fine as from early potting, and it takes two seasons' good nursing to bring them round again, so that they will make their appearance among the early spring bulbs in the beds and borders of the flower-garden. They manage differently in Holland, where they know the nature of the plant so much better than we do, especially as exemplified in our practice. There, from time out of mind, the first crop of forcing hyacinths is potted about the first week in August. They provide against exciting the foliage till the pots are full of roots, by a thick covering of tan, leaf-mould, or something of the kind. In about six weeks the pots are full of roots; they are then taken to cold-frames, and kept close to the glass, with plenty of air; and the natural warmth of the latter part of September and the whole of October is sufficient to bring up the foliage and flower-buds very gradually, with the least possible injury to the bulbs; indeed, as compared with our practice, their bulbs can hardly be said to be forced at all; and, after one season's nursing, the same bulbs are fit to be again forced, or exported in the usual course of business. If one party can procure these bulbs thus early, there is no reason why the whole trade should not be as early in the market, and save themselves and their customers much trouble. (D. Beaton, in Gard. Chron. for Aug. 19. 1843, p. 576.) Conservatory Climbers. At this period, when people are busily engaged in planning out new modes of heating, and re-arranging houses, pits, &c., or in contemplating new ones, let me suggest a simple, cheap, and efficient mode of rendering the conservatory superior to, and more interesting than, anything that has hitherto been done, with the exception of a few instances, which proved highly successful. It is, to clothe the rafters with the best stove and halfstove climbers for seven or eight months in the year, and thus to impart to it all the character and importance of an exotic stove, with the cool refreshing atmosphere suitable for conservatory plants, where those who cannot endure the broiling heat of the former may enjoy this luxury in a more congenial climate. Something of this kind seems now to be wanted, seeing that the better and more delicate greenhouse climbers are being encouraged as dwarf plants on trelliswork, a plan very suitable to tender and small flowering plants, but which does away altogether with our ideas of the bold unrestrained freedom of a fine climber; and also that the stronger greenhouse climbers are now turned out against conservatory walls, so that we are left in the dilemma of having the same kinds of climbers in the conservatory as against the hot walls in the open air, or we must contrive to grow others in-doors more suitable to our tastes and ideas, or, at all events, more in accordance with the higher branches of gardening. The plan which I propose for effecting this change is exceedingly simple, and not at all expensive, having had a less economical mode for the same purpose in operation for some years, and I can speak confidently as to the result. This plan is simply to build a narrow pit along the back of the conservatory, or along one end of it, if that is not in sight of the main walks; to keep up a constant stove-heat in this pit, to plant out stove-climbers in it, and, when they are of sufficient length, to introduce them through holes pierced in the back wall of the conservatory; or, more in detail, to build a pit 6 ft. wide and 4 ft. high, the whole length or breadth of the conservatory, as the case may be, with glass sashes in the usual way, at an angle sufficient to leave you head-room along a path next the back wall of the conservatory. This path may be 2 ft. wide, leaving room for a bed 4 ft. wide, except the 4-inch wall along the path to keep up the soil. This bed is to be made after the manner of a vine border, well drained, with a layer of rough stones over the drainage, and a good portion of them mixed with fresh turfy loam and a little peat and leaf-mould, to the depth of 3 ft. If you wish to try the effect of bottom-heat, nothing is easier than to run a trough under the drainage, with a two-inch pipe, to heat the water after the manner of Mr. Green's pits. Mr. Rendle's plan will not answer this purpose. A common flue may be the mode of heating if you want to go the cheapest way to work, and the heat may be from 75° to 85° in summer, and from 