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lie sacrificed to size. The relative) proportions of excellence in these criteria 

 have been Ihus estimated :— form lluve, colour two, size one. Thus a Dahlia, 

 possessing the properties of form and colour, would be judged superior to 

 one ha.vini; colour and size, the relative proportions being as live to three. 

 By this standard the comparative merits of ibis clasjs of show flowers have 

 been eslimaled by the censors at the exhibition of the Metropolitan Florists' 

 Society. 



An Inquiry into the Causes of the Fruitfwlness and Barrenness of 

 Plants and Trees, with Practical Instructions for the Manage- 

 ment of Gardens and Farms, and a System of training Fruit 

 Trees, §c, founded on Scientific Principles ; arranged as a 

 Dialogue. By Joseph Hayward, Esq., Author of " The 

 Science of Horticulture," " The Science of Agriculture," &c. 

 8vo. 292 pages. Orr anil Smith, London. 1S34. 



This work contains much scientific and valuable information, and will be 

 found essentially useful. We strongly recommend it to our readers; and 

 although no price is slated, we hope it is so low that it may be purchased, 

 without inconvenience, by the humblest cottager. 



Plants figured in the following Periodicals for September : — 



Curfis's Botanical Magazine. Edited by Dr. Hooker, King's 

 Professor of Botany in the University of Glasgow. Price 

 3s. (id. coloured ; 3s. plain. 



1. Acacia lincala, Narrow-lined-leavcd Acacia. Class. TVlygamia; order, 

 Momecia. Natural order, I,oguminos;r. A shrub of bushy growth, frequent 

 in the interior of New South Wales, in barren forest grounds lying West 

 from Wellington Valley, in long. 1 1S° K. ; as also in the country on the 

 North from the settlement of Bathurst, where it flowers throughout the win- 

 ter months (May — July), and ripens its legumes in December. It was ori- 

 ginally discovered, during the progress of the expedition on the Laehlan 

 River in 1817, and was two years since communicated by Mr. Aiton, from 

 the Royal Gardens at Kew, where it flowers with many oi'its kindred, in the 

 months of April and May. 



2. Campanula macranlha, var. poli/anl,lia, Large -flowered Giant Bell- 

 flower; many-blossomed var. i'entandria, Monogynia. Campanulacea?. 

 A very handsome variety, and most worthy of a place in every collection, 

 and in the borders of every shrubbery. 



3. Indigo/era violacea, Purple Indigo Plant. Diadelphia, Decandria. Le- 

 guminqsfB. This very handsome shrub has slood for several years in the. 

 open air in the Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, and flowered for tile first time 

 in July 1834. 



4. Uardcnia florida, ft. simplici, Single/lowered Cape Jasmine. Pentan- 

 dria, Monogynia. Rubiaceie. This delightfully fragrant shrub flowered in 

 June hist, in the noble, gardens of Wentworth, where it was received from 

 the Kast Indies, and is treated as a stove plant. Gardenia, SO named in 

 honour of D. Alexander Garden, botanist and zoologist, a native of 

 Scotland, but who settled as a physician at Charleston, South Carolina. 



