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neficial fur Gardens, the whole of which is meagre, and ihruwu 

 together without the least order. Then follows a list of 73 

 Pears, and 35 Peaches, 63 Plumbs. Of Cherries and Apricots 

 little is said. Only B Apples, 8 Grapes, and 11 Figs. — The 

 <lescriptions of the Pears and Peaches are full and satisfactory. 

 At page 96 commences the most judicious portion of the work 

 iij)on planting and pruning, and perhaps no publication could 

 be mentioned, which contains more full and general information 

 upon the training of Trees than this. At page 158, begins the 

 directions for gathering and preserving fruit, w hich are tolera- 

 bly full and j iidicious. The KitchenGarden begins to be treated 

 of at p. 189. as slight and unsatisfactory as can be imagined 

 to he contracted within less than 60 pages. To this succeeds 

 a Kitchen Gardener's Kaleuder ; with a detail of such products 

 as each month should afford; and rules for judging whether 

 there is any deficiency. The last chapter of the work is a very 

 useful one, containing an enumeration of the time the various 

 Kitchen Ciarden crops continue in perfection. 



" The Retir'd Gardener" is a more comprehensive, and 

 excellent work. It is much more full upon Floriculture 

 than the other departments of Gardening. The plan of the 

 work is to enumerate each species that is an object of cul- 

 ture, to describe its cultivation, the form, Sec. and then its 

 History, this last might have been omitted without any loss, be- 

 ing a mere tissue of mythological absurdities. — The directions 

 for the course of cultivation are in general very excellent ; and 

 it would perhaps be difficult to find much better in more mo- 

 dern works, than those for the Orange, (vol. 2. p. 652. — 78.) 

 The work concludes with a description and plan of M. Tal- 

 lard's Garden ; besides which are given many plans of Trelliage, 

 Arbours, Parterres, Bowling Greens, &-c. all perfectly formal. 

 A Gardener's Kalender is given in the first volume, descrip- 

 tions, and figures of tools, &c. As a whole we cannot but 

 agree with the Translators in considering the work, as " per- 



