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Tur GARDENERS’ MAGAZINE OF Borany, HORTICULTURE, FLORI- 
CULTURE, AND NATURAL SCIENCE ; dy THowas Moore and 
WILLIAM P. AYRES ; assisted by ARTHUR Henrrey, J. O. West- 
woop, J. Stevenson Busunan, M.D., and Mr. Barnes. Royal 
8vo. Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4. London. January to April, 1850. 
We mentioned in our number for May ‘ Paxton's Flower-Garden,’ 
by Dr. Lindley and Mr. Paxton, as a work which may be considered 
a continuation of the * Botanical Register' of the former gentleman, 
and of the * Magazine of Botany’ of the latter, united into one. . The 
present is an entirely new publication, undertaken by men whose 
names. are familiar in science and in horticulture, and more miscella- 
neous in its object, though assuredly mainly horticultural. The first - 
four numbers are now before us, the plates. good, though unequal,— 
many of them, especially the woodeuts, beautiful; and the number 
of the plates and the quantity of matter (56 pages) are such, that 
it must require a very large sale to cover the expenses, considering the 
very low price at which it is offered. This **new publication is intended 
to be a guide. to the practical gardener, and a companion to lady or 
gentlemen amateurs. It will furnish instructions in the art of design- 
ing, laying out, selecting, and planting gardens and pleasure-grounds ; 
in the erection and heating of horticultural buildings ; in the applica- 
tion of scientifie principles to the art of cultivation ; and every other 
subject connected with the general management of the garden, com- 
bined with descriptions of all new popular flowers, fruits, and vege- 
tables.” Five coloured plates are given in each number, and, in the 
four numbers hitherto published, are some forty or fifty woodeuts, of a 
very miscellaneous character: but many of them are copies from well- 
known and recently published botanical figures of this country. The 
descriptive portions, as expressed in the prospectus, are rather popular 
than scientific. 
Of No. I., the coloured plates commence with Tab. 1. Passiflora 
Belottii (a hybrid), and Maurandia Barclayana, var. rosea. 2. is Ane- 
mone Japonica, var. hybrida. 3. Pelargonium exiguum. 4. Calceolaria 
flexuosa, Ruiz and Pav. 5. Philodendron Simsii (accompanied by a 
woodcut): The other subjects treated of are very varied, and illus- 
trated with numerous excellent woodcuts.. We can only mention those 
of the first number. On Colocasia odorata, with woodcut. On 
the cultivation of fancy Geraniums (by Mr. Henry Rosier). On 
Wild Flowers, with a beautiful group of children. On Ozalis Bowieana, 
