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JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



is Sander's " Reichenbachia," containing the most faithful 

 pictures of Orchids ever printed in England or elsewhere. 



Amongst weekly newspapers devoted to the craft, of which 

 there are now eight or ten, we must mention " The Gardeners' 

 Chronicle," started in 1841, and still our best representative 

 garden newspaper. " The Cottage Gardener," now the " Journal 

 of Horticulture," "The Gardeners' Magazine," and " The 

 Garden " (1871). These weekly periodicals really represent and 

 contain the history of our gardening to-day. 



Landscape Gardening. — Landscape gardening literature 

 especially deserves mention, since it is a decorative art, which if 

 not actually born in England, has been developed here to its 

 fullest and greatest extent. " In Garden and Forest," March 12, 

 1890, there is a bibliographical list of about two hundred and 

 sixty works on this subject, ranging from Bacon's essay of 

 1625 to 1890. In glancing over* this list, it strikes one as very 

 peculiar that such names as those of Kent 1755, Bridgman 

 1730, "Capability" Brown 1760, Sir Joseph Paxton 1831, and 

 Robert Marnock 1850 are absent. In a word, these men, who 

 did so much to make English gardens beautiful, made but slight 

 if any contributions with their pens on this subject to our garden 

 literature. Bridgman concealed boundary lines, and is said to 

 have in that way first employed the sunk fence or "ha ha " ; 

 while both he and Kent sounded the death knell of " Noah's 

 Arks in Holly; or George and the Dragon in Yew or Box." And 

 of Kent it was especially said that " he leaped the fence and saw 

 that all nature was a garden." Addison (1712), Horace Walpole 

 (1762 to 1771), Whately (1770), W. Gilpin (1782), Steele (1793), 

 Sir Uvedale Price (1798), H. Repton (1795), Sir W. Scott (1828), 

 J. C. Loudon (1807 to 1840) are the principal authors on land- 

 scape gardening in England of the past. To-day the names of 

 Mr. W. Robinson and Mr. Goldring, in England ; M. Edouard 

 Andre, in France ; and Mr. 1 Frederick Law Olmstead and Mr. 

 Samuel Parsons, jun., in America, suggest themselves as our 

 greatest literary authorities. The importance attached to the 

 English or natural style of landscape gardening in France is 

 attested by the English gardens at Chantilly, Fontainebleau, and 

 elsewhere. 



* This bibliographical list is compiled by Mr. Henry Sargent Codman, 

 and deserves the attention of those interested in this subject. 



