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Other matters are, we consider, so fully explained by a comparison 

 of the two plans, and the reference thereto, that it will be needless to 

 lengthen the article with further description. 



Reference to Engravings. 



h. Statues on pedestals 

 i. Fountain. 



a Ponfl. h Mass of Water Lily 



c Large Chinese Arbor-vitas 



d Clump on turf for herbaceous • c u. ^ t 



1 . , 11 n • 1 1 ^ t^eat on centre Ime 



plants and small flowering shrubs ; '^ 



and bordered by clipped evergreen [ ^- ^''-ses on pedestals. 



hedges of Cotoneaster, &c, j I. House. 



e Beds on turf, with Juniper in ^ Porch. 



centre, flowering plants round. I ^^' ^^^^{^ ^j^^^ 



/ Irisli Yews. ai ^ 



g Parterre on turf. I o, p. Alcoves. 



1. Blue with white margin 



2. Scarlet 

 8. Light pink 



4. Brownish orange 



5. Deep violet or purple 



q. Back ground for reserve, &c. 



r. Border for creepers against house 



s Greenhouse. 



t. Laundry. 



W. Davidson, 

 Landscape Gardener. 



36, Great Russell Street, Bedford Square. 



REVIEW. 



The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland. By Thomas Moore, F.L.S., 

 Curator of the Chelsea Botanic Garden, author of the " Handbook of 

 British Ferns," &c. Edited by John Lindley, Ph. D., F.R.S., &c. 

 Nature Printed by Henry Bradbury. London: Bradbury and 

 Evans, Whitefriars. 

 On several grounds this is one of the most important botanical publica- 

 tions which has appeared in this country. The book itself, by its 

 imperial size — a splendid foHo — its admirable typography, and its 

 marvellous life-size figures of the most fashionable of plants, carries an 

 air of importance, and commands, as well as arrests, attention. As an 

 art contribution it is equally important, for the process of nature- 

 printing, as yet in its infancy, and destined no doubt at some not 

 distant period to effect important changes in pictorial representation, 

 receives here its first practical application in this country ; and the 

 fidelity with which the several species hitherto figured have been 

 produced, prove at once that even without the improvements which 

 always follow the practical working of new processes, nature-printing is 

 in many respects most admirably adapted for purposes of botanical 

 illustration. As a contribution to the science of botany, too, the work 

 before us is no less important ; for both author and editor have 

 determinedly set their faces against the spacious science which invests 

 with specific im[iortance the various individual forms occurring among 

 plants, and with wondrous eftrontery bajttises every such slight vanation, 



