144 Revietvs. — The OrchardisVs Companion. 



REVIEWS. 



Art. T. The Orchardist''s Companion; a Quarterly Jour- 

 nal, devoted to the history, character, properties, modes of 

 cultivation, and all other matters appertaining to the Fruits 

 of the United States, embellished with richly colored designs 

 of the natural size, painted from the actual fruits when in 

 their finest condition, and represented appended to a portion 

 of the branch, loith leaves and other characteristics as seen 

 when on the tree; also thefloivcrs, cut fruits, and stones. 

 A. HoFFY, Editor and Proprietor. In quarterly num- 

 bers, quarto size, twelve plates each. Nos. 1, 2, and 3, 

 for April, July, and October, 1841. Philadelphia: 1841. 



Though our notice of this new work comes rather late, 

 we trust it will not be the less acceptable to those who will 

 feel interested in its publication. The character of the work 

 is so fully expressed in the title, that it is scarcely necessary 

 for us to repeat it again; but that the editor may speak for 

 himself in regard to the plan of the journal, we quote the fol- 

 lowing from the prefatory remarks: — 



"Each number will be found to contain a portion of two volumes, 

 consequently txoo title-pages are inserted in this our first number. 

 The first title-page, marked Vol. I., is intended to precede and em- 

 body the preliminaries, together with the letter-press matter, treating 

 of the practical operations in the cultivation of fruit trees, &c.; and 

 finally to constitute the first volume of this work. 



"The second title-page, marked Vol. 11., is intended to be placed in 

 advance of the plates, and their descriptive pages, and in due time to 

 constitute the second volume of this work. 



"Each portion may be readily separated, and without confusion, 

 from the other, by unstitching the numbers, and placed appropriate- 

 ly and distinctly together, under the specific title-pages, when about 

 to be formed and bound into volumes. 



"Therefore, by this contradistinction, the first volume will com- 

 prehend practical matter alone, so that in the event of any of our 

 subscribers wishing to refer simply to the operative portion of this 

 work, they may not be interrupted by the intermixture of plates. 



"On the other hand, it may oftentimes be expedient for our sub- 

 scribers to have recourse only to the exemplifications or illustrations 

 of our fruits, which, through this arrangement, they will be able to 

 effect more readily: and in cases where it becomes a matter of busi- 

 ness between vender and buyer of fruit trees, expedition is frequent- 

 ly an object of consideration, which this plan will again facilitate. 



