alpine strawberry. It is probable that its flavour would be increased in proportion to its size, and yet retain its fruitfulness. If it could acquire the size and flavour of the old Caroline (the Pine), it would then be, of all acquisitions, the very greatest that our gardens could receive. Nor do I despair of reaching this. Only consider what has been done with the gooseberry. efficacious mode of destroying the red spider?

"July 17. 1826."

What is the most "R. S."

Buda Kale.-R. L. would be obliged if any gentleman would have the kindness to state, for the information of R. L. and several of his friends, readers of the Gardener's Magazine, what is the best method of blanching the buda kale: R. L. having tried many methods, but in every case by the time the kale was blanched it was rotten.

Merveille de la Nature Pear. A valued correspondent (B. W.) would be much obliged to any reader of the Gardener's Magazine; who could inform him where he could get a cutting or plant of this pear. — July 20.

Plants in Pots and in Town Gardens, &c." Sir,-Permit one, who has no title to enter on a correspondence with the Gardener's Magazine, beyond what the pleasure its perusal affords him may give, to beg the favour of information on the fol. lowing points:

"First, Some very full and very simple directions for the use of those lovers of plants in pots who may not have the advantage of a greenhouse.

"Secondly, A list of such trees, shrubs, and flowers, as are most fitted for a London garden, and least affected by its blacks.

"Thirdly, Some hints and suggestions on preventing the ravages of the common green caterpillar in mignionette.

"And, lastly, Instructions to all unacquainted with practical botany and gardening, how to cut flowers, &c. ; much mischief being frequently done by their being improperly gathered. "I am, Sir, your well-wisher,

"September 8."

"R. A. M."

Till some correspondent replies to R. A. M. he may look into Le Jardinier des Fenêtres, des Appartemens, et des petits Jardins. Paris, Audot, 18mo. 1823.— Cond.

ART. IX. Obituary.

DIED at Middleton, near Arbroath, on Monday, the 3d of July, Walter Gandy, gardener to Gardin, Esq., at the advanced age of 97. He has served in the same family for the last 70 years, 20 of which he has been unable to work, except for his own amusement; notwithstanding which, his hospitable master allowed him the same wages, with a house, cow, meal, and every other perquisite that he enjoyed when in active employment.-Dundee Advertiser.

mers.

Correction.

For agronomical, in page 235, read agricultural; and for agronome and agronomes, which occur in two or three places in this volume, read farmer and farWe wish to banish the word bailiff from the language of agriculture, and first thought of substituting the French appellation agronome; but, upon second thoughts, we think the word farmer will do better. A gentleman's farmer may always be distinguished from a rent-paying or commercial farmer, as a gentleman's gardener is distinguished from a commercial gardener.

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PART IV.

ADVERTISEMENTS CONNECTED WITH GARDENING AND RURAL AFFAIRS.

AS GARDENER, or GAR

DENER and BAILIFF, or KEEPER, a Situation is wanted for a married Man, Forty Years of Age, without Incumbrance. He has a general knowledge of his business in the above branches, having filled them all, and can be well recommended. Letters, post paid, addressed to G. S. T. at C. and J. Young's Nursery, Epsom, Surrey, will meet immediate attention.

To the Nobility, Gentry, Vine-Cultivators, and others.

A

MOST IMPORTANT and VALUABLE IMPROVEMENT in the CULTURE of the GRAPE VINE, and for advancing the Fruit to the highest state of perfection.

The Inventor, JOHN LONG, Hothouse Builder, &c. Beaufort Place, Chelsea at the foot of Battersea Bridge), begs most respectfully to invite the Nobility, Gentry, and Horticulturists generally, to an inspection of his newly-invented moveable Wire-trellis Frames, by means of which the Vines are lowered from the glass roof, and raised at pleasure to any angle with the greatest facility, without the slightest injury to the plants, thereby effectually securing them from injury from the extremes of cold and heat, ensuring a plentiful crop of well-matured grapes, and causing a considerable saving in fuel at a comparatively trifling expence.

J. L. can with the greatest confidence recommend the adoption of the above invention, and ensure its success in all cases; its utility for all the purposes for which it was designed having been most fully exemplified, as, from the highly respectable references he is enabled to give, can be amply proved.

Manufactured and erected by the Inventor in any part of the United Kingdom, on the shortest Notice.

PINCE'S GOLDEN NECTARINE.

LUCOMBE, PINCE, & Co. beg leave to call the attention of the Public to a new kind of NECTARINE, raised by them, which they have named as above; it is a most beautiful and highly desirable Fruit, of a large size, with a rich and very peculiar flavour. Its appearance marks it out most decidedly as a Fruit very distinct from any other hitherto pro

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Trees may be had on application to Messrs. LUCOMBE, PINCE, & Co. Nurserymen, Exeter,

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Nursery, Exeter, Sept. 10. 1826.

