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vidiials who took refuge in them should be obliged to work as hard as those 

 who supported themselves by their labour ; in short, he would turn what 

 in Eni'land are called piirish workhouses into manufactories. There are a 

 oood many benevolent and wise suggestions in this pamphlet, mixed with 

 erroneous notions with respect to the influence of machinery, the accumu- 

 lation of capital, and the interference of government. 



Germany. 



Vei-handlungen des Vereins, ^c. Transactions of the Russian Gardening 

 Society, <ic. Vol. 5. part \. Berlin. 4to, 1 pi. 2 dollars. 

 Two or three of the papers in this part are translations of articles from 



the lYansactions of the London Horticultural Society. The plate is a 



coloured figure of Gesneria latlfolia Mart., brought from Brazil to the 



botanic garden at Berlin, in 1826, by M. Sellow. 



Reider, Jacob Ernst von. Provincial Assessor in Bavaria, Member of various 

 Societies, and Author of several Works ; a citizen of Nuremberg, a very 

 amiable and intelligent man, with a charming wife and family : 



1. Handbuch der Blumenzucht, &c. Nuremberg and Leipsic. 1 vol. 8vo. 

 1828. 



2. Das Ganze der Rosen Kultur, &c. Nuremberg. 12mo. 1829. 



Hazzi, J\I. von, Knight, Counsellor of State to the King of Bavaria, Member 

 of many Societies, and Author of various Works: Neuester Katechismus 

 des Feldbaues, &c. Catechism of Agriculture and Gardening in use in 

 the Country Schools of Bavaria. Munich. 12mo. 1828. 



The nature and uses of this catechism we have already mentioned. 

 (Vol. IV. p. 494.) There are a great many different editions ; in some of 

 which field, forest, fruit-tree, and culinary vegetable culture are in as 

 many different volumes ; in others two or more of them are combined. 



Wagner, J. Ph. : Ueber Merinos-Schafzucht. Kdnigsberg. Gr. 8vo, mit 7 

 steintafeln. 12*. 6d. 



Eisner, J. G. : Uebersicht der Europ. veredelten Schafzucht. Prague. 

 2 theile, 8vo. 14s. 



Akt. III. Literary Notices. 



A History of EiigUsh Gardening, chronological, biographical, and criti- 

 cal, is soon to appear from the pen of our correspondent, Mr. G. W. John- 

 son. "It will be the first separate history of the art, in all its branches, that 

 has ever appeared." 



A Treatise on Smut in Grain ; giving an Account of its various Cavses in 

 Wheat, Oats, Barley, &c., and the Manner in which Smut may be effectually 

 prevented, both by natural and artificial means. The whole deduced from 

 extensive practical experience, and illustrated by a variety of useful and 

 highly interesting Engravings, rendering the Work of the greatest utility 

 to the Practical Farmer, as well as interesting to the Public. By John 

 Lavvson. 



PlantcB Asiaticee Rariores ; or, Descriptions and Figures of a Select 

 Number of unpublished East Indian Plants, will be published by Subscrip- 

 tion by Dr. Wallich, in Twelve Numbers, each containing Twenty-five 

 Engravings, to appear every Three Months. Price 2l, lOs. each Number. 



