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dening productions and good gardeners, will approximate the art and the 

 professors to what they are in England. This result can only be the eiFect 

 of general tranquillity and unrestrained international intercourse, commer- 

 cial as well as intellectual j the tendency of public opinion is to this state of 

 things, and every little movement towards it ought to be hailed with satis- 

 faction. The Horticultural Society of Paris is another point of contact 

 between France, Britain, the United States of America, Prussia, and, in 

 short, the whole of the civihsed world. 



Butret, C. : Taille raisonnde des Arbres fruitiers, et autres Operations rela- 

 tives a leur Culture, d^montrees clairement pars ;des Raisons physiques 

 tirees de leurs differentes Natures et de leur Maniere de veg^ter et de 

 fructifier. Paris. 8vo, 16th edit., pp. 84, plates. 2frs. 25 c. 



This work was strongly recommended by the late Professor Andrew 

 Thouin ; it was originally published in 1795, and in 1804 had already 

 reached a tenth edition. M. Thouin, speaking of it about 1810, says, " it is 

 an excellent little work, which those who occupy themselves with the 

 pruning of fruit trees, cannot consult too frequently." 



Barnier, Stanislas : Le Guide des Proprietaires et des Jardiniers pour le 

 Choix, la Plantation, et la Culture des Arbres ; ou Precis de toutes les 

 Connaissances necessaires pour planter les Arbres de tout Genre, tailler 

 les Arbres fruitiers, les soigner et conserver leur Produits, avec ITndi- 

 cation du Terrain qui convient a chaque Espece, la Designation des 

 meilleures Variet^s de Fruits, et I'Expose des Qualites qui les rendent 

 preferables, &c. Paris. 8vOj pp.250, plates. Sfrs. 50 c. 

 A well known and generally approved work, first published in 1821. 



Germany. 



Ackermann, Dr. : Der Waidbau, &c. The Culture of Woad considered 

 with reference to Agriculture and the Arts. Carlsruhe. 8vo. 2Akr. 



The results of several experiments made in the duchy of Carlsruhe, for 

 obtaining indigo from the woad, are given, and the profit of this description 

 of agriculture estimated. It is, as may be supposed, said to be far more 

 profitable than raising corn, independently altogether of the profit of 

 manufacturing the colour from the leaves ; a process which in Lincoln- 

 shire, the only part of England where the woad is cultivated, is never 

 undertaken by the farmer. (See Encyc, of Agr., ^ 5364.) 



Neue Arten von Pelargonien deutschen Urspriings, als Beytrag zu Rob. Sweet's 

 Geraniaceen, mit Abbildungen und Beschreibungen, Herausgegeben von 

 einiger deutschen Gartenfreunden ; der Text von Leop. Trattinniek. Wien 

 auf kosten der Herausgeber. In Comission bey Tendler und Manstein, 

 1826. New Sorts of Pelargonium, of German origin, with Figures and 

 Descriptions. Published by a Society of Amateurs, as an Appendix to 

 Sweet's Geraniacese. Printed by Leopold Trattinniek, and sold, in Vi- 

 enna, by Tendler and Manstein. 



Holland and the Netherlands. 



Kops, M., Professor of Botany and Rural Economy at the University of 

 Utrecht : E'tat de I'AgricuIture dans le Royaume des Pays Bas pendant 

 I'annee 1825. Pamph. 8vo, pp. 163. The Hague. 



The floods of 1824 rendered the state of the country, in the beginning 

 of 1825, unfavourable for operations on the soil. The temperature of the 

 winter of 1824-5 was very mild, and insects, especially caterpillars, were 

 very abundant on, and very injurious to, fruit trees. In the province of 

 Utrecht, an orchard of nine hundred trees produced only five apples. 