SOUTH AFRICAN BOTANY, &c.

JAMES BOWIE begs leave to

inform the Botanical Public, that he will be ready to receive and execute orders for Seeds, Bulbs, Plants, and dried specimens (natives of S. Africa), at the Cape of Good Hope, in the course of a few months from this date, and assures those Persons who may favour him with their Orders, that he will attend thereto with the utmost care and diligence.

J. B. not having appointed any Agent in Europe for the disposal of his future Collections, informs those Persons who may wish to favour him with their commands, and who have no correspondents at the Cape, that Orders transmitted through the means of Visitors in transitu, or the Captains of the regular Cape traders, will be punctually attended to; and the seeds, bulbs, and plants, packed agreeably to their several natures, will be forwarded in the proper seasons only, and, when requisite, written instructions will be given for the safer conveyance of the specimens in question. Having been pretty successful hitherto in the transmission of seeds from the southern hemisphere, he sees no plausible objections to seeds being still allowed to cross the equator, with every hope of ultimate success, and especially those of some fine species which have hitherto failed in consequence of the extinction or weakening of the vegetative powers in seeds. With such, a course of experiments, founded on practical observations, will be made, and, should they prove successful, they will hereafter be made public.

Many Vessels from the East Indies, China, &c. touch at the Cape of Good Hope on their return to Europe, having plants on board, which are too frequently in a very precarious condition. The Advertiser, while in the neighbourhood of Cape Town, and when requested, will examine the state of such growing plants, and freely suggest such farther methods as may be conducive to the future preservation of them, free of all expence to the applicants; and in so doing, he hopes to be the means of preserving many valu able plants for their owners, whose laudable exertions and heavy expences too often end in disappointment.

Professors in the various branches of Natural History will find this a favourable opportunity of increasing their Collections, and perhaps of

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INDEX.

INDEX

Blakie's treatise on mildew, wheat, lime, &c.
(advertised), 282.

treatise on the smut in wheat (adver-
tised), ib.

Bland, Michael, Esq. his jubilee pippin, 72.
Blenheim, its lake and poplars, 17.
Bletia Tankervillæ, experimental observations
on the culture of, by Mr. Otto, 188.
Bliss, Mr. G., his fruit-grower's instructor
(advertised), 98.

Bonde, Count of, his improvements near Stock-
holm, 446.

Bones, as manure in Denmark, 326.

, as manure in France, 323.

, for manure where ground, and how sold,
with other particulars, 333; how to collect for
vine borders, 334.
Book-keeping, method of, by A. Trotter, Esq. 192.
Books advertised for January 1826, 97; for
April, 230; for July, 361; for October, 443.
Books on Gardening, Agriculture, Botany, Do-
mestic Economy, &c., published since January
1824, including new editions, &c., 74.
Books: America, 1824-25, 78; January 1826,
78; April, 197; October, 443
Britain, 1824-25,74; January 1826, 74;
April, 192; July, 312; October, 431.
France, 1824-25, 76; January 1826, 76;

April, 195; July, 318; October, 437.
Germany, 1824, 77; 1825, 78; January
1826, 77; April, 196; July, 320; October, 440.
Books, Danish and Swedish, 1824, 77; 1825,
78; January 1826, 77; April, 197; July, 522.
Books, Dutch and Flemish, 1824, 77; 1825, 78;
January 1826, 77; April, 197; October, 442.
Books, Italian, 1824, 77; 1825, 78; January
1826, 77; April, 196; July, 326.
Russian and Polish, 1824, 77; 1825, 78;
January 1826, 77; October, 442.
Spanish and Portuguese, 1824, 77;
1825, 78; January 1826, 77; April, 196;
July, 322.

Books preparing for publication, 443.

reviewed for January 1826, 47; for April,
155; for July, 287; for October, 415.
Borage as manure, 200.

Bornholz's translation of Egger on the Culture
of the Truffle, 320.
Botanical Cabinet, review of, 47. 60.

Cultivator (advertised), 98.

Lectures, popular, delivered at Edin-
burgh by professor Graham, 220;
in Belfast by Dr. Drummond, 340.
Magazine, review of, 47. 89.
Magnifier, for gardeners, 358.
Register, review of, 47. 60. (adver-
tised), 98, 362.
Sketches, notice of, 192.

Botanic Garden at Batavia, 52.

at Calcutta, 55.

at Edinburgh, 218.

at the Isle of France, 55.

at Madrid, 237.

at Marylebone, broken up, 89.
at New South Wales, 55. 86.
at Spain, 236.

at St. Petersburgh, 51; de-
scribed, 89.

at St. Vincent, 55; an account
of, by the Rev. L. Guilding, B. A. F.LS.
reviewed, 193.
Botanic Garden at Trinidad, 55.

at Warsaw, 377.

of prince Razumoffsky, at Mos-
cow, 84.

