on Gardening and Rural Affairs. 437 



which may be formed of cast iron, or of strong wire with a plate of lead 

 soldered to the top, and to number each particular plant by Seton's mode. 

 By numbering according to a printed catalogue, no written catalogue is 

 required, very little time occupied, and the correct eye is not offended by 

 misspelt words, or illegible writing. Even the accentuation of both genera 

 and specific names is ascertained every time the catalogue, if accented like 

 ours, is referred to, by which means gardeners will acquire a habit of pro- 

 nouncing botanical names correctly." 



After a variety of remarks on other improvements peculiar to this cata- 

 logue, which it is hoped will be of value to the beginner, both in culture and 

 in botanical study, the preface of eight closely printed pages thus con- 

 cludes : — 



" The immense value of such a work as this, to all who take any interest 

 in botany or vegetable culture, must be obvious. Whoever possesses the 

 Hortus Britannicus, the Encyclopaedia of Plants, and the short introduction 

 to botany, now compiling expressly for the use of cultivators, to be entitled 

 London's Introduction to Botany, for the use of Gardeners and Farmers, 

 containing an explanation of the classes and orders both Linnean and 

 Jussieuean, will have as complete a botanical library as any gardener or agri- 

 culturist, or even botanist not intending to become an author, can have oc- 

 casion for." 



" It remains only to state, that all the merit of the execution of the cata- 

 logue belongs to two botanists, the one in the first rank in point of science, 

 and the other equally eminent in point of practical skill as a botanical cul- 

 tivator, and as possessing a knowledge of the plants actually existing in 

 British gardens." 



- " The Editor claims for himself very little more than a share of the merit 

 that belongs^to the plan, &c." 



France. 



Bulos, M., Translator of Sir H. Davy's Agricultural Chemistry, and other 

 Works : Traite d' Agriculture et d'Horticulture, traduit de l'Anglois, sur 

 la 10 e Edit, de Smith. Paris, small 8vo. 



The work of Smith, of which this treatise is said to be a translation, 

 we never heard of, and suspect it to be a fictitious production. 



Chabouille Dupetitmont, M., Cultivator : Manuel Pratique du Laboureur. 

 Paris, 2 vols. lamo. 

 This is considered by the French agriculturists a useful practical work. 

 The author professes to join to the practices of the ancients the modern 

 improvements which have been confirmed by experience. Calculations are 

 given of the expenses and profits of different rotations, and of the com- 

 parative advantages of using horses and oxen as beasts of labour. One 

 argument in favour of the latter is, that they are subject to only forty- 

 seven sorts of diseases, while horses are liable to two hundred and sixty- 

 one diseases, besides accidents, some of which, such as the breaking of a 

 leg, render a horse of no farther use, while an ox may be sold to the 

 butcher. 



Soulanse-Bodin, M. le Chevalier, President of the Linnean Society of Paris, 

 Member of the Royal and Central Society of Agriculture, &c. 



1. Instruction addressee aux Naturalistes Voyageurs. Paris, 12mo. 



2. Notice sur une Nouvelle Espece de Magnolia. Paris, 8vo. 



The Chevalier Soulange-Bodin, as we have before observed, is a pro- 

 prietor who cultivates a handsome collection of plants, as well to gratify 

 a taste for botany, as to sell and exchange. The first of the above pam- 



