FOREIGN NOTICES. 



British Pomology; or the History, Description, Classification, and Synonyms, of tile Fruits 

 AND Fruit Trees of Great Britain. By Robert Hogg. 



We have received Part I of this work, devoted to the apple. It describes 942 varieties — 

 a snug little list. When we have had leisure to look it over, we may cull something inter- 

 esting from it. 



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The Noeth American Sylva of Michatix, with ISTuttal's supplement, has been pub- 

 lished in six splendid royal octavo volames, by Kobeut P. Smith, of Philadelphia, with 

 notes by J. Jay Smith, Esq. It contains 277 finely colored copperplate engravings. It is 

 a work that should be in every library in America. We shall soon give some extracts 

 from the work, and a specimen of the plates. 



The fourth volume of Humboldt's Cosmos is finished, and in the hands of the publisher. 

 We way expect it soon. 



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The New Crystal Palace at Sydenham. — It is now pretty well known that the site chosen tor 

 the re-erection of the Crystal Palace is an irregular parallelogram of about 800 acres, extending 

 from the Brighton Eailway, where it has a frontage of 1300 feet (between the Sydenham and 

 Anerley station), to the road which borders the top of Dulwich-wood, where it has a frontage of 

 3000 feet. The fall from this point to the railway in question is stated to be about 200 feet. It 

 was at once felt that the most eligible position for the new building was on the summit of this 

 hill, and immediately adjoining the road. Tlie building placed in so commanding a situation will 

 be visible from London on the one side, and from a vast extent of country on the otlier. The 

 only little inconvenience attending its erection on a hdl is the want of water to supply tlie various 

 fountains with which the terrace garden and park are to be decorated. This, however, is to be 

 overcome by boring for it at the bottom of the park, near the railway, and raising it in pipes 

 underground by steam power to a large reservoir at the north end of the building, to the top of 

 a tower, on which it will again be pumped up, so as to give sufficient fall for the gigantic pur- 

 poses to which it will be afterwards applied. Notwithstanding the wetness of the weather, the 

 heavy operations connected with the formation of the terrace garden and the ground work in the 

 park are now in rapid progress. About 1000 laborers have been employed for the last three 

 weeks in levelling the ground, and forming basins for the various fountains, <fec. As yet, however, 

 nothing has assumed its proper form; and therefore, to an ordinary observer, all is in the mean- 

 apparently confusion. We understand, however, that everything will be on a grand scale 

 to correspond with the noble building itself. We learned from Mr. Milner, to whom the 



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