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Their lakes are made as large as the ground will admit ; some 

 several miles in circumference : and they are so shaped, that from 

 no single point of view all their terminations can be seen ; so that 

 the spectator is always kept in ignorance of their extent. They 

 intersperse in them many islands ; which serve to give intricacy 

 to the form, to conceal the bounds, and to enrich the scenery. 



(To be Continued.) 



REVIEW. 



The Amateur Florist's Assistant in the selection and cultivation 

 of Popular Annuals ; to which is added a descriptive cata- 

 logue of the more interesting tender Perennials used in 

 decorating the Parterre, and a copious list of European 

 Ornamental Alpine Pla?its.— By George Willmott, 12mo., 

 p.p. 76. 



This is an exceedingly neat little work, and to persons desirous 

 of information on the ornamental flowering annuals, it will be 

 found interesting and useful. The author deserves the thanks 

 and encouragement of the Florist for his efforts ; this will en- 

 courage him to give a little more practical information on the 

 culture of some of the kinds treated upon in the present publica- 

 tion. 



In the Preface the author observes that "the professional 

 gardener and practical floriculturist are alike cautioned against 

 expecting much more information from the following pages than, 

 it is presumed, they already possess. The intentions of the 

 author are more humble ; but he, fondly trusts, his exertions will 

 not prove the less useful, his principal aim being to convey, in a 

 comprehensive and cheap form, such a portion of that knowledge 

 those already possess, as will enable the villa proprietor, cottager, 

 and small garden occupier, to cultivate for their own recreation 

 the Popular Annuals — a tribe of flowers, surpassed by no others 

 in the vegetable kingdom, for fragrance, diversity of form, or 

 beauty and variety of coloring — properties which are enhanced 

 by the facility with which they may be grown, and the speedy 

 return they yield to the careful cultivator ; for while they may be 

 procured for a trifling amount, they at the same time require less 

 attention than their more permanent congenitors ; and instead of 

 waiting seasons, the owner is rewarded for the little requisite at- 