50° to 55° in winter. (D. Beaton, in Gard. Chron. for 1843, p. 588.) ART. II. Domestic Notices. ENGLAND. BOWOOD, in Wiltshire, the seat of the Marquess of Lansdowne. To all who are fond of garden scenes, in the great style of Brown's finest works, Bowood will afford considerable amusement. The water scenes form the finest features of the place. For one idea, the imitation of a vast river, Blenheim is superior; but as a lake, this has, I think, the advantage; the expanse of water is more varied; the accompaniment of hanging woods, varied groves, and cultivated slopes, far richer and more animated. Some scenes are truly Elysian, and present such an assemblage of the richest features of picturesque ground, that I know no place where they may be studied to more advantage. (Young's Annals of Agriculture, vol. viii. p. 79.) SCOTLAND. Glasgow Cathedral saved by a Gardener. When the fanatics, in the year 1567, came to pull down the cathedral of Glasgow, a gardener, who stood by, said: " My friends, cannot you make it a house for serving your God in your own way? For it would cost your country a great deal to build such another.” The fanatics desisted; and it is the only cathedral in Scotland that remains entire, and fit for service. (Earl of Buchan's Life of Andrew Fletcher, p. 41.) ART. III. Obituary. DEATH of Mr. Robert Lymburn. It is with deep regret that we have heard of the sudden death of this excellent man. Mr. Lymburn had been poorly for some months past, but appeared to have got well again. He had recently buried his mother, with whom he had lived all his life; and he had just formed a partnership with Mr. Dreghorn, in the nursery business, at Kilmarnock. He retired to rest, in his usual health, on Monday the 30th of October last, and on the morning of Tuesday the 31st was found dead in his bed; the result, it is supposed, of an affection of the heart. Mr. Lymburn was, perhaps, one of the best vegetable physiologists that Scotland ever produced. To an extensive practical knowledge of all the horticultural and agricultural practices of the country, he joined a thorough knowledge of chemistry, and of the functions of plants; and he was so thoroughly devoted to the subject, that he had no other recreation. As a proof, we have only to refer to his excellent articles in this Magazine; and to many papers of his in the Gardener's Chronicle. Fortunately for our readers, the MS. of the whole of the article on Comparative Physiology was received from Mr. Lymburn more than a month ago, and it will appear in the early Numbers of our succeeding Volume. Mr. Lymburn appeared to be about fifty years of age. Some of his townsmen and contemporaries will, we trust, furnish us with a biographical notice in greater detail.—Cond. ERRATA. Delete Beatònia atràta Herb., and the description, in p. 624. In p. 581., line 24. from bottom, for “Cumberland," read "Westmore land." See also p. 89, p. 90., and p. 459. GENERAL INDEX. AGRICULTURAL improvement on the estates of America, state of, commented upon, $24. American aloe, notice of one going to flower, 649. American plants, Waterer's exhibition of, in the King's Road, 378. Ammonia, use of sulphate of, in agriculture, 82. Araucaria Cunninghami, notice of one bearing cones, 85. Arboricultural notices, 269. 442. 474. 637.668. Beans, culture of, 544. Bees, reason of their sometimes dying while they have plenty of food, 187. Besoms, method of making, for gardens, 178. Bicton Gardens, their culture and management; -Letter IV. House for New Holland plants, and list of plants it contains, 21;-Letter V. Orange and camellia house, 23; list of camellias grown at Bicton, 26; the back sheds, vineries, and pineries, 27;-Letter VI. Culture of chrysanthemums, manure-water, properties of charcoal, 28;-Letter VII. The conservatories, 29; list of plants in conservatories, 30; orchideous houses and stoves, 30; list of stove and orchidaceous plants at Bicton, 31;-Letter VIII. Brooms used in the flower-garden, 46; hardy trees and shrubs growing there, 47;Letter IX. Importance of cleanliness, 49; manure-water, charcoal, 51;-Letter X. The Rockery and American garden, 111;-Letter XI. Dimensions of a few trees in the Park, 113;-Letter XII. Reasons for following the business of a market-gardener, 164;-Letter XIII. Growing mushrooms, 234;-Letter XIV. Growing, training, and general management of ericas, 301;-Letter XV. On the rust in grapes, 267;-Letter