CONTENTS. 
PART I.—HORTICULTURE, &c.; Original Communications. 
Art. 1. On the Improvement of Forest-Tree Plantations. By the Author of 
The Domestic Gardener’s Manual,” a Member of the Horticultural 
Society ..... 241 
2. On the Culture of the Rose. By Rusticus. 245 
3. Hints on the Cultivation of the Rose. By a Practical Gardener .249 
4. On Pruning Forest Plantations. By an Arborist .252 
5. Description of an Improved Pruninghook, invented by Mr. John 
Howden. 254 
6. Description of a newly-invented Propagating Pot, for increasing, with 
facility and certainty, such Green-house and Hot-house Shrubs as 
cannot be propagated by Cuttings. By S. Appleby, F.L.S., Lecturer 
on Botany, St. James’s Gardens, Doncaster . 255 
7- Remarks on the Erection of Labourers’ Cottages. By Arthur Fitz- 
Arthur . 257 
8. Some Account of the present State of the Colony at_, Swan River, 
Western Australia. By J. T. 260 
PART II.—Reviews and Extracts. 
Art. 1. Reviews of, and Extracts from. Works on Gardening, and Rural and 
Domestic Economy. 
(1) Hortus Cantabrigiensis . 262 
(2) Transactions of the London Horticultural Society. ib. 
(3) Gardeners’ Magazine.263 
(4) Flora and Pomona . 265 
2. Reviews of, and Extracts from, Works on Botany, &c.266 
PART III.—NATURAL HISTORY; Original Communications, 
Art. 1. Observations on the Common House Spider. By Mr. S. S, Smith, of 
Nottingham. 268 
2. Remarkable Sagacity of the Mole. 269 
PART IV.—Reviews and Extracts. 
Art. 1. Quarterly Journal of Agriculture . 271 
2. A Guide to the Arrangement of British Insects. 273 
3. Magazine of Natural History. 274 
4. The Honey Bee. 275 
5. British Entomology . 276 
PART V_MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 
Art. 1. Queries, Answers, Remarks, &c. 277 
2. Notices and Anticipations. 280 
3. Yorkshire Philosophical Society. 282 
4. Horticultural Society. 285 
5. Choice Plants . ib. 
6. Naturalists* Calendar .286 
7* Horticultural Calendar. 287 
8. Covent Garden Market. 288 
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