386 Notices respecting Ne-jt; Books. 



acephalajinibriata. By Mr. George Sinclair.— On the Culti- 

 vation of Horse- Radish. By Mr. Daniel Jiuld — On a Metliod 

 of cultivating the INIushroom. By Mr. William Hogan. — On 

 the FertilizaUon of the Female Blossoms of Filberts. By the 

 Rev. George Swayne. — On a Wash for Fruit-Trees. By John 

 Braddick, Esq. — An Account of the Methods of forcing Peaches 

 in Denmark and Holland. By Mr. Peter Lindegaard. — On 

 the Modes now practised in Austria of cultivating Asparagus. 

 By Mr. Jacob Baumann of Vienna. — A Notice of certain seed- 

 ling Varieties of Amaryllis, presented to the Society by the 

 Hon. and Rev. William Herbert, in 1820, which flowered in 

 the Society's Garden in Feb. 1823. By Mr. John Lindley, 

 Assistant Secretary at the Society's Garden. — On the Manage- 

 ment of Fig-trees in the open Air. By Mr. Samuel Sawyer.— 

 On the Cultivation of Melons in the open Air. By John Wil- 

 hams, Esq. — Description of an improved Pit for raising Cu- 

 cumbers, Melons, and other Vegetables, by the Use of Steam 

 instead of Stable Dung. By the Rev. William Phelps.— De- 

 . scription of Amaryllis Psittacina-Johnsotii, a new hybrid Va- 

 riety raised by William Griffin, Esq. By James Robert 

 Gower, Esq. — Description of a Method of protecting Cauli- 

 flower and other tender Plants during W^inter. By Mr. 



James Drummond. 



Works in the Press. 



Dr. Hooker, the Professor of Botany at Glasgow Univer- 

 sity, is preparing a complete System of Plants, arranged ac- 

 cording to the Natural Orders, with a Linnsan Index, and 

 illustrated with numerous coloured Plates. One object of the 

 author is to divest the study of Botany of the repelling feature 

 of a dead language in which it has hitherto been clothed, by 

 adopting our own instead of the Latin, and thus to promote 

 the cultivation of the science throughout all classes of the 

 community. 



Mr. John Curtis has in the press the First Number of his 

 Illustrations of English Insects. We understand the intention 

 of the author is to publish highly finished Figures of such Spe- 

 cies of Insects (with the Plants upon which they are found) as 

 constitute the British Genera, with accurate representations 

 of the parts on which the characters are founded, and de- 

 scriptive letter-press to each plate, giving, as far as possible, 

 the habits and economy of the subjects selected. The work 

 will be published monthly, to commence the 1st of Jan. 1824?. 



Annals of Medical Botany and Pharmacy ; to be published 

 in Quarterly Numbers, edited by J. Frost, Professor of Bo- 

 tany and Materia Medica to the Medico- Botanical Society of 

 London, &c. 



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