It appears, then, that the two grand points in which the gardeners' and their employers of the present day are most deficient are, landscape gardening and arboriculture; and it is to these two points, as we have stated in the preface to our tenth volume, that we intend mainly to direct the attention of our readers, for some time to come. We have done this in our two last volumes; not, however, as our readers will be aware by referring to their contents, to the neglect of whatever is new and valuable in points of culture; but merely to the point of avoiding the repetition of practices which have already been given in sufficient, detail in our Encyclopedia of Gardening, and in other general works on horticulture and floriculture. It has always been, and continues to be, our ambition to render the Gardener's Magazine, not a mere repetition of what has already been published many times before, but a miscellany of something additional to what has been previously laid before the gardening world in books. A reference to the general index to the first ten volumes of our work (which will soon be published,) will, we think, show such an accumulation of valuable and original matter, on points of culture, as is not to be found in any other gardening publication whatever; and if we live to complete a second decade of the magazine, we trust the general index to it will exhibit an equally original and valuable collection of papers, on landscape gardening, on taste as applied to gardening generally, and of articles on trees and shrubs, and on useful and ornamental planting. Amongst these will be interspersed a series of designs for laying out garden grounds and garden buildings of every description, public and private. Having thus endeavoured to show the use of publishing criticisms on gardens and grounds, we proceed with our tour, having in our last article completed our remarks on Fonthill Abbey.
