LITERARY NOTICES. 



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The American Flower Garden Companion, 



revised and enlarged. By Edward Sayers. 



Third Edition. Cincinnati. J.A.James. 1846. 



(12mo. 207 pp. 50 cts.) 



This is a very useful little volume for the 



novice, containing brief practical directions 



for the culture and management of all the 



most popular denizens of the flower garden. 



It is written in a plain and simple style, and 



is an excellent Jir St book for those just be- 



coming interested in floriculture. From its 

 having reached the third edition, we pre- 

 sume it has been found, by the inhabitants 

 of Cincinnati and the West generally, a 

 timely and acceptable manual. Mr. Say- 

 ers is well known as a practical garden- 

 er, and many excellent hints in this vo- 

 lume are drawn from his own observations 

 and experience in this climate. 



LITERARY NOTICES. 



I. Our friend. Dr. Wm. DARLiNGTONof 

 Pennsylvania, well known as an accom- 

 plished botanist, is, we are gratified to be 

 able to announce, preparing for the press 

 an Agricultural Flora, in which only 

 those plants most interesting to the farmer, 

 for their useful or pernicious properties, are 

 to be described. It will be written in a popu- 

 lar style, and will no doubt be a very va- 

 luable guide to such of our farming popu- 

 lation as are little versed in the science of 

 Botany, yet desirous to know something more 

 of the plants and trees that surround them. 



II. The colored edition of our Fruits and 

 Fruit Trees of America, which has been 

 delayed for some time by the loss of the in- 

 structions which accompanied the original 

 drawings abroad, is now in progress, and 

 will be published in very handsome style, 

 early in December, by Wiley & Putnam, 

 New- York. 



III. The seventh edition, (plain) of this 

 work on Fruits, will be put to press shortly. 

 Several errors, which subsequent experience 



has detected, will be corrected in the forth- 

 coming edition ; and it will be rendered as 

 perfect as possible in the present state of 

 our pomological knowledge. 



In the autumn of 1847, it is proposed to 

 publish a Supplement to the Fruits and 

 Fruit Trees of America, containing des- 

 criptions of all new fruits of merit, which 

 have proved worthy of notice, since the pre- 

 paration of the original work. This will 

 enable us to make use of all the materials 

 collected during the present season, and 

 {Deo volenti) the coming one ; and we shall 

 hope to continue to receive from our kind 

 friends and correspondents, in various parts 

 of the country, specimens and notes, regard- 

 ing any native fruits of local origin, which 

 they deem of first-rate quality, that may 

 come under their observation — that we 

 may ourselves form an opinion of their 

 merits. 



IV. We observe that a second edition has 

 been issued in Paris of M. Boitard's work, 

 " Ju Art de composer et decorer les jardi7is,'' 



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