386 New Publications. 



Let not, then, the idle and the ignorant scoff" at him who de- 

 votes an unemployed hour, 



" No calling le!t, no duty broke," 

 to investigate a moss, a fungus, a beetle, or a shell, in " ways o 

 pleasantness, and in paths of peace." They are all the forma- 

 tion of Supreme intelligence, for a wise and a worthy end, and 

 may lead us, by gentle gradations, to a faint conception of the 

 powers of infinite wisdom. They have calmed and amused 

 some of us worms and reptiles, and possibly bettered us for our 

 change to a new and more perfect order of being. 



III. An Encychpcedia of Plants ; comprising the Description, Spe- 

 cijtc Character, Culture, History, Application in the Arts, and 

 every other desirable particular respecting all the Plants indi- 

 genous, cultivated in, or introduced to Britain ; combining all 

 the advantages qf a Linncean and Jussieuan Species Planta- 

 rum, an Historia Plantarum, a Grammar qf Botany, and a 

 Dictionary of Botany and Vegetable Culture. The whole in 

 English ; with the Synonyms of the commoiier plants in the 

 different European and other Languages; the Scientific Names 

 accentuated, their Etymologies explained, the Classes, Orders, 

 and Botanical Terms illustrated by Engravings ; and with 

 Figures of nearly Ten Thousand Species, exemplifying several 

 i?idividuals belonging to every Genus included in the Work. 

 Edited by J. C. Loudon, F. L. S. H. S. &c. (Complete in 

 one large Volume 8vo. Price L. 4 : 14 : 6.) 



Botany, as well as other branches of study, and of intellectual 

 employment, is making rapid strides. Hitherto, however, it 

 must be confessed that this delightful branch of natural history 

 has, in consequence of the more valuable books on the subject 

 being published in a dead language, been a sealed study to a 

 very large portion of mankind. As far as the plants of our 

 o\vn country are concerned, the labours of Smith alone, by his 

 introductory works, by his English Botany and his English 

 Flora, have brought botany within the compass of the humblest 

 capacity, without, at the same time, detracting from its scientific 

 character. But if any one unacquainted with the Latin lan- 

 guage, had wished to become conversant with the characters and 

 properties of the plants that are cultivated in our gardens, there 

 Mas no book that would aid him in so laudable a pursuit. We 



