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THE COTTAGE GAEDENERA ND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, Januarx 11, 1851). 
all til# fanciful fabrics of the Aristotelians, or guessers at truth. 
They were the founders of that science of vegetable physiology, 
which, enlarged and carried into practice by the late Mr. Knight 
and others, lias advanced horticulture to a degree of improve¬ 
ment undreamed of by their immediate predecessor, Heresbacb, 
when he informed the world, that, if the powder of rams’ horns 
is sown, and well watered, “ it will come to be good Asparagus.” 
The researches of Hales, upon the circulatory power of the 
sap-vessels ; of Bonnet, upon the functions of the leaves ; and of 
Du Hamel, Priestley, Ingenhousz, Sennebier, Saussurc, and 
others, upon the action of light, and the nature of the gases de¬ 
veloped during the respiration of plants, imparted still more 
useful knowledge to the gardener, and rendered his art still less 
empirical. 
The same philosophers directed their attention, also, to the food 
of plants imbibed by their roots, and to the examination of their 
various secretions ; but here they were joined by another band of 
nature’s students ; and no one conversant with the philosophy of 
plant-culture but will remember the debt he owes to Vauquelin. 
Lavoisier, Johns, Davy, and Liebig. 
We shall endeavour to concentrate and arrange the results of 
the researches of the above-named disciples of nature, adding 
such rays, derived from lesser lights, as aid to render the 
whole more luminous, and such links of experiments and obser¬ 
vations from similar sources, as make the work more connected 
than it would be without their aid. 
A few gardeners may still exist who venture to think science 
useless—as there once existed a devotee of fashion who wondered 
why it was not always candle-light; but the greater majority of 
gardeners are now men of science, endeavouring thoroughly to 
understand the reason of every practice, and the supposed cause 
of each effect. To those differing from them we might name, if 
it would not be invidious, nearly all the most successful of our 
modern gardeners. To a man, these are well acquainted with 
gardening’s relative sciences. We forbear from mentioning 
names, but we may remind our readers, without fearing to 
offend, of two departed scientific cultivators, M. Lavoisier, and 
our fellow-countryman, Mr. Knight. Lavoisier cultivated his 
grounds in La Vendee on scientific principles, and in a few years 
the annual produce of those grounds doubled that from equal 
spaces of his neighbour’s soil. Mr. Knight has scarcely left a 
department of our horticulture unimproved, by that combination 
of scientific with practical knowledge which he, perhaps more 
than any man, had united in his own mind. 
It behoves every gardener to follow in their steps, for though 
those great men who have gone before have done much for gar¬ 
dening, yet still more remains to be accomplished. We yet, on 
most points, do, and must ever, see through a glass darkly ; but 
that is no reason why any one should withhold from the effort to 
elicit some light towards diminishing the obscurity ; and we may 
all, without fear of misspending our labour, continue to act as if 
chemistry and physiology had still some secret to reveal to the 
inquirer.—J. 
(2b he continued.) 
A MODEL LADY GARDENED. 
It may be interesting to some of your readers, who, like 
myself, keep no regular gardener, to hear how I contrive to keep 
a garden—140 feet by 60 feet—in very nice order, by working only 
two hours every morning, with the assistance of a lad, who is 
glad to be shown how to do things my own way. 
This summer, I raised, from cuttings, so many plants, and 
potted them off, that in the autumn I was grieved, when I looked 
ut them, to think that the greater part must die, as I had but a 
very small frame, which would only hold about seventy pots. 
Upwards of eighty more I took into a room in the house, but 
stHl there were many left. What was I to do ? 
I became desperate, sent for a carpenter in the month of De¬ 
cember, and in one fortnight had a nice little greenhouse built, 
which more than held all my plants. It is twelve feet by eight 
feet. Eour-inch pipes for hot water are placed along the front 
of the greenhouse, which water is heated by gas. 
The gas stove is twenty inches high, and eight inches in 
diameter, placed outside the greenhouse, enclosed in a small 
wooden box, so that it is not seen. It will burn for weeks, if 
required, without any attention. But I am regulated entirely 
by the thermometer, which I keep from 45° to 48°. The expense 
of burning the gas is 3s. 6d. a-week, if kept burping night and day. 
