BOOKS 



ON 



AGRICULTURE AND RUEAL AFFAIRS. 

 Lately Published by JOHN HARDING, 36, St. JAMES'S STREET. 



1. A SHORT ACCOUNT of the BLIGHT and other DISEASES of CORN, By Sir Joseph 

 Banks, Bart. A new Edition ; with a Letter on the Cause of Blight, &c. by T. A. 

 Knight, Esq. with Plates. 8vo. 2s. 6d. 



2. THE FOREST PRUNER, and TIMBER OWNER'S ASSISTANT; a Complete Prac- 

 tical Treatise on the Training and Management of British Timber Trees, whether intended 

 for Use, Shelter, or Ornament; including an Examination of the Properties of English Fir 

 Timber, and a New System for the Management of Oak Woods, &e. &c. By William 

 Pontey, Nurseryman, Planter, and Forest Pruner to the Duke of Bedford, 8vo. 12s. 



3. THE PROFITABLE PLANTER ; a Theoretical and Practical Treatise on Planting in every 



description of Soil and Situation, particularly those which are most difficult, as elevated 

 Scites, Barren Heaths, Rocky Soils, &c. including Hints on Shelter and Ornament, by Wm. 

 Pontey ; with a Plate of Implements for Planting, invented by the Author, 8vo. 9s. 



*. A TREATISE on PLANTING and RURAL ORNAMENT, a new Edition, containing a 

 Planter's Dictionary of Trees, Plants, and Shrubs, describing their peculiar qualities, uses, 

 and various modes of Culture 1 , &c. &c. &c. by W. Marshall, Esq. 2 vols. 16s. 



5. A Practical ESSAY on PLANTING and the MANAGEMENT of WOODS and COPPICES, 



by an Amateur. Planter, 8vo. with Plates, 6s. 



6. OBSERVATIONS on the UTILITY, FORM, and MANAGEMENT of WATER MEA- 



DOWS, and the DRAINING and IRRIGATING of PEAT BOGS, with an Account of the 

 Draining of Prisley Bog, and other Improvements, conducted for the Duke of Bedford, Mr 

 Coke, and others, by W. Smith, Engineer and Mineralogist, 8vo. with Plates, 8s. 



7. An ESSAY on the MEANS of IMPROVING POOR SOILS, where Lime and Manure are 



not to be had, by Dr. Alderson, of Hull, 8vo. 2s. 



S. ESSAYS on the NATURAL HISTORY and ORIGIN of PEAT MOSS, its peculiar quali- 

 ties, the means of improving it, and economical purposes to which it may be made subser- 

 vient, by the Rev. R. Rennie, 8vo. 5s. 



9. ESSAY on the ORIGIN, USES, and CULTIVATION of PEAT, by W. Aiton, 8vo. 3s. 6d. 



10. TREATISE, showing the intimate Connection that subsists between AGRICULTURE and 

 CHEMISTRY, including an Examination of the principal Substances used for Manures; 

 addressed to the Cultivators of the Soil, by the Earl of Dundonald, 4to. third edit. 10s. 6d. 



11. PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS on GYPSUM, or PLAISTER of PARIS, as a Manure, 

 by Richard Parkinson, late of Doncaster, 12mo. 3s. 6d. 



12. THE EXPERIENCED FARMER ; or, Complete Practice of Agriculture, according to the 

 latest Improvements ; the whole founded on Observation and actual Experiments, by tho 

 same Author, 2 vols. 8vo. with Plates, ll. 5s. 



