270 Johnso7i's Dictionary of Modern Gardening. 



pear cut in halves, laid down upon the drawing, and exam- 

 ined. 



We need not say, how important are the representations of 

 the wood and foliage. Professor Agassiz, a friend informs 

 us, has made a collection of many kinds of our forest trees, 

 hy the wood alone ; and, if we are correctly informed, he sta- 

 ted that botanists should rely more upon the wood than the 

 sexual formation of the flower. 



Our artist is too well known to need our praise ; but the 

 specimens show that the art of chromo-lithography produces 

 a far more beautifnl and correct representation than that of 

 the ordinary lithograph, washed in color, in the usual way. 

 Indeed, the plates have the richness of actual paintings, 

 which could not be executed for ten times the value of a sin- 

 gle copy. 



It will be the object of the work to figure and describe all 

 the rare and choice varieties of fruits, both new and old^ which 

 may deserve a place in any select collection. The first num- 

 ber contains the Beurre d'Aremberg, Glout Morceau, and Van 

 Mons Leon le Clerc pears, and the Baldwin apple. No. 2 

 will contain the Vicompte de Spoelberch, Winter Nelis, and 

 Sieulle pears, and the Northern Spy apple. 



Art. II, A Dictionary of Modern Gardening. By George 

 William Johnson, Esq., Fellow of the Horticultural Soci- 

 ety of India, &c : with One Hundred and Eighty Wood 

 Ciils. Edited, with numerous Additions, by David Lan- 

 dreth, of Philadelphia. 1 Vol. 12mo. pp. 635. Philadel- 

 phia, 1847. 



The eagerness of our cultivators for Horticultural informa- 

 tion has induced the republication of several English works, 

 with annotations and additions, and they are about as numer- 

 ous as those of American authors. This, however, is to be 

 expected in a country yet in its infancy in Horticultural and 

 Pomological science. With due allowance for variation of 

 climate, English works may be made applicable and useful 

 to every cultivator, and, until our own practice and experi- 



