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An Introduction to the Modern Classification of Insects ; fomided 

 on their Natural Habits and corresponding Organisation ; xvith 

 Observations on the Economy and Transformations of the differ- 

 ent Families. To xvhich are added, a Descriptive Synopsis of 

 all the British Genera, and Notices of the more remarkable 

 Foreign Ge?iera. By J. O. Westwood, F.L.S., Secretary of 

 the Entomological Society of London, &c. In 8vo numbers, 

 monthly, 2s. 6d. each. To be completed in ten numbers, 

 each containing about 120 engravings on wood, and a coloured 

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This work is intended as a se(|uel to Kirhy and Spenceh Ento- 

 mology ; and we would strongly recommend it to the young gar- 

 dener, who is desirous of studying insects scientifically. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Art. I. Domestic Notices. 



ENGLAND. 



AIr. Hogg of Neiu YorJi, nurseryman, is now in London, after having been 

 absent twent}' years. He is much struck with the great increase of nursery- 

 men and florists, and with the extensive additions that have been made to the 

 ornamental plants in cultivation. His account of the climate of New York 

 is such as induces us to think that the neighbourhood of that city can never 

 greatly excel in horticultural and floricultural productions. — Cond. 



The Hot-houses at Si/on. — " We have seen plans for green-houses, &c., pre- 

 pared from drawings by the Duke of Nortlunnberland ; and it appears, from 

 a practical work on this subject, just published by Mr. Thompson, formerly 

 His Grace's gardener, that all the horticultural works at Syon are dictated by 

 His Grace's taste, and the drawings supplied for them by his own hand." 

 (Alonth. C/iron., Aug. 1838, p. 148.) This assertion is of a piece with the 

 rest of the article quoted from the Monthli/ Chronicle. (See our Ret. Crit.) 

 Mr. Thompson was only a few months with His Grace; and the green-houses, 

 dome, &c., were all erected before Mr. Thompson went there, under the di- 

 rection of Mr. Forrest, who designed the whole of them, and only received 

 the assistance of Mr. Fowler, the architect, in the architectural part of the 

 botanic range. — Co)id. 



Mr. Traill, the Pa^-ha of Egi/pt''s head gardener, has been for some months 

 past in England, for the purpose, not only of seeing his friends, but of col- 

 lecting seeds, plants, and books to take out with him to Eg\pt for his em- 

 ployer's garden and library. The pa^ha is warmly attached to gardening in 

 all its departments, but more especially to planting ; and Mr. Traill has orders 

 to introduce every tree and shrub that he thinks has any chance of thriving in 

 the climate of Egypt. Already a niagnificent collection has been sent to 

 Egypt from the East Indies by Mr. M'Culioch, one of the superintendents of 

 Ibrahim Pacha's gardens, who had been despatched by that prince to India, 

 to collect plants, seeds, &c., and arrived with a large collection about April 20. 

 (il/?-. Waghorn in Morn. Chron., Jan. 2. 1838.) 



Professor Morrin of Liege is now in England, at the expense of the Belgian 

 government, for the jjurpose of studying the construction of hot-houses. Dr. 

 Zanth, architect, of Sluttgard, is also in England for the same purpose. — Cond. 



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