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NOTICE OP JOHNSON’S KITCHEN GARDEN. 
dates, one after the other, on the various branches of their profession, 
both in theory and practice, and let the jury give their opinion whether 
those who are examined, or any of them, shall be entitled to a certifi¬ 
cate of the first or second class, or sent back to pursue some other course 
of employment for which they are better adapted by nature. 
It would be encroaching on the pages of your valuable work to men¬ 
tion all the qualifications which a gardener ought to possess ; therefore 
I would only say to the young and inexperienced, endeavour by every 
possible means to obtain a knowledge of the vegetable kingdom, from 
the lofty tree to the diminutive weed of the garden, as in these days, 
in which we enjoy commercial intercourse with the uttermost ends of 
the earth, and have made all the valuable produce of other places our 
own, both for ornament and use, the business and duties of a gardener 
are very much extended. 
To be a good gardener, a man not only requires a preliminary educa¬ 
tion, but a steady perseverance in acquiring knowledge and habits of 
industry, and a taste for comforts ,* and I am glad to say, that for this 
purpose a gardeners’ society has lately been established at the west, 
of London, called te The West London Gardeners’ Association for 
mutual Instruction and Improvement.” I understand they have taken 
a school-room at Hammersmith sufficient to accommodate eighty indi¬ 
viduals. I have had the pleasure of attending one of their meetings, 
and, from the respectable individuals who attend, and the manner in 
which it is conducted, I have no doubt but it will ultimately be of great 
utility to gardeners and society at large. 
I should be glad to see some person better qualified than myself 
take up this subject, and remain, &c. 
Turnham Green, lith November, 1836. Alex» RUSSELL. 
NOTICE OF JOHNSON’S KITCHEN GARDEN. 
The Kitchen Garden ; its Arrangement and Cultivation. By 
George W. Johnson, author of The History of English Gardening,” 
&c. Orr and Smith, Paternoster Row. 
This little work has lately come under our notice ; it has no preten¬ 
sions to originality, the author being, as he himself modestly states, 
“ almost exclusively a retailer of other men’s wares.” As a compila¬ 
tion, however, it is very respectably got up, the various matters being 
well selected; and it is arranged with considerable judgment, besides 
being written in a very pleasing style. The principal source whence 
the author has drawn information is from the ff Transactions of the 
Horticultural Society of London,” and from several other contemporary 
publications. It is certainly a very neat and cheap compendium of 
kitchen gardening. 
