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which can be conveniently reached from all 

 directions, and am most earnestly in favor of 

 organizing at once. S. M. Tracy. 



It is said to be the practice in Italy, when 

 planting grape vines to scatter a few handfuls 

 of gypsum about the plant. 



In April Horticulturist, several errors 

 occurred, which are corrected as follows : 



Page 116, fine rose should be fiyie nosed 

 sprinkler. 



Page 127, Pinelum should be Pinetura. 



"New Publications. 



Hus.sri/'s JVxtioiitil CottfUfe Arcliiteeture. 



This large quarto volume, issued in same 

 style as Woo(baard\s National Architect, con- 

 tains twenty-seven designs for buildmgs and 

 sixty-two plates of details. The mechanical 

 execution of the volume is without fault, and 

 a large proportion of the designs are quite ac- 

 ceptable, and almost all uniformly of moderate 

 prices, from $1,900 to $6,000. Several de- 

 signs were exceedingly pleasing to us, because 

 of their interior arrangement, which was ad- 

 mirably contrived. The artist's fancy for the 

 Mansard roof, and windows let in midway, or 

 rather the eaves coming down half the length 

 of the window, does not seem to us very taste- 

 ful, and is not destined to be very popular. 

 Published by 0. Judd Co. Price $8. 



Stibiirlxiu tind Riirtil Arcliifeefii ri 

 Jlohh.s it" Son.. 



liij Isaac 11. 



This volume contains eighty-four designs 

 of cottages and villas, with about 200 pages 

 of descriptions. It is printed in admirable 

 taste by Lippincott & Co., of Philadelphia, 

 and is very attractive in exterior appearance. 

 Most of the designs were originally engraved 

 for (jrodey's /Magazine, and seem to have been 

 very poorly executed. A few designs are ex- 

 cellent in idea, but a large proportion of them 

 are very plain in appearance, and designs de- 

 cidedly mediocre. It is better to have a fine 

 volume of a few very tasteful designs than an 

 omrtium gatherum of old and new engravings, 

 some of which are sure not to please. Price 

 $3. New York : 0. Judd & Co., agents. 



Tlie Tvjj — Its Histor;/ anil Oliaracteristics — Illus- 

 trated It// Sliirlfi/ llihha rd. 



The autlior, well known to the horticultural 

 public as editor of the Gardener''s Magazine, 

 London, has contributed this beautiful bro- 

 chure to the list of really useful rural publica- 

 tions of the day. 



The mechanical execution of the volume, 

 binding, paper and illustrations, are really 

 tasteful and a pleasure to look upon. 



Two chromo lithographs of the ivy in various 

 colors, yellow and white variegated on green 

 background, with borders of the ivy in its au- 

 tumn crimson colors, are the frontispieces. Both 

 together represent nine diff'erent varieties. 



Opposite page 62 is another colored plate, 

 representing seven other varieties, and most 

 beautiful to look upon, with its tasteful print, 

 the best in the volume. Opposite page 78 is 

 still another. 



The author, in summing up the contents of 

 the book, discusses the history and literary 

 curiosities of the ivy ; then its characteristics, 

 uses, cultivation, species and varieties. Two 

 chapters are devoted to a descriptive list of 

 Garden ivies, green leaved or variegated, and 

 the selections of ivies, comprising the most 

 distinct and beautiful in the several sections. 



The volume is still further embellished 

 with about sixty wood engravings, and there 

 seems nothing lacking to make the book a suc- 

 cess in every particular, and the most com- 

 plete one ever issued on the subject. Its only 

 fault is too much matter, rendering it difficult 

 for the reader to obtain a correct idea of the 

 difterences which distinguish the varieties. 



The editor of The Horticulturist, in 

 thus writing a candid review of a very worthy 

 book, desires to have the horticultural public 

 contrast "American liberality of sentiment" 

 with a recent specimen of English cynicism, 

 as recently appeared in the columns of the 

 Gardener's Magazine, wherein the editor, 

 without a particle of liberality, condemns an 

 American volume, which is declared by the 

 Gardenerh Chronicle, the leading English 

 horticultural journal, to be the best, without 

 exception, on that subject, ever published in 

 England or America, viz : Window Gar- 

 dening. 



