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in sixteen octavo volumes; Duhamel's Physique des 

 Arbres, in two volumes quarto, and his Semis et Plan- 

 tations des Arbres ; Ventenat's Description des Plantes 

 nouvelles et peu connues cultivees dans le Jardin de M. 

 J. M. Gels, a large quarto volume with one hundred 

 plates ; Thouin's Course de Culture et de Naturalisation 

 des Vegetaux, in three octavo volumes, with a quarto 

 volume of plates ; Noisette's Manuel Complet du Jar- 

 dinier, etc., in four volumes octavo, with plates ; Annales 

 de la Societ6 d'Horticulture de Paris, in four volumes 

 octavo; and Chaptal's Chimie applique" e a 1' Agriculture, 

 in two volumes octavo. This appears to have been the 

 first purchase of books for the library. Instructions had 

 also been given to procure the new edition of Duhamel's 

 Traite des Arbres Fruitiers, in seven folio volumes, with 

 colored plates ; the Almanach du Bon Jardinier for 

 1828-29 ; Du Petit Thouars's Historical Sketch of the 

 Catalogues of Fruits ; Lectier's Catalogue of Fruit 

 Trees, published in 1626 ; Bonnefore's Catalogue, pub- 

 lished in 1651; and the Catalogues of the Nurseries of 

 the Luxembourg and Lieusaint ; and to subscribe for 

 the Annales de 1'Institut Horticole de Fromont. Several 

 numbers of the last-named work were also presented 

 by the Chevalier Soulange Bodin, founder and director 

 of the institute. Gen. Dearborn had written to Dr. 

 Van Mons, requesting him to transmit his recent large 

 catalogue and other publications, on his mode of raising 

 new kinds of fruit. In a letter to M. le Vicomte Heri- 

 cart de Thury, president of the Horticultural Society 

 of Paris, which accompanied a package of scions of new 

 American fruits, the president said, u I shall be under 

 infinite obligations if you will send me a list of the most 

 useful new works that have appeared at Paris on horti- 