XVI. Culture of the potato, 419; mismanagement it is subject to, and cause of curl and dry rot, 421;-Letter XVII. System of kitchen-gardening, 427; cul ture of the strawberry, 429; culture of asparagus, 429; culture of sea-kale, 430; culture of celery, 431; culture of cauliflowers, 433;Letter XVIII. Mode of destroying the gooseberry caterpillar, 434;-Letter XIX. Cranenecked short-handled hoes described and figured, 495;- Letter XX. Objections to the crane-necked hoes answered, 539; notice of Musa Cavendishi, Dacca, and sapiéntum, 540;-Letter XXI. Culture of the cabbage, 540; culture of broccoli, 543; culture of peas, 543 culture of beans and onions, 544; culture of carrots, 545; culture of parsneps, spinach, and lettuce, 546;-Letter XXII. The principal causes of canker in peaches, nectarines, and apricots, 601;-Letter XXIII. Notes on the one-shift system of potting, and on charcoal, 605;-Letter XXIV. System of cucumber. growing, 653. Bicton Gardens, notice of a visit to, 546. Birds, advantages of attending to habits of, 613. Bowood, notice of the scenery at, 680. Caterpillar, description of a curious one, 652. Cemeteries and churchyards, criticism on the articles in the Magazine, relative to, 329. $79. Cemeteries, criticism on, 185. Cemeteries, uses of, 93; laying out, building, and planting of, 142; working and management of, 215; innovations suggested relative to the selection of ground for, and mode of performing funerals, 292; design for one of moderate extent on level ground, 353; design for one on hilly ground, 400; present state of those in London, considered chiefly as cemetery gar. dens, 400; the present state and means of improving country churchyards, 475; list of trees, shrubs, and perennial herbaceous plants adapted for cemeteries and churchyards, 512; appendix, 534; principal ones in the neighbourhood of Philadelphia, 665. Charcoal and charcoal dust, first discovery of its action on vegetation, 140. Charcoal, its use in the culture of plants, 185. Chiswick Villa, notice of the grounds, 453. Chrysanthemums, a list of the best sorts adapted for cultivation in the colder parts of the country, 373. Chrysanthemums, culture of, 28. Clématis Vitálba, notice of one, 669. Dalvey, the seat of Norman M'Leod, Esq., notice Disbudding shoots with the leaves on, 648. Doryánthes excelsa, notice of one in flower, 85. Draining and fencing on the lands of the Duke of Hamilton, 327. Draining, price of, with tiles, in Northamptonshire, 327. Draining-pipes made by a machine, 675. Edging of Seyssel asphalte noticed, 507. Engravings. See p. vii. Exhibitions, remarks on the London Horticultural Society's, 222. Flower-garden, list of plants for, 172. £60. 373. Flower-pots, remarks on double, 187. Flower-pots, Stephens's plant-protecting, 136. Fruits, on the preservation of, 330. Fruit trees, on protecting those against walls, 369. Fruit trees, principal causes of canker in, 6UÍ. Furnace, Juckes's smoke-consuming, 314. Garden-pots, notice of improvements in, 316. Garden walks, materials recommended by the Garden, a covered one, proposed to be established in Paris, 647. Gardens. See Table of Contents, p. xiv. Gardens and scenery around Stirling, descriptive Gilpin, William Sawrey, Esq., Landscape-Gar dener, notice of the death of, 332. Gladiolus cardinalis, result of an experiment made in endeavouring to propagate it, 642. Glasgow Cathedral saved by a gardener, 680. Grafting and budding the rhododendron, 647. Grapes, Cato's method of preserving, 331. Grapes, on the preservation of, 186. Grapes, on the probable cause of the rust in, 449. Green fly destroyed by the tree-creeper (Cérthia familiaris), 315. Greenhouses, superiority of span-roofed, 268. Ground, the most economical mode of dividing a square plot of, 321. Guide-posts, on the best material for, 88. Kensington Gardens, the naming of trees and shrubs in, 649. Kent, the Landscape. Gardener, answer to query respecting. 91. Kew Gardens, notice of the improvements there, 454. Kitchen-Gardens, rotation of crops in, 670. Labels, best mode of writing, on parchment, 646. Larch, an evergreen one discovered, 92. Larch, plantations at Linley, enquiry respecting, 332. Larch, uses of the, 668. Lawn, shrubbery, and flower-garden, on laying out and planting the, 166. 258. 306. 371. 442. 497. 547. 634 €36. 667. Lettuce, culture of, 546. Literary Notices, 133. 184. 284. 