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ing; (with many additions and new illustrations,) Kenrick's 

 American Orchardlst, (much improved,) Manning's New 

 England Fruit Book, (with additional notes by Mr. Ives,) 

 and Bridgman's Gardeners'' Assistant, (enlarged.) The con- 

 templated work of Mr. Downing on The Fruits and Fruit 

 Trees of America, will not appear until March ; it has been 

 delayed, in order to prove a few new fruits the past summer. 

 Relative to Agriculture, the first and second parts of Mr. Col- 

 man's European Agricidturc and Rural Economy have appear- 

 ed, which we have already received ; and the third part, prin- 

 cipally devoted to experiments with guano, will probably be 

 published early in the spring : another volume of the Trans- 

 actions of the New York State Agricultural Society, has been 

 issued. The Third Annual Report of the Americaii Institute, 

 for 1843 ; and the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Pa- 

 tents for 1843. The American Poidterei^^s Comj)anion, by C. 

 N. Bement, an excellent guide to the management of poultry; 

 and several pamphlets, viz : The Silk question settled] un- 

 der the direction of the American Institute, eighty pages; 

 Peruvian and Bolivian Guano, its nature, properties, and re- 

 sults, thirty-two pages, and Manures, a Prize Essay, by 

 Dr. Dana. A quarterly Journal of Agriculture is proposed 

 to be published in New York, by Drs. Emmons and Prime ; 

 we trust it will meet with good encouragement : a publica- 

 tion of this kind is needed, which shall aim at the science 

 of agriculture, and present to the public a series of valuable 

 articles, and details of accurate experiments, in farming ; a 

 work after the style and character of the Journal of Agricul- 

 ture, in Scotland. Numerous agricultural publications have 

 sprung up in various parts of the Western country, evidences 

 of the increasing interest which is felt in this important art, 

 because the basis of national wealth and prosperity. 



Obituary. 



The Horticultural world has lost one of its most valuable 

 friends in the death of J. C. Loudon, the late editor of the 

 Gardener'' s Magazine., and author of several Encyclopedias, 

 the Arboretum Britannicum,^c., &c. The discontinuance of 

 his Magazine is a source of great regret to its many readers, 



