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Laying out & Planting Gardens. Spade Husbandry and Allotment Fruit, Flower, & Kitchen Garden

Management. Building, arranging, and Management of Greenhouses, and other Garden Structures. Decorative Gardens.

Cultivation.

A copious Monthly Calendar of operations in each department.

Orchard Cultivation, & Management of Orchard-Houses.

The Management of Bees.

Part I. on the 1st of October, 1861.

|ARDEN CULTIVATION is so closely associated with Household

GEconomy, that the "BOOK OF GARDEN MANAGEMENT" naturally pre

sents itself as an almost necessary pendant to the "Book of Household Management," just completed under Mrs. Beeton's editorship. This work, so comprehensive in its plan and practical in its execution, professed "to convey clear, direct, and definite information on every department of the household ;" and we have the testimony of the press that these professions have been realized, and a very valuable work on domestic economy produced. Emulating the work thus successfully completed, the object of the editor and contributors to the "BOOK OF GARDEN MANAGEMENT" will be to render everything connected with the garden plain and intelligible. The principal contributors are practical and experienced gardeners. The information conveyed will be "clear, direct, and definite." The artistic and physiological portions of the work,-the rotation cropping, the use of manures in restoring exhausted soils, as well as the special management of fruit-trees, flowers, and vegetables,-will combine the newest discoveries of science, tempered by practical experience.

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Among the possessors of gardens" (to abbreviate slightly the eloquent postulate of a Quarterly Reviewer), there are favoured mortals, who have ample means, well-stored knowledge, and intelligent industry, to whom a multitudinous band of gardeners. look up for guidance. Such persons are horticultural light-houses shining on high-fountain-heads of patronage, patterns of successful practice, centres of dissemination and distribution without them gardening could not be what it actually is." Then there is the "Every gentleman his own gardener," whose enjoyment it is, in early spring, to meet the message from the garden that there is nothing in it either for "missus" or for "cook," by producing, himself, "; charming bunch of Russian violets, fragrant coltsfoot, daphnes, erica carnea, wallflowers, and polyanthus, for cara sposa; and a punnet of the sweetest, greenest sprouts, and the plumpest, whitest of seakale," for the kitchen.

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Then there comes he for whom the present work is intended; who has all the industry, all the desire to emulate these horticultural notabilities, and become his own gardener, but has yet to learn how. It will be the object and desire of the contributors to the "BOOK OF GARDEN MANAGEMENT" to instruct the uninitiated possessor of a garden, so that he may know how to cultivate his own plot of ground, and know also when he is well served by his gardener; to initiate the young operative gardener, likewise, into the mysteries of nature, whose agent he is to become, and teach him, as far as written directions can teach, the manipulative as well as the scientific methods of his art.

Gardening, properly managed, is a source of income to thousands, and of healthful recreation to other thousands. Besides the gratification it affords, the inexhaustible field it opens up for observation and experiment commends its interesting practice to every one possessed of a real English home.

It is well known that the operative gardener is too seldom trained to gardening as a profession. He is thus principally dependent on such works as the book about to be published for his knowledge of the science of his art. Impressed with this fact, the contributors are desirous of rendering their work as plain, practical, and useful as possible to their less experienced brethren.

Part I. of "THE BOOK OF GARDEN MANAGEMENT" will appear on the 1st of October, and it will be completed in Fifteen Threepenny Monthly Parts. Each Part will contain forty-eight pages, printed in various-sized type according to the importance of the subject, and interspersed with illustrations. While adopting the form of a monthly calendar in twelve out of the fifteen parts, much of the repetition so objectionable and so tedious in that form of conveying information will be obviated by the introduction of the History and Cultivation of the several plants, in the proper month for propagating them, thus bringing each subject before the reader in its proper season.

CONTRIBUTIONS FROM GARDENERS having special and successful modes of cultivating particular plants, which it would benefit the public to have published, will be gladly received by the Editor.

THE MANAGEMENT OF BEES is so closely associated with the Garden and Garden Economy, that the apiary forms a natural appendage to them. Some pages will therefore be devoted to the management of these interesting creatures, and to the best form of habitation for them.

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OR many years a very widely-entertained opinion has been expressed relative to the extreme value of all kinds of knowledge connected with the various branches of "Household Management." Complaints, too, have been pretty general that Cookery-Books, and all such works as have a special reference to Domestic affairs, have shown material defects in the manner in which they have been treated. For instance, it has been observed that the recipes for the various dishes to be cooked, are given without stating the precise proportions of the ingredients of which they are to be composed; that the recipes are encumbered with scientific and technical terms, without any attempt being made to explain them; that the information they would give is conveyed in a style by far too confused to be useful; and that, as a whole, they are too extravagant to be, in the slightest degree, available to those who are intrusted with the Management of a Household. The price of the works themselves, too, is usually so high, that they can be accessible only to a few; so that, even if they were free from the defects complained of, they would still be out of the reach of the great body of those to whom such books, nowadays, must be considered, almost, as a necessity. On the other hand, it has been found that the cheap works which have been issued on the same subject, are mere réchauffés, or, to speak characteristically, "hashes," of old recipe-books, made up for sale, rather than use, discovering no practical experience of their subject, no improvement in the arrangement or elucidation of their matter, and no

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its fur innumerable specks, the elevated papillæ of the tongue, which gives it the speckled character, that, if not the invariable sign of scarlet fever, is only met with in cases closely analogous to that disease. Between the second and third day, but most frequently on the third, a bright red efflorescence breaks out in patches on the face, neck, and back, from which it extends over the trunk and extremities, always showing thicker and deeper in colour wherever there is any pressure, such as the elbows, back, and hips; when the eruption is well out, the skin presents the appearance of a boiled lobster-shell. At first, the skin is smooth, but, as the disease advances, perceptible roughness is apparent, from the elevation of the rash, or, more properly, the pores of the skin. On the fifth and sixth days the eruption begins to decline, and by the eighth has generally entirely disappeared. During the whole of this period, there is, more or less, constant sore throat.

2562. The Treatment of scarlet fever is, in general, very simple. Where the heat is great, and the eruption comes out with difficulty, or recedes as soon as it appears, the body should be sponged with cold vinegar-and-water, or tepid water, as in measles, poured over the chest and body, the patient being, as in that disease, wrapped in a blanket and put to bed, and the same powders and mixture ordered in measles administered, with the addition of a constant hot bran poultice round the throat, which should be continued from the first symptom till a day or two after the declension of the rash. The same low diet and cooling drink, with the same general instructions, are to be obeyed in this as in the former disease.

2563. When the fever runs high in the first stage, and there is much nausea, before employing the effusions of water, give the patient an emetic, of equal parts of ipecacuanha and antimonial wine, in doses of from a teaspoonful to a tablespoonful, according to age. By these means, nine out of every ten cases of scarlatina may be safely and expeditiously cured, especially if the temperature of the patient's room is kept at an even standard of about sixty degrees.

HOOPING-COUGH, CROUP, AND DIARRHŒA, WITH THEIR MODE OF TREATMENT.

Hooping-Cough.

2564. THIS is purely a spasmodic disease, and is only infectious through the faculty of imitation, a habit that all children are remarkably apt to fall into; and even where adults have contracted hooping-cough, it has been from the same cause, and is as readily accounted for, on the principle of imitation, as that the gaping of one person will excite or predispose a whole party to follow the same spasmodic example. If any one associates for a few days with a person who stammers badly, he will find, when released from his