673. Lock, Baillie's rounded enamelled case, recommended, 453. Lonicera diversifolia, notice of, 670. Lymburn, Mr. Robert, notice of his death, 680. Manners all over the world, approaching similarity of, 647. Manures, on the theory of, 1. Manures, Professor Henslow's Lectures on, 159. Melon, Gregson's green flesh, recommended, 84. Melons grown in leaves, 86; on a mode of growing late, 269. Metropolitan Model Institution for improving the Dwellings of the Industrious Classes, 85. Mice, to destroy, 184. Milne, Mr. John, Nurseryman, his death no- Monza, notice of the royal gardens there, 322. Mushrooms, abundant in 1842, 86; culture of, 234. Mutual Instruction Society, notice of the meet. ing of the Botanical section of the Tower Street, 326. Pea, on the culture of, 75. 543.; in pots, 77. Penn, John, Esq., civil engineer, his death noticed, 380. Phrenology for gardeners and their patrons, 652. Physiology, comparative: preliminary remarks, 191; on organised structures in general, 191 on the elementary structure of vegetables, 195; a general view of the vegetable kingdom, 199; on the symmetry of organised structures, 207; on the nature and causes of vital action, 209; on vital stimuli, 333; on heat as a vital stimu lus, 336; on the evolution of heat, 337; on light as a vital stimulus, 344; on the develope. ment of light in plants, 345; on electricity as a vital stimulus, 347; on the laws of organic developement, 381; on the general view of the functions of animated beings, and their mutual relations, 391; on ingestion and absorption of aliment in general, 461. 509; on absorption in vegetables, 557; on the circulation of the nutritive fluid, 565; on circulation in vegetables, 567; on interstitial absorption, 577. Pine cones, a valuable fuel, 328. Pipes, Scott's patent improvements in cast iron, wrought iron, and soft metal, 321. Plant-case, ladies' pocket, 134. Plants, food of, and its transformation, 597. 471; report on new or rare ones in British nur. series, and private gardens, 34. 55; new and rare, viii. ; on the new method of potting, or the one-shift system, 318. Plant-houses, yellow glass suggested for them, 332. Pleasure-grounds, shrubberies, and ornamental plantations, hints to proprietors who intend planting, 553. Plough, new one for raising potatoes, 137. Poor, comfortable habitations for them, with gardens attached, recommended, 44. Poplar, notice of several kinds of balsam, 181. Potatoes, culture of, 419; mode of planting early ones, with a new planting machine, 40; planter, Saul's, 91. Primrose, on the culture of the Chinese, 126. Propagating-house, description of, heated by hotwater circulated in brick troughs, 266. Raspberries, notice of some plants growing to a Remarks on one of the designs in the article, Rhododendron, list of species and varieties of, cultivated at Dysart House, 436; on grafting and budding it, 647. Rhubarb, the Victoria, best for culinary purposes, 328. Robison, Sir John, K. H., his death, 188. Royal Botanic Society of London, its first exhibition in the gardens, Regent's Park, noticed,378. second exhibition in the Regent's Park, 454. Rule, and the reason, the principle of the, 647. Scotch pine, a substitute for candle, 187; oil of turpentine distilled from its roots, 137. Sea-kale, culture of, 450. Sea-water, distribution of, all over the country,675. Seeds, result of an experiment to show the proper depth of covering for grass and clover, 308. Shepherdia argentea recommended as a fruit. tree, 42. Tiles for paving walks, new material for, 507. Tour, Notes made during a horticultural, from Trees, dimensions of, in the grounds of Flitwick House, 641. Trees, on disbarking, to increase the durability of the timber, 181. Trees, on raising American, from seeds, 181. 118. Trees, roots and tops of, 90. Trees, on transplanting large ones, 43. Turnip,history of the introduction of the Swedish, into Britain, 672. Ulmus fúlva, medical properties of, 84. Vegetables. See p. xiii. Verbena Melindres and Tweedicàna, hardy in some situations, 86. Verbenas and petunias, number of sorts of, 649 Vine, grafting it, becoming general in France, $22 Vine, on manuring, 649. Vineyard at Shirley, notice of, 599. Walks made of asphalte recommended, 452. Wirework, its use in gardening and agriculture 83. Wire-worm, a trap for, 646. Wire-worm destroyed by the mole, $15. Yucca gloriosa, notice of one in flower, 556. END OF THE NINETEENTH VOLUME. London: Printed by A. SPOTTISWOODE, New-Street-Square. |
