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which they would be so elevated as to permit a free current of air to enter them 
beneath, and also to secure the immediate removal of the refuse water from the 
bottom of the pot. 
Figs. 3 and 4 embody our notions on this matter. The first is one third wider 
than it is deep, or six inches in width by four in depth ; the last is half as deep as 
it is wide, or twelve inches in breadth by six inches deep. The letters c, c, c, c, 
indicate the four feet on which the pot is to rest, and which, in fact, are to form a 
part of it, while the circular figures in the centre show the apertures. It is need- 
less to add that our engravings are all sections, and that the circular ones which 
accompany them exhibit the bottom of the pots. The exterior can be made either 
plain or ornamental as taste may direct. 
We hope that some metropolitan potter will take up these ideas, and work them 
out in the present season. We cannot doubt that, when cultivators see the vast 
advantages which will accrue from the use of such pots, they will adopt them 
almost exclusively. Being founded on the most solid principles, they must some 
day become as common as they now are scarce. 
REVIEWS. 
Tlie Landscape Gardening and Landscape Architecture of the late Humphrey Repton, Esq., 
being his entire Works on these Subjects. A New Edition, by J. C. Loudon, Esq., F.L.S., 
&c. Illustrated by upwards of Two Hundred and Fifty Engravings. 
We take blame to ourselves for having delayed so long to notice the above 
work, for it will be found a most complete and pleasing guide to those who, either 
for pleasure or profit, feel an interest in the subject on which it treats. Landscape 
Gardening, as an art of taste, has been little practised on scientific principles, and, 
indeed, little comprehended or valued, except among the higher classes, until of 
late years ; and although the names of Kent, Gilpin, Brown, Price, &c, have 
passed in review before the public, it was not until the high-minded and tasteful 
Repton had exalted the profession into a proper system, that it was appreciated 
and valued. He neither followed the stiffness of the Italian school on the one 
hand, nor the freedom of the French on the other ; and although he might not be 
said to have struck out a new line for himself, still he discarded the false principles 
and retained the good points of his predecessors. 
His knowledge of both Architecture and Gardening, being at the same time an 
artist of the first class, could not fail to place him at the head of his profession ; 
his judgment and learning rendered him a reasoning instead of a methodical artist ; 
and so great was his repute in the art of Landscape Gardening, that princes 
consulted him on matters of taste, which repute he acquired by his skill in blending 
beauty with utility. 
