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France. 



Prevost, Fils, Nurseryman at Rouen, Member of various Societies, Author 

 of Essai snr rE'diication et la Culture des Arbi-es Fridtiers Pyramidaux : 

 Catalogue Descriptif, Methodiqiie, et Raisonne, des Especes, Varietes, et 

 Sous-Variet^s du Genre Rosier, cultivees chez Prevost Fils, Pepinieriste 

 a Rouen. Rouen. 8vo. 



We have elsewhere (p. 372.) mentioned M. Prevost as one of the most 

 scientific nurserymen in France. In this Descriptive Catalogue, which 

 occupies 247 pages, and describes 880 sorts, the species are disposed 

 after the method adopted by Mr. Lindley in his Rosurum MonograjMa, but 

 without grouping them in tribes; becaiise IVL Prevost does not believe it 

 possible to give sufficiently distinct characters to these tribes. An attentive 

 examination of his descriptions, he says, will prove that the greater number 

 of tribes present anomalies which tend to confound the one tribe with the 

 other. The work will be of great value to any nurseryman who intends 

 classing his roses, or to any one intending to form a complete collection ; 

 since they may order the whole 880 sorts, or a selection from them, ac- 

 cording to the descriptions from M. Prevost. We sincerely wish that he 

 may be rewarded in this way, as well as by the botanical fame which the work 

 may procure him ; for the labour he must have had in comparing and 

 describing so many things, so much alike, so changeable, and so fugacious, 

 must have been very considerable. 



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Causal Botany ; or, an Elementary Treatise descriptive of the Changes 

 of Plants; by D. Bishop. 1 vol. 8vo, 1$. to subscribers. This work will 

 contain a succinct account of the various affections or distinctions that cha- 

 racterise plants at different times and in different places; of such as are 

 produced by disease, luxuriance, and culture ; and of such as proceed from 

 their sexual oscillations and intercourse. As it will contain many interest- 

 ing particulars respecting distinctions that are of secondary origin, especially 

 of such as characterise plants known by the name of varieties, it is pre- 

 sumed that to botanists and cultivators it will not only prove an entertain 

 ing but in many respects a useful work. 



The Edinburgh Journal of Natural and Geographical Science is announced 

 to appear in September next. It is to be conducted by an Association of 

 Naturalists, and to embrace all the departments of Natural History and 

 of Geography, both physical and descriptive ; and while it will be quite 

 scientific, it will at the same time be written in a popular style. This will 

 be the first Geographical Journal published in Great Britain. 



Supplement to Sowerby's English Botany. — To the investigator of our 

 native plants the English Flora of the late Sir J. E. Smith is an invaluable 

 treasure ; and happy are they who have an opportunity of referring from 

 that work to the English Botany, for figures of the plants it describes. la 

 consequence of subsequent discoveries, the English Botany, although it 

 contains figures of 1450 flowering plants, comprises less than are described 

 in the English Flora, and very many less than are given by Mr. Lindley, 

 in his still more recent Synopsis. To supply this deficiency, it is the in- 

 tention of Messrs. Sowerby to publish a supplement, the first number of 

 which, price 3s. will appear on August 1. The high and well known talents 

 of these gentlemen render any recommendation of the work unnecessary, 



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