are diversities of places and wages, as well as talent and industry. Various articles are amalgamated in supply and demand, and I would advise young gardeners not to seek the housekeeper's room before a vacancy occurs in the hall; many, to my knowledge, have from this cause retrograded : —

"Incidit in Scyllam, qui vult evitare Charybdin.”

They cannot do better than add contentment to the excellent lesson you have given (Vol. I. p. 356.), “Lose no time, and concentrate attention.”

"Necessitati qui se accommodat, sapit."

You may perhaps suppose me averse to education and remuneration. By no means am I so, sub modo; but I have lived too long, and seen too much of operative classes not to know how much contentment sweetens a bitter potion, and how easily the seeds of discontent vegetate and poison the best feelings, affections, and efforts of man.

From such evils, for the gardener's own sake, I would screen him. I would prepare him for the higher departments of horticulture, but I would fortify his mind to wait in patience until better prospects may offer to his view. I would teach him English composition, but I would head his common-placebook with a valuable line from Scaliger:

"Omnibus scribendi datur libertas, paucis facultas."

There are few feelings so difficult to repress as those which arise from half-matured reading. Superficial men deem it nothing to know any matter, unless others are aware of it,

« Scire tuum nihil est, nisi te scire hoc sciat alter."

The wages of gardeners here seem higher than in London, which is an anomaly I cannot understand. If they are discontented with them, I advise a comparison with the incomes of men in other departments, with the college curate, merchant's clerk, but more particularly with subaltern officers, who have purchased their rank and pay. Their own good sense would then perhaps guide them to enjoy, without repining, the blessings of Providence. Of one point they may remain certain, — that wages and merit will ever go hand in hand; for the servant cannot be more desirous of a good place, than a master is of a good servant.

If I may crave your patience, I would say, emigration should not be lightly canvassed. Experience in this district has given rise to mature enquiry and sober caution; and I am

glad to say, a trip to America has given many of our radicals a better feeling to the natale solum.

One traveller gives one account, and another a different one. But few of our unemployed weavers, with an united handicraft, have eulogized the colonies they sought after; and other settlers send home letters of disappointment and misery. Government has now agitated the question, and where valuable and enterprising young men are willing to expend their manhood in other climes, it is grievous to think they may be stranded, from the want of rudder or compass; more particularly so, since few emigrants have the power of removal from the land of their first destination, be it good or bad.

To the young gardener, I wish the best encouragement; to the old one, peace and competence. I wish the opulent as much amusement from horticulture as I myself have received: and to yourself, thorough success through all your useful and valuable publications.

West Riding of York.

W. R. G.

ART. X. Some Account of a remarkable Lemon Tree in the Garden of C. Hoare, Esq. F.R.S. H.S. &c. at Luscombe, Devonshire. By Mr. RICHARD SAUNDERS, Gardener there.

Sir,

1 BEG respectfully to present you with these two lemons, the produce of a tree which I raised from a cutting six years ago. Exclusive of these two, there is on the same tree ninety-four others, which have attained full maturity, and a remarkably large size, and also a vast quantity of green fruit of various sizes. This tree, with several others, raised at the same time, and in the same manner, consisting of citrons, shaddocks, and limes, was planted when one year old, against a common wall, (the soil having been previously prepared,) the whole of which have grown in a most vigorous and astonishing manner, some of them making shoots from six to seven feet in length, in one year. The third year after being planted, they produced a number of fine fruit, and have continued very productive ever since: one of them, a citron, produced last year thirty-nine fruit, measuring from fifteen to eighteen inches in circumference; two lime trees produced in the same time above three hundred fruit. The trees are protected from frost during the winter with frames and sashes.

Should you consider this worthy of a place in your excellent an interesting work, the Gardener's Magazine, it is at your disposal, and it will give me great pleasure to have contributed in the least way possible to such a useful and desirable work. I am, Sir, &c. RICHD. SAUNDERS.

The fruit sent us, of one of which we took a sketch, (fig. 11.), weighed 14 oz. each, and measured 11 inches round, and 6 inches long; the length of the leaves was from 9 to 10

inches, and their breadth from 4 to 5 inches. Had there only been a few fruit on the tree, this size, large as it is, would not have appeared so extraordinary; but when it is considered that there were eight dozen all remarkably large, besides an immense quantity of green fruit, and all this upon a tree of only six years' growth, the whole may be considered as well worthy of record. We have often thought that the orange tribe might be more cultivated than they are as a table fruit. A house 6 feet broad, 15 feet high, and 30 feet long, the trees planted in the soil against the back wall, would supply, we should think, a plate of oranges and a plate of shaddocks every day in the year. These fruits are always in season, generally liked, and, what is not the least object in putting a dessert on the table, produce a splendid effect to the eve.- Cond.

