14 Taste in Horticulture and in Designs. 



Garden Literature. 



The principal publications of the year have been Browne's 

 Trees of America; the Farmers' Dictionary^ by D. P. Gar- 

 dener ; the Fruit Cultu7'ist, by J. J. Thomas ; and the C0771- 

 pendof Atnerican Agriculture, by Mr. Allen. Mr. Downing' s 

 Fruits has passed to a sixth edition. A Report of the Trees 

 and Shrubs of Massachusetts, by order of the State, has been 

 completed by G. B. Emerson, Esq., but it will not be distribu- 

 ted till after the Legislature convene. Other smaller works 

 have been published. A new edition of the Flower Garden 

 Companion, by Mr. Sayers ; and pamphlets on the Grape and 

 Straiobeny, by Mr. Longworth ; and the Cidtu7'e of the 

 Grape, by Dr. Flagg. Mr. Colman's work has reached the 

 seventh No., three more completing the work. The old New 

 England Farmer has been discontinued, and its place filled 

 with the Horticidturist, published at Albany. The Geyiessee 

 Farmer is ably edited in the Horticultural department by 

 Mr. Barry, of the Mount Hope Gardens, Rochester. The 

 American Agriculturist and Cultivator continue to be issued 

 with their usual merit. 



Art. n. Taste in Horticulture and in Desig7is. 

 By Observer. 



We have been often pleased, in the perusal of the "Maga- 

 zine of Horticulture and Botany," at the laudable attempts 

 of the Editor of that periodical, to introduce to the favorable 

 notice and adoption of gardeners, and of those who may have 

 a rod or two of ground to cultivate, such contrivances for the 

 handsomer growth of plants as combine ornament with util- 

 ity. A well ordered garden of ever so humble a character, 

 properly laid out, or its plants judiciously arranged, pleases 

 the eye very much more than a larger domain where Flora 

 reigns indeed, but in a state of misrule and misprison. We 

 have seen such gardens, so rudely kept, and so slovenly at- 

 tended, that it would require the ardor of a botanist to per- 

 ceive any particular interest in the variety, nay, in the profu- 



