418 Revieics. — Address by J. E. Teschtmacher. 



Art. it. ^n Address delivered before the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society, at their Fourteenth Anniversary, 

 September 16th, 1842. By J. E. Teschemacher, Cor- 

 responding Secretary of the Society. Pamphlet, 8vo., 

 22 pages. Boston: 1842. 



We have received from the author, Mr. Teschemacher, 

 a copy of his address, dehvered before the Society at its 

 late anniversary, and published by their request, for distribu- 

 tion among the members. We were present to hear its de- 

 livery, but so highly pleased were we with it, that we were 

 anxious to have a deliberate perusal of its contents. Having 

 been highly gratified in the performance of this task, we are 

 desirous that those of our readers who were not present 

 to hear it, and particularly our friends at a distance, should 

 become participators in the pleasure afforded us; and in giv- 

 ing them the means of so doing, we trust we shall be excused 

 for the length of our extracts. 



I\Ir. Teschemacher has not made his address a mere mass 

 of words, touching the general subject of horticulture, but 

 has detailed practical experiments, and advanced some new 

 views concerning the action of phosphates upon the growth 

 of plants. The experiments which were made at the Public 

 Garden, under the author's care, are given with a minute- 

 ness which will enable any cultivator to repeat them to his 

 own satisfaction. The action of guano, the newly intro- 

 duced manure from South America, is particularly noticed, 

 and its importance as a fertilizer detailed at length. 



We congratulate the Society upon its having restored the 

 old and excellent custom commenced at its first formation, of 

 an annual address. Though they have generally been deliv- 

 ered to small audiences, and those mostly members of the 

 Society, yet we think that the custom is a good one, and, in 

 the course of time, will attract a concourse of hearers as 

 large, as the science on which it treats, is important, to the 

 welfare of mankind. If practical men are selected to per- 

 form the duty, the addresses will undoubtedly be replete with 

 information, which writers, without any other acquaintance 

 with the subject than that gleaned from books or foreign trav- 

 el, will be unable to obtain. 