ART. XI. Remarks on the Establishment of a Horticultural Society in the Highlands of Scotland. By Mr. JOHN CAMERON, Gardener, Champion Hill, Camberwell.

THe Gardener's Magazine is one of those useful modern publications which every lover of gardening should support, as it conveys information even to our antipodes. It is true, horticulture has of late years improved to a wonderful height in Great Britain; but while we are lending our aid to Ireland in planting mulberry trees and providing silk-worms to that country, we are totally forgetting that part of Great Britain called the Highlands of Scotland, namely, Argyle and the western parts of Inverness-shire, in regard to which districts. I shall make a few suggestions for public information through the medium of your Magazine.

All the southern counties of Great Britain have provincial horticultural societies, but in the West Highlands there are no such institutions of a public nature. I admit, that land

holders are not so numerous of late years in these northern counties, and gentlemen's seats are, therefore, more divided from each other; and, consequently, the number of gardens considerably reduced. Now I would propose, that a Horticultural society should be formed in every county, having experimental grounds centrically situated to landholders. This would prove an important benefit, and, properly supported, such an institution would increase in usefulness. As it would encourage industry among the tenantry, it would also greatly add to the improvement of landed property generally. Many rare alpine plants would be found among the craggy mountains that might be readily exchanged for plants of other countries. The carriage or transportation of these to and fro would not be expensive, as land conveyance would seldom be resorted to of necessity, and water carriage, by the aid of steam, being now so generally in use, the freight would be trifling. If proper encouragement be given towards the management of such institutions, as a natural consequence they will strive to vie with each other in obtaining a good name. These institutions might be incorporated with agricultural societies, and I hope the truly patriotic chieftains. will immediately set about the establishment of such among their cottagers and crofters. Prizes might be held out to those who rendered themselves most useful in the support of the establishment by their discovery of plants, &c. &c. and their most successful treatment. These prizes I would propose

to be snuff-boxes, fitly mounted, and distinguished for the purpose, by the following inscription:-"Token of acknowledgment from the Highland Horticultural Society to As the distribution of these would augment, the consumption of snuff would increase, and the tobacconist thereby benefit. I shall enumerate, in furtherance of my proposal, some very productive orchards in the two counties I have referred to (Argyle and Inverness). At Lochnile, the seat of General Campbell, there is a very productive small garden, enclosed with a stone wall; not far distant from it is another, belonging to the same gentleman, with a green-house, and there are several such gardens belonging to the neighbours. Mr. Macdougald of Dunolie, near Oban, has a very productive old orchard, consisting of cherry, plum, apple, and pear trees, also enclosed by a stone dike and hedge. In Oban there is likewise a small nursery, consisting chiefly of pears and other fruit-trees, also enclosed by a stone dike. At Auchnacalich, again, the seat of Ronald M'Donald, Esq., Staffa, Isle of Mull, there is a very neat garden, enclosed by a good stone wall, and very productive. Mr. Stewart, of Auchadanach, has a very productive orchard, consisting chiefly of apples, pears, cherries, and plums, enclosed by a stone dike. I am informed by a recent letter from Tobermory, Isle of Mull, that Colonel M'Lean, of Cole, is making fine gardens near that village. There is another old garden in ruin there, belonging to Colonel Campbell, now inhabited by owls and jackdaws: the garden was admirably laid out in the ancient style, enclosed with stone walls and a sunk outer fence, but in consequence of the mischievous boys and sailors in the neighbouring village, hardly a fruit tree now remains. Colonel Cameron has a most excellent garden in the very bosom of Ben Nevis near Fort William; this garden is very productive, although for four months in the year the sun never shines on it. There are many other excellent gardens in this neighbourhood, which are now much neglected, and to which the emulation produced by a Horticultural society would be most useful.

If you think any of the observations which I have made are worthy of your valuable Magazine, I shall be happy if you will give them a place, as I am anxious that the matter should be taken up by gentlemen connected with my native country.

JOHN CAMEron.