CONTENTS. 
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PART I.—HORTICULTURE, &c,: Original Communications. 
Art. 1 . Some comparative Remarks on Wood and IMetal Hot-house Roofs. By 
Joseph Thompson, sen., C.M.H.S., Gardener to his Grace the Duke 
of Portland, Welbeck, Notts. 97 
2. Account of a remarkably large Espalier Apple-tree, growing at Dove- 
ridge, the Seat of the Right Hon. Lord Waterpark; communicated by 
Mr. Thomas Dovey, Gardener there. 99 
3. An Account of Heating a Pinery and Pinepit at Sir Edward Dodsworth’s, 
Bart., Newland-Park, near Wakefield. By Mr. John Lister, Gar¬ 
dener there... 109 
4. On the Cultivation of the Pelagonian, as practised at the Right Hon. the 
Earl of Egremont’s, Petworth House, Sussex. By Mr. George Har¬ 
rison, Under-Gardener there . 102 
6. On the Cultivation of the Tulip. By Mr. John Revell, of Pitsmoor, 
near Sheffield. 104 
C. Description of the Botanical and Horticultural Garden, Manchester; 
communicated by Mr. William Mowbray, F.H.S., the Curator (with 
a Plate). 106 
PART II.—Reviews and Extracts. 
Art. 1 . Reviews and Extracts from Works on Horticulture and Rural and Domestic 
Economy- 
(1.) A Guide to the Orchard and Kitchen Garden. 119 
(2.) Gardeners’Magazine . 114 
(3.) Transactions of the London Horticultural Society. 115 
2. Extracts from Works on Gardening, Botany, Rural Subjects, &c. ib. 
PART III.—NATURAL HISTORY: Original Communications. 
Art. 1. Popular Errors with regard to Blight. By James Rennie, A.M., Pro¬ 
fessor of Natural History, King’s College, London . 122 
PART IV.—.Reviews and Extracts. 
Art. 1 . On the Utility of the Knowledge of Nature. 124 
2. Edinburgh Philosophical Journal . 128 
3. British Entomology . 131 
PART V.—MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 
Art. 1. Queries, Answers, and Remarks. 132 
2. Notices and Anticipations. 137 
3. Collections and Recollections. 139 
4. Choice Plants. 149 
5. Horticultural Societies . 141 
6. Naturalists’ Calendar . 142 
7. Horticultural Calendar. 143 
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