508 REVIEWS. [April, 



1st. The management of the hardier sorts in winter, spring, 

 summer, and autumn. The hardier kinds are Pinks, Saxifrages, 

 and other succulent or half-succulent species, Azaleas, Androme- 

 das, and others which need not be mentioned here as there is a 

 list of them in Mr. Lothian's treatise. 



2ud. On the treatment of the tenderer and rarer kinds of 

 alpines. 



In an appendix the author has entered a list of plants suitable 

 for the rockery, pond, etc. This list amounts to upwards of a 

 thousand, and it might easily be enlarged. It will be easy for 

 the amateur to make a selection from the Nurseries, where such 

 plants are kept for sale. The neatest, the loveliest, and the best 

 adapted for this purpose will be found among the Primrose family, 

 the Crucifers, Campanulas, Leguminifers {Astragalus, etc.) ; the 

 Crowfoot tribe (Anemones, Ranunculuses, etc.) ; Thrift, Gen- 

 tianas, Pulmonarias, and other genera and species of the Order 

 Asperifolia ; Pinks, Silenes, and other members of Dianthacea ; 

 several Veronicas, and a few composite plants. Orchids, etc. 

 The Pinguiculas, and some exotic species of Pedicularis are very 

 suitable as bog plants, and to these many Ferns may be added. 



The American shrubs, afifordiag both shelter and shade as well 

 as ornament, are indispensable in any extensive or permanent 

 collection of this nature. 



It should not be forgotten, that besides the diagrams or cuts 

 for illustration of the rockery, pond, etc., there are handsome 

 coloured drawings of Azalea procumbens, Dry as octopetala, Men- 

 ziesia, Andromeda^ Asplenium, Woodsia, etc. 



A Catalogue of Stove, Greenhouse, and Hardy Exotic and Bri- 

 tish Ferns. By A. Stansfield and Sons, Vale Nurseries, 

 Todmordon. 



The varieties of British Perns are daily (it may be said) in- 

 creasing ; for example, the new Ferns, or rather the new and old 

 varieties of Asplenium Adiantum-nigrum, are now six; those of 

 A. marinum just as many. 



The varieties of Athyrium Filix-foemina are as numerous as 

 they arc strikingly beautiful. The more recent productions are 

 Fieldia, one of the most valuable of the recent additions to this 



