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day time when the weather is not very frosty, and after the month 

 of May can be kept out of doors both day and night. 



Kennedya monophylla. — This is a very pretty little climbing 

 plant, and for the room is very desirable, attaining about one foot 

 and a half in height, and has a pretty bright purple flower, which 

 blooms in bunches of about two inches in length; and even when 

 the flower is off, the leaf still makes it a desirable plant. There 

 is another species, K. lilicina, which has a pale lilac-coloured 

 flower, and has the same kind of habit and growth as the other. 

 These two varieties, when planted together in the same pot or 

 vase, are very pretty, as, from their climbing habit, they twine 

 one with the other, intermixing their flowers all over the plants ; 

 they should receive a very little water every day until about May, 

 when they may be watered more plentifully ; great care must be 

 taken that it does not receive too much water, as the leaves will 

 otherwise turn yellow, which immediately spoils the beauty of the 

 plant. 



The Little English Flora, or a Botanical and popular account 

 of all our Field flowers, with Engravings on Steel of every 

 description. By G. W. Francis, Author of the Analysis of 

 British Ferns. 



Three years ago we were informed by Mr. Francis of his intention to pub- 

 lish a work on British plants, and the small pocket volume, of 174 pages, 

 bow before us, is the result. In the preface we are told that, the object of 

 the Author in preparing this little volume, " is, first to invite the young to 

 an examination of the flowers of the field," by pointing out the beauties they 

 are every where to meet with, that thus additional charms may be added to 

 their rambles over the meads and commons ; secondly to induce a love for 

 the science itself, by shewing that it is easy of acquirement, and that it 

 yields instruction and delight, not merely in our after progress, but even from 

 our first commencement of its study ;" — and, he adds, '' these important pur- 

 poses I have endeavoured to accomplish, by giving a plain and popular des- 

 cription of all our common wild plants accompanying these with accurate 

 steel engravings of every species : thus striving to win rather than demand 

 the attention, and to present these little favourites in the alluring garb with 

 which nature has herself invested them, rather than the mysterious and re- 

 pulsive habit in which they are too often described, and to smooth as much 

 as possible the study of Botany. 



Mr. Francis is well and advantageously known to the public, as the author 

 of an Analysis ot British Ferns, a work which every cryptogamic botanist 

 ought to possess. The ' Little English Flora' is cast from a similar model, 

 but, in point of real usefulness, it will bear no comparison with the work be- 

 fore alluded to. The engravings are too small to afford much assistance in 

 indentifying the species. This will be readily understood, when it is known 

 that there are twenty engravings on each page, the size of which is only six 

 inches by three. By this arrangement, the volume is small, and, we have no 

 doubt, cheap. On this ground it can be recommended ; the ' Little English 

 ilora' will be found of great assistance, more especially on account of the 

 popular and pleasing style in which it is got up. 



