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may be coloured to correspond with the tiles. A bed can be 

 made on the same principle in any back passage which is not 

 too dry, nor the temperature too high (it should not exceed 

 60°), with a neat step at each end, upon a lighter scale, say 

 10 in. high, 5^ in. for dung, 1^ in. for earth, 1| in. for mushrooms 

 to swell in, and l^ in. for thickness of planks. All this can be 

 removed in spring, when the crop is gathered. Beds treated in 

 the manner I have described will never give out any gases or 

 effluvia calculated to offend the olfactory senses of the most de- 

 licate female. I only intend these few hints for those who have 

 not the convenience of a proper structure solely allotted for the 

 production of this vegetable; for sometimes the best of us fail 

 in producing a good supply in sheds in the dead of winter. 

 Booterstffisorii 7iear Dublin, Feb. 10. 1841. 



REVIEWS. 



Anx. I. Catalogue of Works on Gardening, Agriculture, Botany., 

 Rural Architecttire, Sfc, lately published, tvith some Account of those 

 considered the more interesting. 



A History of the Vegetable Kingdom, embracing the Fhysiology, Classification, 

 and Cidture of Plants, with their various Uses to Alan and the lower Animals, 

 and their Application in the Arts, Manufactures, and Domestic Economy. By 

 William Rhind. Parts I., II., and III. 8vo. Glasgow, 1840. 

 This work is written as a part of one entitled The History of the Earth and 

 Animated Nature, and appears, from the following quotation, to be on a com- 

 prehensive plan : — 



" In treating of the vegetable kingdom, the same simplicity of arrangement 

 and perspicuity of description will be observed which characterise the excel- 

 lent work of Dr. Goldsmith. The first portion will embrace the physiology 

 of plants, and include a description of the structure and uses of the various 

 parts, together with general views of vegetable culture, the geographical distri- 

 bution of species, and the economical products which vegetables afford. The 

 remainder of the work, under a simple and natural classification, will contain 

 descriptions of particular plants, including those used for food, clothing, 

 architectural purposes, and for the ornament and convenience of social and 

 domestic life. In this department will be found all that is curious and novel 

 in the vegetable kingdom. The full and popular manner in which the diiFerent 

 subjects will be treated, and the mass of original and collected information, 

 will, it is presumed, render this work superior to any of similar extent and 

 character at present extant. For the illustration of the text, a very extensive 

 series of engravings and woodcuts is in preparation. The work will be 

 included in eight parts, price 2s. each, to form a handsome volume." 



There are some well executed plates in the parts before us, and a number 

 of woodcuts ; and the letterpress seems creditable to the author ; but of this 

 we shall be better able to judge when the work is farther advanced. The 

 work is cheap, and on that account, independently of others, deserves to be 

 successful. 



Flowers and their Associations. By Ann Pratt, author of " The Field, the 

 Garden, and the Woodland." 12mo ; coloured plates and woodcuts. 

 London. 



A most agreeably written book, by a lady evidentl}^ well ac(|uaintcd with 

 her subject, and impressed with its im[)oitance in cultivating the young mind, 

 by teaching it how to observe, ami leading it to reflect. It forms one volume 



