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Mr. H. Stanford, Florist, &c, St. Leonards, Horsham, Sussex, forwarded to 

 us some specimens of a very splendid seedling Pelargonium. The flowers are 

 very large, and of a brilliant rosy-scarlet colour, producing nine of its large 

 blossoms in one truss ; and many of these upon a single plant. Mr. Stanford 

 is provided with strong plants, which will be ready for sale, at 7s. 6d. each, by 

 April 1837. — Conductor. 



REVIEWS. 



Flora Metropolitans, or Botanical Rambles within thirty miles of London ; 

 being the result of numerous excursions made in 1833,34, and 35; furnishing a 

 list of those plants that have been found on the different heaths, woods, com- 

 mons, hills, &c, surrounding the Metropolis, (more particularly the counties of 

 Surrey and Kent,) chiefly from actual observation, and the latest authorities. 

 Intended for the student in practical Botany. With a list of the land and fresh 

 water shells of the environs of London. By Daniel Cooper, London, 1836. S. 

 Highley, 32 Fleet Street; 12mo., p. p. 139." 



Mr. Cooper has rendered essential service to those persons who have oppor- 

 tunities of walking much in the circle of the country that is described ; to per- 

 sons of this class the work must be of peculiar interest. We think every in- 

 habitant of Britain ought to know the native plants, more particularly, however, 

 all that are to be found in the neighbourhood in which the individual resides. 

 The plants to be found near to the specified places, are grouped according to 

 the natural system. Wimbledon Common, including Putnly Heath, 227 species 

 are described as growing. Wandsworth Common, 110 species are enumerated, 

 &c. The author may, doubtless, render work still more useful by giving the 

 colours of each flower. It is a neat pocket volume of peculiar interest. 



Flora Hibernica, comprising the Flowering Plants, Ferns, Characea>, 

 Musci, Hepatica, Lichens, and Alga?, of Ireland. Arranged according to the 

 natural system, with a synopsis of the genera, according to the Linnrean system, 

 bv James Townsend Maekav, M. R. I. A., Associate of the Linnrean Society. 

 &'e. Dublin : W. Curry and Co., 1836; p. p. 632. 



The work is got up, as it is usually termed, in a very superior manner, and 

 is highly creditable to the author and publishers. The description of the or- 

 ders, &c, and of the plants, is very complete. Reference is also given to the 

 native situations of each. It is a very valuable acquisition to the inhabitants 

 of Ireland. The second part of the work, which contains the Musci, Hepaticre, 

 and Lichenes, comprising 260 pages, of the 632, is peculiarly useful and inter- 

 esting. As every resident of a country ought to be acquainted with its native 

 plants, we hope the readers of the Cabinet, resident in Ireland, will avail them- 

 selves of the use of this publication. 



The Botanic Garden, or Midland Floral Magazine, containing accurate 

 delineations, with Botanical and popular descriptions of plants cultivated in the 

 greenhouse or open garden — and remarkable either for their beauty, their va- 

 riety, or their singular structure. Conducted by G. B. Knowles, Esq., M.R.C.S., 

 F.L.S., &c. ; and Frederick Westcott, Esq,, Honorary Secretaries of the Bir- 

 mingham Botanical and Horticultural Society. 



Three Numbers of this new periodical have appeared. The size is large post 

 4to., and each number contains four coloured figures of new, or otherwise inter- 

 esting plants. There are eight pages of letter-press, two to each figure. One 

 page is nearly occupied with scientific Latin descriptions of the plant; the other 

 with useful directions for its cultivation. These instructions are highly credi- 

 table to the gentlemen who conducts the work. It is got up in a superior 



style, which renders it necessary for the price to be high; we fear this will limit 

 the circulation of a work which ought to be extensive, much less than its merits 

 entitle it. 



The Botanist, containing accurately coloured figures of tender and hardy 

 Ornamental Plants, with descriptions scientific and popular, intended to convey 

 both moral and intellectual gratification. Conducted by B. Maund, F.L.S. ; as- 

 nisted by the Rev. I. s. Henslow, M.A., F.L.S., Pofessor of Botany in the l'ni 

 versitv of Cambridge. 



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