7O Gleanings in Old Garden Literature. 



4. Hortus Woburnensis. A Descriptive Catalogue 

 of upwards of Six Thousand Ornamental Plants, 

 cultivated at Woburn Abbey. With numerous 

 Illustrated Plans for the Erection of Forcing 

 Houses, Green Houses, and an account of the 

 management throughout the year. By James Forbes. 

 8vo, 1833. With plates, which in the large-paper 

 copies were coloured. 



5. Pinetum Woburnense : or, A Catalogue of Conifer- 

 ous Plants in the collection of the Duke of Bedford at 

 Woburn Abbey. Systematically arranged by James 

 Forbes. Imperial 8vo, 1839. With plates. 



A series such as I have described must 

 have proved of very great service to the cause 

 of tree and flower-culture. The design of the 

 work on grasses was to communicate to those 

 interested in the subject the results of tests 

 made in the production and nutritive value 

 of different species of gramineous plants used 

 as food by domestic animals. The volume, 

 illustrated with a hortus siccus of specimens 

 which had been actually employed, contains 

 remarks on their natural habits, and points 

 out the soils best adapted for them, the 

 kinds most profitable for growth in various 



