CONTENTS. 
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PART I.—HORTICULTURE, &c.: Original Communications. 
Art. 1. Description of a House for growing Early Grapes, &c. By Mr. J. 
Hay thorn. : . 193 
2. On an Economical Plan of growing Apples, and other Fruit. By a 
Pomologist. 194 
3. On a Mode of Propagating Pelargoniums after being Nipped by Frost.. 195 
4. On preserving the Roots of the Geranium through the Winter. By a 
Practical Gardener . 199 
5. On the Cultivation of the Ranunculus, By an Admirer of the Ranun- 
cuius . ib. 
6. On the Cultivation of the Carnation. By Mr. John Revell. 199 
7. On the Cultivation of the Gooseberry. By Mr. George Muscroft, Win- 
cobank, near Sheffield. 202 
8. A Sketch of the Agriculture and Horticulture of Japan. By S. S.205 
9. On the Utility of burning Clay as a means of Correcting the Soil for 
Gardens. By 3Ir. Stafford.. 209 
PART II.—.Reviews and Extracts. 
Art. 1. Reviews of, and Extracts from, Works on Botany, &c. 212 
PART III.—NATURAL HISTORY: Original Communications. 
Art. 1. Observations on a few of the Plants which possess, or are supposed to 
possess, the power of Entrapping Insects. By E. Murphy, Esq., 
Agent to the Horticultural and Arboricultural Societies of Ireland.... 214 
2 . Observations on Professor Rennie’s Edition of Montague’s Ornithological 
Dictionary, By Mr. O. Jewitt, Duffield Bank, near Derby . 219 
3. Observations on the Habits of Snakes and Adders. By X. 218 
4. Remarks on the Surrey Zoological Gardens, established by Mr. Cross .. 219 
5. On the Conferva Algagropila (^Moss Balt), from Coomere, near Ellesmere, 
Salop. 229 
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PART IV.—Reviews and Extracts. 
Art. I. Quarterly Journal of Agriculture .. 221 
2. The Bee Garden..... ib, 
3. Knowledge for the People, or the plain Why and Because (Zoological 
Series) .. 222 
PART V—MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 
Art. 1. Queries, Answers, Remarks, &c. 223 
2. Gleanings... 228 
3. Collections and Recollections . 230 
4. Horticultural Societies . 235 
5. Choice Plants .. ib. 
6. Naturalists’ Calendar . 238 
7. Horticultural Calendar. 240 
J’rmtcdby J«\vitt and Son, Dulficld, Derbysihirc, 