I intend trying somo experiments, and one is, to grow a Black 
Hamburgh Vine in a No. 1 pot. I intend purchasing a Vine, in 
a pot, three years old, and then transplanting it in this manner:— 
A layer of crocks at the bottom of the pot, and over that a 
a layer of moss ; then pieces of turfy, yellow loam (from Epping 
Forest), a layer of bones, the same loam, with a little road sand, 
and manure laid over this to fill up the crevices ; then a few more 
lumps of turf, and a little more mould ; and then to place the 
Vine, and fill up with loam, dung, and a little sand, thoroughly 
mixed together. 
I intend pruning it on Hoare’s plan, to let one stem grow and 
bear Grapes, and to cut the other stem down to two eyes, to bear 
Grapes the following season. As soon as the leaves appear, I 
shall syringe them once a-day with nitred water, and twice 
a-week, if necessary, water the root with manure water. 
All this may answer for the first year, but how is the Vine to 
obtain sufficient nourishment for the following years ? I intend 
once a-year to take out, very carefully, by means of a stick, 
without injuring the roots, at least one-third, or more, of the 
mould, and fill it up afresh, and then wait to see the result. If 
fruit trees will grow for nine years in the same pot, and bear fruit, 
why will not a Vine ? 
I have about three dozen Tea-scented Roses, in pots—such as 
Adam, Comte de Baris, Bride of Abydos, Bliza Sauvage, 
Hevoniensis, Vicomtesse de Cases, Narcissus, &c., and thirteen 
of the best Chinese or Bengal Roses. 
All these are attended to by myself, an enthusiastic— Ladt 
Amateur. 
SELECT FRUITS ADAPTED TO THE VARIOUS 
LOCALITIES OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
{Continued from page 216.) 
CHERRIES. 
Graffion. See Bigarreau. 
Geeat Cornelian [Double Glass). —Very large, oblate, 
marked on one side with a very deep suture, which quite 
divides the fruit. Skin thin and translucent, at first of 
a light red, but becoming darker as it ripens. Stalk an. 
inch and a half long. Flesh yellowish, tender, very juicy, 
with a fine sub-acid, vinous, and rich flavour. Beginning 
of July. 
Griotte be Chaux. —Large, roundish-oblate. Skin 
dark red, and shining. Stalk two inches long, and slender. 
Flesh dark, tender, melting, and very juicy, with a brisk 
sub-acid flavour. End of July. 
Gf.iotte de Kleparow ( Belle Polonaise). —Medium 
sized, roundish-oblate. Skin dark red. Stalk two inches 
long. Flesh dark, tender, and juicy, with a rich, sweet, 
and sub-acid flavour. End of July. 
Griotte de Portugal. —This is by some considered 
synonymous with the Archduke. It certainly bears a 
considerable resemblance to it in the size, form, and colour, 
of the fruit; but I have not yet had an opportunity of 
comparing trees of equal age, and growing under the same 
circumstances. I am, however, inclined to believe that 
they will prove to be, if not really identical, at least very 
similar. 
Gros Cceuret. See Monstrous Heart. 
Gaos Gobet [Montmorency; Montmorency a Courte 
Queue). —Medium sized, oblate, marked on one side with 
a very deep suture, which forms quite a cleft at the stalk. 
Skin smooth and shining, of a fine clear red, but becom¬ 
ing darker as it ripens. Stalk very short and thick, half 
an inch to an inch long. Flesh white, tender, very juicy, 
and briskly acid ; but when it hangs long it is agreeably 
flavoured. Middle and end of July. This has been, 
very incorrectly, made synonymous with the Flemish, 
and even with the Kentish. 
Grosse de Wagnelee. See Heine Hortense. 
Guigne Noire Tardive. See Tradescant’s Heart. 
Harrison’s Heart [White Bigarreau).—Yery large, 
distinctly heart-shaped, and uneven in its outline. Skin 
