252 NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
Venezuela. The second and third are devoted to noble figures of Cycas 
Rumphii, Miq. ; and the two last plates, one to the male, the other to 
the female, inflorescence of Cycas circinalis. The descriptive part in- 
cludes some valuable remarks on the internal structure of the male 
cone of the latter species. 
Dr. WIGHT: ORCHIDES of the Neilgherries. 
We have this moment the satisfaction of receiving Vol. V. of 
Dr. Wight's ‘Icones PLANTARUM IwprE ORIENTALIS, containing 
Plates 1622 to 1762 (with specifie characters), which are, all but one 
(the last) plate, devoted to admirably executed outline lithographic 
figures of the ORcHIDEZ of the Neilgherries. We have been for 
some time anxious to record the invaluable and indefatigably continued 
labours of our excellent friend in the field of Indian Botany, but we 
have waited for one of the Parts of the fourth volume (Part IL.) which, 
through some unaccountable accident, has never yet been received in 
England. The very mention above of the numbering of the plates 
will show the amount of species illustrated in this work alone. Equally 
meritorious is the coloured work, entitled *Illustrations of Indian 
Botany, or Figures illustrative of each of the Orders of Indian Plants, 
described in the Author's Prodromus Floræ Peninsule Indie orien- 
talis, and extending to 182 plates, with copious and very instructive 
letter-press. We trust soon to have it in our power to notice both 
these works more fully. 
— 
Joun SANDERS : À practical Treatise on the Culture of the VINE, as 
well under glass as in the open air. London: Reeve and Benham. 
8vo. 1851. 
This is a plain, intelligible, well-written pamphlet of between thirty 
and forty pages, devoted, 1st, To the culture of the Vine under glass ; 
2ndly, Culture of the Muscat Grape; 3rdly, Culture of the Vine in the 
open air; and 4thly, Culture of the Vine in pots. Tt is accompanied by 
nine plates : the first four illustrating “a double-fronted wall-house for 
grapes and other purposes.” Plates V. and VI. represent a house for 
Muscat grapes. Plate VII. shows Vines as grown in the open air; and 
Plates VIII. and IX. exhibit plans of a house for growing Vines in pots 
and troughs. No vine-grower should be without this little book. 
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