258 Farmerh Magazine. ~ Winclis Essay on the 



The Farmer's Register, mid Monthly Magazine of Foreign and Domestic 

 Events. Glasgow. In 8vo Numbers, Monthly. Is. 

 Nos. XIII. to XVI. are before us, and bear obvious marks of improve- 

 ment and an increasing correspondence. The handsome and liberal man- 

 ner in which the Quarterly Journal of Agriculture (p. 146.) is noticed, shows 

 the editor to be a man of sense and general views, and is alone sufficient, 

 in our opinion, to insure respect to his publication. There is a short 

 article on the French mode of pruning and climbing trees b}' means of the 

 grimping irons, or climbing spurs, which we have described in the Ency- 

 clopcedia of Gardening (^ 1559. j^g'. 153.), illustrated by a very good wood- 

 cut. Such cuts are much more expensive than the generality of readers 

 have any idea of, otherwise we should strongly recommend their multipli- 

 cation in periodicals of this description. More may often be learned by 

 a glance at such cuts than by whole pages of description, and t>he time saved 

 to the reader, now that there is so much to read, is a matter of great im- 

 portance. 



Winch, N. J., Esq. A.L.S,, Newcastle upon Tyne : An Essay on the Geo- 

 graphical Distribution of Plants, through the Counties of Northumber- 

 land, Cumberland, and Durham. Newcastle. 8vo, 2d edit. 

 We could wish gardeners to look into this pamphlet, as well to lead their 

 minds to generalise on the subject of the localities or habitats of plants, as 

 to enable them to take a view of our indigenous Flora in general masses. 

 The three counties examined possess " a Flora of 1,037 Phaenogamous 

 (phaino, to exhibit, gamos, marriage), and 1,253 Cryptogamic {kryptb, to 

 hide, gamos, marriage) plants, of which between 40 and 50 are peculiar 

 to Cumberland. Among the Phaenogamous plants are comprised ; — 



28 species of trees, besides 20 wil- 17 Masked flowers (Personatae). 



lows. 94 bearing compound flowers (Com- 



15 Roses. Humboldt did not find positse). 



an indigenous rose in South Ame- 56 species whose habitats are on the 



rica, and only one species in sea-coast. 



Mexico. 86 Alpine plants, of which 16 are 



94 Grasses. exclusively natives of the Cumber- 



20 Orchldeae. land mountains. 



17 Liliaceous plants. 69 Aquatics, natives of fresh water. 



17 Rough-leaved plants (Asperifo- 1 1 1 Marine aquatics. 



liffi). 92 British species, chiefly brought 



48 Umbelliferous plants. amongst ballast. 



42 plants bearing cross-shaped flow- 32 Exotics, introduced by the same 



ers (Cruciformae). means. 



36 Lipped flowers (Labiatae). 



" But the following table, which is arranged according to the system of 

 Jussieu, whose method is well adapted to the present purpose, will give a 

 clear idea of the natural families, and show the number of species belonging 

 to each, contained in the whole Flora : — 



First class, Acotyl^dones, 10 families, comprising 1,253 species. 

 Second, Monocotyl^dones, 13 families, comprising 249 species. 

 Third, Dicotyl^dones, 51 families, comprising 788 species. 



74 2,294" 



Every page of this little tract is so interesting to a botanist, as not to 

 admit of abridgment, and we hardly know what to extract. We shall take 

 one paragraph, because it ,will prove to gai-deners that the hardiness of a 

 plant does not always depend on the temperature of its native country. 



