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REVIEWS. 



Gardening for the South ; or the Kitchen and Fruit Gar- 

 den, with the best methods for their cultivation, together 

 with hints upon Landscape and Flower Gardening, con- 

 taining Modes of Culture ; descriptions of Fruits, Vegeta- 

 bles, and a Select List of Ornamental Trees and Plants, 

 found by trial adapted to the States of the Union, South of 

 Pennsylvania, with Gardening Calendar for the same. By 

 William N. White, of Athens, Ga. 1 vol. ]2mo. pp. 490. 

 New York : Saxton & Co., 1856. 



So full and explanatory a title would hardly require any 

 further notice to convey the character of Mr. White's excel- 

 lent volume. It is, as he states, a Book for the South, writ- 

 ten to supply a want which has long been felt, but now hap- 

 pily filled. That Mr. White has well executed the work he 

 has undertaken, a very hasty perusal of the volume shows, 

 written, as he states it has been, 



" In the intervals of trade, and subjected to its constant 

 interruptions — now advancing but a line at once — again a 

 page or an article — suspended totally for two years, then 

 hastily finished, looked over, and printed under circumstan- 

 ces that rendered the author's revision of the proof impossi- 

 ble, many defects of style and errors of the press are manifest. 

 Thus, if the work contain the information sought, practical 

 men will readily excuse in a first edition." — Preface. 



All who reflect for one moment will see that the great ex- 

 tent of our country, reaching through so many degrees of 

 latitude, must necessarily embrace great varieties of climate, 

 and that the mode of culture applicable to the north is quite 

 unsuited to the south, especially Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, 

 &c., where there is in fact no winter, and where gardening 

 operations are carried on throughout the year. To the south- 

 ; ern region English horticultural works are better adapted 

 than such as have previously appeared by our northern 

 writers. But even the English books are at fault, for the 

 cool and humid climate of Great Britain is so unlike the hot 



