KltlTOll S TABLE. 



A Goop Bkoinninq. — Trkes on the Illinois Railboap. — Dr. Egan, of Chicago, lUinoi 

 liius made a contract with the Illinois Central Railroad, to plant three rows of Locust trees on 

 each side of the road for the distance of one hundred and twenty miles south of Chicago. The 

 rows arc to bo set five feet apart, and the trees about three feet from each other. 



33ooks on our (Eailt. 



The AoRicuiTURE op MASSAcnrsETTS ns sbown In return' of Iho Agricultural Societies 1854 : Edited by Charles L_ 

 Flint Scctretary of Board of Agriculture. 



AVe are indebted to the Hon. B. V. French of Braintrcc for a copy of this vol. "Wc 

 have had little leisure to examine its contents but in a hurried glance we see many items 

 that merit a notice in the Horticulturist such are reports upon Orchards, Hedges &c. 

 which we shall refer to hereafter. This handsome volume is illustrated with cuts of the 

 great Barn of David Leavitt Esq., at great Barrington, and that of B^ V. French Esq., at 

 Braintree. The last is described as " an almost faultless model," — cost above §6,000 — 

 besides drawing of animals &c. 



A Practical Treatise on the Culture and Treatment of the Grape Vine, By J. Fiske 

 Allen. Sixth edition, enlarged and improved. New York, C. M, Saxton & Co. 



A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening. By A. J. Downing. 

 Fifth edition. New York, C. M. Saxton & Co. 1855. 



The Mineral and Thermal Springs of the United States and Canada. By John Bell, 

 M. D. Philadelphia, Parry & IMcMillan. 1855. 



American Flower Garden Directory. By Robert Buist. Sixth edition. New York, 

 C. M. Saxton & Co. 1855. 



The Practical Fruit, Flower and Vegetable Gardener's Companion. By Patrick Neill. 

 Edited by G. Emerson, M. D. New York, C. M. Saxton & Co. 1855. 



Botany of the Southern States. By Prof. John Darby. New York, A. S. Barnes & 

 Co. 1855. 



The World a Workshop ; or, the Physical Relationship of Man to the Earth. By 

 Thomas Ewbank. New York. 1855. 



S;lortituIturaI Soiittus. 



Errors of the Press must be forgiven in the hurry of new beginners, and the absence 

 of the editor. We doubt not some few of the last pages of the July number were Greek 

 instead of Latin to some of our readers ; errors of this kind are not indispensable, and it 

 is hoped may not occur again. Leaving an unpleasant subject, let us make up for errors 

 of omission. The proceedings of various Societies were received too late for notice, and 

 others were crowded out by attempting a full report of the Pennsylvania Society ; the 

 Horticulturist was a month in arrears with this Society, but being now all square will 

 hereafter occupy less space with a local affair. 



Pexxsylvania IIoTicuLTtiRAL SOCIETY'S MEETING. — Juli/ monthly Meeting. — Reported ex- 

 pressly for the Horticulturist. ^K very fine monthly meeting for the season of the year, and 

 very gratifying to the cause of horticultural progress. 



The most interesting feature was in the fruit department, and principal amongst these, a 

 collection of grape vines grown in pots. Those who Lave never seen grapes grown in this 

 can form no idea of its many advantages. On the twenty plants exhibited in pots ranging 



