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to be presented or recommended by one of the existing members. The 

 price of the subscription is 50 fr. per annum. 



A table of the members enumerates the Vicomte Hericort de Thury, as 

 president ; Comte de Lasteyrie and the Baron de Silvestre, as vice-presi- 

 dents; Le Chevalier Soulange-Bodin, as general secretary; Baron de 

 Mortemart-Boisse and M. Dupont, as ordinaiy secretaries ; M. Huzard fils 

 as treasurer ; a general committee ; a committee of nurseries and fruit tree 

 culture ; a committee of culinary vegetables ; a committee of economical 

 and medicinal plants ; a committee of ornamental plants, hardy and tender; 

 a committee of landscape-gardening ; a committee of directors of the 

 intended garden ; and a committee of editors for the Annals. These com- 

 mittees consist of ten members each, including . the president and general 

 secretary. The list of the members composing the foundation, or com- 

 mencement, of this Society amounts to three hundred and thirty, among 

 whom we observe the names of two or more (?) Englishmen ; viz. Messrs. 

 George and William Rollison of Fooling- Surrey (Tooting, Surrey), Sir 

 Losh (?), and Dr. Spencer Smith of Caen. As may be expected, the members 

 are chiefly amateurs, but they include also many of the respectable com- 

 mercial cultivators. 



A discourse, pronounced at the installation of the members by the pre- 

 sident, (where and when is not mentioned,) takes a cursory glance at the 

 history of gardening from the earliest ages to the establishment of the gar- 

 dens of Fromont and of M. Boursault, on which gardens very long notes 

 are given. A notice of the duties of the different committees concludes 

 this hrst number. 



As these Annals promise to embrace the subject of gardening in its fullest 

 extent, and also to give " un bulletin bibliographique d'analyses et d'an- 

 nonces," we hope succeeding numbers will enable us to lay before our 

 readers every thing worth knowing in Britain, with respect to^ the state of 

 horticulture, and the progress of cultivation in France. 



Soulange-Bodin, M. le Chevalier, Pres. Lin. Soc. Paris, F.M.H.S. &c. &c. : 

 Quelques idees sur la regeneration des Forets. Discours lu a la Seance 

 de la Fete Champetre du 26 Mai, 1827, celebree dans le Bois de Belle- 

 vue pres de Meudon. Paris. Pamph. pp. 10. 



The ideas are, to introduce numerous trees of North America along 

 with the native trees ; and, in other cases, to renew decaying forests by 

 planting American trees or others not previously grown there, on the prin- 

 ciple of the succession, or what is called rotation, of crops in agriculture, 

 and which, it is ascertained, actually takes place in nature. In Aubrey's 

 Surrey it is recorded that at Wooton, Mr. Evelyn's, a wood of beeches 

 sprung up after a wood of oaks had been cut down ; and several very 

 remarkable instances are given in Dr. D wight's Travels in New England. 



Merault, A. J. : L'Art du Jardinier, &c. Paris. 12mo, pp. 409. 

 4fr. 50 cents. 



This work forms part of the Bibliotheque Industrielle, but it is said in the 

 Bulletin des Sciences Agricoles, that " l'auteur n'a pas consulte les Trans- 

 actions de la Societe Horticulturale, les Memoires de celle de Berlin, et les 

 noinbreux ouvrages sur l'horticulture publics en Allemagne, en Angleterre, 

 et ailleurs." * 



Germany. 



Reichenbach, D. L., Professor at Dresden : Taschenbuch fiir Gartenfreunde, 

 &c. Pocketbook for gardening Amateurs. Leipsic. 8vo. 2 dols. 



About two thousand garden plants, useful and ornamental, arranged 

 according to the Linnean system, are described, and their culture detailed. 



