

 ations, the expense of forming them, of managing them during a certain number of 

 years; of enclosing with live hedges of every kind, and their management till fence 

 high : he determines what trees shall be felled, thinned, or pruned, and directs the man- 

 ner of performing these operations. 



7402. The horticultural architect {Planner, Scotch) gives designs for kitchen-gardens 

 and flower-gardens, with their structures and buildings : he sometimes also lays out 

 shrubberies and pleasure-grounds, when on a small scale. In this case he takes the title 

 of ornamental gardener {Planner of policies, Scotch), or ground-architect. 



7403. The hortictdtnral artist is employed in designing and painting fruits, flowers, 

 plants, implements, and horticultural structures and gardens, but chiefly in drawing fruits 

 and flowers, the gardens and structures being more commonly drawn by the horticultural 

 architect, or landscape-gardener. 



7404. The landscape-gardener, or layer out of grounds ; Artiste jardinier, Ingenieur des 

 jardins pittoresques, or Ayiglais, and Jardinier paysagiste, Fr. ; Garten kUnstler, Ger. ; and 

 Artiste giardiniere, Ital. This species of counsellor gives designs for disposing of the 

 plantations, water, buildings, and other sceneiy, in parks or landscape-gardens, and ge- 

 nerally for every thing relating to the arrangement of a country-seat, excepting the archi- 

 tecture of the mansion, offices, and other buildings ; but in what respects the site of these, 

 and the exposure of the principal fronts and apartments of the house, his counsel is re- 

 quired jointly with that of the architect. 



7405. The gardening author may be considered the most univei-sal kind of garden- 

 counsellor, since his province extends to every branch of the art. The simplest variety 

 of this species is the author of remarks, or an essay, or treatise on one particular plant 

 or subject ; the most comprehensive, he who embraces the whole of the science and art 

 of gardening ; but the most valuable, he who communicates original infonnation. 



Sect. IV. Patrons of Gardening. 



7406. Every man who does not limit the vegetable parts of his dinner to bread and 

 potatoes, is a patron of gardening, by creating a demand for its productions. He is a 

 consumer, which is the first species of patron, and the more valuable varieties are such as 

 regularly produce a dessert after dinner, and maintain throughout the year beautiful 

 nosegays and pots of flowers in their lobbies and drawingrooras. 



