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pular arrangement,— certainly not a scientific one, nor one by which an 
ordinary reader could tell generally under what head he would find the 
object of. which he was in search; but happily that is remedied by an 
alphabetical index of individual articles. 
- Mr. Mudie's three duodecimo volumes contain, we think, a more 
tangible arrangement of subjects. The first is devoted to the two 
great heads of TrwBsER-TREEs and Fmurrs.  Timber-trees are ar- 
ranged mainly in satisfactory groups, Oaks, Pines, etc. ; then an 
excellent yet quite popular description and history of each kind, 
concluding with a chapter on the applications of all the sorts. The 
numerous fruits described will hardly bear grouping further than as- 
those cultivated in Europe; the Orange; the Stone-fruits; the peculiarly 
Tropical fruits, etc. The volume next published, I. “ VEGETABLE 
SUBSTANCES USED AS Foon ror Man,” has first the Cerealia or Corn- 
plants. 2. The Potato, well deserving of a separate chapter. 3. Other 
vegetable substances used as substantive food. 4. Wild plants used as 
food. 5. On Vegetable Gardening. 6. Leguminous Plants. 1%. Succu- 
lent Plants. .8. Brassica; Spinaceous Plants; Asparagineous Plants. 
9. Alliaceous Plants. 10. Acetarious Plants, etc.; Seasoning Herbs. 
— ll. Esculent Fungi. 12,18. Spices. 14. Coffee, Cacao, Tea, Sugar. 
Mr. Mudie's third volume contains MATERIALS OF MANUFACTURES: 
and here is really a great amount of useful information, such as We 
believe no one work, foreign or English, can be found to embrace, ar- 
ranged under the following heads :—I. Substances more peculiarly ap- 
plied to weaving; Flax and Cotton. Tl. Filaments applicable to spin- 
ning and weaving, and applicable to cordage, III. Materials used for 
matting and basket-making, ete. IV. Materials used for Paper. V. 
Materials used in Straw-plaiting. VI. Cork-wood, Teazles, Ulva ma- 
rina... VIT. Substances used in Tanning. VI. Vegetable oils and simi- 
lar products (essential, empyreumatic, etc.). IX. Alkalies, X. Acids. 
XI. Vegetable Dyes. XII. Resins. XIII. Gums and Gum-resins. All 
these, of the three several volumes, illustrated with 210 woodcuts of 
a more or less satisfactory description. 
We think we have shown that Mr. Archer’s is not the first ** popular 
work that has appeared, devoted exclusively to the commercial products 
of the Vegetable Kingdom." The arrangement of the subject-matter 
to which we allude, in either case may be, and probably is, sufficiently 
. useful for commercial purposes; and to a certain extent the extensive, 
