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Gardening, both Philosophical and Practical, explain- 

 ing the Motions of the Sap and the Generation of 

 Plants, etc., by Richard Bradley, F.R.S., London, 

 1717; The Clergyman's Recreation, showing the 

 Pleasure and Profit of the Art of Gardening, by John 

 Lawrence, A.M., rector of Yelvertoft, London, 1716; 

 An Introduction to the Knowledge and Practice of 

 Gardening, by Charles Marshall, the first American 

 edition, in two volumes, Boston, 1799; Vinetum Bri- 

 tannicum, or a Treatise of Cider and other Wines and 

 Drinks extracted from Fruits growing in this Kingdom, 

 with a Discourse on the Best Way of Improving Bees, 

 by J". Worlidge, Gent., London, 1691. A month later 

 there came from Grant Thorburn & Son of New York, 

 Speechly's Treatise on the Culture of the Vine, For- 

 mation of Vineyards in England, Culture of the Pine- 

 apple, and Management of the Hothouse ; Bliss's Fruit 

 Grower's Instructor ; Haynes's Treatise on the Improved 

 Culture of the Strawberry, Raspberry, Gooseberry, and 

 Currant, with colored plates ; Drummond's First Steps 

 to Botany; Davy's Elements of Agricultural Chem- 

 istry ; and Maddock's Florist's Directory, with colored 

 plates. All these were the latest London editions. At 

 the same time John Prince sent seven volumes of hor- 

 ticultural publications for the library ; and John Lowell 

 sent complete sets of Bigelow's American Medical 

 Botany, and Say's Entomology, with Hayward's Science 

 of Horticulture, and London's Gardener's Magazine as 

 far as published, and an order to have the future num- 

 bers procured at his expense as fast as they appeared, 

 for the library of the Society. A week later he added 

 a volume of the London Horticultural Society's Trans- 

 actions, and offered to contribute thirty dollars towards 



