OF HORTICULTURE, BOTANY, AND ALL USEFUL DISCOVERIES AND IMPROVEMENTS IN RURAL AFFAIRS. "Je voudrais échauffer tout l'univers de mon gout pour les jardins. Il me semble VOL. XI. 1845. (VOL. I., NEW SERIES.) EDITED BY C. M. HOVEY. BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY HOVEY AND CO., MERCHANTS ROW. 1845. THE Eleventh Volume of the Magazine commences the First of a New Series, or Decade, in order to accommodate new subscribers, who do not wish to possess the entire work. A reference to the table of contents will show at a glance the variety of information contained in this volume. The principal papers are those containing the notes and details of our tour in Europe, which we trust have been found as interesting and instructive as any thing we could present to our readers; these will be completed in the Twelfth Volume. Besides the places yet remaining to be noticed around London, are some of the most extensive private residences, public gardens and nurseries, which we visited in Scotland. The articles on the construction of forcing pits and green-houses, will be found of much value, and with what we shall ourselves have to offer in the next volume, will supply the amateur with all the more recent and approved modes of building and heating garden structures of all kinds. The introduction of the improved forms of boilers, and their more economical consumption of fuel, will greatly lessen the expense of heating,-an item of much importance, in our severe climate. A continuation of our article on new fruits enumerates twelve varieties of pears, of which engravings have been given. The Reviews of New Books, and the Miscellaneous Intelligence in the Eleventh Volume, will be found highly interesting. The details of our European tour, have prevented us from fulfilling some of the promises we made in our last volume; but we now are glad to state that we have the engravings under preparation, and shall present in an early number of the next volume, our first article on our hardy trees and shrubs. The favorable season for pears has also enabled us to make many acquisitions to our collection of drawings, and we shall figure and describe some new and choice varieties in the Twelfth Volume. Relying upon the aid of our amateur friends, we hope to add increased interest to our pages, and render the Magazine a record of every improvement in Horticultural Science. Boston, Dec. 1, 1845. C. M. H. CONTENTS. A Retrospective View of the Progress of Horticulture in the United States, dur- ing the year 1844. By the Editor Notes and Recollections of a Tour through part of England, Scotland and France, in the autumn of 1844. By the Editor- Objects of the Tour; and General Re- Places Visited; Climate of England; Liverpool; St. James' Walk and Public Cemetery; Liverpool Botanic Garden; Manchester; Sheffield; Sheffield Bo- tanic Garden; Baslow; Chatsworth, Matlock; Derby Arboretum; London; Garden of the London Horticultural Chiswick, Mr. Glendenning; Clap- ham, Mr. Groom; Regent's Park Bo- Some observations on the Climate and Soil, and the State of Horticulture in Wisconsin Territory. By F. K. Pho nix, Delavan, Walworth Co., W. T. Remarks upon Heating Horticultural Buildings. By a Practical Gardener in Notice of the State of Horticulture in Italy. By S. B. Parsons, of the Com- mercial Garden and Nursery at Flush- A few Remarks on the Management of Horticultural Exhibitions, with Sugges- tions for their Improvement, &c. By On the Cultivation of Lettuce, so as to produce Successive Crops the year Figure and Description of the Jefferson Plum. By A. J. Downing, Newburg, On the Production of Hardy Seedling Grapes, by hybridizing the native with the foreign grape. By W. W. v. Notices of Culinary Vegetables, new or recently introduced, worthy of general cultivation in private gardens or for the Remarks on Re-establishing Grafted Fruit Trees on their own Roots, especially applicable to Apples and Pears. Trans- lated from the Revue Horticole, Tom. V., No. 30. By A. J. Downing, Botan- ic Garden and Nursery, Newburg, N. Y. 138 Pomological Notices; or notices respect- ing new and superior Fruits, worthy of Descriptions of twelve varieties of Pears, new or recently introduced. By 1. Beurré de Capiaumont, Frederic of Wurtemberg, Duchesse de Mars, 172 |