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for, flower-gardening as this. With the addition of 

 the botanical volume of Dr. Lindley, Mr. Pax ton, or 

 Mrs. Loudon, the beginner's gardening library would 

 be complete. He would afterwards like to add the 

 Encyclopaedias of Plants and Gardening ; the first of 

 which is a typographical as well as scientific wonder, 

 the second a perfect treasure-house of information on 

 every subject connected with horticulture. 



The rapid progress made in horticultural studies 

 we have already alluded to in the immense increase 

 of works devoted to these subjects, especially of those 

 addressed to ladies and treating immediately of 

 flowers. And it is this particular turn which gar- 

 dening taste at the present moment is taking. We 

 first had the Herbalist with his simples " tempera- 

 ture " of every plant given, hot or cold in the second 

 or the third degree and a " table of virtues " for 

 both body and mind " against the falling-sickness " 

 " to glue together greene wounds " " to comfort 

 the heart, to drive away care, and increase the joy 

 of the mind," and the like. Then came the Kitchen- 

 gardener, with his sallet-herbs and fruit-trees then 

 the Botanist with his orders and classes then the 

 Florist with his choice bulbs and thousand and one 

 varieties : meanwhile sprang up the critical school 

 of essayists, which produced the Landscape-gardener ; 

 1 the modern march of intellect has added the Vege- 

 table Physiologist ; and, latest of all, the Agricul- 

 tural Chemist. All these seem at the present 

 moment to have centred their exertions in a single 

 point, and to be giving in each his contribution to 



