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Culinary Pits, &.C. with an account of the materials host adapted for their 

 erection, and mode of heating by hot water, &c. ; and lastly, the general 

 routine of culture pursued throughout the year, in the Forcing Department. 



The Title Page expresses that " the Catalogue contains the description of 

 upwards of 6,000 ornamental plants, which are cultivated at Woburn Abbey.'' 

 Jt is arranged according to the Liunreau system of classification, and in the 



following manner: 



Systematic English Form of Colour of Month of Native Year of Bottand 



name name. leaves. flower. flowering, country. Introd. propagation. 



Cans a Indian Shot. Calyx of 3 leaves. Cor. of petals. Style, club shaped. Stvg. obtuse. 



Indica. Indian, acuin. nerv. Red. 1-1*. W. Inds. 1580. S P. Sandy loam, 



smooth. 8< *d & cuttings. 



As a catalogue of the plants it contaius, it is, as our readers will perceive, 

 very clear, expressive, and well arranged. The species and varieties being 

 alphabetically placed, makes the reference to individual species easy to be 

 fouud. This attention is not paid in any other catalogue we have seeu. We 

 hesitate not in stating that it is every thing the author professes it to be. 



In the second part of the book are fifteen remarkably well-executed copper- 

 plate and lithographic impressions. The subjects are— T. South- West View 

 of Woburn Abbey ; this is placed as a very neat frontispiece.— 2. Entrance 

 Gate, &c. to the Park.— 3. A Plan of the Pleasure-Grouud. Letter-press 

 illustrations, descriptive of— A covered Walk 1342 feet long, open on one side, 

 supported by pillars adorned with creepers; Sculpture Gallery, Greenhouse 

 for Pelargoniums, Riding House, Tennis Court, Stable Courts, ChiueseDairy, 

 Larders, Rock-work, Willow Garden, American Bauk of an acre extent, 

 Garden for Hardy Heaths, Cape Heaths when exposed, collection of Hollies^ 

 Rosarium Scoticum, Grass Garden, Menagerie, Canary Room, &c— 4. The 

 Duchess of Bedford's Flower Garden, in front of the private apartments, and 

 Parterres in front of the Libraries. The description consists in detailing the 

 disposition of plants, &c. in the garden.— 5. Parterres in front of the Sculp- 

 ture Gallery ; description of plants disposed in the beds.— 6. Ground plan, 

 front elevation, and section of the Greenhouse. Description of the construe, 

 tion of the Greenhouse. Management of the Greenhouse and Conservatory. 

 —7. Ground plan of a Pinery, of two pits heated by one boiler; section and 

 ground plan of the Plant-Stove,— Description. Construction of the Plant- 

 Stove. Management of Hothouse Plants.— 8. Plan, elevation, and section 

 of the Heath House,— Description. Management of the Deaths. Propaga- 

 tion.-9. Hardy Heath Garden; List of Heaths, fcc.— 10. Menagerie, De- 

 iptioh of.— 11. Outer and Inner Entrances to the Menagerie.— 1 2. Gardens 

 of the Duke's Children when young, designed by Mr. Repton,— Description 

 or.— 13. Drakeloc Pond, the Chinese Temple and Evergreens, Description of. 

 Holly Hedge 500 yards long, &c— 14. Henry the Seventh's Cottage (Gothic), 

 at tin- extremity of Apsley Wood, Description of.— 15. Labyrinths at Apslcy 

 Wood. 



The descriptive remarks following the platis are very interesting. The 

 obscnutions on the inaiiagriiiriit of plants are judicious, concise, and useful. 

 \\V nibjoin an «.\ tract, on the propagation and culture of Heaths, that our 



