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mation, and corrected the error which he, some other French 

 wi'iters, and Mr. Lambert, had fallen into, in making the cedar 

 a native of Siberia. He does not, however, appear to be aware 

 of the fact that the cedar is a native of Africa; shoots, cones, 

 and wood having been sent home from Morocco by the English 

 consul there to Mr. Lambert. The latest news from Mount 

 Lebanon respecting the cedars, given in M. L. Deslongchamps's 

 book, is by M. Laure, an officer in the French marine, who 

 visited Mount Lebanon in September, 1836. " There is not 

 one young cedar," M. Laure observes, " in all the wood of El- 

 Herze. The soil of the Forest of Lebanon, on which there 

 was not a single blade of grass in September, 1836, is covered, 

 to the thickness of half a foot, with the fallen leaves, the cones, 

 and scales of the cedars ; so that it is almost impossible for the 

 seeds of the trees to reach the ground, and germinate." {Laure 

 in the Cultivateur Provencal, p. 317. to 323., as quoted in Des- 

 longchamps's Histoire du Cedre, &c., p. 63.) 



Verzeichniss V07i im Freien axisdauernden Stauden-Gexmchsen, 'isocl- 

 clie Jiir heigesetzte Preise zu haben slnd hei Fried rich Adolph 

 Haage, jun., Kunst- und Handels-Gartner in Erfurt. 



Catalogue of Seeds sold by Friedrich Adolph Haage, jun., Seeds- 

 man and Florist, Erfurt (Germany). 



We recommend this last catalogue to those who are curious 

 in their varieties of culinary vegetables. A great many sorts of 

 these are cultivated at Erfurt ; and the seeds are sold by F. A. 

 Haage at the prices affixed to each in his catalogue. There 

 can be little doubt that many of his sorts are quite new to the 

 English gardener. We recommend him to try them ; and this 

 he may do by sending his orders to M. L. Hilsenberg, 29. Old 

 Jewry, London, who will forward them to M. F. A. Haage in 

 Erfurt. 



Observations on the Preservation of Health in Infancy, Youth, 

 Manhood, and Age ; with the best Means of improving the 

 moral and physical Condition of Man, prolonging Life, and 

 promoting human Happiness. By John Harrison Curtis, 

 Esq., Author of " Observations on the Preservation of Sight," 

 " On the Preservation of Hearing," &c. 2d edition, small 

 8vo, pp. 162. 



Mr. Curtis recommends the erection of ornamental fountains 

 in various places throughout the metropolis, for the sake of im- 

 parting an appearance of coolness in the summer months, and 

 keeping clear the sewers into whicli the superfluous water would 

 fall ; to which recommendation we would, in addition, remind 

 our readers of one given by Colonel Mason, some years back, of 

 having jets in the centre of some of the public squares, and em- 



