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PART 11. 



REVIEWS. 



Art. I. A Guide to the Orchard and Kitchen-Garden ; or, an 

 Account of the most valuable Fruits and Vegetables cultivated in 

 Great Britain : tvith Calendars of the Work required in the 

 Orchard and Kitchen-Garden during every Month in the Year. 

 By George Lindley, C.M.H.S. Edited by John Llndley, F.R.S. 

 &c. &c. Assistant Secretary of the Horticultural Society of 

 London. London, 1831. 8vo. 16.?. 



In the preface, by the editor, we are informed that " the 

 author has been occupied at intervals, during nearly forty 

 years, in preparing for the press materials for a complete 

 account of the fruit trees and vegetables cultivated in the 

 gardens of Great Britain." The result of " this preparation 

 is now presented to the reader in a form which, it is thought, 

 is so condensed as to comprehend the greatest quantity of 

 information in the smallest compass, and which, at the same 

 time, is sufficiently diffuse to render it possible for the reader 

 to acquire as much knowledge as is either important or indis- 

 pensable in regard to any particular variety. Those points 

 which are so peculiarly interesting to all gardeners ; such as 

 the kind of stock upon which a given variety will succeed 

 better than upon another; the comparative value of each 

 kind of fruit ; the aspects that it requires ; the different names 

 under which it is known in England and elsewhere ; the 

 books in which a faithful figure may be found ; the purposes 

 for which it is best adapted ; the seasons when it is in the 

 greatest perfection, and topics of a similar kind, have in all 

 cases been treated with especial care." 



After observing that there are few men more competent to 

 execute the above task well than Mr. Lindley, " whose long 

 practical experience and ample opportunities of investigating 

 such subjects personally during a series of many years, have 

 been such as have rarely fallen to the lot of any one," we 

 are informed that the forcing department has been entirely 



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