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Kalimantan, and cistus capitatus. For evergreens of similar tints, Pinna 

 pyreniaca, abies orientalis, junipers of sorts, Buxns balearica, Ruscus 

 racemosns, Thnia Wareana, and Mahonia fascicnlaris hybrida. To 

 diversify the scene with white, crimson, and golden bark, we have the 

 graceful silver birch, the blood-red dogwood, very distinct in winter, 

 after its leaves have fallen, and the golden and purple willows, and the 

 golden weeping ash, the latter being one of the loveliest of trees. Then, 

 for rustic work, walls, trellises, &c, we must not forget clematis, honey- 

 suckle, Virginian creeper, roses, jasmines, tecomas, ivies, and the like, 

 the introduction of which produces a charming variety, presenting to 

 the eye brilliant masses of flowers and foliage. Train them to larch poles, 

 rough from the woods, eight or ten feet high, and the picturesque is appro- 

 priately introduced ; or cover with them any dead or dying trees, or old 

 stumps, should such exist." 



In thus quoting from Mr. Paul's book, we have confined ourselves to a 

 subject on which he touches but incidentally, and Avhich it is not his 

 object in the present work to deal with at large. The book is, as it pur- 

 ports to be, a treatise on the culture of American plants, and it is the 

 most complete work on the subject hitherto published, and should be in 

 the hands of every lover of the Rhododendron, Kalmia, and Azalea, to 

 Avhom it will prove a mine of instruction, as well as a book of most 

 delightful gossip on the pleasures and pursuits of gardening. As Ave must 

 here quit the subject of foliage effects for the present, we will not dismiss 

 Mr. Paul's book from our notice, without further remarking, that to all 

 the details of selecting, hybridizing, propagating, and blooming, the more 

 attractive of those shrubs bearing the general designation " American," 

 Mr. Paul describes, in full, the best method of forming collections, and of 

 planting for ornamental effect, and supplements these several directions 

 with a copious list of American plants, classified in their several families, 

 so that, to the amateur holticulturist, this is a work of the highest value, 

 the more to be prized for the sake of its author, who is one of the most 

 successful of cultivators, and one of the most ardent admirers of floral 

 beauty, apart, altogether, from nursery usage, and commercial interest. 



The complaints against an invention known as Thomson's Gas Stove, which 

 have appeared in this work, were not the only ones for which the Messrs. 

 Thomson, of Dalkeith, must have felt some degree of responsibility. More 

 than once the utility of the invention has been questioned in the Gardener's 

 Chronicle and the Cottage Gardener, and cases cited, in which, after consider- 

 able expenditure and every attempt that ingenuity could suggest to render it 

 effective, purchasers have been compelled to give it up ; and, moreover, the 

 sacrifice of money, time, plants, and temper, occasioned through having given 

 it a trial. If the complaints were founded in error, the two journals named, 

 and the " Floral World," would have afforded to Messrs, Thomson, every 

 opportunity for a vindication of the apparatus, and their own fame as its repre- 

 sentatives ; if a proved failure a candid admission, and such reparation to 

 disappointed purchasers as might be within reason, ought, by this time, to 

 have been offered, but hitherto, Messrs. Thomson have taken no notice of 

 the charges against them, and no one has come forward to speak in praise of 

 the apparatus, as one suitable for greenhouses. Mr. John Stirling, Provost of 

 Peebles, communicates to the Chronicle, that he has found it very suitable for 

 warming dwelling houses and places of business, owing to its equable and agree- 

 able heat, and the utter absence of smoke and dust in using it, but he can 



