12 Notes and RecollectAons of a Tour. 



Garden Literature. 



The last year has not been prolific in new works, but the 

 most important publication has been the Fruits and Fruit 

 Trees of America, by Mr. Downing, which, in the space of 

 six months, has passed through five editions — the best proof 

 of its value. Another new edition, with some additions and 

 improvements, may be expected the present year. A little 

 Manual on Live Fences, by Mr. Sayers, has been published 

 in Cincinnati. Mr. Teschemacher's Essay on Guano, is one 

 of the very best works which has been issued on this subject. 

 The third and fourth parts of Mr. Colman's European Agricul- 

 ture have bepu published, and the fifth is now passing through 

 the press. The lYansactions of the New York State Agricul- 

 tural Society for 1844, contain a variety of general informa- 

 tion. A review of the Annual Report of the Commissioner 

 of Patents, for 1844, has been in type some time, aAvaiting 

 an insertion. Transactions of several Agricultural Societies 

 have been received, and other pamphlets devoted to rural pur- 

 suits. A periodical, called the Western Reserve Magazine, 

 devoted to Horticulture and Agriculture, has been com- 

 menced in Cleveland, Ohio. A valuable paper, called the 

 Indiana Farmer, edited by our correspondent, the Rev. Mr. 

 Beecher, is published at Indianapolis, and must be a valua- 

 ble aid to improvement in the West. Our correspondent, Mr. 

 Bateham. has established the O/iio CV/^ifcr /or at Columbus, 

 and is laboring well in the cause. The old established peri- 

 odicals, the Albany Ciddvator and American Agricvlturist, 

 are edited in an able manner, and devoted to the best inter- 

 ests of agricultural improvement. 



Art. II. Notes and Recollections of a Tour through part of 

 England, Scotland and France, in the autumn of 1844. 

 By the Editor. 



(^Continued from Vol. XI. page AQ^.^ 



The following places yet remain to be noticed : — near Lon- 

 don : Knap Hill Nursery, Messrs. Waterer ; Bagshot Nursery, 



