266 JVew Publications. [Oct., 



much interesting history, and matter useful to any one who has 

 spirit enough to keep a cow of any breed; and the bare pictures 

 of the animals will be \vorth the cost of the book to any one who 

 wishes to study the good points of an animal. We really hope 

 the work finds as good a market as it deserves. 



THE TREES OF AMERICA, 



JVative and Foreign, Pidorially and Botanically delineated, and 

 Scientifically and Popularly described, etc.; illustrated by nu- 

 merous engravings. By D. I. Browne, author of the Sylvia 

 of Jirnerica. Mew York, Harper^ Brothers, 1846; large 8vo. 

 pp. 520. 



This department of botany has not been cultivated in this coun- 

 try so much es it deserves. Interesting as a study, and useful in 

 many respects to all classes of men, it has notwithstanding been 

 neglected. Even the humble and less useful plants are much 

 better known, as they are more generally studied. The carices, 

 a coarse family of grasses, which can neither be used for warm- 

 ing oneself, nor to satisfy the calls of the stomach, nor to adorn 

 a door-yard, have been more talked about, and even studied, than 

 our oaks and pines. We do not know how this neglect has hap- 

 pened. Our ships are cut from the forest; the materials of our 

 dwellings were once stately trees; the comforts of the fireside 

 would be unknown without wood; the chairs upon which we 

 rest, together with the tables and furniture of our rooms, are 

 made from some of our fine native trees. Still many are ignorant 

 of the species of trees to which they are indebted for so many 

 comforts. The subject reminds us of an anecdote of a clever Scotch- 

 man who went to get a set of curly maple chairs made from 

 timber of his own raising, but finding his maples were not of the 

 right sort, declared he should have to cut one of his Loombardy pop- 

 lars for his chairs. So we think that many persons politically 

 and religiously intelligent, would be as likely to cut a Lombardy 

 poplar for chair timber as any other tree on their premises. 