, or Magazine of hardy Plants,
reviewed, 48, 61. (advertised), 97.
Botany, conversations on (advertised), 361.
lectures on, at Edinburgh, by Profes-
sor Graham, 220; at Belfast, by Dr.
Drummond, 340.

lectures on the elements of, by Dr.
A. Todd Thomson (advertised), 99.
of Constantinople, by the Rev. R. Walsh,
L.LD. & C.M.HS, 293.

of Dalhousie Castle and Gardens, by
Mr. Joseph Archibald, C.M. H.S., 251.

Botany, South African, Mr. Bowie's intentions
respecting (advertised), 473.
Bouché, M. P. F., his observations on forcing
the Turkish Ranunculus, 186.
Bouché, on the culture of the Torch Thistle, 156
Boughton Mount, 35.

Bourne, F., Esq., of Tereneure, 262.
Bowers, Mr. John, his description of an Etruge
Nectarine tree, in the garden of West Dean
House, Sussex, 174.

Bowers, on destroying the Bug and Scale on
Pine plants, 308.

Bowie, Mr. James, Botanical Collector at the
Cape of Good Hope, his hints for the better
cultivation of Cape Heaths, 363; his inten-
tions (advertised), 473.

Boxtree as manure, in France, 323.
Braddick, John, Esq., F.H.S., his Claygate
Pearmain Apple, 73

, on the Beurré Spence, and other
Pears, and on the art of keeping Fruit, 144.
Braddick, on the Present de Malines Pear, 53

, on three new keeping Pears, 249.
Brash, Mr., on the culture and use of the sea
or shore Cale (Crambe Maritima), 189.
Brassica, or Cabbage family, on its different
species and varieties, by Prof. Decandolle, 63
Breedon, the Rev. J. S., his Bere Court-pippin
Apple, 73.

Breese, Mr. John, grows Pines on boards placed
over a pit filled with dung, &c., 308.
Brewing, a practical treatise on, by C. N. Hay-
man (advertised), 99.

Mr. Samuel Child's treatise on (ad-
vertised), 99.

Brighton Athenæum and Oriental Garden, 89.
Brinjal or Aubergine, a variety of the Egg-
plant Solanum Melongena, S07.
British Botanist (advertised), 100.

Entomology, by John Curtis, Esq. F. L.S.
&c., remarks on, 317.

Farmer, by Mr. John Finlayson, an-
nounced, 99, remarks on, 192.
Flower Garden, reviewed, 47. 61.

Parks and Gardens, remarks on, by M.
Lenné, royal garden engineer, Potsdam, 308.
British Warblers, &c., by Mr. Robert Sweet,
F.L.S., some account of, 193.
Wines, how to manufacture, 95.
Broccoli, to preserve in a growing state, from
being injured by the frost, 224.

Brookhouse, J. Esq., Cucumbers grown by him
in a dung bed in the front of a peach house, 171.
Brown, Robert, Esq., F.R.S., L.S. &c., 54.
Mr., gardener at Stowe, 89.
Browns, Messrs., formerly of Perth, 256.
Buchan, Mr. W., F.H.S, on improving the
Gardens of Cottages, 275.

Buck, Mr. W., his Elford seedling Grape, 72
Buda. Kale, on blanching and forcing, by John
Wedgewood, Esq., 307.
Buda-Kale, query respecting, 472.
Budding in the Netherlands, 83.
Bulbous-rooted Plants, culture, by Mr. Sweet, 31.
Roots, the Rev. W. Herbert's treatise
on (advertised), 99.

Bulos, his Traité d'Agriculture et d'Horti-
culture, noticed, 437.

Burges, Mr. James, his recipe for composing a
liquid for effectually destroying Caterpillars,
Ants, Worms, and other Insects, $89.
Burn, Mr. Henry, F. H.S., his account of a new
seedling Grape, 415.

Burnard, J. P., Esq., on the remuneration of
gardeners, 141.

Burton, W. D., Esq., 353.

Bushy Park, near Dublin, the residence of Sir
Robert Shaw, bart., 263.

Bulletin des Sciences, Agricoles, et Econo-
miques, remarks on, 320.
Cabbage, on the tree variety, by Mr. P. Day, $07.
, or Brassica family, see Brassica, 63.
Cactus, several species of, grafted on Cactus
triqueter, by Mr. John Nairn, 171.
Speciosus, Speciosissimus, and other or-
namental succulent Plants, on the treatment
of, by Mr. W. J. Shennan, 398.