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the second volume, descrq^tions from Celastracea to Apocynacea in- 

 clusive ; the third volume, descriptions from Asclepiadacece to Cory- 

 lacea inclusive ; the fourth volume, from GarryacecB to the end. The 

 fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth volumes are entirely occupied with 

 plates of portraits of trees, and representations of their leaves and 

 flowers and fruits. These are copper-plates ; but we must confess, 

 that in point of execution we give the preference to the very nume- 

 rous wood-cuts which so beautifully illustrate the descriptions they 

 accompany — and these are not confined to representations of plants 

 and their analyses, but include landscapes and scenery of various 

 kinds, where certain trees form a characteristic feature ; and insects 

 and parasitic vegetables which do injury to their plants are faithfully 

 exhibited find described, and the best modes of their destruction are 

 recommended. In short, nothing is omitted, either in the descriptive 

 or pictorial matter, which can tend to illustrate the history and uses 

 of trees and shrubs ; and when it is considered that these vegetables 

 include the most valuable materials for our ships and dwellings and 

 implements of various kinds, the greatest ornaments of our parks, 

 our gardens, and pleasure-grounds, and most of the fruits which are 

 cultivated in the open air with us, it will be at once seen of what 

 vast importance must such a work be to this country, to every part 

 of Europe and the temperate parts of North America ; and we may 

 even say, to all the temperate parts of the civilized world. We are 

 sorry that the nature of our Journal does not allow us to make such 

 copious extracts as would give an idea of the execution of the histo- 

 rical and scientific department of the work — but this is the less to 

 be regretted, since other Journals have not been backward in doing 

 justice to its great merits, and since it has received the highest 

 encomiums from an able writer in the Quarterly Review for Oc- 

 tober 1838, (an honour not often accorded to works on Natural Hi- 

 story,) with whose concluding words we shall terminate our brief 

 notice. " Let us warmly congratulate our author on having finished 

 his herculean task ; a task which few men except himself would have 

 had the courage to begin, and still fewer the perserverance to com- 

 plete. The Arboretum Britannicum is unique in its kind, and it 

 must become a standard book of reference on all subjects connected 

 with trees." 



Enumeratio Plantarum quas in Novce HollandicB ora Austro-occidentali 

 ad jiuvium Cygnorum et in sinu Regis Georgii coUegit Carolus Liber 

 Baro de H'ugel. 



Under this title, has appeared at Vienna the first number of a 



